Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1293 ｜ Ron Simmons ｜ Can Trump Use the Insurrection Act Against Minnesota Mayhem？

00:00:00.000 well hello everybody golly two weeks goes by fast doesn't it seems like we were just in here doing

00:00:14.160 this and i appreciate you listening you know if you're in the texas area this weekend when you're

00:00:19.820 watching this or listening to this you got plenty of time because we're probably going to be snowed

00:00:23.600 and iced in which you know in texas when that happens everything shuts down uh so i hope that

00:00:29.420 you'll enjoy this uh session while you're uh you know trying to figure out what your kids are going

00:00:35.580 to do maybe they're outside playing in the snow assuming all that comes true we do record this

00:00:39.660 a little bit early so we don't know if it's going to come true but it looks like there's a pretty

00:00:43.340 good chance of that but wherever you are in the country we hope you're having a great uh great

00:00:47.740 day and that we hope that your year is starting out well and that even though we're getting close

00:00:53.320 to the end of january i hope you haven't given up on your resolutions yet you know a lot of people say

00:00:57.880 that our new year's resolutions are gone by uh the end of january but i'm believing that ali's

00:01:03.960 uh audience isn't like that that they're staying with what they've committed to and that if you

00:01:09.520 remember on the last session i encouraged you to come up with one word what's your word for the year

00:01:14.300 my word is peace and i just would be interested to hearing from y'all which i heard a lot of you

00:01:19.980 on the comments from last show what your word is well those are some great ones so thank you for

00:01:24.380 doing that i really appreciate that and again thank you for supporting ali and all that

00:01:28.980 she's doing she's busy uh in fact she's uh out of town uh this weekend uh speaking at a conference

00:01:36.740 and uh you know just again trying to talk about how you intersect culture faith and politics and all of

00:01:48.100 those things have some intertwinement in them and they do have effects on each other and ali's been

00:01:54.300 a great voice to talk about that from a biblical worldview we're going to talk about a few things

00:01:59.060 today and some of it's kind of history i want you to understand uh some of the things that are going

00:02:04.300 on out there one of those is you've heard a lot of talk about the insurrection act that president

00:02:11.940 trump might impose the insurrection act and well let's first take a little history lesson if you'll

00:02:18.100 go with me down uh memory lane so to speak and talk about what the insurrection act how it came about

00:02:25.340 what it really is actually before the insurrection act in 1792 the first president of the united states

00:02:32.840 george washington used what amounts to what is allowed under the insurrection act and he used it

00:02:39.980 to uh actually under the militia acts at the time to be able to squel the whiskey rebellion

00:02:46.680 i believe it was going on in pennsylvania primarily that people that were producing whiskey there was a

00:02:53.920 tax on that and they were uh protesting or unwilling to pay the tax and so he called up the militia the

00:03:01.020 military at the time to make sure that they obeyed that federal law now you can disagree with the law

00:03:06.780 that's totally what we should do but we don't have the ability to disobey the law disagreeing

00:03:14.680 and disobeying are two different things when we disagree with the law we make ourself known but we

00:03:21.220 also uh go about the proper channels to change the law and that would be through our elected officials

00:03:27.880 when we disobey the law we're not really trying to change the law we're just not we're just not willing

00:03:33.480 to abide by the law and there's a big difference between disagreement and disobedience all right

00:03:39.220 now in 1807 if you uh uh will remember some of your old american history uh there was an a there

00:03:46.800 was a presidential election actually in 1806 and in 1806 president uh thomas jefferson became our third

00:03:56.140 president of the united states and the way they did it back then is that whoever came in second place

00:04:03.480 in the presidential voting was the vice president and if you remember that election of thomas jefferson

00:04:10.280 the first election of him there was very contentious in fact it had to go to the house of representatives

00:04:16.740 because if there is a electoral vote tie the house of representatives breaks the tie and decide who's

00:04:24.720 going to be president and it was very contentious over several days they had multiple votes and finally

00:04:30.720 uh thomas jefferson was elected our third president just barely over vice president aaron burr so they

00:04:37.940 really weren't buddies right it's not like we do now with you know with donald trump and jd vance where

00:04:43.280 trump picked his running mate and how that's gone on now for uh multiple generations it was the guy that

00:04:50.380 got second place was the vice president and so they had a clash right off the bat well there was aaron burr

00:04:57.580 basically didn't spend any time in dc in fact there was a strong belief and i believe facts back it up

00:05:04.960 that vice president burr wanted to overthrow the government essentially and to have a uh militarized

00:05:14.940 rebellion or a violent rebellion against the government and so congress hearing of this got together

00:05:22.680 and passed what's called the insurrection act because one of the things that our country was

00:05:28.580 set up on is not having our military be our police force and that military actions inside the united

00:05:37.680 states were something that were very much frowned upon in fact there is another act which we'll

00:05:42.460 hear one of our scholars talk about a little bit later that prevented that and the insurrection act was put

00:05:49.460 into place in 1807 to provide an exception to that doctrine and that belief and what it basically

00:05:58.000 allowed was it allowed the president okay under his discretion doesn't have to have approval from the

00:06:03.760 congress because the approval came through the act itself the the discretion to be able to put use military

00:06:11.180 military forces to uh protect uh the country against people inside the u.s who were breaking federal laws

00:06:22.060 and unwilling to abide by federal laws and that's what that president jefferson was doing uh against

00:06:28.440 aaron burr and that's really what george washington did even before the act came about in the whiskey

00:06:33.540 rebellion now the interesting thing is is that we act like this that president trump this is something

00:06:39.820 nobody's ever done before or nobody's ever even thought about before but you may not know but 30

00:06:45.600 different times in the history of america has the insurrection act been utilized and it's been done by

00:06:52.040 both republican and democrat presidents uh the insurrection act of course was used by president

00:06:58.280 lincoln uh he certainly believed that the south had broken federal law by seceding and doing other

00:07:05.520 things and so he used the insurrection act to be able to put military inside the united states and of

00:07:12.640 course we know what occurred the civil war occurred as a result of that also uh there have been uh others

00:07:20.080 that have used it president kennedy used it in a couple of different times he used it to uh to allow

