Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1038 ｜ Who Pushed Joe Biden Out？｜ Guest： Ron Simmons

00:00:00.000 The Southern Baptist Convention is again in disarray with drama happening within the Ethics

00:00:05.300 and Religious Liberty Commission. Also, our country is in disarray. The head of the Secret

00:00:11.120 Service has resigned. Thankfully, Biden has dropped out. Kamala Harris is the presumptive

00:00:16.440 nominee. We are going to talk about all of this today on this episode of Relatable. We're going

00:00:21.820 to bring my dad in at the end to get his analysis on all of this. And this episode is brought to

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00:00:30.720 goodranchers.com, code Allie. Hey, guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. Hope everyone had

00:00:47.060 a wonderful weekend, has had a wonderful week so far. Oh, my goodness. As you know, we have so much

00:00:52.740 to cover. Our family was out of town over the weekend. We got to enjoy the beauty of Deer

00:00:59.360 Valley, Utah. I've been in Deer Valley before. It's been since probably high school. But gosh,

00:01:05.820 it was such a beautiful trip. I got to fly fish for the first time. A lot of you saw that

00:01:10.620 on Instagram. And it was a great respite from the chaos and the craziness of this election

00:01:17.580 cycle and of the 24-minute news cycle that we are living in. It just was a beautiful and

00:01:24.660 tangible reminder that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He has given us

00:01:29.760 such a gracious gift, a gift of common grace, because everyone gets to enjoy it through his

00:01:35.960 creation. And now I'm kind of hooked on fly fishing, y'all. I want to watch videos. I want

00:01:40.160 to read a book on it. I want to learn how to do it. I did not catch anything for the first

00:01:45.100 two hours of the fly fishing experience. But then the last five minutes, I caught that beautiful

00:01:50.100 trout. And it had red dots on it, which my guide told me meant that it was younger than six years

00:01:54.820 old, but it was still a large trout. So it was beautiful. And it was unique. And it was really

00:01:58.220 fun. It was a very physical experience trying to get that trout. We were like in this very fast

00:02:03.440 moving water. And so the guide was literally jumping all over the place trying to get that thing.

00:02:08.520 And that was exciting. Like I'm still riding that high of catching the trout from fly fishing.

00:02:13.340 And I am going to try to fly fish again very soon. And this will help me. My husband and

00:02:18.860 I were talking about, we always get asked, like, what are our hobbies? And we're like,

00:02:22.240 uh, I don't know. We have three kids. But now I'll be a fly fisher. And I'll be able to say,

00:02:28.420 oh, yeah, my hobby, it's fly fishing. And so I'll seem a lot cooler than I actually am.

00:02:33.240 So anyway, that was a nice little respite, a nice little break. And now we got to get back into

00:02:38.320 it because the news is breaking moment by moment. Of course, we are going to bring my dad

00:02:42.920 in the last half of the episode to get his take on everything. But I want to give you a summary

00:02:48.680 of everything that's happened before we get to our perspective, our opinion, our explanation of

00:02:53.640 it all. First, let me just start very quickly. We won't get into all of it because I don't have

00:02:58.180 time. But I will just note that Sierra Service Director Kimberly Cheadle has resigned after a crazy 1.00

00:03:04.760 congressional hearing. The House Oversight Committee held a hearing with Cheadle yesterday

00:03:09.960 regarding the attempted assassination. And we had Congress people from both sides absolutely

00:03:15.580 tearing into her for her apparent incompetence. And I was interested to see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez go 1.00

00:03:24.600 in on Cheadle in this hearing. Here is Sot 7.

00:03:28.720 This is about the safety of some of the most highly targeted and valued targets internationally and

00:03:37.660 domestically in the United States of America. So the idea that a report will be finalized in 60

00:03:43.940 days, let alone prior to any actionable decisions that would be made, is simply not acceptable.

00:03:53.720 It has been 10 days since an assassination attempt on a former president of the United States,

00:03:58.600 regardless of party. There need to be answers.

00:04:02.000 Good for her. Good for her. I think both Republicans and Democrats had a pretty good job of asking her

00:04:09.320 the right questions, asking the right questions of the Secret Service. And it was right for her to

00:04:15.960 resign. Now, a lot of people have asked, and I'll talk about this with my dad, too. Why wasn't she

00:04:21.860 fired? Well, she would have had to be fired by Joe Biden. And my dad's got a take on why he did not fire

00:04:28.160 her. But President Joe Biden did release a statement about Director Kim Cheadle after she

00:04:35.000 stepped down. And he said this, Jill and I are grateful to Director Kim Cheadle for her decades

00:04:39.460 of public service. She has selflessly dedicated and risked her life to protect our nation throughout

00:04:43.820 her career in the United States Secret Service. We especially thank her for answering the call to

00:04:48.720 lead the Secret Service during our administration. And we are grateful for her service to our family.

00:04:54.560 So he says that it took honor and courage and integrity. And then also said the independent

00:05:03.220 review to get to the bottom of what happened on July 13th, just what happened, so vague, in my opinion,

00:05:09.000 very disrespectful, continues. And I look forward to assessing its conclusions. I mean, because of her

00:05:16.260 incompetence, and I think that is the most charitable reading of the situation, because of her 1.00

00:05:22.140 incompetence, a man died. A man died. Yes, a former president was shot at and he was injured. That

00:05:28.900 is a tragedy in and of itself, not just for President Trump personally, but also just for the state of our

00:05:33.560 country. But two innocent people were critically injured. Thankfully, I think they're making a full

00:05:38.960 recovery. But one man, a father, a husband, a firefighter was murdered because he was exercising his

00:05:47.780 constitutional right to express his political opinions in the way of attending a rally. I mean, that is an

00:05:57.600 utter tragedy. That's not just what happened on July 13th. Because of her incompetence or something 0.99

00:06:06.280 worse, an innocent man has died. And so for President Biden to praise her at this juncture, at this moment,

00:06:14.740 is really stunning. Now, of course, at this case, he doesn't give a flying rip what people think

00:06:19.760 about him. I mean, he's not even he's not trying to run again, of course. So he can say and do

00:06:26.740 whatever he wants. But I just thought from a human perspective, the person that we hear is the empath

00:06:34.300 in chief is the leader that exemplifies the most kindness, decency and compassion that a person can

00:06:42.260 muster that he released a statement like this, praising the director of the Secret Service,

00:06:47.420 under whose watch an innocent man was murdered. I think that is awful. Trump responded on Truth

00:06:55.700 Social. He said the Biden-Harris administration did not properly protect me. And I was forced to

00:07:01.280 take a bullet for democracy. It was my great honor to do so. OK, that's true. That's fair. But again,

00:07:08.520 I think the greater tragedy is that an innocent man was murdered. I would say that that even even if

00:07:13.940 you're just being strategic campaign wise, that would be the thing to highlight right now. Remember,

00:07:18.840 President Trump, people like your shift in demeanor. They like your shift in countenance. They like your

00:07:23.540 calmness. They liked a lot of your humility that you displayed in that RNC speech. They like that.

00:07:30.360 Be that person. Be that person. Whatever you have to do, come across as selfless and compassionate

00:07:36.960 and human-centered as you possibly can. I do think that Trump has a big heart. I really do.

