The Big Brown Gadfly with Bobby Lopez

Judd Saul joined Bobby Lopez on this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly to discuss the new documentary he produced alongside Trevor Loudon and Pastor Cary Gordon. Bobby was featured in the film sharing his experience with the Southern Baptist Convention and how the Marxists have taken over the schools and universities. The Big Brown Gadfly is going to be joining Freedom First TV, so be sure to become a subscriber today using code BOBBY for 25% off at https://freedomfirst.tv.

Ray Fava joins Bobby Lopez on The Big Brown Gadfly to discuss the problems with Tom Buck, Karen Swallow Prior and Bart Barber determining the future of the SBC. Freedom First TV is launching next week, and The Big Brown Gadfly is officially joining the network! Become a subscriber today using code BOBBY for 25% off FFTV subscription at https://freedomfirst.tv

The Southern Baptist Convention is aflame with controversy and in danger of being destroyed. It is the largest Protestant denomination in the United States and a clearinghouse of power, money, and influence in conservative Western culture. I say: Let it burn to the ground. That message came to me even louder after doing this interview with whistleblower David Bumgardner. Pre-order Bobby Lopez's upcoming book, Cancel-Proof Christianity, using discount code BOBBY. https://www.gatekeepersonline.com/product-page/cancel-proof-christianity-by-robert-lopez-phd

Jeff Younger received national attention because he endured the unthinkable as a result of corruption in family law and education. His ex-wife battered him in court to pay child support to have their son, James, transition genders at a pre-school age, against Jeff's wishes. The struggle has prompted Jeff's courage and activism. He is now running for the Texas state legislator and has a shot at winning. In this discussion, the BBG and Jeff talk about education in the larger sense. You may be surprised that the topic does not dwell on the hot button issues brought forward by trans bathroom bills or the "don't say gay" law (misrepresented by that term) in Florida. Instead BBG and Jeff go deeper to talk about the existential crisis in USA education, beginning with why we spend so much money and time on students and cannot produce scholars as smart as the haphazardly educated people who founded America. From there they discuss the plague of high school sports, the neglect of males in the education system, and a host of problems affecting not only the humanities but the sciences as well. Pre-order Bobby Lopez’s new upcoming book Cancel-Proof Christianity, where he lays out the strategy that Conservative Christians must take to create an alternative ecosystem to become uncancelable. Order your copy at https://gatekeepersonline.com/store today using code BOBBY for a discount.

For part three of this series, I brought on Jeff Dornik. We did some soul searching to ask what possible routes lay open for to move forward with our ideals. We both had a vague sense that we might be willing to fight alongside people who agree with us on nothing at all, other than the shared notion that the existing regime is corrupt and we need massive overhaul. Dornik felt that a possible unifying theme was liberty, though this sounds to me like libertarianism, which we both agreed was already tainted.

In my discussion with Alan Atchison and Ray Fava, we touched upon the problem of conservatives and war propaganda. Tension grew among conservatives almost immediately because an elite of establishment rightists, namely those who were counterpoised against Donald Trump, embraced the rhetoric favoring escalation and American entanglement in the Russia-Ukraine war. That Trump fed this same rhetoric in his own way only makes it more obvious that the right is dead. All signs and polls indicate that the Trump base rejects Biden’s war propaganda and does not want to throw America’s weight behind Ukraine. Yet there are very few elite leaders on the right who champion the true feeling of the base. As Ray Fava joined our conversation we extended the death of the right to the death of orthodox evangelical churches. Fava and Atchison have both worked diligently to fight against the liberalization of evangelical churches. I have tended to see the problem more as authoritarianism and corruption in general rather than simply one political camp or another gaining ground. Either way I see the moribund state of the political right mirrored in the moribund state of not only the Southern Baptist Convention but actually the entire range of evangelical denominations.

