Save Afghan Christians | Guests: Rudy Atallah & Ken Cuccinelli | 8/18/21

August 18, 2021 2h 2m

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Glenn gives a passionate monologue encompassing the fear of many citizens in Afghanistan. COO of the Nazarene Fund Rudy Atallah shares the uphill battle the fund faces to save Christian Afghanistan citizens. Glenn asks his viewers to donate to help rescue Afghanistan Christians who are in danger of being persecuted. Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli joins to discuss the border and his election transparency campaign. Glenn reads “Live Not by Lies” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Stu gives a mini-rant on CNN's Chris Cuomo discussing his brother's sexual assault scandal.
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I ask you here at the beginning of this hour to give me 40 minutes.

I know that's a lot of time, but

I really truly believe that this is of critical importance and a day that can change your life.

First, I want you just to imagine for a second that you are a 20-something.

You're in Afghanistan.

You've lived most of your life under the influence of the United States.

Maybe you just started a family.

Maybe you're a Christian.

But heck, you could be an agnostic or a Muslim that just doesn't side with the Taliban.

Or you could be literally the one Jew left in Afghanistan.

Just a few weeks ago, you went to sleep holding on to the hope that you and your family may truly be free.

Maybe you worked for the Americans because

you believe in what they said.

You believe in the idea of all men and all women.

All people

are created as individuals and they have rights.

You had never heard that before.

Nobody in your family had ever heard that before.

That is a foreign concept

until about 20 years ago.

Now imagine suddenly the Taliban takes control of your neighborhood.

You don't remember them.

You were too young when they were in charge.

Heck, you might not have even been born.

You only know of them because of what others told you, those much older.

Gosh, was life really like that?

And now these people come in and they're saying all the right things.

No revenge.

Respect for women.

Don't worry if you worked for the Americans.

But thank God you still respect your elders and you know better.

In a blink of an eye, they have taken your capital.

They They slammed their boots on their desks of your government buildings, and overnight you went from an ally of freedom to a traitor

of the Taliban.

The last few nights you've

you've not been able to sleep.

You're concerned for your son,

because your son might be taken by the Taliban and trained as their soldier if they just don't kill you and your family first.

You're afraid for your daughter, who's doing well in school.

But she's not going to be able to go to school soon.

She's your daughter as twelve.

When she turns twelve, she is.

Well, she can be used as an incentive for the Taliban soldiers.

They just announced it yesterday.

Comfort wives.

God, is that the way your little girl is going to be sold into slavery?

To comfort the soldiers?

How about your wife?

Does the Taliban know you worked for the Americans?

Do they know that you

believe in some of these things?

God forbid do they know you converted to Christianity.

A high offense.

Your neighbors know.

But they're your friends.

I mean, right?

They have the same fears.

Would

will they

turn you in to save their daughter, their son,

their family?

Would you turn them in if you were offered the chance?

No.

No?

You hope not, but

do you really know?

All you know is that your life is on the line.

You know your family, your children's lives, their physical and spiritual safety is in grave danger.

Why did the Americans leave?

You saw the videos of your fellow citizens dying while desperately grasping on to the airplanes.

You have watched women in your own town take their own lives rather than live under the Taliban.

The America you worked with, all of its values, are gone now.

They have vanished.

You were promised, but you haven't heard any plans for rescue.

You're alone,

waiting for the knock on the door.

You and your family bear the guilt of an American,

but you never had the privilege of being one.

Here at home

oh wow, we're caring about so many important things.

Gender.

Gender rights,

and we want to make sure that we get our pronouns right.

Oh my gosh, you don't know what it's like to be an American.

Jeez.

It's horrible.

You know, I can't buy a new car because of the chips.

Can't get the chips.

Oh, and those Democrats, those Republicans.

Oh my gosh.

And have you heard?

The governor of Texas has COVID.

Well, it serves him right.

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What is that?

Oh, the people left in Afghanistan?

Here we are at home watching our nation burn.

Watching our nation

humiliated.

Our superpower status is on the edge.

And personally, I don't care if we're a superpower.

I'm sick of being the world's policeman.

However,

I'm also apparently smarter than the current administration.

You can't leave a giant vacuum.

A vacuum to be filled by the dictators and the theocrats and the thugs and the mobs and the Chinese communist killers to fill.

And that's exactly who will fill our void.

Well, what do we do?

We talk to each other, right?

Oh, I can't wait for the latest podcast.

Oh, he's going to give it to him.

Because the government is so corrupt, I don't trust anybody in our own government anymore.

Clearly, they're not prosecuting the bad guys.

There's nothing else we can do.

I mean if we speak out we're labeled terrorists by the same people that just allowed real terrorists to take control of Afghanistan.

They gave them the keys to the doors to rape and take helpless young children as young as 12.

To give them to their soldiers as gifts for their sexual gratification.

Oh, but don't worry.

They will marry them in some sick, perverted version of God's law.

