Point of View December 30, 2024 – Hour 1 : When in Charge, Be in Charge

[00:00:04] Across America, Live, this is Point of View, Kirby Anderson.

[00:00:20] Thank you for joining me. I hope you had a wonderful weekend and we're certainly looking forward to these last two days of 2024.

[00:00:27] A little bit later we'll talk about some of our fundraising which has gone very well.

[00:00:30] As a matter of fact, I might just say that those of you that tend to wait to the very last day, you might not want to because we still have a match on the table which I'll talk about a little bit later.

[00:00:39] But we've been able to reach quite a bit of it and so that is still available and will be.

[00:00:44] But I thought we would spend the first hour here talking with a good friend, Lieutenant Colonel Allen West, an individual that has been and is the Executive Director of the American Constitutional Conservative Rights Union.

[00:00:56] Individual that served in Congress on the 22nd District there in the state of Florida.

[00:01:01] Also is currently the Chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party and author of a number of books including one we've talked about, Guardian of the Republic.

[00:01:10] But Colonel West, just great to see you.

[00:01:12] Kirby, it's great to be here and I want to tell you something maybe you don't realize that this is our 10th anniversary from the first time I came into your studio in December of 2014.

[00:01:22] 10 years, hard to believe.

[00:01:25] And that was a previous studio like you said, so we've actually moved studios and all the rest and I'm glad you kept track of that because that is very significant.

[00:01:33] I might just mention we've got a number of his pieces here we're going to talk about, when in charge, be in charge.

[00:01:38] A little bit later we're going to talk about Les Mis, hard to believe that one, but nevertheless, and the false gods of leftism.

[00:01:44] Three very good articles by Alan West, all on the website right now at pointofview.net.

[00:01:49] Before we get to those, of course, we have the passing of the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.

[00:01:55] You grew up in Georgia, so I'm sure you have at least a few things to say about the man who was your governor and then your president.

[00:02:01] Yeah, you know, it was interesting because driving down to see, you know, the old folks, you had to go through Plains, Georgia.

[00:02:07] And it was a real interesting thing to drive through, you know, here's the birthplace of our governor and also our president.

[00:02:13] And so you have to honor him and remember him for being a graduate from the United States Naval Academy, being a submariner and all of those things.

[00:02:21] There are some issues, of course, with his presidency.

[00:02:24] But I think that when you look at him past his presidency, how he continued to show that decent side, that humanitarian side, you know, no one will ever forget Habitats for Humanity and the things that he did.

[00:02:36] I think that that's his legacy and that's what we'll remember him for.

[00:02:39] Yes.

[00:02:40] And, of course, we can talk about all the questions about foreign policy and all the rest.

[00:02:43] And, of course, we recognize those, too.

[00:02:45] But I just wanted to get at least a comment from a man in Georgia.

[00:02:49] And I won't ask you about Tennessee football, but again...

[00:02:52] Hey, look, the worst thing that could have happened to Tennessee was Michigan being Ohio State.

[00:02:57] I mean, when I saw it, I was like, oh, my God.

[00:02:59] And all the bad press that Ohio State got, you knew they were going to make an example of Tennessee.

[00:03:04] And they absolutely did.

[00:03:06] I mean, it was just...

[00:03:07] It was hard to watch, you know, that first quarter.

[00:03:11] Matter of fact, tomorrow I was going to talk with Kelly Schock over it a little bit about football because, you know, they got this playoff system.

[00:03:16] And so far, those four games that were played about a week ago, which weren't even close.

[00:03:22] They were.

[00:03:22] They were horrible.

[00:03:23] So, yeah, either we have too many people in the playoff system or there is a decided home field advantage.

[00:03:29] Maybe both.

[00:03:30] But we'll see what the rest of these look like because I know you like to watch football like I do.

[00:03:34] Well, Kirby, one of the things that...

[00:03:36] There's just too many bowl games now.

[00:03:38] Yeah, well, that's true.

[00:03:39] There's too many bowl games.

[00:03:41] And the other thing is that this shouldn't be a participation trophy type of thing.

[00:03:45] Okay?

[00:03:46] Back in the day, you knew it really came down to four bowl games.

[00:03:49] Yeah.

[00:03:49] The Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Sugar Bowl.

[00:03:52] And those were the best teams.

[00:03:54] The eight best teams were going to play there.

[00:03:56] And that's where your national champion is going to come out of.

[00:03:58] But now all of this foolishness, I mean, you know, college, playoff, home field advantage, whatever, just have some simple bowl games.

[00:04:06] The other thing I don't like is this opt out thing.

[00:04:08] Yes.

[00:04:09] Where all of a sudden, you know...

[00:04:11] You don't have to play, yeah.

[00:04:11] Yeah, you don't have to play or this transfer portal.

[00:04:15] We now have free agency in college football.

[00:04:18] And so we just need to get back to the bases.

[00:04:20] We need to.

[00:04:21] And again, if you are even doubting that as you read through some of these articles,

[00:04:25] you will see that a couple of times you mentioned Tennessee football and a variety of those.

[00:04:29] Rocky talk.

[00:04:30] Oh, but anyway, let's get into it because you have put together a series here.

[00:04:35] But the first one I know you wanted to talk about, the Roman poet Virgil, Fortune Favors the Bold.

[00:04:41] Yeah.

[00:04:41] We can say it in Italian or Latin or any other language.

[00:04:45] Fortis Fortuna Aduvat.

[00:04:46] Aduvat.

