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Ep 1316 | Married Women, You’re Being Lied to About the SAVE America Act | Ron Simmons
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Ron Simmons
Hello everyone. How's everybody doing? I know you're surprised to see me again, but Allie is traveling and asked me to step in for her today and I'm always happy to do that. My name is Ron Simmons. We're going to talk about several things today that are, you know, they're serious stuff and we have serious stuff going on in the world today. We know that the Iran war is still going on. I do want to do a quick shout out to our friends in Australia who are giving five of the Iranian ladies soccer team asylum because evidently they did something in either a photo or a video clip that showed some defiance and they were worried about their safety if they went back to Iran. So things are going on there. You know, they have named a new supreme leader, which boy sure wouldn't want my name out in the public. You, you can bet that our friends from Israel are already looking for that guy. And evidently he's the son of the former one that just passed away and is as radical, if not more radical than his father was. So it's okay. We're going to finish the job. We've already crippled their military might. No matter what they say. They're trying to do some stuff in the Strait of Hormuz, which is at the bottom of Iran. Iran that kind of has shipping going through there. But we're going to get all that straightened out and we'll talk about the economic implications of that a little bit later in the show. But what I want to talk about starting out is there was a terrorist attack in New York City and something that we've heard before in our lifetimes for sure and something that if we all remember 9, 11, how many of our fellow Americans that were murdered on that day. But this was a really more of a scare. Luckily no one was injured any seriously at all. And on March 7, which was just last this past Saturday on the Upper east side where the Mayor's mansion is, they call it Gracie Mansion, there was a protest going on by a group of about 20 people that was, hey, don't let Islam take over our country. And then there was a counter protest called Stop the Hate, get the Nazis out of New York City. So they were calling all those people Nazis. And then there were two people that were affiliated with that counter protest or at least supporting of that counter protest that had built bombs and threw those into the crowd. Now, luckily they didn't ignite, but they did attempt to cause major damage and major loss of life if they could have. The protesters were the first one was an 18 year old by the name of Amir Balat and from Philip from the Philadelphia area. And here is sat one that shows what this guy was doing. Now think about the timing is perfect, actually. Listen to what the guy says and then see what happens right after he kind of quits talking.
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Ally
We were born and raised in New York and we want everyone here to stay in New York. You don't get to come from outside and then tell everyone else.
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Ron Simmons
Now obviously the guy that was speaking wasn't planning for that to happen, but he had just said we want everyone to come to New York and stay in New York. And then some. This kid, Amir Balat throws a bomb over his head. And the bombs had a lot of nuts, bolts and screws. And it had some type of accelerator that would have caused them to blow up and scatter. But luckily it didn't ignite. And then they ran off after that. So it's just really incredible. Then another 19 year old by the name of Ibrahim Nick and he also had a bomb and threw it and then they both ran off. But then policemen were able to get them. They were denied bail, thank goodness, on terrorism related charges with the federal government stepped in and did that. When it's terrorism that becomes a federal crime. And they also had stated in their own that they were pro ISIS supporters. In fact, he said ISIS was his, ISIS was his reason for acting. While Balat told officers that he had pledged allegiance to the terrorist group. And when they were asked whether they sought to emulate the 2013 bombing, Balat reportedly replied, no, even bigger. And remember, there were three people killed in that bombing and 280 injured. So these weren't kids that were just playing around coming to New York City for a prank. These were serious radicalized Islamists. Both of them grew up outside or spent the last several years anyway outside of Philadelphia. They lived in very, if you look on the Internet, they lived in very nice homes, looked to be million dollar plus homes. So it's not like they had been oppressed or anything like that. In fact, their families had done well by us rolling out the carpet for them to come to the United States. Police later found their vehicle near the scene. They actually came over together. So it was coordinated and it had a fuse, metal cans and handwritten list of chemicals and components for bomb making. It's really unbelievable when you think about it. And the officers, of course, we thank them, they ran towards the danger and were able to apprehend them. She also said that this was Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Commissioner in New York, that there was no direct link between what they were doing and what was going on in Iran. That was just the radicalization of two guys, which is very sad. And Pam Bondi said they've been charged federally. There's a full screen picture of this guy that one of the two people that were throwing the bomb. And the charges that we filed from a federal level have been the material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization that has a maximum sentence of 20 years, use of a weapon of mass destruction. That's a mass. That's a maximum sense of life in prison. Transportation of explosive materials, you can get 10 years for that. Transportation and receipt of explosive, that's another 10 years. Unlawful possession of destructive devices, that's another 10 years. We'll see what happens. I think that they will be dealt with pretty severely under this justice department. And unfortunately, you know, for those two young men whose life was in front of them, that's what they should get. And I hate that, really. I mean, I really do hate that. But that's what happens when you make those decisions.
