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The video transcript presents a compilation of clips from an interview between JD Vance and Christian commentator Bryce Crawford, highlighting what the narrator describes as Vance's deeply mystical and pre-enlightenment religious views. In these segments, Vance expresses a belief that spiritual darkness is often felt around people in positions of power rather than just in physical locations, suggesting that he relies heavily on his "feelings" or "vibes" to discern evil intentions, particularly among world leaders. The narrator critiques this approach, arguing that relying on such subjective spiritual guidance for decisions regarding war and peace is dangerous, especially when combined with a worldview where coincidences are interpreted as direct interventions by God rather than random chance or scientific causality.
Vance's conversation reveals a fascination with eschatological themes, including the idea of living in "end times" and the potential presence of the antichrist, which the narrator finds unsettling for a future leader. He discusses how he tries not to focus too much on these apocalyptic predictions despite being intrigued by them, yet his comments suggest a mindset that expects supernatural events like the rapture or the return of Jesus to be imminent realities shaping current affairs. The transcript also touches on Vance's views regarding artificial intelligence, where he perceives a "dark spiritual energy" in AI companies holding burial ceremonies for old models, a sentiment the narrator dismisses as mystical nonsense compared to traditional Christian sacraments.
The core argument presented by the narrator is that Vance's beliefs represent a form of barbarism and primitivism that contradicts the secular, rational foundations established by America's founding fathers. While acknowledging that many Americans hold similar mystical beliefs, the narrator emphasizes that it is alarming for the Vice President to take these views seriously without irony or contradiction. The summary concludes that Vance's conviction that he is a vehicle for God's will and his expectation of divine intervention in everyday events, from assassination attempts to business failures, paints a picture of a leader whose decision-making process could be heavily influenced by unverified spiritual intuitions rather than empirical evidence or moral codes alone.
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This one's going to be fun. Um,
I want to show you a video of of JD
Vance, and this is not really news, but
I I'm building up I'm building up
evidence, sharing with you, you know,
evidence
about J Vance, and and I know many of
you already convinced the guys should
not be president. But when the time
comes and many of you will turn on me
and say, "Yeah, but it's a binary choice
and we have to vote for for Vance." I
want you to remember some of these
videos that uh that I am, you know, the
videos I'm showing you of him and our
discussions here about JD Vance and his
uh ideas,
if you can call them that.
So, this is from an interview he did um
with uh God, what what's this guy's
name? Uh
Bryce Crawford. Bryce Crawford who has
1.1 million subscribers. He's a he's a
Christian young Christian guy who talks
a lot about faith and Christianity and
and and he has he's he he managed to get
the vice president of the United States
on the podcast with him and u they had a
very interesting conversation. So, we're
going to jump around a little bit. Let
me just find my notes about, you know,
where where I have to jump to.
Where is that? Right there. Okay. So,
I've got that. So, we're going to I'm
going to show you a few very short I
think they're pretty short uh bits. And
um you know what? I need to check
I wondered what speed I've got this.
Anyway,
it's this short and if it's a little
fast, that'll be fine. Um, so uh this is
this is uh this is uh I guess Bryce.
uh he's right here and uh he's asking uh
asking JD Vance questions and uh let's
take it from this point right and and a
lot of this has to do with spirituality
and faith and and so on right let me
know if you're hearing okay right if
sound is good have you ever been in a
room though like in Washington that
feels spiritually dark cuz I've been in
a room that's like okay you feel like
Satan is is presently here or there's
>> blatant evil. Have Have you ever felt
that just being in a room with around
power or influence, stuff like that?
>> How about you guys? Have you have you
ever felt like you're in a room and
Satan was there and and
um I mean sometimes it's hard to believe
we're in the 21st century. We're in the
post enlightenment 21st century. It it
it's it's challenging to to to believe
that. But but this is a a serious
question. you were in the present. We
Have you ever felt you in a room where
maybe Satan was present?
>> Yeah. So, so, so definitely though less
like a room itself and more sometimes
like people that that are around you
sometimes give you a very very bad
feeling. Um, you know, I I I've
definitely, you know, I I've been in
meetings with world leaders where
various issues are being discussed and
somebody will say something or somebody
will make an observation and I will like
feel a certain darkness about it and I
kind of like it sort of sets off every
spiritual alarm bell in my body like
whatever that person just said I need to
be very careful because that's not
that's not a great thing. So I would say
I feel it more around people necessarily
than
>> So So I'm really glad we have a vice
president of the United States and maybe
future president of the United States
that that has such strong feelings and
is guided so much by feelings he gets
and uh the the the the spiritual uh the
spiritual guidance he gets and the the
vibe that he gets from what other people
what people are saying particularly
world leaders. I mean we want we want
our uh our our leaders to be you know
well educated and and uh to be guided by
feelings right feelings is that I think
that's right by by by by the feelings
that other the vibes they you know that
other other world leaders you know this
is the guy's going to decide who's going
to go to war and and uh and and uh what
wars we're going to go fight. Um, I'm
I'm glad he's he's attuned with his
feelings. This is good. Uh,
let me let me do Okay, I think Yeah,
this is a little earlier than I wanted,
but it's assassinated.