00:07:43.480 We need to see that on display as much as possible. It was so beautiful at the RNC,

00:07:48.960 seeing his children, his grandchildren, just honor him and praise him. It was beautiful to see him do

00:07:55.260 the right thing to honor the victim that was killed at the rally. I think it's, I know it's Corey,

00:08:02.140 but the pronunciation of the last name, I think it's comparator. And it was beautiful to see him

00:08:07.060 honor him. We need to see more of that really just for the sincere reason of having true compassion and

00:08:14.540 goodness and love on display. But even if you're just thinking campaign, campaign wise, which is

00:08:20.900 necessary for politics, like we got to see that we got to see that selflessness and that humility

00:08:26.660 really on display. Now, speaking of selflessness and humility, there are some people in the Christian

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00:10:01.640 So before we get into the part of the evangelical response to this, specifically the head of the

00:10:12.440 Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission that is part of the Southern Baptist Convention,

00:10:18.620 I need to actually tell you what happened with Biden dropping out. Now, a lot of you already know

00:10:23.460 the details about that, but some of you don't. And more power to you. If you're not someone who

00:10:29.520 spends time on acts and you just rely on Relatable to tell you what's going on in the news, I think

00:10:35.580 that's great. I would never tell you to plug in any more than that. We've got to protect our peace as

00:10:40.640 much as possible. Even me. I cannot be chronically online. And there are definitely some people,

00:10:46.160 especially some influencers out there, and that is their job to be reading and sharing every headline.

00:10:51.540 And again, more power to them too. I cannot do that. And so I am going to give you as much

00:10:58.320 information and analysis as I possibly can while also not trying to be chronically online. But for

00:11:03.500 those of you who are really not online, you really don't know what has gone on with Biden dropping out.

00:11:09.300 Let me give you a little bit of a summary. So he announced in a letter posted on X Sunday

00:11:13.540 afternoon that he is ending his presidential campaign for the 2024 election to focus on fulfilling

00:11:18.300 his duties for the remainder of his term. So it was a long letter. I won't read the whole thing,

00:11:23.660 but I'll read you a little bit of it. So he lists some of his accomplishments. For example,

00:11:29.680 he says America has the strongest economy in the world. And some people have asked a very fair

00:11:35.460 question. Is the strongest economy in the world in the room with us right now? He says we've made

00:11:42.120 historic investments in rebuilding our nation and lowering prescription drug costs for seniors and

00:11:47.620 expanding affordable health care to a record number of Americans. He also says we appointed

00:11:53.880 the first African-American woman to the Supreme Court. He says America has never been better

00:11:58.960 positioned to lead than we are today, which is just objectively untrue. He says it has been the

00:12:04.780 greatest honor of my life to serve as your president. And while it has been my intention to seek

00:12:09.260 reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down.

00:12:15.560 Interesting language there. Stand down. And to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president

00:12:21.960 for the remainder of the term. He says I will speak to the nation later this week in more detail

00:12:28.260 about my decision. Now, my dad and I have some theories on what this is really about. What led to this?

00:12:37.720 There is some very reliable reporting about how Biden was pressured to make this decision. Now,

00:12:44.700 there are also, I think understandably so, a lot of theories about this letter, the validity of this

00:12:52.820 letter. Like, is this really Joe Biden? There are tweets comparing his signatures and it looks like the

00:12:59.360 little underlining of his signature that you just saw if you're watching on YouTube in this letter

00:13:04.120 is different than Joe Biden has ever signed it. People are wondering why it looks so unofficial.

00:13:08.980 Why is there no letterhead? Why is there no presidential seal? It's probably because it was a

00:13:15.460 campaign announcement and it wasn't an official announcement as, you know, within the office of

00:13:23.980 the presidency. There's probably some of that there. There's also reporting that really very few people

00:13:29.780 heard about this, as you'll hear me say with my dad. And so he did this almost kind of unofficially

00:13:35.320 and, um, uh, kind of off to the side with Jill and with a couple of his top aides, because it also

00:13:43.520 was reported that some white house aides did not hear about this until they saw it posted on X, which

00:13:50.520 is pretty remarkable. And so I'll get into in my, with my dad, kind of what we think according to the

00:13:58.260 reporting and what we know, what was happening behind the scenes that led him to make this announcement

00:14:03.020 and make the announcement the way that he did. Now, some people are just assuming that this was

00:14:09.120 not him at all, that he did not write the letter and that he is secretly resisting and that this is

00:14:15.940 a coup and that he is not even going along with the coup right now, that he had nothing to do with

00:14:21.360 drafting this letter. I, that's not my take. I don't think that that's true. Now you could still say

00:14:26.500 it's a form of a coup and that there is some bribery and blackmailing involved possibly here

00:14:32.020 without believing that Joe Biden is secretly resisting to this moment behind the scenes.

00:14:38.380 I think he probably did resist. Um, I know that he did resist for a while there, but I, I, I don't

00:14:45.040 think that he is unaware of what's happening. And some people are speculating that he's not even with

00:14:49.440 us. There was actually, you know, there are rumors that are, uh, abounding right now about the state

00:14:56.740 of his health and the state of even just his existence. There are many people saying that he

00:15:03.360 is in hospice and that he has died. I do not think that that is the case. However, I, those kinds of

00:15:11.200 theories are the result of us not being able to trust what we read. It is very weird. It is very

00:15:20.020 weird to announce something like this on X and then not release a video immediately or any sign of life

00:15:29.880 or vitality whatsoever for him to wait until what's supposed to be tomorrow to make his remarks on video

00:15:38.040 to the American people from the white house. That is going to cause a lot of distrust, a lot of

00:15:45.600 panic. And in that kind of environment, there's going to be a lot of purposeful disinformation.

00:15:50.960 There is going to be less purposeful misinformation. There's going to be a lot of confusion, a lot of

00:15:57.920 hypotheses and a lot of just straight up conspiracy theories too. That's just what happens when we can't

00:16:05.340 trust the media, when we can't trust our government. But we have also heard that his health from COVID,

00:16:14.660 if you believe that he was truly diagnosed with COVID, that he is recovering, that his health is

00:16:20.420 recovering. And this is from Dr. Kevin O'Connor. He is a physician to the president. He said,

00:16:27.300 President Biden completed his 10th dose of Paxlovid this morning. 10 doses seems like a lot. I don't know.

00:16:34.000 His symptoms have almost resolved completely. He goes into detail on that. The president continues

00:16:38.660 to perform all of his presidential duties. I will continue to keep your office updated with any

00:16:44.040 changes in his condition or treatment plan. Again, I'm just, I just don't know. I just don't know.

00:16:52.080 I'm not sure. I buy all of this. The timing is just too strange, as I will talk about with my dad.

00:16:57.720 Very quickly after he announced that he was dropping out of the race, he endorsed Kamala Harris.

00:17:03.120 And Kamala Harris is obviously his vice president. And she is a radical in every sense of the word.

