In this episode, CL Bryant sits down for a full hour with Jonathan Gilliam — Navy SEAL, FBI special agent, Air Marshal, and author of Sheep No More — for one of the most hard-hitting conversations on the show to date, covering everything from the spiritual roots of Marxism to the tactical failures that nearly got a president killed.
Jonathan traces the origin of socialism not to Karl Marx but to the Garden of Eden, where Satan circumvented Adam, demasculated Adam, and used Eve as an influencer to sell a lie. CL builds on this, connecting the attack on masculinity in America to the same ancient playbook — young men feminized, young women taught that having a boyfriend isn't cool, and a society where "toxic masculinity" is the label for any man who stands up. Jonathan delivers a devastating line: " Comfort is the ultimate mass casualty weapon. Convince a society to be comfortable by doing less, and that society will fall.
The conversation shifts to Jonathan's extraordinary journey — growing up dirt poor in the Ozarks of Arkansas with three sisters, a single mom, and no brothers, then becoming a SEAL, a cop, an Air Marshal, an FBI agent on both the criminal enterprise task force and the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and now running a global crisis management company. He breaks down his book Sheep No More, explaining how threat assessment must start from the attacker's point of view and why the possibility of an attack is always 100%, even when the probability is a million to one.
The most explosive segment addresses the Butler and Florida assassination attempts on President Trump. Jonathan argues these weren't accidents — the perimeter was purposely pulled in, the roofs were left wide open, and the golf course was deliberately not swept. He connects Butler, Mangione, the Afghan shooter, and the DC embassy killings by one common thread: every attacker was motivated by leftist ideology. His prescription: America needs a Justice Czar — someone laser-focused on rooting out the leftist infiltration across every federal agency, connecting the dots, and going to war with the enemy within.
Call to Action: Visit LovingLiberty.net or download the Loving Liberty app to listen live. Contact Jonathan Gilliam's security company at info@continuedservice.com. Get his book Sheep No More wherever books are sold. Find Jonathan on social media by searching Jonathan T. Gilliam. Share this episode — awareness is your first line of defense.
Upload Date: December 2, 2025
Timestamps:
0:31 — Show open & welcome
4:41 — "It started in the Garden of Eden" — the origin of the left's playbook
6:02 — The attack on masculinity in America
12:50 — "Comfort is the ultimate mass casualty weapon."
13:27 — "The slave seeks comfort" — from *Runaway Slave*
17:56 — Jonathan's journey: from the Ozarks to the SEALs to the FBI
22:37 — "The possibility is always 100%" — *Sheep No More*
33:46 — Butler: "They purposely pulled the perimeter in."
37:08 — "We need a Justice Czar."
42:31 — "Every major issue in recent history is because of the left."