Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1262 ｜ SNAP： A Factual & Biblical Analysis

00:00:00.000 What is really going on with SNAP benefits, and how should Christians think about the

00:00:06.100 role of the government when it comes to providing for the poor?

00:00:11.000 Also, Zoran Mamdani is possibly going to be the next mayor of New York City.

00:00:17.000 We'll find out tomorrow.

00:00:18.780 What should we think about that?

00:00:20.340 Why does it matter to those of us not living in New York City?

00:00:23.560 Also, I've got somewhat of a response to the controversy that has been manufactured over

00:00:30.860 the past few days on Christian X about yours truly.

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00:00:42.840 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable.

00:00:54.740 Happy Monday.

00:00:56.100 I hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.

00:00:59.620 I am recording this from a different location today, as you can see, so that's why it sounds

00:01:05.900 and looks a little bit different.

00:01:07.920 We've got a lot to talk about on this News Monday.

00:01:10.140 If you are new to Relatable, on Monday we talk about news, on Wednesday we talk about

00:01:14.880 theology, and then on Fridays we have an interview, and the subjects of those can span quite the

00:01:22.100 spectrum.

00:01:22.980 I usually start my Monday episodes with a word of encouragement, and that is a phrase that

00:01:28.700 we have adopted and have repeated many, many times throughout Relatable history, and that

00:01:33.720 is, do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.

00:01:38.460 Obviously, I did not come up with do the next right thing.

00:01:41.520 Elizabeth Elliott said that.

00:01:42.900 A lot of people have said that and written that over the years, but we have added on do

00:01:47.100 the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.

00:01:51.080 It feels overwhelming sometimes, not just in the world, not just when we look on social

00:01:55.640 media or turn on the news, but just in life, whatever you're going through personally or

00:02:00.920 spiritually, emotionally, in your family, at your job.

00:02:04.540 But then also, all of the chaos that seems to be raging outside of our four walls on a

00:02:10.020 daily basis.

00:02:11.200 Sometimes we just feel this burden of like, I don't know what to do.

00:02:16.340 And when you're thinking in such a big picture way, and you're thinking in the terms of the

00:02:22.980 macro, it can feel crushing.

00:02:26.100 But the truth is, all of us are only called to do one thing, and that is the next right

00:02:32.140 thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.

00:02:34.700 I posted that this morning on Instagram, as I often do, and someone asked me, but what

00:02:38.960 is the right thing?

00:02:40.180 And of course, that is difficult.

00:02:42.240 That is what we have been grappling with as humans for all of human history.

00:02:46.580 But focus on that word next, the next right thing.

00:02:52.200 You probably know what you need to do next.

00:02:54.800 Maybe it's send an email.

00:02:56.120 Maybe it's change a diaper. 0.76

00:02:57.600 Maybe it's wash dishes.

00:02:59.080 Maybe it's text a friend.

00:03:00.620 Maybe it's go on a walk.

00:03:02.260 Whatever it is, whatever small thing, whatever seemingly menial task that God has called you

00:03:08.220 to do, do it.

00:03:10.500 And do it in faith.

00:03:11.700 Do it as excellently as possible with the hardest work ethic, with the best quality, and do that

00:03:20.360 for the glory of God.

00:03:22.540 So whatever you do next, reject doing it based on your own strength and your own talent, your

00:03:28.640 own capabilities.

00:03:30.480 Reject laziness.

00:03:32.000 Reject slothfulness.

00:03:33.980 Reject just meeting the bare minimum requirement.

00:03:36.940 Go above and beyond to do the task that you are called to do.

00:03:40.500 So that means don't just send the email.

00:03:42.900 Don't just change the diaper.

00:03:44.200 Don't just discipline your child.

00:03:46.460 But do that with joy.

00:03:48.360 Do that with excellence.

00:03:49.620 Do that to the utmost based on God's strength that he has given you.

00:03:54.920 And do that for God's glory.

00:03:57.220 Give him your best.

00:03:58.340 Remember, our bodies are living sacrifices to the Lord.

00:04:02.080 And we have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us to give us the power to do that.

00:04:06.680 That is what we have to focus on.

00:04:08.260 Not only when things seem chaotic or the responsibilities just seem so much, but also when there are so

00:04:14.560 many voices and so many opinions of you and of different things that might feel like they're

00:04:21.460 crowding your mind.

00:04:22.380 And I'll just tell you, like, that bit of encouragement that I just gave you, it's just as much for me.

00:04:28.680 I remind myself of that every day.

00:04:30.980 But today, it's one of those days.

00:04:32.600 And those of you who follow me on Instagram know that I posted this, that I really needed that encouragement.

00:04:38.640 That I really don't, by the grace of God and just like the, it's to the credit of the strength

00:04:45.020 and the edification of the people around me too.

00:04:47.860 My friends, my family, people at my church, of course, my husband, my parents, love my children.

00:04:53.320 All of that just really buoys me and really keeps me grounded in this crazy world.

00:04:57.720 I get asked all the time, like, how do you talk about these things?

00:05:00.660 How do you do this?

00:05:01.420 How do you go into the lion's end and not just feel sad or down or anxious?

00:05:06.260 And truly, because of all the things I just listed, I don't.

00:05:10.180 Like, I feel very joyful and very hopeful, even as we're talking about very serious things.

00:05:16.180 And of course, I feel all kinds of criticism have for years.

00:05:19.700 But sometimes something gets through the armor.

00:05:24.200 Sometimes things really do hurt your feelings.

00:05:26.740 And sometimes things really weigh you down.

00:05:29.160 And they discourage your heart.

00:05:31.020 And that's what I'm feeling this morning.

00:05:33.880 Like, I'm feeling the weight of discouragement.

00:05:38.380 And I'm not trying to be vague.

00:05:40.880 I will explain more of this situation and give a fuller and biblical response

00:05:46.320 to the so-called controversy that has been waging about me over the past few days

00:05:51.980 on so-called Christian X.

00:05:53.800 I think I actually shared the video of this part of my speech at Louisiana State University

00:06:02.080 last Monday when I went through the five most controversial truths that Charlie Kirk preached

00:06:08.820 in his life.

00:06:11.460 And the first one was that feminism has failed women. 1.00

00:06:14.700 I spent by far the longest amount of time in my speech on that.

00:06:18.640 And then the second one that Charlie talked about a lot that I reiterated was that porn

00:06:24.100 has weakened men.

00:06:25.740 And there is a part of that speech which was clipped.

00:06:28.340 It was posted on the Blaze's X account.

00:06:32.060 And it was a great part of the speech to clip because I meant every word of it where I'm

00:06:37.440 saying, men, we need you.

00:06:39.580 We need your strength.

00:06:40.620 We need your masculinity. 0.96

00:06:41.860 We need you to be present fathers and solid pastors. 0.98

00:06:45.140 And you're better than porn. 0.88

00:06:46.620 And porn weakens men. 0.97

00:06:48.520 This was not a chiding.

00:06:50.860 This was not even an admonition.

00:06:53.940 This was an appeal from a woman and also for women, too.

00:07:00.200 But I'm in a room with primarily 19 and 20-year-old boys, okay?

00:07:06.780 Young men.

00:07:08.240 And I'm speaking as an older sister in Christ about something that is really important.

00:07:13.380 That, yes, as I said, disproportionately affects men, but also affects women and children.

00:07:19.100 And we hear from the feminists that we don't need men, that we don't need masculinity, that 1.00

00:07:24.380 it's superfluous or it's toxic.

00:07:26.440 And, man, I have been talking for probably 10 years about the dangers of that line of reasoning

00:07:32.960 and that line of argumentation.

00:07:34.620 And so I said the opposite.

