This is the FCNB podcast network. A bread Mansoda day that we won't to say, then we won't to say, oh we got it does? No one can tag that? Owen this gonna be okay? A breas masoda day that we won't to say, then we won't to say, oh we got it does? No one can take that? Owaya don't be okay. Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of Just Listen to Yourself with Kira Davis. I am your host, Kia Davis, and this is the podcast where we take hot topics, hot fun issues, and we discuss the talking points on those topics, and we draw those talking points all the way out to their logical conclusion. Wow, it's a crazy week for. A lot of reasons. Number one, this is a big week for me. I'm turning fifty this week. Yay me, So it's my fiftieth birthday. I was planning on being offline for most of the week, but I guess President Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrats had other plans for me. So here we are. So I don't know what I'm going to be done traveling this week. I'm going to visit a friend in Iowa. So I don't know how engaged going to be this week, but the crazy news just keeps dropping. It's absolutely insane. I haven't even been on this mic to talk to you about the assassination attempt, so we have some stuff to go through here. I'm not even quite sure we'm going to name this episode because it doesn't feel like a critical thinking episode more thinks about More. It feels more like this is a recap. Episode or we're just gonna We're just gonna drill down on what's going on here. So just for the future listener listeners who are hearing this down the road, maybe years or decades later, who knows what's. Going on right now? As President Joe Biden has disappeared, he has resigned, he hasn't resigned his position. He has told the world in America that he has no intention to seek the second term as the Democratic nominee. And this comes just days after the failed assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump as he was on the campaign trail. Immediately afterwards, Biden supposedly got COVID, was whisked away to Delaware, and then we don't even get a live statement. Then we don't even get This is a really big deal for a sitting president to say I'm not going to run for a second term. That's a huge deal. We didn't even get to see that live. He didn't do a press conference, he didn't come to us live from the Oval Office. He released a statement. It's a very weird time. It was weird already from COVID for twenty twenty on it. It's been weird. So that is weird in itself. But besides that, he's disappeared. He's gone. We don't know where this guy is. This is the leader of the free world. He is just he is now a sitting duck. We are sitting ducks because now the president of the strongest nation on Earth, still the world's most influential superpower. The president has released a written statement saying he doesn't plan to be the president after November. If I'm one of our enemies, if I'm a dictator, if I'm an authoritarian, and I'm worrying about Donald Trump maybe getting into office and then clamping down on some of these shenanigans, I'm looking at what Biden just did and I'm going it's now or never. We are We have never been in my opinion in a more dangerous time for our country. Now. The Cold War was a pretty strange time and scary time, but that was really a global issue. But as far as how vulnerable we are at home right now, I'm not sure there's been a more dangerous time. And that is. Completely the fault of progressives and the Democrat complex. I'll say. I mean not that the Republicans get off the hook. They haven't been defending our positions where they need to be. But I suppose that's neither here nor there right now, because we are here. It's just a very weird time, a very strange time to be alive. So if I'm looking at the United States and I'm a leader from a country that has set the United States as an enemy, yeah, I'm salivating right now. I'm thinking it's time to move forward with whatever plans we had because most likely the White House is going to change hands. It's going to change into Republican hands, most likely, but we'll talk about that too. That is not a guarantee. I know there are quite a few Conservatives who are giddy at all of this chaos, but there is still an election to be won. There is still a race going on and now it's a race. I mean, now it's really now it's getting good, you know what I mean. It wasn't that inspiring to think about running against Joe Biden, although that would have been certainly would have been easier. That really would have been the best case scenario for the election. But we are living the worst case scenario right now as a country. We are not sure who's running the country right now. Now the mechanics can be run, of course, obviously. I mean, we go through this every time we catterwall about a government shutdown. That never happens every time we shout about it. In my lifetime, it's happened once a federal government shutdown. That was during the Obama administration. And what do you remember about that time. What do you remember about what changed in your life? Nothing? Because nothing changed. There's no such thing as a government shutdown. It's impossible if there's a government shutdown. That's World War three, right. The United States does not exist anymore if we ever have a government shutdown. So it's all semantics, it's all games. But also, you know, nothing happened because the mechanics of our government are set up to work even if a few people at the top are out of commission. We do this even when we have joint sessions of Congress. Right there is always the designated survivor. We have redundancies where we send one member junior, usually a junior member of the cabinet. They go into hiding somewhere in a bunker in case there's something pops off. We still have a chain of command, so we have all the mechanics. I understand the military is still working. People are still going to work on Capitol Hill, but we don't have a leader. And leadership is important. There's a reason why every government system on Earth is structured to have a leader of some kind. It's very scary that the leader of the free world. Could not even make it to a video camera, could not even have someone raise a. Phone to his face for him to record a statement. Hey, America, I'm really proud of what I did, but thinking about what's going on, it's only responsible to step aside for the upcoming term and let someone else do