BREAKING: Supreme Court Sides with Trump in Major Voting Case

We got breaking news. Supreme Court sides with President Trump in a major voting case.

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And now, your host, Logan Secula. The midterms are coming. And Supreme Court has a bit of a. You know what I'll say a ruling, but they have. Giving President Trump at least a win for right now.

Let's check this out. Slogan Sekulow, Will Haynes in Studio, Jeff Balabon from ACLJ Jerusalem is going to be joining us. Talk a little bit about their most recent comments. From Hassan Piker. That'll be fun.

But until then, let's keep this conversation going. 1-800-684-3110. This has to do with the implementation of restrictions on mail and voting. We know some states are not thrilled with this decision, as President Trump had an executive order, and that executive order will remain in effect likely now. Through the midterm elections, that's right.

So, this executive order was specifically related to mail-in ballots, and it did several things, including needing a list from states of people who are approved or are voters, so that only those individuals could receive a ballot by mail delivered by the Postal Service. It also add some other things, like a unique barcode, identifiers that way to be able to, as the President was saying, make the voting by mail more secure. Yeah, actually, verify that it's going to the right people and it's being decided by and voted by also the right people. Look, it's tough, it's no easy solution when it comes to mail-in voting. But one of the first steps seems pretty easy: only send it out to people who actually are registered, updated, and are nearby.

And so, what happened? Uh, well, 23 states immediately sued and said, Hey, and you can guess which political disposition the leadership of those states may be. But they sued the administration, said, No, you can't do this. This is interfering with our ability to run elections as the Constitution allows. And they took it to court.

They got an injunction at the district court level. The administration appealed. And asked for a stay of that injunction.

So the administration is asking for this executive order to move forward. And the Supreme Court. Agreed with the administration yesterday and said the government has asked us to stay the injunction, arguing that it is likely to succeed on the merits of its jurisdictional argument. That the injunction is causing it irreparable harm, and that the equities do not favor leaving the injunction in place while the government's appeal is pending. We agree and grant the stay.

It's a percurium order, which means it is not signed by a specific justice, but there are three dissents. And so you can kind of figure out how this fell. It was among party lines, probably a six to three. We know there were three dissenters here that would, those dissenters would have said, leave the injunction in place while this goes out in court. We're going to talk about what it all means, what it means for the midterms.

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As the Supreme Court has at least decided to hold the decision President Trump placed with his executive order that would start a process of true verification of mail-in balloting.

Now, you could have a lot of conversation around whether you like mail-in balloting at all. But at least we have a decision that will get us through The midterm elections.

Now you're going to have a lot of chaos involved because you're only weeks away from some of these happening. I'll be honest, some of the restrictions to get Malin validing is they're pretty restrictive. They have to have a process in place to verify all of this. And you're talking about state governments. They don't historically move at lightning speed.

I don't think you hear about them, and they're known for their. Uh you know, quick. The bureaucracies don't move very quickly, is what you're trying to say. I was trying to say it like a metaphor you were looking for. Oh, in a zootopia movie.

Good callback.

So here's what we're looking at, though. Tell me about the injunction judgment. And I think a lot of this is where we're getting to a point in the United States where voting itself has become so politicized that, yeah, maybe there should be some common sense things that we can, both sides can agree on. But instead, you have the craziness that's going on in some of these states where, like we've pointed out in California, where they're saying, yeah, it's illegal to register to vote if you're not a citizen. We don't need voter ID or any of these regulations.

However, we don't police it. We have no procedures to investigate if that crime has happened. And also, the Secretary of State's office doesn't keep track of it if they remove someone. For illegally being registered, you've seen what happened in New Jersey, where their glitch included a bunch of non-citizens in their voter rolls.

So, there is an issue that needs to be addressed, and they keep saying, Look, we caught it too late, but it didn't affect the election. They're moving the goalpost on what matters instead of saying, you know what, we hear you. Let's come together. We see that there are some questions around the integrity of our elections. Let's work together.

