The Insane 2024 Presidential Race

[00:00:16] Now that the election is almost over, we need to remember how insane the campaign was. From Biden dropping out to being forced, I should say, to the assassination attempt against Trump to Kamala's just brainless support for abortion. [00:00:34] But no matter who wins, will the. Will the nation recover? That's what I'm talking about today on Crisis Point, hello America, host and in chief of Crisis magazine. Before we get started, I want you to smash that, like, button like, I hope Trump smashes Kamala tonight. I also want you to subscribe to the our newsletter email newsletter. That's the best way to find out about what we're doing. Just go to crisis magazine.com, put in your email address, and we will send you news articles every day, usually two articles a day. And also you can follow us on social media at Crisis Mag. Okay, so Today's election day, November 5, 2024. And I wanted to, of course, talk about the election. Like, that's what a lot of people are thinking about here in America, at least, and probably around the world. It's. And I just, I think it's important before we just, you know, kind of put it in the memory hole and forget about it. I think it is important to review briefly, at least, before we kind of talk more about the, the what we think the election results are going to be and things like that. I think it's important just to talk about how crazy this campaign has been. [00:01:40] And there's so many things I could bring up. I mean, it would just be too many to bring up at this point. [00:01:46] But I want to kind of review some of the highlights. The first one is just this happened before all the true craziness happened, which was the legal attempts to basically get rid of Trump, which had been going on for a few years, but then really culminated in 2024, and then in June when there was the felony convictions against Trump. And that is. If you follow this podcast regularly, you'll know that's the moment I finally was like, okay, I'm voting for Trump. I'm supporting. That's when I first put on my MAGA hat and in during the podcast, because I just felt like, okay, for all of Trump's flaws, it just is. It's clear that the elites, the deep state, whatever you want to call it, they're out to get him. And the fact that they're going to abuse the legal system to try to get a former president of the United States and the current front runner at the time and still today for the next president, United States, to try to get him out of the race simply by some trumped up charges, excuse the pun. I mean, what's amazing to me about the whole conviction nonsense is what a joke it was in the end. It was basically, let's make up some, some new laws and try to figure out a way to, to make it pin on him. Which kind of shows Trump doesn't have a lot of baggage, believe it or not, at least legally speaking. Because trust me, if he had actually colluded with Russia or if he had done some terrible thing in his real estate deals or whatever, that would have come out because they did. I mean, nobody has been searched for, you know, whose background has been more searched than Donald Trump. And so that was a big moment for me and I think for a lot of people. But of course that was like nothing. I mean, we've forgotten about that because most of that stuff has just been pushed aside now because obviously if he wins, that's all going to get thrown out. If he loses, they'll probably still try out, spite, try to put him in jail. But we'll see. [00:03:52] Then, of course, what really defined this election, this campaign, I should say, was the Biden Trump debate. That happened back in June because that was because, remember, at the beginning of this year, even six months ago, we thought the campaign was going to be Trump, Biden. [00:04:12] And even though most of us could tell anybody who was paying attention that Biden was no longer capable of anything, much less running the country, everybody, it was proved to everybody at that debate. And of course, even after the debate, a lot of Democrats were still saying, oh, he's sharp as attack, he's perfectly capable of doing whatever. And Biden was saying, there's no way, I'm not going to run. I am running, I am not dropping out. That's just what's going to happen. [00:04:42] And so, but that debate really showed that the country is not run by one person. Now, of course, we know it's always true. There's not one person in charge. Or at least the person we think who is in charge, we believe is in charge, isn't actually in charge because that made it very clear there's no way that person, Joe Biden, can be running our country, country right now. No way he can be commander in chief, President, United States in practice. [00:05:06] And then of course, that led to eventually him dropping out. And his dropping out was just so weird because he was basically his whole campaign, him, we're all saying, I'm in it, I'm in it. Then all of a sudden, a tweet that just says, okay, never mind, I'm out. And then, like, later, a tweet that says, okay, I'm endorsing Kamala. [00:05:28] The whole thing was just bizarre. And he didn't then didn't address the nation about. Until I think. I think it was a Sunday that the tweet went out there on Wednesday. That's when he finally addressed the nation about it, which was. That was bizarre as well. And so there's just all these different things that. That occurred surrounding that that showed, again, Joe Biden is not in charge not only of the country, but not in charge of himself, in charge of his campaign or anything. And so he was ousted. I mean, there's no question this was a coup, a bloodless coup, but a coup