00:07:35.960 And what happened?

00:07:36.740 You had a bunch of people who identify as Christians on the right who are always, always, 1.00

00:07:43.040 always looking for me to say something publicly that they can pounce upon.

00:07:49.400 And they were calling me a feminist because apparently I was, you know, they said finger 1.00

00:07:55.260 wagging or whatever.

00:07:56.500 I had people, people that I consider friends, people that I consider colleagues repeating this

00:08:04.760 kind of thing.

00:08:07.760 And, you know, all different kinds of just straight up lies, lies about me and my family, just such

00:08:17.120 gross misrepresentations of me and my mission.

00:08:22.120 And it's just, it's really disheartening.

00:08:26.800 And these are people who identify as Christians who I noticed will only ever go after me for

00:08:32.660 these things and not, for example, like Candace Owens. 0.79

00:08:36.400 I'm not saying they should go after her for those things, but they really have their sights

00:08:41.320 set on me and really will take every opportunity, even the Jubilee debate, like you saw the Jubilee

00:08:50.020 debate to say, you know, this is why women shouldn't be in the public sphere for any reason whatsoever. 1.00

00:08:58.180 And we will talk biblically about all of that.

00:09:00.920 What is woman's role? 1.00

00:09:02.540 I'll talk about all of that on Wednesday.

00:09:06.200 But man, it is, it can feel disheartening.

00:09:10.060 And that kind of thing, when it comes from within your own camp, and it's just outright malicious

00:09:17.980 and slanderous and deceitful and angry and bitter and covetous and resentful and all of 0.87

00:09:24.840 those things, it's just, yeah, it weighs you down.

00:09:30.260 But the Lord is so incredibly kind.

00:09:33.860 Whenever I feel like I'm getting a firestorm of criticism, whether it's from the left or

00:09:38.800 whether it's from this camp, who I don't think I could call conservative, and I wouldn't

00:09:42.900 in general call Christian, but certainly they identify that way, the Lord is so kind to send

00:09:47.920 me encouragement, whether it's a text from my friend Katie Faust, which is just so like,

00:09:53.420 right, sorry, I could cry at the Lord's just like grace when he does this, like literally

00:09:59.340 yesterday.

00:10:00.460 Let's see if I can pull it up.

00:10:02.580 I was just, I was sitting and I was just thinking about how this is just discouraging.

00:10:08.800 And yeah, yesterday at 7.37 a.m., and Katie Faust just randomly texts me, I'm praying for you

00:10:18.340 in the midst of the online pile on, the online pylon that seems to be reignited whenever you do

00:10:23.920 anything at all, praying especially that your confidence in the Lord and His calling is not

00:10:27.960 shaken.

00:10:28.840 And I said that came at exactly the right moment.

00:10:31.660 And I just love how the Lord works through His people to build up the body of Christ and

00:10:38.520 to remind us that His calling, that His will, that His word is what matters, that His approval

00:10:47.100 of what we do is what matters.

00:10:51.300 I also got this sweet video, and I don't have permission to play it, and so I won't play

00:10:57.660 it, but a couple at the Ark Encounter, they were at a conference there, and Ken Ham's assistant

00:11:07.580 sent us this video of this couple who was there just really sweet saying, you know, I first

00:11:14.360 heard the gospel and believed the gospel because I listened to Relatable.

00:11:17.460 And these two people who said they used to be these progressive agnostics or atheists,

00:11:23.820 they heard the gospel Unrelatable, they became Christians, they got married, they have a child,

00:11:28.760 and of course, they love Ken Ham, and Ken Ham is the one who persuaded them against evolution.

00:11:33.860 And I'm like, gosh, the Lord is so sweet to remind us of our purpose, that it's eternal,

00:11:40.360 that God's eternal plan of redemption is going off without a hitch, that it is not dependent

00:11:44.200 upon the opinions of people online who have no authority over me, whose perspective does

00:11:52.760 not matter at all in my life.

00:11:56.700 And I just got another message from someone yesterday who said that they had been praying

00:12:02.000 for so long, she and her mom, about their sister to come to Christ, but she was completely,

00:12:07.060 completely against it, completely opposed to Christianity.

00:12:10.340 And yet for the past two Sundays has decided to go to church because she, by the grace

00:12:16.880 of God and the power of the Holy Spirit, started listening to Relatable.

00:12:19.860 And I'm like, yes, Lord, that is what matters.

00:12:23.200 That's what matters, what the Lord is doing, not just through me, but through all of you.

00:12:28.320 So I don't mean this to center on me, for you to feel bad about me, of course, or for me,

00:12:33.560 but I would love for you to pray for me.

00:12:35.780 Of course, I'm always asking for your prayers, just as I pray for you, but it's also encouragement

00:12:42.320 to you, okay?

00:12:43.400 You don't have to be a podcaster.

00:12:45.420 You don't have to be an influencer to deal with this kind of criticism.

00:12:48.560 I'm sure you have your own negative things that you go through or negative feedback that

00:12:54.900 you get in your own life that might be unfounded.

00:12:58.540 And I just want to remind you that if you live by the crowd, you will die by the crowd.

00:13:03.860 Like, if you are bullied and carried by other people's compliments, you will be destroyed

00:13:10.360 by people's criticism.

00:13:12.720 And so you can't allow people's compliments of you to be your strength or to be your sustenance

00:13:20.900 or to be the reason that you keep going.

00:13:23.480 And you cannot allow your detractors to be the people to get you down because that goes

00:13:30.060 to show whom you are actually following and whom you are working for.

00:13:35.720 That doesn't mean that you don't have feelings one way or another, and I think that's okay.

00:13:41.400 But if you are doing the next right thing with excellence and faith and for the glory of God,

00:13:46.820 then his glory is what matters.

00:13:49.060 And look, all of us, male and female, we are different.

00:13:53.000 First of all, we are called to different things.

00:13:55.160 We have different strengths, different weaknesses.

00:13:58.180 There are different leadership roles within the church for men.

00:14:01.260 And I've always been extremely clear on that, have never blurred those lines myself in theology

00:14:06.860 or in practice.

00:14:09.420 But all of us are called to make disciples.

00:14:13.740 All of us are called to do everything for the glory of God.

00:14:17.520 All of us are called to be filled with the fruit of the spirit.

00:14:19.980 All of us are called to put away all malice and bitterness and anger and rivalry and jealousy

00:14:26.520 and deceit.

00:14:27.200 And I just, a lot of these people who are critics online happen to also be extremely crass, 0.90

00:14:34.140 extremely slanderous, and extremely boastful, extremely arrogant.

00:14:38.460 And I just want to read you Romans 1.

00:14:41.160 When you see someone who professes Christ, maybe they've even got some kind of like Christian

00:14:46.620 phrase in their bio, but they're degrading towards people, women or anyone else, they're 1.00

00:14:53.960 nasty in what they say, they're cutting, they're derisive and divisive.

00:15:01.580 Instead of building up, they're constantly tearing down in the hopes that it'll make them 0.52

00:15:05.740 feel better.

00:15:08.140 I want you to go to Romans 1 and read about those who are depraved in body and in mind.

00:15:13.520 We focus on homosexuality when it comes to this chapter.

00:15:17.900 And I think rightly so.

00:15:18.940 I have over and over again.

00:15:21.960 But this is someone who has been given over to sin.

00:15:26.420 This is what they are like.

00:15:27.700 This is Romans 1, 29 through 32.

00:15:29.760 And it reminds me of a lot of the people that are, not everyone, but a lot of the people

00:15:34.260 igniting this just kind of malicious chatter online.

00:15:37.600 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice.