No, they politicized it, and both sides are using this of like, look, the other side doesn't want free and fair elections. I don't think 100% of Democrats or Democrat voters are, you could blanket statement, say they don't care about the integrity of the elections. But Both sides are fighting in a point. Where you're having situations where the President's gonna try an executive order. There's some irony here.

Because what I love about this entire story is that when. The left pointed during the entire COVID changes around mail-in balloting. And some lawsuits were brought, and it was said by courts: this is too early. There's no harm yet. You can't actually fight this.

Then, after the fact it's over and the election's over, and you're like, oh, well, now you can sue, but you can't overtime the election. That's kind of what's happening here. And where the left said Deal with it. You couldn't break yeah, it was too early. Trust the legal system.

Now they're saying, oh, Trump's court. Oh, my goodness, the Supreme Court. It's the same thing where the states are suing against the executive order. And the reason that the stay was granted on the lower court's injunction, so the reason the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration, it's a little bit of a misnomer. It's what every headline says.

And in theory, they did because they granted the stay. It's a win. But in reality, they agreed with the argument of the government that there's no harm yet. These states are saying they're bringing this suit to try and stop it, but it's too early.

So the irony's not lost there. That what one political side was upset about, now the tables have turned. And the other political side that said Sorry, you tried to sue us too early. The same thing is happening.

Now, that's a part of the legal process, but that's exactly what's happening here. I think we can open up the conversation also to executive orders in general. You know, we saw really the Obama administration really blow the doors down in terms of executive orders and the function that they have. I mean, we know how much that was utilized and really changed the trajectory of how executive orders are used, even under the Trump administration. What I'm saying is, it changed the way Presidents in general handle that decision-making power when they have that executive order and they can make a decision.

Even if that decision, by the way, ultimately could fail in court, it still holds weight. And as we see right now, it holds weight and could have some really definitive proof of weight when it comes to people's ability to vote in this upcoming election, which happens in just a number of weeks here.

Well, and to that point, exactly. But I want people to call in. What are your thoughts on that, the executive order system at this point? Are you in favor of it because you are President Trump supporter and therefore he can do what he needs to do? Are you not in favor of it?

Do you think there needs to be more checks and balances? I think they could open up a conversation a little bit beyond even just voter mail-in voting. 1-800-684-312. And even to that point, we like to talk about unintended consequences when it's someone else that's the President. Even here.

It's calling for state-by-state Department of Homeland Security to build citizenship lists using federal databases.

So the idea there is to. Have this list that they can cross-reference whether people got. Ballots are not. Whenever the government starts making lists, As a conservative, you tend to get a little wary of where that could go. Cringe a little bit.

Right.

So that is part of this.

Now, the part of this is to say, yes, we're trying to cross-reference this data to see about. And there are voter roles. Those are in fact lists of people that are registered. But that's part of it. The other is that how the Postal Service manages this.

So one, you could talk about your unintended consequences. I'd like to hear about people that are, how do you feel about this executive order? making lists, federal government and state lists that could Be used in this point for voting purposes, but when it's someone else in office, what happens then? What kind of information is on it? But trust the Postal Service.

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Well, and also to that fact, when you're talking about what we see here, the chaos angle of this. And this, once again, is where the district may be sleeping on this because when you look at the unintended consequences. It it happens now by executive order. North Carolina sends out their mail-in ballots overseas starting September 4th.

Now, this injunction was overturned, was stayed on August 25th. That one, uh, Justice Jackson was saying this is going to cause chaos.

Now, her point wasn't legally what the court went with. But she may not be wrong on that angle of it. Once again, we saw when a lot of changes happened right before the election in 2020. What happened? A lot of chaos.

Two things can be true at the same time, that it could be a good thing, and the timing could also cause chaos. That is a concern. That could also pose a question to you, the listener: is: look, we are at an interesting point. You know, Malin Vallading obviously became much more prominent in the 2020 election. and the Conservatives completely tried to push back against it.

We saw what happened there. Then you had a bit more embracing it. You actually had a lot of conservatives saying, let's just embrace it. If they're going to play by these rules, we'll play by them as well. But what do you think where we stand right now with just the process of mail-in voting?

