Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1093 ｜ Trump’s Tariff Plan & How He’ll Lower Inflation ｜ Guest： Ron Simmons

00:00:00.760 What are Trump's economic policies versus Kamala Harris's? We've got people like Mark Cuban saying

00:00:06.880 that Trump is going to kill small businesses. Well, my dad is here to make the case that it

00:00:10.840 will be the exact opposite, that you are going to have more money in your pocket if Trump takes

00:00:16.800 office. We will also be contrasting the two sets of foreign policy. How is this going to affect

00:00:23.900 our lives? And also, how is my dad feeling about the election? Is it going to go our way? We've got

00:00:30.480 all of that and more on today's episode of Relatable. It's brought to you by our friends

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00:00:50.040 Dad, welcome back to the program. Thank you. I'm glad to be back. You know,

00:00:52.940 I got my pink shirt on today because it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Okay. And, uh, you know,

00:00:58.620 with mom, what mom went through and she's doing great, but we don't ever want to ever want to

00:01:02.900 forget that. Yes. That is so true. Um, okay. We also have an election coming up. Oh yes, we do.

00:01:09.260 I know next Tuesday. I've already voted. So you have, I know I have too. Okay. This is going to come

00:01:15.440 out on Thursday. And so people can still early vote. Would you recommend if people haven't voted

00:01:21.480 yet that they go out and vote right now? Oh, absolutely. Cause you just don't know what's

00:01:25.060 going to happen on election day. You know, you may have an emergency or, you know, something could,

00:01:29.600 you know, there could be a weather issue. You just never know. So please, yeah, go ahead and vote.

00:01:34.020 If people want to find out information about how they can vote in early voting in their state,

00:01:39.600 do you know where they can go? Well, the best place is just to Google or just to search for that and

00:01:44.460 just say, um, early voting in Smith County, Ohio. It'll, it'll tell you that. It'll usually send you

00:01:50.840 to the, most counties have an election administrator's office that takes care of all that. It'll send you

00:01:56.200 to that. What about people who are, they just don't think their vote's going to count. They live in a

00:02:00.820 blue state and they're thinking, what does it matter if I vote? Oh, I'll tell you what matters. It

00:02:04.920 matters, especially in the down ballot races. And those are the ones that the government is the closest

00:02:11.180 to you. So you need to make sure that you, I really encourage people to vote ballot from the

00:02:16.180 bottom up, because if you don't, I know that on our ballot, several of the races were uncontested,

00:02:22.900 but the very last one, the constable was a contested race. And if people just had all these

00:02:28.960 look uncontested, they wouldn't have voted on that. So yeah, it makes a big difference locally. So

00:02:33.880 please vote all the way down the ballot and make sure you vote to start with. And some people get

00:02:40.020 really confused, understandably, by the language of these amendments and measures that they're voting

00:02:44.740 on. And we did an episode just going through some of the biggest amendments that we see across the

00:02:49.980 country and how I would vote on them and why. But where is a good place to get real accurate

00:02:56.140 information about, for example, Amendment 4 in Florida? Of course, the first thing that comes up

00:03:01.420 when you search is, oh, this is just protecting miscarriage care, which is not really true. It's

00:03:06.380 allowing abortion through all nine months. Do you know where people could go to get the truth?

00:03:10.740 Well, virtually every state has a conservative think tank, you know, just a policy oriented

00:03:17.580 organization. And they're different names. In Texas, it's the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

00:03:22.580 But if they will just search on the internet for a conservative think tank in Wisconsin,

00:03:27.680 there will be one there. In Michigan, it's the Mackinac Institute. So just search for that,

00:03:33.000 and they will have an analysis of those. An explanation. Yeah. I'd encourage you not to

00:03:37.620 go to your local newspaper's analysis because sometimes those carry bias. Also, the Heritage

00:03:43.460 Foundation themselves probably have an analysis of some of the largest ones like you talked about

00:03:48.320 the other day. And if you are in a Republican-led state, usually your government, your governor,

00:03:56.080 will probably have some information. Like Ron and Casey DeSantis have been traveling their state

00:04:01.480 so persistently telling people that Amendment 4, Amendment 2, they're bad news, vote against

00:04:07.900 them. So that could be some information too. That's true. Today, I want to focus on economic

00:04:12.700 policy. It's not something that we've focused on a ton on this show. And I've heard mixed things,

00:04:20.380 as you can imagine, about Trump's economic policy, even from some conservatives saying, for example,

00:04:25.900 that his tariff policy is actually just going to cost Americans a lot of money. It's going to

00:04:32.400 exacerbate inflation. Can you explain that for us? Sure. I can be happy to. Well, first of all,

00:04:37.900 let's talk about what a tariff is. Yes. A tariff is when you are bringing in goods from another country

00:04:45.280 that you add a percentage cost to that. Let's say it's a good that costs a dollar and you want to add a

00:04:51.980 10% tariff. It'll cost a dollar 10. And you're charging that back to the country or the company

00:04:58.440 that put that in here. All right. And that's called an import tariff when you're importing it.

