163 - Decision 2020 - The Top Reasons To Vote For Donald Trump

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0:32 This is our daunted life, a man's podcast.

0:51 I'm your host Kyle Thompson.

0:52 Let's get into it.

0:53 All right, guys.

0:54 We really hope you enjoyed episode 162 of this podcast.

0:57 If you've not listened to that episode yet, you definitely need to listen to that one

1:00 before you listen to this one.

1:01 But in that episode, the last episode that was released yesterday, we did an in-depth

1:06 look into the reasons to vote for Joe Biden.

1:09 And guys, if you've already heard that episode, if you're wondering, no, I didn't upload

1:14 the wrong audio, no, I didn't accidentally edit the podcast incorrectly and no, there

1:20 is nothing wrong with your phone or whatever you're listening to this on right now.

1:24 Guys, obviously the silence was on purpose because I honestly could not think of a good

1:31 reason to vote for Joe Biden.

1:34 Like that's not tongue in cheek, like there's no sarcasm there.

1:37 I couldn't think of a good reason.

1:38 So you've probably heard me rustling it around there in that five minutes or so of silence

1:42 because there's nothing to say.

1:44 That's 100% honestly what I believe.

1:46 And to be even more honest, the overwhelming majority of people that plan to or already

1:52 have voted for Joe Biden are simply doing it for one reason and one reason only.

1:57 And that is he's not Donald Trump.

2:01 No one is actually jazzed up about Joe Biden and I've talked to a lot of Joe Biden voters.

2:06 They're not really jazzed up about Joe Biden.

2:08 There's nothing that he is or that he stands for that he does that gets people that excited.

2:14 He's nothing like Barack Obama who was this incendiary figure, whether you liked him or

2:19 you hated him, he at the very least made some emotion come out of you.

2:22 He elicited some sort of emotion.

2:24 Joe Biden just doesn't have that.

2:26 So essentially if there are no good reasons to vote for Joe Biden, that only leaves me

2:31 right a single single voter, right?

2:34 That leaves me with two options, either vote for Donald Trump or lead the top of my ballot

2:39 blank for the second general election in a row.

2:42 Okay.

2:43 So before we get into today's content, I do want to do a quick reminder for those of you

2:47 that didn't listen to the last episode or haven't listened to this podcast, maybe you're

2:50 new to this podcast, I am a registered Republican.

2:53 Okay.

2:54 I have always been a registered Republican.

2:55 That is how I vote.

2:56 There have been several elections where I voted straight party Republican.

2:59 And guys, since Bush v. Gore, which was the first presidential election that I was able

3:03 to vote in the United States on, I have always voted for the Republican nominee for president

3:08 and that was until 2016 in 2016, I left the top of my ballot blank.

3:13 I did not vote for Donald Trump, but also I did not vote for Hillary Clinton.

3:16 I didn't think either of them met my basic standards of human decency.

3:19 I didn't think Donald Trump was going to be a conservative.

3:23 I didn't think that he was going to be a good person to lead this country.

3:26 And I also thought Hillary was deeply corrupt and a horrifically unlikable person.

3:30 So I voted for neither of them.

3:32 And here's the other thing.

3:33 Before I recorded recorded this podcast, maybe about an hour ago, a good buddy of mine

3:38 who listens to this podcast a long, long time supporter of this podcast, he kind of asked

3:42 me, he's like, Hey, in 2016, what would you have done?

3:46 If you would actually like lived in a swing state, because I live in Oklahoma.

3:50 And guys, spoiler alert, every single one of the counties in Oklahoma, including the

3:54 one that this guy lives in, shout out to Chris Zerzvi, they're all going to be read, regardless

3:58 what you think, regardless of what you do, they're all going to be read, okay?

4:02 So my vote in Oklahoma doesn't really count for much.

4:05 It's more symbolic than anything.

4:07 You know, I don't live in Arizona or Ohio or Pennsylvania or Michigan or Wisconsin or

4:12 Florida or Minnesota, like I don't live in any of these states where it might be up in

4:16 the air right now.

4:17 Minnesota, maybe not so much, maybe North Carolina more so, but I don't live in one of

4:21 those states.

4:22 And to be honest with you, he kind of caught me off guard with that question because I

4:24 don't have a great answer for that because in 2016, my reasoning that, you know, neither

4:28 one of these candidates meet my basic standards of human decency or whatever, that was good

4:32 enough.

4:33 I didn't have to have that moral conundrum, right, about my decision because Hillary Clinton

4:39 won the popular vote by like two million votes, but she lost the electoral college by, you

4:43 know, tens of thousands of votes, maybe a few hundred thousand votes total, like that's

4:48 a fairly significant thing that happened.

4:51 And so I just didn't have to deal with that.

4:54 Now in 2020, it's the same thing.

4:56 Every single one of the counties is going to be read, but I'm, I'm looking at the decision

4:59 again as to kind of what I should do.

5:01 And that's what I'm going to be talking about in this episode, but that's going to be at

5:03 the end.

5:04 This episode will be about the top reasons, not just my top reasons, but just the top

5:09 reasons to vote for Donald Trump.

5:11 But also in this episode, we will discuss how Christians should operate in reference to

5:15 this year's presidential election and really most elections and just basically how we operate

5:21 in modern society.

5:22 And guys, if you stick with us till the end of this episode, I'm going to tell you what

5:26 I plan to do this year with the top of my ballot.

5:29 Again, essentially there were three options to begin with, Trump, Biden or blank.

5:33 Now it's just Trump or blank in my mind in the state of Oklahoma, you cannot write in

5:37 a, a person for the president's presidential seat.

5:42 Back in 2016, I would have voted for our, one of our senators here at James Langford.

5:46 That would have been my ride and vote, but you can't write and vote in Oklahoma.

5:49 Again, the libertarian party is a joke of a party.

5:52 They have some great ideas, but as a party there, there's really no there there with

5:55 them.

5:56 But the other thing that I want to tell you before we launch him is I intentionally

6:01 tried to limit my research and my gathering of other people's opinions when putting this

6:06 episode together.

6:07 And the reason I did that is because I want you to get the most accurate portrayal of

6:11 my thoughts, right?

6:12 Not just me parroting some other people's thoughts, because again, you guys know a lot

6:15 of the conservative voices I listen to or some of the news sources that I get my stuff from.

6:19 And I've been listening to a lot of these news sources since before the 2016 election.

6:24 And so to a certain degree, some of my opinions have been formed by these people and influenced

6:28 by these people.

6:29 But in terms of this podcast alone, I feel like I've been preparing this podcast for over

6:33 four years now, right?

6:35 The decision to keep this Republican administration going and having my vote be counted towards

6:41 that.

6:42 I feel like I've been doing a lot of thinking on that, but I've tried to limit the outside

6:45 sources.

6:46 And guys, before we get into the reasons to vote for Donald Trump, right?

6:50 I'm going to go over my issues with Donald Trump, because I have many.

6:54 And the interesting about my issues with Donald Trump is these seem to go hand in hand with

6:59 many of the reasons why a lot of people, including a lot of Republicans, don't like Trump.

7:03 So I'm just going to get those out of the way right from the beginning and right from

7:06 the top.

7:07 I have a big issue with his morality and his character.

7:10 Whatever you think about the guy, I'm not a huge fan of the decisions that he's made,

7:15 right?

7:16 He's on his third marriage.

7:17 We have evidence that he's cheated essentially on every wife that he's had or every important

7:20 person in his life from a character standpoint.

7:24 This guy has a very interesting relationship with the truth, which is to put it mildly.

7:29 And I don't really like that.

7:30 I don't really like people that kind of like to bend the truth to be to their advantage.

7:34 So I'm not a huge fan of that.

7:36 I'm also not a huge fan of his personality overall.

7:37 A lot of people are like, Oh, he's just from New York.

7:39 And that's how he talks.

7:40 And that's how he does things.

7:41 It's just not really my cup of tea.

7:43 Again, I'm from Oklahoma.

7:44 I'm somewhat of a Southern gentleman.

7:46 You know, I'm not really intimidated by someone that talks fast and does whatever.

7:50 I mean, I used to live in Manhattan.

7:52 The speed didn't really bother me.

7:53 His personality isn't my favorite.

7:55 I also don't like how he uses Twitter most of the time.

7:58 Now there are times when he dunks on people that it's absolutely hilarious.

8:01 Again, whenever he posted the picture of Greenland with a big hotel that said Trump across the

8:06 top saying that I'm not going to do this to Greenland, like that's hilarious.