nonetheless. I think a few things Biden has done since then, shown how annoyed he is, how angry he is that they did this to him. I guess in his more lucid moments, he realizes that. [00:06:10] And so the fact that he was basically the president, United States, the supposedly most powerful man in the entire world, was removed by a tweet. I mean, that's essentially what happened. Somebody in his campaign, somebody in his staff wrote a tweet that said, okay, I'm out. And that was it. He was out. [00:06:30] I mean, that. That is. That is not right. That is not normal. That is not the way things should be, but that is the way they are this year. And then you go to Kamala being appointed as the opponent of Donald Trump as a nominee for Democratic Party. She's never won a single primary vote in her life. She ran in 2020 and was so bad that she didn't make it to Iowa. That's how bad she was. And she had a lot of support. She. I mean, Hollywood, California, she had money rolling in, but she didn't make it to Iowa. She was so bad, Tulsi basically ended her campaign. [00:07:16] And so. But she becomes the Democratic nominee for president with no vote whatsoever. I mean, technically, I guess they voted at the. At the convention, but at that point, it was already decided. [00:07:28] And so that, again, that's something else. That's just crazy. That's something that we just have to look at and say, what the heck are we thinking? [00:07:36] That we have a situation where the President of the United States, who apparently wants to run for president reelection, is just told, no, you can't, by somebody. [00:07:47] And then we have a woman who nobody voted for, is just appointed as the anointed as the Democratic nominee, all in the name of democracy. [00:07:59] And she just. And everybody's like, okay, and then that's memory hold. Like, the media doesn't look into that at all. Nobody says, okay, what was the story behind here? What's really going on? No claims of, like, this is awful by the mainstream media, that this is not democracy, that there's no real transparency going on here. It just happens. [00:08:20] And then like, okay, I've left the best for last as far as the craziness of this election campaign. And that, of course, is the assassination attempt attempts on Donald Trump, particularly the one in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, where, I mean, I don't see how you can look at what happened that day and not think, okay, yes, there was mass incompetence, but somebody knew something. [00:08:50] Somebody knew something that beyond just the guy who made the assassination, I can't remember his name now, but somebody was aware that something was going down. [00:09:02] And I think. And just you. It just couldn't have happened otherwise. [00:09:07] And you have, of course, the image of Donald Trump actually being shot on live television in the ear, blood coming down, he. And then that defiant gesture of him getting up and putting up his fist and saying, fight, fight, fight. [00:09:23] I do think. I know, I don't know how many other people thought this, but it did change my opinion of Donald Trump. I admit it. I. In 2016, I thought he was just a despicable, narcissistic person, just a, you know, just not somebody I wanted to be our leader. And I still think, you know, he has some major personality flaws. I mean, anybody who runs for president, United States, is a narcissist. I mean, there's just no other way you can put it. If you run for president, United States, you think you are God's gift to creation in the current environment, I mean, with Ron, with Ron Paul being the one exception. [00:10:01] But the fact is, is that this man was shot on live television. And his first instinct was to get up and say, fight, fight, fight, and incur. I mean, his first thought was, okay, I got to make sure everybody here knows I'm okay and that we're not caving in. I mean, that is just. That's instinct. That is not something that you can. I mean, he's not a military person who is trained for battle. So that's. That's 100 instinct. There's no other way to put it. And that tells us something about him that he is. He's not in this as a vanity project. That's what I kind of Suspected back in 2016, in 2020, when I voted for him, I still was kind of like, maybe it is. And we decided to run again after he had lost in 2020, I was kind of like, is this just his vanity that he just cannot be out of the limelight? He cannot think of anything but put himself forward as, you know, the best option for America. But after that moment when he got shot, I honestly did think like, okay, this isn't vanity. Vanity does not get up in that situation. Vanity is not what powers somebody to get up after they've been shot and yell, fight, fight, fight. That is somebody who actually wants to fight. I mean, there's no other way to put it. [00:11:15] And while he still has the personality flaws and stuff like that and all those things, the fact is he clearly is in this for what he thinks is the best for the country. By the way, when I say his flaws, I mean that about everybody. And we all have. When we do. Even when we do good acts, often we do them with some bad motives at times, like for vanity or for pride or whatever. I'm not saying he's not a very proud man. [00:11:39] What I'm saying is that in that in his desire to run the country, there is a sincere, I think, a sincere part of him that's like, I really do think I can make this country better, and I'm the best person for it. [00:11:56] I just think that was proven with his assassination attempt. [00:12:01] I also think something very interesting. So that's a lot of the craziness of the