00:17:10.300 She is a radical on immigration. She is a radical on law enforcement. She is a radical,

00:17:15.680 most disturbingly, on abortion. And in the coming days and weeks, we are going to detail all of her

00:17:21.540 positions and her record on these things. It's not that surprising that he endorsed Vice President

00:17:28.220 Harris and the Clintons endorsed her. Lots of politicians have endorsed her now. She has access

00:17:33.700 to all of his campaign coffers. She's the only one who would because she is on the ballot. She was on

00:17:39.060 the ballot already. And she also has raised millions and millions of dollars in the first 48 hours of

00:17:47.200 announcing her candidacy for the nomination. So she is the presumptive nominee. She is going to have

00:17:54.680 the full support of the Democrat Party. Does she actually have the ability to beat Donald Trump

00:18:00.260 right now? General election polling says no. But I would say that it is absolutely possible for her

00:18:07.060 to beat Donald Trump. And that just means we have to take it really seriously. And we will get into

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00:19:29.680 All right. So there is drama in the Southern Baptist Convention. This is the biggest denomination

00:19:34.660 in the United States. I've been a part of the SBC my whole life. I was dedicated as a baby in First

00:19:43.240 Baptist Dallas. I don't know if you saw the terrible news over the weekend that their historic building

00:19:49.160 burned down almost to the ground. But actually, just to note this is just miraculous. The 130-year-old

00:19:58.120 podium that has been used by, for example, W.A. Criswell and others, it somehow survived this fire.

00:20:13.020 That's just incredible. And now maybe that is some kind of metaphor for the SBC, because it seems like

00:20:22.240 the Southern Baptist Convention is always up in flames somehow. But God's Word and those who

00:20:31.100 preach God's Word faithfully are going to stand, are going to survive the fire, metaphorically.

00:20:39.780 So on Monday evening, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees for the Ethics and Religious

00:20:44.800 Liberty Commission of the SBC announced that it had removed ERLC President Brent Leatherwood from

00:20:51.040 his position. The ERLC, if you don't know, is the public policy and research organization of the

00:20:56.380 SBC. It's supposed to be advocating for positions relating to life, religious liberty, and marriage

00:21:01.780 in Washington, D.C. However, there have been a lot of conservative criticisms of the ERLC over the

00:21:08.140 years, especially when it was under the leadership of Russell Moore. Its stance on things like

00:21:13.620 immigration have been, in many cases, left of center. Russell Moore is, I believe, from what I can see,

00:21:21.700 a tried and true Democrat. And he truly wants to honor, I think, Democratic politicians while he is

00:21:31.940 punching right. Of course, he had a lot of issues with Donald Trump, not even just from a policy

00:21:37.920 perspective. And it seemed like he always gave the utmost deference to President Biden and to

00:21:44.620 other Democrats. So just very lopsided there. In an op-ed for the Baptist press, Leatherwood said,

00:21:53.380 not only is this a historic decision, it is the right decision for our nation for Biden to step down.

00:21:59.420 We should all express our appreciation that President Biden has put the needs of the nation above his

00:22:04.200 personal ambition. Despite what some partisans will say, to walk away from power is a selfless act,

00:22:10.120 the kind that has become all too rare in our culture. So a lot of people did not like this,

00:22:17.780 praising President Biden. And I happen to agree this is a silly statement. It's just untrue. He was not 0.96

00:22:23.240 being courageous. He was not being righteous. He was not being selfless in any way. He was basically,

00:22:31.120 I think, forced, pressured out of the campaign that he was told that he basically had to step aside

00:22:39.000 because he could not beat Donald Trump. I certainly don't think that this was something done just

00:22:44.780 freely by his own volition and that he was doing something kind and compassionate for the nation.

00:22:49.900 Not at all. Eric Metaxas says, what lunacy can you imagine thinking it was somehow selfless? He was

00:22:55.840 forced out almost at the point of a gun. God helped the ERLC in the American church. Megan Basham,

00:23:01.460 who has reported on this, wrote a book about the ERLC. And a lot of what she sees is what she reported

00:23:06.120 as corruption within the ERLC. She says, this is one of the most dishonest and cynical political

00:23:10.080 statements I've ever seen. No one believes that Joe Biden dropped out due to selflessness.

00:23:14.900 It's almost obscene to utter something so discrediting in a moment like this. Samuel Say says,

00:23:20.000 the ERLC is repeating Democrat talking points. Again, that is very telling. Joel Berry, he was

00:23:24.740 forced out. You goobs. So amidst this criticism, yesterday evening, the ERLC announced on their

00:23:33.300 website that they had removed Leatherwood as president. So this was their official statement.

00:23:39.100 The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of

00:23:43.040 the Southern Baptist Convention has issued the following statement. In accordance with our bylaws,

00:23:48.220 the Executive Committee has removed Brent Leatherwood as president. Further details,

00:23:52.520 as well as plans for the transition, will be provided at our September board meeting.

00:23:56.720 Until then, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees will assume directional responsibility

00:24:00.800 for carrying out the ministry assignments for the ERLC. So the Executive Committee action

00:24:06.140 reportedly happened without any notification of the full board to the full board. Other board members

00:24:11.400 reportedly found out about the firing when the news was published on Baptist Press.

00:24:16.800 Following the ERLC announcement, Clint Pressley, he is the president of the SBC,

00:24:22.780 he posted to SX asking the SBC members to pray for Leatherwood and his family during this time.

00:24:29.660 He said, as Southern Baptists, we should all care about our entities and their well-being.

00:24:34.880 Russell Moore, previous president of the ERLC, as I already said, that I think took it in the

00:24:39.900 progressive direction that it's gone. He says, in reaction to this news, shameful and disgraceful,

00:24:46.840 a great Christian man who lived through his children barely surviving a school shooting. He is

00:24:52.340 talking about the tragic covenant shooting that happened last year in Nashville. Southern Baptist,

00:24:59.940 how much more of this are you going to let go on? You cannot pretend not to see what is happening

00:25:07.140 in your name. And then he replied, sometimes the Venn diagram of evil and stupid is a perfect 1.00

00:25:16.680 circle. So the fact is, we don't know what bylaws the ERLC was talking about when they said that in 0.99

00:25:24.720 accordance with their bylaws, he had to be removed. We actually don't know if it was just

00:25:28.880 in response to the criticism that Brent Leatherwood received when he said what he did, what he did

00:25:36.900 about Biden stepping down or if it was something bigger than that. We're not really sure. But this

00:25:42.300 Russell Moore reaction does make it seem like it was probably that, that the ERLC or part of the ERLC

00:25:49.220 did kind of succumb to the pressure of critics of Brent Leatherwood's statements. And that's why he

00:25:56.820 was ousted. Now, a lot of conservatives praised this decision by the ERLC saying that this was a

00:26:03.500 good move, that Brent Leatherwood, they say, have been, you know, he's been taking it into this even

00:26:08.380 more leftward direction. He shouldn't have said anything positive about President Biden stepping

00:26:13.920 down. Megan Basham responded to what Russell Moore's reaction was by saying this, for years,

00:26:19.440 both you and your successor, Brent Leatherwood, used the ERLC to pursue your personal political

00:26:23.600 objectives rather than represent the views of the majority of Southern Baptists. You pushed issues

00:26:28.340 that the rank and file did not support, like gun control, amnesty policies. In fact, you went even

00:26:34.460 further and used the position to wage war on your personal enemies. Though you both treated the ERLC

00:26:41.480 as if it belonged to you to do your will, the fact is it belongs to Southern Baptists whose tithes paid

00:26:46.940 your salaries. So she reports on a church happening, specifically Southern Baptist Convention

00:26:54.180 happenings. She wrote a book on the drift of the ERLC and other entities. So she knows a lot about this.

00:27:03.860 Tuesday morning. So this morning, the ERLC retracted the announcement that they had removed Brent

00:27:11.120 Leatherwood. They also deleted the previous press release about his removal. They said this,

00:27:17.460 as members of the ERLC's executive committee, we formally retract the press release, which was

00:27:22.940 said yesterday. There was not an authorized meeting, vote, or action taken by the executive committee.