8:09 And I do like how he smacks some people around sometimes, but overall his tweets haven't

8:13 really helped him.

8:15 Like if he literally had lost his phone when he took office in 2017, if he had just completely

8:20 lost his phone, then I feel like it would have been better overall.

8:23 And I think his poll numbers will look better right now.

8:25 I also don't like the fact that he seems fairly disingenuous about a lot of things.

8:29 You know, I guess that's also known as he doesn't really believe in a lot of things

8:33 that he's saying.

8:34 Now, I will say this, especially on the abortion issue, you've seen people talk about the abortion

8:37 issue with him that, oh, he's probably not actually pro life in his heart.

8:42 To be honest with you, I could give a damn if he's pro life in his heart.

8:45 I care if he operates and governs in a pro life way, right?

8:49 Now for him personally, that could be a character flaw.

8:53 That could be a moral flaw that can be a hypocritical type of thing that he operates

8:56 with.

8:57 But at the end of the day, I'd rather him do things that are pro life than to actually

9:01 believe it.

9:02 If those are my only two options, he's obviously a very petty human being.

9:06 He's never ran up against a slight that he felt was too small to respond to, right?

9:11 So he's always defending himself.

9:13 And that's one of those things is if you're insecure about yourself, you're always blowing

9:16 up.

9:17 It's like that, you know, the little guy syndrome, the guy that's always getting in fights or,

9:19 you know, getting people's faces.

9:20 He's trying to like prove something to everybody else, but he's mainly trying to prove something

9:23 to himself.

9:24 I'm not really fan of that.

9:26 As he's governed, he's continued to blow out spending, which no one is talking about.

9:31 And guys, if we're going to be intellectually honest, the Republicans were constantly complaining

9:36 about Barack Obama blowing out spending, right?

9:38 He quadrupled spending over what even what George W. Bush did and all these different

9:42 things.

9:43 And then all of a sudden, none of these people want to talk about the fact that he, the leader

9:46 of the Republican party has absolutely blown out spending.

9:49 Everything is absolutely out of control sometime in my lifetime.

9:52 The other shoe is going to drop.

9:53 I mean, China owns the majority of our debt, like that's going to be an issue in the long

9:57 term.

9:58 Also, I'm not a huge fan of the fact that he did not defund Planned Parenthood the whole

10:03 way when he could have the first two years of his administration, 2017, 2018.

10:09 He had both houses of Congress and the White House.

10:12 They could have passed substantive defunding regulations on Planned Parenthood, the largest

10:18 provider of murder, baby murder in the United States.

10:21 And they didn't do that.

10:22 Not a huge fan of that.

10:23 You know, I didn't think he handled COVID-19.

10:25 That great.

10:26 Obviously his rhetoric on COVID-19 has really bit him in the butt, especially since he got

10:29 COVID-19.

10:30 But to a certain degree, not really, it's not really something I can hold against them

10:33 because name me a country that's not isolated on all sides by oceans that has handled this

10:39 well.

10:40 I mean, even as recently as this week, Italy, which of all the countries in the world was

10:45 the country that went to probably the most draconian lockdown measures, they're seeing

10:49 a significant uptick in cases.

10:51 So people obviously are talking about cases, cases, cases, cases, the Midwest is having

10:54 a surge in cases in the United States.

10:56 Again, you shouldn't be as worried nearly as much about cases as you should be worried

11:00 about hospitalizations and deaths.

11:01 But again, you're not going to get those numbers on CNN or MSNBC or any of those types of things.

11:06 But at the same time, he hasn't really done well with that issue.

11:10 And that is the issue that is at the top of everyone's minds.

11:13 That is the issue that all of the people in the mainstream media are leading to.

11:16 But even with all those things I just said, and there are others, but you know, we're

11:19 going to move on here.

11:20 Here's the thing.

11:21 Guess what?

11:22 I'm not voting for my Valentine in 2020 as my buddy TW Shannon put it.

11:28 I'm also not voting for one of these guys, either Biden or Trump to be my neighbor.

11:34 As Albert Moller put it in a podcast earlier this week, I'm not voting for the next senior

11:40 pastor of my church here in Edmond, Oklahoma, OK, I'm voting for who is to be the president

11:49 of the nation that I hold residents in.

11:52 That's it.

11:54 That's what I'm voting for in 2020, OK, and also here's a big thing to remember.

12:00 You're not just voting for either Trump or Biden.

12:04 You're not you're voting for the Trump administration or the Biden administration.

12:10 Again, Trump is the lightning rod.

12:13 Trump is the center of attention for everything, but you're not just casting a vote for these

12:17 people individually.

12:19 You're casting it for their administration.

12:21 And so that allows you to look at Trump and Biden as conduits through which they can control

12:26 things in the United States, which they can move things and shape things and mold things.

12:31 That's what you're voting for, OK?

12:33 So guys, here we go without further ado and there won't be a bunch of silence after this.

12:38 Here are the reasons to vote for Donald Trump and they are in no particular order, OK?

12:42 The first reason he's not Joe Biden and that is a legitimate reason.

12:48 He is not Joseph Biden, OK?

12:51 Joe Biden has already admitted that he is a transitional candidate, OK?

12:54 He's almost 80 years old.

12:56 He has talked a lot about the fact that he may not make it through to a second term if

13:00 he's elected, most of the American public, even the ones that are voting for him, realize

13:04 that he's probably not going to make it out of his first term.

13:06 So essentially when you're casting a vote for Joe Biden, you're technically voting for

13:10 Senator Kamala Harris, who is seen by many people, people that are observers of this

13:16 type of thing as the most liberal and left leaning of all of the 100 United States senators.

13:23 And yes, that includes commie Bernie Sanders, OK?

13:26 So these people that are looking at Joe Biden and what he believes on this issue or that issue,

13:31 you're kind of tricking yourself a little bit because he's going to be the main course

13:36 initially, but he will very easily be pushed out, right?

13:41 If not ideologically, he will be pushed out literally, right?

13:44 That's essentially what we're looking at.

13:46 Also if you take Biden seriously, you also have to take Biden and the rest of the Democrats

13:52 threats at face value, OK?

13:55 Here are the threats that we've heard so far if Donald Trump is not elected, right?

14:00 If Joe Biden wins, they're going to pack the Supreme Court, they're going to end the filibuster,

14:05 and they're going to add states, at least Puerto Rico and Washington DC, if not Guam.

14:10 Those are threats and you have to take those threats at face value if they win the Senate

14:14 and the White House.

14:16 Other threats you've heard and you heard this from the governor of the great state of Michigan,

14:20 if you hate these COVID lockdowns, vote for Biden.

14:24 It's an open threat.

14:26 Basically if you don't give us what we want, we will continue these draconian lockdowns.

14:31 And other threats still is if you hate these riots, if you hate the looting going on right

14:35 now, if you hate what's going on literally right now as I'm recording this in Philadelphia

14:39 over the justified police killing of a black person in Philadelphia, then guess what?

14:45 Vote for Biden.

14:47 If you hate all these things going on, if you hate that looters are controlling the streets,

14:50 vote for Biden.

14:52 These are open threats.

14:54 These are open threats to liberty, open threats to the First Amendment, open threats to basically

14:58 a lifestyle and a life that is devoid of this feeling of anarchy around us, right?

15:06 If you don't like those things, vote for Joe Biden.

15:09 So we got to take those things seriously.

15:11 Also Joe Biden says that he will not stop, well, he doesn't really say this.

15:15 It's more of an implication, but you got to believe that Joe Biden is not going to stop

15:19 nor slow the leftward lurch of the Democratic Party.

15:23 Okay.

15:24 If you listen to some of the things that Joe Biden has said and believed throughout his

15:27 career, because he's been in public office for almost half a century at this point, I

15:31 think is what it's a 47 years 48 years, the leftward lurch of the Democratic Party, which

15:35 has really just happened and come to fruition during the Trump administration is insane.

15:41 And Joe Biden doesn't have the stones, or maybe the years left to actually fight against

15:47 that.

15:48 Also, Joe Biden, if he's been consistent on any issue whatsoever his entire career, it's

15:52 on his either misunderstanding or hatred of guns and gun rights.

15:56 So if you're a second amendment person like I am, if you're a concealed carrier like I

16:00 am, if you're, you know, to a certain degree of prepper, your guns in ammo are not safe

16:05 if Biden is in the White House and the Senate is taken over by Democrats.

16:09 It just won't be.

16:10 This is a guy who is like, why don't you just shoot him and shoot him in the leg?

16:14 Like what's wrong with these police officers?