this. Anything. You know, he could have said, even if he's not well enough, surely he could have composed himself just to say I'm well and I'm resigning. Please read my full statement, I'm resigning from the ticket. Please resign. Please read my full statement. Anything it's very suspicious to me. Now, by the time this podcast gets to you, maybe we'll know more about where we are, where he is. But as I'm recording this today, people are actually wondering if he's dead. And that might sound funny, and you might think I'm trying to sound funny, and there's certainly lots of memes to be made about that, But I don't think that's funny. I think that's something to be concerned about. If the American people don't know where their president is. Isn't that concerning? If the globe doesn't know where the leader of the free world is right now, that's a little bit more than a joke to me. That's something to be again, plenty of funny things to be said about it. We don't laugh, you'll cry. I get that, but it's not a joke. It's far more serious than I think that the media is taking it. To media today as I speak to you. Has been all over Camela. Of course, we're resetting. This is an image reset. I'm gonna talk, I'm gonna break all this down for you. I want to tell you how I think you should be feeling about this. I know a lot of y'all are nervous, some of you are, some of y'all are giddy. You're feeling confident. I believe over confident. We're gonna break all this down. But I just want to start by saying, yeah, this is a problem that we don't know where the president is. That he didn't even give this historic decision on air. He didn't even record audio. Again, maybe you're not in a physical position, a physical state to be seen. I'm concerned. I think there's actually more, a lot more to this story. And it's not just the Bidens are mad. I'm concerned that Joe Biden may actually be dead or almost dead. So what a strange time we live in. Gosh, what an odd time. Now all of this is converging on my fiftieth birthday, and I want to say this that, as you do when you're hitting milestones in your life, they are because really, what is fifty is a number? It's one day more than I was yesterday. You know, technically speaking, is. Just a number. But we humans have to assign significance to the passage of time because we're mortal. Beings and time is very valuable to us, so of course we assigned significance. So at fifty, yeah, I'm having a bit of a reset moment. I'm having a bit of a moment where I'm really looking back. I'm looking back on where we've come, where we're going, taking it all in and it is a very strange I keep using that word. I think that'll be my word today. Strange. It's a very strange time to be alive, but also to be involved in politics and pop culture in any way. It's so odd. But as I'm hitting fifty, I have to tell you I'm feeling I'm feeling at peace. I'm feeling a peace that I've never felt before. I know this is in large part due to the fact that I've been really making more of an effort to explore my faith and get closer to God and understand the word more. I've been doing a lot more of that, and I've been very casual. I think about it. In my adult life. We take God seriously in our family, but I'm not a very structured person and never have been. And these days I'm finding more value in the structure and the ritual of it all because I'm seeing now that it all me, it's all meaningful, it all has meaning, and I'm seeing now all the things we've allowed to be dismissed as meaningless over the last few decades, turns out they really are meaningful. We've made a mistake dismissing those things, and so I'm really trying hard not to let this piece tip me over into crazy town. Now I understand why old people are so grumpy, because you get to a point where you're like, you don't care, you really genuinely don't care. I don't care if I'm not up to date on how the kids are talking. I don't care about all of the insults that come personally to me from the other side. These are people that don't know me. I don't care. I don't care about the insults and the name calling and all of the cultural significance that we're assigning to celebrities and even some of our politicians. I don't take things as personally anymore. And that's clearly got to be a result of my age. So we'll see. I've been told that only gets worse the older you get. My friend Andrew Malcolm is eighty years old. We've had him on this show before he'll be back again. He talks a lot about that. My father in law talks about the same. So I'm looking forward to continuing to not care as we move forward. But it's not just that I. Don't want you to think that I'm feeling dismissive. That's not it at all. I think underlying all of this is, of course, the hope of the Gospel, which we share. I share on this show all the time, take it to church all the time. But it's more than that. As crazy as things are, and as weird and strange as everything is, I have this underlying hope still in the American people. Twenty twenty was a nuclear bomb. It just rocked all our worlds in so many ways. The convergence of all these things, COVID and the election and election fraud and BLM and Antifa, the trucker convoys and forced vaccinations and cancel culture, all these things converge. On twenty twenty. It felt like we made this shift. And what I've seen shifting in other parts of the world I. Have not liked, and I haven't liked. How do I say this. I haven't liked the journey through this shift. And perhaps I'm being naive, but there is a part of me that sees the American people are still here. That underlying, yeah, that we've let a lot of crazies in and take over some of our bigger institutions, and that's something to contend with. And of course, you know I've talked about this and we'll continue to talk about it on the show. But there is something in me that says, I still think the American people. Have a lot of good sense in them. We still have the ability to correct our wrongs and to correct course. Yes, we will be working against some mighty forces. Election fraud is real. I'm gonna break down some of the things I think we're going to be facing, but some of the highlights to look at as we move forward, and some of the things that have happened since twenty twenty. I don't want anyone to get too overconfident hero Trump can beat anyone. Now Trump can't beat anyone. We've already seen that. But I don't want you to be dismayed in that light. This