00:15:41.940 They're full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. 0.95

00:15:45.580 They are gossips, slanders, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, 1.00

00:15:51.200 disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 1.00

00:15:54.700 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, 1.00

00:15:59.160 they not only do them, but give approval to those who practice them.

00:16:04.020 Gosh, a lot of this crowd has a lot of praise for people like Nick Fuentes.

00:16:09.180 And a lot of anger towards sisters in Christ who are preaching the gospel and saying true

00:16:20.420 things.

00:16:21.380 Reminds me a lot of Romans 1 and a lack of self-control.

00:16:25.820 So look at the fruit of what you're doing.

00:16:28.880 I'm very thankful to say and thankful to all of you that by the grace of God, there have

00:16:34.240 been thousands and thousands of women in this audience whose minds have been changed about

00:16:38.660 abortion, whose minds have been changed about the gospel, whose minds have been changed about

00:16:42.880 hormonal birth control and IVF and surrogacy, the death penalty, crime, immigration, gender,

00:16:50.580 marriage.

00:16:52.100 I'm just so thankful for that.

00:16:53.600 I'm thankful for the fruit that God is responsible for.

00:16:56.360 And as long as he calls me to this, I will continue to do it.

00:16:59.180 And I just encourage you in the same way, continue to listen to the Lord, continue to follow the

00:17:06.120 prompting of his Holy Spirit, and continue to do the next right thing in faith with excellence

00:17:11.920 and for the glory of God.

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00:19:05.740 Let's get into what we're actually going to talk about today.

00:19:14.860 That was kind of a longer monologue than I intended.

00:19:17.120 And like I said, I'll get into some biblical detail on Wednesday.

00:19:20.140 First, I want to talk about SNAP because I know that you are seeing a lot of stuff right

00:19:27.820 now from professing Christians online.

00:19:30.100 This is on the other side.

00:19:31.300 I would say these are people who call themselves progressive Christians talking about how the

00:19:36.600 Republican government is anti-Christian and how Republican Christians should stand

00:19:42.360 up against the ending of SNAP benefits that supposedly Donald Trump is responsible for.

00:19:48.820 So first, we're going to look at the facts, like what is SNAP?

00:19:52.680 What is going on there?

00:19:53.840 Why are people saying that people are going to starve?

00:19:56.580 And then, of course, what is the biblical role of the government?

00:19:59.020 Should Christians be standing up and saying, yes, this is unjust? 0.87

00:20:03.280 Okay, so first, let's look at what's causing this.

00:20:06.540 If you don't know about the Schumer shutdown, you need to go back and you need to listen to

00:20:10.080 the episode with my dad.

00:20:11.860 My dad explained the shutdown, what is actually going on, and who is actually responsible.

00:20:16.480 And so here's what's happening.

00:20:19.760 The ongoing government shutdown has caused federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition

00:20:24.260 Assistance Program.

00:20:25.680 So that is SNAP.

00:20:27.280 And that is going to run out, that did run out, on Saturday, November 1st, leaving about

00:20:32.860 42 million low-income Americans without access to their monthly food benefits.

00:20:38.340 That number alone is stunning and goes to show that there's a deeper problem.

00:20:42.880 If we've got 42 million Americans that rely on the taxpayer for their food, we've got deeper

00:20:51.900 cultural and economic problems.

00:20:54.580 The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirms that the $9.5 billion that's allocated for this

00:21:01.020 month's SNAP benefits has been depleted due to the shutdown.

00:21:06.580 While Senate Democrats could end the shutdown, and this is really important, the Democrats in

00:21:11.660 the Senate could end the shutdown at any time by simply voting for the clean, continuing

00:21:16.820 resolution, the CR, that Republicans proposed, they continue to try to blame Republicans for

00:21:22.960 the shutdown.

00:21:23.520 And this kind of thing always happens between Republicans and Democrats, depending on who

00:21:27.240 is in the majority.

00:21:28.940 But in a shocking twist, CNN's Jake Tapper has been calling out the Democrats for refusing

00:21:34.240 to negotiate with the Republicans, and actually said this to Congresswoman Catherine Clark.

00:21:40.240 Here is Jake Tapper, sub-13.

00:21:42.900 Just as a point of fact, the way that we have always covered shutdowns is that the party that

00:21:47.600 is not voting for the CR, the continuing resolution to fund the government, is the party that is

00:21:52.680 blocking the government funding and is responsible for the shutdown.

00:21:56.800 That's how we did it the last time in 2018, 2019.

00:22:00.420 That's the time we did before that, during the Obama administration.

00:22:03.540 I mean, it's your party that is refusing, in the Senate, that is refusing to vote for

00:22:08.820 the continuing resolution.

00:22:10.940 Okay, Democrats, you've lost Jake Tapper, at least on this.

00:22:14.180 And if you've lost Jake Tapper on this, then you're in a bad spot.

00:22:18.500 And you know what?

00:22:19.020 Good for Jake Tapper, for just being fair.

00:22:21.420 It's sad that being unbiased, like, it makes the news nowadays.

00:22:25.800 There is about $5.25 billion in contingency funding reserved for SNAP in November, but

00:22:32.400 it falls short of the $9 billion needed, according to Brooke Rollins.

00:22:36.800 Again, like, oh my goodness, $9 billion of taxpayer funding a month is going towards SNAP.

00:22:45.540 Wow.

00:22:46.500 Secretary Rollins told reporters that Democrats are wrong about using the contingency fund,

00:22:51.880 explaining it can only flow if underlying appropriations are approved and is meant for

00:22:56.780 events like hurricanes, not general shutdowns.

00:22:59.880 Rollins added that even if the fund could be used, it would not cover half of November's

00:23:04.340 cost.

00:23:05.140 President Trump stated on social media that his administration lacks clear legal authority

00:23:08.960 to fund SNAP during the shutdown.

00:23:11.460 So basically, Democrats need to agree to negotiate, and they're not.

00:23:15.960 You've got Donald Trump's Truth Social post.

00:23:18.940 I won't read the whole thing, but this was on October 31st.

00:23:21.760 He said, our government lawyers don't think we have legal authority to pay SNAP with certain

00:23:25.160 monies that we have available.

00:23:27.600 Look, it's up to the Democrats.

00:23:29.000 He said the Democrats should quit this charade where they hurt people for their own political

00:23:33.840 reasons and immediately reopen the government.

00:23:37.300 If you use SNAP benefits, call this in a Democrat and tell them to reopen the government.

00:23:41.840 And then he puts Chuck Schumer's office number on there.

00:23:47.840 Wow.

00:23:47.980 Okay, so what are the problems with SNAP?

00:23:52.200 Well, there are a lot of problems with SNAP, and this can be debated.

00:23:56.060 There are plenty of perspectives on both sides of this.

00:24:00.360 Should we just unconditionally give taxpayer money to people who say they need it and have

00:24:06.340 essentially no strings attached?

00:24:08.000 You should be able to buy almost whatever you want to, or should there be some limitations?

00:24:13.460 And then, of course, there's probably some people who just don't believe that this is

00:24:18.220 the role of the government at all, that this should just not be happening.

00:24:20.960 In a CBS interview, a SNAP recipient named Erin Anis said that the government benefits allow her to live

00:24:26.540 independently, even though she has family that would be willing to support her.

00:24:30.860 Having those resources, what does it mean to you and for your life?

00:24:36.920 Everything.

00:24:37.920 Everything.

00:24:38.920 It means everything to me.

00:24:39.920 I don't know what I would do except have to rely on my family and I don't want to do that

00:24:44.300 right now.

00:24:45.300 There'll be a time when I'll probably have to live with one of my sons.

00:24:50.640 But for now, I want to be independent.