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Ally
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Ron Simmons
Sauron Mandami, the first Muslim mayor. You know, here's what he said right after this happened. This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy entitled stop the Islamic takeover of New York City. I'm the first Muslim mayor of our city. Anti Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me. Nor is it anything new for the 1 million or so Muslim New Yorkers who know this city as our home. Okay, did you hear what he said in the first sentence? That this was all about white supremacy? What happened to peaceful protests? There's not one word about the people that were saying don't Islamify America, that they were doing anything but peaceful protests. In fact, most of the other protesters on the other side were peaceful as well. But it wasn't about white supremacy. It was about radical Islamists. That's exactly what it was. Radical Muslims that Hate America. That's what the creed of radical Islam is, hate America. And meaning hate means they believe everybody. We're all infidels, therefore we should die. We're like a dog almost. Not just a regular dog, a mangy dog that is a threat to other people. And so that's what the mayor came out. Now, he's softened that up in the last few days. But it doesn't matter. What usually comes out of your mouth first is what you really think. Remember that what comes out of somebody's mouth first is usually what they really believe. Then on top of this, in the irony of all ironies, on Monday night, Mamdani dined with Mahmoud Khalil, who was the Syrian national who made headlines last year for being arrested at a pro Palestine protest at Columbia University. Remember that? Where they locked themselves in. And this guy was a radical, pro Palestinian, and he spent three months in a Louisiana detention center before being released. But that's who shouting death to America and all that. That's who the mayor of New York City, right after there was a terrorist attempt was dining with on Monday. I mean, you can't make it up. Having a nice meal, probably lots of security around them where you couldn't get in there, right? Incredible. I can't. It just drives you crazy. Also, our friends at CNN and NBC, they really couldn't figure out what to say about this either. In fact, we have a screen of what they first came out with. Here's their first tweet. I'm gonna read it to you for those that are listening. Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could have been a normal day, enjoying the city during the abnormally warm weather. Don't you just have really butterflies and fluffy clouds in your head right now? But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti Muslim Protestant outside of Mayor Zoran's Mandam Mamdani's home. Here's what we know so far. And so then they go on to have a report. They had to delete this post because their own media analyst came out against it and said, this is. You may have the story right, but the way you approach this was totally wrong. And you notice they said a anti Muslim protest. They didn't say anything about the counter protest. You notice they didn't talk about that, where the actual, you know, problem came from, but they deleted it. And now they have new story to sympathize with this. And here's what they put up since then, a post regarding the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs outside New York City Mayor Zorhan Mamdani's home failed to reflect the gravity of the incident, thereby breaching the editorial standards, which I'm surprised they have any editorial standards at CNN anymore. We require for all our reporting. It has therefore been deleted. Good for them that they did that. But you know what? Again, what they probably thought was the first thing they said. That's generally the case. But not to be outdone, our friends at ABC News had something to say as well. Didn't even call him a bomber. Here's what they said. An activist. An activist explaining what's happened holds a homemade explosive before throwing it towards police during a protest organized by far right influencers Jake Lang, against alleged Islamification in front of Gracie Mansion. Again, not even mentioning at all the counter protest. Calling him an activist rather than a terrorist. Telling you our media is such an issue, it just is. It's crazy. So anyway, this type of stuff is pretty scary. I think those two guys will get what they deserve. But ABC News already also reported on some Iranian sleeper cells. And the U.S. government has issued a federal alert to law enforcement agencies, warning of intercepted encrypted communications likely originating from Iran, potentially serving as an operational trigger to activate sleeper assets. Obviously, we need to be extra diligent. All right, we are in a military fight with a foreign power. Again, as I said on Saturday, not necessarily much the country of Iran, but the radical Islamic Islams that lead Iran and they lead other organizations like the Houthis and Hezbollah and Hamas, those are really. That's where the issue is, not with the country per se. And this alert is based on preliminary signals of transmissions relayed across multiple countries shortly after the assassination of the Supreme Leader. So we have to be diligent. That's the main thing. There's always risk, obviously there's risk walking out the door, getting