Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1049 ｜ Tim Walz： Deployment Dodging & Food Fraud

00:00:00.000 Is the tide finally turning in this abbreviated election season? The honeymoon phase for Harris

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00:00:19.860 into that today, as well as a message for Christians who just feel demoralized by this

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00:01:42.940 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

00:01:48.120 It looks and sounds different because I am in a different location and will be for a couple

00:01:54.440 episodes every week. A couple episodes will be in our typical studio location. We'll look and sound

00:02:01.540 the way that you are used to it looking and sounding. And then a couple episodes a week,

00:02:07.300 we'll look and sound like this. So bear with us if there are some noise differences,

00:02:14.060 if there's a sound difference, we are doing our best working with what we have in a different

00:02:20.000 location for these next few weeks. All right. It's Monday, which means we are diving into the election

00:02:26.720 and we are looking at the Walls-Harris, the Harris-Walls ticket and who they really are.

00:02:33.800 The fact of the matter is we are not getting a full and fair picture of these candidates

00:02:38.860 because the media wants Harris and Walls to win. It's really not more complicated than that.

00:02:45.580 They are left-leaning, increasingly unabashedly so. And so they want you to think positive things,

00:02:51.420 exclusively positive things about Harris and Walls and exclusively negative things

00:02:56.400 about Trump and Vance. However, there's some positive news, I think, right off the top. And this

00:03:03.440 is really just more my subjective perspective than anything else. But I do think that the honeymoon

00:03:09.620 phase of the Harris-Walls ticket, the announcement of her presumptive nomination as well as his,

00:03:18.960 that it is fading. I think it took a second for the Trump campaign and just in general,

00:03:24.380 the conservative side to kind of understand what we're working with and what we're up against.

00:03:29.380 I think that the strategy against Biden was very easy and very straightforward. And Kamala Harris,

00:03:36.820 to her credit, she's a little bit more of a challenge. I think that we can all be honest with

00:03:42.080 that. And you all have seen her campaign's digital footprint and how she has tried to,

00:03:48.080 and the media has tried to really manufacture excitement for her ticket. I think some of it is

00:03:53.560 genuinely organic. And I think a lot of it is not. I think a lot of it really is created by the

00:03:58.940 media. So it has this kind of contagious effect. But that is what it is. That's what we're up

00:04:05.340 against. It's what we've been up against for a long time. When you have media, Hollywood, academia,

00:04:11.460 when you have most of big tech, and you have the public education system, as well as many more

00:04:19.460 national and global entities, all in the bag for the Democratic ticket. Yeah, we've got a long road

00:04:26.180 ahead. We've got an uphill climb. But that's what it's been for a while now. So that is what it is.

00:04:33.340 We can complain all we want to. But those are the challenges that we face. And to Team Trump's credit,

00:04:39.440 I do feel like they are finally kind of getting their feet under them and understanding the

00:04:46.420 aggressiveness that is required in running the right race. Now, from my vantage point, I think that 1.00

00:04:54.820 there could be major improvements. I mean, there are a lot of commentators out there giving the

00:05:00.200 Trump team advice, and they can't take all the advice because some of the advice is competitive.

00:05:06.380 It's contradictory. And I hope, though, that they will take to heart what people like I, what people

00:05:14.360 like Charlie Kirk and others have said about not forgetting about the importance of the white 0.94

00:05:22.000 evangelical vote, and to not take that for granted. Because the truth is, is that there are at least,

00:05:30.160 at least two to three percent, if not five percent of evangelicals who voted for Trump the last two

00:05:36.820 times, who now are demoralized by this campaign for a variety of reasons, but mostly because of the

00:05:43.420 abortion comments. And it seems to me like the Trump campaign is really trying to play towards the

00:05:49.400 middle. They really want those secular independents who maybe aren't so excited about men and women's

00:05:58.560 sports, but in general, they're pro-LGBTQ, who didn't love all of the COVID policy, but in general are

00:06:06.040 still supportive of the left-wing kind of health apparatus, who might not be for abortion through

00:06:13.560 all nine months of pregnancy, but probably somewhere around the four to six month mark.

00:06:20.660 They're really vying for those votes. And I get it. You have to get as many votes as possible,

00:06:27.300 but you also have to do so in a way that does not sell out your base, that doesn't make your base

00:06:33.320 feel like a cheap date. Because I'm telling you right now, there are evangelicals who are saying,

00:06:38.420 look, I'm not going to reward a pro-choice candidate with my votes. And that can make or

00:06:45.900 break this election. I do see the Trump campaign trying to also vie for the Black vote. And in

00:06:53.000 particular, the Black female vote. You can see by some of the people that he has platformed at his

00:06:57.160 rallies that that is a vote that he wants. And again, I understand trying to get every vote possible,

00:07:02.720 but we just have to reckon with reality for a second that the Black women who will vote for 0.97

00:07:11.920 Donald Trump, because there are Black women who will vote for Donald Trump, they don't care about 1.00

00:07:16.960 the identity politics thing. They're not voting because of skin color. They're not voting because

00:07:21.120 they see someone that looks like them up on stage at a rally. They're voting based on policies,

00:07:26.860 based on their values. And anyone who is going to vote because of the color of skin of someone that

00:07:33.160 they see on a stage, all of those people are voting for Kamala Harris, every single one of them.

00:07:37.820 So I think that your attention, your money, your resources do not need to be dedicated in that

00:07:43.820 direction. They need to be dedicated to winning back that two to three percent, at least of Christians 0.99

00:07:50.540 who previously supported Trump, who feel like they cannot now. Or even if they are voting for Trump,

00:07:57.740 they are not enthusiastically voting for Trump. And that matters because that means that they do not

00:08:04.180 feel the conviction to tell the other people around them, hey, it's really important that you vote for

00:08:08.480 Donald Trump. Because here's what Team Trump needs to understand, is that to the conservative

00:08:14.060 evangelical, to the Christian, the pro-life Christian, there is no moral difference between

00:08:19.480 abortion at 16 weeks and abortion at 40 weeks. Yes, of course, it seems more barbaric because the

00:08:26.860 procedure is more invasive, it is more involved, and just the thought of aborting a child at 36 weeks,

00:08:36.000 of course, for all of us, that gives us a sense of revulsion, as it should. However,

00:08:42.400 that child is not any more of a child and is therefore is no more valuable than the child at

00:08:50.640 16 weeks or even the child at eight weeks. And so hearing someone like Donald Trump, who has done

00:08:56.720 a lot for the pro-life cause in nominating the right justices, being the first president to attend

00:09:03.360 a March for Life while he was president, it is extremely demoralizing. It's extremely demoralizing.

