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On this episode of Relatable, Allie talks about Veterans Day and the sacrifices our veterans have made on our behalf. She also talks about Sam Brown and his campaign for the U.S. Senate seat currently being contested by Jacky Rosen.
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Many pastors online seem to think we should feel guilty for celebrating Trump's victory,
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but there are many reasons for Christians to unapologetically rejoice, and we are going
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to list some of those very big reasons on today's episode of Relatable.
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Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far, that you had a wonderful weekend.
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Again, this looks and sounds different than normal because I am recording remotely today,
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but I love that y'all really never seem to care about that.
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It always bothers me when the audio and visuals don't look like they typically do, but y'all
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just don't seem to care about that at all, and I really appreciate it.
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Okay, today is Veterans Day, so I just wanted to take a second to thank our veterans.
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I am just so grateful for the sacrifices that are being made, that have been made, so that
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I can have a podcast, a podcast that says a lot of things that contradict the prevailing
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ideology, which is still in most of our institutions and currently in this current administration,
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I saw someone wearing a shirt in the airport yesterday, and it had a big cross on it, and
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it said, this shirt is illegal in many nations, and that is true.
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The history of the church has not been one of comfort and ease of being in the majority
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of having the freedom to affect culture and politics, but that is who the church has gotten
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to be in the United States thanks to the sacrifice of those who have fought on our behalf, and
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So just a little history about Veterans Day, rather, in case you don't know how it got started.
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So it was originally called Armistice Day, the national holiday that commemorated the end
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So this was the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
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It received its name in America in 1926, and the hope was that World War I was the war to
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We have had hundreds of thousands of soldiers die since World War I, and we are just now getting
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to the point where that greatest generation who fought in World War II are, there aren't
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They're in their 90s and early 100s, and of course, most of them have already passed,
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If you have not watched Band of Brothers, I encourage you to do that Thanksgiving, Christmas.
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My husband and I have watched Band of Brothers multiple times.
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America really is such a special nation because of the grace of God, but also because of the
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grit of its people, especially those who have put their lives on the line on our behalf.
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In 1954, a bill was proposed to change our Mists Day to Veterans Day.
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The bill was passed and signed into law by President Eisenhower, who was also, of course,
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a five-star general and served in both world wars.
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And this is what he said in his Veterans Day proclamation in 1954.
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Now, therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America,
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do hereby call upon all of our citizens to observe Thursday, November 11, 1954, as Veterans Day.
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On that day, let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all of those who fought so valiantly
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on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores to preserve our heritage of freedom.
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And let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting and enduring peace so that their efforts
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And speaking of veterans, I also wanted to talk about Sam Brown.
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He was unfortunately defeated by Democrat incumbent Jackie Rosen.
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But he is a veteran whose story is really just incredible, and he represents the best of us.
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He represents the best of those who have laid themselves on the line for our freedom.
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So I just want to talk about this a little bit.
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It wasn't expected to be a nail, a nail biter, but it was, but he has held no prior political
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And so a lot of people didn't really expect his political career to get off the ground for him
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to be as successful as he was for this race to be as close as it was.
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And yet again, because he really did just have an incredible campaign and because people really
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admired his courage so much, he got really close.
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So he was a graduate of West Point who deployed to Afghanistan in 2008.
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While serving there, his vehicle was hit with a roadside bomb.
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He was severely burned, causing permanent scars across his face and body.
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Though he was medically discharged from the Army, he went on to develop a career in business,
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served the veteran community by starting a business that helped them get the medication
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So here he is sharing part of his story at SOT1.
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We hit a roadside bomb and it blew up my Humvee and it left three of my other guys
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and myself wounded and it killed one of my soldiers.
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I remember as the bomb went off, I'm soaking diesel fuel and I was burning essentially from
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And the only thing I can hear at this point now is my own voice and I'm screaming.
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I tried to stop, drop and roll, trying to get the flames out, but I couldn't.
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But I heard the voice of one of my soldiers immediately after say, sir, I've got you.
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Well, praise God for that story of redemption and praise God for sparing his life.
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Gosh, I don't think we can even begin to understand what our soldiers have endured on our behalf.
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So Captain Sam Brown and his wife, Amy, they are incredible Christians, really strong in the Lord.