>> He barely moved half an inch. Correct. I
mean, you literally would not be sitting
here talking to me.
>> Correct.
>> So, how
>> when you when you think of that
scenario, do you see how does
[clears throat] do you see God in that
scenario bringing you here?
>> Yeah. So, and this is why, you know, I I
say like if you really want to try, you
can find just a hyper scientific
rational explanation for this. Okay? So,
President Trump is sitting on stage,
standing on stage, I guess, and he
points to a chart and he points to a
chart just so happens to be at the exact
moment that the guy took a shot. Now,
again, there is a physical explanation
for that. He he noticed the chart, he
pointed at the chart, he turned his
head, the guy fired the bullet. Crazy
coincidence, right? These things happen.
But I I I think that that's a very
spiritually impoverished way to look at
things.
>> So looking at things through science and
looking at things through causal
relationships and recognizing
the existence of chance that that that
you know things are not coordinated uh
by any by by an a an external
consciousness. That's a spiritually
improvished way. I mean, I'm I'm glad to
know that I'm spiritually improvised.
Um, but uh to look at things, but you
know, this was like whatever the reason
is, whatever God was trying to
accomplish, like it is just so obvious
to me that coincidences like that don't
happen without the hand of providence.
>> Yeah. Coincidences
like that do not happen without the hand
of providence. This is this is a mystic,
a complete and utter mystic. This is
guided by God. So I mean of course
Lincoln was also shot and that was
guided by God whatever his purpose might
have been. And when babies die that is
guided by God whatever purpose might be.
And when you get cancer and you die a
horrible slow death that is uh guided by
God. Although of course they always say
no. They always I I always like it when
you know when when um in football they
seem to thank God a lot. They don't
thank God in basketball. Maybe because
the game is too fast, but in football,
you catch the pass and you score a
touchdown. You thank God immediately,
right? When you drop the pass, you don't
shake your hand at God. It's always your
fault. So, it is interesting. They never
blame the BL.
I you know I'm I'm I I get really upset
about this stuff and I get really upset
about this stuff because we're in the
21st century and we have a chance of
being led by somebody and and and
maybe by there's a lot of people out
there who is medievalist
who has a a real pre-enlightenment sense
of religion. God is in all of our
affairs. He's here all the time. He's
guiding everything that we do.
I am a vehicle of God.
I mean that is a scary proposition to
me.
Will he start hearing the voice of God?
Who knows? Um and I know I know I know
60 70% of Americans believe this crap
and and another 20% believe other crap
but other mystical crap. But
I'm you know I'm going to say this. This
is barbarism. This is primitivism.
This is crap. This is nonsense.
This is the kind of stuff that is really
scary that our founding fathers tried to
move away from. If they believed in a
god, they believed in a god and a kind
of an aristo god, a god that sets stuff
in motion and moves away. I don't think
any of the founders, the major founders
believed in a god that determines
whether the bullet will hit you know,
uh, Trump will not hit Trump.
They didn't view themselves as being
guided by God.
Maybe being guided by a certain moral
code,
but not by God.
And I'm sure there have been other
presidents who felt this,
but like
the later it gets, we're in the 21st
century,
the more offensive this becomes, the
more upsetting it is, the more
ridiculous it is. And I I don't have an
argument, you know, I I I'm not going to
get into a discussion here about the
fact that God doesn't exist and and uh
and and a God that intervenes in every
one of our decisions is
fills,
you don't get filled the room here with
contradictions that that that that
necessitates.
Again, it's that the vice president of
the United States
is having a serious conversation about
this. takes this completely serious.
There's no irony. There's no there's no
there there's no question in his mind.
Always putting on a great show for the
religious audience of this guy. I don't
know. And I'm not sure which one is
worse. Okay, I'm going to skip ahead. Uh
let's go to because this is
in some ways even spookier, right?
5852. Let's see if I can make that. All
right, we'll start here. Um,
all right. Maybe a little bit further.
852. Got it.
Okay. Let's
>> Do I think that we're in the end times?
I don't know.
Do I think we're at the end of times?
