Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Is This Communist Chef Wisconsin’s Next Governor? | Ron Simmons

Episode Date: August 8, 2026

Ron sits in the host’s chair to share some good news! A pro-life protester has been pardoned by President Trump, and the Trump administration has changed how protesters will be prosecuted using the FACE Act in the future. Next, Ron highlights a surprising poll showing that Americans want to finish the job in Iran. Ron details the contradictions in Anthony Fauci’s journal, as he pleaded the Fifth more than 100 times while testifying before Congress. Ron also takes a look at Francesca Hong, the socialist who will likely be the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race, while Ron exposes that there’s no difference between the DSA and communists. Finally, Ron answers some viewer questions on the Kids Online Safety Act, SAVE America Act, tithing, Christian parenthood, the affordability crisis, and more. Do you have a question for Ron? Feel free to email him at [e-mail]. Information about the Kids Online Safety Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1748/text https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/08/05/congress/senate-commerce-votes-to-advance-key-kids-safety-measure-01025249 Share the Arrows 2026 is on October 10 in Dallas, Texas! Tickets are on sale now at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sharethearrows.com⁠⁠⁠ Share the Arrows is sponsored by: A'del Natural Cosmetics: AdelNaturalCosmetics.com Range Leather: RangeLeather.com/ALLIE We Heart Nutrition: WeHeartNutrition.com Buy Allie's book "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion": ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.toxicempathy.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ – Time Codes 0:00 Introduction 3:18 Pro-Life Dad Reaches Settlement with DOJ 10:10 Shocking Iran War Poll 14:09 Fauci Pleads the Fifth 26:49 Socialist Leads in Wisc. Gov. Primary 41:04 The Kids Act 44:32 Viewer Q&A – Episodes You May Like: Don't Listen to the Critics– Trump Unveiled an Election Nightmare | Ron Simmons https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dont-listen-to-the-critics-trump-unveiled-an/id1359249098?i=1000778318254 Ep 1351 | We Need This Wake-Up Call Before the Midterms | Kevin Roberts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1351-we-need-this-wake-up-call-before-the-midterms/id1359249098?i=1000769089166 --- ► Buy Allie's book, "You're Not Enough (and That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love": https://alliebethstuckey.com/book ► Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes: https://apple.co/2UVssnP Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2FwkXxj ► Connect with Allie on social media: https://twitter.com/conservmillen https://www.instagram.com/alliebstuckey/ https://facebook.com/allieBlazeTV/ ► Relatable merchandise — use promo code ALLIE10 for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

Hello, everybody. It's Ron Simmons, Allie's Dad. And for those of you that have listened before, you know, I do two of these a month that come out on the weekends. And this one will come out this weekend. We do record them ahead of time. So sometimes the news changes after we record. But we try to talk about some things that I wouldn't say they're evergreen, but the issues are going to be around or have been around and people are still talking about them. But anyway, it's great to have you listening. or watching, have whatever you're doing. And just want to remind you if you haven't gotten your tickets for Share the Aeros yet, which is coming up here in just a couple of months, actually, less than two months now, about six weeks from now it's going to be happening in the Dallas area. And those of you that went last year know how wonderful it was. Actually, the last two years, this is the third one. And it's going to be great.

We've got lots of great speakers coming in and going to have great music, great share time. And I'll be walking around the bench. you. Hopefully I'll get to meet some of you at the time. Please come up and say hello. And then also I want to remind you that Allie's book is still, you know, doing very well. Her book, Toxic Empathy, which you can see behind me is a New York Times bestseller. And if you have not read that, I encourage you to do because it really, really relates to what we're going through now. When you think about the trans stuff and you think about all of the other

what's going on with the Democratic Socialists, so-called Socialists, actually they're communists, we'll talk about that in a few minutes, really, really talks about how they use our empathy against us. And we don't want to lose our empathy, but we want to make sure it doesn't turn toxic. And this would be a very good book for your teenagers and young adults to read for sure, so that they can prepare themselves, as they head back to school within the next couple of weeks or a few weeks, it will help them prepare themselves to understand the different between real empathy and toxic empathy. And also, if you want to read my book, Life Lessons from the Little Red Wagon,

you can order it through Allie's merchandise website, or you can also get it on Amazon. If you want a sign copy, just email me, Ron at Ron Simmons.com, and I'm happy to send that to you. I think the cost is 20 bucks, but it's got a, it's somewhat of my story, but also with some lessons that I learned over my lifetime of, you know, growing up and probably I would consider lower. middle class family, mom and dad divorced.

So I went my own at age 17. Lisa and I got married early, you know, went into business with some other people. So I became an entrepreneur and then the different things that we were involved in, my faith journey as well, as well as my political life. Some of you might not know that I was a elected official, a state representative in Texas for just almost eight years, seven years, and a half years and served three terms in the Texas house and learned a lot from that. Some good, some bad, but I did learn a lot from that. So anyway, but we're going to go over some things today I think you'll be interested in. You know, I told you, I think a couple months ago, that I wanted to start having some

good news stories as well. It's easy to find the bad news, but we want to have some good news stories as well. And today we're going to start with a good news story. And it is about Paul Vaughn. Some of you may have heard this name. but Paul Vaughn is a father of 11, bless his heart. And here's a picture of him, if you're watching this, and he's a Christian pro-life activist.