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And after AP announced his defeat against Jackie Rosen, he posted this on X.
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Serving as your nominee has been the honor of a lifetime.
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I am deeply moved by the trust, dedication and hope you've shown throughout this journey.
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Together, we set a new standard for what it means to stand for Nevada,
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united in a vision of strength, truth, resilience and unwavering belief in a brighter future.
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So there's Captain Sam Brown, his wife, his three cute kids.
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And hopefully, we're all kind of hoping because he was just such a strong candidate,
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the kind of person that you really want representing us and representing our party.
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A lot of people are saying, okay, well, he should still be a part of this movement.
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He should be a part of the Trump administration.
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He said, Captain Sam Brown was a terrific candidate and his star is only beginning to rise.
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He'd make an unbelievably great Secretary of Veterans Affairs as a start.
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Sam Brown said, thank you, Ben Shapiro, for the suggestion and for your support.
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Serving this nation has always been my calling.
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And though the campaign came up short, my dedication to America remains strong.
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So I think that is a great suggestion from Ben Shapiro.
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I would love to see him in some kind of leadership role.
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Be praying for them as they navigate this transitional time.
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When you put so much work and energy and effort, you put your family through so much to try to
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But what we do know is that God's man's rejection is God's protection.
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And he is always working all things together for the good of those who love him, for our good
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All right, speaking of the election, let's do one final election update as the electoral
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and popular vote counts have finally concluded.
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Okay, so the Associated Press officially called Nevada and Arizona for Trump, giving Trump
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a total of 312 electoral votes to Harris's 226.
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And okay, I am second-guessing myself, by the way, in how I'm pronouncing Nevada, because
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I feel like I used to say Nevada, and you guys told me who live there that it is actually
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Nevada, but now I'm second-guessing myself, and I'm wondering if I have gotten it wrong,
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So I am very sorry if I am offending those of you who have told me that I was pronouncing
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it wrong my whole life, and now I'm trying to fix it, and I might have just messed it
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But okay, maybe I don't have to say it again for the rest of the episode.
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Trump also won the popular vote, 74.8 million votes against Harris's 71.2 million.
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The last time that a Republican won the popular vote was, I believe, it was George W. Bush.
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I almost said George H. W. Bush, but I'm pretty sure that he also, that George W. Bush won the
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But it is not very typical for the Republican to win the popular vote.
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Of course, Trump lost the popular vote against Hillary Clinton, and of course, he also lost
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the popular vote against Biden, as well as the electoral vote.
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And so this was just a total and complete annihilation of the progressive agenda.
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And before that, it was 1988, George H. W. Bush.
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This is according to the NBC News exit polling.
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Trump picked up a larger proportion of voters under 30 than any Republican presidential candidate
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since 2008 and made significant gains, significant gains among young women compared to 2020.
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Among young women, Biden's 35-point lead over Trump in 2020 shrunk to a 24-point lead for Harris.
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I would go back and watch or listen to my episode the day after the election.
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And I think what caused this shift, I first saw this tweet from Charlie Kirk when he was
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Of course, when it comes to young voters, we have Turning Point and Charlie Kirk to thank
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When it comes to young women, I think a lot of us on the conservative side were doing everything
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Back in 2020, I think COVID and especially BLM among evangelicals really blinded a lot of people.
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They really felt like, OK, I'm going to vote for this independent, middle-of-the-road,
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empathetic commander-in-chief Joe Biden against mean, old, racist Donald Trump.
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But since then, the blinders have really come off.
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They see the dark underbelly of the BLM social justice movement.
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And they saw the tyranny that COVID policies enacted in a lot of cases.
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And 2020, as I said last week, 2020 hurt Trump in 2020, but helped Trump in 2024 as people
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We did absolutely everything we could to reach our demographic.
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And I continue to get so many messages from y'all talking about how you were able to use
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points that we've discussed on the show or points that I wrote about in Toxic Empathy
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to convince your friends to vote for Trump or just to help your friends understand why
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you voted for Trump, to defend your Christian worldview, your conservative politics.
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I've been very surprised, though, over the past week or so, how many messages I'm continuing
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to get from people saying, hey, can you help me respond to this liberal family member?
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Can you help me formulate this argument to this post?