campaign, but I also think something very interesting has occurred over the past few years. And that. And I think a lot of people aren't picking up on this. They're not really recognizing this. And that is the great political realignment that has occurred in America over the past few years that I think is primarily caused by Covid. I don't think it's the only. It's the proximate cause. There's other causes as well. But I think Covid really is the primary one. And there's a great irony here. Of course, the irony is that the person who's leading this political realignment was actually very bad on Covid. [00:12:43] I mean, I don't. I, I don't get Trump apologists who tried to excuse what he did during COVID He was bad. I mean, that we. Let's just be honest. He was bad on Covid, period. End of story. [00:12:56] And yet. And yet. And he doesn't apologize for it. He never says, like, I was bad on Covid, and like, that. That's just not his way. And yet. And yet the reality is that the group that he's surrounded himself by, this new political entity he's kind of creating, it consists of a lot of people who are very good on Covid and would be very good going forward on Covid or something like Covid. [00:13:28] All the things that were the worst about COVID the totalitarianism, the attacks on liberty, things of that nature. [00:13:37] Trump has surrounded himself by people who are very good at those things. [00:13:42] I mean, the main figures are RFK Jr. [00:13:48] Obviously, Vance, Tucker, Tulsi, Gabbard, Elon, Vivek, Ramaswamy. I mean, these are people who now are some of the clearest voices against kind of the woke totalitarian left. [00:14:05] They are against the elites. I mean, I'm not saying they're not elites themselves, but they're against, like kind of the elite control of things. And I think we need to understand what a radical change this is. I mean, think about of all those people, they're surrounded that Trump surrounds himself by these. The figures I just named, none of them supported Trump five years ago, except for maybe Tucker. I mean, RFK sure didn't. Tulsi didn't Ram Swami wasn't a fan. Vance was against him. [00:14:34] You know, Elon wasn't a fan. I mean, all these guys now, though, they're all on Team Trump. And I think that tells us something I do remember as an inside. I remember like just about a year ago, one of the leftist talking points was that, oh, Trump has not grown his, his base any. Like, basically there's like a 40% of people who are just going to vote for him. No. What? But that's it. He hasn't grown it. Well, that's clearly no longer true because look at how much he's grown it with all these people coming on board the Trump team in the past year. [00:15:10] I mean, Vance was hating on him years ago. RFK was actually literally running against him just six months ago. Tulsi was a Democrat just a few years ago and was opposed to Trump. And so, like, just the idea, though, now he surrounded themselves by these people. This is a political realignment. Now. Will it last? I don't know. I do think, though, especially if Trump wins, I think it will definitely last. [00:15:37] And I think it, it's something we have to get our heads around. I think it goes beyond kind of the standard left, right, blue, red division we've had before, because what we're seeing is people who are liberal in a lot of things, like an RFK or a Tulsi. They're like, no, we're against, though. Like Dudes and girls, bathrooms and stuff like that. And we're against what the left, how it's trying to control everything. We're against that. [00:16:05] We're against a lot of government power now. And so I really think that this new coalition that Trump has brought together is very much a the people against the elites. And again, I see the irony here. Trump is not the people in his own life in the sense of like, you know, he's a. He's a limousine liberal is what New York liberal is what he has been in the past. [00:16:30] But that doesn't mean. But the truth is, and we've seen this in this campaign, so well, he actually connects with real people. You see it in the, in the long form interviews, the podcast that he's done, the long form interviews, the like the golf trip he took with Bryson DeChambeau, things like that, you know, talking to Joe Rogan and all those things. You really see, and you see all these clips of him out there. He really does identify with regular people. That's his genius, that he can be a rich New York real estate mogul and yet somehow he connects way better with the common man than just about anybody else and sincerely connects with them. [00:17:13] I do think there's some problematic aspects of this new coalition. The one thing it has done is it has definitely diminished the importance of many social issues that we care about. We being like people written only in crisis, ivf, abortion, homosexual marriage, things like that. That's clearly been put on the back burner and kind of accepted. Like that's just the reality now. They are decent on the transgender issue. They're not great on. But at least they understood, they understand that the people are against dudes in girls bathrooms. [00:17:47] So I think it's. It's a matter of. [00:17:51] I do think there's cause for concern for social conservatives because clearly we are no longer the driving force behind this coalition. But the reality is who the CO this new coalition's fighting hates us with a passion. [00:18:05] I mean, ultimately, when it comes down to it, I like Trump, I like rfk, I like Elon, I like those guys. You know why? I like Tulsi. You know why? Not because I'm 100% aligned with them politically, but because they don't hate me. And I know Kamala