00:05:04.460 Now, export tariffs really happen on the other end, on things that we export to say China, Canada,

00:05:12.160 Mexico, wherever they are, they add a tariff. Now, the funny thing is what people don't want to talk

00:05:16.920 about is that China adds a tariff on virtually every product that we've been sending them for decades

00:05:23.600 and other countries do too. Like if we want to send a bourbon whiskey to Scotland, they charge a

00:05:32.520 tariff on that because they're trying to protect their Scotch industry, right? Their own whiskey

00:05:37.380 industry. Okay. So that tariff makes the product more expensive in Scotland. Yep. And so people would

00:05:46.020 be incentivized because of the price difference between American whiskey and Scottish whiskey to

00:05:51.160 keep buying Scottish whiskey. So they're trying to protect their own industry. That's right. And

00:05:55.960 protect the jobs that go along with that. Now, the interesting thing about what happened when Trump

00:06:01.020 imposed the tariffs on goods from China, and this can happen, is that because that had a negative

00:06:07.960 effect on the Chinese economy, all right, is that the Chinese dollar, I think they call it the Yan

00:06:15.560 Yan went down in value and the U S dollar went up in value. That means that if, if before those

00:06:22.860 tariffs, if a, if a U S dollar could buy a 10 Yan. Okay. In other words, convert to 10 Yan that after

00:06:31.460 that, a U S dollar converted to 15 Yan. So therefore the interesting thing is because our dollar was worth

00:06:38.660 more, the price impact of us putting the tariff on those Chinese goods had no effect on the ending

00:06:46.060 price here. Cause our dollar bought more of those. We could buy a hundred thousand hats. Okay. At

00:06:52.720 actually a much cheaper price than we could before the tariff. So it's really an interesting,

00:06:57.740 uh, very interesting scenario. Now I get it in that, that the theory would be that, uh, okay, well,

00:07:04.560 if you, if things are going to be higher, that's like a tax on people and all that type of stuff.

00:07:08.960 But what Trump has said is because China has done so many tariffs against us and they still are

00:07:16.500 intellectual property. This is all a negotiating trade technique by him, right? And that's what he

00:07:21.540 does. And he started having some of those tariffs on Mexico. Remember when he was in there and he lifted

00:07:28.100 those tariffs once they closed the border. Now, of course, uh, Biden removed those tariffs. Now,

00:07:33.780 interestingly enough, Biden kept all the tariffs on China. Now, why did he do that if they were so

00:07:38.840 bad? Yeah. He kept all the, because he knows that they actually did work in that scenario.

00:07:43.540 So do we currently have, we currently have tariffs that were implemented by Trump that were maintained

00:07:49.380 by Biden that now Democrats are saying are so terrible. Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah. That's

00:07:54.860 exactly what happened. And of course, uh, Kamala Kamala, I can't remember her name. She

00:08:01.160 doesn't even mention those. She doesn't talk about that. And of course, nobody asked her about it

00:08:05.700 either. Well, she, and she has also kind of put herself in a pickle there because she simultaneously 1.00

00:08:10.700 says on the view, there's nothing that I would change that Biden did, including Afghanistan,

00:08:16.360 including, you know, forcing companies to force people to take the vaccine. She said she wouldn't

00:08:21.460 change any of that. And I guess that would include the tariff policy. If she says she disagrees with it,

00:08:26.820 well, then she's going against Biden. Yeah, that's right. That's right. They're not going

00:08:30.680 to move that. No matter who wins, they're not going to move that tariff policy.

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00:10:00.140 What else is Trump proposing that is different than what's happening right now economically?

00:10:06.260 Well, he's proposing a couple of things. One, he's proposing that we actually reduce the tax on

00:10:13.000 corporations from 21% to 15%. And the reason that's important to you and I, even though we're not a

00:10:20.700 corporation, is because corporations pass their costs down to the end consumer. So when Kamala talks

00:10:27.200 about raising the corporate tax to 28%, which would be a 40% increase, do you think the corporation is

00:10:34.860 just going to say, oh, I'm just going to reduce my profits for that? No. They're going to pass that

00:10:39.000 on down to you and I as the end consumer. All right. That's exactly what's going to happen. And so

00:10:44.100 Trump is talking about reducing that. She's talking about increasing it. Currently, of the 2017

00:10:50.680 tax rate reductions, okay, which put our income taxes between 12% and 35%, depending on the income

00:11:00.860 that you make, she wants to move to let the 2017 ones expire, which they're said to expire at the

00:11:07.540 end of 25. And then she wants to raise the top rate back up to 39.6%. So essentially 40% over a 0.98

00:11:15.640 certain amount of money. So, uh, and again, uh, and if you and I are small business owners, cause you,

00:11:22.340 you know, you and Timothy are small business owners, I'm a small business owner that the way small

00:11:27.600 business works is your bit, your income that flows from your business down to you is taxed at whatever

00:11:35.620 your rate is. So if, if you have a successful business, you could definitely have some of that

00:11:39.900 tax at the 40% rate. Well, isn't she just making sure that the rich are paying their fair share and 1.00

00:11:47.740 helping the most vulnerable? Well, the top 1%, as you know, already pay almost 70% of all the taxes that

00:11:54.220 are paid in the United States. So I think they've probably done their fair share as far as that

00:11:58.900 concerned. What we really need to go to is a more simplified tax bracket to where maybe there's two

00:12:04.220 rates. You pay say 15 to 20% up to a certain amount. And over that you might pay 25 to 30%. That would be

00:12:11.200 the simplest thing to do. And that everybody pays taxes. Everybody that makes a dollar of income

00:12:16.760 pays tax on that dollar of income. And that way you could have lower tax rates for everybody.

