Published Nov. 27, 2024, 9:02 a.m.
9am Liberty Essentials - Bill Mohr II, Karen the Riveter, & Ralph the IT Guy will be discussing true liberty and the principles the Founding Fathers intended. Also we will be discussing the role of religion in government. The Mohr family has a long history in the study of the Constitution and lawful self governance. We will be teaching current issues and apply the Constitution for guidance. X/Twitter: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1BdGYEOdbYNGX Rumble: https://rumble.com/v5tm2r5-bnn-brandenburg-news-network-11272024-liberty-essentials-bill-mohr-ralph-an.html https://rumble.com/v5tm41t-bnn-brandenburg-news-network-11272024-liberty-essentials-bill-mohr-ralph-an.html Odysee: https://odysee.com/@BrandenburgNewsNetwork:d/bnn-2024-11-27-liberty-essentials-bill-mohr-ralph-and-karen:3 Guests: Donna Brandenburg, Bill Mohr, Ralph the IT Guy, Karen the Riveter
Good morning and welcome to Brandenburg News Network. I am Donna Brandenburg, and it's the twenty seventh day of November twenty twenty four. And welcome to our show today. Today, we're just going to be doing Liberty Essentials with Bill, Karen and Ralph. And I'm going to bring him right on today because we're going to talk about being thankful and Thanksgiving. Morning, guys. How you doing? Good morning. Good morning. So I think this is funny because everybody knows, okay, like I'm just kind of right now, this is actually a picture of my living room, but it's in my office, but I've got a shiny spot right there. And Karen, before we got on this morning, say what you said, because that was funny. Well, Ralph noticed that there's a shiny spot, which I would never have noticed because you're about an inch high on my screen. I said, well, you're a shiny spot in the galaxy. There you go. I didn't have shiny on my sweater this morning. Look at that. I was almost wearing like sequins because for me, this is the start of the festive holiday season. And I have made it my goal to wear as many sequins as I possibly can between now and Christmas. That's the goal is shiny stuff, light sequins, crazy stuff. So that's going to be fun. It's a great goal to be sure. To be sure. Yeah, just wait until you see my next shiny thing because I bought a couple of sequined long jacket type things and they're like so obnoxious and sequiny and shiny. It's just beautiful. I feel like a Christmas tree walking around in them. I've never been one of those kind of girls. I never went for the sparkles. I hate glitter. It sticks to everything. I hate the sparkly things except when we were engaged or about to be we looked at rings yeah we looked at rings before we were engaged but we knew we were going to be engaged and he wanted a sparkly ring for me he wanted a ring that had many sparkles and so I did get a sparkly ring and I'm proud of that that that was why I'm going to tell you I didn't I didn't really that's that's it I didn't really get into like sequins and crazy stuff like that until just like a few years ago. So I don't know. Maybe this is like my post midlife crisis happening here at sixty one years old. I don't know. But I like the sparkles. I think they're fun. So at any rate, you got a little bit to catch up. You got a little bit to catch up with me, Karen. So maybe you'll be there next year. I already saw the already saw the first vehicle uh yesterday on my way home that was covered in christmas lights I haven't seen that in years but yeah some some jeep had christmas lights dangling oh about every every inch or so across the whole vehicle so nice it's one of those things I'm not ready for that that that means snow to me but it is what it is yeah I've been doing a bunch of work the the last few days just trying to get prepared for snow get everything kind of buttoned up and get all the get all of the equipment ready for winter you know Yeah, I thought I'd be smart and drain out my water spigots this morning. I had shut the water off, I don't know, quite some time ago to my garden, and I just hadn't bled the system out yet. So I opened up the valves this morning, and I don't know what I was thinking. The ground's partially frozen up here anyway, so I couldn't even get the water to backflow out of it. So I'm a little bit late, but for the most part, I got everything taken care of. late but still here and that's good so so I wanted to tell everybody last night I drove in last night and I didn't get in until two o'clock in the morning of course I was coming across i-eighty through illinois and indiana and such and I saw some things that really were kind of crazy last night didn't make sense to me and I wanted just to bring it up because that's what I do you know if you're out there and you actually see something you need to say something because there's so many lies going on And to your point last week, Bill, when you were in North Carolina, what they were telling us was happening wasn't exactly what you were seeing out there. So, and I think that's important. I think we need to have more people on the ground actually talking about what they're seeing because Well, we're getting created content everywhere. And social media is almost all but, though it's great, it's almost all but worthless with truth in what's happening out there because people are spinning it to build audiences all the time. So if you've got something you're literally seeing on the ground, not just repeating what you have heard, but that you're actually seeing, you've got to say something. So, and everybody knows how to get ahold of me. So, I mean, I've made it no, no, no secret. My phone number is area code six one six four three zero four four one zero. You can always call or text. Okay. And, and I will pick up which surprises like everyone. that you will actually get me there. You want to see who my assistant is? This is me, and this is my assistant right there. So it's going to be me, right? So as I go across Illinois and Indiana, what was really crazy is when it was before I got to Joliet, headed west on I-Eighty, there is so much construction going on in I-Eighty that it's shocking. The amount of exits and entrance ramps that were closed was also shocking. And I didn't start counting until I got through there the amount of times that the highway was necked down to one lane. And there was a whole bunch of equipment there, but not very many people working. It was just a ton of equipment. But I finally jumped off and did a run around on some of the back roads over by Portage Indiana because it was literally a dead stop after midnight. Nothing was moving. We jumped off and I had one of my sons with me because I always travel with either friends or my family. We're a family-oriented group of people. I jumped off and I threaded through the back roads and tried to get back on. Portage was completely closed off. And so ended up doing a run around on the highway before I got to Portage. And so once again, I thought I could jump on there. No go. Didn't even have it shut off on the GPS. It was just random. Like you had to either know the roads or know how to get around them or be okay with jumping off the roads and picking your way through stuff. So and finally got back on again. But it was so unusual. And I'm telling you, I've done a lot of a lot of traveling because we work on the road in the pipeline company, right? So we're all over the place. One in two years time, At one point in time, I put one hundred twenty thousand miles on one vehicle in two years. I was driving a lot and I'm not driving quite as much right now. I'm not. But I was when I was running for governor. But but point being is that I've never seen anything quite so suspiciously unusual. I mean, why would you ramp up construction projects like that? These people are dumb as a rock. Or there's something else going on because why would you do that right before a holiday weekend for Thanksgiving, A. And you don't ramp up construction projects like that in the fall coming into winter in the north part of the United States. And for all of you that don't live in Michigan and south of here, you really have no grasp on how much the weather impacts us. And it really does. You do not ramp up to road construction in the wintertime because people are going to die. OK, you're going to lose. You're going to have those people from the south that don't know how to drive in winter. They're going to lose control of their cars and wipe out construction workers, vehicles and equipment. So typically that doesn't happen up here. So it was really shocking to me to see the amount of construction vehicles, big construction vehicles that were just sitting there. Yeah, it's funny. We already had our first little snow up here, right? Around my place, we got maybe an inch, and it was gone later on that day, but a little farther south towards you, Donna, and then a little farther south even than you. There were a couple inches of snow. And like we see every time up here in Michigan, the first day of snow, everybody crashes, right? Insurance companies go, hey, we're towing trucks, they're making money. But I probably saw, I don't know, six or seven different people slide off, whether it be in the ditch or into another vehicle or a tree. And there was hardly anything out there. But this was just one of those things, you know, since we talk about politics and government quite frequently, this is one of those things. I'm glad that we licensed drivers so that everybody can remain safe on the road, right? Thank the state for licensing, right? No, no. Yeah. But I'll tell you what, tomorrow is Thanksgiving, right? We talked about this and we do this every year. But it seems like at least the past two years, I get the I get the advantage to be