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Y'all, please go back and listen to the previous episodes that we did for months and months leading
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I neither have the capacity nor the desire to go into all of the different responses to
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things that we spent so, so, so many hours responding to before the election.
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For example, I'm still getting a ton of questions about how do I respond to this story of the
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women out of Texas who were seemingly unable to get miscarriage care?
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We spent so much time breaking down those stories, giving you responses to those stories.
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I understand a lot of people listening or watching or following on Instagram just haven't
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But if you're ever wondering if I've talked about something, you can always type in the
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subject that you're looking for and Relatable either on YouTube or wherever you listen,
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whether it's Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and usually it will come up.
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You can even just type in Relatable Kamala and all of our episodes about Kamala and the
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So that's just a really easy way to do it, and I have tried my very best to equip you
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guys with the tools, and I just love seeing screenshots of the conversations that you've
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had with your friends or family on the other side of the aisle where you have been able
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to employ facts and arguments in a way that is effective.
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You guys are just awesome, and that's what I want to do, and messages like that just really
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According to the Associated Press, there is still one Senate seat left to be called in Arizona
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with Democrat Ruben Gallego leading over Cary Lake by three points.
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Republicans currently hold the Senate with 53 seats, having flipped four seats in West
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18 seats have yet to be called for the House in Alaska and several other states.
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Republicans are projected to win the House and are currently leading with 214 seats, having
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flipped three seats in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
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When you hear people saying that is a mandate, what they mean by that is that the American
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We want you to represent us and our interests, and so go get things done.
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Don't just sit there and stop Democrats from doing what they could do.
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That's the kind of action, immediate action people are looking for.
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Restore the strength and the integrity of our military.
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Stop our unnecessary foreign involvement in some places.
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I'm not an isolationist, but I think we can all agree that it's time to reevaluate where
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America is entangled and where our tax dollars are actually going, especially when it seems
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like our tax dollars are not going toward protecting our own borders.
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So when people say that this is a mandate, that we have the Republican trifecta, that is
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Now, I just want to take a brief moment to say something I've been thinking about.
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I spoke to a group of young women, Claire Booth Luce Policy Institute at their event over
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the weekend, and I was talking to these young women about this.
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There's been a huge political realignment over the past few years that we've seen that
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We have center, center left people who are part of the Republican Party that were not previously.
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I mean, we have Joe Rogan, who voted for Bernie Sanders a few years ago, who just endorsed
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We've got people like Theo Vaughn, that kind of comedian class, the socially liberal, but
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not into the boys and girls sports, politically incorrect, that crowd.
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We've got the Make America Healthy Again people.
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And then we've got people like Tulsi Gabbard, a lifelong Democrat.
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We've got people like Megyn Kelly, who obviously had a contentious relationship with Trump
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She saw the state of the country and the policy agenda of the other side and just said, you
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know what, past grievances really don't matter when the fate of our country is hanging in
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And so we have a lot of people who are center, center left who are not where you and I are.
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I mean, a Republican party that both holds the enthusiasm of someone like Bruce slash
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Caitlyn Jenner and Ali Stuckey is quite the big tent.
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And so what do we do as Christian conservatives to ensure that the Republican party doesn't
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go the way of the conservative party in Europe, the conservative or, you know, in the UK and
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different countries in Europe, or the conservative party in Canada?
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I am not someone who is unwilling to build coalitions or link arms with people that I agree
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with on some issues, but disagree with on other big issues.
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I would say that most people within the Republican party and in the conservative movement are less
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conservative than me because they are not, many of them are not Christians or they are not
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And we have disagreements about how our biblical worldview should apply to politics.
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I am as conservative as it gets in every regard.
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Certainly when it comes to things like abortion and reproductive technology and marriage, I think
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the Christian has to be because these are creation order issues.
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These are pre-civilizational issues, which means that they do absolutely have a place in our
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law because when we forego Genesis 1 or Genesis 1 through 3, that creates an existential crisis.
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If society is based on the reality of male and female, if our freedoms are based on this idea
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of us being created by a creator who gave us unalienable rights, if family and the creation
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of children is the building block of society, then I say that it's really important for a
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So anything that is a created order issue, I am going to hold really firm on.
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And interestingly, these are the very things that I would say Trump and his camp disagree
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They are, I would say, very socially liberal when it comes to the definition of marriage.