00:12:21.700 Yeah. Mark Cuban says that Trump's economic policy is going to be terrible for small businesses. Here's

00:12:27.280 thought 16. I don't think he pays attention to the details and he can't be pressing United States.

00:12:33.580 Unless you pay attention to the details. Yeah, that's fine. If he wants to, you know,

00:12:37.340 just give speeches in random places for random reasons. But to talk about such significant policy

00:12:43.520 like tariffs, much less foreign policy. He doesn't realize the impact, but literally he is going to put

00:12:50.580 who knows how many small businesses out of business. He is applying a machete when a scalpel

00:12:57.300 is what's necessary. Okay. So again, she's not pointing out that those tariffs currently exist

00:13:03.340 under her administration. Is it true that tariffs are going to put small businesses out of business?

00:13:08.840 Well, let's just look at her overall economic plan versus his. And this is by the tax policy foundation,

00:13:17.880 okay. Dot org, which we can go and see. And there's a printout, which I printed out and that her,

00:13:23.600 her plan by this bipartisan group is going to call 786,000 jobs, 786,000, her economic plan, 0.99

00:13:33.080 which would include whatever she's going to do on tariffs and everything. Trump's plan would 0.98

00:13:37.660 increase it by 600,000 jobs. So, I mean, what they're both saying and Mark Cuban in this scenario

00:13:44.800 is just a sycophant. He just is trying to say whatever agrees with her.

00:13:48.840 And it seems like to me, I wonder if it has to do with China for him.

00:13:53.480 Well, it may, it may have something to do. That's part of the NBA's outreach, as you know.

00:13:57.820 Remember LeBron James and his China thing? And you can't, you know, you can't say anything

00:14:02.860 about China. That's a big market over there. And believe me, Mark is more concerned, which he,

00:14:08.940 he talks about Trump being more concerned about his own fortune and fame than he is about anything

00:14:15.620 else. No question. No question about, you know, he also called Trump a fascist, right? Yeah. Yeah.

00:14:21.200 And you know what a fascist really is? A fascist really is someone that wants state control of

00:14:27.040 everything. That's what they want. Okay. And not the individual. And actually Trump is just the

00:14:32.860 opposite of that. Okay. He, he, he said that, you know, he talked about being the enemy within is

00:14:38.340 what Cuban use that number. Of course, Trump's simply talking about the deep state, like the,

00:14:43.880 like the weaponization of the FBI and the department of justice.

00:14:47.180 And illegal aliens who are committing crimes. 0.50

00:14:49.320 And he talked about military, right? Going to put the military, uh, Cuban says he's going to send

00:14:54.580 the military to your house. Well, no, it was talking about using the military when there are riots and

00:15:00.380 they are, they are killing people and, and vandalizing property. That's all. And that's what

00:15:05.200 he should do. And then finally, mass deportations. And the only mass deportations really that have

00:15:10.380 been specifically talked about are of criminals. Now we've got other issues in addition to criminals

00:15:15.500 because everyone that's crossed the border has, has technically broken the law. In fact, I don't know

00:15:20.400 if you heard this or not, but after the hurricane that went through St. Petersburg, Florida,

00:15:24.000 they arrested 45 people for looting. 41 of those were illegal aliens.

00:15:30.440 Wow. And you know, we played the montage of Kamala Harris on yesterday's episode of saying

00:15:35.600 over and over again, that crossing the border itself is not a crime, which would mean if that's

00:15:41.100 the case, then that person's not illegal and you can't deport them and you can't prevent them

00:15:46.000 from committing that crime. And that's the thing about every crime committed by an illegal alien 0.97

00:15:50.100 is that it's preventable. Absolutely. Yeah. They weren't here. It wouldn't happen.

00:15:53.800 Yep. So that's who Kamala Harris is. What else about Trump's economic policy do you think people

00:15:59.380 should know? Most people are just thinking, how does this affect my groceries? I know you already

00:16:03.420 talked about, you know, lowering the corporate tax rate, some of the other things that he's going

00:16:07.580 to try to do to help make it easier for people to live. What else do you see?