in your car, whatever, but we need to be. So if you see something unusual, make sure that you're reporting that. Or if you hear something unusual, you know, some type of unusual type of words being said. If you're out in the crowd, things like that, make sure that you're diligent for that. And then, you know, because we also not into not only the New York City, but if you remember a week or so ago, they had an. There was an Austin shooter in Austin, Texas. And I think we have a screenshot as well of this one that was called. Had a sweatshirt reading the Property of allah. He killed three people wounded 14 after firing from his car into a bar near the University of Texas. And the police were there in about 57 seconds. They got there really quick. They were able to eliminate the threat and eliminate the man. And then there were flags and photos in the attackers apartment of the Iran leaders. So, you know, everybody likes to belong to something. And I was listening to a podcast here recently about a lot of you will not know this, but some of the people my age will remember the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, who was an heir to the Randolph William Randolph Hearst, you know, riches, I guess you would say wealth, who had a huge media empire a long time ago and still owns media stuff. But she was the granddaughter and who was kidnapped by some terrorist organization. And then she actually, you know, she was rebelling against her parents already. So when she got inside of that, a lot of us believe, although she has denied it, that she kind of became a part of that organization. In fact she went on a couple of armed robberies and what have you. Now she said she was forced. It's hard to believe that, that she was forced for that long. But anyway, I'm just saying people like to belong to something. If they can't belong to something good, they'll belong to something bad. So that's what's happened with these people. And who knows what was going on. Maybe you know, the guy in Austin was mentally ill. I think the, the two boys in, in Pennsylvania, you know, had just been listening to the wrong stuff, looking at the wrong stuff online and you know, just have gone the wrong way. So anyway, it's a sad situation. I'm glad they were able to catch these guys and nobody was hurt in New York.
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Ally
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Ron Simmons
Now, the next thing we want to talk about is the Save America Act. We've heard a lot about that lately that's really been in the news. And it's called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility. And let me talk just for a second of why this is so important. Important. The base of all republics or democracies, we actually are in a republic, all right? Which means we elect officials to represent us. A democracy is where everybody has one single each individual vote for the government itself. But in a republic, it works a little different, but the goal's the same thing, is that really the power is in the people. But if the base of that power is being able to vote to elect those people that you want to run the government, that's really the basis of the power. And so if there's anything that makes that not as accurate and as safe and even as transparent as it should be, then you don't really get the government that the people want. And people talk about. Well, it's such a small thing. It's not something to worry about. Look, if I have a voter in the area where I live that's an illegal voter, and let's say that he or she votes for someone different than I vote for, then my vote's automatically been canceled. So I've been disenfranchised for no good reason. So I believe that we have to root out every smidgen of illegal voting. Every smidgen. And sometimes, maybe it's done unknowingly, maybe somebody moves and they don't change their address quick enough, so they vote in the wrong location. I'm talking about just kind of within a city. And those things matter, because what some people vote for in one part of a metroplex area may be different than the other people are voting for, especially on the local. Local level. So the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility act, introduced by Senator John Cornyn, our senator from Texas, Senator Mike Lee, who is from Utah, and Congressman Chip Roy from Texas, requires individuals to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote. This is where the biggest issue is. And I've said this for a long time, in Texas, I did not. I filed a bill to get this taken care of, but it didn't get through all of the minutiae in the legislature. And that is, if you. Right now, in Texas and in most states, when I register to vote, I basically just sign. I do give them some information that they should be able to verify, but I'm essentially signing an AFFIDAVIT saying I'm eligible to vote. There's not really any follow up done on that. All right. And what we need to put into play and what the SAVE act puts into play is that you have to prove your eligibility to vote. You prove your citizenship, you prove that you're where you live and that type of thing in order to even be able to register as a legal voter. It also would require photo ID when you go to vote. All right. And that also would require states to remove non citizens from voter rolls, which that's important as well to include any