week, one of my just Saands, my shorter, little bite sized podcast that I released, is really about peace. It's really about finding peace and turning to the word to remind ourselves not to act in fear. But today I. Also just feel very hopeful about the American voter. And I'm even looking around my state and I'm thinking. Twenty twenty, I would. Have said, Oh, we're at this place we've never been before, and people have had enough of Democrats, and I think people are starting to see what's going on. But there was no red wave that was promised. Don't forget that either. As you think there's going to be a red wave in November, don't forget that. We just weren't ready. We might not be ready in twenty twenty four. Things might not be bad enough, but I suspect they are so Lowell. Let me take a break. Let's go to a break here, and when we come back, I'm going to break down to you exactly what we're facing here with the possible camel of presidency, what Republicans need to be looking for, and what you can feel hopeful about. So don't go anywhere. I'm Kia Davis, and this is just listen to yourself. All right, We're back on just listening to yourself. I'm your host, Kia Day. We are just talking about all of the turmoil that's happening right now in electoral politics. Guys, as I record this, we are fifty six days out from early the beginning of early voting. All right, this good place to start. So this is going to be a podcast. This is not for my liberal and progressive friends. If you're listening, you're going to get some inside baseball here so you can take it back to your people and strategize. This is for my Republican and conservative listeners, who I know are feeling nervous and they've been waiting to hear from me on all of this. I'll start. I'll start with I haven't spoken about the assassination attempt, and maybe i'll do that separately. I think i'll do a live on that. I'll just hit Instagram live and talk. But obviously I was as taken aback by that as you are. The longer this non investigation goes on, the more certain I feel that this was a setup. I definitely think some parties, even within our own government, were involved. I feel that's obvious. I'd say, let's wait for the details to come out, but I don't think we're ever going to get them. They literally washed the evidence off that roof the next day. So I'm not sure we're going to get it, but I was as shocked as anyone, and I think it really hit home to me how serious this is, and it really hit home to some Democrats. This is what I want you to remember as we move Now. We're uncertain. Now we don't. Are we going to get Camela? I think yes, it's got to be. I really can't imagine. I want you to think about where we are. We are fifty six days out from the beginning of early votings. We are one hundred and fourteen. Fifteen days out from election day itself. It's incredible to think that the Democrats are putting a new ticket up. That's not a good thing for them. Now, I know you're hearing the mainstream media go crazy today as expected. I don't want you to get all your knickers in a not over that. I said, nickers, your panties in't a wad. I don't want you to get all upset over that to be expected. What do you think the mainstream media has proven over and over again, but specifically in the last year or so, that they are no longer on the side of the American people, that they no longer intend to report the truth, and I'm not even sure most of them can see the truth anymore. I'm not willing to call the mainstream media liars at this point. I think they are fully captured by the spirit of ignorance. I think they are, and I think they most of them believe believe what they're saying, and the ones that have hesitation about it are are so convinced of their ideological purity that they're able to justify their lives of o. They don't think they're bad people. They think they're good people, and they're doing the ends justify the means, because when you've painted an entire group of people and voters as evil, then of course it's justifiable to do whatever you want to them, and you're still a good person because you're defeating evil. Which is why there are so many people out there who are actually disappointed that President Trump is still alive. They wanted him to die because. They feel that he is evil, and thus any judgment they have of him is righteous. So it's not a surprise that the media is now immediately jumping into Kamala's corner. So today we're seeing lots of headlines about Oh, she's the first black this, that or the other. I'll take a pause here and say, I've never thought of Kamala as black, and I don't understand why black people do. We have never until she came popped up in the VP race, or really the race for president. But when she popped up, we have never referred to her as a black woman. She's Indian and Senegalese, or she's Indian an African. She doesn't even call herself a black woman. You ever pay attention to the Camela, she doesn't even call herself a black woman. She'll say woman of color, or she'll nod and laugh when you call her a black woman. Of course she's gonna ride that out. I just don't know how she's not a black woman. She never lived her life as a black woman. She's never considered herself a black woman, and no one's ever considered her a black woman until she decided to run. It's so weird to me. I'm not comfortable with it. I didn't say much about it before because it didn't seem to matter, but it feels like it matters now, Like black folks, are you really gonna waste the opportunity? The first black woman. Anything, you're gonna waste it on Kamela. Come on, what are we doing? Okay, whatever, So calm down about the media. Yes, they're gonna run these honey, it's honeymoon time. We shouldn't ever expect from this point forward any kind of serious analysis from the mainstream media. Everything you hear from them is a lie. From this point forward, everything you hear from them as projection or a lie, or it's campaigning that you can feel good about. You can feel good about making that judgment. That's what it is. So there's no reason to be feeling nervous about the media suddenly making a hard turn towards Kamala, who is always gonna happen, It would happen with any candidate. Now that that's gonna be for a minute or two here until we get to see Camela back on a campaign trail. One point to remember and feel confident about, and one point to feel a little bit nervous about. Kimala's had some