00:03:30.680And then the questions that you send in every,
00:03:33.260couple of weeks when I'm hosting Ali's show for her. It's just been awesome. So I look forward
00:03:39.620to meeting a lot of you. And I'll be walking around saying hello to folks, Lisa and I both
00:03:44.340will. So that'll be great. A few things we're going to talk about today. And one of those
00:03:49.620is Trump's speech. I think it was last week or maybe 10 days ago about declassification
00:03:56.900of some information relating to voter integrity. And, you know, he claimed that China had illegally
00:04:06.520accessed 220 million voter files and had bought, stolen or hacked data involving tens of millions
00:04:13.060of voters in 18 states. And this was a nationwide address. Interesting is that some of the networks
00:04:20.900didn't show it, which is very, very unusual. But they've done this to Trump more than once.
00:04:26.900And that never used to be the case. If the president was going to go on and make a nationwide speech, it was always carried in the past. But our media has become so biased and so deranged with anti-Trump sentiment that it's just commonplace for them to abuse their position, which I think should threaten their license, honestly, being they get these public licenses.
00:04:52.500And Trump has talked about pulling some of those licenses.
00:04:56.620And I think that makes sense to have an investigation of that.
00:05:00.840And here's our SOT1 on some of the things that Trump said about what they have discovered.
00:05:07.240Hundreds of millions of U.S. voter files are in the hands of foreign governments.
00:05:13.520Our machines and ballot counting systems are exposed to hacking and manipulation and corruption.
00:05:20.520China and other countries have been trying to meddle in our elections.
00:05:27.040Hundreds of thousands of non-citizens and dead people are listed and active on the voter rolls.
00:05:33.960And yet we still have elections with no voter ID, no proof of citizenship, and tens of millions of ballots floating aimlessly through the mail.1.00
00:05:47.100All of those things he just said is that we several states don't have voter I.D.
00:05:53.360A lot of them have automatic mail ballots where they just send out them and everybody can do it through the mail, which all of which absolutely increases the risk for fraud.
00:06:05.020And the other thing is that the Department of Homeland Security, and there was a speech on that.
00:06:11.520I don't have that coming up right now, but the gentleman that's head of that has claimed that there are 278,000 non-citizens across four states.
00:06:21.920That's just four states that were on the federal voter rolls.
00:06:26.540And one of the challenges of that says, well, there's no proof that they voted, but it's proof that they could vote.
00:06:32.180If they're on the voter rolls, they could vote.
00:06:35.020And a lot of them would slip through. Some of them might be caught in the process, but a lot of them would slip through. Why are they even on the voter rolls? That is a real problem. And, you know, many states, the Department of Homeland Security is trying to monitor all of this, but many states won't send in their voter roll data for them to be able to monitor it and purge the rolls.
00:06:54.620One of the things that they need that happens in states is that some states share voter roll data so that you can tell if somebody moved from Texas to Kansas that they're not on both voter rolls.
00:07:08.880That's one of the ways the federal government, by consolidating that, can make sure that there's not duplicate and people aren't allowed to vote in two different places.
00:07:19.500All of this is really to try to promote passing the Save America Act. And if you remember, we've talked about this several times, but the Save America Act simply requires voter ID. It requires some other minimal things that that will ensure a greater integrity of our election process, our federal election process.
00:07:42.800Of course, some people said that the information was not it was all already out there. There's nothing new about all that. And while the report does include many redactions, it it doesn't show that voters were actually in the election was actually impacted.
00:08:02.780However, it does raise concerns about potential vulnerabilities and supports continued investigation and discussion of preventative measures.
00:08:13.200And one of the best preventative measures that we can have done is pass the Save America Act.
00:08:20.560And, you know, the House passed it again this past week.
00:08:23.860In fact, my former colleague and good friend Craig Goldman was in the speaker's chair running the House floor when they passed it again.
00:08:30.860So it's sitting over in the Senate and we will see what happens with that.
00:08:35.020But I'm just hope that they can figure out a way.
00:08:37.740They don't have 60 votes and they can't have 60 votes.
00:08:40.420They're going to have to figure out how to pass through some other type of method or either get rid of the filibuster, which I now support getting rid of that,
00:08:48.620Or at least do a talking filibuster that would make a senator, you know, to talk for an extended period of time in order to kill the bill coming to the floor, which most senators could not could not do that.
00:09:01.000In 2018 to 2020, the Chinese Communist Party policy was to leverage all foreign domestic and foreign elements that were opposed to the U.S. president in an effort to reduce the U.S. president's votes and make him resign or prevent his reelection.
00:09:19.500In fact, the CIA has come out with that, and there's a full screen picture of what they found.
00:09:25.500And then there's also another full screen that we're going to put up for those of you watching this that talks about Iran and Iran.
00:09:32.960Iran is conducting an influence campaign to undermine the current president and U.S.
00:09:38.420democratic institutions to divide the country in advance of the 2020 election.0.61
00:09:43.760So this was going on because they hated Trump so much during his first term because he would stand up to people that they were trying to mess with the 2020 election.
