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Actually, something that caught my attention as I was preparing for the program
today that I want to spend some time talking about. It's something that's right
up my alley and of course reminds me of a Seinfeld. In fact,
I saw a little bit If there's any Seinfeld fans, I'm sure there are
Seinfeld fans out there listening in this audience, but I just saw a little
bit of background to the story of the episode where George was a marine biologist.
Now George really wasn't a marine biologist, but Jerry had told he ran
into a girl that had gone to high school with him and with George,
and she asked, what's George up to? And Jerry told her that he's
a marine biologist for whatever reason. And when George found out about this,
when Jerry told him that she may be under the impression that he was a
marine biologist, George didn't like that. And Jerry said, George, with
all due respect, I thought this would be right up your alley, and
George says, I know, my alleys, this is not my alli.
You know, you know, I always wanted to pretend to be an architect,
as George would say, he always wanted to be or pretend to be
an architect. But this here is right up my alley. This is how
to talk to your normy neighbor. Now I don't know about the terminology that
may date me a little bit. How to talk to your normy neighbor about
election integrity. That's the Federalist. This is a piece by Ellie Pernell or
L Pernell. I don't know, I know what Ellie. That spells her
name like this, E L L E. I would say L. Some
people may say that's Ellie. I don't know L pronell, Ellie pronell whatever.
I want to talk about this today because I think there's some some good
practical It's practical, right, I mean, sometimes it's nice to talk about
what's what you know, the issues and what's what's going on. But if
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All right, my friends, and so one of the things that is important
to me is not just and it's important that we talk about these issues,
that we understand the issues, that we that we take a good position on
these issues. On political issues, but even more fundamentally, just just the
ideology that we have built these opinions on. You know, I believe that
what we try to do here on this program is to help people hear and
receive truth. And it's not that we have it all figured out, although
as I've said many times before, it's very understanding to me why you would
think that we do. But the truth is, we don't have everything figured
out. But when we when we land on truth, when truth is revealed
to us, we had better hang on to that for dear life, and
we had better do what we can to make sure that it is received or
passed along to the next generation. Right. That reminds me, as I
often say on here, the quote by Ronald Reagan where he says freedom is
always one generation away from extinct extinction. We do not pass along our desire
for freedom, our love for freedom. How we have embraced freedom in this
country, that does not go down the bloodstream. I guess. I guess
our desire for freedom is built into who we are, but our understanding on
how to maintain that freedom is not a given, and so we have to
pass that along to the next generation actively. This is not a passive.
This is not a passive thing, and in fact passivity if we're not intentionally
trying to pass along the good, the default is that the uh, the
bad will will fill the void. I mean, we can look at what
happened with gender in this country as a great example. We didn't fight back
quickly enough, vociferously enough, strategically enough against that trans movement. We were
completely I think caught off guard collectively, or we were so blown away the
first time we heard some of these things that we thought that can't possibly be
taken seriously, that no one seriously believes that, And now we're living with
the consequences of that. Now we even have and this isn't the stack of
stuff as well. I don't want to get into this, but I'm just
telling you if you want to read, if you want to read more about
this. But I've had this in the stack of stuff for for some time,
a couple of different articles past the past few weeks. But the Biden
administration is now bringing the gender war to your workplace. Wants to tell employers
that they've got to accept pronouns, they better abide by such pronouns, and
they had better have genderless bathrooms. This stuff is all coming to your place
of business one way, shape manner, reform as soon as the left can
move us that direction. So we know that if we don't constantly teach the
truth, that a lie will fill its place. There is a void,
and so we have to actively pass along these truths. It reminds me.
It reminds me of how God instructed the Israelites to share stories. You know,
as you're sitting around your dinner table, as you're going about your average
day, tell stories. Tell about the experiences, tell about the lessons.
Now, we've got to be better at telling. In fact, I got
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Maybe that's something that you personally that could help you as well. But
we have to be better at passing that story along. We have to be
better at communicating and using those everyday moments. That's what God told the Israelites
to do. That's why when they cross the Jordan River they put the Ebenezer
stones there. And so when you're walking by on the banks of the river
and your kids are with you and say, Dad, what's that big pile
of rocks over there for? You? Say, well, son, I'm
glad you asked me about that. Let me tell you a story, right,
and we need to be better at that. And I'm going to tell
you that the left they know these things. The left is a lot of
things that are bad. But they're not stupid, my friends, they're not
stupid. They know. This is one of the reasons why they attack the
family. They put pressure on the family. They want to tear apart the
family. They want to make little feminists. They want to make just whatever
it takes, make a type of person that is resistant to the try traditional
American family, traditional family in general, because the more you can break that
up, the more the more that you can break up some of the ability
to do these sorts of things. I mean, broken homes aren't very good
at being able to do things like this, or or a family that is
under huge financial pressures where both parents have to work a lot, where kids
are involved in activities at school, and which is fun. None of these
things are bad in none of themselves. But when it polls the family apart
and when there's the you lose the ability to do some of these things just
because of realities. I mean, one of the reasons they like inflation.