00:16:11.900 Well, he's going to increase the child tax care credit. Okay. Which I think is a, which is a good

00:16:16.720 thing to do. And a credit is different than a deduction. Okay. A credit means that if you have

00:16:21.620 a thousand dollar credit and your taxes were $2,000 before the credit, they're only a thousand

00:16:27.160 dollars after it's a direct write-off. A deduction is being, if you're, if your income is 400,000 and

00:16:33.140 you have a deduction of a hundred thousand, that means you're only paying tax on 300,000, but it's not

00:16:38.460 a true credit. Okay. So credits are more impactful. Okay. That he's proposing that, which actually his

00:16:44.020 daughter came up with in this last first administration, the idea about that. He's also proposing that we

00:16:49.860 allow a deduction for interest paid on auto loans. For a lot of people, especially renters, their biggest

00:16:57.440 debt is their car. And you know how much cars cost these days are very expensive. And right now, the

00:17:03.540 interest that you pay on that loan, you can't deduct that from the income on your taxes. So in the future,

00:17:10.120 let's say that you had a car loan and that $2,000 a year of the loan was interest. So if that person

00:17:18.160 made $50,000 a year, they would only have to pay tax on 48,000 of that, which would therefore lower

00:17:24.140 their tax bill. The other thing is no taxes on tips. Yes. Which for the restaurant industry, that's a big

00:17:31.680 deal. You know, the restaurant industry pays their waiters and waitresses less of the minimum wage. 0.96

00:17:38.460 They're allowed to do that because they consider tips in that calculation. And so right now the tips,

00:17:45.540 they have to assume how many tips they got, and then they have to pay tax on that, including

00:17:51.440 social security. And he would help those restaurant workers by not charging tax, not allowing tax to be

00:17:59.840 paid, not having tax paid on that. Of course, Kamala has adopted that already. We've got this

00:18:04.760 clip. So let's play this. This was on June 9th. Trump saying no tax on tips. So this is the first time

00:18:12.640 I've said this. And for those hotel workers and people that get tips, you're going to be very happy

00:18:17.720 because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips, people making tips.

00:18:25.120 Okay, here is Kamala Harris on August 10th. Saw 18.

00:18:32.740 Including to raise the minimum wage

00:18:35.560 and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.

00:18:43.840 Trump said he's going to send her a MAGA hat.

00:18:46.180 Yeah, because she adopted that policy. Good for her.

00:18:50.000 Good for her. Raising the minimum wage, is that something that's smart economic policy? 1.00

00:18:55.900 Well, I think there's been some tests of that done in California and Oregon and Seattle,

00:19:01.020 and has it worked?

00:19:01.880 Nope.

00:19:02.160 Because what happens is, is that two or three things can happen. One is you have to raise the

00:19:08.400 prices of your goods. So therefore you don't sell as much. People don't buy as much. And the other

00:19:12.840 thing is that you're, you end up reducing the hours of your workers because you only have certain

00:19:19.580 amount of money that you can pay wages for labor. And so therefore you start, people don't get as

00:19:25.920 many hours. So they really don't make any more money doing that. It just is not a failed system.

00:19:31.420 It's just not a successful system.

00:19:33.040 It can definitely lead to increased unemployment. All right. Anything else about the economy before

00:19:38.020 we get into foreign policy?

00:19:40.360 Yes, there is one thing. So, and this is really important because you'll, you'll hear this is that

00:19:45.560 Harris's economic plan will increase the deficit over 10 years of 3.4 trillion, which incidentally

00:19:53.480 is less than what her and Biden have done over the last four years. Now, Trump's will also increase

00:20:01.140 the deficit by 2.5 trillion. However, let's look at what that means. Her 3.4 trillion is happening all

00:20:09.720 because she's increasing taxes and spending more money, right? It's all on spending. The reason 1.00

00:20:16.740 Trump's increases the deficit is because he is cutting taxes. Well, if he's decreasing taxes,

00:20:23.020 where do you think that money's staying? Yeah. It's staying in mine and your pockets to make a

00:20:28.020 decision on what we want to do, whether we want to give it to charity, whether we want to set some

00:20:32.540 money aside for our kids in school, whether we want to get a new car. So there's a whole big difference

00:20:37.000 between increasing the deficit through reducing taxes or increasing spending. Believe me, as

00:20:42.020 individuals, you want it to be in decreasing taxes. And that is a huge difference that I haven't heard

00:20:48.560 anybody talk about. Yeah. I didn't know that. That is really important because usually you just hear,

00:20:53.340 well, they're both going to be big spenders because the deficit is going to go up.

00:20:57.860 And they probably will. But here's, here's the other secret weapon. If he follows through on it,

00:21:01.180 I believe Elon Musk, if he, if he sets him up on the department of government efficiency,

00:21:07.420 I absolutely believe that he'll find a lot of inefficiencies and cuts.

00:21:13.800 I am so grateful for Elon Musk. I mean, I was happy when he took over X, that was a game changer.

00:21:19.060 I didn't expect him to be as outspoken for Trump and for conservative ideas as he has been,

00:21:25.340 especially over the past few weeks. I think that's, I mean, that's amazing.