[00:04:47] Yes, right.

[00:04:48] And again, the point you're making is simply this.

[00:04:51] This has been a very decided election.

[00:04:54] I've got in front of you there something that Donald Trump posted just a few minutes ago.

[00:04:58] But poor even endorsed Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House.

[00:05:01] He goes through all this.

[00:05:03] And so we've, as you said, for four years witnessed what happens when you allow the left to have in power.

[00:05:10] And I think we now know it wasn't always Joe Biden who was actually making those decisions.

[00:05:15] And you can see what it has left us with.

[00:05:18] And that's why you have such a remarkable series of statements being made by, first of all, the swing states went for Donald Trump.

[00:05:27] The popular vote went for Donald Trump.

[00:05:29] And, of course, it will be next Monday actually ratify that the Electoral College went for Donald Trump.

[00:05:36] And that, in some respects, is not only for Donald Trump but against this last four years.

[00:05:41] Your thoughts?

[00:05:42] Yeah.

[00:05:42] I don't know when was the last time we saw that trifecta alignment for a Republican president.

[00:05:47] And that's an incredible mandate.

[00:05:49] And if you have never sat down and looked at the breakdown by county electoral map from 2024,

[00:05:56] it sends a clear message about what this country has said as far as the direction it wants to go with constitutional conservative policies, economic policies, energy policies, national security, foreign policy, border policies.

[00:06:08] So I think it's so important now that Republicans don't blow it like they did back when Trump 45 came in and they had the House.

[00:06:16] They had the Senate.

[00:06:17] You had Paul Ryan as a speaker.

[00:06:18] You had Mitch McConnell in the Senate.

[00:06:19] And they couldn't get anything done.

[00:06:21] And the next thing you know, that first midterm election, they lost the House and the Senate.

[00:06:26] And that really stymied what Trump was able to do.

[00:06:28] So it's so important now that you take this mandate.

[00:06:31] You've got the wind at your back.

[00:06:33] And you have to crush this progressive socialist ideology here in America.

[00:06:39] They are running around much the same as when the angels smitten the people in Sodom and Gomorrah and they were running around blind, couldn't see.

[00:06:47] That's where they are.

[00:06:48] They have no leadership or anything.

[00:06:50] And now you've got to exploit the mandate that the American people have given to you.

[00:06:54] They don't seem to be getting the message because if I read you correctly, you're pointing out the fact that the leftists are actually wanting to double down, quadruple down and hire DEI government officials.

[00:07:05] You would think that when you lose, you'd say, OK, maybe some self-reflection.

[00:07:09] Maybe we didn't say some things or do some things we should have done.

[00:07:13] But I'm not noticing that from those individuals who have been promoting this leftist agenda.

[00:07:18] There are only two people on the left side.

[00:07:20] You know who I'm about to say.

[00:07:21] James Carville and Van Jones.

[00:07:27] Those are the only two voices of sanity that are and Bill Maher a little bit.

[00:07:32] I mean, he's kind of gone off on the left.

[00:07:34] Yeah.

[00:07:34] But other than that, they're still saying that, you know, Kirby, you're stupid.

[00:07:39] You just didn't get it.

[00:07:40] The economy was going fine.

[00:07:42] Gas prices were not that bad.

[00:07:43] The border was secure.

[00:07:45] There's peace all over the world.

[00:07:47] You just didn't get it.

[00:07:48] You couldn't see it.

[00:07:49] You just too dumb to understand.

[00:07:51] That's the elitist mentality.

[00:07:53] And so if they continue to, you know, double down, triple down, quadruple down, they will go into political exile.

[00:08:00] And so this is a great opportunity for Republicans and conservatives at this time.

[00:08:06] We're going to take a break.

[00:08:07] And when we come back, I want to continue on this for a little bit because you talk about one of the big questions.

[00:08:12] Why are Republicans so reticent and recalcitrant in advancing the constitutional conservative legislative agenda and means of governing?

[00:08:20] I want to get your thoughts about that and a couple of other issues.

[00:08:23] And maybe just go back and revisit this idea of how significant this election was, because after all, you are still the chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party.

[00:08:33] I've noticed that you've had Republican judges elected.

[00:08:37] You had a mayor here in Dallas that went from being a Democrat to Republicans.

[00:08:41] I want to talk about some of that, too.

[00:08:42] All that coming up with Colonel Allen West right after this.

[00:08:58] This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson.

[00:09:02] As the year of 2024 winds down, I predict the year of 2025 will be different.

[00:09:07] There is reason to believe that the political landscape will be different in the U.S. due to the election of Donald Trump.

[00:09:12] But there is growing evidence that the political change here will also be felt in other countries due to the rise of populism.

[00:09:18] But I also predict that the economic landscape will be different.

[00:09:22] Earlier this month, I talked about the desire by some members of Congress to build a Bitcoin strategic reserve.

[00:09:27] And Trump has already been exploring the possibility of issuing an executive order to create a Bitcoin reserve.

[00:09:34] Other countries have noticed.

[00:09:36] Sarah Naffo is the European MP from France.

[00:09:38] She recently gave a speech in front of the European Parliament.

[00:09:42] The quotes I'm using here have been translated into English using AI.

[00:09:46] She began by giving a brief history about how one country has successfully used Bitcoin and then asked these questions.

[00:09:53] Bitcoin is skyrocketing.

[00:09:55] And what about the European Union?

[00:09:56] What is the European Union doing?