Should there be less restrictions? Should there be more restrictions? Should we do away with it completely? Should we embrace it completely? Just the fact that we all got to play with the same tools?

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All gifts throughout the month are doubled. Jump right into it. Phone lines are open at 1-800-684-3110. There's a pretty simple question coming in from Phil online too. Let's just hop over to Phil.

Hopefully, this will inspire you to. Give us a call, 1-800-684-30110. Phil, go ahead. Mm-hmm. Hey, I'm curious on this because I'm ignorant as far as the voter mail in, the difference between mailing in the ballot and then also absentee ballots.

I'm old school in a little community in Michigan I'm from. I like to go in, be seen. It's kind of a social thing, like the spring coming out that they used to have 100 years ago. And partly to be seen voting. My attitude is: if you don't vote, don't bitch.

Okay, Phil, we're gonna have to thank you for that. And for those on social media, you heard it unedited, unfortunately. Oh, well, Phil, I agree with you. Don't complain. Don't have, yeah.

That being said, the simple question was: what's the difference between mail-in voting and absentee voting?

So, look, I voted absentee before. It was in college. That happens. Look, absentee voters are you request a ballot ahead of time. They send you it in the mail.

You send it back. It's verified. It's a conversation between you and the state government or whatever it may be, your voting council. Mainland voting, we're mainly talking about blanket sending out ballots to every registered voter in the area.

Some states, by the way, that's all they have. That's right. And when you look at here, obviously, this is facilitated by the Postal Service. And really, absentee voting has become kind of a silhouette of what it used to be. And that's where you had to have a reason.

You were in the military. You were in college, as you mentioned. You couldn't physically get there. Yeah, that should exist. We've all agreed with absentee voting being okay, largely.

Absentee voting, as we know. Don't swing an election. Right.

Because a lot of times those aren't counted until weeks later and. I mean they're counted, but normally even the tally is needed. And a lot often, most of the time, it's not.

Now it's not saying your vote's not counted. But it's a different situation than it is on the day of the event.

However, that's again, if there is enough of a gap with the amount of people that absentee, because not a huge amount of people are doing absentee voting, like Will said, military, maybe you're in college, you have medical reasons. There were reasons you were doing this. What we're talking about is more what happened in 2020, which was during COVID, they just decided, let's just drop ballots to everyone. And then some people are going to go vote, but they also may have a paper ballot. They may have a ballot that's in the mail.

They may have a ballot that's it became an absolute nightmare.

So, and there are some states that are only vote by mail. Right.

That is their entire election system. Right.

I believe Oregon is one of them. I think Colorado has something very close to that, but not, it's still a little bit of a hybrid. But some states have gone that direction and that is their entire system. The vote by mail term has been kind of adopted because it was no reason absentee is what it was called, where you didn't have to give an excuse of not being able to be there in person. You can just request it on demand.

I want to have a ballot instead of going in person.

So that the vote by mail term became the more all-inclusive catch-all for things that include absentee voting, but it's not exclusive to that. It can be for any reason. You're requesting a ballot. You don't have to prove that you won't be there. You don't have to prove that you're in the military or that you're a college student living in a different state, even though you still maintain residency in that.

And that is where the shift happened. And when did that happen? For some states, when they decided to move completely towards that. For the majority of the push, it was during that very time of 2020 when they started throwing out the rule book and saying, here's how we're gonna do it. We're moving to this no excuse or any reason absentee voting.

And what happened then? A lot of lawsuits. that the courts, including the Supreme Court, said Not ripe for lawsuit yet. Too early. No harm has taken place.

That's exactly what's happening now, but in reverse.

So. That's another unintended consequence. Normally the left doesn't see it. Normally they're the ones that are like, oh, now that's fair game. In this case, they're sitting here being like, This isn't fair.

You have to give us what we want, court system. And in reality, It's not the way it's always going to happen. Stop over and take another call. I'm going to go to Art in Texas. Line 5, Art, you're on the air.