They act like they don't, but one of the reasons they like it is
because it puts this country into a breaking point, breaking point financially, but
also at a breaking point just within the family structure, because something's got to
give. Everybody can't just always take on another job. Everybody can't always just
ignore a problem that needs to be addressed. It breaks the system. And
so people, when the system is broken, they look to the government to
fix it, create a new scenario. And those lovers of big government,
those radical leftists, are their ease, just gleefully rubbing their hands together and
telling you, boy, do we have the solution for you. We've got
the solution for you. We're going to make it all fair, We're going
to make it all right. We're going to restore these things to you.
Of course, in the mean meanwhile, in the process of doing that,
they're going to destroy They're going to destroy the heart and soul of the American
spirit and on those things that are true that we've built this great republic upon,
and so and so we have to be able to have those conversations.
So we have to have those conversations about ideas, but we also have to
have those ideas or conversations I should say, about things like election integrity.
And that's what this article, this piece written by Ellie Purnell of this is
at the Federalist dot com and she's got tips I like this. This is
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by Ellie Pernell how to talk to your normy neighbor about election integrity. You
don't have to be a legal expert to understand these fundamental things about what makes
elections free and secured. Bingo bango. That's the first thing, the very
first thing that I think we all need to understand is that you don't have
to be a quote unquote expert. That silences so many people right off the
bat. People think, I can't possibly know all the ins and outs.
I can't possibly understand everything that is going on in our election system. I've
never worked at the polls. I don't understand how this works, you know,
and I get that. But take that pressure off of you, my
friend. Take the pressure off because instead of looking at let me say this.
I learned this years ago as a young Christian, and I thought it
was a very very interesting way of putting way of describing It's a good analogy.
So I was told that. Whenever, so when you're trying to determine
what is what is say a counterfeits or what is true? So let's say
let's just say for the sake of argument. I know some of you in
this audience will dispute this, that's not the point of this. But let's
say that it is in fact, reality and absolutely true, that there is
a God, that it is the God. He is the God of the
Bible, who exists. Jesus is the way, the truth of the life,
the story of the Bible, is true. Right, Jesus died resurrected
all that for you, for me, And let's say that that is the
truth just for the sake of argument of some don't believe that. And I'm
not trying to change any minds right now. I'm just simply here to illustrate
this because this is an important analogy. So if that is in fact the
truth, then the best way to know you can't possibly have an answer to
every single objection that somebody has, because some of them you may not have
heard. Now, at some point we get to the place where there are
no new objections and there's nothing new under the sun to be set out there,
but there might be different variations that maybe you haven't heard before. And
you can't possibly have an answer for every single objection from every single religion that's
ever existed on planet Earth. Right, that's just not realistic. And so
so what was taught. What was taught was to have this to understand the
truth so well that you understand anything that doesn't that doesn't fit into it.
And so the example was given to me of the Mounted Police in Canada.
One of their jobs was to recognize counterfeit currency. And so these officers in
order to identify counterfeit currency, to not study all the variations of the counterfeits.
What they did was they studied the real thing. They studied the real
thing, and they understand what the real thing looks like so much that if
something that is not the real thing comes into the local currency or whatever,
if if someone tries to introduce it to the local economy and someone has a
question about it, and the officer sees that they will be able to identify
it because it is not like the real thing in some way, shape,
form, whatever texture. There's a way to say this doesn't match up because
it doesn't feel like it, or this number shouldn't look like this, or
there's some hologram here or whatever it is that the currency has. You don't
have to study all the variations to understand that. You have to study the
real thing. And so, in a in a I'm alert fashion, I
would say, instead of understanding how our system of elections, excuse me,
elections work, what we should first do. What we should first do is
seek to understand just really what's supposed to happen that the concept of an election,
and it's pretty straightforward, right. You want you want to make sure.
You want to make sure that you make it now. Some people disagree
with me a little bit on this, But you want to make it something
that is relatively easy to do. Some people want it to be harder because
they think it should be something that you know, you should, you should
really want to do. I'm not saying that to make it so easy where
you just like drop leaflets out of the sky. But hey, we have
an election day or whatever that looks like, you know, here's where it
is. You got to communicate it, have people know what to do.