non citizens because they're out there. How they got on there, who knows. But we need to remove those, remove those as well. Now, President Trump has really stepped out on this one and here's what he has said. I want to read this true social post that he put up there. Good job by hard working Scott Pressler on Fox and Friends talking about using the filibuster or talking filibuster. And we'll talk about that in a second as well. In order to press the Save the America act and issue 88% of all voters says we must have it must be done immediately. It supersedes everything else. It must go to the front of the line. I as president will not sign another bill until this is passed and not the watered down version. Go for the gold. Must show voter ID and proof of citizenship. No mail in ballots except for military. Now that's new. Illness, disability and travel. Right now in most states, like in Texas, if you're over 65, you can do a mail in ballot. No men in women's sports, no transgender mutilization for children. Do not fail President Donald J. Trump. Now, I don't know what the last two things, although I agree with him on those issues. Obviously, you know that already from listening to Allie and I in the past. I'm not sure what those have to do with voting. But, but maybe in the Texas House you couldn't do that because those would be not on the same subject, but the federal government, they could throw stuff in there that's not related to the underlying bill. And President Trump has urged Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use a talking filibuster. Now, what this means, there's two types of filibusters. The original filibuster was talking, meaning that if a senator got up to speak that he could not be interrupted or taken off the floor. In other words, they couldn't recognize anybody else until that senator was through speaking. And so if they could do it, they could speak for hours upon hours upon hours. And the whole idea is to speak long enough to where either the clock runs out and they can't pass the bill, or to get the other side to negotiate and acquiesce to some changes that they won't make. In the past, though, as only our federal government could do, is they've just said, hey, I'm going to filibuster that. Meaning that they don't require you to talk. They just say, I'm going to filibuster it. And until they lift that filibuster, there's no vote. That's going to happen. And it requires 60 votes in order for a filibuster to end. And that means that if we have 53 Republicans, we have to have seven Democrats with us. So the other thing that's being talked about is that we get rid of the requirement to have 60 votes on certain legislation, and we do have that on some things, but most things require 60 votes. And that is an advantage to the minority. And Republicans have been in the minority in the past and we've used it to stop some pretty bad legislation. But I'm of the opinion that we're supposed to be a majority rule country, that all officials get elected by in a majority manner, or at least they have the most votes. You know, we pass bills, actually, even the bills in the Senate, once they get to 60 votes to be able to have the vote, that's. It's a vote to have the vote. The bill's passed by majority. And I don't know why every bill is not passed by majority. Yeah, that may bite us sometime in the future. That's still the right thing to do. The majority should rule. People don't elect, don't do all the work to elect a majority of their party in a particular legislative session and to not to be able to use it. So I think we ought to drop the filibuster and the 60 vote requirement altogether. So we don't know what's going to happen with this because they're trying to all at the same time move other priorities. Like you remember, the Department of Homeland Security is still not funded during where we're having spring break times. You see some of the waits at airports, three, four hours, because these people aren't getting paid. Some of them aren't showing up because they're not getting paid. Maybe they have to go do another job to make money to feed their family. And the Democrats are the ones that are the cause for this. If you wait in line at an airport. Call your local Democrat, because that is who's stopping this from you. All right. If you wait in a hugely long line, that's what's causing it. They all want to get more Iran security funding and other marks. The new DHS secretary, Senator Mullen, they've got his nomination coming up. That needs to go through the White House, I mean, go through the Senate as well. So it's already passed the House multiple times and therefore, hopefully it will pass the House in the future or pass the Senate. And I'd like for him to pass the House version. I know President Trump wants a little more, but if you pass the Senate that hid the version that he wants in the Senate, you gotta go back to the House. And there's always risk when you do that. Now, the Democrats are opposing this. Of course the Democrats are opposing this. In fact, our good friend Chuck Schumer is maybe the biggest hypocrite I've ever seen. But here's what he has to say.
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Chuck Schumer
The SAVE act is Jim Crow 2.0. More than 20 million people would lose their right to vote. You would need to register either a passport or your original birth certificate. How many people have that?