00:24:52.800 I want to be on my own.

00:24:54.540 Having these resources has allowed you to be independent.

00:24:56.680 Yes.

00:24:57.680 It's allowed me to be independent.

00:25:01.220 It's like people forget where this money comes from.

00:25:03.840 You're not actually independent.

00:25:05.160 You are completely dependent on the government.

00:25:08.360 And it's not on the government.

00:25:09.360 I mean, the government doesn't have its own money.

00:25:12.600 The government has money from us.

00:25:15.440 And so you have people who are willing to sacrifice, who are trying to make ends meet,

00:25:20.360 who are trying to provide for their families themselves, who are paying for this woman to 1.00

00:25:27.040 live, quote unquote, independently, to buy her groceries, even though it sounds like she

00:25:31.760 would actually be able to rely on family.

00:25:35.720 That is the better option.

00:25:37.500 That is the more moral option.

00:25:39.680 Our tax dollars are taken away from us in a compulsory way, like we have to.

00:25:46.920 We will go to jail if we don't pay our taxes.

00:25:49.640 So the government is forcing the money that we earned out of our hands and is forcibly giving

00:25:55.940 it to someone else who could rely on family to buy her groceries. 0.99

00:26:01.240 That's not ethical.

00:26:02.680 That's not moral.

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00:27:16.140 Some TikTok users have been threatening to steal from stores if they don't receive their

00:27:20.120 snap benefits slot 15.

00:27:22.060 I'm going to tell y'all straight up like this.

00:27:24.060 I just got that text that the link is definitely cut the for November.

00:27:30.160 Y'all better stay out of my way in these stores. 1.00

00:27:32.420 I'm walking out with cars and I'm not paying for.

00:27:34.780 Trump, if you won't start moving.

00:27:37.940 Oh, it's going to happen.

00:27:40.540 Okay.

00:27:41.280 There was another woman who said that she's actually making money off of the food stamps.

00:27:46.300 She gets it from the government.

00:27:47.280 She doesn't really need it.

00:27:48.100 She sells it for a little bit more money and so she said that she's making around $1,000

00:27:55.460 to $2,000 a month off of this and I guarantee you that's not just one person, that this is

00:28:01.340 something that's probably extremely prevalent.

00:28:04.840 According to a May 2024 Economic Policy Innovation Center report, food stamp enrollment surged from

00:28:10.780 17.3 million individuals in 2001 to 42.1 million in 2023.

00:28:17.740 Okay.

00:28:18.020 So over the course of 22 years, that's more than doubled.

00:28:22.240 That's a lot.

00:28:23.740 6.1% enrollment in 2001 to 12.6 in 2023.

00:28:30.560 Again, we've got a lot of really deep problems.

00:28:34.240 48% of food stamp recipients stay on the rolls for 20 months or longer compared to less than 20%

00:28:40.120 after the 1996 welfare reform.

00:28:43.200 Not only are costs to taxpayers skyrocketing, but RFK pointed out in August that a large

00:28:48.440 portion of the funds are going toward candy and sugary drinks.

00:28:51.780 This is something that RFK has been talking about.

00:28:54.200 He's the HHS secretary that the food stamps are actually fueling the diabetes epidemic.

00:29:01.080 18%, he says, if federal SNAP benefits to poor families is spent on candy and sugary drinks.

00:29:06.440 Now, you have people trying to frame this saying, you know, poor kids deserve to have cookies or

00:29:11.520 poor kids deserve to have the juice box. 0.99

00:29:15.080 Okay.

00:29:16.260 That is the wrong way to frame this.

00:29:19.360 The right way to frame this is should the taxpayer, say the middle-class taxpayer who is making

00:29:26.640 just enough money to get by, should they be forced to pay for the food of someone that is not actually

00:29:34.860 essential to them living?

00:29:37.020 I think most of us would say, okay, I am willing to pay taxes to help the truly destitute family

00:29:44.740 who needs bread and meat and water to get by.

00:29:50.080 Like, well, I think all of us would say, yes, you know what government, you can handle that.

00:29:55.860 Even though I think primarily this should be the church's responsibility.

00:29:59.480 This should be charitable giving.

00:30:01.600 I think the church, I think Christians do a much better, more efficient and more trustworthy

00:30:05.560 job than doing this than the government.

00:30:08.340 And I do think that's the church's primary job, but I think all of us would be okay.

00:30:11.760 Okay.

00:30:11.960 If you want to take a portion of my hard-earned dollars, my tax money, and you want to give

00:30:17.060 it to those who are truly destitute for a temporary amount of time to get their essentials, I think

00:30:21.960 most of us would say, yeah, that's fine.

00:30:24.480 That's okay.

00:30:25.300 But if you were telling me that you are, that I am forced to pay for the diabetes of a kid

00:30:34.160 whose parents could be working or could be relying on family members, that's not just,

00:30:39.640 that's just theft.

00:30:41.180 It's just theft.

00:30:42.000 And it not only aids in diabetes and health problems, but this just entire entitlement

00:30:48.000 mentality that you deserve other people's money.

00:30:52.780 Again, for things that are not even essential, but are actually detrimental.

00:30:56.140 So I agree with those who are saying that, no, your taxpayer dollars should not be funding 0.98

00:31:02.120 that literal crap for people. 0.97

00:31:05.340 What else is being done to improve this broken system? 0.99

00:31:08.960 So there's fraud, there are people who want, who are on it, who don't really need it.

00:31:13.500 We're funding all kinds of non-essential food that is not only fueling this diabetes epidemic,

00:31:20.180 but also like these sugary foods and dyes and all of that, they have a negative impact

00:31:25.080 on people's behavior, on people's mental health.

00:31:28.020 I mean, they exacerbate things like ADHD.

00:31:30.420 People with ADHD generally have low impulse control.

00:31:34.600 Well, I would say that the nutrition epidemic that is happening and being funded by SNAP

00:31:39.420 probably has a direct impact also on the crime epidemic.

00:31:45.580 And a lot of times among the same demographic and we are all funding that, that's a problem.

00:31:51.720 Okay.

00:31:52.000 So new SNAP rules went into effect on Saturday, even though benefits will not be issued through

00:31:57.020 November.

00:31:57.520 The one big, beautiful bill enacts these new restrictions expected to cut federal spending

00:32:02.540 on SNAP by an estimated $186 billion over the next decade.

00:32:06.860 Adults without dependents must now prove they work at least 80 hours a month.

00:32:11.760 And that's a low bar, y'all, are pursuing education or are in a training program to remain eligible

00:32:17.580 for SNAP benefits beyond a maximum of three months.

00:32:20.540 Yes, that is kind.

00:32:22.220 That is loving.

00:32:23.160 That is saying, I'm not just going to keep on incentivizing you not to work.

00:32:27.920 So you're continuing to get into trouble.

00:32:29.860 Work is dignity.

00:32:30.940 This is like Ronald Reagan era focus was ensuring that everyone had access to the dignity of work.

00:32:37.420 Everyone was incentivized to the dignity of work because human beings need work.

00:32:42.600 It doesn't always have to be a paid work.

00:32:45.780 Like, you know, women who work in the home, that is still work. 1.00

00:32:48.800 But we are all called to do something productive in one way or another.

00:32:54.700 When we don't, our bodies and our minds and our souls atrophy.

00:32:59.320 It is very important for the health and the wealth of the community and of a nation for

00:33:05.180 its able-bodied, able-minded people to work in some kind of productive way.

00:33:11.780 When we don't have that, we have all kinds of problems.

00:33:15.000 And so I think this is good.

00:33:16.000 It should be tied to this kind of incentive.