This isn't God.

This is evil.

And damn it, we all know it.

We know what's happening all over the globe, including our own country, is evil, and it is sweeping the globe.

Why?

Because what do we do?

Too many of us are falling silent.

We are silent.

What are you waiting for?

Who, may I ask you, are you waiting for?

Who do you think will step up and fill this void?

Who do you think is going to come to the world's rescue?

There's no church hill.

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The world is led by clowns, Biden and Trudeau.

Here's the thing I want you to remember.

Unlike the thousands of Afghanis who believed in us, who helped us,

we have the privilege of being American.

But

Far too few of us know we, not the Biden administration, not the government, but we

will bear the guilt of being an American.

You already are being told you're guilty because you're an American.

What more could they add to it?

We are the ones that bear the guilt, not the ones in Washington.

They'll never bear any guilt.

The buck will never actually stop there.

It falls on us.

So, what do we do?

Oh, well, we can elect, you know, elections are coming.

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And then all of a sudden, they wake up and they're like, wait a minute, I'm not 20 anymore, and I've wasted my life.

That's what a midlife crisis is all about.

You're more than halfway through, and you're like, holy crap, wait, where did it go?

Gang, we're not halfway through our life as Americans.

We are at the end of life.

And they say no one walks out of hospice.

Well, damn it, not on my watch.

We are not remaining in hospice.

There's a lot of work to be done.

But here's the first thing.

Who are we?

What does it mean to be an American?

Well, I'll tell you what it doesn't mean.

It doesn't mean we take it from the government, it doesn't mean that we live with their stupid choices.

We all have choices, we all have choices, but we are not our government.

When our own government doesn't represent the people,

we have to recognize that it's because we allowed them,

we allowed them

to think that they are our betters and they are not.

Power does not rest in the seat of the government.

It rests in you.

We are America, not Washington, D.C.

When we reflect on the good deeds of our lives, I can tell you right now, helping somebody get elected will not be one of them.

We are going to stand alone in that reflection and there will have only been two options.

Did you do what you knew to be right or not?

I can't tell you how many days I consider throwing up my hands up in defeat.

I know you have to have that feeling too.

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Because you're an American.

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You want to save the nation?

We have to first save ourselves.

The minute our hearts go cold, we're done.

We're done.

And what we've been watching in Afghanistan has been heartbreaking on so many fronts.

Well, I'm not going to sit here and...

Let the White House or our federal government or our Pentagon screw this up.

I am not going to abandon it.

Do you know that they now say, we're not sure if we can get, you know, everybody who worked for us, including you Americans, you just shelter in place.

Don't go to the airport next day.

Well, you should have gone to the airport.

We're not sure we can get you.

This is an abomination in our name.

Monday, I called our chief operating officer of the Nazarene Fund.

It's Rudy Atala.

He is a lieutenant colonel.

He's retired from the Air Force 21 years in the United States Air Force.

He was special operations, aviation, intelligence, counterterrorism.

He was on the

served on the National Security Council.

Advised the president.

He's now the guy that I've selected to be the chief operating officer for the Nazarene Fund.

And I am thrilled that he is part of the team because this guy never gives up.

Rudy, welcome to the program.

Thanks, Glenn.

It's good to hear your voice.

Good to hear you.

Especially with the news that you have today.

Can you tell me what you've done?

Yes, Glenn.

I'm working with several of

our partners

in the Middle East.

And right now,

hold on just a second.

Hold on just a second.

I've never heard him use so many ums, and this is because Rudy cannot give very much information for security reasons.

he's going to be a little vague here, but go ahead.

We're trying to extract several thousand people out of Afghanistan.

The problem is getting to the airport has been extremely difficult.

These individuals that we are helping are mostly women and children, many of them converted to Christianity.

They've been in safe houses for a long time.

In 2009, the Afghan government had changed the ID cards and forced people to declare their religious affiliations.

So these

individuals did not want to renounce Christ, so they already claimed themselves on their ID cards as Christians, and now they're hunkered down, afraid to go to the airport because the Taliban is looking for them.

From what I understand, the Taliban has a list of some of these people.

We've got some aircraft already waiting to take off.

We're testing some of the airfields to see if we can extract them from there.

All the borders are closed, the land borders are closed, so we have to create an airbridge to get these individuals out.

I've got folks on the ground that are working.

As I said, we have have partner organizations that I'm working very closely with.

I was up last night, all last night, and working all day yesterday trying to coordinate some of this stuff.

I've been providing at least some of my

input and knowledge in how to move the aircraft and what to do.

The goal is to get these folks extracted.

safely to and we're working on different destinations to bring them to Unfortunately, I'm not at liberty, as you said,

to say much right now until we get them out.

But also, you know, some of them are pastors with families.

And these people are under

extreme danger because the Taliban wants to make an example of their own.

Yeah, they'll be crucified.

So,

Rudy, what is this going to cost?