[00:09:58] It's squandering our money on unbelievable waste.

[00:10:01] It continues to accumulate tragically inflationary deficits.

[00:10:05] She then suggested that it is time to change the paradigm.

[00:10:09] She says it's time to protect our people from inflation and the poor economic choices of our states.

[00:10:14] It's time to say no to the totalitarian temptations of the European Central Bank, which wants to impose a fully controlled digital euro.

[00:10:22] Instead, she argues, it's time to bet on freedom.

[00:10:25] It's time for our states to invest in Bitcoin to build national strategic reserves.

[00:10:30] I would suggest to you that a speech like this wouldn't have been given six months ago in front of the European Parliament.

[00:10:36] We may be seeing an entirely new economic paradigm in the year 2025.

[00:10:41] I'm Kirby Anderson, and that's my point of view.

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[00:11:04] Alan Weston, studio with us, first hour today.

[00:11:06] And I'm just so excited to actually not only have a chance for you to hear from him, but also we've posted three of his commentaries that appear in Town Hall and other places.

[00:11:15] And just before we get back to this, I just mentioned as we were going to a break in Dallas, you have seen some remarkable changes.

[00:11:23] Because the argument usually has been red state, blue state, not as much red city, red suburbs, I should say, blue cities.

[00:11:33] And so the argument always has been, well, you can't make an inroad into the cities.

[00:11:39] And yet here in the state of Texas, I can see both in Fort Worth and now in Dallas that there are some very significant inroads.

[00:11:48] And I mentioned one, the fact that you were able to elect some Republican judges.

[00:11:53] And then, lo and behold, the individual who ran as a Democrat as the mayor of Dallas even then becomes a Republican, then appears at the Republican convention and writes this incredible editorial in the Wall Street Journal.

[00:12:09] So something's happening here.

[00:12:10] Yeah, I had a great conversation with Mayor Eric Johnson, and we talked about some things we could do to get a more friendly city council for him, especially some of the things we recent revelations.

[00:12:20] But, you know, the playbook of the left has always been to come in a red state and take over major urban population center.

[00:12:27] But the thing is that where do you find the greatest amount of failures of leftism in major urban population centers?

[00:12:33] And so what I think happened in this election cycle, it wasn't so much about going and talking about party.

[00:12:40] It was going out and talking about issues, talking about principles.

[00:12:43] Everyone wants safety and security.

[00:12:45] Everyone wants to be able to go and afford groceries.

[00:12:47] Everyone wants to be able to fill up their gas tank.

[00:12:49] Everyone wants to have better education opportunities for their kids, better economic opportunities in their communities.

[00:12:57] And that is how I think that we will break through and we'll make a difference.

[00:13:01] And think about what you saw.

[00:13:02] You saw young black men.

[00:13:04] I mean, when Barack Obama has to come down and scold black men and shake his finger at them, I mean, that was the worst thing could have happened.

[00:13:11] And then all of a sudden you saw what what what the results were.

[00:13:15] Young black men say we don't have to follow this path.

[00:13:17] We want something different.

[00:13:18] We want something better.

[00:13:19] Yeah.

[00:13:19] So I think the way forward is to talk about the issues, talk about how you can resolve these things, talk about the policies.

[00:13:26] Look at the T-shirts that they're wearing in Chicago now.

[00:13:30] Flip Chicago red.

[00:13:32] Yes.

[00:13:32] Who would have ever thought?

[00:13:33] Never would have guessed that.

[00:13:34] Absolutely.

[00:13:35] And again, as you point out, there are at least a few voices that are saying, guys, if we don't turn this around, we really are going to be on the outs for the future.

[00:13:43] So really, this article isn't so much about what has happened to the other side.

[00:13:48] It's that you are still concerned that Republicans oftentimes are very reticent about advancing a constitutional, conservative, legislative agenda.

[00:13:57] And so why is that?

[00:13:59] And what needs to change?

[00:14:00] Well, I think so often they worry about what's going to be written about them in The Washington Post, New York Times, L.A.

[00:14:06] Who cares?

[00:14:07] The thing that needs to happen going forward, you need to align government with the Constitution.

[00:14:13] In Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, it lists the 18-some-odd duties, responsibilities, enumerated powers of the federal government.

[00:14:20] They reside within the legislative body.

[00:14:23] That's what they need to get back to.

[00:14:24] We opened up talking about Jimmy Carter.

[00:14:26] Let's think about two agencies that Jimmy Carter created during his presidency.

[00:14:30] Number one, Department of Education, unconstitutional.

[00:14:33] Show me where the federal government has a constitutional duty with education.

[00:14:36] The other one was Department of Energy.

[00:14:38] He created Department of Energy to make us energy independent because of the Saudi oil embargo.

[00:14:43] We were not energy independent until the Trump administration came in and made sure that we were energy independent through policies.

[00:14:49] So let's look at those two agencies right off and say they don't align with anything constitutional.

[00:14:55] Why do we have them?

[00:14:57] Maybe we can have an office of energy.

[00:14:59] Maybe we can have an office of education.

[00:15:01] But education is something that is at the state and the local level, which brings you back to the Tenth Amendment.

[00:15:07] All of those things not designated, not delegated to the federal government or reserved to the states and to the people.

[00:15:12] So really, we need to look at restoring federalism, that idea of what is in the purview of the federal government.

[00:15:20] All else is in the purview of the states.

[00:15:22] And let's restore that relationship.

[00:15:23] And those are the enumerated powers.