00:33:19.020 All adults younger than 65 years old must prove that they are working to continue receiving 0.98

00:33:24.420 benefits.

00:33:25.000 Young adults, veterans, and homeless people must now meet these work requirements to

00:33:28.740 receive more than three months of SNAP benefits.

00:33:31.200 The changes impact illegal alien eligibility for SNAP.

00:33:34.460 That's good.

00:33:35.040 Affecting illegal immigrants, including non-citizen U.S. nationals.

00:33:38.640 Those without legal status, state agencies must review household circumstances during an immigrant

00:33:45.680 certification process for benefits and take appropriate action before notifying them of

00:33:50.600 ineligibility for SNAP.

00:33:54.200 All right.

00:33:54.740 So I think these are very common sense restrictions.

00:33:57.260 Actually, they're not even that strict.

00:33:59.400 They're just very common sense.

00:34:01.200 And they are protective of the U.S. taxpayer, which is the right thing to do.

00:34:05.420 That is part of the government's job.

00:34:11.600 I'm so excited to tell you guys about Operation Christmas Child by Samaritan's Purse.

00:34:17.640 We've been doing Operation Christmas Child boxes for years, literally since I was little.

00:34:22.180 I think it was something that we would actually do in school.

00:34:24.700 We would create these little shoe boxes, and we'd put different things like unsharpened

00:34:29.160 pencils and socks and hair ties or little cars for the boys, toothbrushes, all kinds of

00:34:37.000 things.

00:34:37.700 And these boxes are taken to kids all over the world who are in poor areas, who don't get

00:34:44.640 a Christmas present.

00:34:45.500 They might not even know what Christmas is about.

00:34:48.200 They don't know the joy of the gospel.

00:34:50.320 Samaritan's Purse takes your shoe box that you filled to all of these kids throughout the

00:34:55.300 year.

00:34:55.600 And these kids get to unbox them.

00:34:57.340 I've watched a video of this.

00:34:59.140 It truly is so beautiful.

00:35:00.580 They're so excited just to get a box of necessities and a couple toys.

00:35:05.580 And you get to be a part of this by making a shoe box with your family.

00:35:09.340 It's a great way to teach your kids about generosity, too.

00:35:12.580 All you have to do, get a shoe box.

00:35:14.980 It can be plastic.

00:35:15.840 It can be cardboard, but plastic is better.

00:35:18.320 It's a little bit sturdier.

00:35:19.960 And then go to samaritanspurse.org.

00:35:22.780 And when you do that, you'll see the kinds of things that you can put in the box.

00:35:27.660 You check the age group you want to send it to, boy or girl.

00:35:31.300 And they will ensure that your box brings joy in the gospel of Jesus Christ to kids who

00:35:39.360 need it.

00:35:39.840 It really is just so sweet.

00:35:41.740 And there's different drop-off locations, too.

00:35:44.280 Different churches that will take your box.

00:35:46.100 And then Samaritan's Purse will come and pick them up and fly them across the globe. 0.95

00:35:50.100 Go to samaritanspurse.org slash OCC.

00:35:54.480 Samaritanspurse.org slash OCC.

00:35:56.980 So what's a biblical perspective on this?

00:36:04.680 Because you've got a lot of people quoting Jesus saying, you know, I was hungry and you

00:36:10.680 gave me something to eat, but only if I qualified.

00:36:13.840 Like I was sick and you healed me, but only if I had the proper insurance.

00:36:18.920 And they're completely misinterpreting and misapplying Jesus's words.

00:36:22.880 First of all, Jesus is not speaking to the government.

00:36:25.820 Jesus is speaking to you.

00:36:28.060 And the establishment of the early church, when we read in Acts 2, I believe, that Christians

00:36:33.460 were giving to one another and making sure that everyone had what they needed.

00:36:39.060 This was voluntary, empowered by the Holy Spirit.

00:36:42.180 This was not compulsory.

00:36:43.960 The government wasn't coming in and saying, hey, you have to give your resources to this

00:36:49.060 poor person over there.

00:36:50.180 That's what socialism is.

00:36:51.740 Because in Christianity, we do this cheerfully.

00:36:55.520 We do this empowered by the love of Christ and the Holy Spirit.

00:36:59.320 In socialism, in this kind of wealth redistribution world that we currently live in, the government

00:37:06.920 is saying, you do this or you go to jail.

00:37:08.740 That has nothing to do with Christianity whatsoever.

00:37:11.840 Now, we can argue about how much the government should give, what the safety net should look like.

00:37:17.780 But my opinion is that it should be a safety net.

00:37:20.960 You don't stay there.

00:37:22.660 It's not a hammock for you to rest in.

00:37:25.040 It is a safety net that will catch you before you fall into destitution.

00:37:29.260 And you are supposed to get out of it eventually, if at all possible.

00:37:34.180 2 Thessalonians 3, 6 through 10 reminds us of this.

00:37:36.960 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.

00:37:46.620 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it.

00:37:54.840 But with toil and labor, we worked night and day that we might not be a burden to any of you.

00:38:00.920 For even when we were with you, we would give you this command.

00:38:04.300 If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

00:38:08.320 Now, he didn't say not able to work.

00:38:10.040 He said not willing to work.

00:38:12.280 There are people who are truly unable to work who might really need help.

00:38:15.700 Again, I think it's the church's responsibility to care for those people, but I don't think it's wrong for the government to have a role to play in that.

00:38:24.360 But we should not be incentivizing idleness.

00:38:27.080 It's bad for you.

00:38:28.540 1 Timothy 5, 8.

00:38:29.560 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and worse than an unbeliever. 0.99

00:38:37.720 Wow, that's really bad.

00:38:39.360 If you are not willing to help those within your sphere who would otherwise have to rely on the government, if you can, you are worse than an unbeliever. 0.99

00:38:49.060 That's how important taking care of each other and generosity is, not only in your own biological family, but also in the family of faith.

00:38:56.980 Proverbs 14, 31.

00:38:58.820 Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

00:39:04.760 So we should not be oppressing the poor.

00:39:06.680 We shouldn't be stealing from the poor, but we also shouldn't incentivize the poor to be lazy.

00:39:12.700 We should be generous.

00:39:14.080 We should give to the needy.

00:39:15.380 We should help those who really need it.

00:39:18.380 Individuals in the church is much better at that, actually, than the government is.

00:39:24.540 Ephesians 4, 28.

00:39:25.580 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands,

00:39:32.940 so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

00:39:37.520 A lot of times we see work as this necessary evil in our culture today,

00:39:42.160 that work is not something that you should have to do,

00:39:46.920 that it's something that you, unfortunately, because of capitalism, are obligated to do,

00:39:52.300 but people shouldn't have to.

00:39:53.780 But that is not the biblical prescription that we see.

00:39:57.580 And actually, we see that work precedes the fall.

00:40:01.900 Work precedes sin.

00:40:03.700 Before sin came into the world, Adam was given a responsibility to work the ground and to keep it,

00:40:10.100 to cultivate, to name the animals.

00:40:12.860 And so I believe that there will be work in heaven.

00:40:15.260 And the curse actually came in the form of the potential fruitlessness of labor,

00:40:21.900 that you might toil, you might try to cultivate the land, but it only gives you thorns.

00:40:26.960 Work is not the curse.

00:40:28.940 Work is something that we innately need, that all of us need.

00:40:32.860 And there's a whole other conversation to be had about retirement culture in the West,

00:40:38.420 this idea that we are all owed basically paradise and rest from our labor before we actually die.

00:40:47.420 We are always called to a form of productivity.

00:40:50.600 And I think any government that disincentivizes that is really evil.

00:40:55.340 It's toxic empathy.