00:09:55.120Of course, President Trump's claims they did. And I certainly think that they, at a minimum, put out false information out there that tried to influence voters.
00:10:03.600I don't think there's hardly any disagreement over that.
00:10:07.180An FBI chat log has agents discussing an intelligence report and how information about an alleged Chinese operation involving fraudulent identification documents and potential mail-in ballot scheme should be handled.
00:10:23.780One FBI official, Nikki Flores, wrote that they were running a shadow government across the FBI at this point.
00:10:30.340Now, that is very, very disturbing. And of course, one of Trump's claims is that they kept this information from Congress and from and from, you know, the him as well.
00:10:42.300And he didn't he didn't know about this. In fact, he talks about some of the potential fraud that we just discussed relating to mail in ballots and other things.
00:10:52.220And hopefully there will be no corrupt mail-in ballots, which if you watched California and so many other places, mail-in ballots are inherently corrupt.
00:11:03.280So you would have no mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military deployment or travel.
00:11:13.540If you're going away on business or vacation, these reforms are urgently needed to stop the vulnerabilities that I've met.
00:11:22.220mentioned. Well, that's true. We remember California's mayor race, Los Angeles' mayor
00:11:28.520race here recently, and what a total debacle that was. And a lot of that was related to mail-in
00:11:35.940ballots and the ballot harvesting, the ability to abuse the system. I mentioned earlier that
00:11:42.800files show that China had voter roll data from 18 different states. And while I can't find the
00:11:51.840list of the exact number of states. I know that Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Michigan, Oklahoma,
00:11:58.860and Rhode Island were included in that. So just wanted to, you know, again, bring you up to date
00:12:06.520on what's going on. In fact, there's a full screenshot of the National Intelligence Council's
00:12:12.480assessment in 2020. And it says, foreign states or other actors may seek to compromise our election
00:12:18.460infrastructure for a range of possible purposes, such as interfering with the voting process,
00:12:25.060stealing sensitive data, or calling into question the validity of election results.
00:12:30.480We judge that Russia, China, Iran, as well as many other non-state actors have the capability
00:12:38.400to conduct such activities, although it would be difficult for them to manipulate the voting
00:12:43.500process at scale without detection. Well, let me just give you, as we wrap this up a little bit,
00:12:49.740we've got one more full screen I'll talk about in a second, but people say that, well, it's not,
00:12:55.460you know, voter fraud and people that shouldn't vote, it's not that big of a deal because it
00:12:59.700doesn't affect the outcome of election. First of all, I don't believe that. I do believe it has
00:13:03.780affected the outcome of some elections, especially local elections where there's low turnout,
00:13:07.380But it doesn't really matter. If one voter that is ineligible to vote votes, that disenfranchises the rest of us, because this is our most basic fundamental duty as well as privilege is to be able to vote in the elections for our country.
00:13:27.760and that should only be citizens. And if somebody wants to be a citizen, we have a process that that
00:13:35.120can happen. If you're vetted properly and you meet the qualifications and you go through everything
00:13:40.600you're supposed to go through, you can become a citizen and you can vote. However, saying that
00:13:46.720just because we didn't find widespread fraud, although some people believe there has been,
00:13:51.540it doesn't mean that it's right. We should investigate, I guess is what I'm trying to say.
00:13:59.400We should investigate this as thoroughly as possible on every particular claim or allegation
00:14:07.520because that's the one thing that doesn't cost you and I any money. It's free, but it is also
00:14:15.120a duty, and that's to go vote. And we want to make sure that the only voting that's done is done by
00:14:21.480eligible citizens of this country. There's another screenshot that shows that a file
00:14:28.140shows that China plans to sway public opinion against the Trump administration by exploiting0.53
00:14:34.660U.S. social fissures, think pro-life and pro-choice, and vulnerabilities such as racial
00:14:43.420tensions, women's rights, and political party disagreements. So they're feeding into this,
00:14:49.820OK, there are all of the people that hate America feeding into this.
00:14:53.860And those on the left are just going right along with it there.
00:14:57.360They are as complicit as some of these other state actors that are trying to divide the country and to actually punish our country and reduce its status in the world.
00:15:09.540And so I would encourage you again to get in touch with your senators about voting to pass the Save America Act,
00:15:17.180Even if they are Democrat senators, you should still get in touch with their offices and voice your opinion on that.
00:15:24.560You never know what can change someone's mind.
00:15:30.500All right. Kind of on the same vein, but a little bit funny, although sad.
00:15:35.180I don't know if you saw the report, but there was a report out where Olive Garden, the restaurant.
00:15:40.240I think Olive Gardens are all over the country.
00:15:42.240It's an Italian, you know, kind of fast, casual restaurant.
00:15:46.720It is the it becomes the unlikely face of voter ID fight because, you know, they have this unlimited pasta bar.
00:15:55.640I've never I've been to Olive Garden, but I've never done the unlimited pasta bar.
00:16:00.300But they have a never ending pasta bar.
00:16:03.280But however, in order for you to participate in the never ending pasta bar is you have to show a voter ID and it's only for use by the pass holder.
