Ep 1314 | This is a War Against Radical Islam, not Just Iran | Ron Simmons

>> Well, hello, everyone.

“Happy Saturday or whatever day you're listening to this fourth.”

Thank you for being with us again on Ali's Relatable podcast. And I am Ali's dad, Ron Simmons, glad to be here. And we got a lot of stuff to talk about. I don't know if you listened to my last episode a couple weeks ago, but we got lots of things have happened since then,

including the starting of a war. And we're going to talk and start off talking about that. The United States has named it Operation Epic Fury. And Epic means like the best of all time in Fury means it's going to be big. And it has been.

And of course this has been done in conjunction with our friends in Israel. And it is against the Republic of Iran. Although I want to get in just a minute, I'm going to get to something else about why it's really not about the country of Iran. And why that's a little bit of a misnomer.

We're going to talk about that in a few minutes.

“But anyway, let's kind of go over a little bit of the details.”

This happened on February, the 28th, when it began, which was about a week ago from the time this episode is going to be coming out. And we launched the attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran.

And the first, I'd say the first thing.

One of the first things we did is we were able to kill there's supreme leader, who really has been the one that has been for years, shouting death to America and also has ordered the killing of its own citizens, tens of thousands of them that protested. And so that was one of our first goal was to wipe out the leadership.

And so far, the efforts by Israel and Iran have been very, very successful. I mean, they essentially don't have any air force left. We've sunk a bunch of their ships as well. I wrote down some, I got some information that I looked up today as to how much. You know, how exactly how many specific bombs I've been,

you know, that we've done and whatever there's been. 2000 targets hit 300 missile launchers destroyed that Iran had hidden around their country. We've taken out their leadership. The funny thing, it's so funny. I don't really know, maybe these guys aren't the sharpest people in the drawer.

But when you're going to call for breakfast meeting right about the time, you're probably hearing rumors that there's going to be a bombing in your area. And you get all the leadership together. And Masad knows exactly where you are. I mean, you just made it easier for us.

And not only did they do that once, but then the next group of leaders, a couple of days later did the same thing. I mean, why in the world would they do that? But anyway, we've taken out primarily their leadership.

It's never a, you know, total void.

There's never a vacuum when it comes to leadership of terrorist organizations. Somebody's always willing to step in. And but we have really dismantled it and certainly made it more difficult. We've focused our tax on military targets like military bases, military operations. They're nuclear.

They, as you know, they, even though we bombed their nuclear. They're a big nuclear facility last June, they've continued to try to enrich uranium,

“which is the key component for making a nuclear warhead.”

And so we've been attacking that and we've had a lot of success on that. Of course, there's ships. In fact, it was interesting. I didn't, I don't know that it surprised me, but I just thought, wow, that's, that's really quite interesting that the, we fired a torpedo from one of our submarines

to one of their biggest ship, the military ships.

And, and so on, and that's the first time that a torpedo for the United States has taken

out a enemy ship since World War II. So that's really pretty interesting. I had not, not thought of it that way. And of course, Iran's response has been to fire rockets kind of, indiscriminately, really kind of Israel.

They fired thousands of rockets at Israel. They've also made the huge mistake of sending rockets into other Middle Eastern countries. They claimed they're just trying to kill US citizens or US military people over there. But when you send a bomb into one of your neighboring countries, that automatically is going to have them against you.

And so they've done that. So we thank you for that Iran for doing that. Because that just helped us build our resolve. They also sent one against a United Kingdom base, not in the UK, but in another country. That now that drew UK back into being more supportive of what we're doing.

And they've also tried to hit some old and gas facilities, which, of course, will temporarily raise the price of oil. But that's not a long term phenomenon. All that will get straightened out over the next few weeks is what my opinion is. But a couple of things that you might not have known.

Since October of 2023, you remember the October 7th, 2023?

There have been 32,948 missiles or drones that have been sent into Israel.

Now think about that. Just think about it.

“Where you live in your area, your part of the country.”

Just think about, since for the last two and a half years, there's been, if there were 32,000 missiles and drones sit into your area. Do you think you would be pretty upset about it and want to do something about it and want to try to, once and for all, try to get something done because in it's been Iran that has been supporting most of this and funding most of this.