16:16 I literally had the most mind numbing debate with two of my very good buddies who are decently

16:20 smart human beings yesterday.

16:22 They were talking about this situation that went on in Philadelphia and they were like,

16:25 what's wrong with these cops?

16:26 Why couldn't they just shoot this guy in the leg?

16:28 It's like, do y'all only watch television?

16:31 Have you ever talked to a cop or a firearms instructor?

16:34 There's a reason why they teach you to shoot center mass.

16:37 And the most practical reason is because it's the largest part of the body where you can

16:40 shoot.

16:41 And even if it's running towards you, center mass doesn't move that much.

16:45 Those people's legs aren't very wide and legs tend to move very quickly and they're

16:50 not a very big target.

16:52 So this idea that someone that's 20 feet away from you that they can't get to you in time

16:57 or they're going to get shot in the leg in the meantime, it's silly.

17:00 It's absolutely silly.

17:01 It's like literally talk to somebody who teaches firearms, tactical training, any of those types

17:07 of things.

17:08 And they would tell you that that's ridiculous.

17:10 Like Navy SEALs aren't shooting people in the leg to stop them.

17:13 If you're trying to stop someone, you stop the threat dead in their tracks and you do

17:17 that by shooting center mass or shooting at the face, which is another small target,

17:21 right?

17:22 But that's something that Joe Biden has said over and over.

17:24 Why don't you just shoot him in the leg?

17:25 Why I own a couple of shotguns and you don't need that many, many rounds and all those

17:29 types of things.

17:30 And he said, Beto O'Rourke, right?

17:32 The weirdo from Texas.

17:33 That was literally like a stone's throw away from beating Ted Cruz to get into the US Senate

17:37 if you can believe it in the state of Texas.

17:39 He said that he's going to be his gun guy.

17:41 He's going to be his guns are.

17:42 And they're going to get rid of all these guns and Beto O'Rourke is extreme on the gun

17:45 issue.

17:46 He said during the presidential debates, the run up to the general election that, yes,

17:51 we are going to confiscate your AR 15.

17:53 No, you do not need that weapon.

17:55 And that is the guy who Joe Biden has literally said when Beto O'Rourke came and you said

18:00 he wanted Joe Biden to be president and he endorsed him for president on stage.

18:03 He said, you're going to be my gun guy.

18:05 So if you're a gun person, that's what you're voting for.

18:08 If you get a guy like Joe Biden.

18:10 So Joe Biden, he's now in support of children.

18:13 Yes, children quote unquote, transitioning their gender.

18:18 I believe it was that the last debate where he was talking about an eight year old boy

18:22 that was going to transition into a girl or it was one form of that, you know, one way

18:26 or the other.

18:28 This is a guy that is advocating for that.

18:31 So again, remember the overton window discussions I've been having a lot?

18:34 That's inside the overton window now.

18:36 That is the leader, the democratic party supposedly that is saying that out loud now, that if

18:41 an eight year old and eight year old decides that their gender is incorrect, that he would

18:49 be okay with changing that and allowing that, but guys, you know, it doesn't stop there.

18:55 It's going to turn into you as the taxpayer pain for that child to do that or allowing

19:01 the parents to go forward with that child abuse and allow for the mutilation of probably

19:08 the genitalia of that child and it would be irreversible at that point and cause a myriad

19:14 of other issues.

19:15 Joe Biden's in support of that.

19:17 Also he's a big advocate for killing children though.

19:19 He's okay with them transitioning, but he's not okay with murdering them.

19:22 He has said this year not some time in the past in 2020 that he would make Roe v. Wade

19:27 the law of the land.

19:29 Because if you don't know this, Roe v. Wade is not enshrined in law.

19:32 It's not federal law.

19:33 It basically allows the states to have the ability to make abortion legal, right?

19:38 And it is legal, right?

19:40 But it's not enshrined in law.

19:42 He said he would enshrine it in law so women could have the quote unquote choice to do what

19:47 they want to with their bodies.

19:48 Even though again, as we said over and over, the baby is inside her body.

19:52 It is not her body.

19:54 Thus, she doesn't get to choose whether or not that thing gets to live.

19:58 So Joe Biden has vowed to pass what he calls the equality act, right?

20:02 He called it one of his first priorities as president.

20:05 So if you're not familiar with what this would do, this would add sexual orientation, even

20:09 though we're not supposed to say that anymore.

20:11 But I can't remember what's offensive and what's not basically sexual orientation and

20:15 gender identity would be added to the protected categories under the Civil Rights Act.

20:20 And so if you're not familiar with that, what those currently protect, they protect against

20:24 discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.

20:30 So the list would be race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation,

20:35 and gender identity.

20:37 So the way this plays out is if you are a Christian company or a Christian school, and

20:42 let's let's use the Christian school as an example.

20:45 And you're a K through 12 school and an openly homosexual person has applied for a job at

20:49 your Catholic school, and they want to be the 10th grade English teacher.

20:53 And you say, no, we're not hiring you or they're already on staff.

20:57 And then they come out as homosexual.

20:59 And then you fire them based on your standards as a school.

21:02 Now they have grounds to sue you because in most right to work states, like the state

21:07 I live in in Oklahoma, you could get fired for wearing a blue shirt.

21:11 You know, if the guy or gal that runs the company's like, I'm out on blue shirts.

21:15 Anyone that wears a blue shirt is the devil.

21:17 You're out of here.

21:18 I can't sue them for that.

21:19 But if they sue me because, or I'm sorry, if they fire me strictly because I'm white,

21:24 or because I'm a Christian, or because I have chalked all Indian heritage, right, or because

21:28 I'm a male, then I have grounds to sue.

21:31 So he says he's going to pass the Equality Act.

21:34 That's one of his first priorities.

21:35 Think about the ramifications of that guys.

21:38 Also, Joe Biden's been on the wrong side of, and I'm certainly not the first person to

21:42 say this, the wrong side of pretty much every single foreign policy issue for his entire

21:46 career.

21:47 And you don't need to take my word for it.

21:48 You need to take the word of the Obama administration's defense secretary, okay?

21:54 What he said is that, quote, Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy

21:59 and national security issue of the past four decades.

22:03 The past four decades, yet that was the Obama administration's defense secretary.

22:08 I mean, there's not much more of a bigger ouch than that.

22:12 Basically, anytime this guy took a side, whether it was on China or Iran or Syria or the Gulf

22:19 War or basically anything, he's wrong.

22:23 He's supremely wrong, and that's dangerous.

22:26 Also Joe Biden refuses to condemn Black Lives Matter or Antifa.

22:30 He won't even say their names, and at the debates, especially that first one, that debacle

22:34 of a first debate, he couldn't just say, yeah, I'm not for burning businesses, especially

22:38 Black owned businesses, you know, by Black people or Woke White people.

22:42 He can't say that.

22:44 And the reason is, is because every Black Lives Matter supporter and every Antifa person

22:49 is a Joe Biden voter.

22:51 I mean, these aren't Trump people.

22:53 They're not wearing MAGA hats as they're throwing Molotov cocktails, you know, through, through

22:57 JCPenney, right?

22:59 And so he refuses to condemn them.

23:01 You know, people talked about, you know, the fact that Donald Trump was kind of tutting

23:06 or, or winking and nodding at the alt-right, even though he wasn't, like winking and nodding

23:10 at these alt-right, you know, white supremacist organizations, he wasn't doing that.

23:14 He is decried white supremacy over and over and over throughout his entire presidency,

23:18 even though CNN would like to convince you otherwise.

23:21 But Black Lives Matter and Antifa, we don't get any negative press from the DNC or from

23:27 Joe Biden on that.

23:28 That should scare you.

23:30 Also Joe Biden has no principles by which he operates by, and we're not going to spend

23:34 a lot of time on this because if you look back at his career, he has essentially changed

23:39 his mind on just about every important policy issue except for guns.

23:43 He's been pretty consistent on guns and decently consistent on like taxation.

23:47 He's been pretty big about making sure that we tax people out the wazoo.

23:51 I mean, he's changed his mind on everything, every major issue.

23:55 And so he's basically, at this point, he's a thermometer, not a thermostat.

24:01 He's going to let his party kind of dictate where things go, and that's scary when you

24:05 can see the immediate and quick leftward lurch of the Democratic Party.

24:09 Also we're going to be wrapping up Joe Biden here in just a second, but he's trying to

24:12 earn your vote by hiding in the basement, guys.

24:16 That was his pitch.

24:18 His pitch is, well, I'm not Trump.

24:21 So what kind of harm can I do?