And then you say they're qualifications right if there if there are some degree of
qualifications, and there should be, right, I mean there should be.
You shouldn't I shouldn't be able to vote in Texas or what Louisiana or California
or some such place. I should only be able to vote where I'm a
citizen. I should be able to vote one time. I shouldn't have to
give up my right to vote. Someone who's not me shouldn't be able to
vote for me. So I have to be able to determine who it is
that's coming in there to vote. And so that's why things like an identification
are a good idea. Not well to simply prove that hey, I am
this person who is permitted who has a voice in this election. I can
prove that I am him or that I am her for a female, and
you know, you go in there and then you vote right. So that's
the first step, and so anything that makes that process more secure is a
good thing. I've said on this program before. I've said on this program
before anytime. I liken it to having a business. Anytime your doors are
open for business, if you have a retail store, you have both the
possibility of making money, but also the possibility of, say, losing money.
Now you can lose money just for the sake of the analogy. So,
if my doors are open, I'm open for business. I have people
in my store. I've agreed to allow people into my store. I can
have people who pay me for products that they take off the shelves, or
people who try to put them in their purses and other things and sneak them
out of there and don't pay. And so I want to take steps to
make sure that I can allow people to come in and shop freely, while
at the same time present preventing the possibility as much as I can of people
breaking the rules of breaking the law. Same is true with voting, right.
I want to make it as easy as I can for the legitimate voter
to vote, while at the same time making it as hard as possible on
the people who aren't supposed to vote. These aren't complicated concepts, but get
we just stow the term out there voter ID and people go nuts like avid
animals fighting over this stuff. It's an idea, it's racist, it's whatever
else can you understand in theory why we have something like this? That conversation
needs to happen a lot of times. So anyway, there's more to get
into, and I've even really read her points yet, But the bottom line
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I want to continue talking about some practical things about talking with your neighbor,
your coworker, your family member about election integrity, hopefully without creating a massive
fight. That can be done, by the way, but we're going to
talk about this again, referencing this article at the Federalist dot com. But
sit tight, my friends back in just a minute. Welcome back, my
friends. We're talking about what I consider to be practical where the rubber meets
the road sort of thing. How to talk to your normy neighbor. I
don't know about the terms there the normy neighbor about election integrity. I don't
know is that new slang normy. I guess that just means an average I
would just say an average, everyday American. How to talk to someone who
is just, you know, just a normal person, reasonable, normal American.
How do you talk to them about election integrity? Because it's man,
these things can be rife with so many problems and pitfalls. So you don't
want this to turn into a conversation where they say, well, you're an
election denier, right, You don't want to get into this stuff. You
want to just talk about the issues in such a way that you can just
come to an agreement that hey, we just don't want and I've used this
this this picture word picture before, where you know we're so lax on voting.
Where someone could just drive down to the courthouse square in a local community,
drive around the courthouse and say, hey, it's you know, I'm
Bill, I'm voting for Biden or whatever. Yell it out the window and
they say, thanks, we're gonna take it. Take down your tally,
Bill, right, And so there has to be an orderly process. There
has to be an orderly process. There has to be some whatever the criteria
is, there has to be some way to make sure that the person voting
actually matches the criteria. And some people lack like this doesn't matter, but
it does. It does matter because if you do not have a way to
keep you want every legal ballot to count as to the best of your ability.
That should be the focus. We want every single legal ballot. I
should say that every single legal ballot to count and every single illegal ballot should
there be any to not count, that's what we want. That's that's it.
But see people will just really focus on the first half of that.
We want every we want every ballot to count. No, we don't want
every ballot to count. We want every legal ballot to count, which which
means that there could be illegal ballots. And so just like in the store
analogy, right, you have you have a shop at the local mall.
If that's even a thing anymore, you got a store, people are coming
in and out. You got a convenience store. Maybe people are coming in
and out. They're buying products. Right, they go back, they grab
a gallon of milk, or they grab whatever it is. They grab chips,
or they grab I don't know, whatever they're grabbing off the store.