So I don't, you know, I don't blame Israel at all, not at all. So anyway, the way the what's happening now according to President Trump is that he's getting calls or they're getting calls, probably not him personally, from people in Iran saying, hey, we want to make a deal. We want to make a deal.

Let's see what he has to say about that.

All of their airplanes are gone. Their communications are gone. missiles are gone launches are gone about 60% and 64% respectively. Other than that, they're doing quite well. I say, what's left?

But they're tough and they want to fight.

“And they're calling, they're saying, how do we make a deal?”

I said you're being a little bit late. And we want to fight now more than they do. So, I mean, and I can see how that would be happening. People are saying, hey, let's see if we can figure out a deal. Now, the funny thing is is that President Trump just like,

honestly, just like President Biden and President Obama, they all wanted to negotiate a deal with Iran. And I don't blame President Obama or President Biden for wanting to negotiate a peaceful solution to the problem. We cannot afford, in the Middle East, cannot afford for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

Because what happens when they have a nuclear weapon, it puts everybody over there at risk. And yet, puts us at risk, too. But all of our friends over there are at risk. Remember, whatever you want to call it, Islam, 85% to 90% of Muslims are

Sunni, and only about 15% are Shiite, and Shiite is what the majority is that our Muslims in Iran.

“Now, there are a lot of people in Iran that are not Muslims at all.”

There are other religions, or totally secular. In fact, the majority of people in Iran, from my understanding, are not, would not be considered radical Islams at all. Muslims at all. So, pretty interesting. The President Trump tried to negotiate with them.

He tried to do that for 15, 20 days, gave him some red lines. Now, the deal with President Trump is, when he says there's a red line, that means there's a red line. We've had some past presidents who have said there's a red line, and then nothing ever happens.

And then we see the disaster after that, which was what happened in Syria. But President Trump has called on them before all this happened to lay down their arms. Listen to what he had to say in sought too.

And I'm once again calling on all members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard,

the military and the police to lay down their arms. They're all they're going to be killed. And now is the time to stand up for the Iranian people and help take back your country. You're going to have a chance after all these years

to take back your country, accept immunity. We'll give you immunity. And we'll be giving you really the right side of history, because that's what it is. So you'll be perfectly safe with total immunity,

or you'll face absolutely guaranteed death. And I don't want to see that. Yeah, those are pretty strong words. And, but it's the truth. He's given them a fair warning to lay down their arms

and let's come to a peaceful solution. And we don't have any video on this right now. But if you have the chance to go watch or listen to what the crown prince, which was the son of the Shah of Iran,

which was exiled back in the late 70s. He lives in the DC area. And he is calling, obviously, for peace and supporting what we've done. And also supporting the uprising

of what we hope would be a democratic solution that there would end up being Iran would be a democracy, which is kind of the way it has run in the past, even when the Shah was there, there was more freedoms for the people.

So this is how it all started. A lot of you weren't born during this time. But back in the 70s, the Shah of Iran, which is kind of like a monarch, was deposed

And it was done by some of the --

“the Ottolika Mani, who was originally actually his ancestors”

came out of India. He was living in Turkey, but a lot of his radical messaging and words and things like that were getting filtered into Iran. And so there was an uprising.

They kicked the Shah out. We took him back in exile. He died shortly there later from some type of medical problem. But since then, Iran has been the leading sponsor of terrorism, as a matter of fact,

if you really want to know what this war is about. And the reason I said earlier, it's not about Iran really as the country.

It's really about the leadership of Iran,

which turned out to be a theocracy, not any other type of government, and it was a radical Islamic theocracy. And so it wasn't about the borders, because it was really about people around the world, not just in Iran, but people around the world

that supported radical Islamic theology. And that meant death to America, death to any Western civilization that were all infidels and all that.

“And that's why you saw some protest after we took out the Ayatola”

here a few weeks ago. That's why you saw some protest. I'm sorry, now a few weeks ago, a few days ago, that were all upset that we had done that from other countries.

And that's because there are radical Muslims in other countries as well.