He's recently reached a seven-figure settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice after suing over how he was prosecuted and arrested during the Biden administration. Now, you might remember that he took part in this protest outside of a Tennessee abortion facility in 2021, and federal prosecutor, charged him under the freedom of access to clinics entrance act called the face act a

1994 law that makes it a crime to use force threats or physical obstruction to interfere with access to interfere with access to abortion clinics or other reproductive health facilities now remember those three things force threats or physical obstruction you can be there you can be there and witness you can be singing songs you can be pray and you can be actually even handing out literature. You just can't use force or physical obstruction or threats, all right? Prosecutors also added a felony conspiracy charge, meaning he faced a potential sentence of more than 10 years in prison if convicted.

And what happened is he was there at this facility, and that somebody must have complained. And two days later, I believe, yeah, two days later, the feds, the FBI, came in, guns pulled, and you'll see in a little bit of a video here in just a second, where you see some of the guns when his wife was talking to the FBI agents. And they arrived with guns drawn and arrested him in front of his wife and several of his children, which is just incredible.

And here's a little bit of a video after he'd been arrested, but his wife is trying to get more information from the arresting officers. Here's Sot 1. But if you're not going to let me, then I'll just... No, I want to know why you were banging on my door with a gun. You're not going to tell me anything? No, do not. I tried, you, man.

No, you didn't. You did not try. Wow. Well, you saw when they were walking away from the ports there that the guy had a, I don't know, AR-15 or something like that, which is pretty threatening. I think that would scare anybody. And he said that three of his children were held at gun. point outside during the arrest and one of his younger children still is kind of affected by that. So it was that arrest was similar to that of Mark Hawk, a pro-life sidewalk counselor who had a

SWAT team of 25 to 30 FBI agents stormed their home in the early morning with guns drawn, terrifying children and they arrest him for violation of the face. All this was happened during the Biden time frame. And there's a screenshot on how a report on he was a Catholic pro-life speaker author, and the FBI came in with guns drawn. Hawk says he was protecting his 12-year-old son who was being harassed by a pro-abortion protester. That's what led to the arrest. He pushed the man back after he invaded his son's face.

I would do that in a minute. Now, Hawk was found not guilty. Even back in the Biden administration, he was found not guilty. You remember in 2025 President Trump pardoned Vaughn and 23 other pro-life activists who had been convicted under the FACE Act. The Trump Justice Department also changed the policy on how they enforce this. And now it's a policy of there has to be serious injury or death or major property damage, right? Now, the interesting thing is, is will the DOJ prosecute when there's been made, damage on facilities or anything like that or harassment for pro-life things, right?

Because you remember when those people went into that church? Here a few months ago, they went into that church and were harassing and threatening and all that. Those people ought to be prosecuted under the FACE Act. And at the time that all of this happened, Senator Josh Hawley pointed out the irony, and we have a screenshot of that. And he says that President Biden prosecuted an 89-year-old concentration camp survivor for singing hymns in a clinic hallway. And then Biden turned around and handed out pardons for criminal murders on his last day in office.

And President Trump can and should write these wrongs, and he did. So this is a really good news story. First of all, Vaughn was able to win against the government. and secondly that President Trump pardon those people. And that's, if you want to think about voting as you think about going to the polls here in November, again, you got to put out all the noise, all right? And you got to understand the policies that the various people represent. Now, do you think if Kamala Harris would have won the presidential election in 2024,

do you think that she would have pardoned these people? No, she would have continued arrest in more and more people that were pro-life. So you really have to think about that and you have to weigh all the different stuff. I understand there's probably some things maybe that the Trump administration has done that, you know, that you may not be on board with and there may be some, you know, things that you wish they would have done better. But when you look at the whole scope of things and compare it to what the other side seems to be promoting, and we'll talk about that more in just a minute as well, it's not even close

to me. I don't even understand how someone who, they don't have to be a far right person, just anybody in the center, anybody that's not far left, should be happy with the overall policies of what the Republicans are talking about. I mean, I don't understand. And if you're a listener and you're not supportive of that, please email me, Ron at at Ron Simmons.com, and let me know where I'm missing the boat. if I am and I'll happy to respond to you. So please do that. All right. Next thing we're going to talk

about is some polling that was done by the McLaughlin Group. If you're interested in the McLaughlin Group, you can go online and find them. They have been very accurate, accurate in the last few elections predicting what was going to happen. Now, they are considered a Republican pollster, meaning that Republican candidates and even the party probably uses them to do some polling. But they have been very accurate. It's one thing to maybe you might say, well, they're partisan, although I think if you go in and look at their questions, I don't think you'll find that to be the case.

But then you say, okay, well, then how accurate were they at the end of the day after the election? And these people have been very accurate. That's why I'm talking about their polling. They just did a poll here a couple of weeks. ago, and they were polling initially on the Iran conflict. And they have polled a thousand general election voters, okay? And the first question was about the Strait of Hormuz. They respondents were asked whether they agreed that Iran should not be allowed to block, attack, mine, or extort ships in the Strait of Hormuz. And you remember the Strait of Hormuz

is where a lot of shipping goes through for commerce, whether that's a lot of. oil or whether that's food or whatever it is. Commerce goes to that Strait of Hormuz, which is down below Iran between there and Qatar on the other side and some other countries as well. And 72% of the people that they talk to, and again, these are not just Republicans. These are general election voters, so it's a mixture. 17 and a half percent disagreed and 11% weren't sure, but 70%, 2% said, no, we should not let them. stop the Strait of Hormuz. We should make sure that it's open and free.