Right now, one of the charter companies that we're working with

is telling us that it's going to be about $4,000 per person for chartering the plane and having the flight crew to go in and out.

As I said, we have north of several thousand people, so we're going to have to raise quite a bit of money to get these folks out.

The planes are ready, they're in place, we're ready to move forward, hoping in the next 48 hours to get quite a bit of folks out.

So any support we can get from our partners would be extremely appreciated every life counts so we're doing our best to get them out

okay

wow

we are looking at an enormous amount of money

here is the

here's the ask of you

I want you to give today,

if you can, to the point of where it hurts.

And that could be a dollar, could be $10.

Might be $100.

I'm just sitting here.

An amount of money

that I would feel an impact on for me

is different than for you.

Rudy,

I'll pony up the first hundred grand.

Now let's have the audience see what they can do.

How many thousands of people do we need to get out?

Without giving exact numbers, it's north of a few thousand people.

North of five?

North of a few thousand.

It's going to be somewhere between, I would, just let me say it this way, we're between 3,000 and 5,000 people.

Okay.

All right.

Rudy, thank you very much.

When can we start?

I mean, just wrote for the first, what, 40.

So when can we start?

How much money do we need to start?

As much as we can,

right now we've got the charter planes standing by.

We have to pay them, give them a down payment to start flying from, you know, to start flying.

And we've got some planes that we've already chartered, and

some folks are volunteering some of their aircraft, but

with the amount of people, we have to do several rotations in.

Oh, I can.

And so

any amount can be a lot of fun.

I mean, geez, Rudy, we have so few friends down on the ground.

I just

pray for you and everyone involved because I know how dangerous it's going to be.

Thank you, Rudy.

Sincerely.

Thank you.

Thank you for your support.

You bet.

Here's how I want you to

donate today.

Go to thenazarenefund.org.

The nazarenefund.org.

Every single penny that you can come up with will go

to flying those planes and getting those people out.

We need obviously an enormous amount of money.

I did not, I was not aware that it was that many people.

I've only gotten sketchy details throughout the night.

I didn't realize we were talking that many people.

These are people that

are marked for what they believe in.

in.

This is why in 2016 we started the Nazarene Fund.

Don't wait around for anyone else to do it.

Don't wait around.

Please go to the Nazarenefund.org and donate.

You could also donate right through mercury1.org if

if hopefully the nazarenefund.org is too slow for you.

Go to mercury1.org and just mark it for the Nazarene Fund.

We need your help as soon as possible.

I ask that you would give until it hurts today

because these people are entirely alone

and they will be crucified.

If you are marked as a Christian with a Taliban, you know what will happen to them.

We can get them out.

Be an Oscar Schindler to-day.

Go to the Nazarenefund.org.

That's the NazareneFund.org.

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Hats off to Quentin Tarantino,

who is

trying to do the same thing.

They are

looking for the Afghanis that worked as civil rights, lawyers, champions of women's and LGBTQ rights, journalists, government liaisons, artists, and interpreters who are in imminent danger.

They are flying.

He wants to fly

a couple of planes into Kabul.

He wants to save about 350 people.

They're raising $550,000.

So he's...

He has it for about the same price, I think, but they're flying into Kabul.

I think this is

the plane, the amount of planes being used for our rescue.

I just, I don't want to say anymore.

We really need your help.

The people of Afghanistan, these are the Christians who have their passports and their ID papers marked as Christians.

They are not leaving their house.

They are marked for death.

Why in our wildest dreams would we allow?

We're over there in 2009 and we're like, oh, yeah, go ahead, put the religion

on your papers.

I mean, are we that?

Yes, we are that stupid.

The thought was that we weren't going to, I don't know, turn the country over to the Taliban over a weekend.

That was, I think, the thought at the time.

Here's an idea.

Never give your information to the government because that's exactly what happens.

It's a good point.

And we now know that it seems like President Biden lied to the American people about how dire the situation was, even though he was informed from intelligence reports.

We can get into that later.

But we should also point out, Glenn, that in perhaps the least surprising story of all time,

this audience who has stepped up so many times to help people all around the world has crashed the website, the Nazarenefund.org.

So just a reminder

that it may be down if you try to go there now, or you know, it's popping up and down as I'm checking it.

So, just be as vigilant as you can.

Getting on there may not be easy here for the next little bit.

Hopefully, it won't be easy for a long time.

We have we've raised $26 million in four months, it's the fastest we've ever done.

We have to raise $20 million in like a week.

Um,

if there is any

group of people that can do it, it is this group of people.

We have to heal our own souls and get our priorities right if we are

expected to be blessed.

Please, you can go to nazarenefund.org or you can

or you can go to mercury1.org.

Mercury1.org

and just market for the Nazarene Fund.

100% of everything that you donate will go to these planes.

We do not take, Mercury One doesn't take any piece of that.

You market for the Nazarene Fund, 100% goes to the Nazarene Fund.