training, I can see it. So she's been gearing up for this. I don't know when. We'll probably have to wait for her autobiography to figure out when she figured out that Biden wasn't gonna make it, which I'm gonna guess is probably, well, when when's the last time we really saw her out there? I'm gonna guess it's been about six months. I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say Kamala has known for about six months that Joe Biden isn't gonna make it. If she hasn't known for sure, she's at least sinsed it, and she's been getting media training. Have you seen her out there recently? She's less calkulie, she's less in her upper register. She's sticking to scripts rather than going offscript, and that's where she sounds like the moron that she is, and she can't put two words together. She's you can tell she's making a. Conservative effort to move out of that school marm tone that she has, or that condescending tone. She's not there yet, but you can tell she's making efforts. So she's getting the media training that, at least to me, says she's learned something right. And a Democrat who learns things is dangerous. It's been the saving grace of this country. The Democrats rarely learn from their mistakes. So to see a Democrat learning. Yeah, that's concerning. So she is getting that media training. You can expect a Kamala Harris in a debate with a Donald Trump to be a little bit more put together than she has been in. The past, for sure. You can also expect her to be yes queening her way through it, that much, I know, because that's all she has. She has no record to run on, she doesn't have any truth to tell. It's going to have to be yes queen all the way. You can expect that. You should be nervous about that, because you are dealing with a pocket now. A lot of these voters have already peeled off and they're now coming back this election cycle. But you're dealing with a pocket of true believers who will believe anything they're told from the mainstream media, and they'll believe any lie they're told by a politician who reflects their ideology. So if you can be smooth enough, let's look at Gavin Newsom. He's really one of the dumbest politicians out there. And I mean that in the best possible way, in the kindest possible way. I don't think Gavin Newsom is very educated. I don't think he can I'm pretty I know he has dyslexia. That's not what makes him dumb. I want to be clear about that. But it does tell me that he doesn't read a lot. And that's clear when he's speaking and he does something that a lot of liars do, which is he uses big ten dollar words, those big long words, and when you hear them strung together, usually that's a sign someone's lying. This is why Trump sounds so foreign to so many people, because he doesn't talk like that. He talks just like a regular guy. Even he's not a regular guy, even before he ran for president. He's not a regular guy. But he talks like when. I think it's because a lot of the time he's not lying to you when he's talking. When he says the weird things are the things that sound strange or uncomfortable to you, because he's not lying about it. He's telling you how he really feels. So he's not using all those ten dollar words, those big words strung together in paragraphs and sentences. But that's why Gavin Newsom does so well. He speaks to the ears that want to hear the lies. There's many of those ears out there. Cammel is going to have that same training. She'll be She'll be I don't want to say formidable, It'll be something to pay attention to. I'll say that. But here's the other thing. Camala is still Kamela. I know a lot of people are gonna now, people are really going to be insistent that I say her name correctly. Kamala. Kamala is still going to be Kamala. She hasn't changed overnight. Neither has Donald Trump. By the way, this was the comfort I think. I said this when I was talking about his speech. This was the comfort I had, and watching that speech, I was so nervous for him because I felt, this man survived an assassination attempt. He must be exhausted. He's got PTSD, Like God only knows the mental stress of facing that. Who's he going to be when he gets up there? And he started out very somber, calm, subdued, and I thought, yeah, this is a new Trump. But at the end when he. Started rambling, he went so long, He went so long. But at the end and he started kind of getting back in that Trump rhythm. He started throwing out, you know, calling people names and throwing out the insults and reminding people of Biden's record, even though he said. He wouldn't, and I thought, yeah, he's back. Yeah, this is Trump. He's still in there. An assassination attempt doesn't change a personality, all right, Kamala Harris, she may have been knowing what's coming for the last six months, but she's got fifty six days to. Prepare to run a campaign. I'm sorry. She's not going to change who she is in fifty six short days. So there's that. If you're looking for a silver lining about all this media help she's gonna get. She's still going to be Camela. She's still going to be the person who collapsed the second she had more than fifteen seconds to speak on the campaign trail in twenty twenty. Still that Camelo. All right, that's one thing to remember. Second thing I want to remember here, This is why I sort of opened up the show talking about the hope I have. I'm feeling more hopeful these days, although that just might be a consequence of fifty I don't know, or maybe it's just God just giving me a sense of peace for all the turmoil that's coming up. I have no idea, but I feel this sense of hope and again right now as you're watching the news cycle, it's the honeymoon phase. The news cycle has been gripped by Donald Trump Secret Service and Kamala Harris and missing or or missing president for the last week. Got it. It's not gonna be that way forever. This news cycle is going to shift into down. It's gonna shift down a gear at some point here and we will get back to the stories that have been in the news for the last four years. We will get back to the migrant crossings, the migrant crimes that are happening, the smash and grab gang rings here in California, the epidemic of violent crime in every city across America, which are mostly blue at this point, the crisis at the border, inflation, the crisis in Israel that's still going on. Everybody, the crisis in Israel. Iran is poking out, poking their nose out. They've only got a few more months, probably maybe