24:24 He's called a lid on his campaign most days early in the morning, 9, 30, 10, 10 o'clock

24:28 in the morning.

24:29 That essentially means he's not going to be taking questions.

24:30 He's not going to be doing any media, any of those types of things.

24:33 When's the last time you saw Joe Biden at an open press conference?

24:37 How about Kamala Harris, the person who would literally be the president?

24:40 When's the last time you saw her at a press conference?

24:43 She's done some taped interviews where they can basically let you use the audio or let

24:47 you use the tape or not, but that's what he's done to earn your vote.

24:50 Donald Trump's jet setting all over the country, but Joe Biden's just sitting in his basement.

24:55 And the other thing, and apparently you're a bad person if you talk about this, Joe Biden's

24:58 not mentally there.

25:00 He's not.

25:01 And don't give me this crap about, oh, he has a stutter.

25:04 He's not mentally, you know, a problem.

25:06 Look at the 50 years worth of video we have on this guy.

25:10 Find me a video of him stuttering any of the times that he was in the Senate, addressing

25:14 the Senate floor when he was barking Robert Bork, when he was basically calling out Justice

25:18 Thomas for something that he basically made up whole cloth.

25:21 He wasn't stuttering.

25:22 This guy had a stutter when he was a child.

25:24 That would be like me saying I had asthma really bad when I was like three months old.

25:28 It almost killed me.

25:29 That'd be like me saying, Oh, I didn't get this job.

25:31 It's because I have asthma.

25:33 Isn't it?

25:34 It's like, well, no, you don't have asthma, like you outgrew that.

25:38 And for Joe Biden, he hasn't struggled with his stutter in common life.

25:41 The guy is forgetting things.

25:43 He doesn't know where he is a lot of the time.

25:45 He doesn't know who he's addressing.

25:47 He mentioned over the weekend that he was running against George for president.

25:52 Perhaps he meant George W. Bush.

25:54 I mean, he didn't even say the right name.

25:57 Even his wife was sitting there mouthing the word Trump, kind of like, Hey, dummy, you're

26:01 running against Donald Trump.

26:02 He said he's running for the Senate over and over.

26:04 He forgets what office he's running for.

26:07 But the overall thing to put a bow on Joe Biden for now, he's just not an impressive person.

26:13 He's not a leader.

26:14 Okay, he's been a quote unquote public servant for almost 50 years, but we're somehow supposed

26:20 to believe that now is the time that Joe Biden will be able to get things done.

26:27 Now, like, really, like, where were you for the last half a century?

26:34 What were you doing?

26:35 Exactly.

26:36 I mean, give me something here because, you know, all of his tweets, if you look at his

26:41 Twitter page, it's, it's all these very innocuous things like we're going to make things better

26:45 and we're going to do things and we're going to get to where we need to go and we're going

26:49 to make the ideal America come to life and all that.

26:51 It's like, okay, those things look great on Twitter.

26:55 They look great on a bumper sticker, how what's your plan, Joe Biden?

26:59 He doesn't have one.

27:01 And guys, every time he's ran for president previously, he's blown himself up.

27:05 He's bowed out for either, you know, lying or plagiarizing or just generally sucking

27:10 at his job, sucking at running for president.

27:12 If he was not hand selected by the DNC, basically to tank Bernie Sanders, like he would have,

27:18 he would have bowed out again on this one, like he was on life support in February, not

27:24 literal life support, his, you know, his candidacy was on life support.

27:27 You know, it was Bernie Sanders looked like he was going to run away with the thing until

27:30 the DNC said, all right, all you other losers, get out of here, endorse Joe Biden.

27:34 We got to get this crazy commie out of here.

27:37 And that's the real deal.

27:38 But guys, it would be foolish for me to stop here, okay, with the reasons to vote for Joe

27:44 or to vote for Donald Trump to stop here, you know, stop with the, well, he's not the

27:49 other guy argument, which is literally the Democratic party's pitch right now.

27:53 He's not Donald Trump.

27:54 Okay.

27:55 That's not where we're going to stop.

27:56 I'm going to give you some other reasons that I think are legitimate reasons to vote

28:00 for Donald Trump.

28:01 So let's keep going.

28:02 Number two, the number two reason, again, in no particular order is Trump has governed

28:05 as a conservative.

28:06 Again, one of the main reasons why I did not vote for him was because I didn't think he

28:10 would govern conservatively.

28:11 I thought that he was a wolf in sheep's clothing.

28:13 I pretty, I figured he was a centrist, if not a left of center Democrat.

28:19 And I just couldn't have imagined him being as conservative as he's been on a lot of issues.

28:22 Again, he's not been conservative on the spending issue, which I think is a problem.

28:26 There's been some other things that he hasn't done the typical conservative thing.

28:29 But again, I don't think that this guy actually believes a lot of, I don't think he spends

28:33 a lot of time reading like Edward Burke or reading like any of these people that, you

28:37 know, he's not talking to, you know, Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro on a regular basis.

28:42 But Trump has governed very conservatively and I think that that's something we should

28:45 talk about.

28:46 The third reason that I think you should vote or not that you should vote for that you

28:51 could vote for Donald Trump is that Trump's nomination and confirmation of conservative

28:55 judges has been very important.

28:58 So obviously we talked about this on the episode I released earlier this week with the

29:01 ACB confirmation, the Supreme Court and other federal benches, okay, he has done an incredible

29:07 job up to this point of getting actual conservatives on those benches.

29:12 And those are the things that actually move real life ramifications for this country,

29:19 okay, because when you bring up these laws and whenever they're going to the appellate

29:23 courts or going to the Supreme Court, those decisions are handed down directly onto the

29:27 tops of the heads of all the people that live here in the United States.

29:31 And guess what guys, you saw how important it was over the last four years.

29:35 I know a lot of people, a lot of people that held their noses and voted for Donald Trump

29:39 in 2016 because of the Supreme Court.

29:41 And these were people that were thinking they might get one concern or one conservative

29:47 Supreme Court justice out of Donald Trump.

29:49 And here we are.

29:50 We technically got three.

29:51 Again, I got my concerns with with Kavanaugh.

29:53 I think he's more Roberts than he is, Thomas, but at the same time, you got Barrett and you

29:57 have Gorsuch three Supreme Court justices, okay.

30:01 Now, it could be just as important over the next four years.

30:05 Again, I'm not going to rehash the arguments I made on the ACB episode.

30:08 But again, there could be two or three more Supreme Court seats that are going to be filled

30:12 within the next administration, the next four years.

30:15 So that is a good reason to vote for someone that you think has conservative values and

30:19 is going to continue to nominate people from his list that he's already released of conservative

30:23 justices.

30:24 And if you're keeping score, Joe Biden has not released a list of the potential Supreme

30:28 Court candidates that he would consider probably because people would be like, Oh, my gosh,

30:31 these people are absolutely insane.

30:34 The fourth reason to vote for Donald Trump is Trump's treatment of the media.

30:38 Now, I didn't say Trump's Twitter, again, I already talked about that earlier, but his

30:43 treatment of the media, I feel like has been appropriate because the media is egregiously

30:48 gross.

30:49 Their treatment of Donald Trump has been crazy.

30:52 He has sent them into a state of [inaudible] off that they never could have imagined that they

30:56 were going to get to because he doesn't play by their rules.

30:59 Okay.

31:00 Republicans have typically always been very, very nice with the media.

31:03 And the media has then treated them horribly in response.

31:08 They've taken advantage of the niceness.

31:10 Again, if you look back at the George W. Bush administration, he was basically batted around

31:15 by the media for a lot of things that weren't really his fault.

31:19 And he basically held his tongue.

31:21 He told all of his people that went out and spoke for him in front of the media, you know,

31:25 all of his media advisors.

31:26 He said, basically, you know, just deal with it.

31:28 We're going to control the things that we can control.

31:31 But again, this narrative that Donald Trump or sorry, that George W. Bush was a warmonger

31:35 in this moron and all these different things.

31:37 That was a media narrative that they spun that the the Bush administration never fought

31:41 against.

31:42 Okay.

31:43 So Trump has basically said, no, screw you guys.

31:46 You're dishonest.

31:47 You're fake.

31:48 Now, the problem that he's run into is sometimes when a story is real and legitimate, he'll

31:53 be like, fake news.

31:54 It's like, okay, not everything is fake news.

31:56 If you call everything fake news, then when something is legitimately fake news, you can't

32:01 really point to it with the same gusto, right?

32:03 The finger you're pointing at it isn't nearly as big.

32:06 But in general, I like the fact that he has smacked the media around, you know, especially

32:10 at these press conferences when they're asking him these gotcha questions.