00:07:28.880 allow students in the south african american students to be able to attend universities at old miss and at alabama

00:07:37.960 he had to put the national guard down there to make sure that those uh young people were allowed to enter 0.99

00:07:44.100 and participate in those schools uh we also had uh uh president bush 41 used it uh some of you will remember this

00:07:53.700 in 1993 i think or 92 maybe there was a uh case in california called the rodney king case and it was

00:08:04.880 about police brutality and these policemen were on trial against over using excessive force against

00:08:13.280 rodney king and after the trial was over there was all sorts of riots that were going on in the los

00:08:21.700 angeles area and in other cities as well and so president bush the first president bush called in

00:08:28.960 the national guard to be able to quell those riots and so it's not something that is that unusual to be

00:08:36.720 used it's something that has been used multiple times uh a couple of other uh times that it that it was

00:08:43.340 used uh there was a cold field war that woodrow wilson used it on there dwight oisenhower used it uh you

00:08:51.420 know i i was born and grew up in arkansas and uh i remember reading about this uh in my history

00:08:57.860 books and when they were trying to integrate public schools in arkansas central high school in little

00:09:04.180 rock uh dwight eisenhower had to send the national guard down there to make sure that happened because

00:09:08.900 the governor at the time wasn't willing to allow integration same thing we talked about with the

00:09:14.060 with the schools and weather lyndon johnson actually used it three different times he used it uh for some

00:09:20.940 riots that were going on in detroit which they probably called them protests back then just

00:09:25.460 like they called the minneapolis stuff with ice protests those are actually riots in my opinion

00:09:30.140 and then also after the uh mlk assassination martin luther king assassination uh there was a lot of

00:09:37.500 unrest in dc chicago and baltimore in order for that to be calmed down and to come back to be peaceful

00:09:44.000 we had uh president johnson had to send the national guard in so it's not really something

00:09:49.900 that is that yes it's it hasn't been used a lot but it has been used 30 different times so

00:09:54.880 it's not like it's something that's never been used before and uh you know what is it going to look

00:10:01.060 like if president you president trump use it minnesota now remember he's not going to use it to go

00:10:07.680 find illegals he's going to use it to protect the federal law enforcement people the ice that are

00:10:15.560 already there and i would absolutely encourage him uh to be able to do that in fact let's let's put up

00:10:21.580 we have a statement from president trump on true social that we're going to put up on the screen now

00:10:26.180 and i'll just read that for those of you that are uh listening to this if the corrupt politicians of

00:10:31.300 minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrection from attacking the

00:10:36.100 patriots of ice we are only trying to they're only trying to do their job i will institute the

00:10:40.860 insurrection act which many presidents have done before me which we just talked about and quickly

00:10:45.580 put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great state so i mean he's made it pretty

00:10:52.480 simple and i 100 agree with him uh in fact christy noem said said in an interview that she spoke to the

00:11:00.740 president about the insurrection act and this is what she's what she comments on it on this

00:11:05.640 i discussed with the president this morning uh several things that we are dealing with under

00:11:10.840 the department and different operations we did discuss the insurrection act he certainly has

00:11:15.300 the constitutional authority to utilize that um my hope is that this leadership team in minnesota

00:11:21.280 will start to work with us to get criminals off the streets uh remember we are there in surged

00:11:26.140 operations because of the largest fraud scheme in american history yeah let's don't forget kind of how

00:11:33.060 this got started in minnesota and i know that ali uh had episode came out this week that you probably

00:11:38.640 have already listened to about what happened at the church but even before all that it's because of the

00:11:43.400 huge fraud scream fraud fraud scheme that went on uh in the somalian community there and ice is just 0.56

00:11:51.000 in there doing their job and i appreciate what secretary noem has said as well as what president trump

00:11:56.260 is willing to do we have to have order in our country and if and if it takes us putting in the

00:12:02.700 military national guard to protect our federal officers then i 100 support that uh chad wolf who 0.56

00:12:10.760 is the american first policy institute's chair of homeland security and immigration which is a think

00:12:15.400 tank in washington uh says this about what's going on the situation on the ground in minnesota continues

00:12:22.120 to grow violent with ice officers being targeted and injured as well as other violent acts and

00:12:27.360 governor waltz and mayor fry continue to restrict local law enforcement you just can't do that from

00:12:33.080 doing their job and they're encouraging their residents to resist ice that is a definition of

00:12:39.340 insurrection when you encourage people to break federal laws that in itself is a definition so they

00:12:46.940 actually uh governor waltz and uh mayor fry are making the case even stronger for president trump

00:12:54.100 uh to be able to use that so we'll see what happens in that uh you know there is some concern that you

00:13:02.360 know he shouldn't be able to do this or what have you uh we have on here a uh law professor from george

00:13:09.240 washington university a lot of you know jonathan turley and he talks about why there would be a good

00:13:14.480 legal case for this so under the insurrection act the president has a great deal of authority

00:13:20.300 what it gives the president is essentially a way around uh the posi comitatus act which prevents him

00:13:28.680 from using the military domestically uh the insurrection act removes that barrier and allows

00:13:34.460 him to call out troops as did eisenhower and kennedy so let me let me go back and i couldn't remember

00:13:41.400 what the actual act was i'm glad we listened to this uh the video clip posi comitatus was an act

00:13:47.140 that was in place even before the insurrection act that essentially says you can't put the military

00:13:53.760 against u.s citizens within the united states and the exception to that was developed through the

00:14:00.840 insurrection act which is what mr turley's talking about and so i don't see any i mean obviously you don't

00:14:06.580 want to do that you want it to be the very last thing you have to do but you have to protect your

00:14:11.280 federal officers i'm sorry that people can protest all they want and i don't mind them you know standing

00:14:17.740 outside yelling whatever they want to yell but they can't impede officers doing their jobs and that's

00:14:26.740 where the line has been crossed many many times they're throwing objects you this officer whatever you

00:14:32.660 think about the renee good situation i mean the officer was hit now whether she was trying to

00:14:39.120 turn away from i don't know but she shouldn't have been in there to start with and yeah i wish he