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Ron Simmons
I mean, Jim Crow, if you remember the Jim Crow laws that were keeping people from voting in the south, where they would put these ridiculous things. But having an identification is not one of those. As a matter of fact, I was reading today that somewhere around 90% of the people that are eligible for them have driver's license in the US or some form of state or government issued id. So they're talking about. It's what we call a red herring, meaning they're throwing up something to get attention that doesn't have any facts based on it. He also claims Senator Schumer did that. This will allow Elon Musk to determine who can vote. Now let's see how he pulls this one out. Rabbit out of his hat.
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Chuck Schumer
He would purge the voter rolls using a AI system set up by Musk and Doge so you could show up at the polling place this November and they'd say, you're no longer on the rolls. They don't even notify you of it. Millions of people would be purged from the rolls because of this system that Musk and Doge put in.
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Ron Simmons
You're only going to merge people from the rolls that are ineligible to vote. And if you've done the right thing and you're a US citizen, you're going to be eligible to vote. Now, you may get purged from a roll in One state because you've state, that's the way it should be. If you moved to that other state and you didn't register, shame on you. There's a duty as a citizen. Everything's not given to us on a silver platter. Some things we have to actually do something for. And it's not the government's fault if you don't go do what you're supposed to. So get a grip, Senator Schumer.
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Ally
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Ron Simmons
Hillary Clinton, our good friend, who, by the way, has still not called me to come on the show and talk about her attack on Allie a few weeks ago in that article. But Hillary Clinton claimed on X that Republican voter legislation, specifically the Save America act backed by President Trump, would make it harder for millions of Americans to vote for particularly married women, portraying it as deliberate suppression. What they say is once you get married, your name's changed. All right? And as this says, House passes elections overhaul bill that could make it harder for married women to vote. Now, this is so crazy, because first of all, there are provisions if you've recently married and your birth certificate, which it would never match your, you know, match what they have on or your ID doesn't match. They have other ways to reconcile that. When you go to vote, you can. You can have. You can sign an AFFIDAVIT you can bring other proof of information that, you know, your marriage license, that type of thing. No issue with that. Now let me ask you this. If you go to the airport and you have a driver and you want to fly, which, by the way, 75% of women have flown, only 80, you know, just a little different than men. Men's 82 women, 75, in fact, over age 50, 70% of the women are flyers. Is that incredible? That's, that's. I was surprised at that. So if you go the airport and your, and your ID doesn't match the name on your ticket because you've gotten married, then what are they going to do? You can't fly. So what do people do? They get that taken care of. All right? And again, if it's within a few months or something, there are other ways to show that who you really are. It's just, again, it's another red herring that you need to push back against if any of your, you know, woke friends are talking about that. It's just, it's, it is, it's just incredible. Democrats, including Clinton and House members, suggest that the bill would disenfranchise married women whose birth certificates do not match their married names, which is just not a true statement. Republicans emphasize that the legislation includes explicit provisions to accommodate name changes without excluding eligible voters. So, come on, we've got that. We know better than that. The bill allows, we get them to use a variety of documents, including passports, real IDs, military IDs, or birth certificates. I looked it up. I said, how many people? I asked how many people have either a driver's license, passport, real ID, military ID or birth certificate? 95% of the people in the United States have that. So what is the problem? It's, it's. Yeah, it's crazy. It's just crazy. Here's a couple of other things that the stats. I wanted to talk to you about that a majority of the women support. Here's this, here's the statistics. Okay. And let me see here. Yeah, this was the White House put these out. 71% support the Save America act, including 69% of independents and half of rank and file Democrats. 81% favor requiring voter ID. And this is backed by 79% of independents and 70% of Democrats requiring voter ID to vote. 80% want states to. 80% of people want states to purge non citizens from voter rolls. 85%. This is probably the most interesting statistic. 85% agree only U.S. citizens should vote in our election. But if you Listen to some of the far left woke. They don't believe that. The mayor of New York doesn't believe that. A lot of people don't believe that. 80 or I say a lot of people, a lot of loud people. It's not really, it's a loud minority. Remember that most things that seem crazy, it's a loud minority that's doing it. Sometimes that's on the far left, sometimes it's on the far right. In a Harvard Caps Harris poll says there is a strong support for the Save America act when confronted with a trade off. Here's the trade off. Should voters prioritize stopping fraud over access concerns? So in other words, some people will claim, and you can see on this page here, some people will say, hey, do you support the, or oppose the Save America Act? 71 to 29 support of it. And then they say, but however, which is the more important that we do everything possible to stop voter fraud or are we worried about eligible citizens can't or denied the ability to vote? 54%. So a majority of Americans say, hey, it's more important to stop fraud than it is that a few people may not have the right identification to vote that actually are eligible to vote. I think that's fascinating. I mean this is so, I don't know why Republicans cannot use this, especially in their campaigns to beat some Democrats this coming fall. Because it's just real. It just is. I mean it is, it's something that they should be using. Just keep pounding. And I think that's why President Trump said, say anything you want to about President Trump. The guy knows politics. As far as what moves the, what the, what the majority of people are thinking or at least what his base is thinking anyway. He has a pretty good finger on the pulse of that. So I encourage you that if you live in a blue state or if you live in a state that has a squishy Republican senator, that you get in touch with them and you tell them that we want this passed and we don't care what it takes. If it means getting rid of the filibuster or make them do a talking filibuster, that that's what you want to have happen. And I encourage you to do that. Please, please, please do that. If you don't know how to get in touch with center, just Google it. It's, it's, it's online, it's easy to find.