until we get a different kind of leader inherent, so they're kicking. Up a fuss. They've got the hit out on President Trump, which should have stound everybody. The media really should be taught. I'm going to stop saying what the media should be doing. The story about the assassination attempt is that Trump had minimal Secret Service protection and he's under threat from a foreign government that is very serious about their terrorism. He wouldn't be the first leader they've murdered. That's a real story. Anyway, We've still got that going on. Parents are still wondering what the hell is going on in their schools. We've still got we've got a lot of people. We've got things moving through this culture that you don't even see yet. You're not even seeing the things that are weaving their way through the courts. Once once we get those decisions, and those decisions are going to come down on the right side, I believe most of them are. You're going to see all of these topics pop back up, come back into the public. Have you noticed that Trump's felony conviction in New York has all but disappeared. I mean, obviously that was going to happen after the assassination attempt. That hasn't come back. Yeah, And it's right there for them, It's right there for. The Democrats to take it if they want it. But don't for one second believe that the Democrat machine does not internally pull every thing. So they've clearly pulled that and it's not going to work. But yeah, you'll notice that's dropped out from the cycle. We were at defcon for when that dropped, the cycle's going to change, and then Americans are going to be back to wondering how am I going to buy enough. Groceries for the Labor Day cookout? How am I going to deal with these migrants coming into my Southside Chicago community, kicking my kids out of school so the government could use the school to house people who are here illegally. All that stuff's still going on everybody. Just because the mainstream media isn't reporting it doesn't mean that Americans aren't feeling it still. I believe in the American people. It's not just that I believe in the ability of the people not to be distracted by shiny by the shiny objects being offered to them right now. It's that I understand and. You do too, the reality of what we're all living in and that hasn't changed because someone tried to kill Donald Trump and Joe Biden disappeared and we might have a new Democrat ticket. So that's one thing to think about. Also, these truths, the things we know to be true have not changed the basics of this situation. The details of the situation we're in have not changed. The only thing that's changed is what the media is focusing on. All Right, that's another thing to think about to keep in mind. I also want you to keep in mind that there are some legal battles ahead. It's not just as easy as Joe Biden making a written statement that he's resigning and then endorsing Kamala and now Kamala's on the ticket and the Democrats can breathe a sigh relief. There are no Democrats breathing that relief. They're happy because Biden is a sure loss, but none of them. They're not ignorant. They know that the efforts. To change a presidential ticket fifty six days before ballots start being cast is a herculean task. And if it were twenty twenty, I might say, yeah, it can be done. But here's another thing to think about, and another reason why. Maybe maybe the history books will look back and prompt us to be grateful for what happened in twenty twenty, because. With such a coupe. That Republicans who normally would ignore this stuff happily were forced to face the idea that if they don't address election fraud, they're not going to be elected again. They'll never be elected again, and then they'll never be in the positions of power to ignore everything that Republican voters ask them for. Like there's Republicans are still going to be Republicans. I get that, and I do get that a lot of them betray their voters for their power. I understand that too, but they want to be in power, and so they're seeing that if they're not going to take the election fraud stuff more seriously, they are going to be pushed out and there won't be any power to. Be had in that light. A whole slate of election fraud lawsuits have been launched by the R and C. Now, some of them were winning, a lot of them were winning. The mainstream media just isn't posting them, so they still want to get on, Oh are you an election denier? Had you notice that the election denyer talk is beginning to simmer down as well? That's because all these lawsuits are starting. The dominoes are starting to fall. So those big ones, right, the mistake they are in Sea made was going too big too soon. But some of these smaller things in counties, a municipalities, we're seeing, Oh yeah, Arizona just won a big voter roll lawsuit being able to. Purge the voter roles. In California, we're purging the voter rolls, although that's something we have to do every year and it's really hard to do. Here Georgia, they've been purging the voter roles. Pennsylvania has purged the voter roles. That's huge, you guys. That's something that wasn't done before twenty twenty. That's huge. Purging the voter rolls of dead or non existent voters makes fraud a lot more difficult. Also, I pulled up there here, let me see if I just to refresh my memory. Also, voter ID laws have been enacted in let's see six let's see how many states. One two, fourteen states. Voter ID is. Required in thirty six states. Fourteen of those states have come to us since twenty twenty. That's a big deal. Voter idea will change everything. Getting rid of early voting would change everything. We know this. If we went back to. An election system where we all voted in person on paper in one day, I think Democrats might never win an election again. I really do, which is why they fight so hard again. So I want you to anyway, China, stay on task care. That's what's happening. So in fourteen states since twenty twenty, we've enacted voter ID laws. That's a big deal. That's going to change things. People are more keen to watch the votes. The RNC now has a strategy. After twenty twenty, they went to the table. And they said, we need to enact a strategy for being at these polls in every county, in every city on election day and during early voting in places that have it. The rn C has been taking it more seriously. The Supreme Court has a couple of cases that are going to affect federal voting, voting