I raise money every year separately just to pay for the lighting bills and the staff and everything else.

So you know when you are doing something like this, it's not going to pay a phone bill.

This is going to help these people on this mission.

Go to mercury1.org or the nazarenefund.org.

Every penny is tax-deductible.

And I ask that you would spread this message to all of your friends.

I mean,

we need some people that will dedicate their day or two just to this, that you will call and notify.

If anybody is good at social media.

Please do everything you can to get this out to as many people as possible

because

we need to get these people out.

These are

the people definitely marked for death.

Meanwhile,

our government said yesterday they're not sure if they can get everybody out.

They're just not.

They're going to try.

That's good.

Yeah, give it a whirl.

See what we can do.

Believable.

Unbelievable this is happening.

This is, again, wasn't the pitch for Joe Biden that he was so competent and had all this experience and wasn't going to let these disasters happen.

Wasn't that his argument to be president in the first place?

Our former acting DHS deputy secretary, Ken Cuccinelli, joins us next.

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Facebook, Google, Twitter.

You know, they didn't shut them down.

When the Taliban was organizing and using those social media platforms to take over Afghanistan, they did nothing.

Donald Trump, while he's an extremist, you can't have him have access to those.

They did nothing about it.

Nothing.

Meanwhile, Facebook did remove a campaign ad because the campaign ad linked to a story on Fox News.

And of course,

Fox News, that's not a trusted source, according to Facebook.

Because we're all extremists now.

You know, I mean, don't worry about the extremists

that are, you know, taking over Afghanistan and putting us right back to where we were.

Don't worry about arming those people and leaving the good people behind.

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You know, the people who voted for Trump.

Well, we happen to have the former acting DHS Deputy Secretary, former Attorney General of Virginia, the national chairman now of Election Transparency Initiative, Ken Cuccinelli.

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We are trying to rescue about 5,000 Christians out of Afghanistan.

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Ken Cuccinelli, welcome to the program, sir.

Good morning.

I, you know, we just

in this weekend that we had all this trouble in Afghanistan,

the

White House, I'm sorry, the DHS issues a warning without any specific evidence that those who object to the vaccine and the mask mandates are possibly plotting a terrorist attack and they're very, very dangerous.

And of course, we have the January 6th people.

Very, very dangerous.

Ken.

I couldn't plan

this destruction of our country and a way to get people to not take the vaccine.

I couldn't plan a better plan than what Biden is doing right now in his administration.

Can you please shed some light on this?

Well, I mean, you're seeing the politicization of the terrorist warning authorities that the HS has, and that's what that is.

That is, look, I'm suing the House on behalf of three congressmen for their magnetometer fines.

Nancy Pelosi requires...

everyone in Congress to go through magnetometers, and the reason she does isn't because

there's any evidence of a threat, like you said in the intro, Glenn, it's because she wants them to be props in the narrative of the Democrats that Republicans are dangerous just by being Republicans.

And, you know, you see that playing out here with DHS as well, is they just announce these people are a threat.

And

look, there's a downside to this beyond just politics.

When they drive resources

to non-existent or minimal threats, they take those resources away from real threats.

And the retiring head of the Border Patrol just said

also this weekend that, you know, we've never seen more opportunity for potential terrorists coming through the southern border because it's so wide open.

And, you know, all these things are happening at the same time.

And, you know, you'd think this administration wants people to attack the United States.

Well, I will tell you this.

When you look at how many just Russians are coming across the border, there's an enormous amount of Russians.

Well,

what's that all about?

How come there's so many Chinese people that are coming across?

I mean, we have no idea

of who is coming across our border right now.

And we also don't seem to care about COVID.

And yet, if I push back on mask mandates, I am a terrorist, but they're just letting all these people come through with COVID and then dumping them into our cities.

Yeah, there's two things

that

the administration says they're serious about.

They clearly aren't.

One is COVID.

For the very reason you cite, Glenn, I mean, they're literally letting through 15 and 20% testing populations and then flying them around the country.

They're spending taxpayer dollars to fly them into our country rather than than fly them home.

That's one.

Two is crime.

They talk about wanting to get tough on crime or really what they talk about is wanting it to go down.

And yet they're releasing hardcore criminals, repeat criminals on the border into our country and they knowingly.

That's policy of this administration.

So, you know, when you hear them talk about COVID and everybody should tighten up, well, maybe they should tighten up first.

When you hear them talking about crime, they're letting hardened criminals, not just drunk drivers, but gang members, MS-13 types, into our country knowingly and intentionally.

So this administration is not serious about these issues.

They are pandering hard to their radical left-wing base that presumes everybody who comes in illegally will eventually

become a voter and

vote their way.

And by the way, in the S-1 bill on the Senate floor that one of the last acts Chuck Schumer did before the Senate went to August vacation was get this thing to the floor.