In fact, there are some radical Muslims in this country, the one that you guys probably read about the shooting down in Austin, Texas. That, in my opinion, was a radicalized, probably lone wolf terrorists,

and radicalized through the stuff that people like the Ayatola were putting out. So it's really not about the country of Iran and those specific borders. It's about what the leadership of Iran supporters,

a matter of fact, I pulled up a list today of all the major terrorist organizations that they supported. Here, Hezbollah, which is in Lebanon, which if you remember back in the 80s, they're the ones that blew up the marine barracks that we had

and killed 200 something of our soldiers, Hamas, which was responsible for what went on in Gaza when they attacked on October 7th, the Israel and killed 1,200 people. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, called the PLJ,

longtime Iranian beneficiary, the popular front for the liberation of Palestine, supported financially by Iran. These are all organizations that are not in the country but are outside organizations supported by that theocracy.

A ran back militia groups, okay? We're a harakata that was a foreign terrorist organization. Cotib Saeed, that's another Iran-Alain militia designated as a foreign terrorist organization. Harakata Ansar Al-Ala, another one,

Cotib Al-Ala, the Hudis, you've heard about the Hudis and several Syrian militias as well. And then there's a Bahrani Shia militias. Iran has, they provide a support to that militia group attempting to destabilize Bahrani.

Well, come on. I mean, I don't understand how there could be one person in the United States of America that wouldn't say that this was something that we should have done that it actually protected American.

In fact, former Secretary of State Condalisa Rice, who was the Secretary of State under George W. Bush, she was interviewed on Fox News recently. And she talked about this about Operation Epic Fury. Let's see what Secretary Rice had to say.

“I think if the goal of the administration is to render Iran”

incapable of using its military forces outside of its borders of threatening our neighbors, our allies of threatening our bases of broad, which we're seeing they are capable of doing. If it is trying to deny them a conventional umbrella for their nuclear ambitions, that is a worthy goal.

So I really appreciate it coming out and saying that. I think that helps get support from a broader range of people in the United States, Condalisa Rice is very well respected. She doesn't have an extra grind, but she understands being former Secretary of State.

She understands the backdrop of what's been going on in Iran for the last 47 years. She also said that rendering Iran incapable of military action would make the region more stable and protect US allies. She also noted that up to 75 to 80% of American casualties in Iraq.

75 to 80% of the casualties in Iraq of our own soldiers

“were caused by Iranian-made roadside bombs.”

So when you see these young men and women that have been paralyzed or you read about them being killed from the roadside bombs in Iraq, just point that right back at Iran and what they provided was the Iraqi military over there. In October, 23rd of 1983, this is what I talked about a minute ago,

the Hezbollah suicide bomber directed a truck drove into the building in Beirut and killed 241 American service members. 241 fully funded by Iran. So those of you that think, "Okay, we shouldn't be in a war. It's all of that, but it's just a matter of time if we didn't

do this and didn't do this before they were going to do more damage to us directly and to our allies." And we have not only a treaty-based responsibility to protect our allies, we have a moral base reason for doing that. We're going to be like the Bible says, "There's no greater person than a friend

that you're loyal to." And so we're loyal to our allies and we're going to support them

“and that's what we do as a country and I support that 100%.”

Obviously, a lot of what we would call regular Iranians that are not involved in the theocracy are very happy that this is going on. There's been a lot of joy. In fact, there's, we'll show you a video in just a minute of some of the stuff that they're doing.

But it's kind of got started at the end of last year. Their economy went down because of some sanctions and what have you. And then there were protests that really kind of started in the colleges and kind of built from there, cut universities. 31 different provinces had all of them had protest that came around.

And then what the leadership tried to do was to shut those protests down and when they couldn't just shut them down by telling them to go home, they began indiscriminately shooting people and killing people. 10s of thousands of Iranian cities. I think about that.

10s of thousands of Iranian citizens have been killed by their own government because they were protesting. And another 42,000 were arrested. And if we didn't get involved in this,

you would never going to see those 42,000 again.

So it's really, it's really interesting.

“And then you say, well, why in the world do we worry about Islam?”

Well, in addition to the military threat, that they posed to us and to the threat to our citizens, think about this. They, you know, it's really a theocracy under Sharia law. We talk about Sharia law sometimes here in Texas about being worried about whether Sharia law is going to come into play in the United States,

which I do not believe it will be. But there will be some attempts in some sections for that. But here's some of the things that here kind of just one of the things that happens in Sharia law after that theocracy and Iran took over. The legal age of marriage for women was lowered from age 15 to age nine.