in federal elections in a which I hope in a positive way for voters, for truth, for free and fair elections. So I want you to think about the I know there's a lot I can hear. I feel like I can hear you already. They didn't learn Republicans never learned anything, Kiara. They didn't learn anything in twenty twenty. They're not going to learn anything now, all right, No, that's not true. They have learned something, maybe not enough, I'll concede that wouldn't surprise me. But I've seen more action on voter fraud and election integrity in the last four years from the Republicans than I have in the last fifteen years that I've been a Republican. I think that's not for nothing. That's something to be paid attention to. On the flip side of that, Democrats are going to be more motivated to cheat than ever because there's a lot at stake here, including a lot of people who have been cheating getting called out when the administrations change around them. So they've got a reason to go balls to the wall for lack of a better term, and just go out with a bang. You know what I mean. You know what I'm saying. They've got a reason. I've probably said this on the show before. One of my favorite shows to watch is Intervention on A and E. And I think, what if everyone loves a good redemption story, and they're not all redemption stories, but you watch for the hope that you're going to find one. But every addiction counselor will tell you this, and anyone who has had who has been addicted to drugs or who has had someone they love struggle with addiction, you'll know this to be true. There's a reason why we call alcohol spirits. I mean, I know there's a linguistic reason, but I do believe that there is a cultural reason what we call all called spirits. When you are trying. To kick addiction, it is it is like you're trying to exercise a demon. And instead of just throwing up his hands and going all right, I'm gonna go ahead to the next person, I don't want this kind of trouble that demon digs in. And all the addiction counselors, whether they're spiritual people or not, will describe it the same way they all do. They say that your friend or demon is kicking up right now, and they're going to be angrier than ever, and more defensive than ever, and more frightened than ever. So when you see these people come into their intervention. Even though they're with people they love and all of the people who have helped them and are still helping them. To that day, they'll become irate. They'll become angry, they'll spit, they'll hit, they'll kick, they'll run away, they'll say the most vile things to the people that love them. But that's not them, that's their demon talking. Because the demon recognizes I'm about to get. Kicked out and I don't want that. That's what we're seeing happening. This is just sort of an analogy. That's what we're seeing happening. On the Democrat side. They're realizing that a lot of the people that they work so hard to put in place are about to get kicked out in a lot of their strategies and scandals are about to be discovered. And there the demons are kicking up a fuss. They don't want to leave. It's a dangerous time. I use this analogy too. The most dangerous time for a woman in an abusive relationship are the days and hours leading up to when she finally leaves. That's the most dangerous time. That is when most women experience violence or a fatal attack from their spouse. We are in. Very dangerous times because we are in the process of leaving our abusers. These are all reasons to stay vigilant and not get too cocky about things. Just because Kamala looks like a loser, and she is a loser in the statistical respect, and I'm sorry. Winning three terms as a senator. Winning I'm using air quotes as a senator in California does not count as winning. It's barely an election here. You're disappointed. That's how we do things. We are our Banana Republic. And this is what they're trying to import to you, America. This is what I'm telling you. Don't tell me, don't write me and tell me to get out of California. I don't want to hear it. Sick of it. I'm not leaving California. This is where I live, all right. When i'm when i'm when I get ready to leave, I'll let y'all know. This is where I live. This is where my family lives, this is where God has me. It's I'm not staying here because I was born and raised here and I just love it so much. That's not it. I have friend, my friend, Jennifer van Laar, Yeah, this is her home. She's like, I'm the death. I don't have those same loyalties. I'm just saying I'm not called to leave yet. This is where I live. When it's time, i'll let you know. You don't let me know. You should want me here it's people like me, my friend Jennifer, and other people working on my side of the fence here that are keeping we're the last line of defence for. You all. Between a Banana Republic, the California Banana Republic, and the White House. Pretty much there. So people like me, we gotta be here. They're trying to import this Banana Republic attitude. The way we do elections here, the way we do media here, the way we do homeless care here, the way we do crime control here, the way we do gun control here, They're trying to import all that to Washington, DC. So, yeah, this really matters. It really matters what's going on here, and it matters that people like me live here. Don't tell me. To leave it's not time, but I'll let you know when it is time, because I'll be really excited. I'm not day, I'm sure. I want to wrap it up. I want to say this. There's a lot of things to feel anxious about, but there's a lot of things to feel positive about, namely the amount of disarray that Democrats are in right now. And I'm not saying this so you'll get cocky. I'm saying this so that you won't get depressed, because a lot of you are depressed out there. You feel like, Okay, they got Biden off the ticket, and now that means that the Democrat complex is coming together and they're going to play this big joke on us again like they did in twenty twenty. I get it, I know, but I'm trying to give you reason not to fall into that despair. I don't want to make you overconfident because Trump still has to campaign, but now it's a race and that's something. But I don't want you to be scared, because scared people make bad decisions. I don't want you to be There's a lot it just look at what's going on the Do you know what's going to happen now? By the again, by the time this podcast gets to