Harris hates me if she knew who I was. I know that Tim Waltz hates me. I know the Democratic elites hate me. I know the Republican elites, the Mitch McConnells, they hate me. [00:18:34] That's the other thing. This is not a strict Republican Democrat thing. Again, like Mitch McConnell is the enemy. Tulsi Gabbard is a friend. [00:18:45] I mean, that's where we are. Now. If you are a conservative Catholic, I think that's how you have to look at it. Or a libertarian Catholic, you have to look at like that, like Tulsi Gabbard, somebody like her is our friend, even though she's wrong on some very important issues to us. And Mitch McConnell, who technically is right on some of these issues, like Mitch McConnell is Pro Life. Tulsi Gabbard is pro choice. [00:19:09] That should be the driving force for us. I would. And historically, for the past few decades, it has been. But I don't think it's true this year. And I know this is kind of a radical statement and I know people, some pro lifers, will not like it, but I just think it's the reality where we are that Mitch McConnell will go along with the elites to destroy our way of life. Tulsi Gabbard at least will be a little bit like, no, I just use her as the example because she's probably the most liberal of those people. I mentioned rfk, you could use him as well. RFK is our friend. I mean, there's just no other way to put it. I know he's terrible on abortion. I know he's terrible in Israel. I know he's terrible on certain government regulations he wants and government role and things. I know all that. But he doesn't hate me. He's going to allow me to practice my faith. He's going to allow me to at least make an effort to bring back a pro life, a worldview to our country. Kamala and her gang will do, will crush us as much as she can. So I think this is important for us as Catholics. I know a lot of Catholics. Like I voted third party many times in the past. [00:20:22] I know all the arguments, but I decide not to this time and actually be more enthusiastic in my support for Trump simply because I recognize this new coalition. And there's only two coalitions going on right now, the Trump coalition and the elites. That's the only two groups. I understand there's third parties, but they have no significance this year. [00:20:42] I mean, RFK did, but then he joined the Trump coalition. And I think that that tells us something. So I really think that Covid changed our country fundamentally in so many ways. And one of the ways it did is it realigned the political calculus. It realigned who our allies are in some ways and who they're not. I mean, five years ago I would never have Said RFK is our ally, but now it's like, yeah, no, he is definitely our ally. Elon Musk. I was, I mean, Elon Musk got some weird ideas, no question about it. I don't want him putting his chip in my brain. But that doesn't mean he isn't my ally because he understands, I mean, X has been under him, has really helped the cause of Catholics. [00:21:28] So I do think that's important. I just want to bring up a comment I like this one. Cove Bear says maybe it isn't a concern. Could the lack of social stances be a push towards subsidiarity in moral issues? I think that's a good point. I do think that's what's happening. That for example, we're, you know, with, with Roe v. Wade being over overturned, abortion has been thrown back to the states. And we see some states have very good pro life laws and some states have terrible ones. And a state like mine, Ohio, which you would hope would have been, would have not been bad on abortion, is, has a terrible law has been put into effect after Roe v. Wade. And so, but I do think, I think though it gets the point. I think what, what he's saying there about a push towards subsidiary and moral issues. Yes, I know that we should be like something like abortion should be illegal in the entire country. I get that. But I've been alive long enough to know that Republicans have run on overturning Roe v. Wade forever. And they didn't really mean to do it. They didn't, they actually didn't want to overturn because then all of a sudden they'd have to stand up and be like, oh, I'm going to actually have to vote on something that could make abortion illegal. They knew they never had to do that as long as Roe v. Wade was intact. But now with Dobbs, it does matter again, like they might have to stand up. And we're seeing the reality is that our country is not pro life. The majority of our country, a vast majority, I would say, do not agree with Catholics like us who think abortion should be illegal all nine months. That's just a reality. I think most Americans would be for an abortion ban after maybe 15, 20 weeks, something like that. The problem though is whenever it's actually put on the ballot, something like that even loses because the left does such a good job of basically saying that, you know, basically saying you have to like, you know, rape teenagers who are raped, are going to have abortion, are not going to have abortions or whatever, something like that. And so people like, okay, I'll vote for it. But the point is, is that this new coalition, Trump's coalition, if he wins and if it stays intact on some level, it is a new way of looking at things. And I think as pro life Catholics, we need to realize that and work much more at the local level than we have in the past. I think Kamala is going to try and make it so we can't do that. Another comment here on the live chat. Just hopefully you're on the live chat. Roger Rathburn. Rathbun says, I voted straight Republican for the first time in my life. [00:24:09] And I, I, I get that. It's not just, you know, that's the funny