[00:15:26] But Doge isn't necessarily looking at that, although they may bring us back to that because Elon Musk, maybe Vivek Ramachwamy are thinking about it constitutionally.

[00:15:36] But they are simply saying we could take a trillion dollars out of the federal budget and nobody would miss it.

[00:15:42] And you're a member, a former member of Congress.

[00:15:44] I think you can agree with that.

[00:15:46] Absolutely.

[00:15:46] I agree with that.

[00:15:47] Why should my taxpayer dollars be going to some South American country for transgender shows, you know, drag queen shows?

[00:15:54] I mean, show me again, show me the Constitution where, you know, that that's a duty and responsibility or even something as simple as college student loan debt.

[00:16:02] That is not an enumerated power of the federal government.

[00:16:05] One of the things that you mention in your piece, because I do recommend it.

[00:16:09] First of all, they read through it.

[00:16:10] They're probably going to smile a few times, maybe even laugh out loud, is you say, okay, if you want to know what this idea of boldness looks like, you know, fortune favors the bold.

[00:16:20] You pick out an individual by the name of Tom Holman.

[00:16:23] Oh, yeah.

[00:16:23] And boy, I have seen him go on various talk shows for anybody who's not familiar.

[00:16:29] We've talked about him many times.

[00:16:30] He's kind of the real borders are, not the pretend borders are, but the real borders are.

[00:16:34] Or he fears neither God nor man.

[00:16:36] I mean, he comes on and just tells it like it is.

[00:16:39] And he, you think, is a very good role model for what needs to take place.

[00:16:42] Well, absolutely.

[00:16:42] Look, he goes on CNN, MSNBC, wherever.

[00:16:45] And he doesn't change.

[00:16:47] He doesn't adjust his message.

[00:16:48] He speaks truth and he speaks it with boldness.

[00:16:51] And, you know, it says be strong and a good courage.

[00:16:54] That's what he said that God told Joshua.

[00:16:56] And Joshua went out and he was strong.

[00:16:58] He was a good courage.

[00:16:59] And the children of Israel were rewarded with the promised land.

[00:17:02] That's what we need to have.

[00:17:03] Not people that, you know, well, you can say this on CNN or you can say this with this commentator.

[00:17:09] No.

[00:17:09] You go and you have your agenda.

[00:17:12] You have your plan that you're going to go and execute.

[00:17:16] And you say, this is what we're going to do and this is why.

[00:17:19] Because the left is always bold.

[00:17:21] I mean, what have we seen in the last four years?

[00:17:23] They don't care what anybody thinks.

[00:17:25] But then that's why they lost.

[00:17:26] Yes.

[00:17:27] Well, and there was a previous president who said elections have consequences.

[00:17:30] And maybe they could learn a lesson from that.

[00:17:32] He told Republicans to get to the back of the bus, didn't he?

[00:17:34] The Barack Hussein Obama.

[00:17:36] That's amazing.

[00:17:37] Speaking of this, there are some things that are going to be lessons for those who should be bold.

[00:17:43] And the first is there's going to be a pushback, obviously, once that first bus or plane ride of individuals who are being deported heads out.

[00:17:53] And yet the American people so far on almost all the surveys support that.

[00:17:58] So Tom Holman really provides you with a model of, I know you're going to fuss about it, but we're going to do what is right for the nation as a whole.

[00:18:07] And certainly something is supported by the American people.

[00:18:10] Think about this.

[00:18:11] You have some close to 600,000 criminal illegal immigrants in this country.

[00:18:17] Right.

[00:18:18] 30,000 of them murderers and rapists.

[00:18:20] No.

[00:18:21] That's where you start.

[00:18:22] Now, who's going to argue with that?

[00:18:23] Who's going to say, oh, you know, let's not send the rapists and the criminals and the murderers back?

[00:18:28] And then you have some 1.5 million gotaways.

[00:18:32] And the numbers that I'm throwing out here, the active duty and strength of the United States Army is just 425,000.

[00:18:39] You've got more criminal illegal immigrants in this country than your active duty army.

[00:18:43] Well said.

[00:18:44] The size of the United States Marine Corps is 182,000.

[00:18:47] And you're telling me that we cannot get rid of, you know, that number of criminal illegal immigrants.

[00:18:52] And to include the fact that we know there's some 30,000 to 35,000 single military-aged male Chinese running around in this country.

[00:19:01] Xi Jinping did not allow single military-aged male Chinese to just up and leave with tens of thousands of dollars.

[00:19:07] Okay.

[00:19:07] Why are they here?

[00:19:08] So that's the priority.

[00:19:11] This is not about going around finding grandma who's, you know, cooking some tortillas or something like that.

[00:19:16] No, we're talking about hardened criminals, male or female, because there are some pretty bad female actors that are out here as well that are trafficking young women.

[00:19:24] And we're sitting here in Dallas, Texas.

[00:19:26] We're in the top five for sex trafficking.

[00:19:28] Right.

[00:19:29] In the country.

[00:19:30] So, yes, we, at Trendyragua, the Venezuelan gang, right here in Dallas, Texas.

[00:19:36] Well, again, you mentioned China, and I might just mention that our February issue on Outlook is on China and all the things happening here and all the threats and all the rest.

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[00:20:00] And we certainly have been addressing many of those issues.

[00:20:03] The most recent one, just about ready to go out, talks about what should be the agenda for 2025.