you, we may know a little more about what's happening on this ticket and where Joe Biden is. I hope he's not dead. We'll know a little more. But the fact that you don't know and I don't know, and nobody knows. It's not because the Democrat Party is so good at keeping their strategy under their hats that they're just they're running around, you know, playing fourty chests. We don't know because they don't know. We don't know because they don't know. So I think if you're a Republican, the amount of confusion that's happening in the Democrat Party should make you feel a little good, at least a little positive. So that's something to think about. And the other thing, I think, here's my personal opinion, which is worth about as much as it costs you to subscribe to this podcast, which is nothing, so hit that subscribe button. My personal opinion is that the Democrats were really thinking they were going to pressure Joe to get out. They were going to bring in someone else. I don't know who, not Kamela, someone else because they hate her. AOC basically said it yesterday. They hate her for lots of reasons, many we know and some we don't. I don't think it was going to be CaMLA. I think it was going to be whoever the Obamas were going to pick. The Obamas and Clinton's the parting shocked of the Biden family that that parting middle finger was the endorsement of Kamela. Now I kind of have to do it, don't you. And they know she's going to lose. I think they know. I think they're pretty certain she's going to lose. They're pretty certain bed it was going to be a herculean task for anybody just because of the timing. It can be done. It can be done. You have the media complex on your side, so you have a lot going for you. It can be done, but it would be herculean. But I think with Kamela a lot of people felt it can't be done with her, including the Bidens, and so that was their parting. F you that middle finger running out the door. Here you take her. And honestly, I think a lot of Democrats, I think there's still this notion that they're going to fight. I think that's harder. That's a bigger notion in the media than probably in the Democrat Party. I think a lot of Democrats have resigned themselves so letting this election go. Fighting, but letting it go and hitting the reset button, which is why you're still seeing Gavin Newsom hovering around. He's coming to you in twenty eight. California is going to be huge. We've got another gubernatorial campaign coming up in twenty six, so we'll be electing a new governor and we might also be in a position where that could happen again uphill battle. Yes, but the way things are here in the state, we might actually be in a position where Californians will be ready to elect a Republican candidate if we get the right one. I've looked at a couple of names that are potentially going to be in the race, and there's one in particular that I'm really excited about that I've Li's button on that one so far. There are some things you can do. I don't want you to sit around feeling helpless and hopeless and weird and. Just glued God God, No, do not sit. Glued to your cable news for the next three months. Or please don't do that. You're gonna drive yourself crazy. You're gonna give yourself all kinds of stress health conditions. Please subscribe to this so you can get all my updates from my encouragements that just saying this week, I hope will encourage you. We go straight to the word, We see what God has to say about everything. But also, you don't need to sit around helpless. There's stuff you can do. I wrote a whole book about it. Go get my book Drawing Lines Why conservatives must begin to battle fiercely in the arena of ideas, and I give you lots of little suggestions there. But we only have fifty six days till the poll's open now. So here's a couple of things you can do. I wrote some things down. You can do right where you are, right now. And if there ever was a time for you to come up off of your time and make yourself inconvenienced, now's the time. Because we don't have much of this. We have three months, so you can you give up three months for the cause? Can you do it? People? I think you can't become a. Poll watcher, volunteer or for hire. So I actually applied to Hope. I maybe I shouldn't say this out loud. Basically, Tank my application that's probably already been Tank. I applied to be a part time poll worker. So that's a paid position the state of California. It's a paid position. I think you commit to sixty days and there's different jobs to do. You can count the votes, or you can be at the polls, or you can man the boxes, all kinds. Of stuff to do. So I've submitted an application to be one of the people that did that. Here's another thing, That should encourage you about the preparations that the Republican Party is making my state and the RNC in general is making concerted efforts to place Conservatives and Republicans at the polls. So normally we don't do that work because we have real jobs. We like to go to work and come home to our families. We don't do that work. We leave that to the Democrats. And that's how you get places like Atlanta where they can go, oh oh yeah, Pipe Lee gone, election night, this is so crazy. We're not counting the votes. They can do that because it's all the same type of people manning the polls. So it's a big deal if we get out there. So become one of those people. It's a two month commitment at most. Volunteering to watch observe the counting. That's a few days. If you're in California, it's a few weeks. Sorry, But volunteering to do that, that's something you can do. Do you know that. I know a lot of you do, but some of you don't. Yeah. You can go. Down to your Registrar of voters. It might be called different in different states. You can go down and sign up to be an observer, and you can observe the vote count, and you have the right to object if you see something that doesn't look right. Be one of those people, all right, report disinformation and disinformation. This is harder to do on platforms like Snapchat and Facebook, easy to do on platforms like x and to a certain extent YouTube. So this is one of those using the left tactics against them. Use those community notes. You know the Democrat candidates is going to be lying about a lot, a lot, but more so the media. So that's something you can do right from the comfort of the seat your butt sitting in. Grab your phone. If you don't know how community notes work on X, go