Ep 1038 ｜ Who Pushed Joe Biden Out？ ｜ Guest： Ron Simmons
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1 hour and 6 minutes
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Summary
My dad joins me to talk about all the crazy news that s been going on in the past 24 hours, including the resignation of the head of the Secret Service, the controversy surrounding the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and the Kamala Harris nomination.
Transcript
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The Southern Baptist Convention is again in disarray with drama happening within the Ethics
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and Religious Liberty Commission. Also, our country is in disarray. The head of the Secret
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Service has resigned. Thankfully, Biden has dropped out. Kamala Harris is the presumptive
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nominee. We are going to talk about all of this today on this episode of Relatable. We're going
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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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goodranchers.com, code Allie. Hey, guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. Hope everyone had
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a wonderful weekend, has had a wonderful week so far. Oh, my goodness. As you know, we have so much
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to cover. Our family was out of town over the weekend. We got to enjoy the beauty of Deer
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Valley, Utah. I've been in Deer Valley before. It's been since probably high school. But gosh,
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it was such a beautiful trip. I got to fly fish for the first time. A lot of you saw that
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on Instagram. And it was a great respite from the chaos and the craziness of this election
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cycle and of the 24-minute news cycle that we are living in. It just was a beautiful and
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tangible reminder that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He has given us
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such a gracious gift, a gift of common grace, because everyone gets to enjoy it through his
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creation. And now I'm kind of hooked on fly fishing, y'all. I want to watch videos. I want
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to read a book on it. I want to learn how to do it. I did not catch anything for the first
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two hours of the fly fishing experience. But then the last five minutes, I caught that beautiful
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trout. And it had red dots on it, which my guide told me meant that it was younger than six years
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old, but it was still a large trout. So it was beautiful. And it was unique. And it was really
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fun. It was a very physical experience trying to get that trout. We were like in this very fast
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moving water. And so the guide was literally jumping all over the place trying to get that thing.
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And that was exciting. Like I'm still riding that high of catching the trout from fly fishing.
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And I am going to try to fly fish again very soon. And this will help me. My husband and
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I were talking about, we always get asked, like, what are our hobbies? And we're like,
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uh, I don't know. We have three kids. But now I'll be a fly fisher. And I'll be able to say,
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oh, yeah, my hobby, it's fly fishing. And so I'll seem a lot cooler than I actually am.
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So anyway, that was a nice little respite, a nice little break. And now we got to get back into
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it because the news is breaking moment by moment. Of course, we are going to bring my dad
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in the last half of the episode to get his take on everything. But I want to give you a summary
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of everything that's happened before we get to our perspective, our opinion, our explanation of
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it all. First, let me just start very quickly. We won't get into all of it because I don't have
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time. But I will just note that Sierra Service Director Kimberly Cheadle has resigned after a crazy
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congressional hearing. The House Oversight Committee held a hearing with Cheadle yesterday
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regarding the attempted assassination. And we had Congress people from both sides absolutely
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tearing into her for her apparent incompetence. And I was interested to see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez go
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This is about the safety of some of the most highly targeted and valued targets internationally and
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domestically in the United States of America. So the idea that a report will be finalized in 60
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days, let alone prior to any actionable decisions that would be made, is simply not acceptable.
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It has been 10 days since an assassination attempt on a former president of the United States,
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Good for her. Good for her. I think both Republicans and Democrats had a pretty good job of asking her
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the right questions, asking the right questions of the Secret Service. And it was right for her to
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resign. Now, a lot of people have asked, and I'll talk about this with my dad, too. Why wasn't she
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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
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her. But President Joe Biden did release a statement about Director Kim Cheadle after she
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stepped down. And he said this, Jill and I are grateful to Director Kim Cheadle for her decades
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of public service. She has selflessly dedicated and risked her life to protect our nation throughout
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her career in the United States Secret Service. We especially thank her for answering the call to
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lead the Secret Service during our administration. And we are grateful for her service to our family.