His answer is I don't know. Now, he has
to say I don't know because he doesn't
know. And it would be unbelievably
presumptuous of him as a Catholic to
know
the end of times.
Think about what he would be like if he
were president and he believed that we
were at the end of times.
Think about what that would imply and
how that could shape his actions.
I mean, this whole, you know, he's going
to talk about the end of times. He
doesn't know if we're in the end of
times. And and note, we've been at the
end of times since the time of Jesus.
Jesus thought we were at the end of
times.
Jesus believed according to
New Testament that the world was going
to end soon.
Many of the things he said assume that
the people writing the gospels believed
Paul believed we were close to end of
times. The people writing the gospels
thought was it 100 years later that we
were at the end of times over and over
and over and over again. Fall of Rome
was suggestive of the end of times
but we don't know. Maybe it's now. Who
knows? I mean there's so much stuff
going on in the world right now. Maybe
the end of times is right now. And I
think that it's probably bad for me
spiritually to focus too much on it
because there are like things you got to
do. I got to be good to my wife. I got
to be good to my kids. I have to be, you
know, a as good of a leader as I can for
the United States of America. And so I I
think that focusing while I'm fascinated
by it, I think focusing on it is too
much can be very bad.
>> He's fascinated by the end of times.
Fascinated. I'm I'm glad we're going to
have a a we have a leader in the White
House who is really fascinated by the
end of times and demons. We've talked
about that in the past.
>> I think that there are like things about
the world that make me feel like not
shocked if the antichrist was was
walking among us.
>> So, you wouldn't be shocked if the
antichrist was walking among us?
And who is that? Zalinski, maybe? I
don't know. Uh
I I don't know. Maybe it's Centennial.
Who knows who the antichrist is? But he
wouldn't be shocked. I mean, just think
about a mentality. I I really
How do I drill this home? Think about a
mentality that thinks could be living in
the end of times and God is sent and
antichrist this year and there's going
to be this big rapture and Jesus is
going to come down. He's going to fight
the antichrist and there's going to be
this war of all against all and and the
Jews better convert to Christianity.
they go to hell and and it's going to be
and and the dead are going to rise up
from the graves
and this fascinates it
[sighs]
it there's a spookiness
>> but again I try not to focus too much on
it. I think that you know I I I I made
life as living as an investor in Silicon
Valley sort of right before the AI boom
really started. I sort of got into
politics
>> and you know there are things that some
of the AI companies you see happening
where you feel like there is some really
really weird spiritual dark energy. So
like have you have you heard this like
one of the companies you know that
develops these models when they get rid
of one model and announce a new model
they actually hold a burial ceremony for
the old model and like the employees
apparently will cry.
>> What the heck?
>> So this is from a mystic who's
complaining about other people actually
created this stuff. So it's not
mystical. you know, maybe they they
connected to this model, they built the
model, they created the model, they they
you know, and if you've interacted with
AI, you know, you could be personally
get personally attached to these models.
Um,
he's complaining about the dark energy.
I mean, can you think about anything
with more dark energy than putting the
body of Christ in your mouth and
drinking his blood and the wine converts
into his blood as a so you're basically
a cannibal? Um, there's something very
very dark about Christianity and
Catholicism in particular and about the
whole ceremonies of it. But no, we're
complaining about AI.
We're complaining about an AI company.
All right, one last quick one. And
again, this is all just this is all just
building up some evidence. I building up
the kookiness of this guy. Uh because I
think he's a cook and and I think I
think you need a
I think you need the evidence that he is
one. Wait, wait a minute. We have to go
back. All right, we'll start there.
Whoops. No, it keeps jumping forward on
me back.
101.
>> All right, we'll start here.
>> When you like completely divorce the
human from the social element that God
made us for, I think that's very I think
it's very bad.
>> So I I you know, so anyway, I'm
fascinated by it, but I I try not to
spend too much time on it. And I'm, you
know, that there are there are also
honestly this is one of the areas where
different, you know, like Southern
Baptists might look at it a different
little differently than Pentecostals who
might look at it differently from
Methodists who might look at it
differently from Catholics. And one of
the things that I I think that that
Catholics are very focused on that I I I
think is very good for me is this idea
that we are we don't know when God is
coming.
But we are commanded to try to as much
as possible try to make the world the
kind of world that God wants it to be.
Right?
>> Try to make the world the kind of world
that God wants it to be. And and and he
knows what that is. And um to me that's
what's scary.
It's he's commanded to do that. He's
commanded as a Catholic and then as
president he wants to make America the
kind of country that God wants it to be
so that Jesus comes back one day and
fights the antich and all that garbage.
So it's
um it's craziness.