00:40:57.340 Like in the name of trying to help someone that you think is the victim,

00:41:01.560 you actually end up hurting them and you ignore the second order effects,

00:41:05.560 which is an economic term for like the other consequence of making the choice that you are making.

00:41:13.220 And so you're forgetting about the person on the other side of the moral equation,

00:41:16.800 which is the taxpayer.

00:41:19.460 So this is toxic empathy at work.

00:41:21.980 You can care for the poor.

00:41:22.980 You should care for the poor, but don't outsource your compassion to the government.

00:41:26.200 That's not obedience to Christ.

00:41:28.060 That's just laziness.

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00:42:51.080 All right, so tomorrow is election day, this New York City mayoral race that you've probably been hearing a lot about.

00:43:05.800 So you've got Cuomo, who used to be Governor Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo, I almost said Chris Cuomo.

00:43:12.400 He is running for mayor.

00:43:15.300 And then we've also got Zoran Mom Donnie.

00:43:19.360 And he is projected to win, which is extremely disturbing because he is an out-and-out socialist.

00:43:27.020 I really thought that the whole socialism thing was dying off.

00:43:32.300 Like, I really did.

00:43:33.440 I just thought, I felt like we hadn't heard about it in a long time. 0.99

00:43:36.300 Turning Point's motto used to be, socialism sucks. 0.94

00:43:41.200 And, you know, I have Justin Haskins on all the time. 0.95

00:43:44.040 He has an organization that is against socialism, fighting against socialism.

00:43:48.780 And I just felt like for a period of time, it's not really something that we talked about because,

00:43:52.700 obviously, it wasn't super popular nationally with someone like Bernie Sanders.

00:43:57.600 But now it's back, at least in New York City.

00:43:59.980 And I guess it just never left.

00:44:01.140 So who is Zoran Mom Donnie?

00:44:03.640 And why should those of us who don't live in New York City care about this?

00:44:06.640 So he is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

00:44:10.420 And he is a state assemblyman in New York.

00:44:16.120 And he unexpectedly won the Democratic primary and is now leaving in the polls for this mayoral

00:44:21.700 election.

00:44:23.320 He is running against, as I said, Andrew Cuomo, who's running as an independent and then Republican

00:44:28.780 Curtis Sliwa.

00:44:30.740 He was born in Uganda in 1991 to Indian parents.

00:44:35.720 He immigrated to the U.S. at age seven.

00:44:39.360 Both of his parents are professors and are very well-off, very successful after immigrating

00:44:47.620 to America.

00:44:48.360 He is Muslim.

00:44:50.120 He worked as a foreclosure prevention and housing counselor before entering into politics and

00:44:56.380 has composed and produced rap music, which is very important.

00:45:00.140 And he has been a politician since 2020.

00:45:03.500 Mom Donnie supports and wants to strengthen New York City's sanctuary laws to limit ICE actions.

00:45:10.120 He has actually pledged to provide taxpayer-expensed legal counsel to all detained illegal aliens

00:45:17.760 if he is elected mayor.

00:45:20.240 We know that sanctuary city policies have led to the murder of American citizens like Blake

00:45:26.160 and Riley, like Kate Steinle. 0.61

00:45:28.180 And yet that does not matter to the modern-day Democrat.

00:45:32.540 Mom Donnie has received endorsements from Democratic figures like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth

00:45:37.040 Warren, AOC, New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

00:45:41.740 Okay, so here are some of his disturbing policies.

00:45:48.400 When we look at crime, this is, for example, from the New York Times.

00:45:52.020 His core plan is to create a $1.1 billion civilian-led Department of Community Safety that would

00:45:58.040 consolidate existing programs into public safety, victim assistance, community repair,

00:46:03.540 deploying mental health teams instead of police to 911 crisis calls involving homelessness,

00:46:09.540 addiction, or behavioral health.

00:46:10.920 This is such a horrible idea.

00:46:12.620 Democrats don't understand human nature.

00:46:14.920 They don't understand the existence of evil.

00:46:17.120 They think that wickedness can be negotiated with.

00:46:21.140 And there may be some cases where, I don't know, maybe the police aren't necessary, where

00:46:26.260 you actually do need some kind of therapist, but that's rare.

00:46:29.400 We are talking about, in many cases, inebriated or high, very violent and strong men.

00:46:35.280 And if you've got me, five-five lady social worker walking out there being like, oh, can 1.00

00:46:42.800 you please stop sexually assaulting this woman? 0.51

00:46:46.560 It's not going to work. 0.99

00:46:48.160 Like, you need to be armed.

00:46:49.900 You need to be able to take someone down using non-lethal or, if necessary, lethal force.

00:46:56.200 You have to be strong.

00:46:57.680 You have to be aggressive.

00:46:58.720 And, yes, of course, you have to be able to interact with a human being and have compassion

00:47:03.660 and all of that.

00:47:05.200 And so, sure, if you want to say that we need to better train our police officers to make

00:47:09.580 sure that they are not only lethal, but they can deal with these situations, I think police

00:47:13.980 officers in general do a good job of that.

00:47:16.040 But if you want to go that route, okay.

00:47:18.000 But this just means that you don't understand the problem.

00:47:21.020 You don't understand that people aren't necessarily committing crimes because there's just like a

00:47:25.640 misunderstanding or because they need to be talked to.

00:47:29.000 They actually need some kind of force to restrain them from doing evil.

00:47:34.100 So this is all expensed by the taxpayer, of course, and this is going to just increase

00:47:39.200 taxes to pay for a program like this.

00:47:42.200 There's no operational detail to this plan.

00:47:45.360 There have been pilot programs like this in the past in New York City, and they have collapsed

00:47:49.960 because it just doesn't work.

00:47:51.800 You're relying on non-police staff, and eventually they don't want to do it.

00:47:55.360 It's a violent situation.

00:47:56.720 It's a tough situation.

00:47:57.860 They're not trained for it.

00:47:59.300 They don't even have the personality to deal with this kind of evil.

00:48:02.720 It just doesn't work.

00:48:04.580 Tax hikes face Governor Hochul's veto threat.

00:48:09.080 She is opposing, apparently, raising taxes.

00:48:11.620 So is this even going to work?

00:48:13.700 The Police Benevolent Association insists the only fix is hiring more police officers and

00:48:18.920 improving pay and conditions.

00:48:20.460 I think I would listen to police officers when it comes to that.

00:48:25.380 He has been for it in the past, that abolition of, or defunding, rather, of the police.

00:48:34.580 He is trying to distance himself from that now.

00:48:38.160 But during his first campaign back in 2019, 2020, Mamdani signed on to the Socialist of

00:48:45.020 America's Agenda for Decarceration, which called for eliminating cash bail.

00:48:50.240 So if you're awaiting your trial, you're just going to be released back into the streets,

00:48:54.500 decriminalizing drug possession and prostitution, removing mandatory minimum sentences,

00:49:00.680 and fighting new jail construction.

00:49:04.540 Okay?

00:49:04.660 So no new jails, basically no way to deal with the violent crime, except for the social worker

00:49:10.500 lady going out there and saying, please stop doing bad things. 1.00

00:49:14.080 The agenda expressed full support for police and prison abolitionists, so not support for

00:49:20.740 police, but the abolition of police, Tiffany Caban, and aimed to dismantle what it called

00:49:25.680 a violent carceral system in favor of healing and community programs.

00:49:29.560 Despite this history, Mamdani refuses to disavow or reject any of these things.

00:49:34.660 He also believes in city-run grocery stores.

00:49:37.840 So this is, again, taxpayer-funded grocery store.

00:49:42.500 All right?

00:49:43.140 He would redirect $140 million in corporate subsidies given to private grocers.