thing about this election. People who were much more likely vote third party. I voted for a lot more Republicans than I ever have. I don't vote for Democrats usually, but, like, when I was going through, I was like, okay, yeah, I'm voting for Republic Republicans straight through. You know, the funny part is that here in Ohio, we have a Senate race, Sherry Brown versus Bernie Moreno. And I didn't know much, I hadn't followed much about this, and I was going to look into it. There's also a Libertarian candidate and I might, I still vote with third party sometimes. So I was going to look into it. But then every single time I opened up a YouTube video, I got an ad attacking Bernie Moreno for being, you know, anti abortion with no exceptions. He was against abortion all night. I'm like, okay, you got my vote. I mean, it was a Sherrod Brown commercial, but it was basically, you know, saying how Bernie Moreno is against abortions. I'm like, okay, great. So I voted for Bernie Moreno and I, I thought he had, didn't have a chance because Sherry Brown's been around forever. But I just saw polls this morning, so he might be, Bernie Moreno might have a chance. So we'll see. [00:25:13] Okay, so let me get another comment here before I go on my friend, female Casey, Royals fan from Nebraska. I say my friend because she often comments and I appreciate that. After I got my paper ballot, I filled in what I was going to vote for or against, and I skipped the president line and then went back to it in a vote against communism, basically. Yeah. God bless you. I mean, God bless you. I mean, a lot of people vote for Trump because they really believe in Trump. A lot of people vote for Trump because they realize how dangerous a Kamala Harris presidency would be. [00:25:47] Okay, and then, and here, one more comment before I go on right now. Coreyesu Press. [00:25:53] I just bought something from you. If you're, if you're who I think I am. I just bought a book from Peter by St Peter Al Kantara from you. So thank you. If that's you. Thank you. What is the Catholic take on the Catholic Catholicity of catholically third party options like psanski's Solidarity Party? Well, I, I interviewed Peter Sanski on the podcast about a month ago and I respect Peter greatly. I really do. I, I think he's a legitimate, you know, true Catholic. He's a true Catholic option. I think he's running for president for all the right reasons. He wants to really bring out issues that are important to faithful Catholics like us to the, to the forefront. So I don't, I have no problem with him running for president. I personally could not vote for him. [00:26:44] I don't think Ohio really is a swing state, but I wasn't willing to risk it. If I was in a true blue state like a New York or California, I might have voted for Sansky. I think there's a decent chance I would have. But any state where there's even a slight chance that Trump might not win, I just felt like, no, I can't do that this year. I just can't do it. So. But yeah, I'd encourage you go back and look at our interview with Peter. It was very good. He did a great job. So. Oh yeah, okay. He just commented. Yes, that's us. Well, thank you for what you're doing. Cor Press. I encourage people to go correspondent. They have some good books there and I just bought one from him. So from them. I don't know exactly who runs it, but anyway. Okay, so now I want to look at, I talked about this coalition. I want to look at the polls. Who do we think? Who, who are they saying going to win? I, I noticed that Nate Silver, who was the Cath Meow like 10 years ago predictors. But he was wrong on 2016 so may not as much. He said that they ran 80,000, 80,000 simulations of the pres of the election and in 40,000 21 of them Harris won. So I mean this is about as neck, as neck as you can get according to his polls of who won. [00:27:58] Now that kind of though goes against a lot of other things like in the betting markets. This is something I think people are just getting used to. I've seen it in the crypto world for a long time. But in the betting markets, which basically means you can bet on things like the presidential election now there's One that there's only one that's legal in America. So some of these betting markets are people from outside the country. So what do they know? But you basically put money down who you think is going to win, not who you, who you're going to vote for, who you want to win, but who you think is going to win. And you put. And people are putting real money, like tens of thousands of dollars per bet in some cases, and there's millions of dollars being bet on this. And what they found is these prediction markets, these betting markets actually do a pretty good job because people, like, bet on what they really think is going to happen. So if I'm betting, if I really think Kamala is going to win, I'm betting for that. I'm not betting on Trump. I might vote for Trump. I might tell everybody, Trump's going to win, I want him to win. But I'm not putting money down on that if I don't believe in it and that I'm going to base this on all this. And like, it's basically the, the, the mass is kind of saying, okay, who are we? Who do we. Who do we. When we talking to our friends and all that stuff. Who are we going to vote for? [00:29:09] Who. Who is actually going to be voted for? So they're saying these betting markets about 60% Trump. So it's 60, 40 Trump. That doesn't mean that they think 60% of the vote's going to go to Trump. What it's saying is 60% of people are voting for, are predicting Trump is going to win. That's a pretty sizable margin. So most people who are putting money down are really thinking