32:12 He just calls them out.

32:13 Like I remember one in particular, I was watching one of the COVID-19 press conferences

32:17 that, you know, one of those mid afternoon press conferences, really in the early parts

32:20 of the pandemic.

32:22 And the person basically asked him, hey, why do you keep calling this the China virus?

32:26 Why do you do that?

32:28 A lot of people think that's xenophobic.

32:30 Why would you say such a thing?

32:31 And he looks at her right in the face and he goes, it's because it came from China, right?

32:36 It came from China.

32:37 That's why I call it the China virus.

32:39 You didn't call it the Spanish flu because it came from Australia, right?

32:44 And so I like the fact that he has smacked them around.

32:47 I think that that's a good thing for them to do now.

32:50 We don't know what the axes they're going to try to grind over the next four years if

32:53 he's reelected.

32:54 Who knows?

32:55 But again, he's kind of teflon at this point when it comes to the media's treatment.

32:59 The fifth reason to vote for Donald Trump is that Trump's stance on illegal immigration

33:04 has been very consistent.

33:06 And I happen to agree with it a lot, okay?

33:09 There are a lot of illegal immigrants in this country.

33:11 There are estimates that there are around 11 illegal immigrants in this country, 11 million,

33:15 sorry, not 11 million illegal immigrants in this country.

33:18 And at the end of the day, there's certainly going to be way more than that.

33:21 The estimates are probably wildly false.

33:23 But just from a practical standpoint, I know people that have come through the front door

33:27 of becoming a citizen in the United States.

33:29 And I think the citizen process does take too long.

33:32 It is very arduous, but it's worth it to those that want to come through in through the front

33:35 door and be a part of the greatest country with the most liberty and the most freedom

33:39 of any country in the world, the United States of America.

33:42 But it's very unfair for people to be granted the benefits of citizenship for cheating.

33:46 You know, it's you're standing in line at this restaurant and it's your anniversary with

33:50 your wife and you're being patient, you're going to stand in line for hours just to get

33:53 a table.

33:54 And then this couple just walked in through the back door and sat down at a table and

33:58 they were not asked to leave.

33:59 Like, that would be very unfair, you wouldn't be appreciative of that.

34:02 And Joe Biden has said openly that one of his, you know, basically his earliest priorities

34:08 is that he wants to make the around 11 million illegal immigrants into U.S. citizens by the

34:14 stroke of a pin.

34:15 Basically all of the dreamers or all the DACA recipients.

34:18 He just wants to basically say, nope, you're all citizens, right, you know, come out of

34:21 those shadows now.

34:22 But at the end of the day, the reason why he would do that is because that is now 11 million

34:26 potential Biden voters and democratic voters for decades and decades to come.

34:33 So that is something that should terrify you because we're having trouble feeding, you

34:38 know, people that are natural citizens of the United States or naturalized citizens of

34:42 the United States.

34:44 And again, I think that even as Christians, we should be very careful with how we handle

34:48 the illegal immigrant language, because again, these are all people to have the Amago day.

34:52 These are people that are important.

34:54 These are people that are coming from horrible situations.

34:56 But the problem is, is as a country, you can't just look at things simply from a utilitarian

35:01 point of view for the people that are coming in illegally.

35:04 You have to think about the entire populace and the, the, the drag that a lot of these

35:09 illegal immigrants, even if they become naturalized, will have on the system is something that the

35:13 system is not prepared to take on.

35:15 Okay.

35:16 And so his stance on the wall and whether you think the wall is effective in all that,

35:20 we have seen illegal immigration go down.

35:22 We have seen more policies being enacted that are favorable to people that are not big on,

35:28 on the issue of just open borders.

35:31 But Biden is very much so an open borders person.

35:33 He's moved in that direction and Trump is not.

35:35 And if you're going to have a country, you have to have sovereignty, you have to have

35:38 border lines, you have to have those things.

35:40 So I think that's a good reason to vote for Trump.

35:43 Another reason to vote for Trump is just basically Trump's foreign policy.

35:46 I never thought that I would be saying this, you know, here we are four years later, but

35:50 his foreign policy has been fairly fantastic.

35:53 You know, moving the American embassy to Jerusalem and Israel, everyone in the world, even some

35:58 of his advisors is like, Hey, dude, this is the powder keg.

36:01 Like this is going to be a straw that breaks camel's back.

36:03 You know, the Middle East will be on fire.

36:05 If you do this, and he was like, no, go and do it.

36:07 Right.

36:08 This is a guy that we've seen a lot of presidents say they were going to move the embassy back

36:11 to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.

36:13 But he actually did it.

36:14 He's like, yeah, watch me.

36:15 Okay.

36:16 But then since then, there's been a myriad of peace deals brokered between Israel and

36:20 the Middle Eastern Muslim nations, you know, these Muslim majority nations, and there's

36:24 going to be subsequent ones.

36:25 You know, I think Egypt will be coming on board Saudi Arabia will be coming on board,

36:30 right?

36:31 Trump is also flexed on China.

36:32 He's flexed on Russia.

36:34 These, these, you know, countries he supposedly in bed with or whatever.

36:37 He's flexed on these people.

36:39 And I just never could have imagined that he was going to have this amount of effect.

36:42 I mean, there's been a lot of talk given about the fact that he's his kids are working, you

36:48 know, in his office and they're working for the administration.

36:51 But we've seen his kids be very effective.

36:53 And we've seen, you know, basically his son-in-law be incredibly effective with some of these

36:57 peace deals that they've gotten going overseas, Jared Kushner, who I'm speaking about.

37:01 But you know, that's been something that's been very surprising.

37:03 And I can't imagine that that wouldn't continue under the, you know, second Trump administration

37:07 for the next four years.

37:09 Another reason to vote for Donald Trump would be overall just Trump's willingness to unleash

37:13 the US military, but without extending protracted wars.

37:17 Right?

37:18 So Barack Obama basically, you know, looked at ISIS and he's like, ah, that's a JV squad,

37:22 no big deal.

37:23 And then they became a huge massive deal as they were building their caliphate in their

37:27 minds.

37:28 But he basically got into office and he said, Hey, generals, can y'all take care of this

37:32 little ISIS thing?

37:33 Can you go squash these dudes?

37:35 And within a few months, ISIS basically didn't exist anymore.

37:39 They were crushed in short order, right?

37:41 He also gave the, the signal to kill Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was the, the leader of ISIS,

37:47 which again, you know, it wasn't exactly like cutting off the, you know, the head of

37:50 a Cobra, right?

37:51 But he was the leader of that organization.

37:53 He's dead now.

37:54 Thank God.

37:55 Also killing Iran's, uh, Qasim Soleimani, um, that was seen as an act of terrorism from

38:00 the United States and an act of war.

38:01 How could they dare kill this guy?

38:03 Who literally was responsible for the killing of American soldiers?

38:07 About that, that was incredible, you know, bringing back soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan.

38:11 You know, I don't really know how I feel about that.

38:13 I'd have to talk to more people that have been on the ground over there because the thing

38:16 is is whenever you take the power out of the region, when you take the muscle out, there's

38:20 going to be a vac, a vacuum there and that's going to be filled by somebody.

38:23 And so that's the only thing I haven't really fully formed my opinion on is how I feel

38:27 about him, you know, ending some of these wars.

38:29 But here's the thing, when you have 20 years worth of war, you've lost a lot of blood and

38:33 treasure, American blood and treasure.

38:34 You have a lot of maimed citizens that are now back here in the United States.

38:38 And then you look at what we got for that, uh, it's, it's a tough sell.

38:42 Now I tend to lean towards the side of, Hey, when we were in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria

38:48 and all these other areas where people don't really realize we are, the populace had no

38:52 other options.

38:54 There was no police force that they could go to, uh, to get these crazy, you know, Muslim

38:58 extremists or not really extremists, these Muslim fundamentalist off their backs, you

39:02 know, just horrific things that they were having to endure and live through.

39:06 And the United States military was the only help that they had, right?

39:09 To basically stave off the slaughter and the rape and the theft from people in these

39:14 groups.

39:15 So to a certain degree, again, I'm conflicted there, but that's not what this podcast is

39:19 about.

39:20 Okay.

39:21 The eighth reason to vote for Donald Trump, a reason to vote for him would be Trump just

39:25 basically creating a very positive business environment, you know, with business flexibility,

39:30 overall economic positivity, again, pre COVID, we had the best economy in the history of

39:35 the United States, right?

39:37 And we basically did that by cutting taxes and cutting regulation.

