Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1093 | Trump’s Tariff Plan & How He’ll Lower Inflation | Guest: Ron Simmons

Episode Date: October 31, 2024

Today, we sit down with Allie's dad, Ron Simmons, to discuss the contrasting policies that Harris and Trump have presented in their bid for the White House. We go over both of their promises to end taxes on tips — Kamala's promise coming after Trump's, of course — and what Trump's proposed tariffs mean for the American economy. We also talk about each candidate's foreign policy and how Trump is our best bet for peace. And we get to hear Ron's thoughts and predictions on how the election will go. Buy Allie's new book, "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion": https://a.co/d/4COtBxy ---   Timecodes: (04:29) Trump economic policy (12:39) Mark Cuban on Trump’s policy (18:26) No tax on tips (20:00) Increasing the deficit (23:41) Foreign policy  (31:35) What’s at stake?  (37:34) Ron’s feelings on the election ---   Today's Sponsors: Hillsdale College— Hillsdale College is offering more than 40 free online courses on the works of C.S. Lewis, the stories in the book of Genesis, the meaning of the US Constitution, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, or the history of the ancient Christian Church with Hillsdale College’s online courses, all available for FREE. Go to https://hillsdale.edu/relatable to enroll. Lumen — If you want to take the next step in improving your health, go to https://www.lumen.me/RELATABLE to get 15% off your Lumen. --- Links: Life Lessons from the Little Red Wagon: 15 Ways to Take Charge and Create a Path to Success by Ron Simmons https://a.co/d/0RcdveQ ---   Relevant Episodes: Ep 1076 | Hurricane Aftermath: Christians Step Up While Biden Vacations | Guest: Ron Simmons https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1076-hurricane-aftermath-christians-step-up-while/id1359249098?i=1000671464494 Ep 1064 | My Advice to Trump for Tonight's Debate | Guest: Ron Simmons https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1064-my-advice-to-trump-for-tonights-debate-guest/id1359249098?i=1000669066357 Ep 1092 | Kamala Will 'Save Democracy?' Think Again https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1092-kamala-will-save-democracy-think-again/id1359249098?i=1000675115186 Ep 1089 | Kamala Harris Wants Trump Dead | Guest: Glenn Beck  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1089-kamala-harris-wants-trump-dead-guest-glenn-beck/id1359249098?i=1000674348685 ---   Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

What are Trump's economic policies versus Kamala Harris's? We've got people like Mark Cuban saying that Trump is going to kill small businesses. Well, my dad is here to make the case that it will be the exact opposite that you are going to have more money in your pocket if Trump takes office. We will also be contrasting the two sets of foreign policy. How is this going to affect our lives? And also, how is my dad feeling about the election? Is it going to go our way? We've got all that and more on today's episode of Relatable. It's brought to you by our friends at crowdhealth. Go to join crowdhealth.com slash alley. That's join crowdhealth.com slash alley. Dad, welcome back to the program. Thank you. I'm glad to be back. You know, I got my pink shirt on today because it's

breast cancer awareness month. Okay. And, you know, with mom, what mom went through and she's doing great, but we don't ever want to ever want to forget that. Yes, that is so true. Okay, we also have an election coming up. Oh, yes, we do. Soon. I know. No, next Tuesday. I've already voted, so I'm good. I know. I have too. Okay, this is going to come out on Thursday, and so people can still early vote.

Would you recommend if people haven't voted yet that they go out and vote right now? Oh, absolutely, because you just don't know what's going to happen on election day. You know, you may have an emergency or, you know, something that could be a weather issue. You just never know. So please, yeah, go ahead and vote. If people want to find out information about how they can vote in early voting in their state, you know where they can go? Well, the best place is just to Google or just to search for that and just say early voting in

Smith County, Ohio. It'll tell you that. It'll usually send you to the most counties have an election administrator's office that takes care of all that. It'll send you to that. What about people who are, they just don't think their votes going to count. They live in a blue state and they're thinking, what does it matter if I vote? Well, I'll tell you what matters.