00:09:10.080 And you are, at the very least, watering down evangelicals' enthusiasm for Donald Trump

00:09:15.940 when you throw out a number like 16 weeks, when you say things like, follow your heart.

00:09:20.680 Trump was at the Turning Point USA Believers Summit a few weeks ago, and he used this same language,

00:09:26.520 following your heart. And he got booed. And look, that is just not the language to use. It's not,

00:09:34.900 not publicly. What I would say, if anyone from Team Trump is listening, and I have the podcast that

00:09:41.500 probably has the most, numerically, as well as just the highest concentration of evangelical women.

00:09:50.480 Um, and so I have my finger on the pulse, at least somewhat. I don't pretend to know everything

00:09:58.200 about this demographic, but I know a lot about this demographic. And so you can take this for what

00:10:03.640 it's worth. I would say either stop talking about abortion. Do not say anything about 16 weeks. Do not

00:10:11.120 say anything about follow your heart. That is so language that is completely and totally like repulsive

00:10:18.280 to like the Christian woman. We don't believe in following your heart, first of all, just like as 1.00

00:10:22.580 a theological issue. But especially when it comes to abortion, like that's what we've been hearing

00:10:26.600 from the pro-choice side forever, that a woman just needs to follow her heart and do what she wants to 0.98

00:10:31.620 do, even if it means killing her child. So please don't say that anymore. And then also, uh, if you're

00:10:38.460 going to talk about it, if you're going to talk about it, you don't have to get into the nitty gritty of

00:10:43.000 policy, okay? Say something like, look, I'm on the side of life. I was on the side of life when I

00:10:48.220 was president. I'm on the side of life now, and I will promote life and I will do everything I can

00:10:53.520 to promote life for people outside of the womb and everything I can to promote life for people

00:10:58.260 inside the womb. Leave it at that and let the nitty gritty of the policy conversation be left to other 0.70

00:11:05.220 people. You understand. And I think I know that Trump does understand this. And I think JD Vance

00:11:11.780 definitely understands this. You don't have to answer the questions that are being asked of you.

00:11:16.940 And so when they try to nail you down on like, what would be the limit? What would it look like?

00:11:23.080 Tell me exactly what you think about the protecting life amendment that has been proposed by some

00:11:28.460 pro-lifers and pro-life organizations. You don't have to answer. You just say, look, I'm on the side

00:11:34.520 of life. And we should all be on the side of life. It's absolutely barbaric that my opponent

00:11:40.740 believes in abortion through all nine months of pregnancy for any reason paid for by the tax

00:11:47.020 dollar. And you can point to her legislative record as senator, even as attorney general of 0.61

00:11:53.060 California to prove that that is true. She voted against the Born Alive Infant Survivors Protection

00:12:00.080 Act, which was not a restriction on abortion. It was introduced by Ben Sasse that, and it simply said,

00:12:05.940 while Kamala Harris was in the Senate, it simply said that, look, you got to provide health care 1.00

00:12:12.480 to babies who survive abortions. They can't just be left to die, which is something that happens,

00:12:17.880 as we've talked about routinely. Unfortunately, in this country, it's happened in the state of

00:12:21.760 Minnesota under Governor Walz's watch because of the policies that he has promoted, as Charlie Kirk

00:12:28.060 has reported. So that's what Trump can point to. Like, you don't even have to give a policy

00:12:34.520 proposal. You point to the barbarism of your opponents, and then you point to your record

00:12:39.420 on life. And you can be vague about that, but start promoting life. Like, that and that alone

00:12:45.380 will give some assurance to pro-lifers that you're not going to sell them out. No more follow your

00:12:51.920 heart language. No more talking about 16 weeks. I promise you, the pro-lifers that are even voting

00:12:57.820 for you now will not support that when you are in office. And by the way, the pro-choicers won't support

00:13:03.480 it either. So you're making absolutely no one happy. Um, I understand that there are some people

00:13:10.000 in the middle who abortion is like their issue and they have to vote for someone who is pro-choice.

00:13:18.680 I would not pander to those people. I see a lot of movement in the Republican party to try to pander to

00:13:26.620 what I call that mushy middle of like secular LGBTQ activists, barstool, conservative 0.78

00:13:35.280 kind of people who kind of like Donald Trump and they'll probably vote Republican, but they don't

00:13:42.160 really have any, you know, uh, conservative foundation. It seems to me like the Trump wing

00:13:48.740 of the GOP really wants to appeal to those people. Again, I understand getting their votes,

00:13:53.400 but also you need to understand about that demographic is that they are extremely mushy

00:13:58.500 and they're extremely fickle. They're extremely fickle. Like one day you'll have Dave Portnoy

00:14:04.100 talking about, Oh my gosh, Trump is so awesome for, you know, getting shot at and raising his fist 0.97

00:14:10.760 and the left is so crazy and blah, blah, blah. And then the next day he'll be talking about 0.94

00:14:14.880 what a quote unquote moron J.D. Vance is like those people. They scare really easily. 1.00

00:14:20.640 They spook really easily. If you say one thing that they think is a little bit too Christian

00:14:28.080 and a little bit too self-righteous, they'll abandon you. So trying to cater almost exclusively

00:14:34.760 to that independent middle, it is not a winning strategy. Talking about how radical your opponent

00:14:41.940 is because this ticket is absolutely radical. They have so many moral personal failings too,

00:14:47.440 so many lies that you can point to. I think that is the direction to go. And to just bring it back

00:14:53.300 to what I was saying at the beginning, I do see Trump Vance starting to do that really well.