00:27:28.300 Kevin Smith has now resigned as the chair of the executive committee. Oh my goodness.

00:27:34.040 Brent Leatherwood remains the president of the ERLC and has our support moving forward.

00:27:40.600 Brent Leatherwood responded to all of this. He said on X, I deeply appreciate anyone or everyone

00:27:46.340 who has reached out, especially our trustees, who were absolutely bewildered at what took place

00:27:51.000 yesterday and jumped in to set the record straight. Conservatives, they have their issues

00:27:59.040 with this reversal indecision. Megan Basham, journalist for the Daily Wire, said,

00:28:06.080 So the New York Times editorial board and CNN, at the behest of Russell Moore, went into overdrive

00:28:11.740 to object to Leatherwood's removal. So did Religion News Service, an outlet funded by a hard left

00:28:16.980 LGBTQ foundation that has promised to reform Christian doctrine on sexuality, no matter how

00:28:22.940 conservative, to make it affirming of homosexuality. Speaking to sources within ERLC this morning who tell

00:28:30.360 me that yes, the media blowback from CNN, the New York Times, and other secular left media orchestrated,

00:28:36.520 she says, by Russell Moore, was indeed what caused ERLC to retract its dismissal of Leatherwood

00:28:44.400 ERLC. That's his handle on X. Oh my goodness. I mean, the SBC, love it, have been a part of it,

00:28:53.780 like I said forever. I believe in Baptist doctrines, but we have more drama than an eighth grade cheerleading

00:29:00.740 squad. Like, can we not for one second, like, can we not, can we just respond to the chaos of

00:29:07.540 the world by being steady and strong and sure for like half a millisecond? Now, I don't agree with

00:29:16.820 Brent Leatherwood's statement. And like, I agree that the leftward drift of the ERLC and parts of

00:29:24.820 the SBC in general are extremely troubling. I mean, Megan Basham's reporting has been really good on this.

00:29:30.320 I really disagree with Russell Moore and his stance on politics 100%. I think it has been extremely

00:29:37.240 damaging to the SBC and actually what has caused so much division. I don't think it's the conservatives

00:29:41.820 causing the division. I think it's the conservatives that are just responding to the divisiveness of

00:29:48.040 some of the left-leaning leaders within the SBC. But I kind of understand why Brent Leatherwood put out

00:29:56.740 the statement that he did, because the ERLC is supposed to seem nonpartisan. They aren't supposed

00:30:01.720 to seem like a Republican institution, and they're not supposed to seem like a Democrat institution.

00:30:08.200 And so that means that sometimes they have to appear that they are throwing a bone to the left,

00:30:14.200 throwing a bone to the Democrats. And some people could argue that they've done more than throwing

00:30:18.120 a bone to Democrats for a long time. But they have to appear like they are not on either side. So

00:30:24.200 when there is an opportunity to complement the left without affirming their policy decisions,

00:30:32.420 they're going to take it. So I think that's why Brent Leatherwood probably saw this as a safe way

00:30:39.560 to do that, to try to appear fair. Now, he was wrong in his assessment. It was not courageous by

00:30:46.560 Biden. He was not being selfless. I think he could have said without, you know, ascribing those

00:30:52.980 character qualities to Biden, I think he could have just said this was the right thing to do.

00:30:57.340 This is going to be good for our country. We don't know everything that led up to this decision,

00:31:01.560 but I'm glad that it happened. He could have just left it at that. I think he could have played both

00:31:05.800 sides that way. But valorizing President Biden for a decision that I really don't think he did

00:31:11.120 out of personal selflessness, that was probably the wrong move. But I see how he strategically was

00:31:17.480 trying to play it shortly after all of this, or really in the midst of all of this, the ERLC

00:31:22.200 and Brent Leatherwood put out a thread of Kamala Harris's most unbiblical, dangerous, harmful,

00:31:29.520 awful policy positions over the years. And so I'm not denying the leftward drift here. And I'm not

00:31:36.500 denying what was wrong with Brent Leatherwood's comments originally. I see why. Like, I see why he

00:31:43.200 probably went that direction. Now, some people think we shouldn't even have an ERLC, that it's just a

00:31:48.880 lost cause at this point. I won't get into that debate, but that is a position that many people

00:31:53.140 have, that it's just too corrupt at this point. So that's what's going on. That's what's going on

00:31:59.740 with the SBC and the ERLC right now. Man, it's too much. It's too much. I just want things to calm

00:32:08.840 down for half a second. It doesn't seem like it's going to do that. So whatever break you need in your

00:32:16.900 life, whatever respite, whatever rest, however much time you need to shut off the phone, to be in

00:32:24.040 nature, to be in quiet and stillness with our creator, you need to do that. We need that more

00:32:31.580 than ever. And the times that it feels like we have no time, we have no time to stop and pray.

00:32:38.040 We have no time to rest. We have no time to think on the things of eternity. We have no time to read

00:32:45.500 our Bible. Those are the moments when we need to do those things the most. I think it was Martin

00:32:50.740 Luther who said, I have so much to do today that I have to dedicate all of this time in the morning

00:32:57.180 to prayer. And that I hope and pray is my mentality that the crazier and the more chaotic and the more

00:33:04.340 demanding the news seems that the more I realize my need for rest and stillness before God, that he has

00:33:13.060 to be our power source. He has to be our anchor. Because remember, Jesus Christ is the same

00:33:17.920 yesterday, today, and forever. And the Lord's eternal plan of redemption is what? It's always

00:33:23.640 going off without a hitch. And we can trust that, that his victory is absolutely sure.

00:33:29.380 We care about politics while not abandoning our responsibility to live out the Christian life

00:33:37.160 in this moment in the here and now. The mundane moments matter most. They do. All right. Now my

00:33:44.500 dad is going to give his commentary, not on any of the SBC stuff. I've covered that. But everything

00:33:50.100 that has happened with Biden and Kamala and everything that's about to happen, he'll break it all down and

00:33:55.700 we'll give our takes on all of it. So without further ado, here is my dad.

00:33:59.340 Okay, dad, welcome back to the show. Let's start out with the latest news. The director of the Secret

00:34:09.800 Service, Kimberly Cheadle, she just resigned. Are you surprised by this at all?

00:34:16.960 I'm surprised she hadn't already resigned. But when you go in front of Congress and say that you

00:34:22.380 basically were in charge of the greatest failure by the Secret Service in decades, you know, probably

00:34:29.780 probably handwrite was on the wall. So she's going to go back to, as my my good friend and

00:34:34.380 Congressman Pat Fallon said, she may go back to guarding Doritos at PepsiCo. 0.99

00:34:38.880 Is that what she was doing before? 0.92

00:34:40.880 Well, she was head of security at PepsiCo. So they own Doritos. 0.87

00:34:44.620 Oh, that explains the memes I've seen of her holding a bag of Doritos and guarding it with a gun. 0.99

00:34:51.520 I got it. I got it. I had missed that piece of information. That makes a lot more sense now.

00:34:57.880 Okay, a lot of people are asking she was pushed to resign, but why wasn't she just

00:35:02.540 fired? What's your take on that?

00:35:05.360 Well, because Joe Biden wants to keep his record of not firing anybody, which he has not fired one

00:35:09.720 staff member or one cabinet member since he's been president. And of course, we know that he's not

00:35:16.060 doing that. He didn't even know it was a lady that was his Secret Service head. You know, he

00:35:19.260 called it, you know, a guy the other day. So I just think that's the way they've handled things.