00:21:29.240 It is amazing. And I think what the reason is, is that he probably socially more progressive,

00:21:34.980 obviously, but the Democrat party has just driven him away. They've just demonized him. Right. And

00:21:41.140 he realizes that the key to innovation and success is allowing people to be able to do that without

00:21:49.820 overburdening them. You know, the work that he's done with SpaceX and other things where he has to

00:21:54.860 kind of get into that regulatory environment. I think he's learned at what a diminishing effect

00:22:00.660 it can have on innovation. Yeah, I think so too.

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00:23:18.680 Okay. On foreign policy, you know, Harris is in an interesting position. She's lost some Muslim 1.00

00:23:28.740 support. They're traditionally Democrat, but with the Israel-Hamas conflict going on and she has kind

00:23:37.680 of towed the line and she has at least outwardly said that she supports the state of Israel and its

00:23:45.200 right to defend itself. But at the same time, Trump has an unprecedented amount of Jewish support 0.83

00:23:52.800 because we talked about this yesterday, but many Jewish Americans do not trust Kamala to seek the

00:24:01.220 interests of Israel at all. But also Muslims don't trust her because they think that she's on the side

00:24:07.440 of Israel. So she's kind of in this a little bit of a tough position. What do you think she will

00:24:13.600 actually do though, if she were in office? Well, I think she'll do very little. I think she will

00:24:20.060 try to pressure Israel to do a ceasefire, you know, and then hopefully Hamas will release the 0.99

00:24:28.900 hostages. But the chances are the hostages, I hope they're all alive, but the chances are it could be

00:24:36.120 like the other ones they released and those, you know, they released the bodies. And she's going to

00:24:41.300 try, she's going to probably try to do that. But what that's going to do, it's going, if it follows

00:24:47.020 through, it will weaken Israel. And she already has a bad relationship with, you know, Netanyahu and

00:24:55.540 what have you, in my opinion, because they've tried to, you know, they held up a bunch of weapons that

00:25:00.960 we were going to sell them because they didn't want them to do an attack, like 3,800 missiles or

00:25:07.080 something like that. And that, I mean, that's just, that's not, I mean, there's only one group

00:25:12.080 at fault in this, only one group. And it's Hamas that attacked them on October 7th. Israel didn't 0.76

00:25:18.880 provoke that. Right. Okay. And the fact that they killed 1,200 Israeli civilians, right? Yeah. The

00:25:26.980 reason that any Palestinians have been killed that are not military are because the military hides

00:25:33.480 behind them. Yeah. All right. So quit hiding behind them, you coward. It's nothing but cowards. It's

00:25:39.120 all that they are. Yeah. And, you know, I'll tell you one thing. My money is almost always on the

00:25:45.760 IDF, the Israeli defense fighters. I mean, they, they know what they're doing to come up with a deal

00:25:52.580 on the pagers and those drones that went in there and found that one guy. And they somehow programmed

00:25:58.960 5,000 pages to go off. I have no idea how they do that. They detonated and killed nine people.

00:26:04.460 Now, what I will tell you though, is that when I went to, mom and I went to Israel a few years ago,

00:26:08.780 and we were there on a legislative mission and they, they took us behind the scenes at some of

00:26:14.200 their cybersecurity stuff that they do. And you can just see that the technology and the things that

00:26:20.260 they innovate are just out there. I mean, they, a lot of the, when they leave the military, a lot of

00:26:27.600 those people end up setting up companies that use technology that for, that was developed for

00:26:33.000 military reasons for civilian reasons. Yeah. Good ones. And what is America's role? Because we do

00:26:38.560 see that Israel, as you said, is, is pretty strong itself, has a lot of capabilities. And there's been

00:26:45.620 some debate. I even think good faith debate between conservatives about America's role in defending

00:26:52.900 Israel. Like how far do we go? What does that look like? What do you think? It's the only true 1.00

00:26:58.360 democracy in the Middle East. Yeah. So we, I think we are not only are we bound morally, you and I would

00:27:05.180 agree morally that we're bound with that, but I think for stabilization, we're bound as well. We need

00:27:10.720 the Middle East to be stabilized and we need a democracy over there to do that. And, you know, a lot of

00:27:17.460 countries, as you notice in the Middle East are not having much to say about this war. You don't hear

00:27:22.800 much out of UAE, Saudi Arabia, even Jordan. You don't hear much out of them because at the end of

00:27:29.780 the day, they know that's a good thing as well. Would it be fair to say that under Trump, we did have

00:27:36.240 unprecedented stability, not perfect stability, but with the Abraham Accords, didn't it look like

00:27:42.420 things were trending in a good direction? Well, that's what I was going to talk about really.