Brittany Klein and I both began on the left but spent the last 10 years identified with conservatives because of our stance on social issues. What happened during our “ten years on the right” is a complex story which we will tell one day. We compiled a book together, Jephthah’s Daughters, which laid out the case for a child’s right to a mother and father. That book came out in 2015 and got us labeled as right-wing fanatics. But for March 15, 2022, we busied ourselves with the task of diagnosing the left, the political camp where both of us began our political consciousness. Two major defections from the left stand out as prompts for the discussion: Glenn Greenwald, whose Twitter and substack feeds attest to his conviction that the political left has lost itself in crass authoritarianism; and Bill Maher, whose famous takedowns of conservatives have not died but have come to coexist in his HBO soliloquies with increasingly bitter lamentations about the left’s growing extremism. There are many, however, who seem to be J-K-Rowling their way, if not to the right, at least away from the safe compounds of leftist orthodoxy. Perhaps these are isolated anecdotes. But perhaps they are not. If we are witnessing a deeper trend, it will signify a massive, perhaps twice or thrice in a lifetime, political realignment. When Brittany and I talk about our youths on the left, we can’t help but feel nostalgic. There was something valuable about belonging to the political camp that championed free speech, opposed repressive puritanism, checked the power of corporations, and critiqued the sins of the military-industrial complex. We can even appreciate that once upon a time the left bore the classy honor of championing racial minorities and sexual misfits who were mistreated or devalued by mainstream society. The war in Ukraine has perhaps brought into clearer focus what we already witnessed about the left’s degeneration. Or maybe it’s just that now many people are realizing that something has gone terribly wrong with the left. Certainly the vibrancy of the antiwar movement in 2002 makes for a stark and sobering contrast against the left’s reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I will never forget the adrenaline of twenty years ago, when Colin Powell was appearing before the United Nations making the case for the United States to invade Iraq. Two girls named Rebecca, both white liberal undergrads, crossed my path at SUNY Buffalo back then. They were idealistic and convicted that they might be able to change something for the better. The three of us got together and planned a Books Not Bombs conference on the university campus. We had modules in different classrooms and held a rally in the main plaza by Capen Hall. My wife and I worked with a host of other people to raise money for buses to New York City and Washington to march against the war, on February 15 and March 15 of 2003. The energy in our camp was utopian. We marched through shoulder-to-shoulder clouds to shout for peace, never imagining a time when all the comrades around us would, twenty years later, be calling for anyone who doubted the Biden administration’s position on Ukraine to be investigated, placed on trial for treason, and arrested. But here we are. Historians may argue the point but I believe quite strongly that the antiwar movement made Barack Obama’s presidency possible. Ergo, it was the reaction to the invasion of Iraq that carved out the political left we know today. No other issue felt as compelling and invigorating during the 2000s as resistance to a war that we knew was pure human tragedy. While there was no Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok or Instagram then, we had many mainstream liberal sites that provided consistent news to undercut the warmongering on mainstream media channels like CNN, Fox, and MSNBC. There was Democracy Now! We had Mother Jones, Salon, Atlantic Monthly, as well as countless primordial but still readable blogs in those early days. I was editor in chief of the graduate students’ newspaper and ran countless editorials critiquing the Bush administration’s rush to war. As the war dragged on and Americans saw the horrors of Abu Ghraib, then slowly realized that there were no WMDs, everyone who withstood peer pressure to oppose the war in 2002 became a hero by 2006. In this turbulent time were born the big careers of Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Cenk Uygur, and countless other commentators. Most importantly, Moveon.org, a website that I knew foremost as an organizing hub for people to oppose the wars in the Middle East, transitioned at some point to a Democratic Party operation headquarters. Barack Obama gained the upper hand against Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in the 2008 Democratic primaries largely because of the Moveon constituency. That base threw their weight to Obama for one standout reason. Obama claimed to have given a speech opposing the war in Iraq. Clinton and Biden, both senators in 2002, voted to authorize the invasion. The importance of the antiwar movement to the formation of today’s world cannot be over-emphasized. I stepped away from the left with the rise of Barack Obama because I did not like his choice of Biden as a running mate. It appeared likely that Obama was going to favor the identity politics of the Democratic Party for cynical reasons, at the expense of the Party’s base of antiwar and pro-worker policies. My gut instincts at the time were vindicated quickly as Obama did everything possible to advance abortion, the LGBT lobby, and superficial racial pep talks, while feeding the war machine with his escalation in Afghanistan and NATO’s war in North Africa, combined with Obama’s unseemly alliance with corporate America on Obamacare and in the rotten stimulus of 2009. By the time of Romney’s race against Obama, I was already a committed Republican and writing for American Thinker. There was nothing wrong with being part of the GOP because the Ron Paul wing had taken antiwar activism away from the left. Obama’s selling out to corporations showed me that the Democrats were no longer the antiwar party and were never going to be the worker’s party again, so the only real distinction between Democrats and Republicans rested on the social issues: faith, religious liberty, sexuality, gender, and abortion. Those issues mattered to me more and more because I was now a middle-aged father trying to bring my wife and children to the Lord, and I felt God calling me to bear witness for His laws on personal conduct in the public square. That’s why I ended up Republican and labeled “conservative” by 2012. In reality