Now think about that. I mean, that is nothing but child abuse. Yet there were 53 Democrats in a vote on the House for yesterday that would not say that Iran was a terrorist nation.

So basically they're supporting this by saying that.

I mean, it's just unbelievable what some of our friends on the other side of the aisle will do. So I mean, it's, it's, it's been a mess. And there's one US, there's a lot of US citizens, but once the Centers Center, Tabrabil, from Alabama said it the best when he talks about how the treatment of women in Iran.

You know, an American women are allowed to dress. Go to school, work, and marry whoever they like. Iran used to be like this too before they were taken over by radical Islamist in 1979. This is them posts 1979. Sadly, under the sick leadership of these terrorist women are treated like dogs.

Do you hear that? Women are treated like dogs. They're forced to cover every part of their body. Of their skin, except their eyes, they aren't allowed to leave home unless they're with a sink of male escort.

They aren't allowed to get an education or work job. And they're aren't forced. And they're forced. Sometimes the married, younger, six years old, pedophilia and Embrating are rampant.

And women are lucky if they are allowed to drive. It's just a shame that we've allowed this to go in as long as we have, honestly. I mean, it is, it's absolutely sick.

Why aren't the feminist organizations praising President Trump for helping to liberate

these women? They're trying to do what we can. And obviously it's going to be up to them to make it totally happen. But we're all the feminist organizations. I don't know where are you Jane Fonda?

Jane, Jane, wake up. Where are you?

“You should be praising President Trump and what they're doing here.”

But no, you're so, you have such derangedments syndrome. And you know what, it would be the same way if this was President Bush. And he had done this. They wouldn't praise him either. But it's just unbelievable how hypocritical that they are.

Now, some of the Iranians, they kind of like President Trump. And let's see what they're doing to show that. Oh, they're doing the Trump dance. Look at that. Now, you got it met.

I mean, there's not much funny in a war, but that's pretty funny. And I'm not sure exactly where this is. But that's some Iranians and maybe that's maybe it's in downtown New York or some place. But it's really pretty funny. That really appreciate that.

Oh, me. And we had to have a little laughter in all of this. Oddly enough, though, 60% of Americans disapproved of the attacks. Now, you tell me why you disapproved of those. Please write to me, Ron at RonSemons.com.

Tell me how in the world that we're on the wrong side of history about doing this. Because I just would not understand that. We'll see how it ends up. Some of these things that go on this early in a conflict like this. They tend to level out a little bit more.

But I'm sure there'll be continued to have polling done. But you know, we talked about our friends on the other side of the aisle. And the leadership in the house is a representative. And they talked about that. You know, he was pressed by Fox News reporter Bill Moulugin on the democratic hypocrisy.

Because Nancy Pelosi, our friend, friend Nancy Pelosi in 2011. She supported President Obama's unauthorized Libya air strikes versus Democrats' current insistence on congressional approval for President Trump strikes.

Now, when he was pressed on that, here's what representative Jeffries had to say in such six.

Thank you, leader Jeffries. Back in 2011, Nancy Pelosi said that then President Obama didn't need congressional approval to bomb Libya. Now, House Democrats say President Trump needs that approval to bomb Iran. What's the difference? Well, obviously, Libya and the circumstances connected to that were very different in the circumstances that we face in Iran right now.

Hello, what were those differences?

“We had people that were, that were, you remember the Benghazi scenario that were, that were killing American diplomats and citizens.”

And, and they were attacking what we were trying to do and leave you the terrorist organizations. We were trying to overthrow over there. So I don't understand what representative Jeffries is talking about. Question always comes up, will this be a forever war? Well, I don't think it will be obviously. They can always be conflict in what have you.

But let's take a look at what happened in Venezuela. In fact, recently in Venezuela, you know, we went down there, took Maduro out. And it was a different type of operation. Venezuela didn't pose the same broad threat. They weren't trying to get a nuclear weapon.

They didn't have a whole bunch of missiles stationed all over their country. The main problem was that their leader was cutting deals with a lot of our enemies. And we asked him to quit doing that. And we even offered them the opportunity to get out of the country and get into exile. But he didn't want to do it.

So we went down and got Maduro on January the 3rd. And they, what's happened since then, though, and out there be a, you'll see.