Shows, they grab a they grab a wireless headset for you know, I
got a headset. I got a wireless headset from I got a trucker wireless
headset. Because those are actually pretty good. Anyway, you get one of
those at a you know, you off the shelf at the truck stop,
and you go up and you pay for it. Right, That's that's what
the business wants. The business says, Hey, we got the merchandise out
there. We're willing to give that to anybody who has the criteria of having
money. And so you in order to do that, you got to bring
it off the shelf. You got to bring it to the register. We
scan it, we do whatever else we do. We exchange the money,
right, we exchange the money. But the crooks, my friends, and
there are crooks in everything. There are crooks every everywhere. Crooks exist everywhere
in every group of people. They agree that they and they'll target every everything
that they can target. That's who crooks are. They try to find the
easiest way to get what they want, and that could be money, that
could be you know, sometimes they want to set steal merchandise. Sometimes they
want to steal votes. This should not come as a shock to anybody,
and we don't do anybody any favors if we act like nobody wants to steal
votes. I mean, folks, we have speed limit signs on the road
and there are people that well, if we're being honest, most of us,
most of us do this. It's time to time we exceed the speed
limit. Some of you may not ought just leave it at that, but
there are people that break the speed limit. There are people that run stop
signs. There are people that turn right on red, even when there's a
sign that says no right turn on red. I mean, there no matter
what the rule, it will get broken, it will get tested. This
should not be surprising. I don't understand why we act like voting is so
sacred in the sense that everyone just respects it and has a reverence for it.
And man, we just got to make sure we get to the will
of people. I mean, everybody's admitted that these elections have tremendous consequences.
Are we suddenly supposed to believe that people believe that there's, you know,
a circumstance that their guy loses, that life as they know it on planet
Earth or in this country is going to change so dramatically that they don't want
to do anything else about it, that they're just going to accept the reality
that they lost and say golly ges shucky dern and move around, move about
their day. That's not in what universe? Is that realistic? Tell me
you know nothing about human nature without directly saying to me, you know nothing
about human nature. If that's how you believe people approach the voting booth,
we have people in this country who aren't even supposed to be here legally.
I've said this before. Why would we believe that they would cross our southern
border illegally? But yet they have so much respect for what happens in that
voting booth, so much integrity to not cross that line, that they don't
cross the voting booth line. But yet they'll cross the southern border or the
northern border. It doesn't even matter to me. Why do we pretend.
Why do we embrace these silly narratives. It's ridiculous. That's not how this
works. And see, I haven't mentioned up to this point in this program.
I haven't mentioned directly. If I may have referenced it in passing,
but I haven't mentioned twenty twenty. I haven't mentioned two thousand mules. I'm
just talking about how elections should be managed. Because what happens is when you
talk about Trump, when you talk about twenty twenty, when you talk about
Biden, when you say the thing conservative, liberal, Democrat, Republican,
you get an immediate visceral reaction, and the other side wants to win.
I saw I saw a person I don't know who it was. It was
somewhere on social media. They were going they were going to these quote unquote
protesters, these anti Semitic, anti American quote unquote protesters who are basically standing
up for the Palestinians and Hamas at the expense of Israeli lives. And some
of these questions that were that were asked, and just the inability of people,
the inability of people to acknowledge it. I saw another I saw another
guy who was asking people they were out protesting Trump, protesting Trump, and
he asked the question, what do you you know? Or they were saying
Trump is a fascist. You know, maga Republicans are fascist. You've seen
these protests. And the guy said, is it fascist to go after your
political opponents and to you know, charge them with crimes and go after them
through the legal system. And instead of saying just yes, that is a
tactic used by the fascists, some of these people said, they immediately went
into defensive mode, right, and so a mind that's in defensive mode mode
is not going to be persuaded. So instead of instead and making a point
to show the hypocrisy, I get it. I'm not criticizing him, But
what I'm saying is if we want, if we want something beyond just you
know, to watch a video and say, man, that's appalling. Society
is going to hell in a handbasket, why can't they just admit that instead
of instead of that, If we really want to persuade people, why won't
we do things in a way that's most persuading. I don't understand. I
don't understand it. I don't Some people want the clicks. It's better to
live in the echo chamber. I guess I don't. It's not for me.
It's not for me. This country's in a heck of a mess.
We need to do something about it, and that includes persuading people, and
so we better be about that business and so and so. That's why we
do it in such a way. You know, hey, you want your
vote to count. I want your vote account. I don't want anybody's vote
account. That shouldn't be voting, because it cancels out your vote if,
of course they vote in the opposite direction, or it cancels out the vote
of somebody else who's a legitimate voter. Why would that Surely we can agree
that that shouldn't happen. I mentioned Biden Trump, and that's important. That's
important to do, and just logically we can understand how to do this build
the case for making sure we have secure elections without saying twenty twenty was stolen
or whatever the case may be. Right, So, anyway more to say
on this Again, I'm referencing an article that's in the stack of stuff,
but it's written at the Federalist dot com. Again, the title here is,
where are we how to talk to your normy neighbor about Election Integrity,
written by Ellie pernell. I find these things fascinating and highly practical, and
these are the sorts of things that are gonna have to be done in mass
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the ever so beloved Todd huff back in just a minute. We'll come
back, my friends. So let's look specifically at some of the things,
some of the pointers that Ellie has here in her article regarding election integrity.