It matters, especially in the down-ballot races. and those are the ones that the government is the closest to you. So you need to make sure that you, I really encourage people to vote ballot from the bottom up. Because if you don't, I know that on our ballot, several of the races were uncontested. But the very last one, the constable, was a contested race. And if people just had all these look uncontested, they wouldn't have voted on that. So, yeah, it makes a big difference locally. So please vote all the way down the ballot and make sure you vote to start with.

And some people get really confused, understandably, by the language of these amendments and measures that they're voting on. And we did an episode just going through some of the biggest amendments that we see across the country and how I would vote on them and why. But where is a good place to get real accurate information about, for example, Amendment 4 in Florida? Of course, the first thing that comes up when you search is, oh, this is just protecting miscarriage care, which is not really true. It's allowing abortion through all nine months. Do you know where people could go to get the truth? Well, virtually every state has a conservative think tank, you know, just a policy-oriented organization.

And they're different names. And it's the Texas Public Policy Foundation. But if they will just search on the Internet for a conservative think tank in Wisconsin, there will be one there. In Michigan, it's the McAnow Institute. So just search for that, and they will have an analysis of those. An explanation. Yeah.

Encourage you not to go to your local newspapers analysis because sometimes those carry bias. Also, the Heritage Foundation themselves probably have an analysis of some of the largest ones like you talked about the other day. And if you are in a Republican-led state, usually your government, your governor will probably have some information like Ron and Casey DeSantis have been traveling their state so persistently telling people that Amendment 4. Amendment 2. They're bad news. Vote against them. So that could be some information too.

That's true. Today I want to focus on economic policy. It's not something that we've focused on a ton on this show. And I've heard mixed things, as you can imagine, about Trump's economic policy, even from some conservative saying, for example, that his tariff policy is actually just going to cost Americans a lot of money. It's going to exacerbate inflation. Can you explain that? for us. Sure, I can be happy to. First of all, let's talk about what a tariff is. Yes. A tariff is when you are bringing in goods from another country that you add a percentage cost to that. Let's say it's a good that costs a dollar and you want to add a 10% tariff. It'll cost a dollar 10. And you're charging that back to the country or the company that put that in here. All right. And that's called an import tariff when you're importing it. Now, export tariffs really happen on the other end, on things that we export to, say, China, Canada, Mexico, wherever they are, they add a tariff. Now, the funny thing is what people don't want to

talk about is that China adds a tariff on virtually every product that we've been sending them for decades. And other countries do too. Like if we want to send bourbon whiskey to Scotland, they charge a tariff on that because they're trying to protect their Scotch industry, right? Their own whiskey industry. Okay, so that tariff makes the product more expensive in Scotland. Yep. And so people would be incentivized because of the price difference between American whiskey and Scottish whiskey to keep buying Scottish whiskey. So they're trying to protect their own industry.

That's right. And protect the jobs that go along with that. Now, the interesting thing about what happened when Trump is. impose the tariffs on goods from China. And this can happen is that because that had a negative effect on the Chinese economy, all right, is that the Chinese dollar, I think they call it the yawn, went down in value, and the US dollar went up in value. That means that if before those tariffs, if a US dollar could buy 10 yon, okay, in other words, convert to 10 yon, that after that a U.S. dollar converted to 15 yon.

So therefore, the interesting thing is because our dollar was worth more, the price impact of us putting the tariff on those Chinese goods had no effect on the ending price here because our dollar bought more of those. We could buy 100,000 hats, okay, at actually a much cheaper price than we could before the tariff. So it's really an interesting, very interesting scenario. Now, I get it in that the theory would be that, okay, well, if things are going to be higher, that's like a tax on people and all that type of stuff. But what Trump has said is because China has done so many tariffs against us and they still are intellectual property, this is all a negotiating trade technique by him, right? That's what he does.

And he started having some of those tariffs on Mexico. Remember when he was in there? and he lifted those tariffs once they closed the border. Now, of course, Biden removed those tariffs. Now, interestingly, if Biden kept all the tariffs on China. Now, why did he do that if they were so bad? Yeah. He kept all the because he knows that they actually did work in that scenario.