39:40 Again, I'm trying to remember the exact stat, but in the first year of the Trump administration,

39:46 for every one new business regulation they added, they took away 15 or 16 business regulations.

39:51 I mean, we had the lowest unemployment rates, essentially ever, especially in the Latino and

39:55 black communities, right?

39:57 Those are just real stats.

39:58 We essentially got to a point where there was, there were just not enough jobs, like, or

40:03 I mean, you just had people that were working and these places were like desperate, they're

40:07 like, Hey, man, we're ready to keep going, we're ready to build more.

40:10 And that's how you create wealth in this country, right?

40:13 And people want to spend time thinking about, Oh, well, the CEO of McDonald's makes $20

40:17 million a year and they're just paying this guy a minimum wage, but that person wouldn't

40:20 have a job without the CEO making the moves that they're making, right?

40:23 And so I don't think you're going to get a positive business environment under the Biden

40:27 administration, like it's kind of hard to invest more in your company when you have less money

40:31 to invest, right?

40:33 So I think Trump will create that environment again, again, there's the major question marks

40:37 about COVID-19 and all the things going around there, but I think that that's a much better

40:42 scenario voting for Trump in that case.

40:44 The ninth reason here would be Trump's policies that are favorable towards the oil and gas

40:48 industry.

40:49 If you really want to get more into that subject, I would read, I would suggest this book to

40:53 you, it's by Alex Epstein, it's called the moral case for fossil fuels.

40:57 Again, I think that there is some wisdom moving towards more green energy.

41:00 Again, a lot of people don't understand what that means.

41:03 Like people buy a Chevy Volt or a Tesla and they're like, I'm doing the best thing ever.

41:07 I'm just plugging my car in and driving around.

41:08 And they're not even doing the foggiest amount of thinking along the lines of, okay, where

41:13 did the energy come from that charged my car, right?

41:16 I think there was a study done that said in H2 Hummer is has a lower carbon footprint

41:21 than a Prius or a Chevy Volt or something like that.

41:24 It's because you're burning a lot of coal and natural gas and oil to make these cars,

41:31 but also to continue pumping the electricity into the battery.

41:34 And we're not even talking about the fact that you basically can't recycle a battery

41:37 effectively and you can't throw it away.

41:39 That creates its own issues.

41:41 But the Trump policies are very favorable to oil and gas.

41:44 And so I like that because I live in Oklahoma and that's good for me and my homies here

41:48 in Oklahoma, that work in that industry, same for my friends in Texas.

41:52 And during this administration, we've basically gotten to energy independence and it's not

41:56 by banning fracking.

41:57 It's not by banning cow farts.

41:59 It's not by banning trucks.

42:01 Those are the things that don't really work.

42:02 That's the AOC Green New Deal nonsense.

42:04 I feel like his policies towards oil and gas have been very effective and very positive.

42:09 The 10th reason here is for all the talk about Donald Trump being a tyrannical dictator

42:15 or he's going to end up being a tyrannical dictator, Trump has done things to basically

42:20 get the federal government out of our lives, out of our lives.

42:24 Just think about COVID-19.

42:26 Think about the power grabs made by politicians, mainly politicians from the left.

42:31 That's just being honest, right?

42:32 That's just calling balls and strikes, mainly these democratic politicians.

42:35 We've given up so many of our rights because we're terrified of a disease, of a virus.

42:40 That's what we're terrified of.

42:41 We're like, sure, take our liberties because public safety or something.

42:47 If you're Donald Trump and you are really a dictator, you're a tyrannical dictator at

42:51 your core and you just can't wait to get that power grab, COVID-19 was your godsend.

42:57 If he is a tyrannical dictator, he's the worst one I've ever seen or read about.

43:02 Enough with the tyrannical dictator stuff.

43:04 The 11th reason that you could vote for Donald Trump is every time people claim that they

43:10 have a smoking gun that proves that Trump administration or that his family is corrupt,

43:15 it's a nothing burger.

43:17 It's nothing on the back end.

43:18 Just think about Russiagate.

43:19 Oh, you know, he's a Russian stooge and he's a Russian plan and all these types of things.

43:23 And then in actuality, when you look into it, it looks like Hillary Clinton was doing things

43:27 that was conspiring with the Russians.

43:29 Right?

43:30 Then you have the impeachment scandal with Ukraine and all that nonsense that went on

43:33 there and basically the witch hunt that that was there in.

43:36 And then it looks like it was Hunter Biden.

43:38 That was the leader of corruption in Ukraine, right?

43:41 And it's still to be determined whether or not Joe Biden actually was a part of these

43:45 poise that basically lined the pockets of his family with hundreds and hundreds of thousands

43:50 of not millions of dollars.

43:52 And so that's the thing that's very interesting to me is every time it seems like Donald Trump

43:58 is the corrupt one, right?

44:00 There's nothing that comes from it.

44:01 Oh, we finally got his tax returns.

44:03 And what did we learn?

44:04 Well, he's got a lot of debt and he's not nearly as rich as we thought he was, which

44:10 is that really breaking news?

44:11 Like, did you honestly think he was worth billions and billions of dollars?

44:14 Like, I don't really think so.

44:16 I mean, if someone made a joke at one point, it's like, I don't think, you know, he's

44:19 so over leveraged, I don't think he could go get me a thousand dollars cash and put it

44:23 in the palm of my hand.

44:24 And you might be right.

44:25 Right?

44:26 Like, you absolutely might be right about that.

44:28 But it wasn't this big thing.

44:29 We've had all these tell all books, right, about, you know, what's going on really behind

44:33 the scenes inside the Trump administration and all that.

44:36 And it's like, wait a minute, Trump's like an egotistical guy.

44:39 He likes to eat cheeseburgers.

44:41 He stays up late.

44:42 He watches Fox and friends.

44:43 It's like, this is the corruption.

44:45 This.

44:46 This is the big smoking gun thing that that tells me that this guy isn't qualified.

44:51 Again, I've told you about all the things that I don't like about the man, right?

44:56 But that those things aren't real.

44:58 They're just not real.

45:00 And the twelfth reason here, and it's really the last one I'll cut it off after this, is

45:03 Trump has been incredibly pro-life during his administration in more specifically incredibly

45:11 anti-abortion.

45:12 Again, to reiterate, I am very disappointed that he didn't defund Planned Parenthood in

45:17 the first two years of his presidency.

45:18 I think that's unforgivable, right?

45:21 Even a lot of pro-life advocates have kind of forgotten that during this election cycle.

45:25 I don't think he should be forgiven for that, right?

45:27 Unless he does something in the next administration that that kind of counteracts that I thought

45:30 that that was egregious that he didn't do that.

45:32 But what he has done is he's nominated pro-life judges and justices to the federal bench.

45:37 Talked about the federal bench earlier, but he's in act.

45:39 He's put people in place to where if Roe is ever challenged, that there will be something

45:44 there for him to stand on and the latest iteration of that is Amy Coney Barrett, right?

45:48 I think that's very important.

45:49 He's signed pro-life executive orders.

45:51 He was the first president to speak live at the March for Life, which was incredible because

45:56 other presidents had basically done it via video or something like that, or via phone

45:59 call.

46:00 And need I remind you that the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Party platform,

46:05 the official platform advocates for abortion up until the moment of birth.

46:11 And Joe Biden, right?

46:12 The stalwart against leftism or whatever people want to call him, he's now against the Hyde

46:16 Amendment.

46:17 He's against it.

46:19 For the first 40 plus years of his career, he was for it.

46:22 And basically the Hyde Amendment keeps federal funds, federal taxpayer dollars from being

46:27 able to go to fund abortions, right?

46:29 For obvious reasons.

46:30 Because for me, when I paid the tax bill, the sizable tax bill that I pay every year and

46:33 have paid for years and years now, I don't want that to go to the slaughter of unborn

46:37 children.

46:38 Sorry.

46:39 That's not something I'm okay with.

46:41 But now all of a sudden, the winds of change have started to blow and Joe Biden is now against

46:47 the Hyde Amendment.

46:48 Do you think it has anything to do with the fact that the left word March of his party

46:52 would not allow for him to say that he defends the Hyde Amendment, that he still thinks it's

46:57 that that that is important?

46:59 He wants to basically shove that down the throat to the American public.

47:02 So I've been incredibly impressed and happy with Trump on this issue, which I consider

47:06 to be an incredibly important issue, obviously.

47:10 So guys, before I share with you what I plan to do on the top of my ballot, I promise I'll

47:15 get there.

47:16 There's no tricks here.

