The Doomsday Clock And You
Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater
The First Digital Inc.
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🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Welcome to the morning motivation brought to you by the Patriot Goal Group |
| 0:06.3 | and the Public Square app. Hope you had a nice weekend. The Doomsday Clock. It's one of my favorite |
| 0:11.7 | things because it is such a total joke and so revealing at the same time. |
| 0:21.4 | There are a few better examples of scientists beclowning themselves. |
| 0:27.6 | It's like the emperor with no clothes, but the emperor is so shameless. |
| 0:33.2 | They know they're naked, and they don't even care. |
| 0:36.8 | And people keep falling for it. |
| 0:38.1 | It's crazy. |
| 0:39.2 | You familiar with the Doomsday Clock? |
| 0:41.4 | Started in 1947 by a very impressive sounding group called the Bulletin of the Atomic |
| 0:47.3 | Scientist, connected with the University of Chicago. |
| 0:51.0 | And the scientists wanted to scare people that the world is going to come to an end because |
| 0:55.0 | of a nuclear bomb holocaust, right? So they decided to use this clock metaphor. And midnight |
| 1:01.6 | is an apocalypse, atomic apocalypse. And they arbitrarily, completely arbitrarily set the clock to |
| 1:09.6 | seven minutes to midnight. |
| 1:11.9 | That's how close we are to midnight. |
| 1:13.4 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 1:14.6 | And each year they move it a little bit based off the, well, nothing, based off nothing. |
| 1:20.3 | Just to be clear, but in their mind, it's based off this scientific, calculated threat of the world coming to an end from nuclear annihilation. |
| 1:28.2 | And now they've expanded into a bunch of other things that could cause the end of the world like |
| 1:30.9 | Donald Trump. |
| 1:33.0 | And because of Donald Trump, we're now, drum roll please. |
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