like the guy right before the day. Right. So we get to lay out the foundation before we get there. And I love doing it. So I'll start by saying I'm thankful for all those men that came before us that God had raised up that. We're willing to obey him rather than men. And we're willing to throw off tyrants that wouldn't be ruled by him to establish the liberty that we have today to do the right thing and the freedom to be able to worship religiously according to the dictates of our own conscience in this country. And as bad as it may seem, we still have the longest standing constitution, if we'll hold to it, and the greatest country, the greatest miracle that was ever established in a nation right here in the United States. No matter how bad it seems, we still have that opportunity, and our posterity still has that opportunity to continue it on. That has always been my thanks every year around Thanksgiving. I don't know what y'all's is. I'd love to hear it, though. All of the things we're thankful for? Not all, because we're going to be here for hours and hours and days. We'll just slide this thing right into tomorrow for our thankfulness. You know what? I'm truly thankful to live in the time that we're living in right now to face the things that we're facing and being given an opportunity by God Almighty to participate in doing the right thing when so many people and so many things are set against us in that regard. And to still be able to stand by His strength and His power and be able to say without a shadow of a doubt that God is with us and He is still propping us up no matter what. And to be able to see the difference between good versus evil And going forward with that, what an honor it is to be placed now, and I'm thankful to God for that. I'm also thankful for, you know, clearly the three of you. You guys are amazing friends, and I couldn't be prouder to be able to call you friends, as well as the people that are out there that I know are watching. I couldn't even name all of you that are out there who are truly – God-fearing patriots who approach this life as not just servants of the people in the United States, but servants and ambassadors for God. And I think that that's the highest calling that we can have in the whole world is to be an ambassador for God here and doing his work no matter what it is that he calls us to do. and having him uphold us so that our faith grows every day. All we have to do is step out and do what we think is impossible, and he will make those things possible. But we have to be willing to take the first step. And I've seen that character in all three of you and so many people out there who have the courage and the bravery and the faith in God to step out against all odds to do the right thing. It's an amazing thing to see. People have wanted to see that all throughout history and few have. And we have the opportunity to see that right here and now. Well said. I think one of the big things I tend to be just consistently thankful for is health. Myself and my family have all had a lot of fairly serious health issues over the past years. And there's a lot of that that we've been able to overcome. And it always just kind of amazes me the way that Our bodies are designed for resilience, the way that God designed us for resilience, to be able to stand up to things like that and be able to survive, move past them, and keep going. And I'm always thankful for that. Pass the ball to Karen. I agree with that. This year, I had a little bit of a health scare the first part of the year. Everything slowed down. A lot changed. I left the assembly, so that was a big shift for me. And I was left kind of empty-handed in a way. I didn't know what to do with myself. I still don't to some degree. I started gardening this year, so that was a big shift for me and I learned a lot about a different. side of living about how living closer to nature can affect you even physically. And a lot of reflection on how our founders had to struggle to survive in our country like bill was saying earlier. I feel a little bit more connected to that now this year than ever before. And I think it's interesting because, and people, people are of the nature that if you have a very hard life, you are closer to God because you need him more. You feel like you need him more. We always need him, but you feel that connection more deeply. And our country has been so spoiled by the success that we had in removing ourselves from tyranny on one hand, not realizing that we were jumping right into another form of it. And the economy that we had during the process of taking over this land and the things that we've done with it, we've been so spoiled. that we swung way hard on the other side. It could be worse. It could have gotten much worse and it still could. We have not reached the point of Sodom and Gomorrah, in my opinion, based on what I've read, but we're definitely headed in that direction. So I'm feeling grateful that we seem to be at least taking a pause from heading in that direction. Everything that's happened in the last just few years has brought us to kind of circle back toward God. People are starting to realize how far we have come from the natural way of living, which brings us and our families closer to him. And we're starting to steer back that direction. And maybe this holiday will help us to further do that. I told my husband the other day, I think I'm rubbing off on you. Because he had a complaint on Sunday about this thing called Friendsgiving. He noticed the language shift. He did not like it because he said, Friendsgiving takes the thanks out of Thanksgiving. It should be about family and the connection that you have with God, not focused entirely on friendships. It changes things very subtly. But that's one of the things I've learned in the past few years. Subtle changes can make really big changes over time. And the people are starting to learn. Like Donna, you said that you are grateful to live in this time. I am too. And that's one of the things that I see and I really enjoy watching is people, including myself, Waking up to those subtle changes and coming out of that psychosis that we've been in that that matrix And I'm also entirely frustrated at the same time because I want everybody out of it and I want all the truth now. Yeah, well said. I mean, that's the thing that frustrates me the most, too, is putting up with the nonsense because crawling out of this would be so much easier, you know. But if you approach life as an adventure, knowing that, you know, if you were going to if you were going to climb a mountain, you know, you're going to have problems climbing that mountain. There's no two ways about it. If you watch anything like climbing Mount Everest and see the the the actual challenges that they that they approach on a daily every day, it's a different thing. Right. Right. Well, this life is kind of like that. We're going to have problems every single day. We're going to have challenges and problems. This life is not going to be devoid from that. And to have ourselves set up with thinking that we're going to have a trouble-free life is kind of like setting yourself up for a big failure there. You know, as long as we just approach it as, you know what, it's going to be a new day, a new challenge. Let's see what we're going to do with what's handed to us and not feel sorry for the bad things that happen. but realize that God takes those and uses those as lessons to strengthen us, make us more resilient, find better ways of doing things, and pull us closer to him in our character, honor, integrity, what we're willing to do to cut evil out of our lives, our space, our country, our communities, whatever, to actually... to actually go after that and say, not today, Satan, it ain't happening here, and do the right thing. And sometimes that tough love comes into it. There definitely is a point of tough love. I mean, all of us have known people who have made very poor choices. And if we just enable that and say, oh, yeah, we're going to help you, you know, you're fine. I think that that's part of the problem. You know, I'm going to just say it. I saw a picture this morning of Pritzker. And the first thing that came to my mind is, you know, somebody needs to look at that guy and say, you know, you're running something. He wants to do a sanctuary city or something like that. Pretty extra sure he better lay off the cheeseburgers or something because he ain't going to be able to outrun people that are actually military in there to write this thing. And, oh, Donna, you're being mean. No, I'm not. You know, when you see somebody that's that unhealthy and, Nobody wants to say it anymore because it's been made so, so okay. But it's not okay because it's like it's watching the destruction of a human being who's been sold a lie. Because when you are not taking care of yourself, and it's pretty evident that That you're not taking care of yourself by maintaining a good diet and exercise and that sort of thing. It's like watching somebody commit suicide by inches. And nobody has the guts to say it. One of my kids, when they were little, was absolutely an obsessive eater. And I'm not kidding you. At at at twelve years old, we had a large problem and and I was like, this comes to an end. And, you know, we did as a family. We all we all joined like Weight Watchers for a while just because we felt like we needed to to make sure we were there. being supportive and supportive at the home and everything. And I'm like, son, you're going to die if you don't get this under control. And honestly, to this day, he is probably the most workout obsessed because we changed the pattern. We helped him change the pattern and put good