00:14:43.340 wouldn't have shot her or had had to felt he had to shoot her but you put yourself in those situations

00:14:48.980 it's very heightened emotions are running high no matter who you are you don't know where these people

00:14:55.360 are willing to go obviously with the violence that we've had we know that there are people on the far

00:15:02.380 extremes of both our parties both our parties that going from talking to violence is a very small

00:15:09.580 step we saw that in the charlie kirk assassination we saw that in the attempted assassinations on

00:15:14.240 president trump we saw that in what they did to justice kavanaugh a few years ago so don't tell me

00:15:21.080 that the ice people are supposed to oh these people are going to be peaceful we knew that all along you

00:15:25.940 don't know what these people are going to do and you have to protect yourself and we have to protect

00:15:31.380 our officers there have also been other uh conservatives that have come out in favor of

00:15:38.180 implementing the insurrection act let's look at some of that dustin gray justin grage that's his name

00:15:46.220 yeah he obviously saying let's invoke the insurrection act absolutely no question about it and then uh nick

00:15:53.660 sorter i think is his name yeah he uh he also said the rioters are attempting to break down the fence

00:16:03.280 outside the minnesota ice facility now the minnesota ice facility now i'm sorry that's violence

00:16:09.080 and then somebody already jumped it and said we don't have the numbers yet so let's don't do it but

00:16:15.980 we still have to respect the laws of this country and if we don't respect them then we try to get

00:16:23.000 them changed but we don't go and commit violence against our federal officers who are doing their

00:16:29.980 job now if someone goes out of line if an officer is out of line and does their job improperly then

00:16:35.020 they have to be investigated and they have to be uh punished or handled or reprimanded in whatever way

00:16:41.440 that is set up to be able to do that um now let's the florida congressman greg stoop says the

00:16:49.540 situation in minnesota has escalated beyond the need for any other measure let's listen to him we

00:16:54.660 have sought three you have you have officials and leaders of their state the governor and the mayor of

00:17:01.000 minneapolis basically saying we are not going to follow federal law basically telling their citizens

00:17:07.600 to stand up and fight against federal law enforcement uh the president has every right

00:17:13.800 when you have leadership that's refusing to follow the law and then encouraging their constituents and

00:17:19.560 their people to fight back against lawful law enforcement functions and obstructing justice that's

00:17:25.760 every justification i think he would need to go in uh and establish justice and peace in those regions

00:17:31.040 congressman stew put it together as well as anybody and that's exactly what

00:17:37.100 has happened and exactly what needs to happen now hopefully it will get under control without doing

00:17:43.880 that but i would not hesitate if i was the president to do that we have to show that we stand for law

00:17:51.600 and order and in minnesota it has definitely gotten out of control and hopefully it will come to a

00:17:59.620 peaceful conclusion but president trump's not going to give up on removing illegal immigrants in here and 1.00

00:18:04.680 he's certainly not going to give up on the fraud that's been going on in minnesota so folks i'll

00:18:09.940 just tell you if you're thinking that you're going to be able to scare this president away

00:18:13.360 you should know by now that's not going to happen right and he's not certainly not concerned about the

00:18:18.940 next election he's not going to have another election for him now will it have an effect on

00:18:23.740 uh republicans in 26 we don't know but it doesn't matter if it does or not you still have to do the

00:18:30.500 right thing but speaking of voting let's go on and talk about another subject but if you have any

00:18:34.680 questions on the insurrection act please feel free to email me ron at ronsimmons.com i'll give you

00:18:39.400 my opinion on it and whatever information that i can that i can find on that we haven't talked about

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00:19:56.320 here's what i want to do and ally talks about this all the time but i just cannot emphasize how much

00:20:09.060 voting matters and i know that a lot of you think that well my vote doesn't count because it's just

00:20:14.960 one vote and all that it's just not the truth we just talked about the thomas jefferson aaron burr

00:20:21.120 battle in 1806 where it came it was a tied electoral college and it came down to the votes in the house

00:20:28.900 of representatives and you know there were probably some backroom deals done in order for jefferson to

00:20:33.680 win that but that it does matter your vote matters very much and if you don't believe me we're going

00:20:40.460 to go through a couple of things here that talk about that especially christians it's very disappointing

00:20:45.280 that in 2024 56 of self-identified christians voted and that was an eight-point drop from 2020

00:20:55.840 well christians among any group should vote you should know that if you want to have the judeo-christian

00:21:08.020 moral ethics implemented in this country that we're going to have to vote for people that agree

00:21:15.520 with us on that and this country was founded on those moral principles and we have to we have to do

00:21:21.920 our part by putting those people in positions of political power to be able to make sure that our

00:21:29.760 rules and regulations and how our government works follows those things and so just very disappointed

00:21:36.460 that the uh christian block went down it we it should have been it should have gone up not gone

00:21:42.860 down after four years of joe biden and their um you know far far left policies that they put in place

00:21:50.140 that president trump and his team are spending most of their time just trying to undo the bad stuff they

00:21:54.960 did but if you remember here just a few weeks ago or maybe a couple months ago now virginia had a

00:22:00.920 governor election and election for their what they call house of delegates or general assembly we call it

00:22:06.260 the legislature and democrats took control of that so they control the legislature and they control

00:22:13.680 the governorship now and if you don't think that voting matters let's look at some of the laws that

00:22:19.620 have been proposed in virginia since the democrats took control i'll just go over a couple of them

00:22:26.840 they've introduced a bill that would eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing for rape

00:22:32.080 manslaughter assaulting a law enforcement officer possession and distribution of child pornography

00:22:38.440 and all repeat violent felonies can you imagine that that they want a bill that would eliminate

00:22:47.240 mandatory minimum sentencing meaning a far-left judge could essentially say well i'm just going to

00:22:53.320 give probation to you if you're convicted of rape or manslaughter or assaulting a law enforcement

00:22:59.580 officer there's no mandatory sentencing that is that is as far-left crazy george soros as you can get

00:23:07.180 and and the activist group justice ford virginia has designated this bill as one of its top legislative

00:23:15.780 priorities so do you think if go if if uh if the republican lady would have won winsome sears would have won 1.00