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00:16:24.820 JD Vance did a round of interviews with the major networks this weekend. And if you only saw commentary

00:16:30.920 from the left, you heard, oh my gosh, she embarrassed himself. He got destroyed. That is

00:16:36.980 such a laughable lie. If you go on X and you watch any of the clips with JD Vance and, for example,

00:16:43.680 Dana Bash, he is so good. He is so articulate. And he's very aggressive in those interviews.

00:16:51.740 I think that's great. I think that we need that kind of aggression. That's what people loved,

00:16:55.540 for example, about Ron DeSantis when he was kind of sparring with the media. People loved that,

00:17:01.740 ate that stuff up. People still love it with JD Vance. The reaction from Conservative X was

00:17:07.080 incredible and supportive. And we need more of that while also showing, because you can do both at the

00:17:12.480 same time, that you are a warrior when it comes to the press, when it comes to pushing back against

00:17:17.820 the left, when it comes to correcting lies. And this soft, lovable, relatable family man at home who

00:17:23.600 is a beloved husband and a dad to three kids that he adores. And Trump can also do the same thing.

00:17:31.200 That's something I really love about Trump is that I really do believe that he is this soft-hearted

00:17:35.780 family guy who adores his grandchildren and who also really wants to fight for America to be the

00:17:43.700 best that it can be. That doesn't mean that I always like the things that he says. It doesn't mean I

00:17:47.460 always agree with his policy prescriptions. That's for sure. I've talked about that several times.

00:17:51.660 But I genuinely believe that's what he is. And this is the great thing, is that I think that if

00:17:58.060 their campaign just shows who they are, both sides of them, that they really do have an appeal to the

00:18:07.300 average American. The difference between them and Walls and Harris is that you have to actively lie

00:18:13.060 about who Harris is, who Walls is, when you talk about them to make them relatable. Now, lucky for

00:18:19.920 them, they've got the mechanisms to do that and the money to do that, the celebrity to do that,

00:18:27.540 the media coverage to do that. And that's, I mean, all we can do on our side is to try to tell the

00:18:33.480 truth as much as possible, to try to push our perspective of things, which of course is also

00:18:38.420 includes opinion, as much as possible. And that's really all we can do. In addition, of course, to

00:18:45.460 praying and believing that God is completely and totally sovereign, that this election is not a

00:18:50.700 surprise to him. He's not wondering who's going to win. He's not waiting to see if all the ballots

00:18:56.800 are going to get counted. He's not worried at all. Like, let's remember that, that he's not surprised.

00:19:01.860 He's not taken aback. And our anxiety and our concern about what's going to happen, which it's valid

00:19:08.140 to have an amount of concern about our country and our children's future, but let us remember

00:19:13.280 that at the end of the day, Jesus is totally victorious, that his win is absolutely sure,

00:19:20.880 and that he's coming back and we're not going to have politics anymore one day. However, and here's

00:19:26.320 what I want to say to Christians who use that as like a fallback to just not care, is that 0.98

00:19:31.600 we still occupy this physical space. And God has not placed us here arbitrarily. He's not put us

00:19:38.160 here accidentally. He didn't just say, oh, you know what, I kind of need to fill some space down

00:19:44.220 there. Here's this random person at this random time. No, he placed you on this tiny spot of eternity

00:19:50.820 in this tiny speck in this grand universe right now for a reason that's true of your children,

00:19:57.560 that's true of your children's children, and so on. None of that is accidental. Every single bit

00:20:02.920 of it is purposeful and providential. And he placed us here for his glory. And part of giving him glory,

00:20:09.720 as we see so clearly articulated throughout scripture, is loving our neighbor, making the world around us

00:20:17.260 better. That is the history of the church, by the way. Every country that we are placed in, every city,

00:20:23.440 every community that we are placed in, we try to beautify. We try to make better. We try to meet the

00:20:30.900 needs of others. We try to maximize the resources that are given to us for the glory of God and the good

00:20:39.740 of other people. Part of that, as people who live in the United States, we are exiles in this world,

00:20:48.900 but we are citizens in the temporal physical sense of the United States, which means that we have not

00:20:56.580 only the responsibility, but the opportunity to maximize and beautify the space that we are in

00:21:04.000 through political engagement. That is a way to love our neighbor. That is not the primary way. That is not

00:21:13.060 the exclusive way to love our neighbor. But that is a way to love our neighbor. Why? Those of you who have

00:21:20.000 been listening to my podcast for several years, you've memorized this phrase, politics matter, because policy

00:21:27.220 matters, because people matter. Politics affects policy, policy affects people, and people matter. They matter to God

00:21:36.200 as his image bearers, and they matter to us, because they matter to God. And so that's why we have to care, because

00:21:45.500 policies, whether it's the border, whether it's drug policy, it's crime policy, it's abortion policy, it's economic

00:21:53.660 policy. These have a real effect on people. They have a real effect. You're feeling it on you. Inflation has a real

00:21:59.780 effect on your life, and on your children's life, on your security. Lawlessness in the street, that has a real

00:22:06.680 effect on your life. Policies tend to affect the most vulnerable, predominantly and primarily. And so if we care

00:22:17.140 for the most vulnerable, which all Christians are called to do, one way to care about them is to advocate

00:22:23.420 for policies that are best. That doesn't mean that we have to only think about one set of people.