00:49:50.800 Grocery profit margins are already below 2%, so private discount chains already keep prices

00:49:56.580 low using complex supply chains, economies of scale that government stores can't match.

00:50:01.740 There was something that was tried like this in Kansas City.

00:50:04.780 It lost nearly $900,000 in its first year.

00:50:09.220 New York ranks number one in the U.S.

00:50:10.860 Metro areas for supermarket access.

00:50:13.460 So this is just not a problem that needs to be solved with tax hikes.

00:50:18.080 SNAP already supports 1.79 million New Yorkers, 20% of the population.

00:50:23.000 It is, and they do this far more cost-effectively than government supermarkets would.

00:50:29.380 He also believes in freezing the rent on all rent-stabilized apartments in New York City

00:50:34.240 to make housing more affordable.

00:50:36.960 But a front raise would make stabilized units even harder to get, pushing more people into

00:50:41.620 market-rate apartments and driving up prices for everyone else.

00:50:45.780 Landlords would have less money to maintain or repair buildings, leading to worse living conditions.

00:50:51.000 It discourages new housing construction, encourages owners to convert rentals into condos or co-ops,

00:50:57.800 shrinking the overall rental supply over time.

00:51:00.660 When demand stays the same and supply goes down, prices go up.

00:51:05.320 It's just an untenable position or proposal to have.

00:51:09.480 But all people hear is, prices are going to go down.

00:51:12.900 Things are going to be more affordable.

00:51:15.040 But it just doesn't work.

00:51:17.300 It doesn't work.

00:51:18.120 And you know who was one of the biggest and most public supporters of Zoran Mamdani,

00:51:22.980 who was, of course, wildly pro-choice, wildly pro-transing kids.

00:51:27.420 He's talked about that, too.

00:51:28.840 Government-funded puberty blockers in transition for even minors.

00:51:34.780 Miss Rachel.

00:51:35.820 Miss Rachel, the person who taught your kid how to overcome his speech impediment.

00:51:40.640 And I talked about Miss Rachel and the dangers of Miss Rachel and how she allowed this gender-fluid person to be front and center in her videos a couple years ago 1.00

00:51:49.820 and got so much blowback for that.

00:51:52.800 Y'all, the fact that she is out and out supporting Zoran Mamdani means that her politics are radical.

00:51:59.100 I know that she probably has a good heart.

00:52:02.480 I think that she is not just a victim, but a very prominent purveyor of toxic empathy.

00:52:08.960 Empathy that is not in submission to reality or biblical truth at all.

00:52:16.500 But I'm sorry.

00:52:17.540 I just don't think she needs to be supported in any way.

00:52:20.820 I just don't.

00:52:21.540 Not saying that everything that she's ever done is wrong or is not helpful in some way.

00:52:25.620 Um, but that's really radical to support the socialist.

00:52:29.480 And she's out there saying that, oh, he's going to make it more affordable to live and to work without even thinking at all about whether or not the proposals are effective.

00:52:40.400 People so often, especially when it comes to Democrats, judge policies by their stated intentions rather than the outcomes of the policies.

00:52:49.660 Of course, he is Muslim, so he is very pro-Islam.

00:52:54.300 Um, he's just a radical in every sense.

00:52:58.240 He campaigned with a notorious, uh, Brooklyn imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

00:53:08.080 We'll put up the picture from the New York Post who has been linked to other terrorist activity in the United States, including urging jihad on the Big Apple.

00:53:17.840 So that's great.

00:53:19.060 His anti-Western sentiment in general, right here, we have him, um, putting, he took a picture of his middle finger flicking off Christopher Columbus, the statue of Christopher Columbus.

00:53:34.600 You know, the person, one of the people that we all have to thank for living in this incredible, uh, free country where we have the right to speak and worship as we see fit.

00:53:46.360 But if Momdani wanted to live in a place that was not discovered by Christopher Columbus, he could go back to Nigeria. 0.98

00:53:54.240 But for some reason, he has decided to stay here to run for office, whereas if he were a religious minority in somewhere like his home country, he wouldn't even be allowed to do that.

00:54:05.860 Just the entitlement, the disgusting lack of gratitude that he has towards the incredible liberty and the privilege and the wealth and the power that he has been afforded here.

00:54:17.740 He has defended this term, globalized the intifada, um, he refers to it on this ex post here where he, uh, promotes this idea of globalizing the intifada.

00:54:31.920 It refers to a horrific wave of terror attacks that killed thousands of Jews, globalizing it.

00:54:37.720 It's a direct call for violence against Jews.

00:54:41.080 Um, he said that it just means protesting Israeli occupation of Gaza.

00:54:46.340 Well, first of all, Israeli occupation of Gaza is in itself a radically leftist way to see Israel existing where it has existed since ancient times.

00:54:59.280 Um, he has done interviews where he, you know, talks about globalizing the intifada.

00:55:06.260 It's not a bad thing.

00:55:07.480 He can't condemn it.

00:55:08.660 We're literally talking about supporting terrorism. 0.50

00:55:11.140 And here is a clip of him doing that.

00:55:13.160 And quickly, for the people who care about the language and who feel really concerned by that phrase, why not just condemn it?

00:55:21.520 My concern is to start to walk down the line of language and making clear what language I believe is permissible or impermissible takes me into a place similar to that of the president who is looking to do those very kinds of things.

00:55:38.220 Putting people in jail for writing, putting people in jail for protesting, putting them in jail for protesting, ultimately, it's not language that I use.

00:55:43.780 It's language I understand there are concerns about.

00:55:45.900 And what I will do is showcase my vision for the city through my words and my actions.

00:55:50.240 He also did this whole thing about 9-11.

00:55:55.600 Okay, so he is about to be the mayor of New York City. 0.85

00:56:00.020 9-11 happened 24 years ago where over 2,000 Americans were murdered by Muslim terrorists.

00:56:10.040 And here is the real, here's the real consequence, the real victim of that, he says, 12.

00:56:17.860 I want to speak to the memory of my aunt.

00:56:25.820 Who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.

00:56:31.080 Okay, so this was October 22nd and he is talking about how one of the saddest parts, I guess the part that was really tragic for him was that his aunt was scared to wear her hijab because it represented, obviously, to a lot of Americans, the ideology that motivated a terrorist attack and the mass slaughter of their fellow citizens.

00:56:53.860 So, like, it's kind of, like, logical for people to have felt that way.

00:56:57.800 But the truth is America has bent over backwards to be tolerant and welcoming and accepting of Muslims and Muslim immigrants in the 24 years since America was attacked by these Muslim terrorists. 1.00

00:57:14.140 Like, we have accepted more Muslim immigrants from more terrorist hotbeds than we did for the hundreds of years leading up to 2001. 0.97

00:57:25.060 It's only increased and Muslim power in the United States has only become stronger since this terrorist attack. 1.00

00:57:32.320 So, I don't even want to hear any of this, not to mention it's a lie.

00:57:36.500 It's not true.

00:57:37.320 People found out that it actually is not, it's actually not his aunt, that it's, like, a distant cousin or it's, like, the, like, aunt of his cousin or something like that.

00:57:49.440 And people were, like, oh, you don't understand black and brown people.

00:57:54.940 That's, we just call everyone our aunt.

00:57:57.540 No, like, white people understand that.

00:58:00.640 You think that there aren't, like, family friends that we've called aunt and uncle?

00:58:03.860 It's not impossible for us to understand.

00:58:06.000 But if you're going to go out there and you're going to try to manipulate Americans into saying, well, you shouldn't, you shouldn't be scared of this.

00:58:13.280 You shouldn't worry about this.