It forces states to register everyone in their databases, which includes millions of non-citizens and illegal aliens, to put them on the voter rolls.

And it gets rid of the criminal penalty for those folks if they vote.

in our elections.

Of course, that's quite intentional, so they will vote, and they want to swamp our elections with millions of non-citizens who, again, they assume will vote their way.

Though I would point out to folks that Hispanic voters are moving harder and harder in the direction of Republicans.

Good.

I mean, we represent their values.

I mean, we have

the same values.

I don't know why it hasn't happened before, but

Ken, you know,

you started the election transparency group, election transparency.org,

and the left is operating as if there is no

consequence for their actions.

I mean, they are just as far left as possible.

I've never, honestly, I could not design a plan to destroy this country that would work more effectively than what they're doing right now.

And

his popularity is going through the floor.

Democrats are in polls, are looking like they're going to just be swept out in Congress.

And yet it doesn't seem to matter to them.

What is it that they know that we don't know about 22 and 2024?

Well, look, they think regardless of political circumstances, if they can get their federal takeovers of elections through, they can win elections as long as you and I are alive.

And

they're willing to bet a country they don't care about, that being America,

on their ability to get there.

I would also point out that 11 years ago in Obamacare, they knew they were going to lose the House, and yet

in one sense, I give them credit.

They pressed ahead and did their ideological health care takeover, and Republicans who screamed and yelled about it for years

were unwilling to, when they had the power and authority to do so, to undo it.

Mitch McConnell ran 36,000 anti-Obamacare ads in October alone of 2014 when he was running for re-election in a tough race.

What did he do about it?

He beat up Ted Cruz and Mike Lee for trying to actually do what he was advertising that he was going to do.

You know, these guys don't fight Democrats as hard as they fight conservatives.

And, you know, so that takes us back to the left.

They're willing to go all in and lose seats.

to move this stuff because they believe it's an investment that pays off over time.

Much like like taking the political hit on the border in the short term, they believe they're going to get millions of voters out of these illegal aliens invading the country.

And that's what it is.

It's an invasion.

How likely is S1

to pass?

I think it's very unlikely.

They are desperate to try to break the filibuster.

And you probably saw it's been a busy weekend.

H.R.

4, the John Lewis Act, was submitted in the House.

It's worse than it was last last year, went from six pages to about

65 pages of federal takeover of elections.

And we'll see if any Republicans support it.

That would be a bad sign, and it would be a bad move on their part, because this is the bill, this is the bill, Glenn, that they intend to try to break the filibuster on.

And when the filibuster is broken, it won't just be elections that are gone.

Even with just a 50-50 Senate, they'll pop through things on guns, abortion, you name it.

And

the firewall of the filibuster will be gone.

And meanwhile,

we have the post office spying on people.

I didn't know the post office had an intelligence arm.

We now have the Capitol Police becoming an intelligence agency.

What the hell is happening, Ken?

Yeah, well,

not a lot of danger in the Capitol Police developing a lot of intelligence capability anytime soon.

I will tell you this.

They're the one organization we can't have a FOIA request for.

Well, anything in the legislative branch you can't get a FOIA request for because when they passed the FOIA law, they exempted themselves.

So you can't get it of congressmen or committees either.

So everything in the legislative branch is immune from FOIA.

So all the more important that Republicans take the House next year, hopefully the Senate too, and just start subpoenaing these materials and sharing them with the public, because we need to know whether our government is trying to just spy on us.

You're talking to a guy who sued the NSA over the metadata gathering seven years ago.

And

Congress changed the law to get rid of the metadata gathering.

So that

we can move the ball forward and make things right.

But I'll tell you, with the people in power today, and as you said, the priority is the radical left.

You know, I compare now to back when Reagan was president with Tip O'Neill.

Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan didn't always agree, but no one ever doubted Tip O'Neill thought the Constitution was the greatest foundation of a government in history and that America was the most exceptional nation on the planet.

And that's Tip O'Neill I'm talking about, not just Ronald Reagan.

I'm not sure that's a majority position in the House Democrat caucus today.

I'm not sure that

it's unanimous as a decision with the Republicans.

I think Republicans, some, think that the Constitution is nice, and of course I believe in it, but we got, you know, times have changed.

We have things to do.

Ends justify the means, right?

Yep.

So,

Ken, how can the average person

help?

What can the average person do?

And I'm not looking for busy work.

I'm looking for things that we can actually do that will make a difference.

I mean, you were a tea party guy.

That's when you came to the forefront.

So those people are still out there, but they're not marching because that makes no difference.

That's what they feel.

Yeah.

things that make a difference immediately.

So I'll give you a Virginia example where I am.

We have a governor's race.

We have the most important race of the year this year in Virginia.

And what I'm urging people to do, and I'd urge people in all the other states to do it for for next year, don't just volunteer for campaigns.

Of course, you've got to help the candidates that are going to actually move the needle, but go be an election officer.

Go be a hired election officer.