And then the next question was on nuclear weapons. The poll asked whether the United States should finish the job with Iran as it relates to nuclear weapons. And it stated that Iran has long threatened the United States and Israel in pursuing a nuclear program and require further military action if it is not stopped now. They were asked whether they agreed that the broader goal of ensuring that goal of ensuring Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon or threat in American lives. Overall, 62% agreed with that objective. So again, that's a bipartisan support. And when it shows 72 and 62, it doesn't, I mean, again, if you're polling general election voters, that shows that there's

bipartisan support for that. So I think that's good information. I'm sure the president's looked at that or as people have looked at that. And while some of us certainly don't want a loss of lives, we don't want any loss of lives on our side, and there's been a few of those, but we don't want a massive loss of life, and I don't think President Trump does either. But we do need to finish the job. And again, once you start something, you need to be able to finish it. We have to have the straight of her moves open, and we have to be able to verify on an ongoing basis that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon. And so I think that's pretty encouraging information that most people, you know, if you, again, if you cut out all the noise of the mainstream media and even, you know,

whether that's far left, far right, whatever, people are generally smarter than you think they are. So that means there are independents and Democrats, not just Trump supporters that say, yeah, we do not need Iran to have a nuclear weapon. And it's not right for the, them to be able to basically, you know, extort people for passing through international waters. So I thought that was good information there. Next topic we're going to talk about is Rand Paul and Fauci. You remember Senator Paul? He had a hearing a week or so ago.

And Dr. Fauci, remember Dr. Fauci? He was called to testify because. in their investigation, Senator Paul's people had found that Fauci kept a diary. Now, let me tell you something. If you keep a diary, be careful what you put in it. And if you get up in a lawsuit and you've written stuff in your diary about something that's related to a lawsuit or anything like that, just know that that's discoverable. So be really, really, really careful.

And there's questions that come in about this. You all were obviously interested in this on what my opinion was on the hearings and what happened on him pleading the fifth. So if you have not heard about it or been engaged in it, so he came before the Senate committee. And he pled the fifth, I think, 111 times. And the Fifth Amendment is the amendment that bars you from having to self-incriminate yourself. So what he probably was afraid of is that he was going to get caught in a lie because if you read some of the diary excerpts, they're different than what he was saying to the public at the time. He knew some things and he admitted some things in his diary that he was not telling the public

as it related to what types of things were effective, whether that was masking or social distancing, and even where the leak to the virus could have come from. And so this happened on the 29th, and again, more than a hundred times he invoked the Fifth Amendment. Now, it's really interesting because, as you also might remember, President Trump gave him a pardon. I'm sorry, President Trump, President Biden gave him a pardon as he was leaving, as President Biden was leaving office against a full and absolute pardon against anything crime he had committed in the past. Now, the interesting thing is that didn't have any effect on the future. And so if he would have lied in that hearing, then that would not have been covered under the pardon. All right.

Now, it's really, really interesting how, you know, how that worked out and came about. and in fact, Senator Josh Howley has a nice conversation, although it's a one-sided conversation with Fauci about this. And this is sought number two. I want you to listen to this.

Let's just get one thing straight. You don't have any rights under the Fifth Amendment because you've been pardoned, as you very well know, as the Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more, Brown v. Walker, 1896, when he has been pardoned, he may not stand upon his privilege. You know that.

Your lawyer, sitting behind you now shifting nervously in their chairs. They know it. This isn't about the Constitution. This isn't about the law. This is about contempt. Contempt for this body and contempt for the American people. But I think I know why you're doing it. It's because you don't want to answer questions. It's because you did all kinds of terrible things. It's because during the pandemic, you got rich, didn't you? So anyway, really interesting. Josh Alley is really good at what he does. And again, doesn't mean I have to agree with him on 100% of everything, but he's really good at, you know, basically grilling people like Dr. Fauci.

And it's interesting. Privilege means the Fifth Amendment is a privilege that we all have. And so what had not heard this before Senator Halley talked about it, that evidently there's some Supreme Court cases that say that once you've been given a pardon, you can't stand on privilege. One of the reasons for pardons is so that you are able to speak freely. But there's tricks in that because you can't be pardoned for something in the future. You can only be pardoned for acts you may have committed in the past.

Now, Senator Rand Paul, as I talked about a minute ago, on the diary, he had excerpts of that. We're going to have a screenshot of what Senator Paul actually put out. And it's a summary of the nine pages, his tweet is, that Senator Paul released on his website. And I don't know if you've, I don't know if it's in this particular one, but if you've read any of the stuff about it,

you know, he talks about being so enthralled with Jennifer Roberts, you know, faunting all over him. And he became a celebrity. He was the most popular. He was doing what he called the Fauci Five. He would do all five Sunday shows and just all about, As well as he talked in detail a little bit more detail about some of the things that he wasn't telling the public about related to the virus itself.

This shows differences in Fauci's public statements and his private assessments. Although the public was told that it was settled that the virus was not a lab leak, according to Fauci's diary on February 2020, which is early in this process, on a call with 12 scientists only two believed the virus was natural Fauci's notes show that the other 10 felt that deliberate insertion was possible but remember anybody that brought this up

was immediately canceled by the media and of course the mainstream media they're just not paying any attention to what he said in his diary now they're totally still fawning over him as a savior and I don't care the guy's 84, 83 years old, I don't care. There needs to be a price that he pays for what he did to the American public because there are going to be people, especially our children, who we know should have been able to go back to school, the young children, that are going to have long-term effects of this.