So do we currently have, we currently have tariffs? Yeah, on China. That were implemented by Trump, that were maintained by Biden, that now Democrats are saying are so terrible? Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. And of course, Kamala or Kamala, I can't remember her name. She doesn't even mention those.

She doesn't talk about that. And of course, nobody asked her about it either. Well, and she has also kind of put herself in a pickle there because she simultaneously says on the view, there's nothing that I would change that Biden did, including Afghanistan, including, you know, forcing companies to force people to take the vaccine. She said she wouldn't change any of that. And I guess that would include the tariff policy. We have to. If she says she disagrees with it, well, then she's going against Biden. That's right. That's right.

They're not going to move that. No matter who wins, they're not going to move that tariff policy. Our first sponsor for the day is Hillsdale College. This is a university that teaches things that are timeless and true and helps its students actually critically think and become well-functioning adults. Unfortunately, a lot of the colleges today have just become communist indoctrination factories. you're not going to get that kind of education at Hillsdale College. You can actually right now enroll in one of 40 free online courses. You can enroll in a lot of them.

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What else is Trump proposing that is different than what's happening right now economically? Well, he's proposing a couple of things. One, he's proposing that we actually reduce the tax on corporations from 21% to 15%. And the reason that's important to you and I, even though we're not a corporation, is because corporation passed their costs down to the end consumer. So when Kamala talks about raising the corporate tax, to 28%, which would be a 40% increase. Do you think the corporation is just going to say,

oh, I'm just going to reduce my profits for that? No, they're going to pass that on down to you and I as the end consumer. That's exactly what's going to happen. And so Trump is talking about reducing that. She's talking about increasing it. Currently, of the 2017 tax rate reductions, okay, which put our income taxes between 12% and 35% to, depending on income that you make.

She wants to move to let the 2017 ones expire, which they're said to expire at the end of 25. And then she wants to raise the top rate back up to 39.6%. So essentially 40% over a certain amount of money. So, and again, and if you and I are small business owners, because you and Timothy are small business owners. I'm a small business owner. that the way small business works is your income that flows from your business down to you is taxed at whatever your rate is.

So if you have a successful business, you could definitely have some of that tax at the 40% rate. Well, isn't she just making sure that the richer paying their fair share and helping the most vulnerable? Well, the top 1% as you know, already pay almost 70% of all the taxes that are paid in the United States. So I think they've probably done their fair share as far as that concern. What we really need to go to is a more simplified tax bracket to where maybe there's two rates. You pay, say, 15 to 20 percent up to a certain amount. And over that, you might pay 25 to 30 percent. That would be the simplest thing to do.

And that everybody pays taxes. Everybody that makes a dollar of income pays tax on that dollar of income. And that way you could have lower tax rates for everybody. Yeah. Mark Cuban says that Trump's economic policy is going to be terrible. for small businesses, here's SOT 16. I don't think he pays attention to the details, and you can't be pressing United States.

Unless you pay attention to the details. Yeah, that's fine if he wants to, you know, just give speeches in random places for random reasons. But to talk about such significant policy like tariffs, much less foreign policy. He doesn't realize the impact. But literally, he is going to put, who knows how many small businesses out of business.

He is applying a machete when a scalpel is what's necessary. Okay, so again, she's not pointing out that those tariffs currently exist under her administration. Is it true that tariffs are going to put small businesses out of business? Well, let's just look at her overall economic plan versus his. And this is by the Tax Policy Foundation.com.com. Dot org, which we can go and see. And there's a printout, which I printed out, and that her, her plan by this bipartisan group is going to cost 786,000 jobs, 786,000, her economic plan,

which would include whatever she's going to do on tariffs and everything. Trump's plan would increase it by 600,000 jobs. So, I mean, what they're both saying, and Mark Cuban in this scenario is just a sycophant. He just is trying to say whatever agrees with her. And it seems like to me I wonder if it has to do with China for him. It may. It may have something to do. That's part of the NBA's outreach, as you know. Remember LeBron James and his kind of thing? You can't, you know, you can't say anything negative about China. That's a big market over there. And believe me, Mark is more concerned, which he talks about Trump being, more concerned about his own fortune and fame than he is about anything else. No question, no question about, you know, he also called Trump a fascist, right? Yeah. And you know what a fascist really is? A fascist really is someone that wants state control of everything.

