In just 3 weeks, on May 17, Donald Trump will lead the federal government in a National Christian Religious Ritual, to rededicate the United States of America, and to recreate it, no longer as a secular democracy, but as a theocracy, as one nation underneath God, under God, they like to say. I think the word “underneath” makes it much more plain what this is really about. It's a fascist move to dominate society with religious power.

One of the characteristics of fascism that people don't talk about is the way that it brings together different elements of elite power in society.

There is politics, but there's also religion, but there's also the business corporate side of this.

And so I want to talk to you this week about a series of corporations who are financially paying for aspects of this religious ritual. They are corporate sponsors of the transformation of America from a democracy into a Christian Nationalist totalitarian state.

Today, I'm going to talk to you about Deloitte. Deloitte is a business consulting company. It does a lot of financial and strategic consulting.

Deloitte was also known for using generative artificial intelligence to create a fake report that it sent off to provincial governments in Canada. This was a million dollar report, and Deloitte was caught using generative artificial intelligence to write the report instead of doing actual consulting, actual thinking, actual research.

Deloitte created a report that was full of errors and only apologized for it when they were caught.

That gives you an idea about the kind of ethics that Deloitte has.

Deloitte also announced last week that it's going to cut in half its benefits for new parents, who are its employees, its parental leave time is being cut in half, and their explanation for why they're doing this. Deloitte said that they are, “modernizing its talent architecture” That's its explanation for cutting benefits for their employees.

I think it's particularly interesting that they are cutting benefits that enable people to become parents, to become good parents. That's what right wing Christian nationalism is all about. It's all about taking away reproductive rights that enable us to choose when to become parents, but at the same time, also taking away the social infrastructure that helps people to be good parents when they become parents. So, if you no longer have the right for have contraception, or to have abortion, and you become pregnant, or your partner becomes pregnant, that's just tough.

Now Deloitte is sponsoring Christian nationalism in our nation's capital on May 17th.

Deloitte is not the only company that is doing this, and we'll be coming out with more episodes, detailing more information about the other familiar corporations who are financially supporting the Christian nationalist destruction of democracy in America.

I just want to end this episode by pointing out how very strange this is, strange, and yet it's become familiar. Two years ago, the entire idea of business corporations, giving money to the federal government, for the federal government to then perform religious rituals. It would have been obscene. It would have been a scandal. It would have been outrageous. No one had ever imagined something like that could take place.

The corporations that have given money to this religious ritual, they've given between one million and 10 million dollars each.

I want you to think about that because what does it really take for a religious ritual to take place.

You just gather a bunch of people and if you want to pray, you pray, if you want to meditate, you meditate. If you want to chime some bells, you bring them from the church. The church has already got the bells. If you want to burn incense, the church can pay 20 bucks for some incense. It doesn't cost millions upon millions of dollars. But we have both taxpayer money and corporate money being blended together.

Of course, what these corporations like Deloitte are doing, is bribing the president of the United States.

The May 17 prayer ritual is Donald Trump's pet project, that he's forced on the American people, and they are paying for that, and they're paying for the political access they're gonna get so that they get legislation that favors their business interests, executive orders from the president that will favor their business interests.

It's corruption, and that's not just immoral, it's illegal, but under Christian nationalism, morality, and ethics are out the window. Christian Nationalism is a cult of pure power.