Friday Wrap-Up with Bob: August 21, 2026 (Transcript)

 

America’s Enslavement

Hi, Bob Barney with the Friday Wrap-Up. It’s Friday again, and you might hear some noise in the background. We’re going through a really bad storm.It’s raining about as bad as it did for Noah, it seems like, and our generator at the home is going off, and that’s Mike maybe making a little background hum, but if you do, please, we’re low-tech here. So anyway, we want to get into this week’s Wrap-Up, and actually, this week’s Wrap-Up is just as much a regular show. I guess I could take the entire week and put it in this Wrap-Up and put it down the road as the Best of Bob series, because what’s going on here is that we’re going to talk all about what my shows were about this week.The big story of our Plain Truth this week was the stories about the loss of privacy, your loss of liberty by this government, and how the deep state and this government has become your enemy, and the plain truth is your enemy is not people from overseas. They may be an enemy, but your biggest enemy is the loss of your freedoms that continue and continue to get worse. So I started out Monday, and I said it was going to be a complete week of the loss of freedoms that is going on in America today.It’s happening slowly. I don’t think it’s happening slowly, but I guess most people are not even aware of all of the freedoms that they’re losing and all of the rights they’re giving up that our forefathers put in the Constitution and in the Bill of Rights, and I started out Monday by explaining the first issue we talked about. There it is, and what they’re all about, and some of the direction that the plain truth today is taking because, frankly, after what I saw last week about flock cameras, I’ve been doing a lot of research about the privacy that we are losing, the liberties that we are losing in this country, and the enslavement of the American people as predicted by the Bible, and we’re going to get into this.I’m going to get into some history lessons and some political science classes that I took in college on propaganda, on communism, on totalitarianism, and how to infiltrate a population and put them under slavery, and so today we’re going to talk a lot about some of the shows this week and what it means. Before getting into the other shows for the week, I want to give a background on myself, where I come from, the education that I had. I went to University of Connecticut in the mid-1970s, and I actually have enough credits to have a degree in political science, history, and English Lit, believe it or not.I had credits in those three subjects, enough to have a degree in each one of those. I chose political science. I did want to get involved in politics.I was a very young, I may have been one of the youngest, if not the youngest, Republican to ever hold office in Connecticut, and that’s only because it was down to 18 years old, the time I was ready to get involved in politics from 21. But anyway, that’s not the point. I went to the University of Connecticut, and I had a lot of classes on propaganda.For example, I think I’ve told you this before, in World War II, everybody thinks about German propaganda, and I had many, many courses and studies about German propaganda, Goebbels, and how to lie constantly to where those lies are believed. And just a side note, Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana, said that Donald Trump was always fascinated in Goebbels and Hitler’s propaganda. And it looks like some of the things I see this time around, he’s trying to emulate that by one of the things that Hitler or Goebbels actually said was, if you tell a lie long enough, people will think it’s true.And that’s what Donald Trump is doing. All he does right now is lie, basically, about everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. But I do not hold to Goebbels’ propaganda idea that if you tell a lie long enough, people will believe it, because people do have brains, and eventually they may believe it at first, but they will end up believing what’s the reality around them, and they will realize when somebody’s just lying all the time.That’s one of the reasons I think Donald Trump has such a poor approval rating, and I do believe those polls. There’s too many so-called conservative polls that are very pro-Donald Trump polls that, in the past anyway, that are showing some really bad negatives for Donald Trump. But I’m not going to get into that.I always believed that the best propaganda in World War II was actually the American propaganda. What the American government did, and many people do not know this, they went to Hollywood, and they hired the best producers and directors in Hollywood and the best actors in Hollywood to do movies that you might have watched. And that’s where I started to show Monday.I was given a background of myself, but also the background of propaganda, and about good propaganda, and I went on to explain that Frank Capra, the famous American movie producer of It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, he has a whole history of very great films, and he always did say when he made the Why We Fight series for the United States government, and it was