That's what they want, okay? And not the individual. And actually, Trump is just the opposite of that, okay? He said that, you know, he talked about being the enemy within is what Cuban used that number. Of course, Trump's simply talking about the deep state, like the weaponization of the FBI and the Department of Justice. And illegal aliens who are committing crimes. And he talked about military, right? going to put the military, Cuban says, he's going to send the military to your house. Well,

no, it was talking about using the military when there are riots. And they are, they are killing people and vandalizing property. That's all. And that's what he should do. And then finally, mass deportations. And the only mass deportations, really, that have been specifically talked about are of criminals. Now, we've got other issues in addition to criminals because everyone that's crossed the border has technically broken the law. In fact, I don't know if you heard this or not, but after the hurricane that went through St. Petersburg, Florida, they arrested 45 people for looting. 41 of those were illegal aliens. Wow.

And, you know, we played the montage of Kamala Harris on yesterday's episode of saying over and over again that crossing the border itself is not a crime, which would mean if that's the case, then that person's not illegal. And you can't deport them. And you can't prevent them from committing that crime. And that's the thing about every crime committed by an illegal alien is that it's preventable. Absolutely, yeah, they weren't here. It wouldn't happen. Yep. So that's who Kamala Harris is. What else about Trump's economic policy do you think people should know? Most people are just thinking, how does this affect my groceries? I know you already talked about, you know, lowering the corporate tax rate, some of the other things that he's going to try to do to help make it easier for people to live. What else do you see?

Well, he's going to increase the child tax care credit, okay, which I think is a good thing to do. And a credit is different than a deduction. Okay. A credit means that if you're, you know, If you have a $1,000 credit and your taxes were $2,000 before the credit, they're only $1,000 after. It's a direct write-off. A deduction is being if your income is $400,000 and you have a deduction of $100,000, that means you're only paying tax on $300,000, but it's not a true credit. So credits are more impactful. Okay. He's proposing that, which actually his daughter came up with in his last first administration,

the idea about that. He's also proposing that we allow a deduction for interest paid on auto loans. For a lot of people, especially renters, their biggest debt is their car. And you know how much cars cost these days are very expensive. And right now, the interest that you pay on that loan, you can't deduct that from the income on your taxes. So in the future, let's say that you had a car loan and that $2,000 a year of the loan was interest. So if that person made $50,000 a year, they would only have to pay tax on $48,000 of that, which would therefore lower their tax bill. The other thing is no taxes on tips.

Yes. Which for the restaurant industry, that's a big deal. You know, the restaurant industry pays their waiters and waitresses less of the minimum wage. They're allowed to do that because they consider tips in that calculation. And so right now, the tips, they pay a – they have a – they have. have to assume how many tips they got and then they have to pay tax on that, including Social Security. And he would help those restaurant workers by not charging tax, not allowing tax to be paid on, not having tax paid on that. Of course, Kamala has adopted that already. We've got this

clip. So let's play this. This was on June 9th, Trump's saying no tax on tips. SOT 17. So this is the first time I've said this. And for those hotel workers and people that get tips, you're going to be very happy because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips, people making tips. Okay, here is Kamala Harris on August 10th, SOT 18.

On tips for service and hospitality workers. Trump said he's going to send her a MAGA hat. Yeah, because she adopted that policy. Good for her. Yeah. Good for her. Raising the minimum wage. Is that something that's smart economic policy?

Well, I think there's been some test of that's done in California and Oregon and Seattle and in Seattle and has it worked. Nope. Because what happens is is that two or three things can happen. One is you have to raise the prices of your goods, so therefore you don't sell as much. People don't buy as much. And the other thing is that you end up reducing the hours of your workers because you only have certain amount of money that you can pay wages for labor. And so therefore, you start, people don't get as many hours so they really don't make any more money doing that. It just is not a failed system.