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So he says that it took honor and courage and integrity. And then also said the independent
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review to get to the bottom of what happened on July 13th, just what happened, so vague, in my opinion,
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very disrespectful, continues. And I look forward to assessing its conclusions. I mean, because of her
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incompetence, and I think that is the most charitable reading of the situation, because of her
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incompetence, a man died. A man died. Yes, a former president was shot at and he was injured. That
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is a tragedy in and of itself, not just for President Trump personally, but also just for the state of our
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country. But two innocent people were critically injured. Thankfully, I think they're making a full
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recovery. But one man, a father, a husband, a firefighter was murdered because he was exercising his
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constitutional right to express his political opinions in the way of attending a rally. I mean, that is an
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utter tragedy. That's not just what happened on July 13th. Because of her incompetence or something
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worse, an innocent man has died. And so for President Biden to praise her at this juncture, at this moment,
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is really stunning. Now, of course, at this case, he doesn't give a flying rip what people think
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about him. I mean, he's not even he's not trying to run again, of course. So he can say and do
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whatever he wants. But I just thought from a human perspective, the person that we hear is the empath
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in chief is the leader that exemplifies the most kindness, decency and compassion that a person can
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muster that he released a statement like this, praising the director of the Secret Service,
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under whose watch an innocent man was murdered. I think that is awful. Trump responded on Truth
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Social. He said the Biden-Harris administration did not properly protect me. And I was forced to
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take a bullet for democracy. It was my great honor to do so. OK, that's true. That's fair. But again,
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I think the greater tragedy is that an innocent man was murdered. I would say that that even even if
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you're just being strategic campaign wise, that would be the thing to highlight right now. Remember,
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President Trump, people like your shift in demeanor. They like your shift in countenance. They like your
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calmness. They liked a lot of your humility that you displayed in that RNC speech. They like that.
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Be that person. Be that person. Whatever you have to do, come across as selfless and compassionate
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and human-centered as you possibly can. I do think that Trump has a big heart. I really do.
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We need to see that on display as much as possible. It was so beautiful at the RNC,
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seeing his children, his grandchildren, just honor him and praise him. It was beautiful to see him do
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the right thing to honor the victim that was killed at the rally. I think it's, I know it's Corey,
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but the pronunciation of the last name, I think it's comparator. And it was beautiful to see him
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honor him. We need to see more of that really just for the sincere reason of having true compassion and
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goodness and love on display. But even if you're just thinking campaign, campaign wise, which is
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necessary for politics, like we got to see that we got to see that selflessness and that humility
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So before we get into the part of the evangelical response to this, specifically the head of the
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Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission that is part of the Southern Baptist Convention,
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I need to actually tell you what happened with Biden dropping out. Now, a lot of you already know
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the details about that, but some of you don't. And more power to you. If you're not someone who
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spends time on acts and you just rely on Relatable to tell you what's going on in the news, I think
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that's great. I would never tell you to plug in any more than that. We've got to protect our peace as
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much as possible. Even me. I cannot be chronically online. And there are definitely some people,
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especially some influencers out there, and that is their job to be reading and sharing every headline.
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And again, more power to them too. I cannot do that. And so I am going to give you as much
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information and analysis as I possibly can while also not trying to be chronically online. But for
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those of you who are really not online, you really don't know what has gone on with Biden dropping out.
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Let me give you a little bit of a summary. So he announced in a letter posted on X Sunday
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afternoon that he is ending his presidential campaign for the 2024 election to focus on fulfilling
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his duties for the remainder of his term. So it was a long letter. I won't read the whole thing,
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but I'll read you a little bit of it. So he lists some of his accomplishments. For example,
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he says America has the strongest economy in the world. And some people have asked a very fair
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question. Is the strongest economy in the world in the room with us right now? He says we've made
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historic investments in rebuilding our nation and lowering prescription drug costs for seniors and
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expanding affordable health care to a record number of Americans. He also says we appointed
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the first African-American woman to the Supreme Court. He says America has never been better
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positioned to lead than we are today, which is just objectively untrue. He says it has been the
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greatest honor of my life to serve as your president. And while it has been my intention to seek
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reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down.
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Interesting language there. Stand down. And to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president
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for the remainder of the term. He says I will speak to the nation later this week in more detail
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about my decision. Now, my dad and I have some theories on what this is really about. What led to this?
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There is some very reliable reporting about how Biden was pressured to make this decision. Now,
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there are also, I think understandably so, a lot of theories about this letter, the validity of this
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letter. Like, is this really Joe Biden? There are tweets comparing his signatures and it looks like the
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little underlining of his signature that you just saw if you're watching on YouTube in this letter
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is different than Joe Biden has ever signed it. People are wondering why it looks so unofficial.