00:16:18.060This is what Olive Garden says, who name is printed on the pass. Passes are personalized and non-transferable.
00:16:24.260In other words, you can't go and get it and then have your wife or your husband go and use your pass.
00:16:30.700Pass holders must present a valid photo ID along with the pass at the time of ordering.
00:16:36.880Well, obviously, those of us that are concerned about voter integrity picked up on this.
00:16:43.460And this prompted some prominent Republicans and comedians to make comments about it.
00:16:49.660In fact, Senator Mike Lee said the American election should not be less secure than Olive Garden's endless pasta, which is true.
00:16:57.040And Robbie Starbuck said Olive Garden requires ID to use their never ending pasta pass.
00:17:02.920But most Democrat run states don't require your ID to vote.
00:17:06.920So in America, our pasta deals are literally more secure than our elections.
00:17:12.660It's maddening and hilarious at the same time.
00:17:16.900Indiana Attorney General Todd Rakitas said, we live in a nation where Olive Garden's never-ending pass is more secure than our elections. Make it make sense to me, pass the Save America Act. That is so true.
00:17:34.860I mean, it's just and of course, this is comes right after Democrat Senator Alyssa Slopkin's comments where she said the Save America Act would make it hard for any Democrat in any state to win an election.
00:17:47.720Well, you know what? She just said the the private part outside, because that's what they're concerned about, because they can't manipulate the elections, in my opinion, if we really pass the Save America Act.
00:18:02.980It's not about making it harder to vote. It's just harder to cheat. All right. Don't let anybody tell you anything different.
00:18:09.720Every state has the ability to get a voter ID at little or no cost. And if you've you know, and then you if you don't have one, a lot of them will let you do a provisional ballot and then they can verify that you are who you say you are.
00:18:24.380So there's it's not a burden on people at all. And reducing the mail in ballot, as President Trump said, they're only talking about if you're if you're disabled or you're elderly or you're out of town or you're military, you're still going to be able to do that.
00:18:41.720But just just rampant mail in ballots. That is just right for fraud. Absolutely right for fraud.
00:18:49.280So just, again, stay on top of that. I just thought the Olive Garden story was a little bit funny and although sad.
00:18:56.120I mean, it's kind of like going through the airport. You know, you can't go through the airport without having your without having your I.D.
00:19:02.220And so why should we allow people to vote if we don't allow them to take a vacation through an airport without voter I.D.?
00:19:10.320It's kind of kind of crazy. All right. Next next topic that we want to talk about is the left's reaction to Lindsey Graham's passing.
00:19:18.160And the reason I wanted to talk about this was Lindsey Graham.
00:19:22.700And I was out of the country when this happened. So I was like at least a day late getting the information.
00:19:27.780It was very surprising to me. And I've met Lindsey Graham multiple times.
00:19:33.080of times he would come up to our place where we have a cabin in the mountains and visit some other
00:19:41.400people. He was friends with a couple of former senators that are members at the same golf club
00:19:45.860that I'm a member of. And so I'd meet with him and spend a little time, you know, just with a
00:19:51.280group of people around him and what have you. So I don't, I don't plan, I don't say that I know him
00:19:55.500personally, but I have spent a little time with him. And, you know, outside of his hawkishness
00:20:01.980related to defense, Lindsey would probably be considered a pretty center-right Republican,
00:20:09.060not far-right by any means. Some people would call him a rhino. I would not call him that. I
00:20:15.840think he was a very good senator. The most impressive thing about Lindsey Graham is he
00:20:20.660spent 30 years in the Senate and didn't become a multimillionaire. And that is a very rare most,
00:20:26.760Why did I say most? Multiple people that are in Congress, in the House or the Senate, they come out much richer than they went in.
00:20:35.340And of course, that's another problem, maybe a discussion for another day.
00:20:39.380But what I want to talk to you about with Senator Graham's passing was that a lot of people might think, well, when President Trump is gone, everything will calm back down, get back to, quote, unquote, normal, which I hope it doesn't.
00:20:52.340but quote unquote normal. And, you know, we'll be much more globalist and our policies will be
00:21:02.420different. We'll get rid of all these tariffs and all that type of stuff. And everybody will be
00:21:08.340nicer to each other. I'll just tell you something, folks, lean in on this one, okay? Turn up the
00:21:14.660volume if you're listening to this and not watching it. That is not going to happen.
00:21:19.100The left will hate us no matter who is in charge.
00:21:25.920And listen to some of the things they said about Lindsey Graham, who by any account was not a far right zealot.
00:21:33.700OK, Anna Kasperin, which is a co-host and executive producer of The Young Turks, said good riddance.
00:21:41.300In follow up comments, including on Instagram, she doubled down and said she was elated that he was dead and overjoyed.
00:21:49.100And Nick Fuentes, you know, the anti-Semite, posted the same thing verbatim.
00:21:56.420Sink Uyghur, co-creator of the Young Turks, posted,
00:21:59.540Lindsey Graham has moved on to the next step of his journey,
00:22:02.560trying to convince Hades to attack Zeus and Poseidon.0.77
00:22:06.360Of course, these are Greek figures.0.69
00:22:08.620He says it will only take a couple of weeks and won't require any ground troops.