nothing had changed about my beliefs except their position relative to the unraveling left. While Bill Maher has a point that the left has gotten extreme and crazy – it really has – the story of the left’s evolution is, of course, much more complicated. Today’s Democrats came to power based on the specific stances of the antiwar movement of 2002. We were against the USA Patriot Act, against the encroachment on civil liberties, against questioning people’s patriotism based on differences, against ethnic demonization, against warmongering, against crippling other countries’ citizens through sanctions, against economic imperialism, against war profiteering, against corporate collusion, and against, of course, using our military might to escalate wars overseas. If not for these specific positions of the antiwar left of the early 2000s, the Democrats would have never gained the traction necessary to win back Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008. Nothing of the Obama era, including the unlikely ascendancy of Joe Biden, would have ever happened. And now, firmly seated in power, the left has completely betrayed every single one of those positions. So-called “liberals” are demanding that the government monitor citizens and work with tech companies to de-platform and bar them from the public square. Now some liberals are even calling for dissidents like Tulsi Gabbard, a fellow Democrat, to be investigated, dispossessed, and possibly arrested, for being a “Russian asset.” Now the left is throwing around the ugly terms “treason,” “traitor,” and “un-American,” as if liberal Hollywood has not billed fifties McCarthyism (a walk in the park compared to today’s cancel culture) as a world-historical trauma en par with the Inquisition or sack of Carthage. The left’s lockstep demonization of Russia has reached new heights. I had an early taste of the anti-Russian fervor of the Obama era left in 2014, when the Human Rights Campaign sent a press release to over a million members highlighting my name and insinuating that I was involved with anti-homosexual hate groups in Russia. This was right about when Russia passed a law banning the promotion of homosexuality to minors, something that in retrospect should not have seemed so terrible given that Western liberals were pushing to criminalize the promotion of heterosexuality to minors via “conversion therapy.” It was frightening back then to be labeled as a pro-Russian “exporter of hate,” especially because the anti-Russian rhetoric kept escalating into the 2020s. Now, of course, we have seen the insanity of Netflix pulling back on a production of Anna Karenina because Tolstoy was Russian and it just isn’t acceptable to endorse any Russian living or dead in light of the invasion of the Ukraine. Liberals who have long lectured us about the evils of interning Japanese Americans are calling for Russian students to be blocked from universities, Russian artists to be canceled from venues, Russian athletes to be banned from athletics, Russian property be seized, and Russian citizens be unilaterally cut off from credit card services, goods, and services. Twenty years ago, I stood with the left in fighting against any demonization of Arabs, Muslims, or Middle Eastern peoples while the United States was invading Iraq. I am at a loss to explain how we got from that place two decades ago to the Russian-bashing left-wing bullying of today. And what happened to the left’s opposition to warmongering? Amid the whirlwind of heated anti-Russian rhetoric, liberals throw out ideas of no-fly zones, provision of weapons and backup to anti-Russian combatants, and the inclusion of Ukraine in NATO. NATO led an intervention in Libya in 2011 that killed civilians and wrought serious devastation. Since Obama was president at the time, the American left never felt the need to pursue accountability for that. It is perfectly reasonable given this history that Russia would not want a military league with that record butting against her borders, armed and funded by a nation whose leaders have demonized Russia for the last eight years over the LGBT issue. Yet the left knowingly pushes for these escalations, despite the global risks. They have become the party of warmongering that they built themselves by opposing. Finally, the left has linked itself to corporate corruption and yellow journalism that I could have never anticipated. Everyone who followed the 2020 impeachment knows that Joe Biden’s family had financial conflicts of interest with the energy industry in Ukraine. The entire impeachment hinged on Trump pushing Ukrainian officials to investigate that. In 2002, every link between the Bush/Cheney cabal and energy industries in Iraq and Afghanistan was exhaustively catalogued and mapped out, to ten degrees of separation if necessary, by the left. Yet today, the left remains deafeningly silent on the obvious corporate corruption that plagues the Ukrainian situation. And then, worst of all, the secrets and lies. The left hated war propaganda back in the day. Now, the left tries to erase our memory of Biden voting for the invasion of Iraq, something that would critically undermine his moral high ground against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Much of the left has agreed to cover up neo-Nazi nationalist powers in Ukraine had to discourage anyone from taking Putin’s “de-nazification” rationales seriously. And of course most recently, the denials about biodefense laboratories continue even as evidence mounts that these biolab claims were not fringe conspiracy theories but grounded inferences from documented facts on the ground. Worst of all, the left has become the imperialist party in the West. No longer seeking to check the abuse of Western power over other parts of the world, the left has relished the global hegemony that the Obama era gave it. So now, the rest of the world must be de-gendered, financially controlled, and disciplined by the United States government and allies that accept total submission to American power. I suggest you listen to the whole podcast between Brittany and me. We reach the conclusion that the left has indeed already ceased to exist as it once did. It exists now as a narcissistic mockery of itself. But that doesn’t make the left any less dangerous or powerful. Bobby Lopez’s upcoming book Cancel-Proof Christianity is now available for pre-orders. This book focuses on exactly how Christians can create a separate eco-system to ensure that we can never be cancelled by the Left. Place your order at https://www.gatekeepersonline.com/product-page/cancel-proof-christianity-by-robert-lopez-phd using code BOBBY for 10% off.