They bring citizens in.

They pay you, not a ton, but they pay you to participate in executing your own election.

You know, there was so much, frankly, it was...

The elections in 2020 were quite a mess.

And the best solution to that, even better than passing good laws and all the rest, when there are going to be places we can't do that, like Virginia right now.

All we can do is have our folks in there watching and conducting the election so that

we can trust them to pull it off.

Where do you go to

your

typically you go to your local registrar or county clerk, different there are different titles in different places.

And you're and whether you like the Republican Party or not, they usually, the local chairman typically signs off on the Republican election officials.

But I'll tell you, virtually everywhere I've ever looked, Democrats staffed their slots at a two to one ratio over Republicans.

Holy cow.

Which means the slots are available for people willing to go do the work.

And if you think of just Georgia, the general election in Georgia was a genuine mess.

It was a mess.

We're still reading about it, right?

But the special election,

where

people were sort of mobbing the place, if you will, and they knew everybody in the world was watching, you don't hear any stories about problems with that election.

You know why?

Because we were swarming it, because we were watching it.

I can tell you as a former attorney general, when bad guys think they're being watched, they don't misbehave,

even though they're bad.

Really good advice.

It goes a long way.

And it's to your point, give me something you can really do.

This is something you can really do.

And the appointments in Virginia are three years.

And I don't know what they are in each of your listeners' home states, but this isn't just one and done elections.

Go sign up now, be in the pipeline now, and be aware, you should say, I'll serve anywhere.

And there are some states like Pennsylvania where you need people from Bucks County to go into Philadelphia.

you know you Virginia it's Richmond it's Fairfax and you know we all have those disparities don't just be willing to serve in your home territory be willing to move around okay and let that be known and you got to start early so you know that's something to start right now okay right now Ken thank you so much Ken Cuccinelli you can follow him the website is electiontransparency.org or you can follow him on Twitter at Ken Cuccinelli.

Thanks, Ken.

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Have you noticed that all of the left's mistakes, they always,

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Who are we waiting for exactly?

We have about 5,000 people that we know are marked for death.

When they're waiting for the knock on the door,

these are people that have, they put Christian on their papers because we allowed the government just to say, hey, go ahead and ask for your religious affiliation and make sure you mark Christian on there if you're a Christian.

That was back in 2009.

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And the Nazarene Fund,

this is what it was designed to do.

But I want you to hear the phone call with the CEO of the Nazarene Fund that I had last hour.

This is a very important phone call.

Yes, Glenn.

I'm working with several of

our partners

in the Middle East.

And right now,

hold on just a second.

Hold on just a second.

I've never heard him use so many ums.

And this is because Rudy cannot give very much information for security reasons.

he's going to be a little vague here, but go ahead.

We're trying to extract several thousand people out of Afghanistan.

The problem is getting to the airport has been extremely difficult.

These individuals that we are helping are mostly women and children, many of them converted to Christianity.

They've been in safe houses for a long time.

In 2009, the Afghan government had changed the ID cards and forced people to declare their religious affiliations.

So these individuals did not want to renounce Christ, so they already claimed themselves on their ID cards as Christians.

And now they're hunkered down, afraid to go to the airport because the Taliban's looking for them.

From what I understand, the Taliban has a list of some of these people.

We've got some aircraft already waiting

to take off.

We're testing some of the airfields to see if we can extract them from there.

All the borders are closed, the land borders are closed, so we have to create an airbridge to get these individuals out.

I've got folks on the ground that are working.

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input and knowledge in how to move the aircraft and what to do.

The goal is to get these folks extracted safely to and we're working on different destinations to bring them to.

Unfortunately, I'm not at liberty, as you said, to say much right now until we get them out.

But also,

some of them are pastors with families.

And these people are under extreme, extreme danger because the Taliban wants to make an example of a lot of people.

They'll be crucified.

Yeah, they'll be crucified.

So,

Rudy, what is this going to cost?

Right now, one of the charter companies that we're working with

is telling us that it's going to be about $4,000 per person for chartering the plane and having the flight crew to go in and out.

As I said, we have north of several thousand people.

So we're going to have to raise quite a bit of money to get these folks out.

The planes are ready.

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We're ready to move forward, hoping in the next 48 hours to get quite a bit of folks out.

So any support we can get from our partners would be extremely appreciated.

Every life counts.

So we're doing our best to get them out.

Here's the ask of you.

I want you to give today,

if you can, to the point of where it hurts.

And that could be $1, could be $10,

might be 100.

An amount of money

that I would feel an impact on for me

is different than for you.

Rudy,

I'll pony up the first hundred grand.

Now let's have the audience see what they can do.

How many thousands of people do we need to get out?

Just let me say it this way.

We're between 3,000 and 5,000 people.

Okay.

When can we start?

How much money do we need to start?

As much as we can, right?

Right now, we've got the charter planes standing by.