Trump's going to win. I think that we're going to find out the predict these betting markets, how good they are after the election results come out. Maybe we will, maybe we won't. Depends on if we believe the election results. I'll get to that in a minute. So that's, that's one thing. Then the last thing I want to show is I'll put this up on the screen. [00:29:49] What really matters, let's be honest. This election comes down to the voters in about seven states and that's it. [00:29:57] But, and so how, how are people doing? And this is from real clear polling. And they're showing like kind of the result, what the polling was on the final day of the voting of the election campaign in 2016, 2020, 2024. And what we see is like in 2020, Biden really was ahead in most of these states. But look at 2024 national. Don't worry about Harris is up by 0.4 in Wisconsin. She's also up in Michigan by 0.5. That's it on all the battleground states, Ohio and Florida, I don't know why they're listed, because Trump's up by so much in those states. [00:30:35] Georgia, he's up by 1.3. North Carolina, 1.2. Arizona, 2.8. [00:30:43] I mean, he's up in Pennsylvania, barely. He's up in Miss. I'm sorry, in Nevada, barely. But the point is, is that he's got, if these polls are correct, he's got the Electoral College, which is all that matters. Let's remember that. All he needs is he doesn't need the popular vote. Who cares if Harris wins the popular vote? Doesn't matter how many people are going to vote for Harris. And in New York City or Los Angeles or Portland, Oregon, what matters is the Electoral College. And so the polls look very good. I mean, there's no question that the polls do look good for Trump compared to previous years. Now, one thing in particular in the past is that Trump always polled worse in reality because people were afraid to admit they voted for Trump. Like, they might vote for Trump, but then they, after they walk out of the booth, they're like, I know I'm not going to tell you. Or am I even lie about who I vote for? [00:31:34] I don't know how much that's true anymore. I've noticed that a lot of people are more vocal in their support of Trump than they were in the past. Like me, for example, but just people that, like, you wouldn't think. I mean, Mike Tyson the other day was saying, I'm voting for Trump. I think people were afraid a lot more of saying they're voting for Trump in the past, but they're so tired of the shutting everybody down who votes for Trump that they finally say, no, I'm going to stand up. I think him getting shot and in fighting back, I think that was a big moment. A lot of people are like, if this dude can literally get shot and jump up and say, fight, fight, fight, and like, get rid of his Secret Service people out of his way to say, fight, fight, fight, well, then I can at least admit to the public that I'm voting for Trump. I really think that's part of it as well. So, you know, the polls, I don't know, they're, they're so hard to gauge. But, so, yeah, we'll, we'll see about that. Another comment, real quick. K. Barrett says Great points, Eric. We in southwestern Ohio can't change the minds in Columbus or Cleveland much city. I think subsidiary is our best chance to limit abortion. Absolutely. I'm convinced of this, that we just have to work on the local level. Try to shut down abortion clinics through, through legal means, you know, locally, work with your state capital to try to get the abortion laws good in your state where it matters. I mean, obviously do that. I mean, here in Ohio we have an uphill climb because of the fact that, you know, it's been enshrined in our Constitution. It's going to take a lot to get that overturned. But other states, you know, you're, there's, I think there's 10 states this year that have abortion on the ballots. So pro lifers, if you gotta be voting in those elections for the pro life, vote in all those states and we continue to put things on the ballot or fight things the pro boards put on the ballot. I think those things are important. [00:33:16] Okay, so it comes down to this. And what's my prediction? What is my prediction about who is going to win? And this is funny because I'm, I'm posting this podcast, know live on November 5th. Some people won't see it till November 6th or later, and so it's already going to be dated by then. Oh, well, what can I do? I predict Trump's going to win. I do think he's going to win. I think that ultimately I think he's just got the numbers. I think the ability to rig the election is going to be more difficult this year because of the fact that everybody's aware of it. You know, people are, are keeping their eyes out for any type of shenanigans. That's my old Gen X word. I, I think, though, that we need to, I do think Trump is going to win. I think everybody who's going to vote for Trump, get out there, make sure you vote if you haven't yet. [00:34:07] But I think he's gonna have enough votes that it's going to be too hard for them to overturn it. So I, I do think Trump's going to win. Now, if he wins, what do I think that means? How do I think the president, his presence will layout? I said not a while ago that I guarantee if Trump wins, I'm going to be disappointed in his presidency. But I guarantee if Kamala wins, her, her presence can be a disaster. [00:34:28] I have some serious policy disagreements with Trump. I don't think he's good on Israel, for example. I don't, obviously he's terrible on ivf. He's not good on abortion. [00:34:39] There's other things that I disagree with him on. I think he's going to, you know, not going to keep all his promises. Oh, what a shock. A political candidate doesn't keep all