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I think they would probably even call Caitlyn Jenner she and maybe even say that he is a
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They draw the line on certain things and I appreciate that.
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Men and women's sports, men and women's bathrooms, you know, so-called sex change surgeries for
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children, but they are not where we are when it comes to abortion, the dignity of life inside
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the womb, the reality and need for natural marriage.
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I see my role and also your role as people who align with me on these things as the anchor.
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We are the anchor over to the right and our job is to use the power of persuasion to bring
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And I already see this happening because I got a message from someone who has not typically
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been associated with conservatism and really just kind of sees the corruption in the government
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and wants to do something about that, the need for America to become healthy, who let me know
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that she has started to see the light and change her mind on things like abortion and faith from
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And so I'm hoping that that is true for a lot of people who are in that center, center left,
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even center right crowd who are just now coming over to our side because of one or two issues
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I think that we can move them over to us, but we have to stay rooted and grounded in what
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And that is going to mean that we disagree with and criticize some things that Trump does.
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For example, when he says that he is going to force taxpayers to fund IVF, even though the
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IVF industry is responsible for more destruction of embryonic life every year than abortion is,
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that means we have to raise a respectful ruckus about that.
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That doesn't mean that we're not happy that he won.
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That doesn't mean that we're not counting our victories and thanking God for the mercy of
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But that means that we are putting what is good, right, and true first, that we are remembering
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that God's ways are better and that we are truly being salt and light, whether it is in
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the country in general or in the Republican Party specifically.
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That is one thing that you can trust me on, that when Republican policy and biblical truth
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conflict, that I want to always, by the grace of God, stand on the side of biblical truth and
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do everything that I can to pull everyone on our side to that direction, and I want you
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So that's what this victory lap looks like for us.
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We've got a lot of work to do when it comes to these creation issues, and we're going to
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Even if it makes some people, even on our own political side, angry, we are going to stand
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up for children who are always the unconsenting subjects of progressive social experiments,
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and it doesn't matter if someone has an R by their name and are pushing for things that
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But of course, Trump's policy prescriptions are far better in general for our country and
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specifically for children than Harris's would have been, who of course believed in pushing
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and promoting the same things that Biden's Health and Human Services Department did, which
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was the mutilation of gender-deceived kids, and Donald Trump has spoken out against that,
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and he is going to put an end to that when he becomes president, and I'm very grateful
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This is actually from February of last year, but people are replaying it and responding to
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it now, talking about his plans to revoke Biden's gender policies and to ask Congress to pass
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a bill establishing the acknowledgement of the reality of just two genders, male and female.
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On day one, I will revoke Joe Biden's cruel policies on so-called gender-affirming care.
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A process that includes giving kids puberty blockers, mutating their physical appearance,
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and ultimately performing surgery on minor children.
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I will ask Congress to pass a bill establishing that the only genders recognized by the United
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States government are male and female, and they are assigned at birth.
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No serious country should be telling its children that they were born with the wrong gender,
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a concept that was never heard of in all of human history.
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Nobody's ever heard of this, what's happening today.
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It was all when the radical left invented it just a few years ago.
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And, you know, some people say, oh, we shouldn't even say gender.
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Gender in itself is not some woke, progressive concept.
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It is this idea that gender and sex are distinct that is harmful.
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That someone can be one gender, even if their biology says differently.
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I really encourage you, if you have not already, to read Love Thy Body by Nancy Piercy.
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Read Love Thy Body, get you toxic empathy, and you will be good to go.
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You will be so equipped to answer these culture war questions, especially when it comes to
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the human body and sexuality and identity and gender.
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He is absolutely right to call it this insanity.
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And just as a reminder, this is what Biden did when it comes to this.
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I mean, we are talking about double mastectomies in minors.
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We are talking about chemical castration via puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in minors.
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We have talked to some of these people who started their transition as a minor.
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We talked to Vanessa, who is a whistleblower from Texas Children's in Houston,
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who demonstrated that these doctors were illegally, because this is illegal in Texas,
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prescribing cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to children and using manipulation
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tactics on parents saying, if you don't let your child change, quote unquote, genders,
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And the Biden administration, this is possibly the most evil, if not one of the most evil things
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So on his first day of office, Biden signed a radical executive order mandating the so-called
00:30:20.620
Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to
00:30:25.220
the restroom, the locker room, or school sports.