It's just not a successful system. It can definitely lead to increased unemployment. All right, anything else about the economy before we get into foreign policy? Yes, there is one thing. And this is really important because you'll hear this is that Harris's economic plan will increase the deficit over 10 years of 3.4 trillion. which incidentally is less than what her and Biden have done over the last four years. Now, Trumps will also increase the deficit by $2.5 trillion. However, let's look at what that means.

Her $3.4 trillion is happening all because she's increasing taxes and spending more money, right? It's all on spending. The reason Trump's increases the deficit is because he is cutting taxes. Well, if he's decreasing taxes, where do you think that money's staying? Yeah. It's staying in mind in your pockets to make a decision on what we want to do, whether we want to give it to charity, whether we want to set some money aside for our kids in school, whether we want to get a new car.

So there's a whole big difference between increasing the deficit through reducing taxes or increasing spending. Believe me, as individuals, you want it to be in decreasing taxes. And that is a huge difference that I haven't heard anybody talk about. Yeah, I didn't know that. That is really important because usually you just hear, well, they're both going to be big spenders because the deficit is going to go up. And they probably will. But here's the other secret weapon.

If he follows through on it, I believe Elon Musk, if he sets him up on the Department of Government efficiency, I'd absolutely believe that he'll find a lot of inefficiencies and cuts. I am so grateful for Elon Musk. I mean, I was happy when he took over X. That was a game changer. I didn't expect him to be as outspoken for Trump and for conservative ideas as he has been, especially over the past few weeks. I think that's, I mean, that's amazing. It is amazing.

And I think what the reason is is that he probably socially, more progressive, obviously. But the Democrat Party has just driven him away. They've just demonized him, right? And he realizes that the key to innovation and success is allowing people to be able to, to do that without overburdening them. You know, the work that he's done with SpaceX and other things where he has to kind of get into that regulatory environment, I think he's learned at what a diminishing effect it can have on innovation. Yeah, I think so too. Okay, today is an interesting day and that we only have two ads. And so enjoy this break as I tell you about Lumen. Lumen is amazing.

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as we talked about this yesterday, but many Jewish Americans do not trust Kamla to seek the interests of Israel at all, but also Muslims don't trust her because they think that she's on the side of Israel. So she's kind of in this a little bit of a tough position. What do you think she will actually do, though, if she were in office? Well, I think she'll do very little. I think she will try to pressure Israel to do a cease fire, you know, and then hopefully Hamas will release the hostages. But chances are the hostages, I hope they're all alive, but the chances are it could be like the other ones they released and those, you know, they release the bodies.

And she's going to try, she's going to probably try to do that. But what that's going to do, if it follows through, it will weaken Israel. and she already has a bad relationship with, you know, Netanyahu and what have you, in my opinion, because they've tried to, you know, they held up a bunch of weapons that we were going to sell them because they didn't want them to do an attack. Like 3,800 missiles or something like that. And that, I mean, that's just, that's not, I mean, there's only one group at fault in this. Only one group.

And it's Hamas that attacked them on October 7th. Israel didn't provoke that. Right. Okay. And the fact that they killed 1,200 Israeli civilians, right? Yeah. The reason that any Palestinians have been killed that are not military or because the military hides behind them. Yeah.

All right. So quit hiding behind them, you coward. It's nothing but cowards. It's all that they are. Yeah. And, you know, I'll tell you one thing. My money is almost always on the IDF, the Israeli defense. fighters. I mean, they, they know what they're doing to come up with a deal on the pagers and,

and those drones that went in there and found that one guy. They somehow programmed 5,000 pages to go off. I have no idea how they do that. They detonated and killed nine people. Now, what I will tell you, though, is when I went to, mom and I went to Israel a few years ago, and we were there on a legislative mission, and they took us behind the scenes at some of their cybersecurity stuff that they do. And you can just see that, the technology and the things that they innovate are just out there. I mean, they, and a lot of the, when they leave the military, a lot of those people end up setting up companies that used technology that was developed for military reasons for civilian reasons.