We also know that some of the side effects of the virus, the vaccine for the virus, were devastating and actually deadly to some young men out there and just not acceptable as to what, you know, what should have happened and what, you know, what did happen, I suppose. But anyway, and there's there, we have some more things that we want to show you on the screen that talked about the people, the people that were on the call. And then also August the 13th, more information that, uh, he determined that the DOJ's efforts of the mandate vaccines were, were under certain circumstances. So, I mean, there's just a lot of stuff that went on. We talked about since August of 2022, the CDC and senior officials on vaccine messaging were influenced by policy or probably policy and political considerations.

The CDC wanted to state that the vaccines were not effective at all in preventing infection and transmission. Now, did you hear that? I mean, we heard it from alternate sources, but we didn't hear it coming straight down through the government. And I actually fought the Trump administration partially for this as well. because they were involved in this too, right? Before, you know, Trump left office, he was also praising Fauci early on, gave him a medal, all those types of things.

I don't think we allowed that to ask enough questions either. I know some of you won't agree with me on that, and that's fine. But I think the Trump administration kind of fell into the spell also, and, okay, believe the science, believe the science. We wanted Fauci, though, convinced them to soften this to a modest and waning FSCC. So they changed it saying that it wouldn't affect transmission to it modestly. They soften the words because words do matter. And so they didn't want to undermine the DOJ's effort at that DOJ at the time to mandate for vaccines in certain circumstances.

after the hearing was over, Senator Paul announced his plans to seek contempt charges, which I think they're having a vote on that either this week or next week, against Fauci. Contempt of Congress is a crime as well. And I think their position will be that he didn't have the right to take the Fifth Amendment. And he showed, Senator Halley talked about, and he showed contempt for Congress by doing that. And actually, it is going to be this week.

they, today we're recording this on August the 5th, and they are going to vote on the contempt resolution against Fauci, and if it's approved, it'll be sent to the DOJ with a recommendation to prosecute. But, you know, some of this, you have to laugh at. You agree with that. Sometimes we have to laugh at what's going on out there, and a lot of you might know Aaron Rogers. You probably either love him or hate him. If you were a Packer fan, you probably like Aaron Rogers, Steeler fan. If you're, we're on the other side of some of his, uh, his victories and defeats for your team, like they have defeated the Cowboys more than once, then may not like him as much, but he does have an interesting take, uh, in Saut 5. Take a listen.

Now I'm going to plead the fifth. Okay. Okay. Okay. Like that absolute coward, Tony Fascher. Absolutely coward. Are it's back, baby. Are you kidding me? Yeah, 111 times. You got a part of and you're in front and you pleaded over a hundred times at the white house what are you scared up tony i thought you were the science yeah yeah i am science and you get up there and he can't answer a question oh that's funny oh i give i give him some credit for doing that i uh i thought that was pretty funny it's the truth of course uh rogers was never a vaccine guy anyway if you if you remember he opposed the vaccine didn't take the vaccine uh you know he looked into a lot of things like we did i to give my wife and Ali Beth both credit.

They were never in favor of the vaccine and stood strong on that. And yep, I think Lisa got COVID a couple times. It's never bad, a couple of days of feeling bad. Again, if you didn't know it was COVID, you would have thought it was a cold or the flu. And so we just did not focus on the right people. A lot of people did die generally

because they had comorbidity. meaning they had, they all, they were either way overweight or they already had heart problems. And when combined that with COVID and not treating it properly through some of the methods that they could have used, a lot of people died unnecessarily, especially people in our nursing homes and what have you. And that is a, I mean, that's just, to me, is a crime that we allowed that to happen. All right. So we'll see what happens with Dr. Fauci. And I think that's, that I don't know if his contempt of Congress, I'm sure it will pass the committee,

and I don't know what the DOJ will do with it, but it will be interesting to keep monitoring that because he is an important figure in our lifetime, someone that probably none of us knew before all of this started. And it just tells you that when you concentrate power in an individual or a small group of individuals, Bad things can happen when they're not held accountable. And that's what happened during COVID with Fauci.

Is that any of us that wanted to disagree, we were immediately called crazy or shut down or didn't even have a voice to be able to do that. And I'll stand up for Senator Paul because he was one of the ones that from day one was questioning Anthony Fauci. He believed, and I think there's some evidence to that, that this gain of function where it can go from a, you know, from an animal to a human being is something that they were actively working on

in that lab and that we, through our tax dollars, helped pay for that. And Fauci has denied that from day one, and that's, I think it's been proven that that's not true. All right. Next item that we're going to talk about is it kind of talks about socialism and communism. and one of the poster children for that is a lady who is running for governor in Wisconsin as a quote unquote democratic socialist. And we've got some questions on that.

Alyssa asked the governor race in Wisconsin. It's scary up here. If communist Francesca Hong has a legitimate chance to governor in Wisconsin, I pray no. Well, I'm not sure if it's a legitimate chance she has. has a chance as we have seen in some other places around the country. Now, it's mostly heavily liberal places, although the guy just in Michigan last night, the El-Said guy just, or Abdul Al-Said just won the Democrat primary up there for a U.S. or no, for the Senate. And we'll see what happens, you know, as the election comes Brown in November. We don't know what's going to happen,

but we're going to find out as we go through the next few months. But who is Francesca Hong? You may not know her. And again, if you don't live in Wisconsin, you may not be interested. But you should be interested because this is something that's spreading across the nation. We have same types of people running for office in Texas, and you probably have them in your state. So you've got to pay attention.