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[00:20:37] Well, you know the thing, Kirby, what you are doing is such an incredible service because the body of Christ has to be better informed, better educated, and better activated.

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[00:23:14] Colonel Allen West in studio with us today.

[00:23:16] And just as we were going to a break, I did mention the fact that we still have the matching challenge, although we've been able to whittle away quite a bit of it.

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[00:23:44] And, Colonel West, when you ask people to give, you're asking them to do what you've done.

[00:23:49] The first time I think you were ever here, you said, here's my credit card.

[00:23:52] Yep.

[00:23:52] And I'll do that before I head out of here because this is so important for me.

[00:23:56] And, look, I don't want to see the left triumph in a voice and a platform-like Point of View going away.

[00:24:03] Because you sit back and you think about, remember the movie Star Wars and what was the next one?

[00:24:09] The Empire Strikes Back.

[00:24:10] The left is going to hit us back again.

[00:24:12] When you attack and you take the high ground, you have to first think, prepare for the counterattack.

[00:24:18] And we need to solidify this platform because we don't want all of a sudden, the next thing you know, it's gone.

[00:24:25] And we're out there in the darkness once again.

[00:24:28] So we want to make sure that Point of View is there to provide that biblical perspective on these issues that's irrefutable.

[00:24:34] Truth is a beautiful thing, and you do such a great job of conveying it, Kirby.

[00:24:38] Well, I appreciate that.

[00:24:39] But let me, if I can, get to a second article by Alan West.

[00:24:43] And this is where Dr. Angela, your wife, talked you into going to watch Les Mis.

[00:24:49] Oh, they said talks.

[00:24:50] She just gave me the look.

[00:24:51] Yeah, well, you know that.

[00:24:52] And needless to say, after three hours of the show, I felt miserable, you said.

[00:24:56] But it was a metaphor for something I think you want to talk about.

[00:25:00] And that is the idea that oftentimes people on the left are not only miserable, but they have this nanny state kind of mindset that says, well, I don't want a firearm.

[00:25:11] You shouldn't have a firearm either.

[00:25:12] I don't think we should eat hamburgers, so you shouldn't eat hamburgers either.

[00:25:16] You can't have a big gun.

[00:25:17] And you go through this long list of all the things that actually they don't want you to do because they don't want to be happy.

[00:25:23] They don't want you to be happy either.

[00:25:25] It's the equal sharing of misery.

[00:25:26] That's how Winston Churchill defines socialism.

[00:25:29] And why would we want to be in that state?

[00:25:31] And you and I were talking off the air about it.

[00:25:34] But when you turn over to some of these shows, I mean, they just there's no smiles.

[00:25:39] There's no happiness.

[00:25:39] I mean, it's just constant ranting.

[00:25:41] And now what do you see happening?

[00:25:43] Their ratings are just falling because who wants to tune in and just be miserable?

[00:25:48] You know, look at some of these shows.

[00:25:49] And even Bill Maher, God bless his heart.

[00:25:51] I mean, he adds some levity to it.

[00:25:53] He's a bit of a comedian.

[00:25:55] But you're right.

[00:25:56] OK, if you don't want to eat a hamburger, that's fine.

[00:25:58] That's your choice.

[00:25:59] You have free will.

[00:26:00] I like five guys.

[00:26:01] OK, and I want to have my two patties with cheese.

[00:26:05] If you don't want to go out and get a big gulp, don't go out and get a big gulp.

[00:26:09] Every now and then I want to have a sugar upload, you know, from 7-Eleven.

[00:26:13] But it is as if they're saying that you do not have the right to be able to decide what type of car you can drive,

[00:26:19] what type of appliance you can have in your home, how much toilet water you can flush.

[00:26:23] We want to be in control of every aspect of your life.

[00:26:26] And that's not the American way.

[00:26:27] And I think, again, this is what people reject it.

[00:26:29] And I think it also relates back to your boldness article that you wrote just more recently,

[00:26:34] because there is always this push in Congress to have another regulation, another kind of policy.

[00:26:42] And it seems to me that not only do we have in Congress individuals who sometimes don't stand up and fight,

[00:26:49] they're quite willing to delegate that to unelected bureaucrats.

[00:26:52] And that's a big issue, because as you pointed out before,

[00:26:57] even if you can change all the people in the cabinet that Donald Trump is bringing in,

[00:27:02] you go down four, five, six layers, there is a deep state.

[00:27:07] And that's not just a conspiracy theory, is it?

[00:27:09] No, it's not a conspiracy theory.

[00:27:11] And you and I were talking, I call them the government ticks.

[00:27:13] You know, they just stick into you.

[00:27:16] They just gorge yourself.

[00:27:17] And we've got to eradicate that.

[00:27:20] And so when I think about what has to happen is that, again, you've got to go in with a definitive mindset,

[00:27:28] a definitive plan, the definitive way that you're going to realign government.

[00:27:32] And you've got to take away this belief that government is this supreme overarching thing that dictates how everyone should live their lives.

[00:27:42] You know, you go back and you read Frederick Bastiat, The Law.

[00:27:45] The Law.

[00:27:45] Three things that the government is supposed to.

[00:27:47] Glad you quoted that.

[00:27:48] Yeah, three things.

[00:27:49] They're supposed to protect your life.

[00:27:50] They're supposed to protect your liberty.

[00:27:52] They're supposed to protect your property.

[00:27:54] That's it.

[00:27:55] And all these other extraneous things, this is misplaced philanthropy and really is legal plunder.