00:22:13.480So kind of trying to be funny, but he was definitely Lindsey Graham hater.
00:22:20.100Comedian Elizabeth Booker Houston dropped off a congratulance's cake at Graham's office for his sister to receive.
00:22:42.660I mean, incredible. Margaret Cho, a leftist comedian, said, buy Lindsey Graham, buy Lindsey from the close from the closet to the coffin.
00:22:51.840Real seamless. Hassan Piker, a left wing streamer, reacted with LMAO.
00:22:58.560You know what that means to a post attributing Graham's strong support for Israel.
00:23:03.260I mean, just incredible. I mean, people were so angry.
00:23:07.940And if you remember back that when President Bush, President George W. Bush, that the left hated him, some of the things they said about him were incredible.
00:23:18.880And also John McCain. In fact, just to remind you on Senator McCain, after he passed, his wife, Cindy, posted some of the hateful message she had gotten celebrating her husband's death.
00:23:28.480And here's one of them. One of them was an ex-user posted an altered photo of Meghan McCain grieving at her father's casket with a gun pointed at her head.
00:23:37.940captioned, America, this one's for you. I mean, just crazy. And you remember Judge0.93
00:23:42.960Antonin Scalia? He was widely celebrated on Twitter after he died
00:28:39.960I'll say cheers, three cheers, because we need to do that. This is a concentrated effort and organized to get rid of all the democracies in the world.
00:28:55.580Because when you get rid of democracies, whoever is controlling the government under the new scenario where they call it communism or socialism or whatever, they're the ones that have all the power, both economically and in their mind legally.
00:29:12.960So I hope other countries will join in this.
00:29:15.560They should be concerned about this as well.
00:29:19.780So I encourage you to go listen to to Rubio's speech and also President Trump's speech on the election information if you didn't hear it before.
00:29:28.760Now, let's get into some let's get into some viewer questions.
00:29:33.020We've got some questions. I'm going to end up the session today on a obviously a good story note, which we talk about in the past.
00:29:40.500One of the questions that came in, which is interesting question, is how do we defend Trump's environmental decisions?
00:29:47.880Of course, I'm not 100 percent sure what you're talking about. So if you want to email me, Ron at ronsimmons.com and talk specifically about it, I'll try to respond to you better. But I do want to make a couple of things.
00:30:00.120What Trump's administration's energy policy is focused on maximizing American energy production and lowering cost by prioritizing oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear power while cutting red tape.
00:30:13.340I think that's a good thing. Obviously, you don't want to do it to a standpoint where it literally hurts the environment.
00:30:20.160But the, you know, whether or not you're, I'll never forget when, this kind of reminds me of a story when Lisa and I, as we, I think I've told you, we met in college our freshman year.
00:30:31.960We both had biology together and we had this professor and the professor opened up the class.
00:30:37.920Now, remember, I had, even though it was a public school, I had gone to a very, I lived in a very conservative area.
00:30:43.520You know, the teachers outside of maybe the coaches, you never heard them say a curse word or anything like that, you know, in classroom for sure.
00:30:51.820But this guy opens up, he was Professor Matoka, Ken Matoka, I think was his name.
00:30:58.280And he opened up the class with this question to us, is a snail darter worth a dam?
00:31:05.180And of course, it was a play on words.
00:31:07.260He was really saying there was an environmental rule at the time where they couldn't build a dam.
00:31:13.340I think it was in Tennessee because this little bitty, bitty animal called a snail darter lived there and it may harm the environment of the snail darter.
00:31:23.660Although the dam was being built to provide, I believe, electricity for a power plant, you know, create hydroelectricity that would help, you know, electrify homes and businesses and things like that to keep up with the growth of that particular area.
00:31:40.940And so that's, I think that's what President Trump and them are trying to do. They're trying to get rid of the meaningless regulations, the one that don't matter. Now, if there's a specific area where you believe and you have proof that it's hurting the environment, then yeah, I certainly want to know about that.
00:31:57.320The White House says that the approach encourages industry to develop cost effective solutions like improved emissions technologies, rather than imposing unfeasible mandates that risk economic disruption.
00:32:12.440And, you know, there is a true social post, which we're going to put up with a president celebrated in June 2026 what some of these policies have done.
00:32:23.080And that's a, you know, a lowering of the consumer price index while wages actually went up.
00:32:29.300Now, some of this has been disrupted by what's going on in the conflict with Iran.0.53
00:32:34.000But overall, you know, that consumer prices fell 0.4 percent in June, the biggest monthly drop in six years, which goes back all to all the Biden's time.
00:32:48.960And it's led by a 5.7% decline in energy costs.
00:32:53.380You know, those have fluctuated a little bit since we're still having the conflict with
00:32:57.040Iran, but I noticed they were down this morning when I checked, at least the oil prices were
00:33:03.080So I don't, you know, I don't think restricting fossil fuels is the answer.
00:33:10.820We need to have answers for all of the above.