00:35:24.580 They didn't want any, any, you know, anything to make really make the news.

00:35:29.940 Yeah, he had, you know, he released a statement earlier this morning, just thanking her for her

00:35:34.140 service. And he didn't even describe what happened. He just said, what happened? I mean,

00:35:38.980 a man died because of her incompetence. So I just thought that was a very tone deaf statement by him.

00:35:45.420 Were you surprised to see both Republicans and Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

00:35:50.940 like really bring in the heat in that hearing with Kim Cheadle?

00:35:54.700 I wasn't really surprised to see AOC do it because I think she's just anti-law enforcement, 1.00

00:35:59.940 no matter whom it is, you know, which organization it is. But I was a little surprised to see the others

00:36:05.340 be so adamant. I think they felt like they were free to do it since Biden is officially a lame duck 0.97

00:36:12.420 president. You'll notice that Democrats will be a lot bolder during the next few months where they

00:36:19.620 can separate Biden from Harris. They'll be a lot bolder against him or criticizing him.

00:36:25.740 That's a really interesting point. OK, speaking of a lame duck president,

00:36:29.640 we have President Biden's statement that he released on X over the weekend. We have not seen him yet,

00:36:35.880 but he dropped out of the race. Apparently, he realizes that he is unfit to campaign. But we're

00:36:43.220 supposed to believe that he is still fit to be the commander in chief. So just tell us all of your

00:36:48.560 thoughts on everything that has unfolded over the past few days. Well, you know, when mom and I were

00:36:54.760 out of the country, I thought that it might happen while we were gone. And I was only about a week,

00:37:00.020 a week late on that. And I think what happened during that week is that he negotiated some type

00:37:07.960 of deal. He and Jill, you know, she has been conspicuously absent from any place since all

00:37:14.420 of this started. And I think that the Obama's and the Pelosi's and the Schumer's just finally

00:37:20.920 went to him and says, look, you can do this. Essentially, you can do this the easy way or the

00:37:24.900 hard way. And I think he battled up until the end. And when he knew it was a fait accompli that he

00:37:32.420 cut whatever deal he cut. I don't know what it is, but my guess is that he cut some type of deal

00:37:38.900 that will involve something beneficial to his family.

00:37:44.040 OK, gotcha. There's a lot of conspiracy theories out there since he hasn't shown his face.

00:37:48.460 Like, do you think that it's weird that he only posted this letter on X and that he hasn't said

00:37:56.260 anything verbally yet? And it's been several days at this point.

00:38:01.200 Yeah. And when you go back and look at how Lyndon Johnson handled his when he got out

00:38:05.540 and he was he was kind of forced out as well in a way, although he did it much earlier than than

00:38:11.400 Biden has done it. That's what you do. Even even President Nixon, who definitely was forced out,

00:38:17.620 you know, he read it, you know, he went on TV and read a statement to the nation and President

00:38:23.600 Biden evidently is going to speak tomorrow night. But my guess is, is there really continue to be

00:38:29.020 worried that he must be continuing to deteriorate in his ability to, you know, totally function

00:38:37.660 properly? And that's sad, no matter who it is. That's a sad scenario. But it's even sadder that

00:38:43.620 people would have pushed him and propped him up. It's such a failure to the American people. I don't

00:38:48.980 care if those are exactly the policies that he wanted to put forth. The fact that he wasn't the

00:38:55.700 man that they promoted him to be is really a shame. And in my opinion, is I wouldn't say it's treasonous

00:39:04.380 at all. But it is definitely fraud. They committed fraud, in my opinion.

00:39:10.540 Yeah. Do you buy that he really has COVID?

00:39:14.680 No, I never bought that. I never. I think that they realized that if he was going to get up in

00:39:21.780 front of the crowd at the NAACP meeting out in Las Vegas, that things could go awry. And,

00:39:29.940 you know, I think some days when you get like that, we saw it in mom, your grandmother,

00:39:36.180 that some days they're more confused than others. And that could have been one of those days. Now,

00:39:42.060 I don't know this for sure. But that's my guess.

00:39:46.360 Yeah. And, you know, I hate to think that things are this cynical and this strategic. But when you just

00:39:52.420 you have to think of the Democrat Party really as this machine, it's not just an individual.

00:39:57.640 It's not Joe Biden. They're willing to do whatever it takes to win. And really, the only thing that

00:40:04.880 could garner similar amounts of sympathy for Joe Biden, as the nation has just had for Donald Trump

00:40:13.900 and for one of his supporters at his rally, is for him to have pretty serious illness, is for him to be

00:40:21.500 sick. And I hate to think of it like that, that this apparent diagnosis is strategic. But the timing

00:40:29.800 of it all is just a little bit too on the nose to not be purposeful, in my opinion.

00:40:36.260 Yeah, I think that the other side saw the election slipping away pretty quickly,

00:40:43.960 given his debate performance, and some of his comments since then, and then President Trump

00:40:50.080 surviving an assassination attempt, in addition to all of his policy issues that people are concerned

00:40:56.680 about, like the price of groceries, the price of gas, the open border, those types of things.

00:41:01.960 And either they just took all those in consideration and says, hey, we've got to figure a way to make this

00:41:10.180 exit happen quickly. And what's the best way to do it? Well, you know, we can't say that he's

00:41:16.300 mentally incapable. We can we can say that he has COVID because people still, you know, seem to get

00:41:21.160 that some so and people really don't question that when it happens, right? That's one of the things

00:41:25.560 that you know, that we're not allowed to question at all. Yeah, you know, you mentioned that there was

00:41:31.900 some sort of deal, right, that you think kind of led up to Biden stepping out of the race. And the New York

00:41:39.100 Post reported this exclusively. They said the operatives at the very highest levels of the

00:41:44.020 Democratic Party threatened President Biden with forcibly removing him from office unless he

00:41:49.020 stepped down. Sources told the Post, the well orchestrated palace coup, that's what a lot of

00:41:53.760 people are calling it, to stop the faltering president from seeking reelection, have been in

00:41:57.880 place for weeks. But stubborn Biden fought it every step of the way, a source close to the Biden family

00:42:02.500 told the Post on Monday. You know, I've heard similar things from liberal sources, from liberal

00:42:08.280 journalists that Biden and Jill Biden, that they did not want to step down, that he is being very

00:42:13.340 stubborn, that he wanted to keep running, that he really thought that he was going to be able to

00:42:17.580 beat Donald Trump, but that the pressure, even though there were Democrats coming out front publicly and

00:42:23.520 saying, oh, no, we support President Biden, that behind the scenes, there was a whole lot of pressure

00:42:28.940 mounting to push Biden out. And that the reason why he announced the way that he did, he just kind of

00:42:36.320 tweeted it, not even with the presidential seal and the letterhead and everything. One, it was a

00:42:40.580 campaign statement, but also because he only told a couple of people. Apparently it was Jill, it was

00:42:47.520 a couple of aides, and he did it how he wanted to do it. He didn't want it to seem like he had

00:42:53.500 orchestrated with the Democrats who he felt really betrayed by. So that's interesting. That just goes to

00:42:59.340 show, again, Biden, it doesn't matter how long you've been in this game and how much you've done for

00:43:03.540 the Democratic Party, they want to win.