47:17 I want to talk about how Christian should operate this presidential election season.

47:21 Okay?

47:22 Because I think that's important.

47:23 A lot of people are talking about that, and it's kind of hard to get a straight answer

47:26 from your pastor.

47:27 Some of these pastors are basically just carrying water for the Trump administration.

47:31 Some of these people are just carrying water for Biden administration.

47:33 It's hard to kind of operate here.

47:34 So I'll just give you my basic advice here.

47:36 The first thing is realize that Jesus Christ is not on the ballot, which will come off

47:42 to some of you as incredibly offensive, which if I haven't offended you at some point during

47:46 this podcast already, regardless of who you decide to vote for, then I guess I'm not doing

47:50 my job quite right, but Jesus is not on the ballot.

47:53 So stop pretending like he is.

47:56 It's not Jesus or Biden.

47:57 It's not Jesus or Trump.

47:59 Okay?

48:00 He's not on the ballot.

48:01 Again, you're not voting for a pastor, you're not voting for your neighbor, you're not voting

48:05 for anything, you're not voting for the Savior of the world.

48:08 Now, obviously it would be important for you to vote for somebody that has more Christian

48:13 convictions.

48:14 That is a better overall thing for the United States.

48:16 However, he's not on the ballot.

48:18 And kind of the next thing that you should realize is you cannot legislate morality.

48:22 You've heard that before.

48:23 You can't legislate morality in the hearts of man.

48:25 However, however, you can elect men and women who write and pass laws based on godly morality.

48:33 That is something that you absolutely can do.

48:35 And so you have to ask yourself as you're making this decision as a Christian, is the

48:39 democratic party's platform, does that coincide?

48:43 Does that go through the filter of the gospel of biblical truth of morality?

48:49 Or does the Republican party platform, because spoiler alert, neither one of them is perfect

48:54 when you compare it to the Bible.

48:56 And I don't think either of the parties are actually, you know, even thinking about that

49:00 when they're creating their policies or their platforms, but you have to think about which

49:04 one is going to get you closer to that.

49:06 I think that's very important for you as a Christian.

49:08 Next thing here for Christians to consider is that we should remember that we are citizens

49:13 of the kingdom of God, first and foremost, which duh.

49:17 But really, you should think about that.

49:19 Because again, I'm about as patriotic of a guy as you can find, right?

49:22 One of my biggest regrets I sit here as a 34 year old man, and I regret every day, every

49:27 time I think about it, the fact that I did not serve in the military, that I could not

49:30 serve this great nation.

49:32 And so here I am now trying to think of ways that I can support the military support military

49:36 families, but I have not actually fought or bled for this country, right?

49:41 And I haven't made what they call the ultimate sacrifice for this country, right?

49:45 Which got a different plan for me.

49:46 I could have gone that route, but maybe I don't have Kelsey.

49:49 Maybe I don't have baby James.

49:51 Maybe I don't have, you know, this podcast, maybe these things aren't aren't there.

49:54 So I feel like that's important.

49:56 But guys, the United States has been around for about 250 years, which is just, that's

50:02 a blink in the eye, right, of God, like that is, that is no time at all.

50:07 And guys, far vaster and far more expansive dynasties have come and gone for humanity,

50:13 right?

50:14 And we will be no different.

50:16 This idea that the United States will be here for forever or even be here until rapture.

50:20 There's no guarantee of that.

50:22 Because I guarantee you the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Spartans, the Romans,

50:27 the Egyptians, like, you know, someone and so forth, these different people groups thought

50:32 that they were going to be around for forever.

50:34 And all those groups that is talk about, they certainly had reigns that were more powerful

50:39 and more expansive than, you know, 250 years, a quarter of a millennium.

50:43 And so I think it's important to remember that the kingdom of God, that is where we will

50:47 reside for eternity.

50:49 For those of us that are in the Lamb's book of life or those of us that, you know, have

50:53 called on Jesus to, to be our Lord and Savior, you know, to be disciples of Him, right?

50:58 That is where we should spend our focus.

51:00 But let me transition in the next part here, because the next biggest thing that I would

51:03 say for you to do is you have to vote.

51:07 You have to.

51:09 I was asked in a podcast interview here recently about should Christians vote or not.

51:13 And I, to a certain degree, I thought that the question was kind of silly.

51:15 It's like, why in the world would they not?

51:18 But it's because of narratives that have been spun in some churches or in some circles.

51:22 But seriously, guys, do not buy into the narrative that since, you know, Christ may return soon

51:27 that we shouldn't be involved in our governmental processes.

51:30 Like, I don't think that's right, and also don't buy into the narrative that since the

51:34 Bible tells us that the world that we currently inhabit is in the process of this unstoppable

51:40 deterioration that we shouldn't be involved in our governmental processes.

51:43 Like, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

51:46 I think we are called to be salt and light.

51:47 We're called to preserve, right?

51:49 That's what salt does.

51:50 And it's kind of hard to do that when you're hiding when you're like, I'm going to be completely

51:54 outside of culture.

51:55 Well, guess what?

51:56 Culture is going to find you.

51:57 Like, I'm going to be completely outside of politics.

52:00 Politics is all around us.

52:02 Politics is everything.

52:03 Again, people are like, oh, I'm above the fray, you know, as a Christian, I am not going

52:07 to lower myself to voting for the president of the United States.

52:10 But then they're the first ones to complain if their sheriff does something stupid in

52:14 their local community or their school board in their little community that they've never

52:18 thought about before said, no, your kids can't come to school too dangerous.

52:22 And you're sitting there.

52:23 It's like your single income family.

52:24 And all of a sudden, one of you has to be, you know, super mom or super dad, right?

52:28 Or you got to pay for babysitters or maybe both you and your wife work and now now it's

52:32 a problem because it's like, well, who's going to be here with the kids, right?

52:35 Then grandma's on a round like, we're going to have to hire babysitter, but also the babysitter

52:39 is going to be their teacher.

52:41 All that came because you were above the fray.

52:44 You didn't find it necessary to pay attention to what was going on in your own community.

52:48 And now it's kicking you directly in your be hole.

52:51 That's a problem.

52:52 Okay, but it's a problem of your own doing of your own making.

52:55 But here's the thing that I know for sure, guys, that regardless of the outcome of this

52:59 election, whether Donald Trump wins or Joe Biden wins.

53:03 And I'm assuming that we know the evening over November 3rd that who the next president

53:07 is going to be, which again, that's a dubious claim right now to be honest.

53:12 But I'm assuming that the sun will rise on November the 4th, you know, the earth will

53:18 still be spinning on its axis as it moves around the sun.

53:22 Jesus will still be on the throne.

53:24 God will still be in control and you should take solace in that fact.

53:32 The world will move on for the people that were devastated and crying, falling asleep,

53:39 you know, covered in their own tears, soaked pillow, you know, when Hillary Clinton lost.

53:44 Most people are still alive today. They still went to work. They still had to take care

53:49 of their kids and get them ready for school. They still had to take care of business at

53:53 the end of the day. And the same will be true for you regardless of who you support. The

53:58 sun will come out tomorrow, you guys.

54:01 So we've made it all the way to this point where I'm going to share with you what I've

54:05 decided to do with the top of my ballot in 2020.

54:09 So what I've decided to do is that I will be voting for Donald J. Trump for president

54:15 in 2020, likely by the time you listen to this podcast, I will have already done so.

54:21 I have plans to vote early here in the state of Oklahoma. So we'll see how the lines go.

54:24 Currently, everything is covered in a sheet of ice. There's a down tree limbs everywhere.

54:28 So it's a little bit chaotic out there. It looks like a gigantic ice tornado came through.

54:32 But you know, I'm going to brave the weather and the temperature and go out and cast that

54:36 vote for Donald Trump.

54:38 And to be honest with you guys, I made that decision very recently.

54:44 I mean, I'm talking within the last three or four weeks, I've made that decision, but

54:50 I've been considering this decision since he was elected.

54:56 And I've been watching him. I've been watching him closely and the things that have come

54:59 out of his administration. And I've had heartburn over some of those things. I've had heartburn

55:04 over the potential of being a hypocrite because I still don't think he's a decent human being,

55:09 which was my main issue back in 2016. But I think there are some some very simple reasons

55:15 why I made this decision. Why it just it was almost like it was revealed to me a few weeks

55:20 ago that this is what I'm going to do.