Yeah, hey, do you find it hypocritical that Trump always did mail in ballots? And also, why is he always falling asleep in his meetings? Yeah. All right. How do we?

Art always makes it through, guys. Is Art the same? How do you know? His voice sounded a little different today. It's okay.

Why does he always fall asleep in the meetings? You ever been to one of those meetings? Boring. Very boring.

So boring.

So many hours. You ever been 80 years old, also? I have not. Tough. It's tough.

Huff being 80. I look good for 80. People say that. The interesting thing that he does bring up here is that President Trump is actually doing absentee ballot voting. It's the discussion we just had.

Is it hypocritical that he votes by mail with an absentee ballot? No, his residency is in Florida and he's in D.C. because he's the President. I told you I voted absentee. Right.

There is a difference, and that is what everyone's saying. That's always the gotcha statement now. It's like, look, the New York Times, everybody, Associated Press, President Trump votes again by mail. It's like, right. Because you're now trying to fuse the two terms of vote by mail and absentee voting.

President Trump has never said the military shouldn't be able to vote. He's never said college students shouldn't be able to vote, even though they probably don't vote for him. In reality, he's always said absentee voting should be the vote by mail, not the fair game, anyone can do it system that we have now.

So even the gotcha question proves the point. There is a specific need of why he is not in person. If he were to fly back home. Just to vote. The amount of outrage, can you believe the waste, the taxpayer dollars?

He flew just to cast a ballot. He could have done it by mail. He wouldn't be able to win one way or the other on this. Listen, John, on line four, he's got a solution to all this. John, go ahead.

Hello. Thank you for listening. If they just pass a federal law that says if you vote illegally, Intentionally, you get ten years in jail. If you're an illegal, you get ten years in jail, plus you get deported at the end of that. If you steal somebody's ballot and vote and they can prove it, you get twenty years.

If you We had St. Louis some years back We had a gal. convicted Yeah. Illegally voting. 25 people.

That's right. I remember hopping all around all the different polling stations and messing with it. I remember when those kind of things were happening. They're rare, but you know, you do see them every so often. John, I don't disagree that there could be something, at least in a federal election, where there is some, at least, restrictions.

At least maybe you can put it with state law that says, I mean, sure, it is illegal. There probably are some, but I don't know if this is what.

Well, to John's point, there is a federal law. That's what I mean. It's five years in jail. Oh. It's up to five years in prison for doing for election fraud.

The criminal penalties of doing this type of activity is five years in jail. What's the problem? It's never enforced. Right.

What we've shown from our state FOIA issue in California, they're even saying, of course, that's illegal under penalty of perjury and all sorts of other crimes to register to vote if you're not eligible. But what did they also tell us? We don't have any documents on that because we don't really track it.

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Coming up next, Jeff Balabon from ACLJ Jerusalem. And we're going to take your calls and comments at 1-800-684-30110 talking about the Supreme Court of the United States saying President Trump's executive order that not necessarily restricts but more verifies. puts in place verification processes, For mail-in voting. And again, we're not talking about absentee voting. We're talking about these states, a lot of them that, you know, for no reason blanket out ballots or whatever it may be.

They're just making sure, hey. Let's make sure that the people who are voting are actually correct. They're actually the real people, that they're verified, that there are steps. And look, I'm not going to say it's not a pain. I'm not going to say that I trust fully that the Postal Service can handle this right now.

But hey, we're right before a midterm election.

So it'll be very interesting to see how this all plays out. Let's take a call about this. Let's go to Elena, who's calling from Illinois on line three. Elena, go ahead. Yes, well first worried about how some people can vote without even have citizenship.

Nobody talks about green card anymore. Like when I came here, you had the green card to be allowed to work and then you apply for citizenship. In the meantime, they checked you out, what kind of person you are. And I have neighbors who send in an email, which they were influenced by other neighbors.

So it's not a correct thing. You go in person and you prove you are a citizen, then that's the correct way to vote. Elena, I mean, I think once again, it sounds like common sense, right? Like there seems even disagreeing with you. Right.