00:43:06.320 It's a blood sport, as I've said before. And to me, you know, it's kind of ironic because it really

00:43:12.120 is a little bit like what they did to Bernie Sanders in 2020, right? They basically pushed

00:43:19.060 because Bernie was going to win the Democrat nomination. And they essentially got everybody

00:43:26.960 together and said, look, we don't really want Joe, but he's our best opportunity to win. And so they

00:43:33.220 essentially said, Bernie, here's what we'll do. We'll give you a Senate finance chair.

00:43:38.420 And if you don't take that, we're going to just probably, this is probably what they said,

00:43:42.940 we're going to ruin you, right? And so the same thing now turned around and happened to Biden,

00:43:47.300 right? It's just, I, it's kind of like the Kill Bill movies, Kill Bill one and two, you know,

00:43:51.800 it's just kind of like Kill Bernie, Kill Joe. It's a strangely similar.

00:43:56.020 You're talking about in, you're talking about in 2020, Bernie Sanders. I mean, some people really

00:44:00.980 think that Bernie Sanders back in 2016 was also pushed out.

00:44:07.420 Probably so. Yeah. He didn't get much for that. Maybe something that we don't know about,

00:44:11.900 but in 2020, he definitely got chair of Senate finance as a quid pro quo.

00:44:16.540 Because if people remember 2020 seems like forever ago now, but Joe Biden was not doing

00:44:22.720 well in the primary. He came in fourth, I think in the Iowa caucus and he didn't start picking up

00:44:29.560 wins until all of a sudden, as you said, in South Carolina, and then he became the nominee. I think

00:44:34.800 it was really obvious that they thought Bernie Sanders could not be Donald Trump, that he was too,

00:44:39.620 still too radical, still too far left, and that they needed kind of a guy who seems, even though he's

00:44:45.340 not politically, but seems kind of middle of the road. So immediately after he dropped that on X,

00:44:52.060 he endorses Kamala Harris. Were you surprised by that at all, or did you see that coming?

00:44:57.840 I was a little surprised he endorsed her so early, but that also tells me that it was orchestrated

00:45:04.440 as well so that they could get behind one person. The Democrats were in some butt of a box because

00:45:12.560 how were they going to not get behind a woman of color and a female, right? I mean, a person of color

00:45:22.900 and a female. And so she's probably not the best candidates for the Democrats. She probably doesn't

00:45:29.640 have the best chance to beat Donald Trump. Um, but they really had, they really didn't have much of a

00:45:35.880 choice. And it, it's really a shame because they basically have told the delegates to the convention

00:45:41.300 that you don't mean anything. Yeah. And they're going to elect her, in my opinion, on the first

00:45:47.260 count, because if they don't, the super delegates get in and then they're going to elect her anyway. 1.00

00:45:52.480 And if you're a Democrat and you go against this, your career is over. So it's a, it's a shame. They

00:45:59.760 should have just gone to an open convention, allowed the best person to win, but they're not,

00:46:04.300 they're not going to do that. And I'm not sure the Republicans would have done anything different

00:46:07.880 than that. Uh, but that's, that's what's going to happen. And actually, you know, Kamala is as far

00:46:14.020 left, if not further left than Bernie Sanders ever was. Right. Oh, she totally is. She's got a 100%

00:46:19.820 rating from Planned Parenthood, was the most just rabidly pro-abortion attorney general of California.

00:46:25.560 She carried that into her, uh, senator, senatorial position. And then of course,

00:46:31.300 vice president too, that has been her issue. Probably why she has ignored what was supposed 0.95

00:46:36.100 to be her responsibility, which is the border just to push more and more abortion. So that's 1.00

00:46:41.320 who she is. Um, I do think that she's got to have a chance. Like, I'm not sure, and you can correct

00:46:48.320 me if you think I'm wrong here, but I think that they probably did some internal polling. And if all

00:46:54.520 the polling had come back saying there is no chance in the world that Kamala can beat Donald Trump,

00:47:01.140 I don't know that Biden would have endorsed her. I don't know that the Clintons and all these people

00:47:06.020 would have endorsed her if it looked like she had zero chance.

00:47:10.280 Well, I think that what happened is it's, it's hard to poll people that aren't, 0.97

00:47:15.480 haven't been out there in the public eye that people don't know. And so she probably had,

00:47:21.060 and the Quinnipiac poll that come out today, basically it was unchanged between her and Biden,

00:47:27.500 essentially the same. And as we've talked about, it's the national polls. They're fun to look at.

00:47:32.780 They're not near as important as the swing state polls. And so, uh, it's hard to tell exactly

00:47:38.920 what, I don't know that there's going to be a big bump. Uh, the question is, will she take some

00:47:45.540 female vote away from Trump and will she take some minority vote away from Trump? 1.00

00:47:49.280 I'm not sure of that right now. Uh, we'll just have to see over the next few months. Now,

00:47:54.120 one of the things I think that the DNC is going to do though, Allie, even before the convention

00:47:58.380 is to do a virtual roll call essentially so that they can claim, you know, in Ohio,

00:48:07.460 August the 7th is the last date that you can have your name added to the ballot.

00:48:12.160 Mm-hmm. And there's some controversy over that, but their convention isn't until August 19th. So

00:48:18.060 I'm not sure what's going to happen with that. Uh, I assume they'll get it all figured out.

00:48:23.780 Yeah. So do you think that there is any chance, I mean, she has enough delegates to be the nominee

00:48:29.000 at this point, but do you think that there is any chance that she doesn't become the nominee?

00:48:32.620 No, I really don't. Now you never know. I mean, she could stumble really, really bad before the

00:48:38.720 convention and that's what she's got to avoid. But if she doesn't stumble before the convention

00:48:43.520 or there's some, uh, you know, August surprise that comes up, I don't, I don't think there's

00:48:48.900 any chance she's not the nominee. I mean, who on the Democrat side, you know, they're so DEI

00:48:53.760 focused. This is a D I mean, she was a DEI pick, right? Yeah. For vice president.

00:48:58.540 She was. And I mean, she polled 2% when she was running for president. Yeah. She was basically 0.89

00:49:04.020 the least Democrat person in the polls during the primary run in 2019 and 20. So least popular. So,

00:49:12.260 uh, this is a DEI pick and who's going to go against that in the Democrat party.

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00:50:40.380 I'm interested to see who she would pick as her running mate. I personally think it's probably going 1.00

00:50:46.560 to be the governor of Kansas, Andy Beshear. He's really popular in that state.

00:50:53.580 You mean Kentucky?

00:50:54.560 Oh, Kentucky. Sorry, not Kansas. Kentucky. It just seems to me like that would probably be a strategic

00:51:02.780 pick for her because in the same way that Biden kind of came across as this more moderate guy,

00:51:10.580 of course. He's an old white man, and so they wanted him to appeal to the independents, the

00:51:15.840 working class who were kind of in between. She needs also someone to the right of her. She needs 0.58

00:51:22.980 someone a little more center or who can appeal to the center. And I think that the governor, a governor

00:51:28.360 from Kentucky, a white guy from Kentucky who is kind of cast as some moderate, even though he's

00:51:34.280 really not, would probably be helpful for her, at least image-wise. What's your thought on that?

00:51:39.360 Yeah, I think you're right on that. I definitely think it'll be a male. I think it'll be a white 0.98

00:51:42.940 male that will, and probably Andy Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, is the likely pick.

00:51:50.700 The gentleman from Pennsylvania, his name escapes me right now, could have been a good pick, but

00:51:55.320 her position on Israel, yeah, Shapiro and his position on Israel are vastly different.