[00:28:01] That's what Bastiat called it.

[00:28:02] And that's why I think that these folks are so miserable in that if they can't get their way and dominate and controlling their lives,

[00:28:10] they go into an apoplectic rage.

[00:28:12] And that's where you see them at right now.

[00:28:14] I mean, women going out shaving their heads?

[00:28:17] You know, I mean, this has just gone insane.

[00:28:21] Well, and the other one that you bring up here is that all of a sudden, make America healthy again has been criticized.

[00:28:29] It's fat shaming.

[00:28:30] What?

[00:28:31] You don't even want people healthy?

[00:28:33] You don't even want people healthy.

[00:28:34] Out in San Francisco, they just hired this government bureaucrat that's going to be in charge of fatness, I guess.

[00:28:41] I mean, she's saying we have the right to be fat.

[00:28:44] So in other words, we have the right to be unhealthy.

[00:28:46] See, this is the amazing thing.

[00:28:48] They create this thing called the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, which has nothing to do with health care.

[00:28:53] Yeah.

[00:28:53] It has everything to do with controlling health care.

[00:28:55] It has everything to do with, you know, taking away our ability to have choices.

[00:29:00] But they don't want us to make the choice to be healthy.

[00:29:04] They don't want to incentivize healthy living.

[00:29:06] That's what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is talking about.

[00:29:09] And, again, they would rather you be sick so they can come and say that now we have to take over this thing because you're not smart enough to understand how to take care of yourself.

[00:29:20] One day when I sort of lost any kind of rationality, I decided to sit down and read the Affordable Care Act, which as a member of Congress, you know how long that was.

[00:29:29] Yes.

[00:29:29] And I actually live to tell about it.

[00:29:32] But I was struck, Colonel West, how many times it said, as the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall determine.

[00:29:40] In other words, the individuals that sat down and drafted this didn't even have enough specificity that Congress could give it an up or down vote.

[00:29:49] They just said, we'll just delegate all of that to the Department of Health and Human Services.

[00:29:53] We have to pass the bill in order to find out.

[00:29:56] That's the other line.

[00:29:56] The famous words of Nancy Pelosi.

[00:29:58] That's right.

[00:29:58] That is what we have to get away from.

[00:30:01] And so this is an incredible moment in the life cycle of this country.

[00:30:05] Remember, in this next two years, 250th anniversary of this nation.

[00:30:12] Next year is the 250th anniversary of the Values of Lexington and Concord.

[00:30:16] Yes.

[00:30:16] Think about that mentality.

[00:30:18] Think about what was going on here in this nation that we didn't want to live under rule.

[00:30:24] We want to be governed.

[00:30:25] So we have got the opportunity to flip that coin once again and getting back to being governed and being governed by people that, you know, they want us to have our pursuit of happiness, not pursuit of misery.

[00:30:38] Well, why are you talking about Lexington and Concord?

[00:30:40] For a man who served in the Army, whether we get Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense or someone else, they need to address the issue of wokeism in the military, don't they?

[00:30:52] Absolutely.

[00:30:53] I mean, right now we have a military that can define their personal pronouns, I guess, pretty well.

[00:30:58] And we've got these cross-dressing, you know, recruiters and things.

[00:31:01] But our recruiting and retention levels are down.

[00:31:04] When you look at what has happened in China, China is matching us and even surpassing us in some ways in the maritime capability.

[00:31:12] That's right.

[00:31:12] That's right.

[00:31:13] Absolutely.

[00:31:14] February article, we document all that.

[00:31:16] There you go.

[00:31:16] Yes.

[00:31:16] And so, you know, there's a new commander in chief.

[00:31:19] But again, we have got to get rid of these generals.

[00:31:22] See, a lot of people don't understand, Kirby, is that two-star, three-star, and four-star generals, these are political appointments.

[00:31:27] You're not going in front of a board and what have you.

[00:31:30] And so a lot of these generals will align themselves with whatever the political wind is so they can get promoted.

[00:31:35] So you've got to clean house in the military.

[00:31:38] And for those people saying, well, you really can't do that, Barack Obama cleaned out 197 generals in six years, got rid of them.

[00:31:46] That's right.

[00:31:46] So it can be done.

[00:31:47] I mean, the only title in the Constitution that relates to the president is commander-in-chief in Article II.

[00:31:54] That's the only other title he has or she has.

[00:31:57] And so we have got to have a person that's focused on getting our military back to his core competencies and capabilities to fight, deploy, to win.

[00:32:08] That's it.

[00:32:09] You know, Colin Powell said the military is about breaking stuff and killing people.

[00:32:12] That's right.

[00:32:13] Well, and again, one of the things back to your boldness, if you think about this, Barack Obama not only got rid of a lot of generals, he also got rid of a number of appointees.

[00:32:21] And he also, for a while, was even labeled by some of the liberal critics as the deporter-in-chief.

[00:32:29] So it seems to me that if you want to find another model of a president who was able to do some things with boldness, I think you actually have that with Barack Obama on the other side.

[00:32:40] You absolutely do.

[00:32:41] And a lot of the – he was turning people around at the border instead of really allowing ICE to do what they're doing.

[00:32:47] But, you know, we've got to get back again.

[00:32:50] This is a sovereign nation.

[00:32:52] This is a constitutional republic.

[00:32:53] We have borders that have to be protected.

[00:32:55] If you don't protect your borders, you're not a sovereign nation.