“I think it was yesterday or today where we did a, we cut a deal with them.”

That will be a historic agreement to reestablish diplomatic ties. We haven't had diplomatic ties there for years. And they came to a deal, as well as a deal on gold. Those gold in Venezuela as well. So we hope that's the type of thing that last and also it's the type of thing that happens

in Iran that we can reopen diplomatic ties to them. We'd love nothing more than to have a embassy in Tehran and work with those people over there.

That's, they've got, there's something like 90 million people in the country of Iran.

They have a lot of resources. They have a lot of very obviously wonderful people as President Trump talks about all the time. And we just hope that we'll be able to develop a relationship with them. And if we can provide them some guidance and ideas on setting up a working, a democratic, or a Republican, or a public government, then we're happy to do that.

I do not see any opportunity, no matter what crazy Democrat senators say, that there will be boots on the ground in Iran.

And it's really not needed.

“We don't need to do that because we can take out almost everything we need to do from the air and from the ocean.”

And we're doing a good job of that as well. So anyway, that's the information Iran. If you've got any more questions on that, you want to write to me. Feel free to do that. Ron, it Ron Simmons got calm. I'm certainly not, you know, the top expert in the country. I do try to talk to a lot of people that are involved in this and no more than I do.

And so I try to give you the information that I know and that I can discover.

So please, if you have any more questions, just give me a shout on that now. Our friends in the immigration and the Department of Homeland Security and they are our friends. They've done those men and women there have done it really hard job, a good job in a very tough situation. And if you remember, currently, that whole department has not been budgeted for. There's not been funded for the last two or three weeks because in order to keep the rest of the government open,

they had to cut a deal to say, we're going to leave the department home land security. They were not going to fund them, although the people are still working at the airports and our immigration officers are still working and what have you. And they'll get back pay when it all gets settled. But they had to cut a deal because the Democrats wanted to make a statement and possibly put some additional rules and regulations on immigration ice.

“And in order for it to get out of the Senate, remember you have to have 60 votes.”

You have to have 60 votes and order for there to be what they call closure, which is stopping debate and then taking a vote. Once you take a vote, it's only requires 51 to pass the bill. But in order for us to get the rest of the government continue to stay open, we had to agree that the department home land security would remain closed until they could reach an agreement. And that's how they ended up getting it done. But the head of the department home land security was a former governor Kristi Nome. She's the secretary of that. And just this week, she has been reassigned.

Well, reassigned in the government world means you've been fired, but we just haven't kicked you out because we don't want to be embarrassed by it either. But she was reassigned because of primarily, I think there was some belief that she was not as good as we hope would be. If you remember in Minnesota when things got really, really kind of at a hand there, the president said in Tom Holman, who was head of the ice and kind of calm that situation down as much as you could with those lunatics that are in government over there.

“But he'd be able to draw down some of the ice officers and what have you got more cooperation out of the local sheriff departments so that there wouldn't need to be as many arrest in a sense on the street of illegals.”

They would be able to get them out of the jails that they were being detained in. And so that was kind of a signal that maybe the president didn't have as much faith in secretary Nome as thought and then she had a hearing this week. Which, you know, and it's a Republican led hearing because Republicans controlled all the committees so their Republican chairman had to call it in. It's a Senate committee and she was grilled over a lot of different things and of course the Democrat senators get to ask questions, but one of the things that appeared to be the straw that broke the camel's back was an advertising campaign for the Department of Homeland Security.

Where by these contracts were given in a no bid basis, these contracts were supposed to be competitively bid. But she, she stated, some type of emergency border security clause that allowed her to give these contracts out that were no bid. And it appears that some of them went to firms that were closely affiliated to her or her organization without, again, a competitive bidding process. And it wasn't a small number. It was a $220 million ad campaign, which a lot of people say appeared to be really more promoting secretary Nome than it did promoting the efforts of the men and women of her department.

The ad campaign did come back to haunt Miss Nome, but she wasn't very happy about it. And here's what she says.

The president approved the head of time, you spending $220 million running TV ads across the country and which you are featured prominently. Yes, sir. We went through the legal processes. Did it correct the pressure? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He did.

Yes. Okay. And one thing Senator, I think, would be helpful to know as how effective that communications has been.

