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00:00:30.000today's election day again don't you feel like we live in this perpetual state of
00:00:38.560elections and campaigning and political ads commercials when you're watching saturday
00:00:44.000football or unsolicited texts to your phone that's my favorite i'm like yeah if i didn't
00:00:49.000think i was going to vote for you now that i'm getting a bajillion texts and calls from this
00:00:53.180unidentified number that'll really seal the deal mailers in your mailbox i'm tired of feeling like
00:00:59.080really believing, by the way, that every election is more consequential than the last. But I feel
00:01:05.640that way right now. Whether you're excited about the direction of this country, whether you're
00:01:11.720furious about it, whether you're probably maybe a little bit like me, where you're simply exhausted
00:01:16.060by politics, today is one of the few days where every eligible voter has an opportunity to do
00:01:22.760something, to do something about it. Again, whether you're happy, mad, sad, you have the ability to do
00:01:27.300something about it today. We see people all the time complain, complaining online. Today's a day
00:01:32.920to allow your voice to be heard. We are ultimately deciding on who is writing our laws, who is
00:01:37.800controlling the money that Washington spends, your money, my money, taxpayer money, where that is
00:01:42.540going. We're deciding who investigates the government. We're deciding who has the power
00:01:45.920to advance an agenda, who has the power to stop an agenda. And now as a mom, I realize all of that
00:01:52.540is about your kids and the future that they will inherit. So I'm just going to be direct with you,
00:01:57.800transparent, frank. You need to vote, and you need to vote like your future depends on it,
00:02:02.820because it quite literally does. I don't like to be one of those people that overgeneralizes
00:02:08.700everything, but I can say pretty confidently that there is no such thing as a moderate Democrat.
00:02:16.440Point me in the direction of one. There's just not, right? I think maybe a year ago you could
00:02:21.100have told me, what about Senator Slotkin in Michigan? Okay, she said she wants to prosecute
00:02:25.120every single person that works for President Trump. What about someone like Andy Beshear?
00:02:28.140He's someone who's often hailed as a moderate by the Democrats. He's like their token white dude,
00:02:35.040straight white dude. They've tried to like mimic this model, replicate it in Texas with James
00:02:41.020Tallarico. Didn't work too well when he talks about being vegetarian or vegan or not eating
00:02:46.600meat or any of the insanely ludicrous things that he said. They tried to do it with Grant Plattner
00:02:51.240in Maine. It hasn't worked out too well for them. And so they have Andy Beshear,
00:02:55.980their token straight white dude. The state of Kentucky was a mess because of Andy Beshear,
00:03:00.500right? The nonsensical rules and the mandates. I'll never forget how he set up like a COVID
00:03:05.560snitch line where you could tell on your neighbors or people you knew. He shut down churches on
00:03:11.300Easter Sunday. But other things he declared as essential, like bars and restaurants and gyms,
00:03:18.060those were open, but not church. And if they were, you better tell on someone you see in the
00:03:21.380parking lot. People were arrested in Kentucky for attending church on Easter Sunday. That is not a
00:03:27.940moderate. There's no such thing as a moderate in the Democratic Party. And I don't want to sound
00:03:32.460like I'm overgeneralizing or I'm putting my tinfoil hat on, but point me in the direction of
00:03:37.340one. Seriously, that doesn't believe that men can get pregnant and that our borders should be wide
00:03:42.880open and that has a problem with President Trump cracking down on crime in big cities. Point me in
00:03:48.280the direction of one. I would be, I would love to see it. They don't exist at any level, local,
00:03:54.580state, or federal. So if you plan on voting blue today, I wish you the prosperity of Venezuela.
00:04:02.940I wish you the salaries of Cuba. I wish you the freedom of North Korea. I wish you the human rights of China. I wish you the women's rights of Iran. Okay, are you getting it? If you have any understanding of historical basis and what I'm referring to, then you know what I'm saying? That that's not just a slogan. That's the ideology of what you're actually empowering.
00:04:28.220So I just wish that you own it if you plan on voting blue today.