[00:32:58] So I don't see how anybody – these mayors and these governors on the left saying, well, over my dead body or you've got to go through me.

[00:33:05] You're really going to tell me you want to protect criminal illegal immigrants over protecting American citizens?

[00:33:09] I mean, tell that to the parents of Lake and Riley.

[00:33:11] Yes.

[00:33:12] Well, Tom Holman is another model that we talked about in just a minute.

[00:33:15] And when we come back, I thought we'd get to one other of your articles.

[00:33:18] That came out earlier this month, but it was the false gods of leftism.

[00:33:23] And it's interesting.

[00:33:24] We were talking about on Friday with Kelly Shackelford that we had a nativity scene in front of the Capitol.

[00:33:29] Things are changing.

[00:33:30] They are changing.

[00:33:31] And so, again, we'll talk about the Ten Commandments, separation of church and state, some of those issues with Colonel Allen West.

[00:33:37] We'll take a break.

[00:33:38] Be back with more right after this.

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[00:34:01] Back once again.

[00:34:02] Allen West with us for a few more minutes.

[00:34:04] And I want to point out our third column by him, the false gods of leftism, in which you're really arguing that, in a sense, leftism is a religion.

[00:34:13] A while back I gave a speech in a number of different venues around the country, which I called woke theology.

[00:34:18] And what I meant by that is, for people that are secular ideologies and have secular mindset, it is like a religion for them.

[00:34:27] But then also, the woke ideas have made their way into the various churches, and so that's become woke theology as well.

[00:34:34] But you point out that the first two commandments, thou shalt have no other gods before me, thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image.

[00:34:41] And, of course, there have been all these people that have told us that we cannot have government and religion together.

[00:34:49] There's a separation of church and state.

[00:34:51] But you take that on.

[00:34:53] But then remind us, since you are a member of Congress at one point, that if you look over the speaker's head, you see one face.

[00:35:00] It's the face of Moses and the Ten Commandments.

[00:35:03] You know, when you're there in the House of Representatives, the people's house, all the great, quote-unquote, lawgivers of the world, they're all side face.

[00:35:10] There's only one face that looks directly at the president, directly at the speaker, and that's the face of Moses.

[00:35:15] So this whole thing about we can't have the Ten Commandments in our school, why would you not want to teach your kids the basis of law in Western civilization, which is the Ten Commandments?

[00:35:26] Why would you not want our kids to know, you know, this great lawgiver who looks upon the president of the United States of America when he's given a State of Union address?

[00:35:35] And so what has happened is that the left has created government with a little G instead of recognizing God with a big G, and that's what they're trying to replace.

[00:35:43] And so all of a sudden, God with a big G is not smart enough to have gotten Adam and Eve right, male and female right.

[00:35:50] He just couldn't get it right.

[00:35:51] And so therefore now you can go out and you can be your own God with a little G, and you can make yourself into whatever image that you want.

[00:36:00] You're not made in the image of God.

[00:36:01] You're made in whatever image you want.

[00:36:02] And this is what we're going to push.

[00:36:04] That's part of their religion.

[00:36:05] That's part of the altars that they worship at.

[00:36:07] And I think it comes back to what we've been talking about throughout this hour.

[00:36:11] They worship government.

[00:36:13] They have created these false gods of leftism, and it's the climate change.

[00:36:18] It's the same-sex marriage.

[00:36:20] It's the transgenderism.

[00:36:22] It's the murdering the unborn babies in the womb all the way up until the time of birth.

[00:36:25] They don't understand how beautiful that is and that children are a gift from God.

[00:36:31] And blessed be the man that has many of them.

[00:36:33] They're like arrows in the quiver from Psalms.

[00:36:35] Or I forget what it says in Deuteronomy about, you know, I set before you today this choice, life or death.

[00:36:43] Choose life so that you and your descendants shall live.

[00:36:46] And if you believe in those things, now we have to come at you, which is really why the pilgrims left England to come here because, you know, King Henry set up his own church and made himself the head of that church.

[00:36:57] Well, leftists are making themselves the head of their own church, and you'll be persecuted and prosecuted.

[00:37:02] You'll get sent to jail if you stand outside of a clinic that is dismembering unborn babies.

[00:37:08] Yes.

[00:37:08] That's how crazy it's gotten in this country.

[00:37:10] Well, even here in the state of Texas, they wanted to have some curriculum that was covered by the Texas State Board of Education that would allow you to know at least a little bit about the Bible.

[00:37:19] And that was very controversial.

[00:37:21] But at the same time, as you point out here, they want to indoctrinate your child on gender dysphoria, DEI, CRT, cultural Marxist agenda, and a variety of other issues.

[00:37:31] So on the one hand, it's controversial to talk about the origins of our law and the origin of the Christian religion.

[00:37:38] And on the other hand, we certainly would never allow you to limit whether or not we can teach these kinds of facts about gender dysphoria, transgenderism in the classroom.

[00:37:48] Well, think about it.

[00:37:49] I mean, you know, I think Proverbs 22, 6 says,

[00:37:53] Trample child in the way they should go, so when they grow old, they shall not depart from it.

[00:37:56] But, you know, now you have, you know, government officials saying that, you know, your child does not have to tell you if they are a little boy, but they want to be a little girl.

[00:38:04] They can go to the school.

[00:38:06] They can tell the teacher, and the teacher doesn't have to tell the parent.

[00:38:08] I mean, this is a complete undermining of that structure that God has created, you know, from him down to the family, to the father, to the mother.