And it, and I just, I'm not saying you're not telling the truth. It's just hard for me to believe. Now, chances are I've been in hearings when I was in the legislature sitting in similar to position where Senator Kennedy would be obviously not at that level. But usually, we know the answers to the questions before we ask them. So chances are Senator Kennedy had already checked with the White House on whether or not the president knew or not.

And so he kind of knew what the answer was, not always, but a lot of times that's the case.

You don't, the last thing you want to do is one asking the questions to be put yourself in a position of looking foolish or not having the correct information. But President Trump has said he did not know about it, or at least he didn't recall ever doing that.

“And I think something that big, they're probably would have, there's probably a record of that somewhere.”

And then what happened after that is President Trump got wind of that was not very happy about it. He did name her to a new role as special envoy for the Shield of America, which I know I did exactly what that means. But he did do that, and he then has named a new person to be take the Secretary of DHS. And the guy's name is Mark Wayne Mullin, who is a Republican from Oklahoma, a Native American. He's a current U.S. senator, and he'll take over as a new DHS Secretary.

Of course, he will initially be acting and then who have to be approved by the Senate, which shouldn't be a problem. And we have a statement on I think it's probably from true social President Trump talked about. So he's pleased to announce it under the current Secretary, who he obviously didn't throw under the bus served well. She's going to be a special envoy. He thanks her for her service. And then he goes on to talk a little bit about what Mark Wayne Mullin senator Mullin had done in the past.

He was in the United States House of Representatives, and then he went on to be a representative Oklahoma.

And he obviously is a Native American. He understands different types of incredible tribal communities.

He's going to do a good job according to him. He's going to make America safe again.

“And I think it's a great pick. I think when you can pick a minority for a role that deals with a lot of minorities,”

which illegals mostly are minorities that are coming across, then I think that's a really, really good pick for him. And I think that'll be a good spot. Anyway, we'll see what happens with that. But again, he appointed Senator Mullin and in thought eight, this is how they honored Senator Mullin. But what was your first reaction to just the news that you were nominated for this position? Just everything in that's happening.

And it's just, you know, pretty humly when you start thinking about it. It's a little kid from Westville, Oklahoma. It's serving the president's cabinet. That's pre-need. So obviously he's humbled and honored. You know, the other thing is he's an MMA fighter. So I really wouldn't want to mess with him. We're glad to have you in there. Thank him for serving. And the press secretary also put out a post on Senator Mullin.

And also thanking Chris, you know him for her work as well.

All right. Why don't we go to some questions from our great audience. You guys are always so good about that.

I mean, I'm never again, never cease to be amazed at the questions that you have. And there's always more than I can answer. So if I can't get to your particular question. But it's something that I haven't covered otherwise specific to you. Please feel free to email me. I try to get to those as much as I can. If you've sent me something and I haven't responded, please email me again because somehow it got past the first or second page of my emails.

And I'll be happy to do it. I'm not, I don't ever avoid any questions. So if you send them to me, please just, and I haven't done it, please send them to me again. All right. All right. Who replaces Senator Mullins in the Senate? That's a really good question. This is how things work.

“I think in every state, if a Senator leaves their position during the middle of their term or any time during their term, then the governor of the state.”

In this case, it's governor. I think his STI, TT, Stilt, not sure exactly how he says last name, but he will appoint someone to take over for the remainder of the term. Now, in some states, the appointment may be more temporary than that where they have to have a special election. I'm not sure what happens in Oklahoma.

But there will be a mad rush. You can, you can believe me, his cell phone is getting blown up right now. And he may ask also Senator Mullin, what his thoughts are on that.

But they'll do that. And the reason Senator Mullin is a good pick from a political standpoint is because Oklahoma is a solid Republican state. So you don't have a chance where even if there is a special election or in the next election, the Republican should not lose that seat.

“So that's how that'll work. And then how concerned am I about Texas flipping blue, especially with sleazy Talarico?”

Well, Talarico is a wolf and sheep's closing. No question about that. He is as far left as Jasmine Crocket would have ever been.

I was rooting for Jasmine. I want you to know that Jasmine. I was rooting for you.