things in his life and said, You need to work out and you're going to have to get serious about this because you're going to be like five hundred pounds by the time you're twenty years old at this point in time. And talk about changing that around. And now he's able to talk to other people about this. But we can't just keep doing the same thing that we're doing. We've got to be honest and loving and willing to step forward and help people in truth. And sometimes that means tough love. You know, and that's a simple statement that was put out by Jonah in the book of Jonah when he was talking about the people who observe lying vanities that they forsake their own mercy. And the issue is that people are willing to allow those lying vanities, just a multitude of lies that we have nowadays, especially in what they call health care, which is none of the sort. But they allow these lies to continue, and that's just what the people are being fed nonstop. And it's well beyond time that the people are willing to rise up out of love, reprove somebody for something. And you said it on the show, you just said it. If you see something, you say something, right? You cannot just pass over somebody or something when you realize that it's going to harm them or destroy somebody around them. That's not a friend. A friend tells you what is a true friend will say, buddy, I love you. And you're going to need you. You are. It's like watching. I've had that with a few people that over my life where I've stopped and said, I love you. You can't continue this behavior because you're going to die. And, you know, one one of those situations was a friend of mine who literally when we were in college was like sleeping with. half the university. And, and after a while, you know, everybody was, was labeling this person as terrible things and seeing terrible things behind, behind this person's back. And finally I'm like, well, I guess I'm the only one that has the guts to say something. And then we had a sit down and this person said to this day said, I will never forget that conversation. She said, you were the only one who truly cared about me. And so, you know what? And it's scary for a lot of people to do that, to say, you know what? I love you. And you're going to a really bad place. The world, most of the world will never tell you that when you're making mistakes. They'll sit back and laugh and go, well, let's just see how this works out. And laugh as you crash and burn so that they can sit there and say they were right. Because that's the MO of most people. Watch it in the political parties. It's not about winning this country back. It's about being able to sit back there and go, I'm right, I'm right, I'm right. Like a petulant child. That's not okay. That is not okay. That little petulant. piety or purity perch is despicable. Absolutely a despicable. It is a, it is, I'm sure that God sits back and would rather rather go point right off of that pedestal than the person who's absolutely having, having the trouble. Because it's cowardice. It's arrogance. It's all kinds of things that are wrong. You can't do that. When you look at people around you, you look at them all as basically, I look at everybody as the same way I would look at my own children. And that means you really want the best for everybody. And there's no joy there. and there is no joy in watching somebody fail or fall. That should be something that we should ultimately be sad about because we want the best for everyone. We don't revel in watching somebody go through hard times. We're sad for that. If you're, if your mind is right, you're, we're sad about that. And we want to step in and go, you know, and go, we want to help you. And now there's a lot of people that don't want to be helped because it's like a dog to the vomit. They want to go back to their own, their own nasty habits for whatever reason. But that still doesn't change for us of being sad for that person and wanting the best. I mean, Think about it for everyone out there. Think about knowing people that have had problems with drugs or died because of it. Well, everyone has problems and we shouldn't look at them and say, you know, with arrogance and say, well, you're doing the wrong thing. So I guess you got what's coming to you. That is despicable, you know, because they don't even know the sins that they're committing that are leading to their own death most of the time because of the programming that's been there. And to go there with a gentle word, even to our enemies, that we can live at peace with them. That diplomacy first. And, you know, try the diplomacy first. But you've got to disable them immediately from hurting the people around them. It doesn't give a pass to that. But there's never a time we should be happy about it. Never. That's one of the things that I always kind of appreciated about the old Westerns is that they always tended to take the tack of stop the bad guy, not for revenge, but to stop them doing harm. And the fact that they went down that path was still portrayed as tragic. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that is a lot of what's missing in this nation when you look at it that way. And, you know, what the Lord told his people in Leviticus twenty five, he had told them regarding the Jubilee, he said, proclaim liberty throughout the land. Right. Proclaim liberty. unto all the inhabitants thereof. And that's the point of that. It's not to lift ourselves up. It's not to be self-righteous. It's not to be able to come back and say, I told you so later. But it's, in fact, to prevent men from destroying themselves. That's the sole purpose of government, right? Protect life, liberty, and property. That's their job as well, is to prevent the destruction of mankind. Without it, men are perfectly capable of completely destroying ourselves. We saw that in the garden when there were just two. They did a pretty good job at just destroying everything they had been given. And without liberty, without the spirit of the Lord where liberty is, then we will run down the same path. We will end up in the same destruction that every generation before us and through history, if we will learn it, will prove to us. So the whole premise around Thanksgiving is being able to be thankful for these type of things, right? Be thankful for not only the almighty God that has granted us all of this liberty that we're able to secure for ourselves and our posterity, but also to proclaim it to our neighbors, to our friends, family, and anybody we come in contact with. I was just reading through Jeremiah the other day again. And understanding the whole culture which this was all written in, right? They're under bondage. They've been sold off to their enemies. And Jeremiah is the guy out here proclaiming their liberty if they will have it, right? And in chapter thirty-four, he says something very interesting through the Lord. In verse twelve through sixteen. He said, Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, I will make a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth. I'm sorry, I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying, At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother in Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee. And when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee. But your fathers hearken not unto me, neither incline thine ears. And ye are now turned, and had done right in my sight, and proclaiming liberty every man to his brother. And ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name. But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids. Verse seventeen, thus saith the Lord, ye have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine, and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. Because the people were not willing to listen and to proclaim that liberty, that freedom, to every man in his country, whether servant or Hebrew, the Lord says, I'm going to proclaim liberty for you. It's going to destroy you. That is now your liberty. And you see that done throughout history, even after they came back later on, just forty years after our Lord was crucified. What happened? Everybody was wiped out, right? The city was laid waste. That was the decree. If we don't want to promote these ideals, promote liberty from the God who gave them, then we can expect that we will go through the exact same situations in this country. And not only... I will go through the exact situations. But I'm thinking of all the others around me. Friends, family, neighbors, countrymen. All three hundred and... I should probably learn this number again. Last I knew it was like three hundred and thirty-nine million people. But that's probably wrong. Hundreds of millions of people we need to be thinking about, which is why people like the ones on the screen here, we come up here at least once a week. Donna, you come up here almost every day, and we're proclaiming this type of liberty. We're looking at the situations. We're looking at the answers, going back to the roots, figuring out the foundations, how this is supposed to be dealt with. And then letting everybody know, hey, we can't sit back and let this pass. Everybody has to get up on their feet and take an action against it, right? But this morning I was looking at the, and you had pulled it up a minute, from pilgrimhall.org. You can go there and look up the proclamations done by a lot of the founding fathers and then all throughout every presidential administration, even to the current in twenty twenty four. They did a great job in compiling all of this. And it's really interesting, you read through there, even the ones you wouldn't think of, like President Obama, if you can call him