We have to pay them, give them a down payment to start flying from, you know, to start flying in.

We've got some planes that we've already chartered, and

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And so any amount can be a lot of people.

Power,

I mean, geez, Rudy, we have so few friends down on the ground.

I just pray for you and everyone involved because I know how dangerous it's going to be.

Thank you, Rudy.

Sincerely.

Thank you.

Thank you for your support.

You bet.

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I did not, I was not aware that it was that many people.

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And they

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And they said, we congratulate the Muslim Afghan people for the defeat of the American occupation on all Afghan lands.

So we have that going for us this morning.

But what's even better is Ben and Jerry's, you know, it's come out with their anti-Israel stance,

and they defended their decision to restrict sales in Israel on Monday.

The founder telling the anti-Israel activist group Americans for Peace Now that he was proud of the boycott.

We did it and we're proud of it, said Ben and Jerry's co-founder, Ben Cohen, on the call Monday.

Even as the company faces legal blowback from several U.S.

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If enough of us do this, they will fold.

The deal is, we don't do it.

We don't do it.

You have to start playing a different game because they have no fear of you.

The government is trying to make everybody feel fearful of Republicans and people who voted for Donald Trump.

Yeah, really?

Really?

Yeah, we're really scary, aren't we?

We don't even have the guts to go boycott something.

So please, give it a rest.

What possible negative has ever come from singling out Jews for negative consequences?

Exactly right, but this ever going awry in our history.

No, no, no.

No.

Ben Ben and Jerry's.

It's unbelievable.

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He's Jewish.

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There is a guy that most of us have heard his name many times.

If you're my age, you might remember him, but everybody else seems to just know the name and haven't really done any homework on him.

His name is Alexander Solis-Nichin, Solisnichin,

and

he was a novelist, a philosopher, historian.

He was a political prisoner.

He was actually a guy.

His whole family defied the Soviet Union anti-religious campaign because they were devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church.

But the state got a hold of him and he lost his faith in Christianity and became a firm believer in both atheism and Marxism and Leninism.

Yeah, but then he wrote a letter that said, hey, Joseph Stalin isn't really doing a very good job.

And so he, you know, he served eight years in a gulag.

That kind of brought his Christianity back.

He kind of started thinking, maybe this isn't right.

Well, he wrote something the day before he went to jail.

He released it as he was going to jail.

And I want to share it to you.

It's an essay he wrote in 1974 that made him, this is the peak of his popularity.

It's why we know his name.

I want you to hear what he wrote about the people in the Soviet Union, what he wrote and said to them in 1974.

And I want you to keep track on how many things he says that are directed now directly to us in 60 seconds.

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I was 10 years old, 10 years and two days.

It was February 12th, 1974,

when a guy who had been in and out of gulags

in Russia

wrote a letter and released Live Not by Lies.

I want to read it to you and I want you to remember this was written in 1974 to the Soviet people.

See if it applies to you today.

There was a time when we dared not rustle a whisper.

But now we write and read, and we congregate heartily complaining to each other of all the things that they are muddling up, of all they are dragging us into.

There's that unnecessary bravado around our ventures into space against the backdrop of ruin and poverty at home, and the buttressing of a distant salvage of regimes, the kindling of civil wars, and the ill-thought-out cultivation of Mao, at our expense to boot.

In the end, we'll be the ones sent out against him, and we'll have to go.

What other option will there be?

And they put whomever they want on trial, and brand the healthy as mentally ill.

And it is always they while we are helpless.

We're approaching a brink.

Already a universal spiritual demise is upon us, a physical one that is about to flare up and engulf us and our children while we continue to smile sheepishly sheepishly and babble.

But what could we do to stop it?

We haven't the strength.

We have been so hopelessly seated,

our humanity, that for the modest handouts of today, we're ready to surrender up all principles, surrender up our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants, anything to avoid disrupting our meager little existence.

We've lost our strength.

We've lost our pride.

We've lost our passion.

We don't even fear a common nuclear death.

We don't fear for a third world war.

Perhaps we'll just hide away in some crevice.

The only thing we fear is to take a civic stance.

We don't want to stray from the herd.

We can't set out on our own and risk suddenly having to make do without.

We have internalized well the lessons drummed into us by the state.

We are forever content and comfortable with its premise.

We cannot escape the environment, the social conditions.

They shape us.

Being determines consciousness.

What do we have to do with this?

We can't really do anything.

But we can do

everything,

even if we comfort and lie to ourselves that this is not so.

It's not they

who are guilty of everything, but we ourselves, only we.

Some will counter, but really, I mean, there's nothing that can be done.

Our mouths are gagged.

No one listens to us.

No one asks us.

How can we make them listen to us?

To make them reconsider, it is impossible.

Now, the natural thing would just to simply not re-elect them.

But there are no real re-elections in our country.

In the West, in the West, they have strikes and protest marches.

But we're too cowed, too scared.