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Well, if you are the opposite gender of the bathroom that you're trying to enter,
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They only want you to feel empathy for, they say, 12-year-old boy who thinks that he's a girl
00:30:47.800
and the potential disruption to his learning that might be caused by making him go to the
00:30:53.960
bathroom of his actual sex and not the disruption of learning or the discomfort or the sadness
00:31:00.920
or the straight-up trauma of the girls who are forced to share a bathroom with and change
00:31:07.240
in front of a fully intact male who is often still attracted to women.
00:31:14.540
That's why it's called toxic empathy, because it is a kind of empathy that blinds you to reality
00:31:22.360
You're not thinking about the victims on the other side of the moral equation.
00:31:25.900
You are completely blinded to the only person that progressive activists and politicians want you to consider.
00:31:31.160
Also early in his administration, Biden issued a memorandum on advancing the human rights
00:31:36.700
of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex persons around the world.
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Just a reminder that intersex, one, it's a misnomer.
00:31:45.100
There's no one that is actually like two sexes.
00:31:48.020
You might have some kind of sex disorder, and that actually happens.
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But that is actually something that you are born with that happens in the womb.
00:31:56.820
That is not the same thing as a man declaring that he is the opposite sex.
00:32:03.800
So he said that he was going to advance these rights, but it directed all U.S. government entities
00:32:11.320
Biden also issued a new policy regarding so-called transgenderism in the military that not only allowed
00:32:18.260
for these individuals to serve in the U.S. military, but to have their gender transition,
00:32:23.520
so cutting off your genitalia, paid for by American taxpayers.
00:32:28.460
On April 19th, 2024, the Biden-Harris administration announced it would redefine sex in Title IX
00:32:38.140
So it would require schools to ignore the biological distinction between male and female
00:32:42.780
in favor of an individual's sense of their gender.
00:32:45.900
So again, that means that any boy, no matter even what they look like or anything like
00:32:51.400
that, could all of a sudden tell their school, if that school receives Title IX funding, that,
00:32:57.080
hey, I feel like a girl, and so I want to change with the women's lacrosse team, and I want
00:33:05.540
And he could go in there, and he could drop his pants, and none of the girls would have
00:33:11.420
None of the girls on the opposing team would have any say on whether or not they want to
00:33:20.500
Remember Peyton McNabb that we had on this show, that she was forced to play volleyball
00:33:25.140
against a male on the opposite team, and he hit the ball so hard into her head that she
00:33:30.460
had a brain bleed and now has permanent neck damage.
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Now, thankfully, a lot of women's sports, high school and college, are boycotting the
00:33:40.840
games where there is a boy on the opposite team.
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I just call it discernment, and I call it courage, and we should be standing with those women.
00:33:51.380
But again, the Biden-Harris administration, motivated by wickedness, by, at best, toxic empathy,
00:33:57.680
at worst, Satanism, and really those things go hand in hand, we're ignoring the pain and
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the potential victims on the other side of this equation in favor of males who want to
00:34:12.680
Think about the kind of man that wants to play some kind of sport against a woman.
00:34:22.020
That is a kind of man that wants to humiliate and belittle and cause pain to women.
00:34:30.660
That is the last kind of man you actually want on the same court or field or in the same
00:34:40.000
And so when the media kept talking about progressive activists, the Harris campaign kept on saying,
00:34:46.380
vote for your daughters, vote for your daughters.
00:34:47.820
They were talking about ensuring that your daughter could kill your granddaughter.
00:34:52.580
When we were talking about women's rights, we were talking about ensuring that our girls
00:34:56.900
weren't assaulted in the locker room by a man or murdered by an illegal alien as they were
00:35:02.320
running on a Sunday morning like Lake and Riley was.
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And so we were both talking about women's rights.
00:35:09.940
We were talking about the right to live and compete freely.
00:35:13.780
Um, there was a debate about this on CNN over the weekend and it was on news night with
00:35:22.340
Abby Phillips and it was a debate on a, on a round, on a round table.
00:35:29.300
Michael Singleton, he said, look, people didn't like this transgender stuff while writer Jay
00:35:41.700
I think there are a lot of families out there who don't believe boys should play girls sports.
00:35:49.080
I'm not going to listen to transphobia at this table.