But instead, that's what The th if if those on the left We weren't giving away their entire game here. By protesting so much at things like the Save Act. This executive order probably would never have come up. But now it gets to this weird battle over an executive order and over the use of the USPS and all this stuff. Why?

Because they're saying we don't even want you to have to show an ID. What they're saying sounds so radical. And here's what... Chuck Schumer said. On X, what when this came out from the Supreme Court.

This stay. Once again, they didn't rule on the merits, whether or not what he did is constitutional or not. All they said was that those that sued sued too early, so the injunction is staid for now Chuck Schumer said, It's a disgrace that the highest court in the nation. is allowing Trump to put a dagger Into the heart of our democracy.

So it's no longer democracy's at stake. Democracy's at risk. Democracy's on the ballot. Chuck Schumer just declared. Democracy dead Donald Trump killed it.

He put a dagger in the heart. of democracy and who let him do it the highest court in the nation Give me a break. Will and I have a metal band called Deadmocracy. Deadmocracy. Yep.

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I mean, I could see the shirt already. All right. That being said, we got a minute and a half. Don't buy a democracy shirt, please. Uh, phone lines are open.

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And again, this is not anti-Israel talk. This is where it just starts to become. uh conflated with really incredible threats. To the Jewish community in the United States of America. We'll get into that with Jeff.

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Other than your schools are often used as polling places.

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We are on a good roll, but we do have a victory. We can save it. Victory! We'll do that in the last second. People are going to be very happy you sang for them today.

Hallelujah.

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Help us with that. Make a donation today. Welcome back to Secula. We are joined now by Jeff Balabon, head of ACLJ Jerusalem. Again, an office that is very important and maybe could not be more at a more important time in the world in history to have the ACLJ Jerusalem active.

And Jeff, thanks for joining us. Of course, if you're watching during the breaks, if you're watching on one of our platforms like on YouTube or Rumble, you may have seen some of the clips we just rolled out of Hassan Piker. Again, Hassan Piker out there making some pretty strong statements and typically aimed at Israel. And now the net is widened. We know his true beliefs.

We know where he stands. We know how the anti-Semitic rhetoric is growing and growing and growing. We've seen some people be called out about it, but of course, some are still trying to conflate it that, oh, it's two different issues. But, Will, should we set this up? Should we play any of this?

Yeah, I think we should go ahead and play what was said. And this is especially for our radio audience. Obviously, there's some language here. That was bleeped out because it was a stream on Twitch. But let's go ahead and play this.

This is Hassan Piker about. What he believes about Jewish people that maybe uh support Israel by one. And you wanna know why? Because people don't f with Israel any longer. And if and if Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone's going to come around.

And take action, not against the State of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews.

Okay. We're teaching people the wrong lesson. I don't know how. People don't recognize how dangerous this predicament is, how dangerous this is for Jews. You're running around basically tying your entire identity.

to a country That inevitably will be seen as basically Jewish ISIS. And you're saying. As Jews, this is all we care about. You're making anti-Semitism worse. Jeff, when we play that, it's shocking every time you hear it.

He's shrouding a threat. In the language of a warning. I just, how do they not see this is what's going to happen? Violence is going to happen against you if you are Jewish and you support Israel. That's the bottom line of what he said, and you're here in the United States.

I mean, I know what your thoughts are, but for lack of a better question, what do you think of that? What's your thoughts? You know, it's not that Jews are going to be considered Jewish ISIS, it's that Hassan Piker is actual ISIS and that he represents a worldview. That They're trying to push in America. and that he is being mainstreamed.

Wally's been pushing this point of view, which is that it's okay to wage actual physical violent war against Jews anywhere in the world. using Israel as an excuse. That's his posture. That's what he believes in. That's what his movement believes in.

That's what he's pushing. The fact that he has become so prominent, the fact that he has become so accepted, again, we talk about the Overton window a lot here, which is what's acceptable in American political discourse. It's acceptable in American political discourse to talk about the rationales and justifications for murdering every American Jew. That's basically, or every Jew in the world. That's his position.