Yeah. Good ones. And what is America's role? Because we do see that Israel, as you said, is pretty strong itself, has a lot of capabilities. And there's been some debate. I even think good faith debate between conservatives about America's role in defending Israel. Like how far do we go? What does that look like? What do you think? It's the only true democracy in the Middle East. Yeah. So we, I think we are not only a rebound morally, you and I would agree morally that we're bound of that, but I think for stabilization, we're bound as well. We need the Middle East to be stabilized. And we need a democracy over there to do that. And, you know, a lot of, lot of countries, as you notice, in the Middle East, are not having much to say about this war. You don't

hear much out of UAE, Saudi Arabia, even Jordan. You don't hear much out of them because at the end of the day, they know that's a good thing as well. Would it be fair to say that under Trump, we did have unprecedented stability, not perfect stability, but with the Abraham Accords, didn't it look like things were trending in a good direction under Trump? Well, that's what I was going to talk about. Really, and of course, You know, Trump was at the top, so he gets the credit or the blame. But Jared Kushner was key, his son-in-law. Yeah, a lot of conservatives don't like Jared Kushner. You know, I know.

I don't really know. Well, he negotiated those Abraham Accords. Yeah. Now, Trump was involved in it, too. But he was the one that got the people together. And that's unprecedented. Nobody's ever been able to do that before. And I think we were on our way to do more.

That's something Biden and Harris should have continued. That wouldn't have hurt anything. And they didn't do it. Also think Trump was smart to pull out of the Iran deal. Yeah. Because the Iran deal did all we did. We flew over all this money to them. And then we also opened up a bunch of bank accounts that we had frozen for them.

And we said you can't use that for, you know, any weapons or military. Of course. That's what Obama did. That's what Obama did. That was the Iran nuclear deal. And then when people talk about pallets of cash, that's what they're talking about. That's what they're talking about. Biden or Obama, this was apparently a peace deal to try to appease them and say, okay, we'll

send you a bunch of money. Just don't use it on your nuclear weapons, please. But it's the same thing as when Planned Parenthood takes, you know, 500 million tax dollars a year and it's not used on abortion. Well, money is fungible. That's exactly right. I mean, there's no way to track it. No way to track that. That's exactly what happened there. If I have, if I hold up two one dollar bills, they look the same. Yeah. If I do like this, they're still the same. You know what I mean? So that that's exactly what happened. And so. They are most experts in the world will say they're closer to a nuclear weapon than they've ever been. And it's not because Trump backing out.

It's because the money and the lack of sanctions, yeah, that Obama and Biden did. And how did the whole Afghanistan debacle affect the Middle East or the stabilization efforts that, you know, Trump put in place in the Middle East? I think the Afghanistan thing made us look weak and that we pulled out our, troops, we abandoned people over there that helped us, and that lets us know that we were not there to have a long-term stability. And any time that you leave even, you know, it was 13 or 30, I forget exactly the number, but it doesn't matter how small that number is. You don't, you don't do that to your troops. You just don't do that. We pulled out and witnessed it. I mean, did not we learn anything from the evacuation of Saigon?

Vietnam, I know most of your listeners won't remember that. But if you remember those pictures where they were hanging on the helicopter, you know, stabilization things and all that, it was just awful. And that's exactly what it looked like in Afghanistan. It was embarrassing. Yeah. And 13 American Service members died. For no reason. And as far as we know, they have not been honored in any way by the Biden-Harris administration. As far as I know, and I don't think they ever, I don't know if they talked to their parents or any. Yeah. Well, those families, they ended up making this montage video in support of Donald Trump because Donald Trump, I think, came to a service honoring them. And Biden was invited to that and didn't show up.