00:04:33.020But I think the thing most people aren't thinking about is this election is not just about the next two years.
00:04:38.160It's about whether America will still have a functioning two-party system after 2028.
00:04:43.520If Democrats ever control the House and the Senate and the presidency at the same time, they have already told us what they will do.
00:04:53.820They're not trying to be subtle anymore.
00:04:55.720They might try and walk it back a little before the election, but there's no indication that they won't go full steam ahead with what they have told us they plan on doing.
00:05:05.420Use it as a warning. Use it as their guidelines. Doesn't matter.
00:05:08.440They plan on making Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico states, so they will get a permanent Senate majority.
00:05:14.760They will open the borders wide, wide open borders.0.93
00:05:17.680They will legalize everyone who is already in this country illegally.0.96
00:05:20.700That way they get a permanent electoral majority.0.67
00:05:23.540They will expand the Supreme Court. They will pack the Supreme Court so they get an immediate
00:05:28.260majority on the court. That is not normal politics. Those things I just described,
00:05:33.720that's what happens in like third world countries. That is the end of democracy in any meaningful1.00
00:05:40.260sense. And again, I'm not trying to sound like this crazy conspiracy theorist because I'm just
00:05:46.660not. I'm really not. I know some people, especially a lot of people in the podcast sphere, they do
00:05:53.240tend to be conspiratorial. I'm not. Honestly, I think I'm too naive for that. I think I'm too
00:05:58.280dumb to be a conspiracist. And so I really don't want you to think I'm talking out of my butt here.0.99
00:06:04.840Even actually in talking about how democracy is gone, look at how they, in the most anti-democratic0.77
00:06:10.020way, put Kamala Harris forward before the 2024 election. Remember that? She did not receive a
00:06:16.060single vote. They have no means of actually preserving democracy despite their name being
00:06:22.600Democrats, going by Democrats. I'm also not going to be one of those people that's dishonest about
00:06:27.700the feelings of being disenfranchised or disillusioned by the current administration.
00:06:34.420We might have different thoughts on it, but I understand where people are coming from,
00:06:38.600especially young people. We were promised no new wars. That might have been a big deciding
00:06:42.560factor in you voting for this administration. We're in a war. I do believe there were some
00:06:46.920major blunders with the Epstein file release, specifically how Attorney General Bondi handed
00:06:52.920these sensitive files. I mean, we have to remember there are real victims here, real women and
00:06:58.220children who were impacted and victimized. She handed files over to influencers. I think that
00:07:05.020was horrible. Right. All that to say, I understand the feelings of frustration and anger and maybe
00:07:13.180feeling like you didn't get what you were promised. I might not agree entirely with that premise
00:07:17.980because I think on 95% of things that the Trump administration has campaigned on, they have done
00:07:24.080and they have done really well. But I'm putting myself in someone else's shoes. If these were
00:07:29.220really, really important things to you, and understandably so, I get it. I don't think it's
00:07:33.380helpful to be dishonest and say that it doesn't hurt when you go to the gas pump or when you go to
00:07:38.220the grocery store. Okay, I'm just not. Actually, Harvard just came out with a new youth poll. I've
00:07:43.140got it on my phone here. It says 63% of likely voters under the age of 30 favor Democrats,
00:07:48.700meaning 26% favor Republicans. Only 9% of young Americans believe the country is headed in the
00:07:54.940right direction. 25% believe they'll be financially better off than their parents. 57% support
00:08:00.660Medicare for all. 54% support a wealth tax on households worth more than $50 million. But this
00:08:06.100I found interesting, it says only 20% say that the label of democratic socialist, so a DSA candidate,
00:08:12.100if they wear that DSA title, 20% say that makes them more likely to support a candidate. I would
00:08:18.220say that 20% number is a pretty big difference from the 57% that support Medicare for all,
00:08:24.240which is very much a socialistic type policy. So I think that shows me that the appeal of the
00:08:30.780specific policies of socialism are more appetizing. There's a greater appeal there
00:08:38.260than the label itself, than socialism itself, and I understand that because who doesn't want
00:08:45.360free things? People aren't in love with the ideology. They're in pain, and they're looking
00:08:50.900for an alternative, and I think it's dishonest to ignore that. The danger here, though, is that
00:08:56.860the alternative being offered is government control of health care. And again, it's open
00:09:02.980borders. It's the normalization of previously radical ideas like defunding the police and
00:09:10.140abolishing ICE and opening up the prisons, releasing violent criminals. Tell me which
00:09:16.680one of those things actually fixed the pain. Even the government control of health care.