And it's catches, no, no, no, I'm concerned for Jews, I'm not an anti-Semite. I'm explaining now why we plan on murdering every Jew. Yeah, Jeff. I mean, I think we were seeing this. And look, I think there's a valid question of where did he come from?

In the sense of Hassan Piker has become this, like you said, a powerful voice. Let's not shroud it either. Let's not pretend he's not. He's become a powerful voice for a certain community, seemingly out of nowhere. It has a political sway, unlike a lot of people who would have similar rhetoric like this, who would take this extreme of rhetoric.

You see usually a lot more shrouding. In terms, and you know, a lot more dog whistling. He doesn't necessarily just dog whistle. He's out there on Front Street saying this, and he's picked up an audience, and an audience that sometimes now is being embraced by heads of political parties, by political candidates. And they're like, Yeah, and then maybe they don't fully embrace him.

They'll kind of just be like, Yeah, it's nice to have him, but yeah, we don't agree on everything. This has become a political figure with real consequences.

Well, and he's the nephew of the head of Young Turks, so he has family that has gotten him into this poplar. Election support, right? But yeah, here's also, I think, the problem though, and we can talk about this, Jeff. You've been a media executive for your career. You understand this probably better than anyone to some degree.

Where now we have this statement from Abdul Al Syed, who is obviously the nominee under the Democrat Party for Senate in Michigan, who embraced Hassan Piker. On the campaign trail. On uh uh in his events And now that it's like, hey, You wouldn't condemn what he said about 9-11. That was a big question in his campaign, Al-Syed's campaign.

Now, this was the line. We did find the line for some nominees of. Of what is okay to say, but only in a way that they can spin it. Obviously, we saw Hakeem Jeffries speak out about this. We can get your take on that.

But here's what Al Syed said: He said, I believe all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence. This is particularly true for communities that have been intimidated for their beliefs in the past. My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own daughters. Weird way to phrase that. But then let's jump down here.

He says: And while politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, we're going to be talking about gas, groceries, good schools, and healthcare. Anyone that tells you and tries to almost belittle what new media is and how powerful it is by saying they're trying to make this about a Twitch streamer. That Twitch streamer is so much more influential. and saying a lot worse things to very impressionable minds. Than legacy media can even hold a candle to at this point.

Or ever work. Right.

And so that's my question to you, Jeff. How do you combat it when they aren't even gonna give. Hassan Piker the credit for how influential he actually is. Oh, look, he he's a lot more influential than El Sayed is whether El Sayed is elected or not elected. Right.

You know, it's it's you know, we it's the famous line that that Breitbart popularized that that politics is downstream from culture.

So Al-Sayed, who by the way, I trust his uh his uh His opposition to anti-Semitism, the same way I trust, you know, Mamdani's or AOCs or Elon Omars or Rashida Talibs, which is to say, not at all. They are absolutely anti-Semitic. They preach anti-Semitism every time they speak about it, but then they say, but not that, but I'm not an anti-Semite, right? And so these are people who are not just that, they're also enemies of everything that America stands for. And that's the thing.

We are with culture now. Politics is down front of culture. They're popular, yes, because they have some family connections, et cetera, et cetera, but because they are riding a wave of actual sentiment, and that's what's so terrifying. America has an incredibly important choice to make in this coming election. which is which direction America wants to go.

There are those who want to just double down and triple down on this sort of internal holy war between two sides, which is we were treated terribly, we're the bigger victims, we're gonna fight back and we're gonna make you pay for it. Or the American way, which is no, we're going to emerge from the horror that was old Europe and create a new world in which we don't always have to agree or even like each other, but we will live with each other and tolerate each other and respect each other. And that's what America is always meant to be because America was built on a Judeo-Christian set of values that all of these people including people who are now nominally Republican and nominally Democrat, oppose with every fiber of their being. And it's frightening because, yes, politics is dance from culture, and that's where culture is. Yeah, I mean, look, I see people in the comments and it does show sort of that there is this new media delta here where people don't understand because some people are saying, well, what is Twitch?