his promises. So there's gonna be reason to be disappointed in him. But that being said, I think he's going to be so much better than Kamala. Now, here's the thing, though. [00:34:59] I think what he went through his first term as president, like the attacks, the Russia gate, the impeachment stuff, all that crap, I think it's be far worse. The left, the elites are not going to take this lying down. I think that's going to be the biggest challenges. The things Trump is going to be like, he surrounded himself very good people and he's going to be very want to be very good on the drain. The swamp stuff that he actually knows better now, the getting RFK to do some good stuff in for our nutrition and health and vaccines and all that stuff, getting maybe Ramaswamy involved as a chief of staff or whatever, getting Elon Musk involved in cutting government waste, all that stuff. I just think all that stuff can be resisted so heavily because it's not just resisted by Democrats, it's resisted by the elites, by the state, by the government, by the government class, by Republicans. And I think his chances of success, real lasting success in the area are very low. I'll be honest. I just think they're very low. I think he'll try, but they're going to do everything they can to undermine him. And remember, we already know assassination attempts are not off the table. They've already tried it once, maybe twice, maybe three times. [00:36:14] There's nothing. They won't try it again. Now, would Vance do be able to be successful? I don't know. My point is what Trump is going to be fighting against is so powerful that I think it'll be very difficult for him to make real lasting change. I pray and hope he does. I pray and hope he wins and I pray and hope he does drain the swamp and makes lasting change. I just don't think. [00:36:37] I just think, boy, it's going to be a nightmare. And the truth is it's going to be exhausting. Every day there will be, you know, cnn, msnbc, all the people online, stuff like that will just be, trump is Hitler and here's proof every single day of his presidency. I mean, they did that somewhat his first term, but it's going to be a whole new level. Why? Because they know Trump knows now how hard it is to make the changes. He failed in his first term to really make a, a, to drain the swamp. He appoint a bunch of neocons to, you know, policy positions. And he admits it. He says, like, I didn't realize how bad it was when I got there. He now knows how bad it is and they know he knows how bad it is. And so I think they're going to fight him a lot more than, than they did in the past, which is hard to believe considering how much they fought him in the past. So I think that's one thing. I think he'll be, you know, good on some things, bad on other things, but more importantly, he just isn't going to be allowed to do the good things he wants to do. But the funny thing is the elites will let him like, be bad on, on Israel, whatever. [00:37:42] They might not let him be bad, you know, what they would consider bad on, on Ukraine because, I mean, he's good on Ukraine, he's good on that. We'll see what happens with that. He's good on. His instincts are always for peace, which I, that's one of the best things I like about him. But boy, the Warhawks in the neocons in the elite class, the Liz Cheney's in the world, they are not going to take that lying down. So I think we need to, we need to pray and fast if he wins. We need to pray and fast for this election. We need to pray and fast if he wins, because it's going to be, it could be really a nightmare. [00:38:15] Now real quick, what if Kamala wins? Here's where I differ from a lot of other conservatives. I don't think it's going to be like the end of the republic as we know it. I think it's going to be a continuation of the frog boiling, so to speak, of our country. I mean, Trump was a little bit like, they turned down the heat. He turned down the heat a bit on, on the burner when he was president. But essentially we've had a slow progression, sometimes a little faster and a little slower towards a totalitarian state, towards like, you know, empire forever wars, towards like the social, the terrible social things like abortion, gay marriage, transgenders and all that stuff. It's been relentless, but it's been, it's been, it hasn't been overnight. Kamala is just a continuation of Biden because Biden obviously was not capable of running the country for obvious reasons. Well, neither's Kamala. She's an empty suit. She's just a figurehead. Does anybody on earth other than maybe her and maybe her husband think that she could act? She's actually going to be running the country? I mean, of course not. So the same people who are running the country for the past four years will be running the country again and probably were helping run the country during eight Obama years. So, yes, it will be bad, a disaster many ways, but I think calls for like all of a sudden, like everything, like overnight just becomes a disaster. I, I just don't, I don't see that happening. I just don't see that happening. [00:39:40] So I think that really, ultimately it will be bad, but I don't think overnight, all of a sudden or even within her term, like the country will be that different than it was during the Biden administration, which is in a, is bad and it goes in a bad direction, but it's not the destruction of our country as we know it. [00:39:59] And really another question is about violence after the election. If it, if Trump wins, will there be violence? I think there will be pockets of violence or mostly peaceful protest, as CNN will call them. I don't think it will like, sweep the