president because he wasn't eligible, Biden, Clinton, and all of those, every single one of these proclamations has the reference to the Lord at least. The majority of them, except for maybe three or four that I found, one being like Gerald Ford and another one Nixon, you can go through and you'll find out that everyone right at the beginning declares a proclamation to Almighty God or Supreme God or the God of the country, the ruler of this world, right? And it's very interesting that that has been held to since the foundation of this country. I've done whole shows on that based on the foundational premise that our country is a religious country. And when we forget that, no less than the Lord said that the nation who forgets him will be turned into Sheol or the garbage pit of hell, right? So a couple of them that were really strong, and if you want to pull them up, you can. The one in seventeen twenty three. I just pulled this up. This is amazing. This is Biden. He's got one reference to God in this one, but that's all I saw there. But anyhow. Oh, yeah, and Biden's, especially that one done on November, I'm sorry, of . He goes in and he starts out in reference and reverence to God, and then immediately goes through and starts talking about these bioweapon shots, right? And how they're thankful for such things and thankful for the medical community who pulled us through a crisis like that. Well, who all created that? It was the government itself. Right? They're just playing the problem solver there. They're trying to give thanks to God for those things which are at war against what he created. It's very interesting that you see that happen. Pretty sure that falls under the category of taking the Lord's name in vain. Oh, yeah. It absolutely does. Give me a date you want me to pull up. Start off with a, uh, William Dummer from Massachusetts Bay. I love the history of the Massachusetts colony. These guys were men of action, right? If you want to see anybody stand up against tyrants and willing to take it to the extreme of extremes, the men of Massachusetts were the ones to take this on, right? So he goes in here. This is the governor of the area in that time. and a lieutenant governor and commander-in-chief of His Majesty's Providence of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, a proclamation for a general thanksgiving. This is done before Congress, might I add. He says, for as much as amidst the various and awful rebukes of heaven with which we are righteously afflicted, we are still under the highest and most indispensable obligations of gratitude for the many instances of divine goodness in the course of the year past. more especially that it has pleased Almighty God to prolong the life of our most gracious sovereign Lord, the King. their royal highness and the princes of Wales and their illustrious offspring, and to give a happy increase to the royal family, to defeat the wicked and desperate conspiracies against his majesty's sacred person and rightful government, and to direct the councils of the nations to such measures for the suppressing and punishing the same, as under God may prove the means of their lasting quiet and security." so far to succeed the administrations of His Majesty's government in this province, to continue our invaluable privileges, to restore health to us, to give us great plenty of the fruits of the earth, to defeat in some measure the repeated attempts of the Indian enemy against us, and to defend so many of our frontier plantations from their rage and fury." to guard our seacoast against the rapacious and bloody pirates, and deliver many of them into the hands of justice, and above all, that He continues to us the precious benefits and liberties of the gospel." They're giving a lot of thanks to the government that they deem God has established here. in protecting the people, the government's duty in protecting the people from all of these things going on. He says, "...I have therefore thought fit by and with the advice of His Majesty's Council to order and appoint that Thursday the twenty-eighth of November current be solemnly observed as a day of public thanksgiving throughout this province." exhorting both to Almighty God for these and all other His unmerited favors, and all service labor is forbidden on the said day. Given at the council chamber in Boston the sixth day, November, seventeen twenty-three, in the tenth year of our reign of our sovereign Lord George, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, By order of the Honorable Lieutenant Governor William Drummer, by and with the advice of his counsel, Josiah Willard, Secretary, God save the king. All right. It's seventeen twenty three. So we're almost one hundred years after a lot of the pogroms have established now and the colonies are built up. And we're just shortly before the following king that they were to throw up. OK. So the first, not the first, but in the Continental Congress in seventeen seventy seven, this was the first national Thanksgiving proclamation done by Congress themselves just a couple of years before George Washington's, which everybody should be familiar with. In November first and seventy seven. Congress came out and said, for as much as it is the indispensable duty of all men to adore the superintending providence of Almighty God, to acknowledge with gratitude their obligation to Him for benefits received, and to implore such farther blessings as they stand in need of, And it having pleased him in his abundant mercy, not only to continue to us the innumerable bounties of his common providence, but also to smile upon us in the prosecution of a just and necessary war." For the defense and establishment of our unalienable rights and liberties, particularly in that he hath been pleased in so great a measure to prosper the means used for the support of our troops and to crown our arms with most signal success. This is right at the Revolutionary War time. They're just now coming through this fight. of what they had just thrown off, right? In , they were thankful to the government for protecting their rights and liberties under God, and then realizing that that government was trampling those same said measures. Now later on when they're throwing that off, they're thankful to the same God for procuring the necessary needs and supplying them to overthrow that and to throw off The same parents that they were blessing just fifty years prior to, right? They said, "...it is therefore recommended to the legislative or executive powers of these United States to set apart Thursday, the eighteenth day of December, next for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that at one time and with one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor, and that together with their sincere acknowledgments and offerings they may join to the penitent confession of their manifold sins." whereby they had forfeited every favor, and their humble and earnest supplication, that it may please God through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance, that it may please Him graciously to afford His blessings on the governments of these states respectively, and prosper the public counsel of the whole." to inspire our commanders both by land and sea and all under them with that wisdom and fortitude which may render them fit instruments under the providence of Almighty God to secure for these United States the greatest of all human blessings, independence and peace. that it may please Him to prosper the trade and manufactures of the people and the labor of the husbandmen, that our land may yield its increase, to take schools and seminaries of education, so necessary for cultivating the principles of true liberty, virtue, and piety, under His nurturing hand, and to prosper the means of religion for the promotion and enlargement of that kingdom." which consisteth in righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. And it is further recommended that servile labor and such recreation, as though at other times innocent, may be unbecoming the purpose of this appointment, be omitted on so solemn an occasion. The original Congress understood they cannot declare and demand the people to stand out and give this praise, nor to close down any type of servile work or labor, they say here, or even recreation, but that they recommend it as the whole for the good of the entire public body to give thanks on that specific day. I find that to be an indispensable amount of liberty and an indispensable amount of restrain for Congress who had just put up all of this in giving us and our posterity these liberties to say, we recommend that you step back and all in one accord be able to take one day in thanksgiving for all of the blessings that were secured by God in this. John Adams made a profound statement when he had said to the next generation, he says, you'll never know what it costs the present generation to secure these liberties. He says, I hope you will make good use of it. And if not, I will repent in heaven for ever taking half the pains to preserve it. John Adams was also the first and only one that I know of to set forth a proclamation of this sort, not just calling for a day of thanksgiving, but a specific day of fasting and prayer. No other president to my knowledge has ever done that. Kind of screwed that up, haven't we, with all the turkey and such? Oh, yeah. And we're going to get into what happens in two days towards the end here. But I wanted to read one more, and this is President George Washington. This is on October the third, seventeen eighty nine. So now we're out of that, we've established the country, we've set the government in motion, and now the people are to preserve it, right? He says, by the President of the United States of America, a proclamation. Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor, and whereas both houses of Congress gave by their joint committee requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now, therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of November, next, to be devoted by the people of these states to the service of that great and glorious being, who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be, that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks." for his kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to becoming a nation, for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great decree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty which we were blessed, and the means we have of acquired and diffusing useful knowledge, and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath pleased to confer upon us." And also that we may then unite in most humbling offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and ruler of nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed, to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations, especially as such shown kindness unto us, and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord, to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us, and generally to grant unto all mankind such a decree of temporal prosperity, as he alone knows to be best. Given under my hand at the city of New York the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, seventeen eighty-nine, by President George Washington. So one thing that comes out of that, that the restraint that they had with not with making recommendations on how to observe Thanksgiving, but knowing that they had no authority nor right to require that of the people kind of reminds me of a conversation that I had with Donna, I don't know, a couple of weeks ago where we were talking about how There are a lot of people that seem to want to establish the, or morph, I guess I should say, the government into a theocracy in a way. Either a Christian theocracy or a pagan theocracy, really, where it kind of... where the government is enforcing a belief system on the people. And that's something that I think merits some thought because that's one of the things that the early settlers and the early colonists were trying to get away from was the state religions of the countries that they came from. And having that freedom to be able to practice their religion in the way that they saw fit and the way that they were called to. And that was a great example of how early on the mindset was, here are the principles to abide by, but we're not going to enforce that belief system onto people. And if the government has the power to enforce a belief system onto the people like that, then the government itself has assumed too many powers that it does not have. And one of the things that is a kind of a core principle of Christianity really is the the thought that God gave us free will to be able to do the right thing and to be able to also do the wrong thing. And that it's up to us to do the right thing or the wrong thing. But ultimately he gave us that freedom as well. Well, and to that point too, the thing that when people have the choice to do the right thing and the wrong thing is that as long as they have to experience the consequences of their choices, Yes. Then then it becomes a teaching tool instead of just permission to do bad stuff and then expect somebody to bail us out. Yeah. Like really good parents let their children have consequences for their actions. So, for example, I remember telling my children when they were little that, you know, if you decide you want to participate in work and such, that's fine. But if you decide you want to, you know, be lazy and stupid, I'm going to sit back and watch you struggle with what you have and say, how is that working for you? And then let them have to work their way out of it. Because I'm like, I will not dig you out. If you make some bad choices in life, I'm going to let you live with your choices so that you learn lessons. So if I were you, I would be a little smarter and get this figured out before you make the bad choices, not after. Save yourself a whole lot of trouble. And you can take that farther, Ralph, because the issue is the definitions of the terms, especially religion. Because I'll go on to say that every government is a theocracy. It is either ruled by God or it is ruled by some man's theocracy. It doesn't matter if we think we can establish a government that is not. There has to be some sort of standard of morality that the government is required to enforce. You read through some of the early references of our founding fathers when establishing this country, and you will find that the majority of them, Andrew Jackson specifically, the seventh president, he specifically stated that the Bible is the rock on which the republic rests. And he's absolutely right in that, not that it is a force of you have to be a Christian or else. It's not that kind of a force, but rather it was understood back then that the principles of the Christian religion were the foundation of all law in this country. So it's not that you have to be a Christian. And they were very clear on that. I think the Treaty of Paris was one of those when we developed a treaty with the Islamic nations across the sea. It was very clear in establishing that we are not just a Christian nation in the point of you have to be a Christian. but that everybody is tolerated, so-called, what we call the melting pot. Everybody is tolerated so long as it abides by the laws of the country. And that is where the difference is. America is a theocracy, whether people want to admit it or not. And right now, we are a theocracy of human secularism, right? Basically, whatever man thinks is okay is okay. And that's not the way we were first established. A point to that is our own First Amendment, where Congress will make no laws respecting the establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof, right? Um, that is very clear, but that has been so twisted that people don't understand even what it means nowadays. The going back even to, uh, uh, and you ought to, you ought to go back into, into your, your, uh, dictionaries, uh, that we talked about beforehand. Um, I, I go back to eighteen twenty eight just because that was the most, most common around the time. And I believe Webster was very true in this. He makes a profound statement regarding religion. Um, He gives three definitions for it. In its most comprehensive sense, includes a belief in the being and perfections of God, in the revelation of His will to man and man's obligation to obey His commandments, in a state of reward and punishment, the execution of government, and in man's accountableness to God, and also true godliness or piety in life with the practice of all moral duties." If it's distinct from theology, he says, religion is godliness or real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men, as described in James one twenty six. He says, religion as distinct from virtue or morality consists in the performance of the duties we owe directly to God. From a principle of obedience to his will, hence we often speak of religion and virtue as different branches of one system or the duties of the first and second tables of the law. Separation between what we owe God and what we owe man. Then he says this statement, This is the first time to my knowledge in any dictionary where this was ever added. He says, let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Then he concludes that it may be any system of faith or worship. That's if morality can be maintained without religion. I think the last hundred and fifty years of this nation has proven that to be not a fact. Right. As who is the who is the show host? It wasn't Dr. Phil. Come on. It was the tall, skinny guy anyway, where he does a lot of DNA tests and he says, you are not the father. You know, that's that's kind of what that what that goes back to. In my mind, you get the test results back. Here's one hundred fifty years of test results, guys. It's like you are not the father of this country. Right. We we have one and it ain't you. But yeah, and that's the whole point is every government is a theocracy, whether the people want to admit it or not. It's just finding out what that theocracy is. Where is our moral standard? And that is premised all upon the laws found in Exodus, Deuteronomy, and Leviticus. Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy, if you want to put them in order. And the reason why we are not claimed to be a theocracy in people's minds is because we do not establish the ceremonial law that was required of the Lord's people back in Leviticus. We do not force the worship of God in this country. However, all of the principles, standards, and practices belong to the people, and that is what establishes justice within our gates that protects our liberty and promotes our freedom to the next generation. Without that, if we take that away, as so many administrations have done over my lifetime and prior to, we start pulling that back and pulling those laws out of place because, hey, those are God's moral law. We can't promote morality. Then anything goes. Then man can establish their own laws and claim that since nineteen seventy three that you're allowed to murder, murder innocent children in the womb when it clearly violates, clearly violates our Fifth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment. Right. They don't even follow their own laws that they put in place. Man wants to put up laws in place of God's laws, thinking that we know better, and yet they can't even follow those, right? If we would go back to the ten, we wouldn't need the ten thousand. It's that kind of a principle. So I disagree in that sense. Yeah. People pick and choose. And if there's no standards, we get so far away from the core of a process to keep things on the rails that it's unrecognizable. All I got to do is look at our election systems right now because it's systemically corrupt. There is not one thing they're doing correctly with that. And it's just a little bit at a time. But that's quite often how evil works. The battle we're in is between good versus evil. The rights that are protected or espoused, I'm going to say, or stated in the Bible are really the first human rights. They're human rights issues. And anything outside of that includes things that are crimes against humanity. And it's very pretty simple. Yeah, one of the things that I like to go back to is back in Virginia in the early colonies days, and you've mentioned this before too, Ralph, we brought it up on the show before, is that there used to be a fine for those who would attend their church service without being armed. It was that kind of principle. It wasn't forced. I mean, you didn't have to go to the church service. Granted, you were probably looked down upon by the community because they understood back then that is what established the government. You weren't forced or compelled to attend that church service. However... If you did and were not armed in defense of your countrymen, you were given a fine because they understood the morality of the people must be maintained. And if you weren't willing to defend those around you to proclaim liberty to all the inhabitants thereof, if you weren't willing to do that, then you were fined and punished mildly that you may understand that it is the right and the duty of every individual to do such things to proclaim liberty and protect freedom and make sure that we keep this republic, as Benjamin Franklin so clearly said, right? So it's really what Samuel Adams had said when he said, how strange are the tools of a tyrant will pervert the plain meaning of words. That's one of those. And that's a rock that I'm willing to die on because we have so twisted the idea of government and the idea of theocracy and the idea of religion around. And Donna, you know me and Cal, you know me. Karen, you know a lot about me. I wear too many hats, right? I've got too many hats. And a lot of those I have branched off and try to delegate to others. Some of them I just threw in the trash because I don't have the time to wear them anymore. One of those, when I wear, you know, proverbially, when I wear the hat of Christianity, right, that one doesn't come off just so I can wear my political hat. It doesn't come off just so I can wear my education hat. And it certainly doesn't come off just so I can wear my home remodeling business cap, right? That one remains on no matter what area or what I'm doing in life. Because that is the most important. And without that, there's no point in me doing anything else. That's the way I look at it. And each individual has to make that own dictates in their own conscience regarding that. But I refuse to back away from the religious aspect of why government was established and the purpose of it to try to... clear the waters on my own accord and through my own understanding to say that government must do this because it's beneficial to mankind, but we don't understand why it's beneficial to mankind except for the civil aspects, right? So there's a lot more to it than that. Um, When we look at it and say do unto others as you would have them do unto you, that's the first step in realizing what you should do right there. If you're out there messing with people all the time and you're talking to them or you're doing business in a way, think about being on the other end of that transaction. I had a discussion with somebody about eminent domain in a business capacity recently. And I'm like, you know, I was very nice about it, but I said, you know what? I said, in this circumstance, because it has become such an accepted practice, I said, this is really an unlawful practice. How about we come up with something that's a real creative way to make things so positive for people that you walk away and you are blessed for making their lives better. You know, and I'm like, we can we can think about things differently and and do those things differently. We can be better than what we are and we can still win in spite of it. You know, the thought that we are seeing everyone is a conquest or in competition is is patently wrong. If you are seen in our education system with a focus that we have on, and I'm going to say it, sorry, not sorry, on sports, there is no teamwork in sports. Sort of is, but just watch what happens with a star player and who is willing to step on who from parents to, you know, it is not as teamwork oriented as people would like us all to believe. Because there's a financial gain that comes from being an all-star player. So they're going to do well. It's just the same thing in business. We're way too focused on competition rather than being there and helping lift each other up and not seeing people as a conquest. And win at all costs. That's not winning. That is losing. And we need to change our thought process in that. Going back to the eminent domain thing is that, you know, if somebody wants to have something happen, you don't just start throwing that around like it's like, well, we'll just pay for them to death to make it work. There's creative ways to sit down and talk to people and they may not want to want to go in that direction. And you have to respect that. You don't win at all costs. But if you're really smart about it, you can make it such a win-win situation that people will jump when you walk into the room knowing that the diplomacy will be carried out and everyone will be better for it rather than winners and losers. And that's the way we have to approach everything. Everyone can be better for these transactions, whether we're dealing with Putin or whether we're dealing. We can literally make friends out of our enemies and be blessed for the words that we speak and the actions we take, even by our enemies, if we live according to God's rules. That's exactly what George Washington was promoting in his proclamations. I think, um, I think it goes down to the real oral basics. Like you said about the ten laws, what is the most important concept that we should be adhering to? And that's love. Because if you, if you are wearing your Christian cap, like Bill was saying, if you're wearing your hat that says Christian on it, then you need to be showing love to other people. And I what I see in our country is that people are allowing something inappropriate because it benefits them or it doesn't hurt them it's like they're saying well I'll allow it. You know I'll allow that election to go that way because. Even though I know it wasn't right it benefits me or it's the guy that I voted for so I'll allow it I'm being selfish and it's all about me, but if you love. God first, then you'll never allow things that are wrong. If you can do something about it, if nothing else, like Donna said at the beginning of the show, say, see something, say something, do something. If you love everybody, like you're supposed to, then you're going to step up and say, that's not right. Yeah, I know it would, it would go well for me in that circumstance, but it doesn't go well for my neighbor. So no, no, no, we need to do something different. And, and that is what I start to see with this awakening process that I mentioned earlier. If we are all looking out for what is right. Donna this week, you've been, I've been watching your shows. You've been talking about the appointments and some of them don't seem quite right to you. So you're saying something about it because you're like, well, on the surface well they've said the right things in the past and maybe they've had some attacks and that was something that I pointed out again recently about ryan kelly well he was attacked by the fbi and he served time in jail so if he runs two years from now people are gonna go oh yes it must be he's the good guy not necessarily what if they're trying to fool you again He was encouraging people to bring guns into polling locations, which some of them were schools. And so when we watch some of this, I'm going to tell you what, I'm not going to say anybody's a good guy or bad guy, but when I see that kind of nonsense, I'm thinking, what are you being set up for? Because this person's going to run off scot-free. And I also know somebody that said that where he's in jail, the pictures look like a summer camp. So why wasn't he in a place... That was as horrible as all the other Jay Sixers. There's some big questions there, which makes me wonder what was he really up to? I don't know. That's and you're following my point, because if you allow one thing that didn't quite seem right, because there are other things that seemed right, you're going to allow some things that aren't appropriate. You have to point out all the things that are wrong. And that sometimes makes you to be the bad guy. It does me. I know. Because I grew up always pointing out the teachers were wrong when I was a child. And they don't tend to like that very much. But I'm still doing it. And people hate it sometimes because you're so negative. That's the way I'm built. You're supposed to point out the things that are wrong and with love, point out those things which are right also and praise people. It's just like training a dog or a horse. You have to correct the things which are wrong, but you do it in such a way that it