[00:38:17] All of these things they're trying to undermine.

[00:38:20] And they have been after destroying the family for years.

[00:38:24] Look, and they've done it so well in the black community where, what, 24, 25 percent of little black kids now have a mother and father in the home.

[00:38:32] So this is what we have to understand.

[00:38:34] This is, folks, this is why you need point of view, okay?

[00:38:37] Because they bring these things out to you from a biblical perspective.

[00:38:41] I mean, because too often we see these things and we don't understand the underlying meaning.

[00:38:46] God is not smart enough to get the weather right.

[00:38:48] I mean, now all of a sudden man is in control of the weather.

[00:38:51] Give me a doggone break.

[00:38:52] But this is how they undermine the omniscience and the omnipotence of God.

[00:38:56] And why do they want to do that, Kirby?

[00:38:58] Because if they undermine the authority of God, then who really grants you your life, liberty, and your pursuit of happiness?

[00:39:06] That's right.

[00:39:06] This whole natural rights theory thing.

[00:39:08] I mean, this guy, he's not smart enough to get man and woman right.

[00:39:12] We are.

[00:39:13] And so we're the ones who will be in charge of your rights.

[00:39:16] That's the goal, and that's why they have erected these false gods.

[00:39:19] And that's why they're so apoplectic and so crazy about these pillars of government being torn down and being put in some type of right structure that, again, honors natural rights theory to where the government will protect our life, our liberty, and our property.

[00:39:35] Well, again, you've seen in other countries the first thing that a tyrant does is go after the church because we can't have you believe that there is something higher than government like God.

[00:39:47] And then they go about the families you just mentioned a few minutes ago because if you can dismantle the family, then government has to be the father and the mother.

[00:39:56] So that's really, in a sense, the two-pronged approach, isn't it?

[00:40:00] It is.

[00:40:01] And going back to Barack Hussein Obama, remember what he said, all of those bitter people out there clinging to their what?

[00:40:07] Their guns and their religion.

[00:40:08] Yeah.

[00:40:09] The two things that they hate more than anything else.

[00:40:11] Your ability to believe in something that is greater than they are and your ability to defend yourself against something that they want to do.

[00:40:20] And really, that's how this country got established and started 250 years ago.

[00:40:25] So, yes, God, family, country, and our ability to protect ourselves.

[00:40:30] We've got to make sure we restore that.

[00:40:32] Well, again, I look at these articles here.

[00:40:33] You seem somewhat optimistic about the future, but part of it gets back to fortune favors the bold.

[00:40:39] And that's what you're calling for some of the individuals in positions of authority to be bold and to understand that this is a mandate and make a change.

[00:40:47] Yeah, absolutely right.

[00:40:48] And I do have hope for going into 2025.

[00:40:51] And I just don't want to see Republicans blow it.

[00:40:55] You know, they have an innate way of stealing defeat from the jaws of victory.

[00:41:00] And I don't want to see that happen because God gave us a reprieve in this election cycle.

[00:41:06] And it is an incredible message that was sent.

[00:41:09] And think about this.

[00:41:12] Since 1900, there have only been five times.

[00:41:15] And the last time this happened was 2005.

[00:41:18] But in this year, after the November 2024 election, Christmas and Hanukkah aligned on the same day.

[00:41:24] Isn't that something?

[00:41:26] That's one of those signs, I think, from the Lord.

[00:41:28] Well, again, if you'd like to contact Allen West, first of all, we even have the Old School Patriot Podcast there.

[00:41:34] So you have that link there as well.

[00:41:36] We have three of his commentaries there.

[00:41:39] And you can, of course, contact him as well.

[00:41:40] All of that is available at our website at pointofview.net.

[00:41:44] And just one last time, I'd love to get your thoughts because we've had a match challenge.

[00:41:48] It was $125,000.

[00:41:51] It's down to $16,000.

[00:41:52] What would you say to some of our listeners?

[00:41:54] I would say that, folks, we need Kirby.

[00:41:57] We need his voice.

[00:41:58] We need this platform.

[00:42:00] Please support them.

[00:42:01] I have just been graced by a point of view over the 10 years since I moved back here to Texas from Florida.

[00:42:10] And I just want to thank you for what you do.

[00:42:11] You are a person that will one day hear these words.

[00:42:15] Well done, that good and faithful servant.

[00:42:17] Well, again, thank you so very much.

[00:42:18] And say hello to your sweet wife.

[00:42:20] I will.

[00:42:20] Who drug you to Les Mis.

[00:42:23] I had to use it for something.

[00:42:25] Yeah, it was certainly worthwhile.

[00:42:26] Well, all three of these commentaries are there, and I would encourage you to read them.

[00:42:31] We come back, we're going to talk about a couple of other things.

[00:42:33] The judge blocks Biden from selling off the border wall parts.

[00:42:37] You knew that was coming.

[00:42:37] We'll talk about H-1B visas and a variety of other things.

[00:42:41] And, of course, this battle for Speaker of the House, which I think is going to be resolved on Friday pretty easily.

[00:42:47] But we will see this time next week.

[00:42:49] Guess what?

[00:42:49] It's when they count on January 6th.

[00:42:52] I think it's going to be a little bit calmer than last January 6th, the Electoral College vote.

[00:42:57] So we've got a lot more to cover.

[00:42:58] But, again, if you'd like to know more about Colonel Allen West, invite him to come and speak.

[00:43:02] It's available at our website.

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