00:23:25.000 that this bill would have a chance no do you think it has a chance today yes and that's why voting so

00:23:32.140 much matters they also aim to enshrine abortion as a right in their state constitution

00:23:38.380 and they they they tried this last year but of course republicans killed it

00:23:44.180 i mean there's some crazy stuff going on not just in virginia in maryland

00:23:49.320 they they've got a bill called the icebreaker act of 2026 and this would bar listen to this this is how

00:23:57.480 hateful people are it would bar individuals who worked for u.s immigration and customs enforcement

00:24:03.560 ice during president donald trump's administrations from later joining local law enforcement agencies in

00:24:09.480 the state i mean can you imagine that that they're going to but a person a man or a woman that was a

00:24:16.280 federal officer is going to be banned in maryland proposed banned in maryland from getting a law

00:24:23.520 enforcement job there i mean it's just crazy but of course the craziest state is guess what

00:24:30.980 california of course our friends what would we do if we didn't have california i mean every you know

00:24:35.940 that's how you can determine the way you determine what's normal is determine what's abnormal and so

00:24:41.780 california gives us the abnormal so that we know what's normal and it's whatever the opposite is of

00:24:47.480 our friends in california uh newsom and state democrats approved assembly bill 1078 which described

00:24:55.180 as a measure to prevent book banning in public schools but it infringes on local control over

00:25:01.580 curriculum and reduces the ability of parents and communities to influence what materials are

00:25:05.900 used or taught in their schools they also require that all k through 12 public schools and

00:25:11.740 charters have at least one all-gender restroom on each site all right so they're promoting you know 1.00

00:25:18.460 the uh the gender stuff that we've talked about a lot ali's talked about a lot uh they want uh all

00:25:25.940 companies and doing this in california uh that are large companies have to report their greenhouse

00:25:30.520 emissions of course they have the highest emission standards in the country which have proven

00:25:35.720 not to be effective uh they also uh would have bills to tighten energy regulations by placing

00:25:43.900 restrictions on out-of-state natural gas so that we couldn't uh they would restrict the amount of

00:25:49.600 say natural gas that texas could send to california just crazy and then they would also assembly bill

00:25:56.840 315 would empower prosecutors at the state and local level as well as private citizens to file lawsuits

00:26:03.240 against crisis pregnancy centers accused of providing information about abortion services

00:26:09.860 i'm just telling you folks if you don't believe voting matters then you are listening to the wrong people

00:26:18.260 because voting does matter and having a republican house or senate or uh governor is so important when

00:26:30.200 the entire legislative body and governorship is controlled by the democrats things can get off the

00:26:36.440 rail pretty quick another bill would force hospitals to prioritize purchasing from companies owned by lbggq

00:26:43.380 individuals i mean it's just it's just unbelievable so we have primaries coming up all over the country

00:26:50.880 and again a primary is where if you're republican you go vote for which republican candidate that you

00:26:57.600 think is the best in your particular area for whatever it is you're voting on if you're democrat you do

00:27:02.800 the same thing on the democrat side uh and it's in the primaries where you should one of the decisions

00:27:10.380 and one of the questions you have to ask yourself is which of these candidates has the best opportunity

00:27:18.120 if you're a republican to beat the democrat in november if you're a democrat obviously you think the

00:27:23.860 opposite but that's the decision it's not always who you might even agree with the most it's i know

00:27:30.380 and some of you don't want to hear this i'm sorry okay but take a pill it's okay just relax

00:27:35.560 because it's all about winning in november and if you pick a candidate that in your primary that

00:27:45.580 doesn't really have a chance to win in november then you've just wasted your vote and you've actually

00:27:52.140 caused a lot more trouble if that democrat selected for what you want to really have done we have to

00:27:59.320 elect people in our primaries that obviously have our value system we may not agree with them on a

00:28:06.100 hundred percent of every little detail of everything but they have our value system and they can win in

00:28:12.360 november somebody could have our value system but just be a bad candidate that there's no way they're

00:28:18.420 going to win right and so we have to make sure that we make those decisions and i'm sorry if that

00:28:23.640 doesn't sit well with some people but i've been in the arena i know how it looks i've been what they

00:28:30.200 call inside the rails when i served in the texas house and i saw some people who i probably agreed

00:28:36.380 with on 90 something percent of the things uh policy issues but they were so ineffective

00:28:44.720 in the as far as being able to really help us get all the right things done that probably they

00:28:51.700 shouldn't have been in there now they got elected but they really were not effective like they should

00:28:57.980 have been and uh that's that doesn't work out very well so i would just encourage you if you if you don't

00:29:04.440 want to happen in your state what we saw in these papers it happened in virginia maryland you know

00:29:09.720 california i'm sure illinois other states new york all those then get out there and vote okay and get

00:29:15.440 active in the local campaigns don't just show up on election day if there's something that you can do

00:29:20.520 maybe it's just calling some neighbors and uh you're reminding them when it's time to vote those

00:29:25.020 types of things then please do that you know that's how ali got her whole career started um is she when 1.00

00:29:32.260 she left college and she moved to a small she moved to athens georgia and was working there at a pr firm

00:29:39.820 it was during the 2015-16 election cycle and she noticed that most of the her friends her age which

00:29:50.820 she would have been in her early 20s at the time weren't interested in voting at all they just you

00:29:55.940 know they were sorority doing whatever they were doing so uh she called around to all the sororities

00:30:02.240 at the university of georgia and said can i come talk to your chapter about why it's important to vote

00:30:07.620 she wasn't there to tell them who to vote for although obviously she was conservative she by 0.99

00:30:11.620 that time named herself the conservative millennial um but why it was important and so that's how she 0.82

00:30:19.180 got engaged and of course she's much much more engaged today but there are things like that that

00:30:24.500 you can do why it's important to vote you know if they have your same conservative values they're

00:30:28.900 going to figure out probably who to vote for but getting them off the couch i mean only 56 percent

00:30:34.620 of self-identified christians voted in 2024 that's ridiculous it ought to be you know 90 something

00:30:39.960 percent so if you just get everybody in your church to vote then uh i promise you that we'll

00:30:46.700 have big conservative victories so anyway uh let's move on talk a little bit about something that's