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Ally
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Ron Simmons
All right, now there has been some unease and I understand why, about the economy. Ever since that we started the military action against the Islamic radicals focused in Iran and the, the markets, the stock market has been a little volatile. There's been concerns about what it's going to be long term on. The oil prices shot up to 100. Now it went back to 90. Some people say it could go to 200, which I don't believe. But I just want you to. Here's what I want to tell you is that if you've got money invested in the stock market, first of all, you shouldn't have any money invested in the stock market that you need within the next 12 months. I've told you that before and that is just absolute good advice. I'm sure I learned it from somebody else. It's not my original idea, but if you've got money in the market, do not make any radical changes, all right? This is not the time to do that. You hold steady. This is long term investments. And if you've invested in quality stocks like a Standard and Poor's 500 index fund or a value fund or something like that, or bonds, just hold steady, okay? It's going to end up being okay again. Don't ever have money in the market that you're going to need within the next 12 months because that needs to be in a no risk, no risk scenario. And it could get more volatile. You know, gas prices have gone up, average Gas price in the country is about $3.50 a gallon. That's up about 50 cents in the last week or two. You know, California, our friends in California, I'm sorry, pay $5.20 a gallon. California, $4.70 in Washington. Kansas is on the low end. It's a little still under $3 here. In Texas, it's a little over $3. I think that'll get down to under $3 all over the country here in the next few weeks or maybe another month and a half or so. It's going to be okay. Some of this is tied the way, if you go look at a map and the way Iran is situated on the map. They border an area and it's called the Strait of Hormuz. And it's a lot of cargo traffic goes through there, and it gets very narrow in one of its places in Iran uses that as a threat. And they have, they haven't shut it off. But a lot of ships are unwilling to go through there, just afraid. And we're working on that. As you know, we've decimated the Iran navy. So I think that will, that will increase. We also have to go against the Iran proxies like the Houthis and what have you who try to help in that situation. But right now, that has reduced some of the oil flow through there. But America's producing more oil than it ever has. Trump's been on the phone with China to say, hey, we're going to help you get the oil you need, because that was coming from Iran, same way. Trump's also had a conversation with Putin, trying to tell him, hey, don't get involved in this conflict, which I think is a smart thing to do. Again, I told you, you may be in your policy or political opponent, you may be totally against something on this with them. And I had this happen to me a lot when I was in legislature, especially when it got to social issues. I was bitterly against a lot of the Democrat policies, but I need to work with them maybe on some transportation issues, something related to roads, and that's what President Trump is doing. It's, you know, we don't think China is our friend, but if we can help them get something that they need, that may make discussions and negotiations with us a little bit easier. So that's why they're doing that. I think that's smart to do that. There's, there is a little bit of sight that maybe we're kind of over the worst part. Oil process has gone down 5% yesterday. And you know they'll fluctuate some more. The S&P 500 ended actually higher yesterday. You know, it's probably still down for the last couple of weeks, but I think we're, you know, it's going to settle out. What's going on over there has not much of an effect on our economy. Really. It doesn't have a huge effect on our economy. It has effect on who we are as a world leader and it has effect on promoting democracies around the world, but it doesn't have a direct effect on the economy. Now we do need to be diligent, as I said earlier about, you know, radical Islam over here. There are individuals that definitely are have those issues associated with them here, as it's been proven in Austin and New York City. But for the most part it doesn't have a huge effect on us.