00:35:54.980
Are you going to allow me to finish my explanation?
00:35:56.780
When you use a word that's a slur, I'm going to interrupt.
00:36:06.320
Let's reset for a second because, look, this is a really heated issue.
00:36:10.080
Okay, so the debate continued back and forth like that with this guy calling him transphobic.
00:36:22.000
Why do you have to put the word trans in front of it?
00:36:26.160
What's the difference between a trans girl and a girl?
00:36:32.740
I mean, this is the whole premise of Matt Walsh's documentary, What is a Woman?
00:36:39.420
They wouldn't define it because if you define woman, then trans woman doesn't make any sense.
00:36:45.760
And in my book, Toxic Empathy, we go through the five biggest mottos that you hear in support
00:36:51.400
of the pillars of progressivism that abortion is healthcare, trans women are women, love is
00:36:55.600
love, no human is illegal, social justice is justice.
00:37:03.480
And that is to shut your brain off from thinking.
00:37:06.480
So you just repeat the thing that sounds good without actually ever thoughtfully wondering,
00:37:17.320
And that is why in every debate, you have to ask someone to define their terms and ask
00:37:24.620
I saw some people online saying, oh, well, sure, Michael should have said biological girls
00:37:32.260
Because if you say biological males or biological females, you are assenting to this wrong notion
00:37:40.300
that there's such thing as a non-biological male or female.
00:37:44.200
There's no such thing as a non-biological male or female.
00:37:48.160
So no, I think it is absolutely right for him to just say boys, because in most Americans,
00:37:53.720
that cements the absurdity of the situation in their mind.
00:37:57.780
Because for all of our lives, it has been, duh, boys should not play in girls' sports.
00:38:03.080
There's a reason why we have sex-exclusive spaces.
00:38:14.960
And without that, there are no more female sports.
00:38:17.460
So for this reason alone, I'm just so thankful.
00:38:25.060
And there is also another wonderful reason that Trump won, and that is to root out the corruption
00:38:34.320
and the wickedness, hopefully, that exists in many of our institutions and bureaucracies.
00:38:40.860
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So FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was deployed to help the victims of
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And it was discovered by reporting by the Daily Wire that a FEMA supervisor, Marnie Washington,
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actually instructed her crew to avoid helping homes that had a Trump sign out front.
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So here's the summary of what happened, and then we'll get into the details.
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So this FEMA supervisor, Marnie Washington, has been fired after she ordered workers to
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avoid homes advertising Trump as workers identified residents who could qualify for federal aid in
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This is according to internal correspondence obtained by the Daily Wire and confirmed by
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The guidance came as the Biden administration was criticized over its sluggish response to
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Hurricane Helene in rural areas across the country.
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It says this, Washington said that it would be the best practice to, quote, avoid homes
00:41:15.060
This was among other recommendations like practice de-escalation, avoid high salt diets and
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The government employees told the Daily Wire that at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags
00:41:27.600
were skipped from the end of October and into November due to this guidance, meaning they
00:41:33.360
were not given the opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance.
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And I'm sorry, this would not happen on the other side.
00:41:44.600
I've never seen something like this where Harris signs, houses with Harris signs are told to be
00:41:51.540
skipped over for assistance or any kind of government help because of their political affiliation.
00:41:57.860
The conservative side simply isn't in general like this.
00:42:04.980
Images shared with the Daily Wire show that houses were skipped over by the workers who wrote
00:42:09.460
in the government system messages, who wrote in the government system messages such as Trump
00:42:15.520
sign, no entry per leadership, per leadership, no stop Trump flag, Trump sign.
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Several DHS employees who shared the communication with the Daily Wire said it felt wrong to discriminate
00:42:32.020
against Trump supporters when they were at their most vulnerable.
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Quote, I volunteered to help disaster victims not discriminate against them.
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The employee said it didn't matter if they were black, white, Hispanic, for Trump, for Harris.
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One team member wrote in a complaint, filed to DHS about the guidance.
00:42:51.160
Quote, if they had damaged or lost power for over 36 hours, it was my duty to inform them
00:42:56.600
of the benefits to which they are entitled through FEMA.
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You've got an elderly couple that has been languishing in their home.
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They don't have power, meaning they don't have air conditioning.