55:22 And if I didn't whittle down the main reasons, I guess these would be my main reasons. Number

55:26 one, I think Joe Biden is an incredibly dangerous transitional candidate. I think you have to

55:31 consider what's on the other side of the ticket. If you don't vote for Donald Trump, you're

55:34 technically voting for Joe Biden. That kind of an issue. The second thing is Trump has

55:38 been the most pro life president of the modern age. You know, maybe ever. The third is Trump

55:43 is governed more conservatively than I ever could have imagined. The fourth is Trump's

55:48 foreign policy has been stellar. I think that's great for the United States of America and

55:51 for the world to be honest. And the fifth thing is I'm choosing policy over personality.

55:59 If you cannot vote for Trump because of how he acts and how he talks and how he tweets,

56:06 I get it. I totally get it. I mean, there are a lot of times where I'm just like, oh,

56:12 man, would you just shut up? Like, why did you why did you say that? Like, was that

56:17 productive? Right? It's like a parent when they're like, okay, was that super productive

56:22 throwing your bowl of cheese across the room? Was that super productive? You know, going

56:27 crazy and, you know, punching a wall? Was that super productive? Was that the best thing

56:31 you could think to do at this exact moment? So I get it. But at the end of the day, if

56:36 you strip away the personality and you look just at the policy, the Trump administration

56:42 should align with a lot of your points of view, because I'm assuming that I'm, I got

56:45 a lot of conservative Christian individuals listening to this podcast right now. And

56:49 if you're not one of those things, dude, I'm so glad you're here. I'm glad you're still

56:51 listening to this, you know, almost an hour in. But if you're only think about about personality

56:57 you have to think about how much that doesn't matter at the end of the day. Because 20 years

57:04 from now, when Amy Coney Barrett is delivering her votes for massive issues that will change

57:10 the trajectory of this entire country, you're not going to be thinking about the fact that

57:16 Donald Trump said, you know, he called that lady horse face, right? You're not going to

57:20 be thinking about that. You know, when we look at our tax bills at the end of the year,

57:25 when we do our meeting with our CPA, right? You're not going to be thinking about that

57:28 one time when Donald Trump wouldn't let Joe Biden talk at that presidential debate, or

57:33 the time when he allowed his crowd to say lock her up in reference to Hillary Clinton. You're

57:36 not going to be thinking about those things. Policy will affect your life directly. Personality

57:41 won't. But guys, the biggest reason I would say that I'm going to vote for Donald Trump

57:46 this year is the abortion issue. That's the biggest reason. Guys, I talk about this issue

57:52 all the time. And people will look down upon you if you consider yourself to be or if you

57:57 act like a one issue voter, like, oh, you're just a one issue voter, like that, that's super

58:02 convenient. You don't actually actually have to think through anything. You just go off

58:05 your one issue. However, however, this issue, the issue of life, literal life or death,

58:14 tells me a lot about you, your feelings on this issue tells me a lot. How you feel about

58:21 this issue tells me everything that I need to know about you, honestly, because here's

58:26 the thing. If you are 100% unabashedly pro choice, what that tells me is you have a seared

58:33 consciousness and you don't value all life. Clearly. That's not a political stance. That's

58:40 just a thing thing, right? And if you're partially pro choice, you know, in some cases, you know,

58:48 kind of him in hall, that just means you're ignorant and you haven't thoroughly thought

58:51 through the ramifications of your point of view. And I mean that for even people that,

58:57 you know, I go to church with, there's a very good buddy of mine who until very recently,

59:03 he was mainly pro life, but he's like, yeah, I just, I don't know how I feel about the

59:08 issue of rape and incest. But the thing about it is is I helped him think through that point

59:12 of view and say things like, okay, should the child get the death penalty because of

59:19 the crime committed by the father, you know, if an dad rapes his daughter and impregnates

59:25 her, should the child be punished for that? He had never thought through that before.

59:30 He had also never thought through the fact that that constitutes rape and incest constitutes

59:35 well less than 1% of all abortions, well less than 1%. Don't believe the narrative. Also,

59:41 you know, potential death of the mother, that's another thing thrown around. Well, what if

59:44 it's an option between saving the baby and saving the woman? That's not a true thing.

59:49 And people haven't thought through that because if your baby has been in the womb for 36 weeks,

59:56 and now there's a problem with mama, right? She's got cancer and they need to do chemotherapy.

59:59 Well, guess what? We've seen over in the UK where they actually remove the womb from

1:00:04 a woman did surgery on her and put the womb back in. We've seen other situations where

1:00:08 in the third trimester, which is where you're going to do a partial birth abortion, where

1:00:12 you're pulling the baby out by its feet, sticking scissors on the back of its neck, cutting

1:00:15 it, sticking in a suction tube and sucking out the brains before you move remove the

1:00:18 head, right? Because the vaginal canal imbues personhood, remember? But in those situations,

1:00:24 like those babies could have been delivered. And then you can deal with the health issues

1:00:28 of mother, but most people haven't thought through that. But if you don't think what's

1:00:34 growing inside the belly of a woman is important, worth our protection, worth our love, worth

1:00:41 our consideration, that tells me a lot about who you are as a person.

1:00:46 And for Donald Trump, if we're being completely honest, I don't think in his heart of hearts

1:00:51 that he is pro life, his entire life, his entire entertainment and adult life, he was

1:00:57 more on the left side of the aisle, right? I don't think if you put true serum in him

1:01:02 that he would say he is a pro life person across the board. However, he again is the

1:01:08 most pro life president we've had, maybe ever, maybe ever. And that is incredibly important.

1:01:16 So guys, as we wrap up this podcast, this is my endorsement, right? I'm endorsing Donald

1:01:20 Trump for president. Okay, I'm not going to be wearing a MAGA hat in line. I'm not going

1:01:25 to make a big to do about it. I'm not going to be pounding on my chest. I'm not going

1:01:28 to be driving there with 17, you know, Trump forever, have flags on my truck. Right? That's

1:01:33 not something that I'm going to do. But I am proudly voting for the Donald Trump administration

1:01:38 to continue. Okay, but I have to reiterate to you that if your guy loses next Tuesday,

1:01:46 you're going to be fine. You will be fine. I really hope and I pray that Donald Trump

1:01:51 wins. But to pretend like this is the be all end all, you know, that the hyperbole that

1:01:56 people say like this is the most important election ever in the history of everything

1:01:59 ever. I just don't necessarily agree with that. This is a very, very important election.

1:02:06 You should make your voice heard. Don't forget about the Senate races. Because if you're

1:02:09 a Donald Trump guy, the Democrats are keeping the house, but if they flip the Senate blue,

1:02:13 the next four years is going to be a crap show. Okay, don't forget about these things. They're

1:02:18 very, very important, but keep things in the right priority list. Okay. All right, guys,

1:02:24 let you go. We are going to do a quick resilience boost. As you know, by now we are a men's ministry

1:02:27 and our mission is cultivating manly resilience. Specifically, we do that by providing content

1:02:31 that helps you forge spiritual, mental and physical toughness. So for today, I've got

1:02:35 some resources for you. So I've got a couple of YouTube videos that are from Ben Shapiro.

1:02:38 So this first video is made the rounds a lot. It's called I didn't vote for Trump in 2016.

1:02:43 I am in 2020. Here's why. So this is like, I think an eight or nine minute long video.

1:02:49 It's it's very well thought out. This is a guy who spent a lot of time thinking about

1:02:52 this issue. He and I differ quite a bit on some of those issues, but I think that's

1:02:55 a good resource for you. The next thing is actually the Ben Shapiro episode that by the

1:03:00 time you're listening to this, it would have been yesterday's episode, Wednesday's episode,

1:03:03 but it's episode 1125 of his podcast. It's called the case against Joe Biden. And so there

1:03:08 were a lot of things in this podcast where I just kind of I didn't glaze over them, but

1:03:11 I didn't go into extreme detail. But like for instance, the foreign policy issue, you know,

1:03:15 the fact that Joe Biden's been wrong on every foreign policy issue about 44 45 minutes into

1:03:20 this podcast episode, he spends a large amount of time going into each individual foreign

1:03:26 policy thing that Joe Biden has been wrong on. So I think that's a good resource for you.

1:03:29 And before anybody thinks that this is just a maga magga Trump thing, I've got a blog

1:03:33 for you from John Piper. It's called policies, persons and paths to ruin. And this in this

1:03:39 blog post, he's basically eviscerating Donald Trump and Donald Trump voters without actually

1:03:44 saying that he's not going to vote for Donald Trump. But I thought that this would be a

1:03:47 good little palate cleanser for you, especially if you'd watched the other two videos that

1:03:50 I suggested. All right, guys, thanks so much for listening to the podcast. I really do appreciate

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