I've shared my thoughts. I'll continue to do that. By the way,
she says, first, chaos is bad. Confusion creates opportunities for both intentional
and unintentional wrongdoing. This reminds me again, I gotta pause this article.
There wasn't a report or a poll. There was a poll recently done for
people who had voted via mail in ballots. I just saw this. It
was this week. It's in I think it's in one of this one of
this week's stack of stuff you know list of articles the poll found. The
poll found that one in five Americans admitted admitted to doing something wrong or illegal
in the voting process. Doesn't mean it was intentional. It could have been
completely unintentional. And so to her point here, she says, lacks policies
that make it more likely affect election officials don't know who a voter is,
where he lives, whether he is eligible to vote, or whether he already
has voted. Invite chaos and undermine order. Obviously massive, massive problem there,
illegitimate votes, she says, cancel out legal votes. That's obvious to
those of us who think about that. I'm not criticizing her article, but
some people don't stop to think about this. When you say election integer,
they election integrity. They immediately flash to Donald Trump psychologically in their brains,
and then they immediately fall into regurgitating the narrative, which as Trump tried to
overthrow the election result of twenty twenty and steal the election. When look that
is, oh boy, that's whatever happened there. We can't prevent that from
happening in twenty twenty. What we can do is to prevent whatever happened or
didn't happen for those who just don't want to the fine, we can make
sure that whatever scenario people believe happened is impossible or very unlikely to happen.
Put we can do things after learning about what happened in twenty twenty, even
if you don't believe that there were questionable things. And this is where I
would bring in two thousand mules. If that sort of thing doesn't bother you,
if you don't find a problem with that, then at least I would
think I would hope you would want to create a scenario where people at least
trusted the results of their election and believed that Biden was elected justifiably legally by
the American by the American voter. I think that you would want that.
Maybe not. She also says here, if someone's vote is going to cancel
out yours, he should verify he is eligible to vote. I mean,
yes, that's true as well. No one else should be responsible for your
act of self governance. She writes here, there was a time when voters
went to their polling place on election day, received a ballot, filled it
out with the pen, and turned it in. These voters didn't worry about
that their ballots might get lost or stolen, or delayed in the mail,
or rejected for missing a signature or a date. They didn't worry about a
ballot in their name that they never requested, automatically sent to whatever new resident
might now live at their old address. They didn't entrust their ballots to political
operatives who go house to house and collect voters ballots on by the bundle.
This process also requires voters to take some kind of responsibility. And she's right
again. We want to make it as easy to vote as possible, but
we don't want to just make it like, hey, here's an email,
click here if you want to vote for Biden. You know that that's you
have to take responsibility to participate. And that's what she's saying here. You
know, we have to be responsible enough to say, hey, I have
a responsibility. I want to participate in this idea of America. Right,
I want to participate, but and it should be as easy as possible for
me to participate. But it shouldn't be done for me. You had to
be invested, she said, enough to that you remember to vote and go
to the polls, or requested an absentee ballot. You might even have had
to register to vote instead of being registered automatically. Voting was more of an
intentional affair than filling out a customer service on your phone. Of course,
some voters will be out of town on election day and need an absentive of
at ballot, and some may have physical restrictions that keep them from heading to
their polling place. There's nothing wrong with the laws accommodating these exceptions. But
when voting, the voting system makes third parties more responsible for casting, for
the casting of your ballot than you are. It cheapens your participation in self
governance. So, in other words, if you can't go to vote,
and it's not an irrational or illogical thing to say, make accommodations to get
an absentee ballot instead of saying, hey, because because this person can't vote,
vote, let's dump ballots into the mailstream. Right, that doesn't make
any sense. That's not how we would deal with any sort of That's not
how adults would deal with any problems candidly, if they wanted to act like
adults anyway. Finally, she says, sunlight is the best disinfectant. Right,
Transparency is a good thing. We have to be able to see what's
going on. And that's I mean. I'm reminded of windows being covered in
twenty twenty, right when people were in there. I'm reminded of people being
told that they had to go home and there would be no more counting for
the night. I reminded of people in twenty twenty who were you know,
states shut down the counting of their ballots, and then we saw in the
middle of the night Biden's vote jump right and surpassed Trump, and then we
saw that hockey shaped graph, and so forth. Election integrity matters. We
have to explain this to people. This article is good. I've got to
go have a wonderful day. My friend's SDG