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Why is there no letterhead? Why is there no presidential seal? It's probably because it was a
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campaign announcement and it wasn't an official announcement as, you know, within the office of
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the presidency. There's probably some of that there. There's also reporting that really very few people
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heard about this, as you'll hear me say with my dad. And so he did this almost kind of unofficially
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and, um, uh, kind of off to the side with Jill and with a couple of his top aides, because it also
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was reported that some white house aides did not hear about this until they saw it posted on X, which
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is pretty remarkable. And so I'll get into in my, with my dad, kind of what we think according to the
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reporting and what we know, what was happening behind the scenes that led him to make this announcement
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and make the announcement the way that he did. Now, some people are just assuming that this was
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not him at all, that he did not write the letter and that he is secretly resisting and that this is
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a coup and that he is not even going along with the coup right now, that he had nothing to do with
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drafting this letter. I, that's not my take. I don't think that that's true. Now you could still say
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it's a form of a coup and that there is some bribery and blackmailing involved possibly here
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without believing that Joe Biden is secretly resisting to this moment behind the scenes.
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I think he probably did resist. Um, I know that he did resist for a while there, but I, I, I don't
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think that he is unaware of what's happening. And some people are speculating that he's not even with
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us. There was actually, you know, there are rumors that are, uh, abounding right now about the state
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of his health and the state of even just his existence. There are many people saying that he
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is in hospice and that he has died. I do not think that that is the case. However, I, those kinds of
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theories are the result of us not being able to trust what we read. It is very weird. It is very
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weird to announce something like this on X and then not release a video immediately or any sign of life
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or vitality whatsoever for him to wait until what's supposed to be tomorrow to make his remarks on video
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to the American people from the white house. That is going to cause a lot of distrust, a lot of
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panic. And in that kind of environment, there's going to be a lot of purposeful disinformation.
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There is going to be less purposeful misinformation. There's going to be a lot of confusion, a lot of
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hypotheses and a lot of just straight up conspiracy theories too. That's just what happens when we can't
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trust the media, when we can't trust our government. But we have also heard that his health from COVID,
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if you believe that he was truly diagnosed with COVID, that he is recovering, that his health is
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recovering. And this is from Dr. Kevin O'Connor. He is a physician to the president. He said,
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President Biden completed his 10th dose of Paxlovid this morning. 10 doses seems like a lot. I don't know.
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His symptoms have almost resolved completely. He goes into detail on that. The president continues
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to perform all of his presidential duties. I will continue to keep your office updated with any
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changes in his condition or treatment plan. Again, I'm just, I just don't know. I just don't know.
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I'm not sure. I buy all of this. The timing is just too strange, as I will talk about with my dad.
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Very quickly after he announced that he was dropping out of the race, he endorsed Kamala Harris.
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And Kamala Harris is obviously his vice president. And she is a radical in every sense of the word.
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She is a radical on immigration. She is a radical on law enforcement. She is a radical,
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most disturbingly, on abortion. And in the coming days and weeks, we are going to detail all of her
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positions and her record on these things. It's not that surprising that he endorsed Vice President
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Harris and the Clintons endorsed her. Lots of politicians have endorsed her now. She has access
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to all of his campaign coffers. She's the only one who would because she is on the ballot. She was on
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the ballot already. And she also has raised millions and millions of dollars in the first 48 hours of
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announcing her candidacy for the nomination. So she is the presumptive nominee. She is going to have
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the full support of the Democrat Party. Does she actually have the ability to beat Donald Trump
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right now? General election polling says no. But I would say that it is absolutely possible for her
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to beat Donald Trump. And that just means we have to take it really seriously. And we will get into
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All right. So there is drama in the Southern Baptist Convention. This is the biggest denomination
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in the United States. I've been a part of the SBC my whole life. I was dedicated as a baby in First
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Baptist Dallas. I don't know if you saw the terrible news over the weekend that their historic building
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burned down almost to the ground. But actually, just to note this is just miraculous. The 130-year-old
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podium that has been used by, for example, W.A. Criswell and others, it somehow survived this fire.
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That's just incredible. And now maybe that is some kind of metaphor for the SBC, because it seems like
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the Southern Baptist Convention is always up in flames somehow. But God's Word and those who
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preach God's Word faithfully are going to stand, are going to survive the fire, metaphorically.
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So on Monday evening, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees for the Ethics and Religious
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Liberty Commission of the SBC announced that it had removed ERLC President Brent Leatherwood from
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his position. The ERLC, if you don't know, is the public policy and research organization of the
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SBC. It's supposed to be advocating for positions relating to life, religious liberty, and marriage
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in Washington, D.C. However, there have been a lot of conservative criticisms of the ERLC over the
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years, especially when it was under the leadership of Russell Moore. Its stance on things like
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immigration have been, in many cases, left of center. Russell Moore is, I believe, from what I can see,
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a tried and true Democrat. And he truly wants to honor, I think, Democratic politicians while he is
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punching right. Of course, he had a lot of issues with Donald Trump, not even just from a policy
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perspective. And it seemed like he always gave the utmost deference to President Biden and to
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other Democrats. So just very lopsided there. In an op-ed for the Baptist press, Leatherwood said,
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not only is this a historic decision, it is the right decision for our nation for Biden to step down.