She is a former chef and small business owner who has always been a far-left progressive. She's served as a state representative in 2021 or since 2021, so for the last five years. She's a candidate for the Democrat primary for governor. She's been endorsed by the Democratic Socialist of America as a member of the Wisconsin Socialist Caucus. Which, that tells you something. If there's enough people in there to have a caucus, meaning there's enough of her other fellow state reps that they formed their own caucus, that's a little scary. I'll tell you that. According to a poll done by Marquette University,

she leads the primary with 38% support among Democrat voters, her closest competitor, former lieutenant governor Mandela Barnes, and she's only got 16%. So I would say the chances of this lady winning the Democrat primary are pretty good. She has expressed some pretty radical views, including the criticism of traditional holidays,

such as Thanksgiving and support for anti-racism policies that most of us would argue are actually racial themselves. And they're based on what we believe that she thinks should be racial privilege and identity politics. In fact, here's what she has to say on why Thanksgiving should be canceled. Do you still believe that Thanksgiving should be canceled? Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities. And so I think there I wanted to make sure that people understood that there are multiple views,

but views can evolve. And the position that I'm running for right now, and I think my background as a chef, will actually help me become a better governor that's able to bring more people to the table. So I've never known anybody that's traumatized by Thanksgiving, unless it's a personal issue because, you know, you've got family gathering and there may be some conflict there, but just in general, the holiday, the Thanksgiving holiday. And this lady is Korean.

Why would she, and maybe she's not, but maybe she must be, why would she be traumatized by Thanksgiving? And the fact that she's a chef makes her qualify to be a governor. And I don't care who runs for elected office, whatever your background is. You have the right to do that. But I don't think that that gives you unique qualifications. She's just, she is out there. In fact, she talks about her son who is half white.

Listen to this word salad. Kamala Harris would be proud of this. This is on SOT 4. I wasn't always aware of the struggles of other communities of color because for me, a simulation always kind of took over. And so I did marry my proximity to whiteness continues, right? My son is biracial. He's half white and half Korean.

And I think navigating what his identity is and how people perceive him is always at the back of my mind as well. I can tell you, Ms. Hong, what your son is, is he is an American male. That's what he is. He's an American male. And the fact that he's half Korean or whatever, half non-Korean, what she calls half-white, he's an American male. That's what he is. And that's what we should think about him as being.

And you just said in that answer that you assimilated. All right? Now, you just brushed over that, but that's the whole key. When you go into a new country, it is important, and we've talked about this before, that you assimilate, that you get, it doesn't mean you give up your heritage, but you assimilate into the new culture that you've chosen or you were born into, right? I mean, I just don't understand why people that are in this country, that come to this country, that we're either born here, certainly if you're born here, this is your country.

If you came here, you chose for this to be your country. And why that you aren't willing to or don't want to assimilate into what is American and how our country was founded and the beliefs we were founded on and those types of things. So to try to tear it down, which is what this lady and the people around her and the people that believe what she believes are, trying to do. You know, they use the term socialism because I'm sure they've pull tested it or focus group tested and they think it sounds better than communism. Well, actually what they're talking about of their type of socialism and communism are almost identical. Communism. Okay. And then again,

those of you that are Gen Ziers and Gen Wires and whatever the new gens are, you probably don't know that much about communism because it was. wasn't a, hasn't been a big issue during your lifetime. But for baby boomers, which a lot of people think that, you know, baby boomers don't understand things on how the world works and all that type of stuff these days, which is not true, by the way. But baby boomers remember communism because during our formative years and the years of which we were becoming adults and what have you, we, we talked about,

communism all the time. Russia, at the time, it was USSR, which was a large group of countries in the east, all right, that started out of just being Russia, and then they added all this territory in these different countries that became communist. And essentially, communist is a system, a political and economic system that puts It's basically ownership of everything to the state or to the government. And all the big industries like the oil industry, electricity, all the major industries are owned by the government. And the government then controls, essentially controls economic output.

Some people argue that this gives greater equality, but countries that have adopted communism, just go back and look at the history of them, have experienced widespread famine. They couldn't buy bread. They couldn't, there wouldn't eat bread to buy. And the deaths of millions of people. I mean, the Maasitang guy in, or Mao, I think he killed tens of millions of his own people. Stalin did the same thing in Russia. They're doing some of that over in Iran.

You know, they've killed like 50,000 people who disagreed with the government here in the last year. And so, and it's all, all thought, it's almost like a dictator, okay? It's authoritarian and tyrannical, tyrannical. it never is anything other than that. And that's really, see, the people that are run as Democratic Socialists, they want to be the ones in the government that are controlling your lives, in my life. They want to be the ones that have all the power and have all the wealth. Vladimir Putin is supposedly the richest man in the world.

Now, he can't spend his money anywhere because he can't go anywhere. But it's all, and he is, he's basically like the president of the country. How does somebody get that rich? because in a communist scenario, they control everything. And so he just takes it. He just takes it. And as people have nothing to do about it, short of having a revolution. Communism removes worker autonomy by placing the government and control of economic activity.