on there and find out. But it's really simple process. You just tag community notes in the post and then make your correction. That matters. It's going to matter to the record of history. I don't think we're going to understand fully the fallout of what Elon has done for decades to come, but it's going to matter in the historical record that we have something called community notes on X. So get in there and start. That's a way you can combat information and misinformation and disinformation. You can share on Facebook if you want for your ignorant family and friends. But I'm going to go ahead and say that the people who have already decided that there's no way they're going to vote for a republic and leave them alone and don't be harassed in them as memes. I've decided to do that too. I got a little salty on Assassination Day and posted a couple of things, but I pulled it back from the edge. I fully intended to leave my Facebook alone. Those people are captured. You understand their spirits, their minds are captured. I don't think there is hope for them for seeing the truth of this matter. So don't waste your energy on them. Go where your efforts will make an impact. Attend your county or municipal meetings, especially if you're in a blue state or a blue area, and post a report of what you see there. So I just told you about a lot of lawfare that's going on Republicans or making efforts to get into They're the voting mechanics in each area, and so your municipalities in your state and uh state and local governments are going to have to be talking about this stuff and thinking about it. They're probably going to be talking about things. Like where the ballot boxes go, or somebody might bring up some challenges. If you're not at the meeting, they're not going to let you know those things are going on. They're not going to make a public announcement about it. They're not going to let you know the mistakes they're making or the little shenanigans, because that's what's going to happen. They're going to start. Playing little shenanigans, making it a little more difficult for your local elections to be honest. So for the next three months, could you maybe make the commitment to show up at these meetings and just observe and if something weird happens, put a post up on x put a post up on Facebook, put a post, you know, make a five second video and put it on Instagram. Do your part and it's easy, and it's free ballot harvesting. If you're an area where there is ballot harvesting, that that that's legal. It's a horrible thing, it's stupid, it should not happen, but it's legal here in California. Finally, we are beginning to understand that we need to be aggressive about ballot harvesting. Let me explain to you what ballot harvesting needs. It just means that you're the person to take in the ballot of your neighbor. So I can go to my and I have I can go to my neighbors and say, I'm heading down to the pole site. I'm gonna turn in my ballot or scan my we turn them in here. We don't even I anyways, And to turn in my ballot, do you want me to take yours? And there is a probably you have to sign it. Now you have to sign the back of it. You have to swear. You're basically signing an affidavit that you have not opened this ballot, that you have not stuffed this, that you took it from this person. So there's a bit of a process there. But what it does so dishonest ballot harvesters right can do all that work on site. They can go to the little old lady's house and say, hey, let me fill out this ballot for you, let me sign it for you, and they can pick who you know, or they can switch it out. They can take it from her and then switch it out for a different ballot. They can do that right that liars will lie bad people will. Do bad things. So your act of participating in the ballot harvesting and harvesting those ballot yourself yourselves. It's not about approving of the process. It's about you being the one to get that ballot to the polls because you know you're going to take it right there. You're not going to play any games with it, you're not going to be weird with it, and you're not as person, so you're not even going to try to influence that person's vote, just you making sure personally that that vote is going. Exactly where it's supposed to go. So that's why ballot harvesting is important, even if we don't like the process, and I don't. And finally, I just wanted to read to you out of Matthew's six. Let me pull up. My my Bible app here Matthew chapter six, starting at verse twenty five, which is my favorite verse. Therefore, I tell you do not worry about your life. What you will eat or drink, or about your body what you will wear is not life more than food in the body, more than clothes. Look at the birds of the air. Do they not sew or reap or stow away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they can? Any of you by worrying add a single hour to your life. And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon, in all his splendor, was dressed like one of these. If that is how God closed the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will eat not much more clothe you, you of little faith. So do not worry, saying, oh, well, will eat we eat? What will we drink? What shall we wear? For the pagans run after all of these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, or tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Today is a day with a lot of trouble. But we don't have to let our spirits be troubled. We have jobs to. Do, and tasks to accomplish, and things to look forward to and we still live in the greatest nation on earth. And as crazy as this process is, it's the best one anyone has anywhere. So be encouraged, get out there and do your part. You've got sixty to ninety days. I feel like it's not a lot to ask all of you to dig deep. And do something that's going to help. And let's let's have free and fair elections. And I believe that if the elections are free and fair and allowed to proceed according to the will of the American people, that the outcome will be what we want. I believe that. So that's what you should be praying for, too, Free and fair elections. All right, everybody, Well as usual, you can write to me Jlty at ProtonMail dot com. J L. T Y at ProtonMail dot com. A couple of people are asking me, how can I send you a birthday gift? I feel really strange about taking people's money for gifts. 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