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Ally
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Ron Simmons
We're going to get to listener questions we like. Listener question time. It's again, always some great questions. I'm going to get through as many as I can in the next few minutes. And again you can always email me ronsimmons.com and if you've emailed me and I haven't got back to you within a couple of weeks, email me that again because it'll get back up to the front of my email box. And I apologize for that. I had good response after Saturday's episode. In fact, I had several people email me that wanted to get one of my books, which I, which I'm happy to mail to them. And they can send me a check for the $20 price or what have you, and I'll sign it for them, which I'm happy to do. If you want to do that, feel free to email me and let me know. All right. How do I discipline my two year old daughter? Did you spank? Do you regret how you disciplined? Yes, we did spank in our house. I don't know that we did it a lot, but we did do it, Lisa, a little bit with the wooden spoon. Occasionally when they needed it, I did it, you know, usually only when it was, you know, what we considered at the time, serious stuff. And it, I'm sure it all stopped by the time they were 8 to 10 years old, but I have no issue with that. And sometimes, you know, the little pat on the bottom is important that that has to happen. In fact, on the way over here today, my grandson, who's here with me in studio today, asked me, papa, did you ever get spanked in school? What did they had they disciplined people in school? And I said, well, sometimes they spanked you? And I did get a couple spankings at school and I didn't like it at all. But we used to have that. I don't know if you even do that anymore at school, but it was, they did back in my day. All right. How concerned are you about midterms? Well, I'm, I'm always concerned about an election. In fact, there's only two ways to run. They used to tell us when we were campaigning is either run unopposed, which you know you're going to win, or you run scared, meaning that you do everything you possibly can. I'm convinced that if we do everything we possibly can and we have the right messaging and we quit fighting among ourselves, that we'll win. The Democrats have the lowest approval rating as far as I remember, that they've ever had. And so it's up to us if we want to win. If conservatives want to win, we can still hold it. And I'll tell you, if you think things have gone pretty good so far with the policies that we've been putting forth during this first year, if we win the midterms, it's going to be even better. It is going to be even better. Promise you that. Cornyn or Paxton have the better shot at beating Talarico. I think Cornyn does. You know, Attorney General Paxton has some baggage with him. A lot of people talk about Cornyn not being as conservative as they want them to be. Nobody's ever perfect. But I do believe, if you really look at his voting record, that he has a good voting record since Trump, Since Trump's been in there and in the other times as well. There's probably some things he voted for that we wouldn't agree with. But calling him a total rhino, I think is not right either. Now, now, Senator Pac, Attorney General Paxton, if he end up winning the whole thing in the general election as well, he will vote correctly for sure. Absolutely, he'll vote correctly. But I think the Democrats would have a better chance of beating Attorney General Paxton than they would Senator Cornyn. That's just my personal opinion. Might not even be Ali's opinion. But you asked me, and so that's what I think. Are we going into World War Three? No, we're not going into World War Three. And what makes prayer powerful? God already knows his plan. So how do our prayers affect that? Well, God wants us to communicate with him. It's just like anything. All right. I know that my wife and kids love me, but I still want to have that communicated and I want to have a relationship with them. And yes, God is omnipotent, but he gives us free will. And part of that free will is what are we going to do in the situations presented to us. And when those situations presented to us, one of the things that we do is we ask God for guidance, and he readily gives it. Just like one of my kids or grandkids asking me as a father or grandfather, hey, Papa, what do you think about this? Or, hey, dad, what do you think about this? Allie and I go through this all the time. Justin and I do. Daniel and I do. What's your thought on this? Doesn't mean they always take my advice or always consider. I think they always consider my opinion. They may not always follow it, but that's okay. It's their life. It's their role. And I think God looks at us the same way. So I do think it's very important that that happens. All right, a few more. The idea for another topic would be the Christian take on de extension and colossal. I think you're right on that. But probably something that Allie would be better