It claims that people are more motivated to do that. That's just not true. It reduces, it also reduces innovation because there's no marketing incentives. how do you think all the things that things that have been invented in the United States and the advancement that we've been made? They've done that because there's incentive to do that. You know, either their incentive is,

hey, we're going to help people or it's going to give my family a better life or can make money from doing that. So the Democratic Socialist Party of America seeks to do the same thing that communism does. Now, what they're trying to do is get elected to do it. And I'll just tell you, my Democrats that are out there in independence, don't be fooled by them, all right? You and I may disagree on some things, but don't let your party be taken over by these socialists, all right?

Don't let your party do that because the majority of American people, and it may take us a while to figure it out, sometimes we're slow, the majority of American people are not going to support that and they will rebel. and actually, you know, as a Republican, you know, that's okay with me as far as the Democrat socialist winning the Democrat primaries because it'll be easier for us to beat. But I really don't want that to happen. I want it to be rejected by Democrats, clear-thinking Democrats and independents as well as Republicans, of course. And then let's just go head to head and see who has the better, you know, the better free. liberty type ideas that will work best for everybody, right? Now, maybe, you know, and we can argue those, right? The Democrats may think we ought to have more government assistance on this,

and Republicans think less, or taxes, all those. Those are okay debates to have. It doesn't mean that, you know, one is trying to take total control of the country. But the Democrat Socialist and Bernie Sanders is their king of all kings of doing this. Oddly enough, he's also gotten rich while he's been in the Senate, which is kind of crazy. But that definitely has happened. So anyway, if you just want to go back and look at Venezuela and Nicaragua, I told you I was just in Argentina a few weeks ago, and they're coming out of a communist scenario.

But you can tell the effects of communism. I've been to Romania. I went there in the 90s in the early 2000. They had just come out of communism. And everything was just so drab and very utilitarian. and you could tell there's just no innovation that's changing, but it takes a long time to change that. But just take a look at

Venezuela and Nicaragua and how some of these so-called socialist governments that came to power through election, then they concentrated power. Chavez, you know, what happens is is they get elected, but then they start concentrating power so that they'll, and then they decide, well, we're just not going to have elections anymore, which is what Putin did,

right? We're just not going to have elections. We're going to cancel elections, going to set them up to where there's no way that that dictator is going to lose. So I just want to make sure that you understand, don't be fooled by socialist. Socialism and communism is the same thing. And I would encourage you to do some of your own research, talk to your kids about it. Because what happens is the socialist and the communists want government to take over everything, including child care.

You're here I'm talking about free child care. Well, you know child care is expensive if you're having to pay for your children to go through child care. You know that's expensive. So the idea of universal free child care sounds great. But it's really not about the child care. It's about getting those kids under government control so that they can teach them what they want to teach them. If you think about what's happened in our colleges around the United States, how the liberal ideology, in fact, the far-left-eastern. geology has come into play and how they've taken over many of our colleges. That's what they want to do at the early ages. These people know that getting the kids indoctrinated will eventually change how the adult world looks at it too because these kids are going to grow up obviously to be adult. So don't think it's about free child care. It's about government control of what your children are taught about this country. And we should be resisting that at every

angle that we can and every way that we can, every time that we can. So just remember that if you would. If you have any questions on communism or socialism, please email me if you would like to. The next thing we're going to talk about is the Kids Act. And if you remember the Kids Act, we had it in a prior episode. And it really talks about how we can help our kids be safer online. And it came from a question that we just recently got that says this, this is from Asia. Kids Act now broken down into Screen Act. What are our thoughts on that? And we'll talk about why it's been broken down,

and we're going to also here now talk about what the two elements are. The House passed the Kids Act a broad package a few months ago, but it's stalling right now in the Senate. But the Senate Commerce Chairman, Senator Ted Cruz, who's a Texas Senator, is moving individual bills separately. So what happens is the House passed a conglomerate bill. Remember, the House can pass bills on a simple majority.

The Senate has to get 60 votes to even consider a bill. Then once it's being considered on the floor, it can pass at a simple majority, but it gets stopped from even getting to the floor because of this 60 vote, which I am now opposed to, as we've talked about in the past. So what Senator Cruz is doing, which is smart, is he's breaking the bill down into smaller pieces because there's probably a little bit of it that if it was in a big bill, it's going to kill the whole big bill.

So he's breaking it down into three or four different types of smaller bills. And they advance what they call COSA, K-O-S-A, and we'll put the link to some of this in the show notes. It was originally the duty of care provision, which the... The committee is advancing it. But they didn't advance the portion of the Screen Act after failing to reach quorum needed for approval. So we don't know what's going to happen with the Screen Act. And the Screen Act, which would require pornography websites to use age verification technology that's stalled the committee. Why in the world that is even something that is a hard vote, even for Democrats?

I have no idea. I mean, I'm sure some of these pornography companies spend a lot of money on campaign contributions and stuff, but man, that should be an easy vote. All we're asking them do is to vary. These companies say they're not really going after children. So if they're not going after children, then what's the problem with doing the age identity verification?

It does seem like that the Kid Safety Act is going to get a full Senate vote, the smaller version of it, but we don't know what's going to happen with the Screen Act, which is, again, the one for making age verification requirement. If either bill ultimately does pass, though, in different forms, it has to go to a conference committee, and they'll have to go back through the House and the Senate to vote again before the president could sign it.