00:22:31.620 Every policy is about trade-offs. Remember that? Every policy has trade-offs. But we have to think

00:22:38.840 about how policies affect them. And the left loves to talk about how they are standing in the stead for

00:22:47.520 the marginalized and for the vulnerable. That's actually why you hear a lot of Christians say that

00:22:51.760 they are going to vote Democrat because they are voting for policies that take care of the poor,

00:23:00.020 that take care of the least of these, that take care of those who can't defend themselves and can't

00:23:05.600 speak up for themselves. And then you have some people saying, well, yeah, see, that's true. The left

00:23:11.360 really wants to care for the least of these. That's why they vote Democrat. And that's a justification for

00:23:17.180 some Christians to vote Democrat. And really, Christians who vote Republican, the only reason 0.94

00:23:22.960 that they have maybe even slightly justification is because of the abortion issue. But really,

00:23:29.420 Democrat policies, they make up for that because they're trying to help people not have abortions 0.64

00:23:35.440 in the first place. They're helping create a world in which abortion is unthinkable. But the problem 0.72

00:23:40.220 is that's not true. That's why I don't believe in this moral equivalence between the left and the

00:23:45.200 right Republicans and Democrat of saying, yeah, both sides kind of have their benefits. Both sides

00:23:49.540 have their cons. And it doesn't really matter. Both sides are doing good things and both sides are

00:23:54.440 falling short. That's not completely true. It is true that both sides fall short. It is true that

00:24:01.460 both sides have policies that we as Christians won't agree with. That is true. But that doesn't mean

00:24:08.020 they're morally equivalent. Democrats are worse. It's just true. Democrat policies are worse. 0.98

00:24:13.320 They are worse. They do not stand up for the poor and vulnerable, as we're about to talk about today

00:24:18.760 a little bit. They do not advocate for the least of these. All of the policies that purport to help

00:24:27.780 the poorest and the weakest among us actually don't. That's actually why I wrote my book, Toxic Empathy,

00:24:33.940 How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion. And it is because of this argument that we constantly 0.77

00:24:41.880 hear what the left-wing perspective on social justice, on gender, on race, on immigration,

00:24:50.520 on abortion, that theirs is the empathetic, righteous position that actually helps the vulnerable,

00:24:58.280 and the Republican side is just the fear-mongering side. When actually the progressive position and the

00:25:03.800 policies put in place on each of these subjects actually harm the very people that they say that

00:25:10.420 they're trying to help as well as everyone else. And so that's why I just, I can't stand this,

00:25:17.380 well, both sides are trying to, you know, do their best, but the left is doing a really good job of

00:25:22.040 caring for the poor. No, they're not. They're actually not. Progressive policies always hurt the

00:25:28.140 most vulnerable, even as they say they're trying to help them.

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00:26:46.980 Christians who say they're considering voting for Harris Walls because those people are out there,

00:26:51.140 believe it or not. And one example that they're giving for why this is actually a more holistically

00:26:57.740 pro-life ticket is that Walls implemented this amazing school lunch program in the state of

00:27:04.880 Minnesota. And so he is feeding the poor and hungry, something that Christians are called to do. And by the 0.90

00:27:10.160 way, Christians are called to do that. We are not called to delegate our responsibility to poor people

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00:27:23.040 which is what our tax dollars are doing and represent, but a giver that is giving voluntarily.

00:27:30.880 So let me just clear that confusion up. But setting that aside, let's look at the school lunch program.

00:27:38.220 Was it actually a positive development? Does it actually speak to Walls' Christianity? Is this really

00:27:44.840 an example of helping those who are poorest among us? The truth is, it's not. So let me give you a

00:27:52.780 summary of what it is and why it actually spelled disaster for the state of Minnesota and didn't

00:27:57.680 actually solve the problem at all. And once again, like every progressive policy, it hurt the very

00:28:02.760 people it purported to help. On March 17th, 2023, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls signed the free school

00:28:08.940 meals bill into law. The free school meals program, which began on July 1st, 2023, is a state funded

00:28:15.140 program that provides reimbursement for a free breakfast and lunch to all students, regardless

00:28:19.420 of their family's income. But here's the deal with that. The USDA already funds programs, the national

00:28:27.360 school lunch program, the school breakfast program that give free or reduced prices for school meals to

00:28:33.260 students based on family income. There's the SNAP program. We talked about that last week. This is

00:28:41.200 food that is given to poor students at public schools, paid for by the tax dollars from the

00:28:48.480 federal government. And what did the Harris Biden administration do with that through the Department

00:28:53.400 of Agriculture? Hopefully you already know the answer because I've talked about this four or five

00:28:57.920 times. This is such an important story to tell all of your bleeding heart liberal friends who think

00:29:02.980 that they're voting for the compassionate ticket. They said, public school, if you do not abide by the

00:29:08.700 changes to Title IX, which say that sex discrimination is no longer just sex discrimination, but discrimination

00:29:14.920 based on someone's stated so-called gender identity, then you will not get these free lunches. So what that

00:29:20.960 actually means is public school, if you do not allow boys into girls' bathrooms, boys into girls' locker 1.00

00:29:28.740 rooms, boys onto girls' sports teams, then you will not receive these free lunches for poor students.

00:29:35.460 So holding student lunches for poor kids hostage until a public school goes along with this absolutely

00:29:46.040 crazy and dangerous redefinition of gender that allows boys into girls' spaces. So that's what the 0.96

00:29:55.440 Harris Biden administration has done that is easily verifiable. You can look it up. We've talked about it many

00:30:01.400 times. We can link the article in the description again. So I don't want to hear how this is a ticket that

00:30:06.420 wants to feed the most vulnerable. That's not even true. It's not even true based on the record. It's not even true

00:30:12.320 based on Walls' record. So let's look into this lunch program a little bit more to see if it really was as

00:30:17.580 charitable as he says, which by the way, anything that is tax funded is never charitable. There's no such thing as a

00:30:24.180 free lunch. Everything is paid for somewhere. The Minnesota program says that it provides free

00:30:30.880 funding or funding for free breakfast and lunches for all children, regardless of family income, who

00:30:36.740 attend a school and participates in the federally funded school breakfast and lunch programs. There

00:30:41.760 is some fine print with the stipulations, once again, that schools had to abide by in order to get

00:30:47.820 these lunches. Minnesota school districts, charter schools, and non-public schools approved for the

00:30:53.120 national school lunch program and school breakfast program must participate in the Minnesota free

00:30:58.580 school meals program. Essentially, Minnesota, so this is what's happening because every single student

00:31:05.900 is provided a breakfast and lunch and the parents cannot opt out. So if a parent can afford breakfast

00:31:13.220 and lunch for their child, it doesn't matter. It's going to get paid for by the tax dollars.