00:30:52.400 going to be pretty fun let's talk about you know uh let's talk about president trump it was one year

00:30:59.700 ago this week that he was inaugurated now i don't know about you but that guy's so busy it feels like

00:31:05.120 four years to me already doesn't it to you uh and that's not a negative it's just gosh oh they've been

00:31:10.520 busy and been doing a lot of things and of course the media has been you know hating on him almost every

00:31:15.540 step of the way uh but he's undeterred and i thought it was pretty uh pretty cool to take a look

00:31:22.140 back at what's happened this year but before we do that let's kind of go back and remember what

00:31:26.780 you know just kind of what happened a year ago this past week on sought for please raise your

00:31:31.900 right hand and repeat after me i donald john trump do solemnly swear i donald john trump do solemnly

00:31:39.800 swear that i will faithfully execute that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the

00:31:46.480 united states the office of president of the united states and will to the best of my ability

00:31:52.440 and will to the best of my ability preserve protect and defend preserve protect and defend

00:31:59.360 the constitution of the united states the constitution of the united states so help me god

00:32:04.280 so help me god congratulations

00:32:06.120 well i'll tell you i don't know if you noticed it or not but that baron trump is one tall dude

00:32:14.260 i mean see him behind president trump in that in that video clip he is one tall guy

00:32:18.800 uh but yeah so a year ago it's really even hard to believe but let's go over some of the things that

00:32:24.280 have occurred since that time uh of course the the one that's probably most in the news is immigration

00:32:30.240 and border enforcement they've had record apprehensions they reached the lowest levels by late 2025

00:32:38.000 december saw a 96 percent decrease in apprehensions compared to the previous year that means people

00:32:46.220 weren't coming across the border illegally 96 that's that's pretty incredible also mass deportation

00:32:53.860 we talked about this in an earlier episode where we had the administrations deported 620 000

00:33:00.940 illegals but that's actually a small number or it's a smaller percentage minority percentage of

00:33:08.440 how many have actually left the country 1.9 million have self-deported by the end of 25 so

00:33:16.060 almost 2.6 million illegals have left this country and what that means is is that they've they

00:33:24.860 have they're not using our services they're not in our emergency rooms they're not uh you know it on

00:33:31.360 some of our uh entitlement systems which they're not eligible for anyway but some states kind of went

00:33:37.440 around the law to be able to grant them that yeah i get it they're probably some of those that self

00:33:42.580 deported that um were honest hard-working people but they came they they came here illegally and so 1.00

00:33:49.860 they went home we encouraged them to go home i think i think there was a deal we'd give them like

00:33:53.660 a thousand dollar voucher or something they went home and pay for their plane fare to go home uh but

00:33:58.900 that's what uh he said that's what he was going to do and that's what he did now the people that are

00:34:02.980 mad about that just weren't paying attention uh to what he said in his campaign he was going to fix

00:34:09.020 immigration and now i call upon congress i call upon congress to let's get a new immigration bill

00:34:17.300 done let's make it easier for good people to come here legally and let's make it harder and much more

00:34:24.520 penal for people to come here illegally but we have to reform our immigration laws and that's up to 0.99

00:34:32.100 congress to do that and if we can't get together on that if we're going to continue to use that

00:34:36.780 as a political wedge then shame on us just remember when you go to vote especially for your

00:34:44.460 u.s congressman or senator i would make sure that i understood where they stood stood on immigration

00:34:50.160 reform legislation makes and what are they going to do about are they going to be willing to lead it

00:34:54.920 again somebody's got to lead who's going to lead on this but i would encourage us to make sure that

00:34:59.980 we do that the other the next another thing that we did was you remember the one big beautiful bill

00:35:04.460 which we probably all got tired of hearing that phrase but uh it was formerly known as the working

00:35:10.180 families tax cut act essentially what that did it has allowed the tax cuts that president trump and

00:35:16.420 the legislature uh put in place in 2017 to stay in place because they were going to expire at the end of

00:35:23.440 at the end of 2025 but they stayed in place so that gave tax relief to middle to middle class families

00:35:29.780 and corporations which is good also uh you know through executive orders trump unleashed american

00:35:36.360 energy production gas prices falling to three dollars per gallon or less and it's less here in texas and

00:35:44.540 in 43 states it's less than that now california sorry you know you you get what you pay for out there

00:35:50.580 and you pay for that governor and crazy legislature assembly you got out there so but less than three

00:35:55.780 dollars a gallon that is something like a 40 decrease than when biden was there so that is

00:36:02.200 something that's felt in every one of our pockets and i think it can even go down lower than it is

00:36:07.600 today it can't go down too far because you still have to have a profitable oil and gas industry

00:36:13.220 uh foreign policy feats he uh obviously we remember what happened with maduro we talked about that last

00:36:19.960 time that's a big deal he was able to do that he also got this is something that again should be

00:36:25.680 talked about more you know one of the problems we've had in the past is our friends in nato the

00:36:29.580 north north atlantic treaty organization nato is made up of a bunch of european countries

00:36:37.000 and we agree that we're going to support each other so let's say that russia uh decides that

00:36:43.440 they're going to invade one of our nato uh fellow nato members then we have an agreement where we're

00:36:49.500 going to defend them and support them but a lot of those countries had agreed to put a certain

00:36:55.040 percentage of their gross domestic product into defense spending and they didn't do it and we

00:36:59.940 didn't do anything about it over the last 50 years well president trump says no more of that and he has

00:37:06.420 got a historic commitment from nato members to increase defense spending to five percent of gdp

00:37:11.680 some of them are well below one percent because they were just depending on us

00:37:14.440 and great britain to take care of them and so that is a that is a huge accomplishment also we've

00:37:20.920 gotten ceasefires uh a framework between israel and hamas and leading the release of all the living

00:37:26.940 israeli hostages doesn't make what hamas did right and it doesn't make uh them not guilty for the october

00:37:34.300 7th uh invasion that they did and terrorist act but at least we've got the hostilities quietened down

00:37:40.960 whether they'll you know be able to be uh kissing cousins i doubt that ever but we have got we did go