really only intended for American soldiers to listen to or watch. It was videos, five of them, I believe, five or six, and I watched them in college. And he said the best propaganda is when you can tell the truth, and the truth is on your side, and just show pictures of children being slaughtered, and women being raped, beaten, and slaughtered, and old men and old women being abused.Show that kind of thing from your enemy, and I can guarantee you the propaganda is already on your side, because you’re showing the plain truth. And that was day one that was leading into what was happening, the setup, I should say, what was going to happen for the rest of the week, what we were going to talk about, and what we really talked about all week long. And if you haven’t listened to them, or you can read the transcript if you, you know, you don’t want to listen to my voice, or you don’t want to take the time to listen to the whole show, you can always just load the transcript, and you can look at that transcript and read what I have to say.It does a pretty good job interpreting me. I don’t go back and check, and I see a mistake once in a while, but you’ll get to just if you read the transcript. But I wish you would go back and listen to all of the 30-minute shows.They’re about 29 and a half minutes long, so you have, what, three, two, three, three and a half hours worth of, including this show, three and a half hours worth of audio to listen to about what I have to show you. And I showed it, and if you go back and listen to it, I can prove to you that the freedoms that you have given up willingly, willingly, is almost irreversible. You know, you get a, and I have one, you get an iPhone.The rights that you give up, that you voluntarily give up with that iPhone, I think if most people saw what it was doing, I think they would be scared out of their wits to know that what is known about them by Apple, and that we saw with Donald Trump’s lawfare convictions, that Apple, who would not give up the iPhone information that was in a mass shooter in California about, what, 10 years ago at a Christmas party, this guy came in and shot up all of his co-workers at some Christmas party in California. And when the FBI and the local police asked Apple to give them the transcripts of what his text messages were, they refused to do so, even with a court order. They refused to do so.But when Donald Trump was being targeted and abused, and his civil rights and his Bill of Rights were being taken away from him by the Biden administration, guess what? Good old Apple decided they were going to give every single thing that was on Trump’s phone to the prosecution. Did you know that? They wouldn’t do it for a mass murderer, but they would do it for Donald Trump. So when you put all that information into your Apple iPhone, you gave up a lot of information to total strangers who can look at it.But on top of that, you’re giving it to the deep state if Apple wants to share it. And if you’re just an average American who believes in America, you believe in the flag, and you believe in patriotism, you’re probably a target to Apple anyway. They’re about as American as communist China, where most of their phones are made, right? So let’s go into more of the shows this week, because I think it’s very important that people start investigating on their own.Go to YouTube and put in Big Brother or put in loss of rights or the Bill of Rights being abused, habeas corpus, all of the terms that you see, right to counsel, right to bear arms, right to the free press or freedom of religion. Start looking up and then just put in the catchphrase being abused or something to the—and you can sit there for hours, you probably could sit there for days, and you could never get to the end of all of the things and all of the Americans’ population being targeted by not only big business, but Big Brother, your government. I’ll be right back.Hi, Bob Barney for The Plain Truth today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com. It is the place to go to, to understand what’s happening today and what God has to say about it, because God is behind a lot of the news lines and headlines that you read today. God has predicted our future, and The Plain Truth’s mission is to try to show you what your future is going to be according to God and His holy word, the Bible. And you can find out a lot of things that’s going to happen in the future.You know certain things have to happen because God predicted it, and God’s Bible has predicted many events that have already come true. And The Plain Truth is trying to show you that there is a God. It is the God of the Bible.It is the God called Jesus Christ, who was the Lord of the Old Testament, as well as God theFather, who was introduced really in the New Testament, who was not really introduced in the Old Testament. And that they have a message for all of mankind, and we’re trying to bring you that message. And that message is God’s not happy.God’s not very happy with mankind right now, and there is a reckoning coming. And that’s if you go to theplaintruth.com every day, you can get to these podcasts, you can get to Your Health Today, or the message board, or the main page, and