00:31:18.020 They're going to be provided with this food anyway. So what is essentially happening then

00:31:23.220 is Minnesota is funding breakfast and lunches for the children of wealthier families. According to the

00:31:29.300 FAQ page on the program's own website, a parent cannot opt out, as I said, of the Minnesota free

00:31:35.380 school meals program and pay for their child's meals. According to online commentary, the quality of

00:31:42.980 food and menu varies by district. I've gotten messages from many of you saying that the portion

00:31:49.040 sizes are so small that it's so gross that it's not nutritious at all. It's filled with all kinds of

00:31:55.000 fake crap, for lack of a better word, that it's wrapped in plastic and that the kids who actually 0.99

00:32:01.340 can't afford to eat that or can't afford to bring their own lunch, that they're left hungry at the end of 0.99

00:32:09.880 the day because they are not provided with the food that they need to actually be sustained. And so

00:32:16.280 here's what's happening. By providing lunch to everyone, which obviously costs a lot of money,

00:32:23.160 it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to do that. But by saying, okay, we're going to provide

00:32:27.540 the same lunch to every single person. And in order to afford that, we have to cut down on the portion

00:32:34.260 size of these lunches. So what you are actually doing is you are making sure that poor kids who

00:32:41.320 were already provided free lunches by the federal government are actually eating less now than they

00:32:47.040 were before in order to make up for the cost of trying to feed everyone. Now, why are they providing

00:32:55.560 lunches and breakfast for everyone and not allowing parents to opt out? Why are they requiring

00:33:02.660 schools to provide this food for even the wealthiest kids? They said it is to prevent something called 0.76

00:33:11.000 food shame so that a kid who is poor, who has to have the school provided lunch, that he won't feel

00:33:20.340 stigmatized, that he won't feel othered because of the food that he is eating. But again, kids are just

00:33:28.340 bringing their own food. I mean, they're still being provided with this food, but they're bringing

00:33:33.160 their own food. So that didn't solve the problem at all. Because the food is terrible. The portion

00:33:39.120 sizes are too small. No one wants to eat it. That's creating a ton of food waste. And again, a ton of

00:33:45.960 money waste because you're paying for food that is not actually being eaten. And to make up for that cost,

00:33:52.320 again, you are cutting down on the portion sizes for the kids who actually need the food. Now, legislators

00:33:59.080 in Minnesota have pushed back on this. This is according to The Hill. Universal meals were initially

00:34:05.800 expected to cost around $400 million for two years, but budget projections in late 2023 found they'll cost

00:34:12.640 $80 million more over two years due to higher than expected participation in the program. And costs are

00:34:19.460 expected to grow by another $95 million in 2026 to 2027. The conservatives in the legislature in

00:34:28.600 Minnesota argue that universal school meals are a colossal waste of money, saying that the program

00:34:33.360 provides food to middle and upper income children whose families can't afford to feed them. Many of

00:34:38.200 the arguments that feeding all kids reduces the shame or stigma faced by lower income ones come down to

00:34:43.360 sad anecdotes. And Jonathan Butcher of the Heritage Foundation said, look, we can care about those

00:34:51.100 anecdotes. We can try to rectify that. But wasting hundreds of millions of dollars and wasting tons of

00:34:56.600 food to feed kids small portions of crap is not worth it. That's not a win. Butcher also pointed to 0.97

00:35:04.020 federal findings that USDA programs may be vulnerable to fraud and that the USDA overpaid by nearly $2 billion

00:35:11.400 in 2017 for school meals, largely due to inadvertently giving food to children who weren't enrolled in

00:35:19.120 the program. So that's just saying that these kinds of food programs are very vulnerable. They're very

00:35:25.260 subject to fraud because it's so much money. There's so much waste. It's passing through so many hands

00:35:31.600 and that it's not actually accomplishing what it purported to accomplish. And that is something to look

00:35:39.360 out for for every single policy proposal from progressives. It sounds good. It has good stated

00:35:49.260 intentions, but policies have to be judged by the result, not the stated intention. And that is what

00:35:57.020 it's so difficult being a conservative. It's so difficult, I think, being a thinking person. I was just

00:36:03.520 saying this to my husband, like life is so much easier if you really just imbibe things that you

00:36:09.300 see on social media and react to them emotionally and you allow your care, your perspectives, your

00:36:15.700 outreach to be dictated by everything that you see in a headline or anything that's trending on social

00:36:22.720 media and you just don't question it and you don't go past the progressive talking points. Like life is a

00:36:29.100 lot easier that way. But when you're a conservative, it takes a lot of effort, which is another obstacle

00:36:35.300 that we face, by the way, especially in an election year, is that we have to get people to think past

00:36:42.020 the headline. We have to get them to dig past the fancy infographics and what's being said and look

00:36:49.520 at what actually happened. It was Thomas Sowell who said, who first said, you cannot judge a policy by

00:36:55.660 its intentions. You have to judge a policy by the results. So I don't want to hear anymore. Well,

00:37:00.140 Walls said this. Harris said this. They, you know, proposed this legislation. I want to know what it

00:37:05.840 did. I want to know what it accomplished. And that's what you should ask the people in your life.

00:37:12.040 And now when someone presents this to you that, oh, Walls did this great pro-life thing. That's

00:37:18.580 another tactic, by the way, trying to make everything else pro-life except for abortion. No, pro-life is

00:37:24.580 about abortion. We can talk about the other issues too, but they're not a pro-life issue. They're not an

00:37:28.920 abortion issue. You can bring them back to the fact that this program didn't work. It was a waste. 1.00

00:37:37.860 And once again, it actually hurt the very people that it purported to help. Now, Walls is no stranger

00:37:44.100 to fraud when it comes to money that the state is spending, the taxpayer dollars that he is demanding

00:37:50.660 his constituents spend. This is according to the Washington Times. Walls oversaw the worst pandemic

00:37:57.960 fraud in the nation. $250 million stolen from a program to feed kids. Now, this program is not the

00:38:08.720 same as the program we were just talking about. It's different, but it just goes to show that these

00:38:14.480 kinds of programs, again, are very vulnerable to corruption. One program run by the State Department

00:38:20.300 of Education funds free meals at childcare and aftercare programs. During the summer, they provide

00:38:24.420 meals for children who get free lunches during the school year. A state audit said that the Minnesota

00:38:29.260 Department of Education missed repeated warning signs that there was corruption going on within