00:33:13.480One of the challenges, for example, in Texas is when you promote solar energy or wind energy over and above, say, natural gas, when you have an emergency, it creates a problem like in a cold weather event, for example, where you can't the electrical and the, I'm sorry, not the electrical, but the wind and the solar don't provide enough based on the demand.
00:33:42.620And because that wind and solar have been able to sell their electricity to the grid at below cost because of federal credits, it has caused natural gas plants not to be running.
00:34:00.280And you can't just flip a switch and turn on a natural gas plant.
00:34:03.340So unless a natural gas plant can stay up and running on a regular basis, they're not going to be there to handle an emergency.
00:34:12.620And that's the problem with giving one type of energy and incentive over the other.
00:34:19.540I don't have anything against solar or wind, although I hate all the windmills, honestly.
00:34:24.780But it needs to be on a level playing field.
00:34:31.280It says one of the questions is how much weight should policymakers give to high end emission scenarios that are conditional models rather than forecast?
00:34:40.240In fact, one of the most influential examples was the high emission scenario, RCP8.5, which projected roughly four to five degrees centigrade, which is somewhere in a seven to nine degree Fahrenheit of warming by 2100, that'd be the 22nd century, and impacted studies and policy debates,
00:35:06.800but has now been officially retired by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change because it is implausible.
00:35:14.820So even the people that promote all this are pulling back on that.
00:35:18.580So another thing related to the environment, the question was, are Canada's policies causing wildfires?
00:35:25.500Yes, in a sense, they are. Now, you're always going to have wildfires in Canada.
00:35:29.220In fact, Daniel and I went fishing in far northern Canada.
00:35:35.220I don't know, golly, it's probably been 15 years ago.
00:35:37.960But we went fishing up there with a group of guys.
00:35:40.660And I noticed on this big lake that we were fishing on, on the other side, there was this smoke coming up.
00:35:46.340And it was wildfires that had been started, I assume, probably by lightning and what have you.
00:35:51.000And they let them burn, you know, because there's actually no people even living over there.
00:35:57.300But one of the things that Canada has not done a good job of is doing controlled burns of the underbrush.
00:36:05.500And that in California, that's some of the reasons for California's wildfires is that what happens is, is in the forest, there's these undergrowth, you know, shrubs and things like that.
00:36:15.800That's where a lot of that's where a lot of the heat comes when a fire starts.
00:36:19.000You're not going to stop a fire, a lightning fire from hitting a tree and maybe it's starting.
00:36:24.480But the fuel that the underbrush gives is what causes the problem.
00:36:29.260So the underbrush either has to have a controlled burn or cleaned out and that will reduce that will reduce the fires.
00:36:36.020President Trump thinks it's willful. I don't know that it's willful.
00:36:39.040I just think it is that it's a a misunderstanding of what type of mitigation needs to happen in Canada, in their forest relating to controlling wildfires.
00:36:51.980And it's actually no question it's gone up since since the 1970s.
00:36:59.300President Trump put a post up here and he again calls it willful negligence, saying on true social that the cost of pollution must must of necessity be added to the tariffs.
00:37:10.540Canada is currently paying. You know, that's that's President Trump being a little bit bombastic.
00:37:16.220It doesn't mean he won't increase the tariffs to Canada, but I think he wants to get them.
00:37:21.020He wants to bring attention to it, to pay attention, because have you seen some of the pictures in the last few weeks on places in the northern part of our country that the smog and everything that's being affected, you know, that's coming down?
00:37:35.300And so it's affecting people's respiratory and all that type of stuff.
00:37:38.480It's pretty, you know, it's pretty bad.
00:37:41.000And, of course, the liberal prime minister up there, Carney, says, well, that's climate change responsibility of everybody.
00:37:47.500This has anything to do with climate change.
00:37:49.200OK, this has to do with poor management of forest growth.
00:37:53.460That's what it has to do. And, you know, in my opinion.
00:37:57.380All right. Let's talk about a few more of these questions that you have.
00:38:02.760Some good ones. Should children go to nursery during church or stay with the family?
00:38:08.460Well, I think it depends. I certainly think little ones, OK, under five years old and maybe under six years old should go to the nursery.
00:38:16.180And hopefully the nursery doesn't just it's not just playtime, but there's a story time and there's something they're teaching them and they're related to the Bible.
00:38:25.500But it also depends on the child. You may have a very mature child that can actually benefit from being in there.
00:38:32.180But most of the time, young children in a service actually take away from what you're there for.
00:38:39.580And that's worshiping and being worshiped to being fed. Right.
00:38:44.200Because you're worried about getting the color and pencil out for the kid or they're moving around or they need to go to the restroom.
00:38:51.020I would strongly support putting them in the nursery unless they're a special child that you think is mature enough to be able to benefit from being in the service.
00:39:01.300and it won't distract from what you're there for as well.
00:39:05.240How to prepare for what's coming, AI, question mark,
00:39:09.580scared for family financial future.0.99
00:40:26.940And they, and they figured out it just that the quality and the, and the reduction of errors was actually not as great as if they just properly trained, you know, people like you and me to do that. So I also think AI is going to be a huge advantage. I think with AI and stuff, we're going to make some huge strides in healthcare and other things like that.