reinforces what is right. And you also have to praise without going over the top. In dog training, there's a movement called force free or positive only. It doesn't exist in nature. It's wrong. The dogs know it. And if you try to treat a dog that way with too much praise and not enough correction, they're going to look at you like you're an idiot and they walk all over you. Same thing with horses. I'm going to tell you what, that's one of the biggest things when you're working with novices around horses is to teach them that when the boundaries, you know, a horse doesn't walk within your space until you give them permission. Because if you don't set those boundaries up, you're talking about an animal that can lay you out without a a even thinking about it you know you and honestly in a way you kind of got to do that with some people at at points in time you know that there's some boundaries that you have to lay out or some people will take advantage of that and it's it's not a bad thing it's a good thing it's an important thing that we need to do with love or or here's another example having people who become dependent on us because we're taking care of them too much and we're not allowing or requiring requiring them to grow up. There's a point in time where it makes, there's a part of human beings that like to feel superior to other human beings in our knowledge and our this, that, and the other thing. Give that up for a bad idea, okay, everyone? Because have you ever met anybody that gives things away so that people go, oh, what a good person you are. And they're doing it for praise of other people. So they end up having all these other people or things dependent on them. So they've got this little badge of honor to wear. That's another human being to wear on their sleeve. That is not okay. It's creating a dependent. And we don't want that. We want everybody to kind of grow up so that we create more, you know, we help encourage more people to grow. grow up and not continue to be as a dependent child. That's not what you do as an adult. You become the one that's a force to be reckoned with in accountability and helping others who maybe are not as strong as you are. You continue to make yourself strong and encourage other people to also become strong, not to depend on you. It's sort of like creating planned obsolescence for yourself and helping other people. Oh, and so here we're heading into this problem. I started to do a Bible study on it, but I haven't written anything yet about the give us a king concept because we're in a place where I feel kind of like where our wheels are kind of stuck, where the gears are trying to move forward but they're grinding a little bit and at some point something's gonna break loose and we're gonna take off like crazy but we're kind of stuck right now that's what I feel like because I feel like our nation wants to do something right but we don't quite know how and so we're looking at this figurehead known as trump the symbol well well this king of ours that we really want to see He's going to change everything. And I think that's a big part of it. I think he has a role to play. I hope he exists and is still capable of doing that. there are things that we can't do that you and I don't have the position or authority to do that a president can do. So so there is in the current system, in the current system, but the people need to learn how to do for themselves. And we're we're happy we're building an awareness. We're learning and Bill, you'd be happy and proud. I've been seeing other people talking about the constitution lately in the last week or so what does the constitution say what doesn't it say people are looking to that and people are figuring out what government at all levels has the authority to do and not to do and they really want to do something about it because if it's not enough or it's too much they want to change it and they don't quite know how but when All those things fall in place and the fear is gone. Because we're also in a place where you need so much fear to awaken people. But on the other hand, you got to stop the fear in order to get people enraged enough to take action without being so enraged that they become violent. And I think that's maybe where the white hats are working their plan in a balancing act. Because you have to have the energy for change. the knowledge to do it, the willingness to do it without fear, but in a peaceful manner. Well, think about this. The way that people frame things, it's very vindictive and self-righteous a lot of times. We want to see this thing come down. Well, I want to see the thing come down too. I'm going to tell you that right now because it's going to have to. We have to see the system go down and be cut back to what the Constitution allowed for. at the beginning and run this nation as a service that the government should be running as a service to the people, not the corporations. And so the only way to do that is things are going to have to be radically cut back. But when you say that, if this system crashes, if the economy goes down, if the power grid goes down, if communications are coming down, what are you going to do and be willing to do to help your community as a leader, a local leader? What are you going to do? And when we stop listening to this nonsense that I've heard since the Republican convention in Wisconsin – that I was very disturbed by. Every single thing that was talked about there was prosperity, prosperity, prosperity. This is toxic. It is toxic because it left God out of it. The stuff that was being said, it's a focus on the material world and things that people want to hear instead of those invisible characteristics of God, which we should desire above all things. Hey, you're going to have to excuse me. I got to jump off. I got an unexpected visitor at my front door here. Okay. You want any last words here, Bill? Well, I was going to touch on a Black Friday a little bit. Just as a reminder, I'm one of those guys that likes to boycott this whole Black Friday idea. It seems like we spend a whole day giving thanks to God for the blessings of freedom that we secured to ourselves and our posterity and that he granted us. And then the very next day, everyone's trampling over each other and basically tearing people's skin off, literally, to get products that they so covet that they don't have. There's actually a decent history behind that if you look to Philadelphia and even before that during the gold crisis where Wall Street was manipulating prices to go from their red, their negative financial status, into the black, which I believe is the reason why they call it a black Friday. So be aware of that. Can you stand for just a few minutes and we'll let Ralph and Karen and yourself say last words and then we'll pray. Can you do that? Or do you have to go right now? Yeah, I got to kind of go right now because he's hooking up to my trailer right now. Oh, okay. All right. Thanks. Thanks. Y'all have a great day. We'll see y'all next week for sure. Have a good Thanksgiving. Awesome. Thank you. All right. Ralph, you want to chime in? Oh, I just, I don't know. Just good time to, good time to reflect on things and, and history and yeah, I guess we've touched on a lot of subjects today and I think they were all really good things to touch on. And so, yeah, going into the end of this week, just a lot to be thankful for. Karen? I was thinking earlier about a song. It's a silly song, but I really enjoyed it. I was one of those oddballs that just went with the flow. And it stuck with me this morning. Shiny, happy people holding hands. That's what we are this morning. We're shining, we're happy, we're people. And we're holding the... can't do it really well with the sandwich in my hand but if you got my little hand holding here That's right. So, so fun. Yes. And, and, uh, Karen and I are going to meet up this weekend because I got to get her canned chicken that we did together up to, to her this weekend, you know, and I think that that's the greatest blessing of all is when we're able to help other people around us. And we don't do that for reward. That is the reward is being able to participate in doing good things and, uh, It's such a game changer when your mind goes in that direction instead of saying, well, I'm going to do good things and then God's going to bless me. That claim it, frame it nonsense. It's such nonsense. No, you do good things because that is the reward is being able to. And I think that that's a, That's a wonderful thing to be thankful for that God has enabled us. You know, at a point in my life, I was really, really sick and I couldn't do things. And I really gained a huge love for work and doing things that are productive and purposeful and such. really grateful to be able to carry on, especially when things are tough and do things that maybe some people wouldn't even think are possible and see it as a challenge and a blessing from God and a growth moment, sometimes a growth moment. So this was a wonderful discussion today. And I got to tell you, Ralph, I'm Very thankful for you. And Karen, I'm very thankful for you and every single person out there. I'm thankful for you. I'm thankful for all the gifts that God's given each and every person because there's nobody exactly like you. You see things differently. We see this life through different eyes and different perspectives and different experiences. And there's a reason for that. And we don't always have to agree on things, but I'm going to tell you what I'm thankful for each and every person out there and what you bring to the table of life for all of us, your gifts, your personalities, the joy that you can bring each other is just amazing. And