00:27:45.380 And of course, you know, Trump was at the top, so he gets the credit or the blame, but Jared Kushner

00:27:50.700 was key. His son-in-law. Yeah. A lot of conservatives don't like Jared Kushner. You know, I know. I don't

00:27:56.640 really know, but. Well, he negotiated those Abraham Accords. Yeah. Now Trump was involved in it too,

00:28:01.820 but he was the one that got the people together and that's unprecedented. Nobody's ever been able to

00:28:08.000 do that before. And I think we were on our way to do more. That's something Biden and Harris should

00:28:12.880 have continued. That wouldn't have hurt anything. And they didn't do it. Now, I also think Trump was

00:28:18.140 smart to pull out of the Iran deal. Yeah. Because the Iran deal did all we did. We flew over all this 0.74

00:28:25.640 money to them. And then we also opened up a bunch of bank accounts that we had frozen for them.

00:28:30.700 And we said, you can't use that for, you know, any weapons or military. Of course.

00:28:36.340 That's what Obama did. That's what Obama did. That was the Iran nuclear deal. And then Biden went back

00:28:39.740 into it as well. That's right. And then when people talk about pallets of cash, that's what

00:28:43.380 they're talking about. That Biden or Obama, this was apparently a peace deal to try to appease them

00:28:49.600 and say, okay, we'll send you a bunch of money. Just don't use it on your nuclear weapons, please.

00:28:53.440 But it's the same thing as when Planned Parenthood takes, you know, 500 million tax dollars a year

00:28:57.740 and it's not used on abortion. Well, money is fungible. That's exactly right.

00:29:02.380 I mean, there's no way to track it. There's no way to track that. That's exactly what happened

00:29:05.940 there. If I hold up two $1 bills, they look the same. Yeah. If I do like this, they're still the

00:29:10.900 same. You know what I mean? So that's exactly what happened. And so they are most experts in

00:29:16.860 the world will say they're closer to a nuclear weapon than they've ever been. And it's not because

00:29:22.020 Trump backing out. It's because the money and the lack of sanctions that Obama and Biden did.

00:29:28.680 And how did the whole Afghanistan debacle affect the Middle East or the stabilization efforts that,

00:29:35.980 you know, Trump put in place in the Middle East?

00:29:37.640 I think the Afghanistan thing made us look weak and that we pulled out our troops. We abandoned

00:29:45.440 people over there that helped us. And that lets us know that we were not there to have a long-term

00:29:55.860 stability. And in any time that you leave, even, you know, it was, it was 13 or 30, I forget exactly

00:30:03.100 the number, but it doesn't matter how small that number is. You don't, you don't do that to your

00:30:07.180 troops. You just don't do that. We pulled out in weakness. I mean, did not we learn anything from

00:30:12.180 the evacuation of Saigon in Vietnam? I know most of your listeners won't remember that, but if you

00:30:17.760 remember those pictures where they were hanging on the helicopter, you know, stabilization things and all

00:30:24.300 that, it was just awful. And that's exactly what it looked like in Afghanistan. It was embarrassing. 1.00

00:30:29.600 Yeah. And 13 American service members died.

00:30:32.360 For no reason.

00:30:33.120 And as far as we know, they have not been honored in any way by the Biden-Harris administration.

00:30:38.360 Yeah, as far as I know. And I don't think they ever, I don't know if they talked to their parents or

00:30:42.120 any other, yeah.

00:30:43.220 Well, those families, they ended up making this montage video in support of Donald Trump because

00:30:48.260 Donald Trump, I think, came to a service honoring them and Biden was invited to that and didn't show

00:30:55.540 up.

00:30:56.300 Yeah. Biden's a bad person.

00:30:58.060 Yeah.

00:30:58.600 He and Kamala both are not good people. And it's a little bit like your, some of your episodes

00:31:04.980 this week in that, you know, and I, there are demonic forces at work. There just are. Okay. If

00:31:11.920 people don't believe that, then they're just being fooled. All right. And that is, that's the way it

00:31:17.980 is.

00:31:18.480 What else do we need to know about these candidates, this election? What's at stake?

00:31:22.660 Well, I think what, I think what we need to know is this is a true, a turning point. If, if,

00:31:29.040 if Kamala is elected, we're going to head down an even more ultra progressive role than we head

00:31:36.360 down. Abortion up until the end. That's her number one issue, as you know. She has no limits on 1.00

00:31:41.900 abortion whatsoever at the federal level, which would make it impossible for Texas or Tennessee

00:31:46.020 or to, you know, Kentucky to restrict abortion. They'll do as much as they can. And that there's

00:31:50.780 no question about that. You got to plan on her. If she's in there, if she gets elected, 0.68

00:31:55.000 it's for eight years, not for four. Yeah. Okay. That's the way things generally work. All right.