country, but I do think you'll see areas where there will be riots and acts of violence if Trump wins, if Kamala wins. I don't really see that happening. Maybe there might be a few pockets, but I mean, conservatives, we just don't do that. I mean, typically. So I think we would just take it lying down. [00:40:32] So I do think, you know, there is possible. [00:40:35] Another comment. Give me a few more comments here. Theodore Sieber, who watches the channel often, I appreciate that, Theodore. He said, I voted for Sansky, but I'm stuck in the culture of death in Oregon, where our dear governor pays for people to come from different countries and states to come and kill their unborn terminally ill. You know, honestly, a vote for Sansky in Oregon, I got no problem with that. I understand why you did it. And, you know, yeah, and as Theodore says, Harris can win Oregon 3 to 1. So, you know, I don't, I don't blame you at all. I mean, I think there is a place for registering a protest against the system because ultimately the system is what's broken. [00:41:12] Trump can't fix it. [00:41:14] Nobody can. And so just registering a comp, a complaint, a vote against the system by voting for Sanski. I respect that. So in a blue state particularly, or even a very red state, and then you have the celebrity. Oh, another comment for female Art. You gotta get a shorter name here. Female Casey, Royals fan From Nebraska. I kind of like it because I'm a baseball fan. But you have the celebrities who are endorsing Harris like they've been threatened. I mean, they really do look like hostage videos. When you get all the diddy clients getting up there and saying, like, you know, I vote for I. You know, we need to support Harris. I mean, it's kind of creepy these, these videos they make and at rallies, these celebrities, which, you know, they have blackmail on them. That's why they're doing it. [00:41:57] Another comment from Palermo. Morose Catholics obsess over sex while aiding the fundamental destruction of U. S and Europe through master world invasion, AKA migration, unforgivable crime. I mean, I don't think we obsess about sex. I think Catholics understand that the way our world is right now, more people go to hell probably because of sexual sins than by anything else, because it's just. It's pushed on us. We have pornography everywhere. We have so many. All this pushed on us. So I do think it's important. At the same time, I understand your point that we are being invaded. I mean, we're being invaded by. [00:42:35] Through this, opening our borders, and there's no other way to put it. And so we're losing our culture. We're losing so many aspects of what it means to be American. [00:42:44] So, I mean, I think that is important, and I think that's one of the reasons why Trump is so popular, because people see that Trump has said over and over again the border is the most important issue. And in his mind, he didn't do enough when he was president. But I'm hoping this time he'll. He'll get more done if he wins. [00:43:00] Deos solve America Donald Trump President Day 2024Amen. [00:43:06] I think Judge Joshua, I can't pronounce your name. Lopez. [00:43:10] Yes. I mean, I. I'm obviously, as you can tell from my hat, that I am. I voted already. I voted for Donald Trump for president. I hope you do as well. I've been a critic. Here's. I also want to mention this before we kind of wrap things up here in a minute. I'm going to continue. If he wins, I'm going to continue to criticize Donald Trump. I know that annoys some Trumpsters. I know that, But I just feel like our duty as Catholics is to the truth, not to a political candidate or party. [00:43:43] There's nothing wrong with voting for a certain political candidate who's not ideal. I'm doing it. I did it. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't hold their feet to the fire when they're wrong on something. [00:43:53] And Donald Trump is very wrong when it comes to ivf. He's very wrong when it comes to abortion. Really, we should hold him to that. We should make sure. We should let him know we're not going to support him when he does those things. There's nothing wrong with doing that. And so I really think that I'm going to continue to criticize him if he becomes president again. But at the same time, it doesn't mean we can't support him when he does good things or vote for him ultimately knowing the alternative. And I just want to leave it one last thing. I just want, I want to say here, and that is, as Catholics, we need to be at peace. We need to be at peace because ultimately our ruler is not going to be Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. Our ruler is Christ the King. Jesus Christ our king, is our ruler. We need to be at peace because we know God is in control. No matter what happens, no matter who wins, no matter how long it takes, no matter if there's rioting, violence or whatever. Ultimately Jesus is Lord. He is king. He is in control. We need to pray and fast for our country. We hopefully have been leading up to the election. We need to be afterwards, whoever, whoever gets elected, we need to do that because that's ultimately our. What we're called to do. Most of us cannot affect world events, geopolitics, anything like that. What we can do is we can pray and fast. We can do penance. [00:45:15] That's what we need to do. And I'll just leave it with Psalm 146, verses 3 through 5. Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help. When his breath departs, he returns to his earth. On that very day his plans perish. [00:45:32] Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord, his God. [00:45:39] Okay, everybody, until next time. God, love.