So we'll see what happens. We'll follow this. I don't know what's going to happen. I feel good that they'll be able to get something done, whether they'll get it done before they leave for their August recess. I don't know. There's a lot of controversy and they may have been taking a recess in August

because we need to pass the election bill as well. So we'll just have to monitor it because I don't know what they're going to do right now. I don't have any inside information on that. If I have any, I'll let you know as soon as I know. Let's go to some questions now. We've got a few minutes to do that.

Take questions from some of our listeners. We've got a lot of questions. I can't answer all these today. So if you sent in a question and I didn't answer it for you today, please email me, Ron at Ron Simmons.com, and I'll do my best. There's no question that's off limits. If I don't know, I'll tell you that.

I'll try to do some research and find out the answer, but if I can't, then I'll just tell you I don't know. All right. Number one, the opinions on tithing when you have thousands in medical debt, and neither parent can work more. Oh, that's a problem. Well, as you know on medical debt, and at least, I think it's this way in Texas,

I think it's this way across the country, you can work out a deal to pay. medical debt off at a only the amount that you can afford to pay that particular month. I've seen people, I had a friend that had a huge debt and all that they could pay was $25 a month. And so that's what the hospital facility worked out with them to pay. And they may be paying it for a long, long time, but it did relieve some pressure. So first of all, I would encourage you to see if you can negotiate something with the medical providers that you can pay an amount that you can afford every month

and that you can also at the same time afford to give something to your local church. I think that your first place of tithe goes to your local church. If you watched Allie's recent episode with the gentleman from Dave Ramsey, they talk about tithing. I encourage you to go back to listen to that if you have it. I think that you find a way to give something, all right? That's just a good discipline, and I believe God will honor that. It's happened to Lisa and I in our lives more than once when we were starting out and struggling financially.

We weren't always perfect with it, but we tried to be true to our tide. And it seems like that there would always be something in a positive manner that came up that we weren't expecting. And that kind of leads into the second question. How did you approach finances and planning when you had a young family? Well, I've always believed that you've got to live within your means. And so the first thing to do was, okay, what is our revenue? and our revenue, you know, had to exceed what our expenses were. And sometimes it wasn't an issue that we were spending too much money.

I needed to find ways to make more money. And again, as I've talked about in my book, and I think I've told you before, what I did as an occupation was not that important to me. I mean, I enjoyed being in the investment business and having a wealth management company, but I didn't grow up thinking that's what I was going to do. That was my passion. My passion was making sure that my family was financially secure so that we didn't have to make every single decision in our family based on money. And so if that field would not have provided me the ability to make enough money to do what I just talked about,

then I would have looked at another field. And so I think you have to, first of all, are you maximizing your revenue? All right? Are you maximizing that? And again, if God's called you to do something specific, as far as your career is concerned, I'm not telling you you should get out of that. What he might be telling you then

is, hey, you've got to reduce your expenses, right? Because you have to, even as a young family, I kept a budget. We didn't always stay within it, but it kept me within a guideline. And so I'd encourage you to do that. You have to live below your means. Your kids don't need everything they say they need

or everything they say they want or anything like that. So next question is, And again, if you happen to hear any background noise today, my wife has got 14 fellow songwriters up here today. And they're having a songwriting gathering where they're writing songs, mostly worship songs. And they come up with some good stuff. And so if you happen to hear it a little bit of that in the background, that's what's going on. So I apologize for that.

But creative people are creative. I mean, that's what they do. So anyway. Okay. How to find financial advisor you can trust. first of all, never use a financial advisor that gets paid based on the commissions or based on you buying or selling anything. You should only have a financial advisor that either gets paid by the hour, which is fine, or they get paid a percentage of what you invest with them, meaning, and most of them are around 1%. Because they have an incentive then. If you put $100 with them and that grows to $1,000, then 1% of $100 is less than $1% of $1% of $1.000 is less than $1% of a $1%.

thousand so they have the they have the incentive to help you help your account grow also I'd be very careful about having family members unless it's you and your husband or maybe your son or dad or mom investing with them hiring a financial planner that is a member of your family can be difficult first of all they may not be willing to tell you the truth that you You need to know, like, hey, you're spending too much money. And you may be willing to forgive them for poor investment performance when you wouldn't do that if you had an arm's length transaction with it.

And so I would be careful about that. There are Christian financial planners out there that doesn't mean they're the best ones. Okay, I want you to make sure you know that. Ron Blue has a company called Blue, I think it's called Blue Trust Company, and they were the ones that started Crown Financial and all, and about biblical living. Dave Ramsey may have some recommendations on this as well, but I would look at if there's a,

I think it's called Blue, you can look at it up Ron Blue investments. If there is a local person in your area that is involved with them, I would certainly give them a call as well. How to trust God more, how to wait regarding jobs, marriage, kids, and their salvation.

Well, first of all, I think God honors righteous action. So if there's anything you can be doing other than just waiting, then I think it's okay to be doing that if it's the right thing. But we have to understand that when it's all said and done, it's God's plan for how your kids become saved. And all the thing that you can do is live a life that shows what it's like to be a person of faith, a believer in Christ. and expose them to the word, the plan of salvation, the message and what have you.

And I think you do have to be patient with that, but patient is not necessarily doing nothing. Patience might also mean, especially as a job-related, I'm looking for another. I'm looking for a better job scenario. And then when those opportunities come up, you know, just seek God's peace for. what the decision should be. That's how I would, that's how we've always done it. That's how that, that's how that I have seen it be the most successful. All right.