All right. But you didn't quite get it over the line. And of course, then you claimed that, you know, it was your election to nire and your election already. But I don't see any of your friends saying you shouldn't be an election to nire. But that's all I read in the paper yesterday is that it was a Republican thought, even though you were in a Democrat primary, you blame the Republicans for your election being rigged. You had to explain that when to me. Again, email, we're on it wrongsimmons.com. We'll talk about that. But I don't have a concern about Texas turning blue. I do think that we can't ever sit on our hands. We have to get the vote out.

And Talarico is going to be a formidable opponent. There's no question about that because he will have all the money behind him. He kind of, you know, he kind of looks the part and says that says the right things and whatever, but he is dangerous.

“Let me tell you something. He is very, very dangerous. All right. How do we convince people, no to Talarico?”

And list his political failings as crazy. We're going to talk more about that. I know Ali will be talking more about that over the next couple of months.

I will put some stuff together. That'll help you with that. And get to some facts. So you can get some facts out to all of the friends and the people that you're talking to. Rising gas prices. Where will it stop? I don't know exactly the amount. But I do think it'll be neutralized over the next few weeks. It could spike up a little more before it is here. I'm sure there will. There's going to be some continued disruptions. A little bit. They're going to have to get the straight of Hormuz figured out. It doesn't really have much of effect on the all supply here in the US.

But remember, oil, oil prices and all commodities are worldwide. So it affects the flow of oil in some parts of the world that has an effect on us as well. But I do think that'll get straightened out over the next few weeks. I've read in something the other day that China gets quite a bit of their oil 20% or something like that from Iran. And I think that we are trying to work out to help them as far as that kind of replace that. I don't know if we've come from us directly or come from Saudi Arabia or someplace like that.

But trying to get that worked out so that it doesn't have a major disruption on the world economy, which is the smart thing to do.

“You know, it's interesting. You may be arguing with somebody or something or some country over here on this issue, but then you've got to work together on another issue. And that's what a lot of our”

people here in the US and maybe around the world don't understand it. A lot of people think we only can be this way. It's got to be this way on everything 100% of the time. That's not the way it works. That's not the way the sausage is made and you just have to understand that. It's okay if you know Mr. Democrat and I agree on this and disagree on that. That's the way things work and that's the way they should work. How let's see here. How did I maintain a strong religious household through through the different phases of life? You know, you hope that it's happening like that.

I will tell you that in our house and I've said this before a lot of it was my wife Lisa and the kids mom, you know, she was underneath every morning. She still does it. I heard her in there yesterday morning having a conversation with God on an issue that we're working on in our family right now. And she was just claiming it. I mean, she was just claiming these truths that are in the Bible and continuing to do that and putting the trying to put those on the hearts of our kids. It's obviously best if you start that when they're young so that you're so that that is deep into their heart because when they're young it's so much like a sponge.

They get older they get maybe some more resistance and things bounce off but when they're kids it just they just absorb that and so the younger you can do that the better as they as you go through life. One of the things that we had to learn in our household and really when I say we that's kind of the royal we it's really me I was the one that didn't know it is that there are preferences.

There are a lot of things that were my preference I wanted Ali Beth and my other kids to get up and make their bed every morning keep a clean room really a preference honestly all right.

I wanted to make it a rule in fact I would have said it's one of my values but that would be wrong too and so we had to learn that you have to make sure that you're you're definitely flexible with your preferences you might you might say how wish you would do that sweetheart. I would say hey you know what the rule is we have a curfew eleven o'clock and that's not going to change we can talk about it, but unless you have a really good argument which honestly Ali was really good argument so that was kind of hard to argue with her.

But that's not going to change she didn't ever puts that on below part but then the values which hopefully you instilled early on that those never change the value of being truthful the value of being on or in each other the value of worshiping our Lord those types of things those types of things are values that you never change no matter what things.

“of life that your household is in. All right newly married couple how can we protect our future children from worldly views just kind of like what I said a minute ago just get them get them in.”

Implanted in them early of what your views and your values are and allow that to be the sounding board that they test everything against if you put somebody's values in them what they believe in.

And as other things are presented to them they will measure them against those values and they may question those values and when they do hopefully you have relationship we all are open enough where you can have that discussion. They may not be mature enough to to be able to defend them as well as you want to so you may have to help them do that and you should encourage them. Hey if if you ever come across something that goes against what we know that our values are and you don't know why our values are that in that particular situation let's sit down and talk about it right that that's what I would do all right.