During this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, Dr Bobby Lopez and Jeff Dornik discuss the upcoming Cancel-Proof Christianity Summit in Ft Worth, TX, on Saturday September 25th. During this event, they’ll unveil their plan to create an alternative to the current education system which will both protect conservative professors from censorship and will ensure students receive top-level quality Christian education. Speakers at this event include Dr Bobby Lopez, Jeff Dornik, Jeff Younger, Dr Paul Church, Dr Mike Spaulding, Judd Saul, Pastor Sam Jones and Doni Anthony. You can register for this event as well as the livestream at http://cancelproofchristianity.com.

The Mass Resistance Texas team joins Bobby Lopez for this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly to discuss the epic battle for social conservatism in the Texas House and Senate. LGBT, abortion, school choice, carry, and much more!

Chapter 2: Hannah's song. Poetry as a craft written to an audience of one--God. Eli's sons and Samuel. How to apply, appoint, and appraise the talents of those called by God, and what that means about anointing. Chapter 8: Israel's infamous demand for a king. What this reveals to us about the nature of government, and why that matters for teaching social studies, government, and political science. Chapter 9: The anointing of Saul. Rites of passage, what they mean, why they must be taken very solemnly. Chapters 13-14: Saul and Jonathan's rash mistakes. The importance of both method and theory in learning. David's status as a musician!