be kept to date what’s going on. That’s theplaintruth.com. Thank you.And we’re back live again, and I’m going to get into what God has to say and has predicted, and I covered that in the Tuesday show. So again, if you go back to the Tuesday noon show, you can listen to or read the transcript of the following podcast of mine. And this is what I had to say about the Bible, God’s prediction of the future, Revelation, the book of Isaiah, and Daniel.We started this week, and I explained yesterday about America becoming enslaved, and we have allowed it to happen to us over the last 35, 40 years, and it’s getting really bad now. We are seeing the end time beast form of government taken over the whole world when it comes to how you can buy or sell. Go to Revelation, read about the two witnesses, but also read about the mark of the beast, about you cannot buy or sell without that mark.And really today, you are being denied by banks to use their bank if you’re in certain businesses that are legal. Many gun shops can’t take credit cards because the major bank credit card machines will not accept people who sell guns or ammunition. People don’t even know the rights they’re losing every day.Ronald Reagan in the 70s, and we played a few, had one program about since he was a teenagerhow much rights they had lost already by the 1970s, and it’s gotten a lot worse since the 1990s, I can assure you this. So right now, I did find it on YouTube, and I want to play this four-minute radio show he had back in the late 70s about the freedoms that we had lost since he was a young man. And it’s quite frightening, and this was 1978 when he read this, and we’re now 47 years beyond that and lost a heck of a lot more rights.But listen to this. The other day I told a group of students that my wish for them was that they could know in this land the freedom I’d known when I was their age. I’ll be right back.Sometimes I wonder if we haven’t talked freedom and free enterprise so much that people, particularly young people, may just tune out. Speaking to some students the other day, I referred to freedoms lost in this land during my lifetime, and I got a question. What freedoms? What was I talking about? It reminded me of a TV play I’d once done in which I played a Soviet major during the occupation of Budapest.In the play, I turned out to be something of a nice fellow and let two Hungarians go with this line, I never knew what freedom was until I saw you lose yours. But facing these students, I had to search for an answer. This is what I came up with.When I was their age, there was no such thing as a driver’s license. Your father began teaching you to drive the family car when he thought you were old enough, and after you’d driven him crazy asking why weren’t you old enough. You passed your driver’s test when he said, yes, you can take the car on your date tonight.Believe me, he didn’t say that until he was as sure as he could be that you knew how to drive. Now maybe you’ll say that’s not a good example, that driver’s licenses are a necessity, but are there any fewer accidents today than there were then? Is there a better test of your ability than a parent turning you loose at the wheel of several thousand dollars of investment of hard-earned money? What about 12-year-old farm kids driving tractors on their father’s farm and plowing a field yet? Well, this led to other examples. When I was 14, I got a summer job with an outfit that was rebuilding and selling old homes.Before the summer was over, I had laid hardwood floors, shingled roofs, painted, and worked on foundations. At summer’s end, I had my first year’s tuition for college in the bank. Can that be done today? No, you have to get a government license to do just about every kind of work I did, and just as it does with driving, the government, not the fellow who hired you, would decide whether you were capable.In a recent debate with Ralph Nader, a distinguished scholar threw an obvious example of lack of freedom at Nader and did so deliberately, sure of the answer he would get. What right, he challenged, does government have to say you can’t ride a motorcycle without a helmet? You aren’t endangering anyone but yourself. Back came a typical Naderism.If a helmetless rider splashes himself on the pavement, a government-subsidized ambulance will pick him up, take him to a government-subsidized hospital. If he dies, he’ll be buried in a government-subsidized cemetery, and government welfare will begin paying for the support of his widowed orphan children. Therefore, government can’t let him fall down and go boom.In other words, we’re all now stamped property of the United States government. Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate. This is Ronald Reagan.Thanks for listening. And that’s why, in my opinion, we’ve never had a president in at least my lifetime, and I think a few lifetimes before me, that understood freedom, liberty, and the Americanpeople and the American way of life better than Ronald Reagan. So many people want to make fun of him, this actor, this second-rate actor, who became president and bumbled his way through the presidency.That’s not what happened. The man knew America, he knew the American people, and he led by example. He was not a crook, he was not a thief, he was not a liar.He told the truth, and he believed in God, and he believed in the American people and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights that made this country so powerfully strong, along with God’s help, but made this country strong by liberating the average person from the tyranny of big government. And what we’ve had his entire life, and beyond his life now, is a doubling down by our government into taking away our liberties with these flop cameras I talked about, where you are trapped everywhere you go, and anybody basically can hack it and see where you’re going,see where our police are, see if there’s any military presence at a place, because all of these flop cameras are so easily hacked. But it goes on from there.There’s other things. Your television spies on you. Your telephone, your Apple phone, or your home phone spies on you.Believe it or not, modern refrigerators spy on you. They know what you put in your refrigerator. Do you know that? Look it up.Don’t take my word for it. Look up some of the things. And I know a lot of people, very close to my family maybe, I know a lot of people who think this is great.You know, your refrigerator is going to tell you what you were out of and what to buy. And then they’re going to, you know, you buy something that your health insurance didn’t want you to buy, and your refrigerator is now reporting on you. Just like a friend of mine, this was quite a few years ago now, with his Dodge Ram, said he was getting emails from his truck, and the email is from his Dodge truck.It’s kind of like a joke. But it told him that he did three or four panic stops in the last month, and that he had exceeded the speed limit, and it’s through an area where there are police cameras. But you know, you might say, that’s a great idea to remind me of that.No, because don’t you understand that they’re not doing this for your sake. They’re doing this because they’re selling this information to your insurance companies and to other places. Your privacy, which is sacred to this constitution that we’re supposed to be following, your privacy is no longer sacred to your government.And so what do they do? They run around and they look for the boogeyman for you to take your eyes off to what’s really happening. I said in another show about a month ago about what a magician does and why magicians do not like to play in front of children. Because children’s eyes go where they’re not supposed to.And a magician does a sleight of hand. He gets you looking one where his other hand plainly does the trick. And when you go back to where you’re supposed to look then, then the trick’s happened and you think it’s magic.Unfortunately, the child who doesn’t know what to do looks and says, hey, his left hand did it. And that’s why they don’t like to play, do magic in front of children. Well, your government officials do the same thing.Not just your politicians, not just your congressmen or senators or presidents or vice presidents, but also the deep state, the bureaucrats that are working in all these departments. What they do is they find boogeymen that they make you afraid of and be terrorized by, that they’re the enemy of you. And so, you know, you watch Fox News or CNN is the other side and News Nation, or you read the Washington Post, the New York Times, Daily Mail, whatever, whatever you’re getting your news source online.But the government has people there to plant in your head, China’s the boogeyman, Russia’s the boogeyman, Iran’s going to try to kill you, which probably they are. There’s some truth to the boogeyman, by the way. But they do this to get you off target.So you don’t realize that they also are the bigger boogeyman. And that’s what they are. I’ll be right back.The Plain Truth today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com, a place to go to, to find out what’s happening today. A lot of videos and audio recordings, these podcasts, as well as videos we find mainly on YouTube with other points of view, as well as our own, explaining what’s happening and what God has to do about it. Go to theplaintruth.com every day.You will not be disappointed. Go to our message board, Your Health Today, or these podcasts.Thank you.And we’re back for the last portion of this. And so when I get to Wednesday’s program, and this is a program that I really wish you would listen to and not just read the transcript, because we had Pat Robertson’s son, who now runs CBN television network. It’s a religious television network.They got into the flat camera, and how dangerous it is for our liberties, and what Mr. Robertson had to say, what Americans are giving up, what Christians are giving up. And, you know, it won’t be maybe that long before Christians find themselves back in some stadium somewhere facing lions and gladiators, because your government, when they get control over you, becomes evil. There is no such thing as a kind government.The only kind government that will ever happen to you in your experience is after Jesus Christ returns and sets up the true kingdom of God on this earth with his government. Christ is not coming back to bring salvation. He’s