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They don't have a way to plug in their CPAP machine.
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They were left stranded by FEMA, not informed of the benefits and the help that they could
00:43:18.100
get from the government because of whom they were voting for.
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The New York Times published a fact check a couple weeks ago detailing Trump's, quote,
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false claims about the federal response to Hurricane Helene in early October because Trump had
00:43:42.720
posted on Truth Social that, I don't like the reports I'm getting about the federal government
00:43:49.200
and the Democrat government and the Democrat governor of the state going out of their way
00:43:56.360
The New York Times had said, oh, well, that lacks evidence.
00:44:01.260
We don't, you know, we don't know if that's true.
00:44:03.680
The New York Times has not updated this article, but now the New York Times has published a
00:44:11.480
new article, FEMA fires employee for telling Milton relief workers to skip houses with Trump
00:44:17.940
The agency said it was investigating the incident after or in the aftermath of the Category 3
00:44:26.320
The House of Representatives Oversight Committee said it has since launched an investigation to
00:44:31.500
look further into the reports and ensure FEMA is sticking to its mission to help Americans
00:44:43.060
FEMA actually blamed Republican misinformation for not for people not getting the help that
00:44:51.820
It's frankly disappointing that we're having to deal with this narrative.
00:44:55.820
And the fact that there's a few leaders that are having a hard time telling the difference
00:45:01.040
between fact and fiction is creating an impedance to our ability to actually get people the help
00:45:09.820
Yeah, you know, we had the governor of Tennessee talk about the fact that some of this may be
00:45:16.680
driven by foreign powers, lies from foreign governments to sow confusion.
00:45:22.200
Republicans, unfortunately, I'm sorry, I just said presidential candidates are picking that
00:45:32.020
That is the head of FEMA, the FEMA administrators saying, oh, this is because of Republican
00:45:38.820
Of course, that was before this report came out.
00:45:42.160
And it actually looks like, in fact, it was just malicious bias.
00:45:47.540
It is interesting how the media is reporting on this.
00:45:51.820
So CBS is reporting this on Twitter, said a FEMA worker has been fired after she directed
00:45:59.300
workers helping hurricane survivors not to go to homes with Trump signs.
00:46:05.720
But the administrator that you just saw on Morning Joe is not who did this.
00:46:10.840
And it's actually this woman with this picture that the New York Post posted on.
00:46:16.380
An ex-FEMA official who allegedly told workers to avoid Florida homes with Trump signs fired.
00:46:26.440
So it does seem, and this is what the media does a lot, if the suspect or if the villain
00:46:31.980
in a particular story is not white, they will still use a stock photo or a picture of a white
00:46:39.360
person that doesn't have anything to do with the story because they think that they are protecting
00:46:50.660
And so, yeah, I would say that I'm thankful that the people who believe that that is the
00:46:58.220
right thing to do don't have more power through the Harris administration because that would
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And because of all of this and so much more, we are celebrating.
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We are celebrating that Trump won, and we should not apologize about that.
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That is praising God that the policies that are going to lessen evil have prevailed, that
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they will be implemented and not the evil policies of Kamala Harris.
00:47:36.000
And we shouldn't feel bad about that, no matter what some wet blankets in the church are saying.
00:47:42.180
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Do not temper your celebration because it might hurt someone's feelings.
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Of course, we shouldn't be mean to the other side.
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Of course, you shouldn't alienate your brother or sister and Christ.
00:48:50.620
Of course, you shouldn't like get in their face and say, hey, you're such a loser.
00:48:55.780
I mean, I just don't really see that happening.
00:48:57.680
But of course, that's wrong because that is not kind and that could push them further away
00:49:02.460
from the church and from the truth of the gospel.
00:49:08.240
Like you can celebrate completely unapologetically that the person who represents the more orderly
00:49:15.000
and peaceful and more righteous policies has won and that the candidate who represented
00:49:22.260
policies of destruction and evil and chaos lost.
00:49:26.280
Like we don't have to say that both candidates were equal and well, one side lost and one side
00:49:33.480
won and we really just shouldn't express any feelings about this.