at than me. She got such a vast knowledge of things like that. I think that might be an interesting deal. How did I meet Ali's? Mom. Well, two times I met her. The first time I didn't. I don't remember it. She remembered it. She was in a beauty pageant when I was a high school senior and I had my knee hurt when I. At my homecoming game of my high school year. I was playing linebacker and I got hit and tore my acl, so I was in a cast. And then a friend of mine had his neck hurt that game, so he was in a neck brace. And my girlfriend, not my wife, but my girlfriend at the time was in the same beauty pageant. And we went up while they were practicing the day before the beauty pageant to. I don't know what I went up there for. Maybe we were going to get together afterwards, and I guess Lisa was standing around and she said, what happened to y'? All? Were y' all in an accident? And we said, yeah, an accident with Strong. And Strong was the name of the little town who we had played in that game that we had gotten hurt on. By the way, we won that game, just in case anybody's wondering. We were hit 24 to nothing, and then we ended up winning 24, 22. And this is so funny, right after the game, both stands, and this is probably. It's a small town, but there were probably 4,000 fans that ran onto the field, half from Strong, half from Junction City, and they got in a fight. In fact, our mayor hit their coach. Now, you got to love that. I mean, that's the truth. The next morning's paper said, mayor Tommy Wilson, no coach, such and such from Strong took what appeared to be a short left jab to the face before hitting the ground. From Junction City Mayor Tommy Wilson. I mean, you can't make it up. It's the true story. And for the next decade, they didn't even play each other because. Because of that. So, anyway, that's how we met. And then we met in college. We were freshmen in college together, and we met there. We had psychology and biology as classes, and both of them worked. We ended up getting married about a year and a half later. And now going on 46 years. In about another week, we'll have been married 46 years. So really cool thing. All right, let's see here. Does the song Good Neighbor belong in worship set during church? That's an interesting question. I don't know. I don't really have a problem with that. It's probably not quite as biblical or spiritual as you and I would want it, but I think it's how people take things, right? What do they mean in that I think God does want us to be a good neighbor for sure. But in the atrospect, in the worshiping aspect of worshiping God or praising him, probably not the best selection, but it's not something I'd get too hung up over. Favorite NHL team. Well, it's the Stars, of course. In fact, my grandson who's here with me today, we're going to the Stars game tonight with our other son Daniel, and a friend of his. We're going to the Stars game tonight. They're playing Las Vegas, I think, and we're looking forward to that. They got a good team. So we love the Stars. We love the hockey team. These two hockey teams this year, the men and the women that won the Olympic gold. That's really, really good. So anyway, it's been a good time. I've enjoyed being with y'. All. Ali, of course, will be back. This is just. Just out of town for a little bit. It's kids spring break and stuff, so I really appreciate you. Listen, I want to remind you that if you haven't got Ali's book yet, Toxic Empathy, especially in the time we're living in right now, it is so spot on on how she talks about how the left uses our empathy against us and they make us feel like we're the toxic ones when it's not the case at all. And that's what, you know, Mandami was trying. Or Mamdani. I don't know why I want to call him Mamdani. Anyway, that's what he was trying to do when he said it was a white supremacist. Is the reason that the terrorist attack happened, happened in New York City. He's trying to use it against us. Okay, don't let him have it. Get her book. It's really, really good. And if you want to know more about me and some of my things that I've learned over the years, life lessons from the Little Red Wagon again, you can get it on Ali's merchandise site, also Amazon or if you want a signed copy, you can email me, can work that out. But I had a co author in this, or not a co author, but a helper in this. And they just such good storytellers. Much better than I could be on my own. We would talk for an hour, an hour and a half on the phone. He would ask questions. Lisa would help me remember some stories. And he just did a great job in putting that together. I think you'll find a very easy read. In fact, I was at a men's Bible study last week and the guy came, a friend of mine sat down. Besides, hey, I've enjoyed spending the last week and a half with you. I'm like, what are you talking about? I mean, we had been out of town. He said, last week and a half to read your book. And I really enjoyed it. So anyway, don't forget your tickets to share the arrows. Thanks a lot. We'll see you next time.