Yeah, Biden's a bad person. Yeah. He and Kamala both are not good people. And it's a little bit like some of your episodes this week and that, you know, and there are demonic forces at work. They just are. Okay. If people don't believe that, then they're just being. fooled. And that is, that's the way it is. What else do we need to know about these candidates,

this election? What's at stake? Well, I think what we need to know is this is a true, a turning point. If Kamala is elected, we're going to head down an even more ultra-progressive role than we head down. Abortion up until the end. That's her number one issue, as you know. She has no limits on abortion whatsoever. At the federal level, which would make it impossible for Texas or Tennessee or Kentucky to restrict abortion at all. They'll do as much as they can in that. There's no question about that. You've got to plan on her. If she gets elected, it's for eight years, not for four. Yeah. Okay, that's the way things generally work. All right, you had to plan on that. So you give her eight years, at least some point in that time, she's going to have control of the both the House and the

Senate, way those go back and forth. The other thing is the sexualization of our children and being able to take the parents out, there will be, you know, there will be no parental control over abortion, no parental control or consent over gender type care. And then the other thing I think that we'll see is a huge increase in the entitlement state where they will continue to give away more and more to buy votes, including amnesty for the 14 million illegals that they've led in in the last four years. That's what you're going to get under Kamala, all right, in my opinion. And I just want to add on, I just want to add on to that before we move on to Trump, because just to double down on some things that you've said,

the Equality Act, for example, that has been sitting and floating around in Congress for a long time. That is Democrats like pet legislation, Colin Allred, the guy who's running for Senate in Texas is a big supporter of the Equality Act. There are lots of things that it does. Like, for example, it could make it a crime to so-called misgender a person in a workplace. It could force religious organizations to have to assent to this new definition of marriage and gender. It also takes away any religious exemptions for an OBGYN who say doesn't want to perform an abortion or even Catholic hospitals who don't perform abortions. They would actually be forced to or they would be forced to close down or no longer be an OBGYN.

So that's Kamala Harris. When they say that they care about your constitutional freedom, They don't. They care about abortion. They care about sexual degeneracy. They care about taking away parental rights. In Kamala's home state of California, Gavin Newsome, passed the law that says, if you do not affirm your child's new stated identity, you will lose custody. That's what she believes. She is part of the administration who is putting pro-life protesters like Bevelin Williams and Joan Bell, who's a 74-year-old grandmother with diabetes in prison. So this is rewarding evil and punishing good. That's what you'll get from Kamala Harris. And they're also going to try to pass legislation or certainly executive wars on hate speech.

Oh, yeah. And so most of the things that you say on here would consider to be hate speech because you disagree. Yeah. Which is totally irrational under our constitutional system. Yep. Hate speech is free speech. And you can't depend on the Supreme Court to fix everything for you. Yeah.

Well, they want to pack the Supreme Court. They want to expand it. Of course they want to. And pack it because they don't like that the Supreme Court does check on power. I just saw the news that came out that the Supreme Court ruled, I think it was 6-3, that Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, does have a right to purge its voter rolls of non-citizens. They were sued by the Harris-Biden DOJ over that. Which three it was that were against that. Yeah.

Yeah, I bet I could guess. Yeah, because they're always predictable. Yeah. So under, yeah, unfortunately, there are conservatives or not. Yeah. That's because they actually go by principle. I think what you see, you see return to what happened between 2017 and 2021 from an economic standpoint, which was some of the best economic times in history. You know, he left there with a little over 1% inflation.

Real wages were up for every classification, including black men, black women, Hispanic men, Hispanic men, white men, white men, all of those categories. Real wages were up. I think you'll see a much more stable energy market. You know, he is what I believe in, the drill baby drill. We have a lot of that type of energy that's available, and a lot of that energy is actually clean energy, right? Natural gas is clean energy. And I think you'll see the removal of some of the credits for solar and wind, which wind can be a real problem. You know, I don't know if you read about the whales that have washed up on the New Jersey beach.

And they really believe that the vibrations has essentially driven them in, you know, just like. Did you hear Donald Trump on that? 18 different whales. and I read it somewhere else. Did you hear what he said about it? He said on Joe Rogan. He was talking about that exact thing. He said he wants to become a whale psychiatrist.

Because the whales are being driven crazy. He was like, yeah, it'd be a good market. Something probably messes up their internal system because they go by, you know, sound waves. Yeah. It's cool. Who knows? And I also think what you're, I think what you're going to have is you're just going to have more independent freedom.

It's going to be a one term. But he will, he will, I think he will make sure that we have good. good arrangements with our allies as well as our enemies. All right, y'all, I am so excited about election coverage at Blaze TV. Join me, join my Blaze TV colleagues. You can go to blazeelection.com slash alley. You get a really big discount on your Blaze subscription when you do $40 off. That's amazing.