00:38:37.900 the department. In September 2022, the Justice Department charged 47 Somali immigrants in connection

00:38:44.500 with the fraud. The scheme involved the 47 defendants, whom prosecutors say created an umbrella group

00:38:51.220 called Feeding Our Future and then created numerous subgroups that were advertised as bringing food to

00:38:56.540 needy children during the pandemic. The accused allegedly used the fraudulent groups to file for

00:39:01.760 relief funding at mosques across Minnesota. Once they obtained the funding, they reported feeding

00:39:08.360 thousands of children every day and supplied rosters of non-existent children to the government to show

00:39:13.260 their outreach. One such fraudulent feeding center was so brazen that it just copied all the names

00:39:19.100 from a website called listofrandomnames.com. Oh my gosh. And sent that list to federal authorities to

00:39:26.640 claim that it fed the people on the list, prosecutors said. Representative Lisa DeMuth, the top Republican in

00:39:32.840 the State House of Representatives in Minnesota, said the problem rests with Governor Walz. She says,

00:39:39.300 100% of the fraud lands on the shoulders of Governor Walz. We have systemic fraud in the state of

00:39:45.220 Minnesota, and it has not been taken seriously. During pandemic school shutdowns, the second program was

00:39:51.840 tasked with delivering meals to children. Providers seeing dollar signs rushed to the program and the fraud

00:39:58.360 bloomed. And again, there were warning signs about this. If Governor Walz cared at all about this corruption, he

00:40:04.220 would have put an end to it. But there are so many layers to this. One, Democrats love these kinds of programs.

00:40:10.060 They are notoriously corrupt, and very rarely do Democrats take that kind of corruption seriously.

00:40:16.860 But also, with these defendants being Somali immigrants and there being such a large constituency

00:40:23.760 of Somali immigrants that really the Democrats pander to in that state, I'm sure that played a role in just 0.99

00:40:31.980 kind of looking the other way. Feeding Our Future is a non-profit that prosecutors say helped siphon

00:40:37.960 money to the fraudsters. We're talking tens of millions of dollars. This is not just a one-off under

00:40:46.880 Governor Walz's leadership. The state auditor highlighted another pandemic program signed by

00:40:52.180 Governor Walz that distributed $500 million in checks to frontline workers. Up to $200 million of

00:40:59.760 these funds were misspent, including payments made to 290 deceased individuals. Wow. The auditor

00:41:08.400 criticized the state administration for lacking proper oversight and a regulatory mindset, leading to

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00:42:10.520 Now, during COVID, speaking of COVID and programs, I mean, he was an absolute nightmare. And there are two

00:42:18.280 examples of that. And just keep in mind, like, that was likely not the only pandemic that we are going

00:42:24.840 to go through. The left got to accomplish so much during that time. And they gained so much control

00:42:31.420 during that time. It's hard for me to imagine that something like that is not going to happen again.

00:42:36.300 And just listen to the kind of leadership that we would be under if so. So while he was governor of

00:42:43.140 Minnesota during COVID, he shut down churches while keeping abortion clinics open for quote-unquote

00:42:49.680 essential medical procedures. Walls determined in a May 13, 2020 executive order that retailers would

00:42:56.820 be allowed to reopen at 50% capacity. But he left religious gatherings specifically capped at 10

00:43:04.280 people. 10 people. In a March 20 executive order, Walls halted all non-essential medical procedures

00:43:11.460 during the pandemic to preserve medical equipment. But he kept abortion clinics open.

00:43:18.080 All right. I know it might look and sound a little bit different now. That's because we had

00:43:22.520 some technical difficulties and had to do a little bit of a device change there. But I want to get into

00:43:28.100 a little bit more about COVID policies under Walls as governor of Minnesota. So like many Democratic

00:43:36.100 governors at the time, he shut down churches. He closed churches while he kept abortion clinics

00:43:42.960 open. And he actually gave abortion clinics preferential treatment even over hospitals and

00:43:47.780 other kinds of medical clinics because he called this essential care. But he didn't believe that

00:43:53.040 worshiping and church was essential, which is why he said, okay, retailers, he said this on May 13,

00:43:59.340 2020, you can open back up to 50% capacity. But if you are a church attendance is still capped at just

00:44:06.380 10 people. He also had halted back in March, all non-essential medical procedures, but he kept

00:44:13.660 abortion clinics open. That is, of course, because Walls, just like Harris, is completely beholden to

00:44:19.180 Planned Parenthood and the abortion lobby. He will do absolutely anything for them. He will sacrifice any

00:44:25.600 of your rights, even your First Amendment rights, on the altar of baby murder. That is who this ticket 0.53

00:44:31.500 is. And you've got Christians saying, yeah, I'm going to vote for these people. It's insane. But as 1.00

00:44:36.940 I've talked about before, there's a spiritual blindness going on. I'm not trying to say that

00:44:41.440 everyone who's spiritually awake is voting for Trump. Everyone who is spiritually asleep

00:44:45.100 is voting for Harris Walls. We can push that aside for a second and just look at the issues.

00:44:50.100 When it comes to the slaughter of image bearers of God, there is one party who believes in that 0.98

00:44:54.800 unfettered so-called right through all nine months of pregnancy and will sacrifice absolutely anything 0.53

00:45:01.180 on that altar. And I will not apologize or caveat when I say that a Christian absolutely should not 1.00

00:45:09.000 vote for that ticket. I don't think that who you vote for is what gets you into heaven. I have never,

00:45:14.700 ever said that. But just as a matter of prudence, as a matter of trying to legally protect as many

00:45:21.380 babies as possible, which is one responsibility that we absolutely have as Christians, we don't 1.00

00:45:27.020 even have an equivalent issue on the other side of the aisle, you should be voting against this ticket

00:45:32.100 on that and that alone. And it is okay to be a single issue voter if abortion is that one issue

00:45:37.860 for you. If you're like, look, I'm not going to vote for the party that is going to make that as easy

00:45:43.040 as possible through all nine months, like that is a fine position to have. And they believe in the

00:45:48.760 unfettered slaughter of babies through all nine months of pregnancy paid for by the tax dollar,

00:45:53.700 their record speaks to that. So even during COVID, he's saying, sorry, worshipers, you can't even

00:46:00.640 worship together. But yes, you can continue to dismember babies inside the womb because this,

00:46:06.480 he thought, was more essential than Christians worshiping together. Now, thankfully, there were 1.00

00:46:10.900 several churches who sued him. There were pro-life organizations who sued him over all of this stuff.