00:40:48.680So just like anything, it's a positive and a negative.
00:40:51.880Just make sure you're in a position, if you're worried about your job, that you're in a position that can't be replaced.
00:40:58.280Like, for example, they're never going to replace my plumber, right, or my electrician or my handyman or any of that type of stuff with AI.
00:41:06.360I may be able to do a little bit more stuff myself by looking on YouTube and watching how people fix things.
00:41:12.120But I think staying at that part where it touches the customer is the best security there.
00:41:18.680All right. Why is it so hard to find the truth about candidates running in the midterm,
00:41:25.300especially on the local ones? Because Facebook is just a bashing session and their website's
00:41:30.200all perfect. You're right. So you go to Facebook and you'll get, you know, one side will just be
00:41:36.960bashing a candidate. You know, maybe the other side will be trying to take up for them. You go
00:41:40.560to the candidate's website and they're the best thing since sliced bread. I think the best way
00:41:46.120to find out about it. The best way is to meet with the candidate or either to go to an open
00:41:53.400forum where you can ask questions or you hear other people ask questions so you can draw your
00:41:58.140own conclusions. And finally, look at their history. What have they been involved in in the
00:42:03.640past? Where do they go to church? What's their position? What is their position on some value
00:42:10.600based things like pro-life, right? Like maybe gun ownership, things like that. That's what I would
00:42:18.260do. But if I could, I would, and most of them, the local ones, they'll want to talk to any voter
00:42:22.980that wants to talk to them. So I'd definitely try to get in touch with them. This person predicts
00:42:28.920that Georgia is going to go blue because of the data centers. It's affecting rural areas. We
00:42:33.960talked about this a few weeks ago. What are my thoughts on that? I don't see Georgia going blue.
00:42:38.980OK, although, you know, they got blue senators. I hope that changes this time.
00:42:45.060But I do think that that Republicans should be paying attention to that.
00:42:48.120And if they're putting data centers in a place where it is hurting the local environment, there needs to be rules and regulations around that.
00:42:55.540It needs to be a net positive for everybody, not a net negative.
00:42:58.960Now, if you just don't like the big building being there because you live in a rural area.
00:43:04.240Sorry. I mean, I get that. You may not like it.
00:43:08.120But if somebody sold them their property and that's within the rules and regulations of what can be put on that property, then, you know, that's that's the way it is.
00:43:18.320And I'm sorry if that has a negative effect effect on you.
00:43:21.860Maybe you have to look at moving on and moving, you know, moving further out away from something like that.
00:43:28.200How is financially supporting foreign wars prioritizing American people's interests?
00:43:32.240Well, that's a pretty easy one. What we want to make sure is you have a couple of choices here. You can either wait until we're attacked and then go fight. Okay. Or you can try to fight people that are anti-American out away from the United States. And that's the position we've always taken.
00:43:56.300Now, 9-11, obviously, they came in and and attacked us, OK, surprised us and attacked us.
00:44:03.020And but then we took the war to them. And I think what what happens is, is that it and again, America is the strongest country in the world.
00:44:11.000And so we do have some responsibility outside of our borders. Plus, we want to have allies that thinks at least on many things similar to we do.
00:44:20.280So those all benefit. And we have a lot of trading partners. Right. I don't know what business you're in,
00:44:25.520But chances are you either have or in a business that trades with other countries or you bought stuff from other countries yourself.
00:44:33.900So, you know, I think you have to pay attention to it.
00:44:36.820You have to put America first. No question about it.
00:44:39.040We shouldn't be in wars that don't matter to America.0.97
00:44:41.120But the conflict with Iran matters to America because they want not a single one of us, unless we're willing to convert to their crazy ideology, they don't want a single one of us to live.0.97
00:44:55.520They do not want a single one of us to live. And that includes you, whoever is asking this question and anybody else that thinks, oh, everything would be OK if we just leave alone.0.94
00:45:04.780It doesn't work like that. How do we encourage assimilation within migrants, with the migrants who are here to stay in the U.S.?0.92
00:45:11.300I think the first thing we have to do is we have to make sure that they speak our language.1.00
00:45:17.120We should not have English as a second language in any school other than maybe just for a few months as they're transitioning.1.00
00:45:24.120transitioning. All right. And then the other thing, of course, is closing the border so that1.00
00:45:28.040we have the migrants that are here that only want to be here legally. And you're always going to1.00
00:45:33.880have, I mean, just like when people were coming over early in our country's time and going through0.89
00:45:41.620Ellis Island and things like that, you had pockets of Italians, you had pockets of Germans, you had
00:45:46.680pockets of Irish. People are going to assimilate. They're going to want to congregate people that0.97
00:45:53.180are similar to them. Now, as that community grows and people marry other people and things like
00:45:59.860that, or they go off to college, that's how all the assimilation happens. But we need to be pushing
00:46:05.700it. And the other thing to do is what we're teaching our school. Are we teaching civics?