00:58:14.420 And the real tragedy here is that my aunt was scared to wear her hijab days after a Muslim terrorist attack.

00:58:21.040 Then, like, you should probably tell the truth.

00:58:23.440 J.D. Vance points this out.

00:58:24.760 According to Zeron, the real victim of 9-11 was an auntie who got some allegedly bad looks.

00:58:31.140 Hmm.

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00:59:42.680 Okay, so what should we think about all of this?

00:59:46.120 What is the role of the government?

00:59:48.220 This is in relation to our snap conversation in Zorah Montani.

00:59:52.960 Romans 13, 4.

00:59:53.980 For he is God's servant for your good, but if you do wrong, be afraid.

00:59:57.100 For he does not bear the sword in vain.

00:59:59.400 Here we're hearing about the government, reading about the government.

01:00:02.300 For he is a servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

01:00:07.180 So the government has been ordained by God.

01:00:10.020 The government has a role.

01:00:12.480 Taxes even have a role.

01:00:14.720 But the government, as instituted by God, is supposed to reward good and punish evil,

01:00:19.940 even to the point of execution.

01:00:21.640 So what happens when you have a government authority who defines good and evil in the

01:00:28.260 opposite way that God does?

01:00:29.960 It's going to create a lot of chaos.

01:00:31.980 Proverbs 19, 5.

01:00:33.240 A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.

01:00:38.380 We need to understand that there will be judgment.

01:00:43.640 What we see over and over again throughout scripture, by the way, is that God really hates

01:00:47.660 liars.

01:00:48.660 He really hates lying. 0.99

01:00:50.360 And that should be convicting for all of us, whether it's a little white lie, or whether

01:00:54.360 it's an exaggeration, or whether it's like a slight distortion of the truth for our own

01:00:59.700 benefit.

01:01:00.420 Like we all need to be really, really careful of that.

01:01:03.100 But that includes politicians.

01:01:04.320 A lot of people believe that ends justify the means, not to God, not to God.

01:01:09.380 Proverbs 20, 17.

01:01:11.040 Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward, his mouth will be full of gravel.

01:01:19.040 This is like the fleeting appeal and ultimate ruin of promises that are built on falsehood.

01:01:24.740 We hear these promises of free buses, childcare, and groceries that are funded by unsustainable

01:01:32.900 taxes or reallocation.

01:01:34.760 I mean, it's a lie.

01:01:36.200 It's based on something that isn't true.

01:01:38.420 2 Peter 2, 3.

01:01:39.560 And in their greed, they will exploit you with false words.

01:01:42.320 Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

01:01:47.500 And while this is talking about false teachers and leaders that say that they are preaching

01:01:53.400 the gospel, this principle is true of leadership.

01:01:57.320 When leaders use deceptive promises to exploit others, that will lead to condemnation and to

01:02:05.740 chaos.

01:02:06.940 Ecclesiastes 5, 5.

01:02:08.320 It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.

01:02:13.180 Again, God takes empty promises and deceit on both the personal level and the political

01:02:20.300 level very, very seriously.

01:02:23.820 And so it matters, Republican, Democrat, Independent, what politicians say, the truth of what they

01:02:31.140 say.

01:02:31.940 All of that really, really matters, and we need to take that seriously.

01:02:36.100 It's so easy to say, well, okay, this person is better than this person.

01:02:40.280 These policies will end up better than these policies.

01:02:42.700 So we don't care at all what they say.

01:02:44.800 I'm not saying that you have to vote for a perfect person.

01:02:47.400 You've heard me say that over and over again.

01:02:49.220 There is no perfect person except for Jesus.

01:02:51.640 But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't hold our elected officials accountable and make

01:02:55.920 sure that they are following through on the promises that they offer us.

01:03:01.440 And this is going to be terrible for New York City if Mom Donnie wins. 1.00

01:03:07.040 It's going to be less safe.

01:03:08.580 It's going to be dirtier.

01:03:09.660 It's going to be more homeless.

01:03:11.020 It's going to be more drug addicted.

01:03:13.480 There are going to be more victims of poverty, more victims of crime.

01:03:17.380 It's going to be much more difficult to live there, much more difficult to thrive there.

01:03:21.900 We've seen this over and over again.

01:03:24.880 I mean, what has happened to Venezuela?

01:03:26.580 It used to be one of the richest countries in the world.

01:03:29.440 Now people can barely survive.

01:03:31.480 There's no food for them to eat anymore because of socialism.

01:03:36.340 It's not because of lack of resources.

01:03:37.980 It's not because of oppression.

01:03:39.480 It's not because of sanctions.

01:03:40.520 It's not because of Western invasion or colonialism.

01:03:43.860 It is literally because of the choice of implementing socialist policies, always in the name of helping

01:03:49.560 the least of these, always in the name of elevating the poor.

01:03:52.880 It doesn't work like that.

01:03:54.220 The same thing happened in Zimbabwe, which used to be seen as the breadbasket of Africa.

01:03:58.360 Now it's one of the poorest countries in Africa because of Robert Mugabe, who came in with a racially 1.00

01:04:06.220 Marxist message and an economically Marxist message and said in the name of liberation and the name

01:04:11.500 of helping those who are native here and going against the white people and going against the

01:04:17.620 commercial farmers and against their exploitation, he would say, we are going to make sure that

01:04:25.020 everyone has what they need.

01:04:26.080 He confiscated the land from the white commercial farmers, gave it to people who were native, caused all 1.00

01:04:31.020 kinds of division and violence.

01:04:32.580 And then what happened?

01:04:33.780 Were the native Zimbabweans better off?

01:04:36.020 Did they become richer?

01:04:37.380 Did they become healthier?

01:04:38.420 The exact opposite happened.

01:04:40.820 Zimbabwe is poor. 0.99

01:04:42.180 It is unhealthy. 1.00

01:04:43.420 It is oppressive.

01:04:44.280 It's never been able to get out from under the iron rule and legacy of Mugabe.

01:04:51.380 Same thing in Venezuela and so many other places.

01:04:53.700 I mean, the 20th century tells us a painful and bloody history of what socialism does over and

01:05:00.420 over again.

01:05:01.720 I mean, it's literally the definition of insanity.

01:05:06.640 And so, I mean, Christians, if we love our neighbor, we can't support socialism.

01:05:10.720 There's just no way to do it unless you want to outsource your love of neighbor to the government,

01:05:15.200 in which case you aren't really loving your neighbor.

01:05:17.680 You're just slothful.

01:05:20.100 And that's a sin.

01:05:21.520 That's a sin.

01:05:22.980 All right.

01:05:23.660 I had another segment, but I don't think we have time for it.

01:05:26.520 Maybe we'll talk about it at some point about this left-wing podcaster who has gone viral

01:05:32.760 for just being an absolute nasty person. 0.94

01:05:36.700 Completely, completely nasty. 0.99

01:05:38.680 That's Jennifer Welsh. 0.54

01:05:40.500 We'll talk about her at some point.

01:05:42.460 Okay.

01:05:43.020 We'll be back here on Wednesday.

01:05:44.320 We've got a lot to talk about.

01:05:45.320 We may finally talk about the mark of the beast and digital ID, but I do want to talk

01:05:50.140 about women in the church and women's roles in general and what the Bible actually says.

01:05:55.180 Because remember, at the end of the day, he is who matters.

01:05:58.560 Jesus is who matters.

01:05:59.580 His glory is who matters.

01:06:00.940 And his word is what matters.

01:06:02.520 All right.

01:06:02.820 We'll be back here then.

01:06:15.320 He is who matters.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 03, 2025

Ep 1262 ｜ SNAP： A Factual & Biblical Analysis

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