00:46:16.360 And he did have to back off on the capping religious services at 10 people. And it was

00:46:22.500 found to be unconstitutional, a violation of people's religious freedoms. Speaking of freedom,

00:46:27.360 this is not something that Governor Walz cares about at all. And you're hearing from Walz Harris that

00:46:32.120 they are the pro-freedom ticket. Of course, they're not. They are pro-degeneracy and pro-immorality,

00:46:38.480 but they are not pro-constitutional freedoms. And you can see that by something that he created

00:46:44.740 during COVID, which is called the snitch line. So in March 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz implemented

00:46:50.760 a snitch line, a hotline encouraging people to tell on people that they saw violating COVID

00:46:58.300 restrictions. So for example, if you look at the calls that were given in the 10,000 plus

00:47:03.140 COVID-related emails that were received during this time, people tattled on others for a quote,

00:47:11.220 very large gathering of pickup basketball with a lot of observers. And then you had some for people

00:47:19.740 walking their dogs. You had calls for too many people attending church. This is something that

00:47:25.500 Governor Walz encouraged. This was a government program that he implemented in the state of

00:47:30.340 Minnesota. While he was wasting tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money, he was also encouraging

00:47:38.300 citizens to snitch on other citizens. If that's not Orwellian, I don't know what is. And I don't

00:47:44.720 even want to think. I don't even want to think about what that would look like on a large scale

00:47:49.780 if he is in the White House with Vice President Harris. He also, of course, encouraged school shutdowns.

00:47:57.980 And in response to criticism about this, because there was such a loss of learning, he, of course,

00:48:03.080 touted this unfair, untrue talking point that kids are resilient. No, kids don't have the words to

00:48:09.400 explain the harm that was done to them. That's what is meant by kids are resilient. Kids can't

00:48:15.680 vote right now. That's what's meant by kids are resilient. I mean, kids suffered irreparable harm

00:48:22.240 in many cases, especially poor kids that he seems to like to throw under the bus in his leadership.

00:48:28.920 And of course, all of this happened in the name of trying to protect the most vulnerable. But he

00:48:34.660 didn't even visit his 87-year-old mother who was having open heart surgery in the hospital in the

00:48:41.080 name of COVID restrictions. Now, as I said, he does everything in service to the abortion lobby.

00:48:49.080 That is what he is going to sacrifice all of your rights on the altar of. Same with Harris,

00:48:54.240 as we've talked about many times. Here is him basically saying, look, my allegiance is to

00:49:00.860 Planned Parenthood. Here's top three. And my record is so pro-choice. Nancy Pelosi asked me if I should

00:49:07.220 tone it down. I stand with Planned Parenthood and we won. Of course, when he was governor,

00:49:16.180 he signed a bill allowing abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. And so that's also why he was

00:49:21.780 chosen by Harris because Harris has been an abortion radical since the start of her career, as we

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00:50:26.020 I also want to get into just very quickly as we close this out, Walls' military record. He is

00:50:32.820 being accused, I think rightly so, of stolen valor because this is another part of his persona that

00:50:38.640 people are trying to present to say he's just, it's just, you know, Grandpa Walls. He's your average

00:50:43.520 guy. He's your middle-of-the-road independent. He's a veteran. He served his country valiantly.

00:50:49.860 They're trying so hard to get those people in the middle. They're trying so hard to get those

00:50:53.560 former Republican voters. That's why she chose Walls because he's a white guy that kind of looks

00:50:58.900 like he'd be a moderate. Of course, he's not at all. And the fact that he's a veteran, I think that

00:51:04.340 they think that makes him look better. And look, he does have a fun personality. I could see why people

00:51:09.480 like him. He's very charismatic. He's pretty well-spoken. I think he's pretty awkward, especially

00:51:14.900 like his interactions with his wife at rallies has been really weird. I think he says inappropriate

00:51:20.420 things, but you know, it's much deeper than that. I think that he's also just a very dishonest person

00:51:27.620 when it comes to something that is really serious, and that is serving your country. He's being accused

00:51:34.180 right now of deployment dodging and stolen valor after videos have resurfaced of him claiming he

00:51:39.900 was a combat veteran when, in fact, he never saw combat. The Harris campaign is actually owning up

00:51:47.620 to this a little bit. They are saying that the VP nominee, Tim Walls, misspoke, quote-unquote,

00:51:53.520 when describing his past military career. NBC says Minnesota Governor Tim Walls misspoke

00:51:58.980 in a 2018 interview circulated by the Harris campaign earlier this week that included the

00:52:04.780 vice presidential candidate talking about his handling of weapons in war, a campaign spokesperson

00:52:10.740 said on Friday. So here is that example of him apparently misspeaking in Salt One.

00:52:19.740 I'll tell you what I have been doing. I've been voting for common sense legislation that protects the

00:52:23.660 Second Amendment, but we can do background checks. We can do CDC research. We can make sure we don't

00:52:28.020 have reciprocal carry among states, and we can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried

00:52:32.160 in war is the only place where those weapons are. Okay, so many parts of that. You can't say that

00:52:38.880 you are anti-reciprocal carry and that you care about the Second Amendment. That's just wild. That is

00:52:44.500 absolutely wild. That whole thing was wild, but he said that he carried weapons of war, except he wasn't

00:52:52.220 actually deployed. He retired to get into politics in 2005 before his unit would have been deployed to

00:52:59.600 Iraq. And you'll see some people, some people who claim to be unbiased online saying, no, he was

00:53:05.040 deployed. He did serve. So let's clarify that a little bit. He was deployed in 2003 during Operation

00:53:12.180 Enduring Freedom, and this led many people to assume that he was deployed to a combat location

00:53:18.520 when, in actuality, he spent seven months in Italy. A researcher note by a researcher who said

00:53:25.500 that everyone asks to be deployed to Italy. Of course, it's a great location, but that's where

00:53:29.980 he was. And he has implied many times over the years that he was deployed to a combat location when,

00:53:38.400 in fact, he was not. He was a member of the National Guard from 1981 through 2005 when he ran for Congress

00:53:44.960 before his unit would have been deployed to Iraq. I don't think there's anything wrong with him

00:53:50.440 serving in the National Guard. I'm not even sure that there's something wrong with him

00:53:53.980 retiring. But for him to use his military career and embellish it to act like he was in combat,

00:54:02.020 that he carried weapons of war when, in fact, he did not, that is almost as low as you can get.