And you can join us that night to get all of my commentary on everything that's going on election night. Go to Blaze Election. election.com slash alley. Okay. How are you feeling about the result of the election? This is Thursday. Hopefully we'll know something by next Wednesday, right? Hopefully. Are you going to call me at midnight like you did in 2000 and say, have mom called me and say, tell me who's won? So she'll go to sleep. And you had to, you had to lie to me. You might have

to lie to me this year too. Maybe your daughter will be a part of that. But next time she probably will be. Yeah. You know, I feel good about it. I really do. I feel You know, you never know, you can never know what Trump's going to say or do in the next week or what's going to, you know, I don't think there's going to be an October surprise. I think it's already been there. But I feel really good. Here's what I think will happen. Yeah. Either Harris will win by a very small margin, okay, or Trump will win by a big margin.

I don't think he'll win by a small margin. I think it'll be, and there's something to momentum in campaigns. Yeah. Right now he has the momentum. and he's generally underpolled by three or four percent. Yeah. And so I'd say all of those things are good for him. And I'm not a big, I'm certainly not an election denier,

but I do believe that there can be some tricky things that go on in some of these big cities. So I'm so glad that Heritage Foundation and the Republican National Committee, they have a host, I mean a huge number of people that are on the election integrity side. They're going to be at all of these voting sites. Good. They're going to make sure things are counted properly. You know, they're much more ready this time than last time. The other thing I think Trump's going to do, Alie, as we finish up, is I think he'll be

smarter about who he selects. And he's talked about that. He actually admitted making mistakes on people. Yeah, I saw that. Which I've never heard Kamala Harris admit one mistake. She wouldn't even apologize to the parents of the people that were killed by illegal aliens. No. Well, we were just talking about that yesterday, about the Washington Times came out with this expose, talked to her family members and former staffers.

And we know that, you know, you can only take those kinds of testimonies with a grain of salt. That's true when it comes with, to Trump too. But person after person and the parents of the interns that she had when she was in state office in California, just say that their children, I mean, their kids, adult children, you know, were just emotionally abused. She just berates her staff. She's not a nice person. we never hear stories of her kindness or friendship or hospitality over the years like we hear about Donald Trump. I think that she is probably personally very cruel and vindictive. That's not the kind of person that you want in office.

I saw the other day. Let's see if I ended up taking a picture of it because I just hear Trump so much. And I never hear Kamala saying this. I hear Trump so much talk about his love for the country and just his desire to, to see the country do well. And when I was at Liberty, they have all of these old books in a house where I was staying. And one of them were maxims by George Washington. And so here's what he said.

And I think we have to think about this. Maybe not every candidate will fit perfectly into this, but this is what you ideally want in a president. He said, in every act of my administration, I have sought the happiness of my fellow citizens. My system for the attainment of this object has uniformly been to overlook all personal local and partial considerations. To contemplate the United States as one great hold, to confide that sudden impressions when erroneous would yield to candid reflection and to consult only the substantial and permanent interests of our country.

Now, we don't talk like that anymore. But basically, it is a kind of just genuine love of country and love for your fellow citizens, whereas we have Biden right now who is calling Trump supporters garbage. It's unbelievable. I mean, it really is. Yeah. So I'm hoping and praying for the best. Yep, that's right. And God is in charge. He is totally in charge. We're the workers. Yeah. Harvest it's his. Yeah. And you're doing good work. And a lot of your listeners I know are out there. They are. Talking to their friends, getting to just make sure that you get your family and friends out to vote. That's the number one thing you can do. Drive them there. We're kind of beyond the argument stage. Get them out to, get them out to vote. Yes, but on the way, maybe tried to make sure that they're voting the right way. That's true, if not take them to McDonald's.

Yeah, there you go. Okay, thanks so much, Dad. We'll have you back on after the election for all of the post-election analysis. Well, thank you for having me. I've never sat down with a New York Times bestseller before. Well, there he goes. The first time for everything. Very proud of you.

Thank you. All right.