it's a wonderful thing. It's a wonderful thing to enjoy each other's presence. I'd like to say one more thing about this chicken thing. This chicken thing. Because this is interesting. When I first learned how to raise chickens and then butcher our meat chickens, we shared that with a friend. And that friend decided to go ahead and raise their own chickens. And then they did something different with their butchering process that we hadn't done before. So I learned something from her. And when you said, come on down, I will show you how to use a digital canner. I ended up not only benefiting from you teaching me this and helping me with that process, but I also learned how to go and do it myself. And I have encouraged other people when the subject comes up to try it. It's one of those things that this concept of pay it forward And I'm just sitting here, remembering when I worked for michigan's adventure I used to work in a ticket booth there one season, and when the traffic came through every now and then someone would pay for the parking fee of the vehicle behind them. And sometimes they had cash in hand ready to go and they would say oh. Well, that was so nice of them, but I'm ready to pay. Why don't you just apply this to the car behind me? And I can't believe how often this happened. And sometimes you get a chain of cars doing it. They all felt so good about it. I felt really good about it because I'm witnessing it over and over and over until there was this one person that was like oh good thanks and they but they were selfish and didn't pass it on to the next person and it shut everything down and then you get sad again that's that's really a beautiful thing that pay it forward concept is such a beautiful thing And it would be nice if everybody found some way to pay something forward to someone else, a kindness every day. I love that. You're very good at that, by the way. So that's why I wanted to point that out. I love that. So are you. You're amazing. Everybody here is so amazing. And I think this is what's so heartening is that we do it out of love and concern and care because we know our world is really hurting and things are wrong. And, you know, of course, we go after the threats. You know, I'm the first one to take the stance, you know, when there's a threat there. But that's a very loving thing to do. not give a pass to people who are hurting other people. You've got to disable them so that they can't prey upon, you know, those that are weaker, vulnerable and such. And I mean, that's something that we really need to remember. Well, boys and girls, let's say a prayer. Do you guys want to pray today or do you want me to pray? Well, you can go ahead. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so very much for this day and the wonderful adventure that you've set before us. We have so much to be thankful to you for that there's no amount of words that we will ever be able to utter to thank you for what you've given us. This wonderful country that we have, that the bones are still good. It's still a house that has the bones that are still good. It's still standing. All we got to do is go back to that and and all the principles that you laid out in your word for us to know how to serve this world and be your body here, serving this world and chasing all the wickedness out that's out there that takes advantage of others, that sees others as a game, as a competition, instead of seeing everyone as a very beloved friend, whom you stand with, whether it's during good times or bad times. We thank you so much for that and for the lessons that you've taught us and continue to teach us. And it's amazing the salvation that you provided us with your only begotten son that we can live with you forever because you loved us and you called us out for the things that we're doing wrong so that we become better people. We treasure those things that are that are invisible, that we desire. All the gifts of the spirit, the selflessness, the long suffering, the ability to stand and in your strength and in your wisdom and your discernment, even when things are going all wrong around us, we thank you for that. We thank you for people that we love and we care for and the friends and the family that you've sent to us, the ones that are here and the ones that have passed on before us. We're thankful for them. And there are things they do right and things they do wrong. It's all good because you've taught us so many things. I ask that you would give everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving Day full of gratitude to you. And in a time where things can be very difficult, that we would focus on the things that are really important. Not our expectations of the world, but the path that you're leading us on, which will always be good. Whether there's difficulties or not, we embrace it and know that you're giving us those experiences in order to pull us closer to you. and help us to be a help to those around us. And it's just a beautiful, beautiful process of growing up. And we're thankful for that. We don't want to be babies. We want to be here being a help to everyone that we know, a blessing to the people we know, to this nation and to the world. Thank you so much for giving us those opportunities. And we want to let you know that we are not only grateful to you, but we want to be like you. We love you. We know that you're perfect and we're not. And so in our steps forward, we thank you for loving us, for staying with us, for never leaving us or forsaking us, and for leading us through sometimes very, very difficult situations, knowing that we're going to make it. We're going to make it no matter what happens because you are here with us. And that's a wonderful thing. And things are going to be okay. We love you so very much. And thank you. Thank you for everything. In the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior, we pray. Amen. Amen. There we go. So, boys and girls, let's go to our day and be a blessing to this world because we're going to be a force that cannot be stopped in doing good against sometimes all odds because we're not going to give up. We have a... A stubborn resolve as Americans that can't be stopped, which sucks to be Satan and evil. I'm going to tell you that right now. Sucks to be them. Sorry. Poor choices. Should have made better life choices. But, you know, I guess demons will be demons and we will not be, nor will be following them. So with that said, everybody, here's that point of the show. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Go to BrandonBurkeForGovernor.com because I'm the best non-concealer who has ever not conceded in the history of the United States of America. And I'd like to have a discussion with the rightful president of the United States, President Donald J. Trump in cowboy boots. And to that point, there was somebody else that came out today that was talking about the pay to play for getting an appointment with President Trump. and that they are investigating this. And I'm going to tell you right now, I absolutely was giving it, oh, you know, if you want an appointment with President Trump, you're going to have to pay. Every single time I was told that, and I was told that multiple times, it was above a hundred thousand dollars to be granted a meeting with President Trump. This is not okay. And it's coming out, not only have I said this, but other people, but I can tell you for a fact, and I can name some names. of the people who were involved in it. Mostly it was the people involved with win red, which is the Republican party. So, so whatever you think is your, your heroes out there, I'm, you know, I'm sure that we're getting things exposed and I'm sure that this is part of the process of exposing evil. The people that participate in that are evil and I don't care who they are. Um, I would say that there's some people that are letting people giving them enough rope because to hang themselves. And I do believe that that's part of the process that the good guys who work for God are doing. And so when we see this, don't feel out of control, feel, you know, remember, sometimes people have to be given enough rope to hang themselves and they do it all to themselves, poor life choices right there. And so we know who you are. So that that's, and that's a good position to be in and we will not participate. So with that said, God bless you all. God bless all those whom you love and God bless America. Make it a great day. Have a wonderful weekend. Enjoy all the food and the wonderful times that you'll have ahead of you. Sometimes family situations can be very, very difficult. But realize we're not all the same, not even the same family. You're not going to get along with everybody all the time, but you can be a blessing. You can be quiet and sit back and go, well, well, well, as you look at their nonsense. It doesn't mean that you have to write every single thing or transgression that you perceive happening at family gatherings. Be the peace in the storm that's about to hit in our families as well as our nation. Be the peace. You can choose to do that every single day, every single moment. every single word you utter and go back to God and even say, Oh God, help me know how to deal with a situation. And he will make your path straight every single time. Have a great weekend and we will see you Monday. Unless there's a piece of news that comes out that needs to be addressed. I will come back on and I'm pretty sure that Ralph and Karen will too. And the Patriots, the true Patriots that are out there. So, but have a great weekend and know that you're loved and we're thankful for you. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Happy Thanksgiving.