00:37:47.440 in there and get the hostages released and a lot of the the bodies of the people that passed away we

00:37:51.720 got those released as well um we also did some other things i had some other notes on that that uh

00:37:59.120 that we oh yeah i got those right here that we did in on the international scene is that we oh yeah we

00:38:05.700 brokered the ceasefire in multiple conflicts the almenia as as asberjan war the india pakistan

00:38:13.500 and the ukraine russian frameworks we've worked on those now we certainly don't have the russia

00:38:18.740 ukraine thing finished yet but we've done a lot of work on that and you know hopefully we're moving

00:38:23.860 moving towards that also in part of the part of the big uh beautiful bill which i forgot to mention

00:38:30.100 was no tax on tips those of you that work in that tip economy that's got to be a big plus for you

00:38:35.220 you know especially now since every time you go into any store i swear pretty soon the grocery store

00:38:40.680 when you get to pay they're going to say would you do you want to tip it really bothers me all

00:38:45.460 that tipping for no service but for service i'm a big tipper but no service i'm sorry i've gotten to

00:38:50.860 where i just no tip and uh that's just a little bit over the top that they're asking for that

00:38:55.980 and uh all right and and there's no there's tax relief on social security benefits and of course we

00:39:01.640 talked about the tax cut package already we are working on getting uh health initiative like most

00:39:07.620 favored nation drug pricing to lower cost and what that means is is that some drug companies will

00:39:13.180 sell drugs to canada at a cheaper price and they sell them to us and what we're working on is trying

00:39:19.420 to get a most favored nation status meaning that we'll always get the lowest drug price and i don't

00:39:25.300 think we're there yet but we are that's being worked on and i am confident that that'll get that'll get

00:39:31.080 done and what you know what uh rfk jr is doing at hhs i mean they're making some major major steps in

00:39:39.880 that to uh when it comes to vaccinations and how those are administered and what we should be doing

00:39:45.520 what we shouldn't be doing our new uh the whole food pyramids changing uh you know looking into the

00:39:51.140 particular causes of autism and what have you we are doing more in that arena to really try to make

00:39:58.640 america healthy again than we've ever done what we've been trying to do in the past is really

00:40:02.280 just give out more entitlements more entitlements more entitlements which we which have proven doesn't

00:40:07.460 make us healthier at all in fact we've become a less healthy society over the last 50 years and a

00:40:12.860 more healthy society but i i believe that we're changing that another thing that that president trump

00:40:18.220 has done is he uh has slash dei programs which were nothing but discrimination programs under another name

00:40:27.080 and i don't care who you discriminate against it's discrimination whether that person's you know

00:40:33.600 skin color is different than yours or whether their sex is different than yours discrimination is

00:40:38.500 discrimination and uh when you put one group over another that's discrimination he's gotten rid of

00:40:45.280 those programs and obviously when doge came in the money that they saved and uh continue to be after

00:40:52.960 that i know that schumer's trying to put a lot of that back in there but i those were billions and

00:40:58.000 billions of dollars of savings we don't like what happened in the tariffs and things like that

00:41:02.800 and i get that that we don't like that they have produced revenue for this country and so they have

00:41:09.860 worked in some ways i wish we would get to the end of that and actually i i think you remember me saying

00:41:15.280 i thought we would have that pretty much settled by the end of last summer we did not get where i thought

00:41:21.200 we would get but we're closer we're we are closer now this new deal about i'm going to use tariffs to

00:41:27.320 make sure that you know we can you know uh control greenland you know maybe there'll be some of that

00:41:33.020 but i think most of that is just trying to get them to the negotiating table uh but it's been a good

00:41:38.120 year and i hope it's been a busy year and i assume the next three years are going to be the same way

00:41:43.540 but president trump hit the ground running i just have no idea how that man does all that he does

00:41:50.320 there's no way he sleeps more than three or four hours a night because the guy is incredibly busy

00:41:55.580 and i've got a couple of friends that are cabinet secretaries and they just both say and they're much

00:42:01.980 younger than him say he just runs circles around all of us in his thought process and what he wants

00:42:06.940 to get done it's like he says i you know he knows i've got a timeline so i want to get stuff done

00:42:12.700 that's that's so cool to be able to do that

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00:42:50.240 now uh as we get ready to finish up i always like to take questions from the audience and you always

00:43:00.840 have such great questions um and i just appreciate that so much i know alley does as well and while

00:43:07.980 we can't answer every single question i do encourage you that you have some specifically you

00:43:13.040 want me to answer you on privately then just email me ron at ronsimmons.com i've got a few emails in my

00:43:19.360 inbox now that i haven't responded to yet because some of them i just need to think about i want to

00:43:23.540 talk to alley about them i talked to my wife about some of them uh but i'll get back to you and if i

00:43:28.180 haven't gotten back to you and it's been more than a couple of weeks email me again just to make sure

00:43:32.500 it didn't slip down in my inbox somewhere but we've got some good questions today uh so let's talk

00:43:37.380 about those we'll go over several of these uh number one is uh from this is from blonde diva so 0.97

00:43:44.820 yeah everybody's got their own handle names that's really interesting uh greenland and trump tweets

00:43:50.860 implying nato is our enemy that's kind of alarming that's her question well again if uh when president

00:43:57.880 trump took questions in davos you know he was in davos switzerland uh and gave a speech and he took

00:44:03.560 questions after he said unequivocally that he's not going to use force in greenland he's not going

00:44:08.560 to do that we probably won't get anything unless i decide to use excessive strength and force where we

00:44:14.820 would be frankly unstoppable but i won't do that okay now everyone's saying oh good that's probably the

00:44:25.780 biggest statement i made because people thought i would use force i don't have to use force i don't

00:44:30.640 want to use force i won't use force all the united states is asking for is a place called greenland

00:44:37.320 but what he said is true in that we are best positioned to protect greenland and we need greenland

00:44:48.120 that location uh that location to be able to help our security as well and i believe i talked about

00:44:56.920 this before uh maybe the last deal there's something called the monroe doctrine president

00:45:02.120 james monroe in 1823 there was essentially an agreement between the united states and at that time

00:45:10.080 primarily great britain and the agreement was that in the western hemisphere which is where we in and

