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Danny and Josh meet with guest Adam Miller to discuss election night results, theonomy, Trump's first 9 months, and more. Quote of the evening: "The question of how do we get there is different from where should we be going." - Adam MillerTimestamps:00:00: Zealots under a hypothetical theonomy01:45: which of God’s laws can the government enact punishment for breaking?02:30: Josh on the non-aggression principle 04:30: Danny on the slippery slope of empowering the government 05:45: Adam: “the question of how do we get there is different from where should we be going”06:25: “Lancaster is turning purple as we speak” (real start of the show)08:00: Chester County09:00: Republican losses around the country 11:45: The NYC mayoral experiment 12:45: America, land of political experiments 15:30: Giuliani, the last Republican mayor of a major city? California, can it have another Republican governor?18:00: “when you pack a lot of people in a small area, you have people concerned more with what other people are doing, and Democrat policies generally encroach on people’s lives more…”19:30: correlation between anxiety and living in proximity to a lot of people 23:30: looking towards your own community for solutions instead of the government 25:15: Parallel economies 28:00: results from Virginia’s Loudon and Fairfax counties 30:00: Manheim Township is lost 30:30: brief aside: NYC contrast from 97-9932:30: never forget pandemic policies!34:00: The “Yes” retention votes: “how many people really had a clue what that was?”37:30: people pay more attention at national level and not enough on local 40:00: More Republican losses in PA44:00: the belief that more funding = better education 45:00: why PA State Supreme Court judges needed to go 48:00: the judge retention system is un-Democratic51:00: was the issue of abortion a factor in judge retention?52:30: on Democrats’ interpretation of victims and aggressors , and standing up against the “bully”53:45: on Trump hyperbole and his first 9 months56:30: Josh on Trump failing to implement DOGE effectively and how it should have been done 1:00:00: Vivek plan was different 1:02:00: origins of DOGE1:06:00: “I don’t know that people really make change until they feel pain”1:07:25: “how much more pain are regular people going to have to feel before they feel like “we need a revolution”…are we at the precipice?1:10:15: on churches being ill-equipped to feed the hungry: “they’ve offloaded that responsibility, that biblical duty, to government”. 1:12:15: “it doesn’t matter that it’s going to get sorted out. What matters is that people are going to hurt in the meantime.”1:13:45: the government employees 12 million people (not counting contractors)