Cornin versus Paxton would trump endorse cornin and replace bondy with Paxton so bondies are US attorney general Paxton is the state of Texas attorney general.

And Senator Cornin is the city new as senator Cornin and Paxton are going against each other and what will now be a runoff.

“My preference is Senator Cornin on that. I think he'll be has been a really good senator and will continue to be a good senator he votes with President on President Trump's agenda 90 something percent of the time.”

I don't think that AG Paxton will do a better job than him and there is some. What would you say there are some issues with attorney general Paxton's past that I think would have a big negative effect on us in a general election. It would be much harder for him to beat Talariko than it will for Senator Cornin. I don't know if President Trump obviously is going to endorse Cornin I keep hearing that's going to happen from some sources that I have but I do not know that haven't certainly haven't talked to the president on that.

“One of the one of the things that President Trump has said though is that whoever it is that I endorse the other person really should drop out of the race and Paxton has come out and said well I'm not doing that.”

That makes me think that Trump is leaning to Cornin and so they may be trying to cut a deal behind the scenes like you're talking about here. I doubt that Pam Bondi would unless she wants to leave I don't think she would be pushed out. It's not unusual for some of the cabinet secretary to leave in the second year or so after they've been in these these jobs are incredibly 24/7. So I doubt he would be the attorney general because I don't know that he could get through the Senate confirmation scenario.

But there may be something he's working out to appoint Paxton to something that would allow they're not to be a hugely contested runoff election. That would be best for the Republican Party for sure. What do you do when you're 21 year old is heading down the wrong path? Well you know and I know you're doing this but we got to have unconditional love. We have to realize that they've come to a point in their life where they absolutely have free will. And that hopefully you've instilled in them a foundation of what's right and what's wrong and a belief in God and a belief in Jesus.

And that you keep the communication channels open enough to that they will come back to you. Alright. You cannot just continue to beat on them and beat on them and beat on them. That doesn't work. I wish it did.

And you also have to go on about your life. You can't let their scenario totally stop you from whatever it else you're supposed to be doing.

“And then finally, if they're putting your rest of your family in a dangerous situation, you have to separate yourself from that.”

You cannot put, let them put the rest of your family at risk if it's a dangerous situation. So hopefully it's not that just maybe kind of veering off the path.

For a little bit when I was in my late teens early 20s got back corrected mainly because of the foundation that that I had been brought up with.

Tucker Carlson's narrative on Israel. Man, I don't know. I don't know if you listen to the Huckabee interview with him or his interview of Huckabee.

I thought it was really good. I thought of Ambassador Huckabee did a great job on that. If you haven't go back and watch that, I'm not sure what's going on with Tucker.

“I really don't know. I mean, I think it's internal for him. It's maybe it's a spiritual battle. He's talked about that a little bit that he's had some challenges with that in the past.”

But I'm worried about him personally and don't know why he's doing the things that he's doing. So anyway. I really appreciate you. I'll be in here today. It's been another good day. I hope that you'll remember to do a couple of things to get your tickets to share the arrows and guys. If you haven't bought those for your special loved one yet, then do that. Go on there and get those tickets already been thousand sold and eventually be sold out. So make sure that you do that. It's going to be an October of this year. You can go to share the arrows dot com and get that. It's going to be another great event.

It's a great job with that. As you know, I'll be walking around. Hope you're seeing it to meet a bunch of you. But make sure you do that. The other thing is, if you're interested in anything else related to what I think about things, not emailing me. Also get a copy of my book. Life lessons from the Little Red Wagon. You can order that on Ali's merchandise website. You can also order it from amazon.com.

“If you want to get one, I keep some of my house. Want to get one directly from me. You can just send me your email. I'll tell you. I'll have to sign a copy and send it to you.”

And you can just mail me a check or something like that. So make sure you do that. And also toxic empathy. There's no better time to read that book. So toxic empathy to understand how the Democrats use our good nature that we have against us. So make sure you read that. It's a New York Times best seller that Ali's written. And she's working on another book. That she'll be talking about soon. So thanks. And we'll look forward to seeing you again soon. Take care. [BLANK_AUDIO]