00:09:20.780It sounds nice, right? Free health care. Look at places like Canada where you have to ration
00:09:25.120care, basically, or England, where the wait times, you could break your arm and you're sitting in the
00:09:29.260emergency room for hours and hours and hours. I've got some bones to pick with our healthcare system
00:09:34.900here, but do I think our healthcare system here has flaws? Absolutely. This is something I have
00:09:41.260grown to be very passionate about, but I do think this administration is doing a lot of work in
00:09:45.720terms of price transparency and free market competition style healthcare, which is ultimately
00:09:52.220good. If you increase competition, naturally, it will drive the prices down. And with the price
00:09:57.440transparency component, that forces real accountability. You know what you're paying
00:10:02.460for. You know the cost before you get the procedure. All those things, I believe, are good,
00:10:06.240and it's being done by this administration. But the policies that the DSA crowd, which runs adjacent
00:10:10.820to the Democratic Party, I see no difference. I think the DSA faction of the Democratic Party
00:10:16.300just takes the policies that the Democrats stand for to their logical conclusion. So they'll say
00:10:21.940something like the Democrats will say something like, no human is legal. Okay, well, DSA says
00:10:26.060then abolish ICE, right? Do you see the difference in those two statements? No human is legal doesn't
00:10:31.640sound overly abrasive. Abolish ICE means you want no immigration or customs enforcement. You get it?
00:10:38.780These are things that make the country less free and less functional for the next generation. At
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00:13:10.480If you want a window into just how unstable the other side is, let's look no further than Michigan.
00:13:18.800This was a huge story over the weekend.0.93
00:13:21.600Haley Steven, she's a Democratic congresswoman who lost her party's Senate primary.
00:13:27.020She just came out and endorsed Mike Rogers, who is the Republican Senate candidate in the state of Michigan.0.82
00:13:32.720She did this two days before the election.
00:13:53.840And as you may have seen, our Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Abdul, said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away.1.00
00:14:04.360And he's right. And that's why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.
00:14:12.480I don't belong in Abdul's campaign. I do not stand with Hassan Piker, who gets trafficked on our college campuses.
00:14:21.000and what our students see, what our children see, and who we are as Michiganders is not hate.
00:14:29.580If you campaign on transparency, which I do believe President Trump to be the most transparent
00:14:33.340president in history, you never have to wonder what he's thinking. He's always surrounding
00:14:37.540himself with press. But if you campaign on transparency, then I believe that voters are
00:14:41.260entitled to ask you what you have disclosed. If you campaign on affordability, then I believe
00:14:46.820that voters are entitled to examine what your policies have actually accomplished. If you
00:14:51.380campaigned on reducing foreign entanglements, then I believe that voters are entitled to ask
00:14:57.260how the current military commitments fit that promise. Accountability has to apply regardless
00:15:03.260of who is in office. It takes real courage, real guts to be able to do that, knowing what the
00:15:08.680outcome would be, how she would essentially be. And as we've seen in the fallout, the last 24
00:15:12.680hours, 48 hours. She has been ousted from the Democratic Party. I think she knew that was going
00:15:18.360to be the case. So that, to me, is courage and country over party. We've seen the response from
00:15:25.420Abdul El-Sayed since. Let's watch it really quick. Do you believe that Haley Stevens has0.94
00:15:30.120betrayed the Republican Party? She didn't hear what I just said. Do you believe that she betrayed
00:15:34.380the Republican Party? Had she betrayed the Democratic Party? I don't know what that party
00:15:37.340is anymore. I don't know. No, she betrayed the Democratic Party. At the end of the day,
00:15:40.640actually don't think about Haley Stevens. See how smug he is? I actually can't stand that