A livestream from Rep. Stephanie Klick's district in Texas. The "Save James" bill would ban pediatric transgender procedures. These and other bills are in the legislative mix of Texas. We just announced our very first in-person conference in Ft Worth, TX, called Cancel-Proof Christianity on September 25th. Speakers include Jeff Younger, Dr Bobby Lopez, Dr Paul Church, Jeff Dornik, Dr Mike Spaulding and Judd Saul, who will be discussing the need for Christians to create our own ecosystem, starting with education. Get tickets at http://cancelproofchristianity.com

During this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, Bobby Lopez interviews Tracy Shannon of Mass Resistance about why so it seems that events like drag queen story hour always seem to proceed even when the whole community is against it.

Guest Rachel Alexander joins The Big Brown Gadfly with Bobby Lopez to discuss whether anyone is sane in the traditional conservative orbit anymore. Is SCOTUS mentally lost? Are we going to focus on Trump until 2024? Will social conservatives get anywhere in the future? This and more.

A discussion on the growing marginalization of men with John Haskins, Senior Fellow of the Inter-American Institute.

Will the Left in Academia be able to "cancel" a diploma you have already earned?

Alan Atchison, editor of Capstone Report (www.capstonereport.com) joins the Big Brown Gadfly to talk about the scandals rocking the Southern Baptist Convention and launch Bobby's series, "The Total Depravity of the Southern Baptist Convention."

Bobby Lopez and the team at Mass Resistance Texas discuss a lot of the current issues surrounding the Conservative Agenda, including the issue of homosexuality and transgenderism. These are important issues to focus on within state politics.

Jeff Dornik joins this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly to discuss the upcoming SBC election for President. Four men will be vying for the SBC presidency next week: Al Mohler, Ed Litton, Mike Stone, and Randy Adams. I will go over the four contenders and explain my endorsement.

During this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly, Rachel Alexander and Bobby Lopez talk about the doom of the election certification and what we can do to carry on now that the battle over election 2020 is over.

The team from Mass Resistance join Bobby Lopez during this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly to discuss Charlie Kirk, his influence within Conservatism and whether he's good for the movement or not. On one hand he's been a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, yet he's also been more a Libertarian than a Conservative. Or he could be better described as an anti-Socialist. Kirk has also been promoting the LGBTQ and Drag Queen lifestyle. Does this lifestyle have a place within Conservatism?

Bobby Lopez talks with John Zmirak during this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly about the absurd rhetorical games of anti-Trumpers who accuse Christian conservatives of idolatry merely because they like Trump's policies and support him in his fight against election fraud. This attack strategy by these Never Trumpers is a game of "gotcha" that, when actually dissected, does not hold up against scrutiny. These attacks have been coming from even our own Christian leaders who are blinded by their rage and hatred against Donald Trump. While these kinds of tactics are not out of line for the Left, what's been surprising has been the very same lines of attack coming from supposed "Conservative" Evangelical Leaders, such as Beth Moore, Dr Russell Moore and more. But then again, is anybody actually that surprised from the swamp that is leading the Christian Church today? Bobby and John explain the proper response to these types of accusations. It is important that we handle these kinds of objections to our support of President Donald Trump in the right way, to expose the logical fallacy and false accusations that these lines of "reasoning" result in. For more shows and articles from The GateKeepers, please visit http://gatekeepersonline.com Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-big-brown-gadfly-with-bobby-lopez/id1517514668 Subscribe on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-417355