What if we can't afford private school? I'm not sure I'm cut out to homeschool three kids. I agree with that. It's not, private school is not for everybody. If you can't afford it and you're not a homeschool person, then I would, here's what I would tell you, is that you need to get very, very involved with your local. public school and maybe that's starting out is just making sure you're meeting with your kids teachers more regularly than most people making sure you're going to some of the school board meetings so that

you can get a general philosophy on what that particular school district thinks about things consider you know being the room mom and eventually consider running for local school board office that's how you can be engaged all right and i would very much if you can't go private school private Christian school and you don't want a home school, then just make sure you're very engaged with your local public school. Schooling experience with disabled child, how to make best of it in a strong Christian family. Well, that's difficult.

And, you know, Lisa and I have a child with disabilities. And it can be very frustrating. I do believe that you still have to, you're the advocate for your child and you can't be passive about that you have to demand things that your child is able to receive or should receive and if there's a way that that there can be the child can receive a christian education that you should do that over a public education but again if not you have to be the strongest advocate for your child and there are a lot of rights that a disabled child has that most people don't know about.

So make sure that you research those things and that you are in there fighting for them. And you know what? There may be some people that don't like that and they may think that's unchristian, but it's not. It's not. We are supposed to take care of these children. And certainly if they're our own child, that's one of our greatest responsibility. I'm curious about the Arkansas Educational Freedom Accounts. I think they're awesome. We just did that in Texas, as you know, something similar to that. Anything that gets more control into the parents' hands on where their kids go to school

and what their kids learn is better. And it doesn't take money from public schools, okay? Whoever preaches that is just not telling the truth. If public school enrollment goes down, because that private schools are better than public schools, then, yeah, they're going to lose some per student funding, but it doesn't affect the overall general commitment. If they are losing students, then their expenses aren't as much, right?

And so they're not losing their funding they get for buildings and things like that. They're losing money from the cost of the per student. And so therefore, anybody says that, hey, they're taking all the money out of public schools is just not true. I think the educational freedom accounts in Arkansas are a very good thing and a very strong step in the right direction. I know encouragement for single women waiting on God. Well, you know, I'm certainly not an expert on that. Allie probably can help you a little bit more on that.

But what I will say, and now I'm a father of, you know, a daughter and a grandfather now have three granddaughters. and we'll see as they grow up in all of this, waiting on God. I think that for all of us, that waiting, as I said a minute ago, waiting on God is important, but it's also we need to be doing things while we're waiting. Are we doing everything that we can, what he's already given us the brain and mind and heart to do? Are we doing all of those things? Are we presenting ourselves in a way that would get us to the answer that God,

wants us to get to because remember his plan um is not for us to be miserable his plan is for us is to be happy and it's to be a live an abundant life and all that but we have to take some control of that ourselves by things that he's already given us and so um i think if you are taking all the right steps that that that the waiting will result in the right answer and what you're looking for uh the timing of it you know i'm still waiting we're still waiting on God to take Daniel Seizers away because we know he can do it and we want him to do it, but it hasn't happened yet.

And so we have to make sure we're doing all the things here. Are we at the right doctors? Are we looking at all the right types of treatment that he might be able to have? We have to be doing all of those things while we know that it is ultimately in God's hands. All right. Is it better commute to commute with good interest rate

or move closer to work to have more family time? Well, I think if you're willing to have more family, if you're willing to move closer to work and maybe live in less of a house, then I think that is a smart thing to do or less expensive or maybe don't have quite as good of an interest rate. I think that's a smart thing to do. We shouldn't make those decisions just based on an interest rate, all right? We should not make those decisions.

Now, if the quality of life for your family in general is better living further out, and I know that means that you're not home with them as much, but if there are all the other things in consideration, or is a better environment, whether that's your church, your neighborhood, your schools, then I think I would stay with the commute, and I've done that in the past. I've put my family in the right situation so that, and I have, you know, do a little bit more on my part, you know, being in the car a little bit more every day, than putting them to make it what's easier on me.

Oh, this is a good question. I should have answered this earlier. Can you discuss the contradictory alliance between communists and Islamists? Well, it's all about control, okay? They both want control and they're willing to partner together in order to get that control. And some of it is because communism is anti-Semitic in its face, because the Jewish beliefs certainly the believes in individualism and the Islam's are obviously anti-Semitic.

But it's all about control. And I think what my opinion is, what they're willing to do, is they're willing to, okay, let's partner together and we'll figure it out in the end. And Islamists are betting they'll still be able to take over with their religion. And the communism says, well, once the government has power, we can get rid of the Islamists, right? Because you don't hear much about Islam,

in Russia, do you? Or China. Let's think about that. Snake handling in church. Well, I'm laughing at that because I do think it's funny. I don't think snake handling is biblical or religious at all. Somebody wants to do it. I guess that's fine. They used to do it in the capital. They bring it a bunch of snakes in the capital, but it wasn't for religious purpose. It was just for us to show

they had this group of people that they did these rattlesnake roundups because they had so many rattlesnake. snakes in West Texas, but that was, you know, that was just to show us how they handle them. It wasn't anything related to religion. So anyway, I'll end on that one, but thank you for listening to me today and watching this. And I again, encourage you to watch Allie's episode, listen to hers and mine come out every other week. If I didn't get to your question again, please email erron at ronsemonds.com. Be happy to answer them.

Have a good day.