I've never even utilized Twitch. How big could it possibly be? Understand that just Hassan Piker on Twitch, which is a live streaming platform. It's all live. It's primarily used by gamers.

It's owned by Amazon, I believe, who's the backer behind Twitch at this point that was purchased. Hassan Piker on just that platform has 3.1 million subscribers.

Okay, so remember how quickly that can grow. You have some of their top people like Kai Sanat, 20 plus million subscribers. And by the way, that's actually much more powerful than those same numbers on any other platform because you are talking directly to people live like we are right now. But imagine this could go on for 10 hours and they are talking directly into the minds of primarily Jeff. Younger people who are going to be obviously the next generation of dealing with these issues.

And you overlay that with the fact that it's a generation that's raised on getting information. Forget about the fact that they're being brainwashed by universities, let's say. They're getting information from AI. Which no which is being gained, the system is being gained by people who are telling things. There there's there's crowdsourced information, it's completely false.

I mean, terms like genocide have no me have no actual meaning for them. It's just another thing to yell at. And an excuse to go out and beat up a Jew or kill a Jew. And it's an excuse to hate America. Right?

Because America's is supporting our ally who's just trying to survive against real ISIS, right? Against the Silent Pikers of the world. And so there's a whole generation that's coming up whose entire knowledge of the world. Is being driven by these kinds of online platforms and crowdsourcing information, which foreigners, people who have nothing to do with America, are using to really undermine our culture. Jeff, I appreciate you joining us today again.

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You're going to tell me the truth. But before then I want to hear the truth from our audience members. We got two lines still open: 1-800-68-430-110. Probably last call to get yourself on the air today. But some of you may have hold for a long time.

I'm going to take Don's call. Don, you may hold for like 45 minutes. I appreciate it. It's been off topic, but we'll get to it anyway. Go ahead, Don.

Oh, thank you so much, fellas. Yes, it's well, it's worth waiting because actually, these are all related. Guys like Piker and Syed, they're just the mouth the fish columnists, they're representing basically Iran over here. And my question is, key, it just seems it would be make so much sense for ourselves and the Israelis. To be arming, training, and equipping the Iraqi, I mean the Iranian people to rise up themselves and liberate their own country.

They can be our boots on the ground, and it's pennies on the dollar. We're not talking about giving them tanks or planes. No, they need small arms, drone technology would be great. Look at the damage they could do to the regime. And it's all about what comes after.

You know, okay, fine.

So we topple their government. What comes next? Yeah. Well, Don, I think one, we don't know if they're training or not training the Kurdish militias or things of that nature and just waiting for a moment. Obviously, President Trump's been trying to give a diplomatic path.

So during that entire time, they could be training. I was going to say, he also made a reference early on that some arms were given. And then whichever group was decided just to sit back and say, thanks for the weaponry. We're also not rushing to our death. There's been a lot of concern, I think, with the Iranian people.

And look, probably. Mm-hmm. understandably. That they don't know how this is going to go. Yes, there was a lot of them that were put to death earlier in the year.

So when they see that the leadership has changed, but not all that much. They may be concerned for their own lives. And you know what? I understand that completely. And you have President Trump saying, look, it is a bit in their own hands to topple that regime.

And they don't seem as aggressive as they once were to make that Plan.

Now, again, there's a lot that can go into that. A lot of it has to do with where current things stand with that war. And I understand that, but Don, I get your point. But I do think there have, I'm certainly certain there have been those discussions, and there's a reason why it's not happening. And it's either timing or it is finding people who are actively ready to do that.

And there may just quite frankly not be enough people in Iran willing to take that risk right now. You are right that the influence certainly is being stronger, even in America. than we've ever seen before. But I appreciate you calling in and spending some time with us. There are some other calls related to the mail-in voting and all of that situation.

So let's take some of those. Let's go to Edith in Wisconsin online too. Edith, go ahead. Thank you for taking my call. Yes.