00:15:47.140that aura of arrogance. It's not confidence. There's a real difference between confidence
00:15:52.060and arrogance. This is an arrogant man. And she disavowed Hassan Piker, which I actually think is0.99
00:15:56.300a pretty big deal. You guys know who he is. He's been all across the country campaigning with
00:16:00.320Democrats. He's anti-America. He's anti-Jewish. He's anti-capitalism. He's anti-everything that
00:16:05.160makes America great. And no Democrat has really been able to disavow him. Certainly not the ones
00:16:10.140who are campaigning alongside him. So for her to do this, I think the bigger message here is that
00:16:14.800the Democratic Party, especially in understanding Abdul El-Sayed and the ties with the Muslim0.63
00:16:20.460Brotherhood, I think the Democratic Party is officially the anti-Jewish party. And that
00:16:26.420matters going into 2028. I don't know. Like, if you're a Jew, I could not possibly rationalize
00:16:31.840how you could vote for Democrats. I'm not saying anti-Semitism doesn't exist on the right.0.93
00:16:36.340of course it does but the left hates you they want you to be fearful and wearing your star of david
00:16:42.680i hear actually all the time people say well i don't like either candidate it just feels like
00:16:47.040the lesser of two evils how can i support somebody who's made these these kinds of mistakes
00:16:51.400i get the moral concern behind that especially as christians we are called to take character
00:16:57.060seriously we're called to be truthful to exercise discernment to refuse to excuse wrongdoing simply
00:17:03.080because it comes from someone who we agree with politically. But I hate to inform you, it is
00:17:09.800always, always, every time you go to the ballot box, it is always going to be the lesser of two
00:17:15.840evils. Why is that? Because we are imperfect people. We are all sinners. We have all sinned.
00:17:20.680We have all fallen short of the glory of God. Romans 3.23 tells us that. Every candidate on
00:17:25.900the ballot is a fallen human being. Every president we've ever had, including the current one,
00:17:30.620is a fallen human being. And unless Jesus Christ himself is on the ballot, we're never going to be
00:17:37.080presented with a perfect candidate. We're just not. So what does faithful Christian participation
00:17:41.420in government actually look like? If godly people refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils,0.95
00:17:47.580then godless people will vote to ensure that you and your children and your grandchildren get the
00:17:54.100greater of two evils. So if nothing else, vote for whoever is at least not hostile to Christianity
00:18:01.600or its teachings and the role that they play in this country's foundation. And I think of several
00:18:07.460biblical figures who were morally questionable at best that God used for his greater good.
00:18:13.200Peter, Elijah, Saul. And I'll just finish this with saying no one would be encouraging you to
00:18:19.760get out and vote more than Charlie Kirk. He understood, he really understood the importance of
00:18:25.180mobilization on the ground work. It's one of the things I think they hated about him because he
00:18:30.720was really effective at it. He was able to so articulately combat the lies of the left and of
00:18:36.820socialism. I wish desperately every single day he was here when I need guidance as someone who is
00:18:42.500not nearly as knowledgeable or intellectual as he was on virtually every topic. Man,
00:18:49.600in these last, this last year, a little over a year, I have missed him desperately. He would be
00:18:55.760pushing you, urging you, encouraging you, incentivizing you to get out and go vote.
00:19:01.980Don't forget who mocked his death, not death. Death sounds too passive. Who mocked his murder,
00:19:07.120who mocked his assassination. That's not the party that I want to vote for. It's not the party that
00:19:13.560represents me and the belief system that I have and the things that matter to me. Things like
00:19:18.140compassion and mercy and grace, which ironically enough, that side claims to stand for. They claim
00:19:25.520to be tolerant and kind and welcoming of all, and they embrace diversity. They don't embrace0.96
00:19:32.020diversity. They don't embrace diverse thought. Go vote. Go vote for Charlie. We love you guys.
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