00:46:08.980Are we teaching American history in a positive way? Those are also the types of things that we
00:46:13.640do. And then we need to get rid of chain migration because we could bring somebody over here that's1.00
00:46:18.600fully vetted and we need them here. But with change migration, which Senator Schumer was a
00:46:23.260big part of, they can bring almost any member of their family over with a whole lot less vetting.
00:46:28.400And we need to get rid of that. How to support a husband making no career progress. You know what?
00:46:34.780I think you, again, it's fine for you and your husband to have very serious conversations and
00:46:40.760you should, but you have to do that and not a condescending manner, but in a loving manner and
00:46:45.920saying, Hey, you know, uh, where do you think, where do you think things are going? And is there
00:46:50.960anything I can do to help you? And then your other job is just to pray for it, right? You can't,
00:46:55.580you're not your husband's boss and he's not your boss. Um, and if you want him to make better
00:47:02.420progress in his career, if it's possible for him to do something, then just have a conversation,
00:47:07.200but it has to be a loving conversation. It has to be, how can I help you? I'm proud of you. I'm
00:47:10.840glad to be your wife. You know, I'm glad that you're the father of my children, if you have
00:47:14.580children. But it has to be in a positive manner. And, you know, let's see if he'll open up about
00:47:20.520it. And what should my dad and son do during Share the Arrows in Dallas? Oh, good. I'm glad
00:47:26.140they're coming with you. That's cool that your dad's going to be hanging out with your 13-year-old
00:47:32.200son. A few things. One, you can go to downtown or actually the stockyards over in Fort Worth.
00:47:40.760That'd be a cool place for a 13-year-old boy to go hang out.
00:47:44.280I would definitely recommend the JFK exhibit in downtown Dallas.
00:48:29.400that they did well. And then talking about the things they
00:48:34.420did well, not focusing on the things they did bad. And then also, though, I think as they mature,
00:48:39.740you can help them understand that everybody fails at things. In fact, there's a great book
00:48:46.020out there called Failing Forward that I would recommend that you read that can give you some
00:48:50.760ideas on the positiveness of things that when people fail and may hurt their confidence, how
00:48:57.960that prepares them for greater things in the future. But I think just looking for things to
00:49:03.060be encouraging them about, okay? Looking for things they do right, whatever that is. And you
00:49:07.720know, they may roll their eyes and, oh, mom, you don't know, or dad, you don't know. But in the
00:49:13.020long run, those things make a difference, right? I'll never forget something Lisa did, said one
00:49:18.980time, just kind of off the cuff for her, right? And I don't know, we were going through some
00:49:23.480pretty major change. I don't know if it was business or maybe we were moving to another
00:49:27.140house or someplace, I don't know. But I remember overhearing somebody asking Lisa, man, you,
00:49:33.060Ron, he's kind of a risk taker. Do you think it's the right thing to do? She said, I don't really
00:49:41.700know, but I believe in Ron. I tell you what, man, I puffed up. That just made me so proud
00:49:47.820of that. And so those are the types of things you have to do. Best way to invest money for a child
00:49:53.820who probably won't go to college. Well, again, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago. You can
00:49:58.460still use a 529 plan for them. If you think they're going to go maybe get a trade, go to a
00:50:03.700vocational school where they're going to learn how to be a plumber, welder, electrician, something
00:50:08.120like that, you could still use a 529 plan for that. If you're not sure of any of that, you just
00:50:13.700want to put away money. The Trump account's a good thing to do for that because there's a whole lot
00:50:17.500less restrictions as far as what you can spend it on. Or you can set up an account, Uniform Gift
00:50:22.580to Minors Act. And if again, if you have an extended period of time before that child needs
00:50:27.860to access that, I would put it in a, in my opinion, what I would do with what I've done
00:50:32.860with our kids. Okay. And this is not individual financial advice, but what I've done with our
00:50:37.940grandkids is put it primarily in a S&P 500 index fund. That's what I have done. You have to check
00:50:45.260with your advisors to see if that's the right thing for you to do. All right, just a few more
00:50:49.880And I'm going to finish up here. Let's see. Would you let your daughter date a man with potential to grow with potential to grow relationship with Jesus?
00:51:03.200I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, Abby. So maybe you could email me, Ron at Ron Simmons dot com a little more detail.