00:31:59.440 You had to plan on that. So you give her eight years at least some point in that time, she's

00:32:04.320 going to have control of the both the house and the Senate way those go back and forth. The other

00:32:08.400 thing is the sexualization of our children and being able to take the parents out. There will be, 0.99

00:32:14.160 you know, there will be no parental control over abortion, no parental control or consent over 0.55

00:32:20.540 gender, gender type care. And then the other thing I think that we'll see is a huge increase in the

00:32:27.760 entitlement state where they will continue to give away more and more to, to advise votes, including

00:32:36.200 amnesty for the 14 million illegals that they've let in in the last four years. That's what you're

00:32:42.520 going to get under Kamala. All right. In my opinion. And I just want to add on, I just want to add on

00:32:46.900 to that before we move on to Trump, because just to double down on some things that you've said,

00:32:52.320 the Equality Act, for example, that has been sitting and floating around in Congress for a long

00:32:56.840 time. That is Democrats like pet legislation, Colin Allred, the guy who's running for Senate in Texas

00:33:03.180 is a big supporter of the Equality Act. There are lots of things that it does. Like, for example,

00:33:08.200 it could make it a crime to so-called misgender a person in a workplace. It could force religious

00:33:13.960 organizations to have to assent to this new definition of marriage and gender. It also takes

00:33:22.480 away any religious exemptions for an OBGYN who say, does it want to perform an abortion or even Catholic

00:33:29.380 hospitals who don't perform abortions? They would actually be forced to, or they would be forced to 1.00

00:33:34.320 close down or no longer be an OBGYN. So that's Kamala Harris. When they say that they care about your 0.99

00:33:40.140 constitutional freedoms, they don't. They care about abortion. They care about sexual degeneracy.

00:33:45.580 They care about taking away parental rights. In Kamala's home state of California, Gavin Newsom,

00:33:51.080 passed the law that says, if you do not affirm your child's new stated identity, you will lose custody.

00:33:57.540 That's what she believes. She is part of the administration who is putting pro-life

00:34:01.680 protesters like Bevelyn Williams and Joan Bell, who's a 74-year-old grandmother with diabetes,

00:34:06.500 in prison. So this is rewarding evil and punishing good. That's what you'll get from Kamala Harris.

00:34:12.820 And they're also going to try to pass legislation or certainly executive orders on hate speech.

00:34:17.800 And so most of the things that you say on here would consider to be hate speech because you disagree,

00:34:22.040 agree. Yeah. Which is totally irrational under our constitutional system. Yep. Hate speech is free

00:34:29.900 speech. And you can't depend on the Supreme Court to fix everything for you. Yeah. Well, they want to

00:34:34.620 pack the Supreme Court. They want to expand it. Yeah, of course they want to. And pack it because they

00:34:38.660 don't like that the Supreme Court does check on power. I just saw the news that came out that the

00:34:43.720 Supreme Court ruled, I think it was 6-3, that Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, does have a

00:34:49.860 right to purge its voter rolls of non-citizens. They were sued by the Harris-Biden DOJ over that.

00:34:56.780 And I wonder which six versus which three it was that were against that. Yeah. Hmm.

00:34:59.740 Yeah. I bet I could guess. Yeah. Because they're always predictable. Yeah. So under, yeah,

00:35:04.300 unfortunately the conservatives are not. Yeah. That's because they actually go by principle.

00:35:08.640 But under Donald Trump, I think what you see, you see a return to what happened between 2017

00:35:12.200 and 2021 from an economic standpoint, which was some of the best economic times in history. You know,

00:35:18.800 he left there with a little over 1% inflation. Real wages were up for every classification,

00:35:24.260 including black men, black women, Hispanic men, Hispanic men, white men, white men, all of those

00:35:29.040 categories, real wages were up. I think you'll see a much more stable energy market. You know,

00:35:35.660 he is the, he's what I believe in the drill, baby drill. We have a lot of, of, of that type of

00:35:41.740 energy that's available. And a lot of that energy is actually clean energy, right? Natural gas is clean

00:35:46.940 energy. And I think you'll see the removal of some of the credits for solar and wind, which

00:35:52.600 wind can be a real problem. You know, I don't know if you've read about the, the whales that have

00:35:57.800 washed up on the New Jersey beach and they really believe that the vibrations has essentially driven

00:36:03.960 them insane. You know, just like, did you hear Donald Trump on 18 different whales? And I read it

00:36:08.480 somewhere else. Did you hear what he said about it? He said on Joe Rogan, he was talking about that

00:36:12.760 exact thing. And he said, he wants to become a whale psychiatrist because the whales are being

00:36:18.000 driven crazy. He was like, yeah, it'd be a good market. Something probably messes up their internal

00:36:21.360 system because they go by, you know, sound waves. Yeah. It's cool. Who knows? And I also think what

00:36:26.540 you're, I think what you're going to have is you're just going to have more independent freedom. It's

00:36:30.740 going to be a one term. Uh, but he will, he will, I think he will, uh, make sure that we have good

00:36:37.960 arrangements with our allies as well as our enemies. All right, y'all. I am so excited about

00:36:47.780 election coverage at blaze TV. Join me, join my blaze TV colleagues. You can go to blaze election.com

00:36:55.680 slash alley. You get a really big discount on your blaze subscription when you do $40 off. That's

00:37:02.400 amazing. And you can join us that night to get all of my commentary on everything that's going on on

00:37:09.440 election night. Go to blaze election.com slash alley. Okay. How are you feeling about the result of the

00:37:21.600 election? This is Thursday. Hopefully we'll know something by next Wednesday, right? Hopefully.