00:45:15.880 greenland sits on the very north part of the western hemisphere that the u.s would be primarily in

00:45:24.240 charge of uh helping with security in those particular areas and that european would not

00:45:31.900 come over and colonize any anything else in the western hemisphere and that's why we've been the

00:45:38.860 primary ones that have supported people in latin america and central america now even south america that

00:45:44.080 that's something that we're interested in and that in europe we wouldn't go over there and colonize

00:45:51.120 which you know we don't have any colonies in the european in that in the eastern hemisphere in that

00:45:55.720 hemisphere and that and so what president trump is saying this is part of what we've agreed on now

00:46:01.640 they call it not the monroe doctrine but the donro doctrine which i think is kind of pretty funny

00:46:05.760 but i i think ultimately what we want to do is be able to have the right type of security presence

00:46:12.440 there and i think we can work that out with the country of denmark who legally you know it's legally

00:46:18.040 one of their colonies and also think that having the ability they have some rare fine rare earth minerals

00:46:25.460 that are under the ground there that we um would could utilize in some of our industry and have an

00:46:31.480 agreement to be able to to have those right now you know russia and china have a lot of access to

00:46:38.640 their ports and all that type of stuff we need to be the one and we're happy to work with denmark to

00:46:43.360 do that but we need to be the one that provides the main security force there and i i believe that'll

00:46:48.220 end up happening i think it's very bold of the president to to come out and talk about that

00:46:52.620 sometimes he says some things about it that i don't agree with but i think if you'll go back and

00:46:56.500 read what he said today or listen to what he said today um on what the uh what he intends to do

00:47:04.860 and green and what he won't do i think you'll be encouraged by that the next question is how can

00:47:09.860 adult children maintain a good relationship with their parents well you know biblically we are called

00:47:16.740 on as children to honor our father and mother and sometimes our fathers and mothers aren't very

00:47:22.700 honorable i mean that's that's the way it is all right the emails i get from people i guarantee you

00:47:28.420 some of the dads that uh the people talk to me about not very honorable but if assuming that

00:47:35.860 someone that your dad or your mom has not had an abusive relationship with you which if they've had

00:47:41.700 abusive relationship with you i don't think you owe them anything right now you can choose to reconcile

00:47:48.420 with them and you can choose certainly we should forgive them in our heart and hopefully they've changed

00:47:53.060 but uh i don't think you should continue yourself in whether it's a in this case probably as adult

00:48:00.020 verbally abusive or psychologically abusive scenario that doesn't do anybody any good but outside of all

00:48:05.940 that i think the way you maintain a good relationship with your parents is that you you you remain in

00:48:12.500 contact with them and you ask them questions that through their experience can provide benefit to you

00:48:21.320 don't think you know everything don't think you think you're being an old adult because you don't

00:48:25.240 ask questions you don't need their help or their advice that's what they're there for let them take

00:48:29.640 their experiences that they've had that they've gone through it doesn't mean you're going to follow

00:48:34.200 them all right but it means if you have that information from them that will aid you in making whatever

00:48:40.600 decisions you're making and i think going out of your way to do things nice for them is important and to

00:48:46.280 and to thank them for the things they've done for you in the past but it takes effort there's no

00:48:51.640 question and and i encourage you to make that effort and if they live long distance from you

00:48:56.760 then a lot of that's going to be through the telephone or text or things like that but i know

00:49:00.920 one thing that uh lisa and i always love to hear from our kids you know and one of our uh our oldest son

00:49:07.160 they live hundreds of miles away from us so we don't see them as much but i always appreciate it when

00:49:12.360 he calls me and says hey dad what do you think about this or hey dad what's going on you know

00:49:16.600 how's your golf game whatever that type of thing so i think just staying in touch with them is the

00:49:21.080 main thing and calling on them to give you their experiences in certain situations all right this

00:49:28.920 is a good question here thoughts on buying a house versus rent as newlyweds first time 0.96

00:49:33.400 home buyers at this day and age i would start out renting if i was you um because i do think there's

00:49:39.480 going to be a better opportunity to buy over the next you know 18 to 24 months so i would i would

00:49:45.400 kind of look at that depends on where you're living obviously some areas we talked about in

00:49:49.480 the past real estate is hotter than others uh so if you're you know you have to just determine where

00:49:56.120 you are in that in that particular uh geographic world but i don't think there's anything wrong with

00:50:01.640 renting and just you don't have to pay the property taxes already included uh sometimes they there's uh

00:50:08.040 you know utilities are included in some scenarios your hoa a lot of times is already included so

00:50:13.160 in some ways it can be less expensive but until you know for sure where you want to live

00:50:20.360 and what you can afford then i would rent for a period of time especially when you're just getting

00:50:26.440 started because yeah y'all are getting started getting to know each other you know you don't know

00:50:31.240 hey can you use can you really live on a double vanity bathroom or does he have to have his own and

00:50:36.440 you have to have your own those things are important so you got to you got to figure that out uh

00:50:42.600 advice for christian wife and non-christian husband you know lisa's mom went through this

00:50:47.160 for a while although we certainly know that lisa's dad was saved uh before he passed a few years ago

00:50:54.440 but um when lisa was growing up um you know her dad didn't go to church with them he was a good

00:51:01.240 man no question good man one of one of the most honest and respected men by me that i've ever known

00:51:09.320 but what she did is she didn't make that a bone of contention every single day 0.99

00:51:15.320 she lived her life that's in christ that was her example and she loved on her husband

00:51:24.760 you can't use the fact that they are not with where you are spiritually

00:51:32.040 as a weapon against them that's never going to convince them you can somehow figure out maybe

00:51:38.360 how to get them you have couples that are y'all are friends with that the husband is a believer but

00:51:44.040 not a dogmatic person that's you know beating on your your your husband the whole time

00:51:48.760 um but the main thing is just showing him the christian love that we're supposed to show

00:51:56.360 and there'll be times where his heart is softened that you'll be able to say more talk more do more

00:52:03.560 and that you have to be patient with that i mean you just have to be patient but if you can get him

00:52:08.600 around guys that like some of the things he likes but there are believers then i think that has a