How does one just give up one's job, just go out into the street?

All of the other fateful means resorted to over the last century of Russia's bitter history are even less fitting for us today.

True, let's not fall back on them.

Today,

when all the axes have hewn what they have hacked, when all that was sown has borne fruit, we can see how lost, how drugged were those conceited youths who sought through terror, bloody uprisings, and civil war to make the country just and content.

No thank you, fathers of the Enlightenment.

We now know the vileness of the means begets the vileness of the result.

Let our hands be clean.

So has the circle closed?

Is there indeed no way out?

So the only thing left to do is wait inertly?

What if something just happens by itself?

But it will never come unstuck by itself.

If we all every day continue to acknowledge, glorify, and strengthen it, if we do not at least recoil from its most vulnerable point,

lies.

When violence bursts onto the peaceful human condition, its face is flush with self-assurance.

It displays on its banner and proclaims, I am violence, make way, step aside, or I will crush you.

But violence ages swiftly.

A few years pass, and it's no longer so sure of itself.

So to prop itself up to appear decent, it will without fail call forth its ally,

lies.

For violence has nothing to cover itself with but lies, and lies can only persist through violence.

And it is not every day and not on every shoulder that violence brings down its heavy hand.

It demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily participation in deceit.

And this suffices as our fealty.

And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation,

a personal non-participation in lies.

Even if all is covered by lies, even if it's all under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way.

Let their rule hold not through me.

This is the way to break out of the imaginary encirclement of our inertness.

The easiest way for us and the most devastating for the lies.

For when people renounce lies, lies simply cease to exist.

For like parasites, they can only survive when attached to a person.

We are not called upon to step out into the square and shout out the truth, to say out loud what we think.

This is scary, and perhaps we're not ready.

But let us at least refuse to say the things

that we do not think.

This is the way then, the easiest and most accessible for us given our deep-seated organic cowardice.

It's much easier,

scary to even utter the words, it's much easier than civil disobedience a la gandhi.

Our way to start must be never knowingly support lies.

Having understood where the lies begin, and many see this line differently, step back from that gangrenous edge.

Let us not glue back the flaking scales of the ideology, not gather back its crumbling bones, nor patch together its decomposing garb, and we will be amazed how swiftly and helplessly the lies will fall away, and that which is destined to be naked will be exposed as such to the world.

And so, thus overcoming our temerity, let each man today

choose:

Will he remain a witting servant of the lies?

Needless to say, not due to natural

predisposition, but in order to provide a living for the family, to just rear the children, but you're rearing them in the spirit of lies.

Or has the time come for that man to stand straight as an honest man, worthy of the respect of his children and contemporaries?

And from that day onward,

the man who will not write, sign, or publish in any way a single line distorting, so far as he can see, the truth.

A man who will not utter such a line in private or in public conversation, nor read it from a crib sheet, nor speak it in the role of an educator,

a canvasser,

a teacher,

or an actor.

They will not, in painting, sculpture, photography, technology, or music depict, support, or broadcast a single false thought, a single distortion of the truth as he discerns it.

That man will rise and not cite in writing or in speech a single guiding quote for gratification, insurance for his success at work,

unless he fully shares the cited thought and believes that it fits the context precisely.

Will that man start today?

Not raise a hand in a vote for a proposal which he does not sincerely support.

He will not vote openly or in secret ballot for a candidate whom he deems

dubious or unworthy.

He will not be impelled to a meeting where a forced and distorted discussion is expected to take place.

Let me say that again.

That man stands up and will not be impelled to a meeting where he is forced and distorted discussion is expected to take place.

He will at once walk out from a session, meeting, lecture, play, or film as soon as he hears the speaker utter a lie, ideological drivel, or shameless propaganda.

That man will not subscribe to nor buy in retail a newspaper or a journal that distorts or hides the underlying facts.

This is not an exhaustive list.

Because there are so many possible and necessary ways of evading lies.

Yes, at first it will not be fair.

Someone will have to temporarily lose their job.

For the young who seek to live by the truth, this will at first severely complicate your life.

For your tests and your quizzes, too, are stuffed with lies, and so choices

will have to be made.

But there is no loophole left for anyone who seeks to be honest.

Not even for a day, not even in the safest technical

occupations, can he avoid even a single one of the listed choices to be made in favor of either truth or lies, in favor of spiritual independence or spiritual servility?

And as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul,

let him not brag of his views, his progressive views, boast of his status as a academian or recognized artist or distinguished citizen or general.

Let him say to himself plainly, I'm cattle.

I'm a coward.

I seek only warmth and to eat my fill.

For those of us who have grown state over time, even this most moderate path of resistance will not be easy to set out upon.

But how much easier it is

than setting yourself on fire or a hunger strike.

Betrayed and deceived by us, did not a great European people, the Czechoslovaks, show us how one can stand down the tanks with bared chest alone,

as long as inside

beats a worthy heart.

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