00:52:01.420 You know, she is, while she claims to be supporting Israel, she doesn't really. She is very

00:52:07.780 pro-Palestinian on that. And we'll see what the Jewish vote is. I mean, the Jewish vote has been,

00:52:14.140 for lack of a better word, misguided for the last 50 years since FDR left. Actually, the last 70 years

00:52:20.300 since FDR left. But hopefully they'll wake up and see who really supports them. And the Republicans

00:52:27.580 support Israel much more than the Democrats. And now, interesting thing on Andy Beshear, you know,

00:52:33.400 he's a Democrat governor in a heavy red state. Yeah. People might wonder, well, how does that happen?

00:52:39.160 Well, here's what happens, is the way a Democrat gets elected as a statewide candidate in a red state

00:52:47.580 is they run up the vote tally in the deep blue areas, all right? Like Lexington, Kentucky is a blue

00:52:55.340 area, and some of the other major cities are blue areas. So they'll run the vote up there because it's a

00:53:02.100 statewide vote, right? And that's how he gets elected. Now, he had 20 pieces of legislation

00:53:08.720 that he vetoed. I mean, we're talking about tough on crime legislation, education legislation. He vetoed

00:53:19.480 that. The legislature, because it's so Republican, overrode the veto. And so he really has not been

00:53:27.520 very effective governor at all. And that's something I hope people bring up. I look forward

00:53:34.340 to he and J.D. Vance having a conversation. I don't look forward to Trump and Kamala having one.

00:53:42.140 I noticed they announced it. It's supposed to be on September 10th. Again, if President Trump's team

00:53:47.280 is listening, which I know they probably are to your podcast, there is no upside in him debating Kamala

00:53:54.480 Harris. There's no upside whatsoever. He's already debated the policies of the Biden administration.

00:54:00.640 Those are her policies. He doesn't need to have some liberal moderator that's going to be just 0.93

00:54:07.380 feeding to her, and she's going to bait him to try to get him to say something that people will say

00:54:12.640 is misogynist or whatever. They will not treat the two of them the same. And so my recommendation is

00:54:18.860 don't do it, President Trump. Don't do it.

00:54:22.960 I know. Do not. I think it's easy for us to make fun of her because she's had so many awful sound

00:54:28.920 bites. To me, she comes across as dumb. She comes across as superficial, as vapid, with a lack of 1.00

00:54:36.580 understanding of the issues and just an inability to really articulate her positions or really anything

00:54:42.340 substantive. And so I think it's easy for us to say she would be so easy to demolish in a debate,

00:54:47.680 and she's going to be so easy to be. I don't think that we should be overconfident. Now, I think J.D.

00:54:53.280 Vance could have demolished her in a debate because he's skilled at that. He has been doing that kind

00:54:58.420 of thing for a long time. And but as you know, as we've talked about and as I said in the debate

00:55:04.280 with Biden, contrasts matter. Trump won that because of the contrast against Joe Biden. He also

00:55:13.060 received a surge of support after the assassination attempt because of the contrast between him and Joe

00:55:21.080 Biden. Well, the contrast between Kamala and Trump doesn't look as good for Trump. We think it should.

00:55:27.340 But to the general public, it doesn't. I think it would hurt him more than help.

00:55:32.100 Yeah, well, there's no question. First of all, she is a relatively short person. It looks like I've never

00:55:38.200 met her personally. He is really tall, which when it's two males, it's OK. But when it's a male and

00:55:44.360 a female, that can work against you. And she is not going to pay any attention to the question she's 1.00

00:55:50.280 asked. She's just going to bait Donald Trump. She's going to say he he said neo-Nazis were good people

00:55:56.120 in the Charlottesville speech. She's going to she's going to race bait him and all that. I just don't see

00:56:00.840 any value to that whatsoever. And I'm hoping that he doesn't do it. You know, her policy issues have

00:56:06.920 been so bad. If I am if I'm Trump, I am focusing on three things and three things only. I'm focusing

00:56:14.620 on immigration. She was supposed to be in charge of that. She's yet to go to the border, I believe.

00:56:20.340 She went for an hour and a half to Guatemala and that was it. You know, it's going to get to the root

00:56:25.060 cause of it. She's never even come back and told us what the root cause is or anything about it.

00:56:29.120 I'm on that. I'm on that. I'm on that. And then secondly, what I'm on is I'm on her inflation,

00:56:35.020 the Harris Biden inflation. And I don't say Biden Harris anymore. I say Harris Biden inflation.

00:56:40.600 And because that's why groceries cost more. That's why real wages are down. That's why 0.96

00:56:44.860 gasoline costs more. And the third thing I'm on is her her stance related to Israel. Yeah. And

00:56:54.080 her pro-Palestinian stance after they're the ones that killed Israeli civilians. They started it by 0.96

00:57:03.800 killing Israeli civilians. Yeah. And those are the three things I would be on. I would never get off 1.00

00:57:09.820 of anything else. Yeah, I think that's a really good point. And at this point, because she has

00:57:14.840 been the vice president and she is the presumptive nominee, you can lay the failures of the Biden

00:57:22.120 administration at her feet. I think it's totally fair to lay the murder of Lakin Riley and the other

00:57:30.420 young women who have been murdered by illegal immigrants at Kamala Harris's feet. Oh, this woman 1.00

00:57:36.000 who's supposed to be pro-woman. Well, what about the women who have been murdered by the illegal 0.89

00:57:40.480 immigrants that came in on your watch, Kamala Harris? I think the same thing as you said, the

00:57:45.640 unrest, the ridiculousness that we are seeing on the college campuses because of the pro-Palestine 0.93

00:57:52.440 protesters. I want to hear what she thinks about that. She probably supports that. So I think it's

00:57:58.240 totally fair. Yeah, go ahead. She supported all the Black Lives Matter. She's on record of supporting

00:58:03.680 all the Black Lives Matter protests. She gave money to bail people out that were put in jail in Minnesota

00:58:09.780 because of the violent protests. She referred to the murders of George. We're talking about George

00:58:17.500 Floyd. And it's really a sad, sad scenario. And in her legislative career, she was in the Senate for

00:58:27.340 four years. She was either a sponsor or co-sponsor of 164 pieces of legislation. None of them passed.

00:58:34.400 None of them. Yeah. So what has she done for America? Not one thing, but she has taken a lot

00:58:40.620 from America. Yeah. And just to specify what you were saying about in the wake of George Floyd's death

00:58:47.560 and the BLM riots, she tweeted, if you're able to chip in now to the Minnesota Freedom Fund to help

00:58:55.960 post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota. Well, one of the people who were bailed

00:59:00.820 out his name was George Howard. He was released because of the funds that were raised, because of

00:59:06.740 the organization that Kamala Harris posted about. Well, of course, when he got out, he murdered

00:59:10.960 someone. And, you know, that's her record. She has a record of death and destruction against vulnerable 0.98

00:59:16.560 people, whether it's in the position of law enforcement as the attorney general of California,

00:59:20.600 or it's in the position of senator or in the position of vice president. She is pro-abortion, pro-murder,

00:59:26.740 pro-chaos. That is who she is. That's what the Trump administration needs to go for. 1.00

00:59:31.660 One of your, many of your listeners will not remember this, but some of them that are closer

00:59:37.940 to my mature age will remember that when President George H.W. Bush was running against Michael Dukakis

00:59:48.400 back in 1987, 88, that Michael Dukakis was, who was the governor of Massachusetts, was either ahead or

00:59:58.400 very close race. And the Bush campaign did an ad relating to the release of a convicted felon named

01:00:11.740 Willie Horton. They were given people like, they were given criminals weekend passes, and then he killed

01:00:16.780 somebody in that. What Trump and them ought to do is the same thing with this Minnesota guy.