00:49:40.940
These policies have serious implications in people's lives and we are looking at the difference
00:49:46.540
between allowing states to have laws that protect the dignity of unborn children and a person
00:49:53.680
that would have done everything that she possibly could within her power to stop states from being
00:50:00.060
She would have done everything that she could to ensure that America was a sanctuary country
00:50:06.680
She would have done everything she could to force our tax dollars to pay for that and to
00:50:10.720
pay for the so-called transition surgeries of young people.
00:50:15.860
And of course, she would have continued her open border policies that she carried through
00:50:21.600
And so I am absolutely celebrating that that side lost.
00:50:26.020
That doesn't mean that I hate the people who voted for her.
00:50:28.820
No, but I am not going to pretend like I'm not happy about that.
00:50:33.320
And I think it is right and good for the Christian to rejoice in that.
00:50:40.960
He's the president of the AND campaign, which I think exists to try to persuade conservative
00:50:51.620
I don't think that's the description that he would give.
00:50:54.700
And I don't disagree with everything that he says, but it's a lot of nuance to the point
00:51:01.040
of not really making any clear case for anything.
00:51:05.320
And so I think that their arguments lack a lot of clarity and actually cause a lot of
00:51:12.460
Christians, whether your candidate wins or loses, there will still be hurting people who
00:51:16.740
need you to give them hope and be a sober, thoughtful advocate for them.
00:51:19.900
Don't let the outcome defeat you or compel you to pretend that the battle is won.
00:51:26.260
So again, I agree with some of that for sure, that we shouldn't forget that our ultimate
00:51:33.560
goal is to be a witness and to share the gospel with people.
00:51:38.460
I don't know that I agree that we should avoid feeling triumphant.
00:51:43.160
Yes, of course, this does not mean that the spiritual battle is won and that evil has been
00:51:49.140
But again, I think that a lot of these messages are conveying guilt, are trying to get you to
00:52:03.720
Former musician and member of the Christian band Cademan's Call, Derek Webb.
00:52:13.160
To my evangelical friends who are loudly attempting to justify their votes and behaviors at the
00:52:17.460
moment, despite the negotiations you've clearly done with your morality and savior,
00:52:21.000
I would invite you to consider that you cannot build the kingdom using the devil's tools.
00:52:25.880
Okay, but you are literally a man wearing a dress right now in this picture.
00:52:32.140
So I'm not really interested in what compromises you think that I am making.
00:52:44.120
Having delivered us from one evil, God now tests us with another.
00:52:48.880
The Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all of your
00:52:54.780
Again, I just don't think these cryptic messages are all that helpful.
00:52:58.260
And he wrote an article back in 2020, which he recently reposted, arguing that yes, abortion
00:53:04.200
is evil, but Trump's personality is equally as evil and is also a curse to our nation.
00:53:12.560
Both things can be sinful without them being the same, right?
00:53:17.080
And that's basically the argument that he's making, that they are both equal curses, but
00:53:26.240
And yes, one guy, we definitely want to be closer to the Lord.
00:53:30.080
And we want him to be where we are on all of these policies.
00:53:33.180
But the other person's policies who affect our children, our grandchildren, our neighbors,
00:53:38.260
the most vulnerable among us, were far more wicked and disorderly.
00:53:44.060
I think some Christians think that moral relativism is courage, and it's not.
00:53:48.860
It's actually a form of confusion and cowardice.
00:53:52.200
And certainly, I don't think that John Piper is a coward, but I do think that his interpretation
00:53:56.420
of the election in this current political moment is lacking wisdom.
00:54:02.020
And he's someone that I greatly respect and have learned so much from theologically.
00:54:07.260
But this is, well, both sides are bad, and that's it.
00:54:18.820
Which policies better promote justice and goodness and freedom and order?
00:54:27.140
Which party best protects parental rights and the rights of children to intact bodies?
00:54:34.660
Which party best protects our borders and our sovereignty as a nation?
00:54:39.320
Which party will best punish evil and reward good?
00:54:46.600
And it doesn't have to be quite as complicated as a lot of people make it out to be.
00:54:52.000
If you haven't listened to my conversation with Johnny Artavanis, I really encourage you.
00:55:03.360
But like I said, we've got work to do as the Christians in this movement.
00:55:07.420
We've got to be anchors over here in what is good and right and true.
00:55:11.440
And through the power of persuasion, move as many people over to our side as possible.
00:55:16.260
But that is a heck of a lot easier with Trump in office than Kamala Harris in office.