actually coming back to bring a government to the world, a government which will be noticed by its peace, by its prosperity, by its lack of suffering, by its lack of the devil, and by happiness of all.No death, no dying, no pain or sorrow. That’s the only true great beneficial government you’ll ever have. But no government on this earth is good.There’s worse governments, but like George Washington said, the power of a government is like the power of a fire. If you control the government through the people, and that is what our forefathers did with our Constitution and our Bill of Rights, if you control the people with, or I’m sorry, the government with the Constitution and the people are in control, you have freedom. But when the government is in control of that Constitution and tell you what you can have from it, then what you have is tyranny.And little by little over the last 100 years, we’ve gone from liberty to tyranny. And all the while,we’ve been worrying about Nazi Germany in World War II, or the Russians in the Cold War, who could never have beat us in a war. That comes out after the fact.And all of these bait and switch things that our politicians and our deep staters perpetrated on the American people to terrorize us, to give up our liberties, and which we did willingly, is coming home to roost. And I’m afraid that we’re going to continue going down the route to enslavement. The Bible does predict that the people of America, if you know who we are in the Bible, and we are the nation of Ephraim, or Joseph in the Bible, along with England, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, if you know who we are and you understand what God has promised to happen to us, then you’re going to realize that we’re going to lose all of our rights.And we’re going to become slaves, and eventually slaves of a European Union dictator. The revised Holy Roman Empire is going to come and rule the world, except for the Muslim world, which will have its own ruler, the King of the South, who will constantly war against that King of the North, that beast that comes out of Europe, that will control all of the Western world, including America. That is what the Bible says is going to happen.I don’t know when it’s going to happen. God doesn’t talk to me. I always say this.I only read this in the Bible, and I know what I read, what God has to say. I believe it. The problem is, so many religious people, so many people standing in a pulpit, so many ministers or priests, they don’t understand the Bible, or if they do, they don’t want you to understand the Bible.And so most people are confused about a Bible that when they try to read it is so confusing to them, they just think it’s a bunch of fairy tales. Well, it’s not a bunch of fairy tales. It’s a bunch of history, and it’s a bunch of prophecy of what’s going to happen in the future.And that is what the plain truth is trying to bring you, and it brought you all this week. America, you’re being enslaved, and it’s by your own government that came about by your votes. When you go to vote or don’t vote, it made a difference.And real soon, America is going to soon realize their liberties are gone unless we can go back to God and wake up and ask God to save this country from ourselves and from our government. And the government is your enemy. Well, that’s it for the Friday show today, going over the whole week’s worth of shows on our liberty and our loss of freedoms.And I don’t have really time to go over too much about, but every weekend is the Sabbath on Saturday. The Saturday is the Sabbath day, not Sunday. I told you this, I think it was last week.There is no place from Genesis to Revelation, you’re going to find a place where God says, honor the Sunday as the Sabbath day. No, you honor the Saturday Sabbath. That is what the Bible commands.That is what you’re supposed to do. So every single Sabbath day at 7 11 a.m., we do a Sabbath show. And every Sabbath evening at 7 11 p.m., we do an entertainment show, sometimes a TV show, sometimes a spoken short story, an audio book type short story.Sometimes we show in an entire movie as an entertainment show. And there are the two shows we have on the Sabbath day. And so we try to tell our listeners there is a Sabbath day that God wants us to follow.It’s not a Jewish day. You can read that in the book of Isaiah and you’ll see there’s a whole two chapters towards the end of the Isaiah talking about the Sabbath and how it was everyone has to follow, including the foreigner in your land, including the Gentile in your land. Well, if ancient Israel was supposed to make sure the foreigner also observed the Sabbath, how do you say that’s a Jewish thing? Nothing to do with Jews.The Sabbath was made when Adam and Eve was alive. And they are the parents of every humanbeing alive today. We’re supposed to follow the Sabbath.Please listen to our shows on the Saturday Sabbath mornings at 7 11 a.m. and we put up some pretty darn good shows. And that’s it for today. We wrapped everything up and we’ll be back again Monday with another edition of the Plain Truth Today broadcast.And until then, stay safe this weekend. Learn about the Sabbath day. And until Monday, Bob Barney saying bye bye.