00:37:27.940 Yeah. Are you going to call me at midnight like you did in 2000 and say, have mom call me and say,

00:37:32.820 tell me who's one. Yeah. So she'll go to sleep. And you had to, you had to lie to me. You might

00:37:36.840 have to lie to me this year too. Maybe your daughter will be a part of that. But next time she probably 1.00

00:37:40.880 will be. Yeah. Uh, you know, I feel good about it. I really do. I feel, uh, you know, you never know,

00:37:46.980 uh, you can never know what Trump's going to say or do in the next, uh, next week or what's going to,

00:37:51.560 you know, I don't think there's going to be an October surprise. I think we've already been there.

00:37:55.240 Uh, but I real, I feel really good. Here's what I think will happen. Yeah. Either Harris will win

00:38:00.500 by a very small margin. Okay. Or Trump will win by a big margin. I don't think he'll win by a small

00:38:06.860 margin. I think it'll be, and there's something to momentum in campaigns. Yeah. Right now he has

00:38:12.420 the momentum and he's generally under polled by three or 4%. Yeah. And so I'd say all of those

00:38:20.060 things are good for him. And I'm not a big, I'm certainly not an election denier, but I do believe

00:38:25.880 that there can be some tricky things that go on in some of these big cities. So I'm so glad

00:38:31.420 that heritage foundation and the Republican national committee, they have a host. I mean,

00:38:37.580 a huge number of people that are on the election integrity side. They're going to be at all of these

00:38:42.400 voting sites. They're going to make sure things are counted properly. You know, it's much more ready

00:38:48.300 this time than last time. The other thing I think Trump's going to do, Ali, as we finish up

00:38:52.080 is I think he'll be smarter about who he selects. And he's talked about that. He actually admitted

00:38:57.920 making mistakes on people. Yeah. I saw that. Which I've never heard Kamala Harris admit one mistake. 0.99

00:39:03.940 She wouldn't even want to apologize to the parents of the people that were killed by illegal aliens. 0.88

00:39:09.720 No. Well, we were just talking about that yesterday about the Washington times came out with this

00:39:14.480 expose, talked to her family members and former staffers. And we know that, you know, you can only

00:39:19.260 take those kinds of testimonies with a grain of salt. That's true when it comes with, uh, to Trump

00:39:24.380 too, but person after person and the parents of the interns that she had when she was in state office

00:39:29.860 in California to say that their children, I mean, their kids, adult children, you know,

00:39:34.160 were just emotionally abused. She just berates her staff. She's not a nice person. We never hear stories

00:39:39.680 of her kindness or friendship or hospitality over the years. Like we hear about Donald Trump.

00:39:44.080 I think that she is probably personally very cruel and vindictive. That's not the kind of person 0.98

00:39:50.240 that you want in office. I saw the other day, let's see if I ended up taking a picture of it

00:39:55.340 because I just hear Trump so much. And I never hear Kamala saying this. I hear Trump so much talk about,

00:40:02.260 um, his love for the country and just his desire to see the country do well. And when I was at Liberty,

00:40:11.320 they have all of these old books in a house where I was staying. And one of them, um, were maxims by

00:40:17.860 George Washington. And so here's what he said. And I think we have to think about this. Maybe not every

00:40:23.900 candidate will fit perfectly into this, but this is what you ideally want in a president. He said,

00:40:28.480 in every act of my administration, I have sought the happiness of my fellow citizens. My system for

00:40:34.180 the attainment of this object has uniformly been to overlook all personal, local, and partial

00:40:38.940 considerations to contemplate the United States as one great whole to confide that sudden impressions

00:40:44.680 when erroneous would yield to candid reflection and to consult only the substantial and permanent

00:40:51.480 interests of our country. Now we don't talk like that anymore, but basically it is a kind of just

00:40:57.020 genuine love of country and love for your fellow citizens. Whereas we have Biden right now who is

00:41:02.740 calling Trump supporters garbage. It's, it's unbelievable. I mean, it really is unbelievable.

00:41:09.440 Yep. So I'm hoping and praying for the best. That's right. And God is in charge. He is totally

00:41:16.360 in charge. We're the workers. Yeah. Harvest it's his. Yeah. And you're doing good work. And a lot of

00:41:23.760 your listeners I know are out there. They are talking to their friends, getting them to just

00:41:27.640 make sure that you get your family and friends out to vote. That's the number one thing you can do.

00:41:32.800 Drive them there if you have to. We're kind of beyond the argument stage. Get them out to,

00:41:36.840 get them out to vote. Yes. But on the way, maybe try to make sure that they're voting the right way.

00:41:43.100 That's true. If not, take them to McDonald's. Yeah, there you go. Okay. Thanks so much, Dad.

00:41:48.460 Fred, we'll have you back on after the election for all of the post-election analysis. Well,

00:41:52.960 thank you for having me. I've never sat down with a New York Times bestseller before.

00:41:56.540 Well, there you go. It's the first time for everything. Very proud of you. Thank you.

00:41:59.200 All right.

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