I do want to say for mail-in voting that we need to be very vigilant and watch this because that's what brought all the trouble for the first election for President Donald Trump. Yeah, in 2020 we saw whole mail trucks being found, okay?

So that needs to be in our eyesight. And then the other thing is The thing that God is saying for everybody. That we're supposed to be praying first for all everybody like that, according to the scriptures. That first of all, prayers and intercession be made for everybody so everybody can get saved, so that Israel can do her thing. But the most important thing with us at this point.

is to pay attention to voices. Voices of who we need to hear the voice of God, okay? And then we did leave some stuff down in Iraq when we brought them out years ago when they was running behind the plane. All that artillery is still there. They're still, and nobody's talking about it, but they're using that.

So we need to focus on the fact of the foundation, okay? That we, our country. Remember that righteous press are the founding fathers, so it's not about black or white. It's about in God we trust. We got to keep him in the forefront of everything we're doing because he's kept us hosting.

So that's what, and that mail-in ballot. One other thing I want to say about mail-in ballot: during the election time, the Democrats, I had about three different mail-in ballots sent to me. I am not Democratic. I left that during Obama's time. But they still Send ballots, they have door-to-door knock-on.

They get you, yeah.

So, we need to pay attention to what's happening on the ground and begin to keep forces around so we can have a pure, you know, election, okay? All right, preach, Edith. Hallelujah! I love it. Thank you for your comment.

And to Edith's point, you know, the multiple ballots, all of these things that were concerns, and they never wanted to address them. The Democrats, the people like Chuck Schumer, the leaders in the party could have addressed them. But instead, he says, you know, the Supreme Court's allowing Trump to put a dagger in the heart of our democracy. Trump's effort to turn the Postal Service into voter suppression machine is blatantly unconstitutional. Am I right to think that there could be nothing better for the Democrats than this story right now?

Because they can keep saying their entire playlist, their play in the hits of all the voter suppression, destroying democracy, all of that. It gave them a gift, really, to campaign on. Yeah, and hey, Edith. Getting a lot of great feedback from your call in the chat.

So, here's what I'm going to say: call in anytime. Make sure to let the phone screener know you're Edith from Wisconsin. You want to be one of our known callers because I think you are great. I love the seeing the response. People are going crazy for your call.

So, Edith, thank you for calling, and we appreciate it. And thanks for holding. I want to take a couple more calls if we can. Look, Marion has a very similar take. And, Marion, keep it quick.

Go ahead. Yes. Uh I just wanted to say that all of these terrible things that the socialists are doing that the Uh communists are doing There's two ways that we need to combat that. We need to get out and vote because we don't know what's happening behind the scenes, like mail-in voting and all these things that we're talking about. But if all of us get together and we vote, we can just wipe them out and also pray to God that He intervenes because we know He's on the side of believers.

And I never thought I'd say this, but I was terrified when Trump lost the second. Election because of the corruption, but it's the best thing that could have happened to us because of what happened when he did win. And look at what happened in the 250th anniversary, and that's my comment. Yeah, I had to wake up, call. All right, Mary, thank you.

I'm going to quickly take Lori. Lori, go ahead. We only got about a minute, but thank you for calling. Hey, I'm uh it's peep. ACLJampania.

Oh, you're welcome. Thank you. I just wanted to recall and mention that the states took the responsibility to update their addresses. of the people that live in their state. Even if they have two residents, they should be aware of both residents.

And they'd be able to not send out those extra ballots Well, and Laurie, that's exactly what we're fighting against at the ACLJ right now. Because we are going to California and saying, hey, show us your procedures. To ensure that your voter rolls are not have all these duplicates or don't have non-citizens on it. We're doing it in California, in Maryland, and places all around the country saying, hey, Look into this, and when we see we don't have procedures for that, that's exactly why the President wants to do something about it. Is it the best timing or the best thing?

That's not for me to decide, but he wouldn't have even had to get there. If it weren't for the states not doing their job in the first place and giving all this pushback, all right. Look, we're going to swerve this for the last 30 seconds here. Back to school week. Be a part of it today, okay?

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