01:00:22.740 That Willie Horton ad changed the entire race, and George H.W. Bush won by a landslide. She's got 0.97

01:00:30.540 the same blood on her hands. She has got exactly the same blood on her hands. Now, did she hold the

01:00:36.500 murder weapon? No. But she facilitated the person that should have been behind bars to be able to get 0.70

01:00:44.460 out and do that. It's kind of like what you've said, all right? Every single one of these types

01:00:49.380 of crimes, especially the ones made by people that should be in jail or shouldn't be in this country,

01:00:53.920 are preventable. Yep, absolutely. And I don't know what you think about this, but I have seen a lot

01:00:59.740 of people on the right, which I think we need to make sure that we're on the same page and the

01:01:03.420 strategy against her. A lot of people pointing out that when she was Attorney General of California,

01:01:08.420 she put a lot of black men behind bars for marijuana possession or something like that, 1.00

01:01:14.020 and they're calling her, you know, Kamala the cop. And I just don't think that that is an effective

01:01:19.940 strategy. I just don't know who the Republican Party would be winning for Donald Trump by pointing

01:01:24.720 out that she was apparently, in some cases, tough on crime in California. I'm sorry, but you're just not

01:01:30.100 going to get, like, black Americans to listen to that and be like, oh, okay, I'm voting for Donald 1.00

01:01:36.000 Trump. That's not going to happen. I think, Trump administration, focus on getting evangelicals 0.81

01:01:43.480 to vote for you, because right now there's a contingency of Christians who think that they're

01:01:48.280 too pro-choice and they don't feel represented. You don't want those people to be apathetic. You

01:01:54.080 don't want those people to feel like they're not represented. Or you, at the very least, if you're

01:01:58.400 not going to change your rhetoric on abortion, at the very least, show us why no Christian in their 1.00

01:02:04.820 right mind should either not vote, vote third party, or vote for a Democrat because of how

01:02:11.220 bloodthirsty Kamala Harris is. I don't care about her record on, like, being too tough on crime in 1.00

01:02:18.100 California. Like, don't threaten me with a good time. I don't care about that. I want to know why

01:02:22.420 she is so radically progressive and why she would be dangerous for the country. No, I agree with that.

01:02:27.500 I think that you have to point out, you have to point out the things that are opposite of what we

01:02:31.820 believe in. We want people, we want to be tough on crime. Now, we may have different positions on

01:02:37.320 exactly what that means, but we want a law and order. We want law and order. And she has, you know,

01:02:44.040 she has not been a law and order senator or vice president under any means. She's broken one of the

01:02:50.700 most sacred laws of our time, and that is an open border. And, you know, again, you don't have

01:02:58.820 countries if you don't have borders. She sure has a border around her place where she lives, so 1.00

01:03:03.120 I think it's interesting. Okay. Any predictions, Dad, to close us out? I mean, it's hard to know what

01:03:12.840 to expect in the coming days, but as far as the election, as far as the Secret Service, we haven't

01:03:18.480 even gotten into, you know, the assassination attempt and things that have developed since then.

01:03:22.920 What are your thoughts about what we may be seeing in the coming weeks?

01:03:26.780 I got a couple of thoughts I'd like to leave your audience with. First of all,

01:03:32.200 millennials ought to be just totally thrilled because you have a millennial that is our vice 1.00

01:03:40.020 presidential candidate. And you all talk about how much of the big voting block you are now,

01:03:46.460 the largest voting block, the largest economic block. Well, let's say, you know what? Big boys and

01:03:51.500 girls step up. Let's prove it. Let's do something about it. You got somebody representing you, 0.90

01:03:55.300 which I think is awesome. The more I hear J.D. Vance talk, the better I am. The other thing that

01:04:01.380 I would tell your audience, and this is a serious point, is that is we are living in very historic

01:04:06.780 times. And I was thinking about this myself the other day. You should sit down when you have time

01:04:12.360 and journal what's happened in the last two weeks. Okay. Because at some point in time,

01:04:19.540 you're going to want to really talk to your kids about that. Okay. Because they're going to get

01:04:24.700 taught a lesson in school and other places somewhere. You want to make sure that you've

01:04:29.160 got all the facts written down that you can remember, that we can remember now so that we

01:04:33.260 can educate them on what went on. Because this is truly historic time. And what we're seeing in real

01:04:39.420 time, which we kind of live in the, how does it affect me today? When you look back over things,

01:04:44.280 it's kind of like living in the time when Lincoln was assassinated or, you know, when we entered World

01:04:49.400 War II. I mean, it's just, it's just something that has a impact and will be talked about for

01:04:57.080 centuries to come in this country. Yes. I saw someone say that this, the era that we're living in now

01:05:05.720 is going to be the hardest section of some kids AP history exam and like 2053. And it's so true. 1.00

01:05:14.820 Keeping all the facts straight. My goodness. Okay, dad, thank you so much. And I still feel really

01:05:18.660 good about President Trump winning. Okay. Yeah. I feel good about that. I saw an interview with he

01:05:23.880 and J.D. Vance last night. And again, he carried the same demeanor that he carried after his

01:05:32.980 assassination. I hope he keeps that going. Me too. And just, that's what you have to do. You have,

01:05:38.400 because she, Kamala Harris, she will get the yelling, crazy hands going. I mean, she just does. 1.00

01:05:45.180 And just let her do that. He needs to not be baited by her. He needs to bait her. Yes. You know what?

01:05:50.940 She's got very nervous energy and people don't really like nervous energy. What would be bad for

01:05:56.640 them? I know that we've already given them the advice, but I've just got like a little bit more.

01:06:01.240 What would be bad is if in a debate, if he takes the debate, which I agree he shouldn't,

01:06:05.660 is if he looks agitated and he looks upset and she looks calm and sassy because she will be sassy.

01:06:12.500 And for some people, that's going to be really off-putting. They're not going to like the sass, 1.00

01:06:16.000 but for a lot of people that they will like that because they hate Donald Trump. They want someone

01:06:20.240 to put him in his place and she cannot be calm and sassy and him be agitated. He needs to be calm

01:06:26.700 and in charge. She needs to be nervous and silly. That's what needs to happen. 1.00

01:06:32.820 So it'll be, oh, interesting times, dad. Interesting times. Well, thank you so much.

01:06:36.900 I appreciate it. Everyone needs to go get your book, Life Lessons from the Little Red Wagon. We'll

01:06:43.520 put the link in the description. Everyone loves your wisdom and they can read a whole book of it if

01:06:49.120 they go get that book. So thank you so much. Thank you very much. Okay. See you later, sweetie. Bye.

01:06:53.320 Bye.

01:06:56.700 Bye.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - July 23, 2024

Ep 1038 ｜ Who Pushed Joe Biden Out？｜ Guest： Ron Simmons

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - July 23, 2024

Ep 1038 ｜ Who Pushed Joe Biden Out？ ｜ Guest： Ron Simmons

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Ep 1038 ｜ Who Pushed Joe Biden Out？｜ Guest： Ron Simmons