00:54:08.880 Joel Berry has been commenting on this. He is of the Babylon Bee, but this tweet is not a joke.

00:54:13.680 He said the media is trying to report that Tim Walls retired before he knew his unit was deploying

00:54:18.620 since he retired two months before his unit received alert orders to deploy.

00:54:23.280 What they're not telling you is that units also received something called warning orders much

00:54:29.080 earlier, months, sometimes years in advance. He says Tim Walls knew his unit was deploying to Iraq,

00:54:35.020 which is why he quit. Other people are pointing to a speech that he gave in September 2021.

00:54:42.660 The written remarks literally say that he was in combat. What he actually spoke was just slightly

00:54:48.960 different than that. But his prepared written remarks do say,

00:54:54.600 I had the privilege of serving in the state's National Guard. I stood one night in the dark of

00:54:58.880 the night on the tarmac at the Bagram Air Base in Iraq. Of course, they've had to clarify,

00:55:04.760 no, he wasn't actually there. He also calls himself Command Sergeant Major, CSM. He did serve in that

00:55:16.460 capacity, but he did not retire as that. And so the correct name for himself would be Retired Master

00:55:22.860 Sergeant. Now, you might think that doesn't matter, but in that world, it absolutely does matter.

00:55:28.740 J.D. Vance, of course, as he should, is capitalizing on this. Here he is, top seven.

00:55:34.980 When the United States Marine Corps, when the United States of America asked me to go to Iraq to serve my

00:55:39.380 country, I did it. I did what they asked me to do, and I did it honorably, and I'm very proud of that

00:55:43.680 service. When Tim Waltz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, you know what he did? He dropped out of the

00:55:48.800 army and allowed his unit to go without him, a fact that he's been criticized for aggressively by a lot of the

00:55:55.060 people that he served with. I think it's shameful. Yep. I mean, he's absolutely right. He did serve in

00:56:00.580 Iraq as a Marine. J.D. Vance did. He was a corporal in the Marine Corps, received several awards for his

00:56:08.160 service. And so that's the comparison that we have now. And I, again, I really like seeing J.D. Vance

00:56:14.400 out there so aggressive on this. And he tweeted yesterday, I thought this was good. I enjoyed sitting

00:56:19.600 down with three of the major networks today to answer the tough questions any leader should answer.

00:56:24.260 Kamala Harris has done as many top interviews as Tim Walz has battlefield deployments. And so

00:56:29.820 that's a very efficient way to take a shot at both candidates on the other ticket, as he should. Kamala

00:56:36.060 Harris has not done any hard-hitting interviews. She has barely talked to the press because she

00:56:41.320 doesn't respect the American people. I mean, they think, and maybe they're right, unfortunately, 0.93

00:56:46.000 that they can kind of pull one over on everyone. She doesn't have to state her policy positions,

00:56:50.800 which she has not. She has not given an explanation for her comments in the past when

00:56:56.440 she says she's going to ban fracking, when she says that she is going to get rid of all private

00:57:03.080 health insurance. She hasn't given any explanation of those things. She hasn't presented

00:57:07.840 any new ideas. If she has new and contradictory ideas now, she hasn't even had to give any of her

00:57:15.880 policy proposals. It will be the same thing when she debates Donald Trump. She will not be held to

00:57:21.460 account. She will not be pressed on these things. And she knows that. It's very similar to Biden

00:57:26.860 basically running from his basement back in 2020, which I guess kind of worked for him. Kamala Harris

00:57:32.700 thinks that she can just allow vibes to win her the election. Unfortunately, she might be right. I really

00:57:40.320 hope that she's not. I really hope that that is running out and that people are starting to ask

00:57:46.440 questions. Wait, what is my life going to be like when Kamala Harris is president? If you cannot afford

00:57:52.500 groceries now, if things are feeling tight now, it is only going to get worse. If you're worried about

00:58:00.440 the threat of World War III now, that is only going to become more serious under this radical regime

00:58:08.280 of Walls and Harris. All you have to do is dig into their past, dig into their statements,

00:58:13.260 dig into the policies. There's no reason to embellish. There's no reason to exaggerate. There's

00:58:18.160 no reason to lie or mislead about that. Like their record is really clear. They're just betting that you

00:58:24.080 won't look into it and that you won't think about the policies that Trump actually implemented and

00:58:29.620 supported when he was president that made your life better. We've got to move past vibes. We've got to

00:58:35.520 move past feelings. You've got to look at the policies that actually affect you, your family,

00:58:40.580 your children, your friends, and your neighbors. Okay. I wish that we had time to get into

00:58:46.620 the whole story that I posted about on Instagram that I've gotten a lot of messages about,

00:58:51.260 and that is the story of David Delighton. He's got new videos that have now been released

00:58:55.360 when he went undercover reporting on Planned Parenthood that involved then Attorney General of

00:59:00.440 California, Kamala Harris, not investigating Planned Parenthood and instead investigating him,

00:59:05.240 the journalist who made the report. A lot of people saying, oh, that's not true. Snopes debunked

00:59:10.860 this. So I do want to get into that. Maybe we'll have time to do that tomorrow. I don't have time to

00:59:15.140 do that today. Plus, without the technical difficulties, we just didn't have time to get

00:59:18.900 into it. But I will try as soon as I can on that. All right. Thanks for bearing with us today,

00:59:23.300 guys. And we will be back here tomorrow.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - August 12, 2024

Ep 1049 ｜ Tim Walz： Deployment Dodging & Food Fraud

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