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We should all express our appreciation that President Biden has put the needs of the nation above his
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personal ambition. Despite what some partisans will say, to walk away from power is a selfless act,
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the kind that has become all too rare in our culture. So a lot of people did not like this,
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praising President Biden. And I happen to agree this is a silly statement. It's just untrue. He was not
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being courageous. He was not being righteous. He was not being selfless in any way. He was basically,
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I think, forced, pressured out of the campaign that he was told that he basically had to step aside
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because he could not beat Donald Trump. I certainly don't think that this was something done just
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freely by his own volition and that he was doing something kind and compassionate for the nation.
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Not at all. Eric Metaxas says, what lunacy can you imagine thinking it was somehow selfless? He was
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forced out almost at the point of a gun. God helped the ERLC in the American church. Megan Basham,
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who has reported on this, wrote a book about the ERLC. And a lot of what she sees is what she reported
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as corruption within the ERLC. She says, this is one of the most dishonest and cynical political
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statements I've ever seen. No one believes that Joe Biden dropped out due to selflessness.
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It's almost obscene to utter something so discrediting in a moment like this. Samuel Say says,
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the ERLC is repeating Democrat talking points. Again, that is very telling. Joel Berry, he was
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forced out. You goobs. So amidst this criticism, yesterday evening, the ERLC announced on their
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website that they had removed Leatherwood as president. So this was their official statement.
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The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of
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the Southern Baptist Convention has issued the following statement. In accordance with our bylaws,
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the Executive Committee has removed Brent Leatherwood as president. Further details,
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as well as plans for the transition, will be provided at our September board meeting.
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Until then, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees will assume directional responsibility
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for carrying out the ministry assignments for the ERLC. So the Executive Committee action
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reportedly happened without any notification of the full board to the full board. Other board members
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reportedly found out about the firing when the news was published on Baptist Press.
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Following the ERLC announcement, Clint Pressley, he is the president of the SBC,
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he posted to SX asking the SBC members to pray for Leatherwood and his family during this time.
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He said, as Southern Baptists, we should all care about our entities and their well-being.
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Russell Moore, previous president of the ERLC, as I already said, that I think took it in the
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progressive direction that it's gone. He says, in reaction to this news, shameful and disgraceful,
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a great Christian man who lived through his children barely surviving a school shooting. He is
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talking about the tragic covenant shooting that happened last year in Nashville. Southern Baptist,
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how much more of this are you going to let go on? You cannot pretend not to see what is happening
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in your name. And then he replied, sometimes the Venn diagram of evil and stupid is a perfect
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circle. So the fact is, we don't know what bylaws the ERLC was talking about when they said that in
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accordance with their bylaws, he had to be removed. We actually don't know if it was just
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in response to the criticism that Brent Leatherwood received when he said what he did, what he did
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about Biden stepping down or if it was something bigger than that. We're not really sure. But this
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Russell Moore reaction does make it seem like it was probably that, that the ERLC or part of the ERLC
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did kind of succumb to the pressure of critics of Brent Leatherwood's statements. And that's why he
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was ousted. Now, a lot of conservatives praised this decision by the ERLC saying that this was a
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good move, that Brent Leatherwood, they say, have been, you know, he's been taking it into this even
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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.
00:34:40.880
Well, she was head of security at PepsiCo. So they own Doritos.
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.
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
00:35:05.360
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,
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
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.
00:39:14.680
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
00:43:06.320
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.
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
00:46:36.100
to be her responsibility, which is the border just to push more and more abortion. So that's
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,
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?
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
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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I'm interested to see who she would pick as her running mate. I personally think it's probably going
00:50:46.560
to be the governor of Kansas, Andy Beshear. He's really popular in that state.
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
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
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
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
00:54:22.960
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
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
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
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
00:57:03.800
killing Israeli civilians. Yeah. And those are the three things I would be on. I would never get off
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
00:57:36.000
who's supposed to be pro-woman. Well, what about the women who have been murdered by the illegal
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
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
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.
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
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
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,
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
01:01:36.000
Trump. That's not going to happen. I think, Trump administration, focus on getting evangelicals
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
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
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.