In the last stretch before Election 2020 is ultimately decided between Trump and Biden, Bobby and Rachel go over the final six contested states and what questions remain in each one about election integrity. While Joe Biden has now been declared the victor in the 2020 Election, that does not change the fact that we cannot concede this election. It's clear that the election was stolen, so it's vitally important that we do not let up on the push to expose this stolen election. Rachel Alexander joins Bobby Lopez during this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly to break down each of the states in question to figure out what really went down on Election Day and in the aftermath. Yes, chances are extremely slim to virtually impossible to overturn the election at this point. However, we are winning the argument in the court of public opinion. This debate is between the everyday American for the Elite, both in the political system and the Evangelical system. While the Elites are holding onto power with false information, but we are gaining ground. So we cannot give up in pushing forward in this fight. The easy route is to simply give up. Think about it, the ruling class is doing everything they can do discredit us on a personal level, which are seeing with the impeachment process that is currently going on. However, since we do have the truth on our side, we cannot concede or else it is literally the end of our country. Again, as Christians, we should be taking a stand for the truth... shining light into darkness! For more shows and articles from The GateKeepers, please visit http://gatekeepersonline.com Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-big-brown-gadfly-with-bobby-lopez/id1517514668 Subscribe on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-417355

John Zmirak returns for another episode of The Big Brown Gadfly with Bobby Lopez to discuss the fact that Conservatives being accused of being Christian Nationalists and whether it's even a bad thing to be one. Clearly, the Left uses the term Christian Nationalism as a slur, attempting to tie it to White Nationalism. However, what does it actually mean to be a Christian Nationalist? This is a part of a strategic agenda to discredit Conservative Christians who love God and love this Country. Instead of being intellectually honest and acknowledging that just because you vote for Trump or have an America First philosophy of government, doesn't mean that you've elevated Trump to worship status, nor does it mean that we are a racist group of people. America First simply refers to the role of the American government... specifically that America needs to take care of herself first, and then once our nation is protected and secure, then we can outreach. The problem is that most of our foreign policy implemented by the establishment is an America Last philosophy, which means that we are hurting our nation for the benefit of others. It's not wrong to want to do what's best for your nation. Each nation should be putting its own interests first, followed by what is best for their allies. This is logical. John Zmirak and Bobby Lopez break down and expose not only the sinister tactics being used with this term Christian Nationalism, but also why we should all be Christian Nationalists! For more shows and articles from The GateKeepers, please visit http://gatekeepersonline.com Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-big-brown-gadfly-with-bobby-lopez/id1517514668 Subscribe on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-417355

Many of the Evangelical Elite, most of which would refer to themselves as "Conservative," are throwing slanderous accusations towards Donald Trump and his supporters, including claims of "white supremacy" and "Christian Nationalism." What is actually going on here and why is this happening within Evangelicalism? Alan Atchison of Capstone Report joins Bobby Lopez in this episode of The Big Brown Gadfly to discuss these wild accusations. Evangelical leaders, such as Beth Moore, Tim Keller, David Platt, Mark Dever and many others have gone full on "Never Trump", going so far as to justify voting for the pro-abortion and pro-sin Joe Biden and the Democrats. They have contracted TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) and are so triggered that they can't even be intellectually honest. In their mind and in their claims, they believe that the only reason why Conservatives could vote for such a horrific man as Donald Trump would be because of white supremacy and this claim of Christian Nationalism. When push comes to shove, however, why is Christian Nationalism wrong? Think about it... Globalism is unbiblical. The Bible is clear when it comes to national borders and national sovereignty. Even on a spiritual level, Heaven has a border, and God sets the standard for entry. The only way in is either perfection or taking on Christ's perfection by placing your faith in Him, repenting of your sins and following after Him. So when it comes to this claim of Christian Nationalism, the motivation for this accusation is that the accusers have a Globalist mindset. There's definitely some serious problems within our mainstream Christian leadership. The fact that our supposed Conservative leaders hate Trump so much shows just how spiritually blind our pastors truly are. They can't even see that our nation is in a battle between Good and Evil. Unfortunately, they are finding themselves on the wrong side of the battlefield. For more shows and articles from The GateKeepers, please visit http://gatekeepersonline.com Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-big-brown-gadfly-with-bobby-lopez/id1517514668 Subscribe on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-417355