00:51:10.020but I would be very cautious if they're teenagers you know still at home I would want to know more
00:51:17.060about their family as well as the young man but I want to know more about their family if they're
00:51:21.780adults and of course we can't control everything they do when they're adults we can influence it
00:51:27.540but we can't control it then I would just make sure that you had a conversation with your daughter
00:51:33.180that she understands that you I mean witness dating is not a good thing to do you're going
00:51:39.820to be unequally yoked. You need to look for a person that has a solid faith. Now, it doesn't
00:51:45.060mean that they're exactly at the same place in their faith that your daughter is, but that they
00:51:51.180have the fundamentals down, that they believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and they have
00:51:57.120been saved, and they're committed to that, and they're committed to the principles that
00:52:02.680that, that being a Christian stands for. And, you know, sure, we all continue to need to be
00:52:09.500discipled, but I'm not sure that that, um, is something that needs to be the purpose of
00:52:17.940dating someone. All right. Uh, feeling led for my boyfriend and I to get married, but
00:52:26.240your, her parents, Chloe's parents are hesitant. How do we handle this? Well, uh, you know,
00:52:34.080again, I don't know how old you are, but I assume you're an adult. So get married if you want to,
00:52:40.540but I think you need to just sit down with your parents and, and, um, have them explain to you
00:52:45.440why they're hesitant. Right. Uh, and there, we just went through a situation with, uh, one of
00:52:51.640our relatives not in our direct family but extended family who's who the the girl's mom just
00:52:58.700for whatever reason didn't think much of our extended family member and she's wrong she was
00:53:05.520absolutely wrong but it ended up causing he and his girlfriend to break up and actually probably
00:53:12.320ended up in the long run probably for the better because it was they were going to be antagonizing
00:53:17.680him all the time, which would have really made me mad. I probably would have had to jump in and
00:53:22.020say something myself. So I think that you talk to them and probably a good idea, if they're willing
00:53:29.140to do it, to have both you and your boyfriend talk to them and just put it out on top. There's
00:53:33.700no use in keeping secrets. Whatever it is, it is maybe they have a misconstrue or misunderstanding
00:53:38.460of something about him or his family. So that's what I would do.
00:53:42.880pizza or pasta pasta no question about it i like pizza but i'm a little bit lactose intolerant so
00:53:53.740i can't do much pizza but even if it even if i wasn't pasta i love pasta by the way i really
00:54:00.320like pasta in fact my good friend which i've talked about before giovanni capricleon he's
00:54:05.340His parents are first generation Americans, and so they really know how to cook Italian food.
00:54:16.960So anyway, we're going to finish up right now.
00:54:18.380I just got one thing I want to finish up, and it's a good story.
00:54:21.080And this story recently, just a couple of weeks ago, First Liberty Institute, which you know, First Liberty, Allie speaks for them a lot.
00:54:28.660You've probably seen some of her speeches online, First Liberty.
00:54:31.640The guy that runs that's a good friend of mine, Kelly Shackelford.
00:54:34.220And they they go out and represent people whose religious liberties have been trampled upon.
00:54:43.220In fact, that was just with one of their volunteer attorneys this past weekend, Charles Bundren, who actually, if you ever want to look it up, just look up the candy cane case.
00:54:52.760He was the impetus behind that. But anyway, so they put out they they put out a index of states which have the most allow their citizens the most religious liberty.
00:55:04.220And Arkansas, my old home state, is number one. And a lot of that is based on what Arkansas did
00:55:12.780legislatively. They passed laws that strengthen religious freedom, conscious protections for
00:55:18.940health care workers and others, school religious expression, and safeguards for faith-based
00:55:23.840adoption foster agencies and parents. Under Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, conservative
00:55:30.680governance, emphasizing parental rights, religious liberty, and education. For example,
00:55:36.340Ten Commandment displays in some context. And prioritizing children's needs in family law
00:55:41.600aligns with values that children thrive best with a mother and father where possible,
00:55:46.820and faith shapes strong families. So three cheers for Arkansas in leading this and Governor Sanders.
00:55:54.080I tell you what, Governor Sanders could be a very strong vice president candidate maybe this time
00:56:00.000and presidential candidate in the future.1.00
00:56:01.940She comes from good stock out of Governor Huckabee,
00:56:07.600or now Ambassador Huckabee, and she's very smart.
00:56:11.440Her and Allie have spent a lot of time talking to each other
00:56:13.920over the time she's had Allie up to Arkansas a couple of times.
00:56:17.780So, yeah, I really want to applaud them.
00:56:22.320And a couple of other things that were surprising,
00:56:26.580in the top five, number five, most liberty, religious liberty was Illinois. And I was
00:56:34.740surprised at that, actually, because, you know, it's a blue state and I'm only mainly controlled
00:56:38.320by Chicago area. But I thought that was really cool. I was a little disappointed that our state,
00:56:43.860Texas, was not. It was number 19. I don't know what the issues are. I need to dig further into
00:56:48.520that as to why we got a 19 ranking, because I think we have pretty strong religious liberty
00:56:53.240protections, but maybe there's some few things that we're missing. If there is, then I call on
00:56:57.720my friends in the legislature, uh, to get those fixed this time when they go into session in
00:57:02.840January. Um, so anyway, I thought that was good news and I hope that you'll think so as well.
00:57:09.240Don't forget, uh, for share the arrows. Also, uh, if you want to read my book, life lessons from the
00:57:15.160little red wagon, you can buy that on Allie's merch site, merchandise site, excuse me for saying
00:57:20.380merch. And then also Toxic Empathy, which is a New York Times bestseller, which is Allie's
00:57:25.520latest book. Or if you want a signed copy of Life Lessons from Little Red Wagon, just email me
00:57:30.960ron at ronsimmons.com and we'll get one sent to you. I think it's 20 bucks and we'll go from
00:57:36.520there. But thank you very much. And we'll talk to you in a couple of weeks. Have a good day.