00:52:16.200 a long way an opportunity to go a long ways towards helping him uh become a believer but

00:52:22.040 the lord's the one that saves people you and i don't save them we are just out there to live like

00:52:26.760 we're supposed to and to be the messenger uh what do you think will happen with obamacare

00:52:32.920 i do believe that they'll do something even though i disagree with it that congress will do something

00:52:38.920 that will extend some of the enhanced uh subsidies on lower income levels i do believe that they'll do

00:52:49.160 something related to that now remember there's subsidies already for lower income levels but

00:52:53.960 during covid those were enhanced a little bit and they were supposed to end at the end of 25 but

00:53:01.240 they're still negotiating that the feasibility of going down to one household income to be a stay-at-home

00:53:07.080 mom in this economy you know we've talked i've talked about this um in our house before

00:53:14.920 many times i think it's what you're called to do whatever it is that you're called to do if you're

00:53:19.720 called to be a stay-at-home mom if you believe that's something that the lord wants you to do okay

00:53:26.040 and i believe that sometimes people are obviously people are called to be moms and dads

00:53:30.440 uh but like for example ally she does a great job of balancing all that she is absolutely called to 0.95

00:53:37.800 do what she does with this podcast and other things that she does but she's also called to be a

00:53:42.360 mom and she'll tell you she puts mom and and uh you know being a mom and wife first but some of you

00:53:49.320 like lisa after she was called to be a stay-at-home mom my wife was called that's what that was 0.99

00:53:54.360 absolutely always her calling now she taught school for a couple years you know before we had kids

00:53:59.240 and she after our kids got in school she she helped a little bit especially with daniel's uh special

00:54:04.520 needs school that he went to uh but i think it's whatever you're calling if you feel like you're

00:54:08.840 called to be a stay-at-home mom then i think it's it's up to you and your husband to figure out how to 1.00

00:54:13.640 make that happen and that could mean lowering some of the things that what you would call lifestyle

00:54:19.240 type things maybe you can't live in a expensive home as you do now maybe you have to you know

00:54:24.120 live in a neighborhood that's not as expensive you have to maybe cut back on some things but if that's

00:54:28.760 what you're called to do if that's what you believe the lord's calling you to do for your family

00:54:32.920 then i think you have to make whatever necessary sacrifices whatever we did that early on i didn't

00:54:37.960 like it i'll tell you i did not like it i did not want lisa to quit teaching school um but she was 0.90

00:54:43.560 right and our kids you know that was that was the best thing for us to do she would have not

00:54:48.600 ever been happy uh if she would not have been able to do that so and we had to make some big

00:54:54.520 sacrifices for that to happen but it was worth it and then um do i agree with dave ramsey's financial

00:55:00.040 method yeah i do i mean i think uh and again i don't know what all specifically you're asking me

00:55:05.400 so if you want to email me more specific happy to do that but in general i believe that uh you know

00:55:11.160 we need to abhor most debt and that if we have debt we need to get in there and get it paid off

00:55:16.840 as quick as possible pay off the you know pay off the uh the ones with you know the easiest

00:55:22.680 to pay off first and then you just keep willing that down but i believe in doing that lisa and

00:55:27.480 i used an envelope method for a long time where we put cash in envelopes on for certain expenses

00:55:33.160 and that's how we that's how we did our budget back when we were early married uh what type of

00:55:38.520 savings should i start for my babies they'll most likely to be homeschooled i still think you should

00:55:42.920 start one of the 529 education accounts because you can actually use that for uh some supplies and

00:55:48.520 stuff like that and they might end up going to college that you'll want to have that i would put

00:55:52.280 in i would use the 529 account if you have the opportunity to do that um and again if you have

00:55:57.560 some specific questions feel free to email me on those now uh you see my book back there life lessons

00:56:04.280 from the little red wagon which you can now order on ally's merchandise site and we'll put that in the

00:56:09.720 show notes when we're finished today and of course her book toxic empathy you can get that anywhere

00:56:14.760 books are sold make sure that you're doing that uh i know she uh you know it's we're already in 26

00:56:21.160 and i know there's another share share the arrows conference going to be coming up in the fall

00:56:25.560 she'll be talking more about that i just ask you continue to pray for her uh she's got a busy schedule

00:56:31.480 coming up this is a busy time for speaking and things like that for for uh pro-life events and um

00:56:37.960 other types of things that she's that she's involved with uh she's she's working on her third

00:56:43.240 book which i think is coming along very well we're very excited about that i won't tell you any details

00:56:48.760 i'll let her tell whatever she wants to on that as you go forward but i really appreciate you

00:56:54.040 tuning in and listen i've gotten a lot of comments from from people i was at church the other day and

00:56:58.680 one of the ladies in our uh bible fellowship class came over hey i listened to your podcast on

00:57:03.480 saturday i appreciate that so i i really do and you know as we talk about words from the wagon as we

00:57:09.960 finish this up what i would like to say today is that what we need is we need to ask ourselves where we

00:57:22.760 are in our wagon where are you in your wagon and let's focus this week on spiritual life are you leading

00:57:31.560 your family are you in a position right now where you need somebody else to lead that you know where

00:57:38.360 you you need some guidance and maybe that's through books or maybe a mentor or somebody like that but

00:57:44.360 you know there's four or five different places that you can be in the wagon you can be on the handle

00:57:49.160 you can be cargo sitting in the wagon sometimes that's where we have to be because we need to be fed

00:57:54.040 you can be the back wheels which are just kind of rolling along not making any decisions of the

00:57:58.360 moving forward or you can be the front wheels that that helps determine the direction in which

00:58:03.000 you're going where are you in your spiritual wagon i'd encourage you to think about that this week

00:58:07.560 thanks for being with us and we'll look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks don't forget

00:58:11.240 ali also puts out a extra episode on the weeks that saturdays that i'm not on there'll be an episode

00:58:17.320 from the past that ali's done that you've really liked that will be coming out have a good night

00:58:28.360 um

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - January 24, 2026

Ep 1293 ｜ Ron Simmons ｜ Can Trump Use the Insurrection Act Against Minnesota Mayhem？

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