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The Differences Between Trump and Biden Voters
Politics By Faith, June 11, 2024
June 11, 2024

Pew Research released a study on the drastic difference in the worldviews of Trump and Biden voters. Two questions in particular showed the root of our problems in America. And it all goes back to Genesis 11.


Welcome to Politics by Faith brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. I'm excited to chat about this with you today and get your thoughts on it. Mike Slater dot locals dot com is the website. We put this up there, commercial free transcript and you can also send me a note there. It goes right to my email. My email is slaterradio at gmail dot com.

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You can just email me personally too. Some numbers came out from Pew Research and the media took it all in one direction. I want to take it in a totally different direction because that's what we do here. But real quick, just so you know

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how other people are talking about it. It's framed as here are these social issues. Here's where Biden voters stand on them. Here's where Trump voters stand on them. There's a huge difference between the two, and we're two different countries living on two different planets.

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That's fine, and I think that's right. Let me go over just one of the issues. Gun ownership is one of the questions. Gun ownership does more to increase safety by allowing law-abiding citizens to protect themselves. That's one of the questions.

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Only 23% of Biden voters agree with that. 86% of Trump voters agree with that. So we have a very different view on the Second Amendment. Pretty important was number two, our founders put it as number two on the list. It wasn't like an add-on, tack-on at the end. Number two in the original list of ten and 23% of Biden voters like no, gun ownership bad, and 86% of Trump supporters say it's good.

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Weird that the 14% don't, but alas. There were about eight questions like that that I would classify as some sort of social issue. But there are two that have gotten no attention that I think were the most important two questions and I think get to the root of all these other issues

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that are addressed here. The other questions are about symptoms. I want to get to the diagnosis of the actual illness. Henry David Thoreau, thousands hacking at the branches of evil for one who's striking the root. Now, two of these questions get to the root, but no one's talking about.

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One of the question is, religion should be kept separate from government policies. 86% of Biden voters say yes, religion should be kept separate from government policies. They fell for the whole separation of church and state lie. Now, by religion, of course, they mean Christianity. That's what people are interpreting that as okay so 86% of Biden voters say religion should be kept

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separate from government policy okay 56% of Trump voters agree with that okay so that's actually pretty close those two people that's not going to work but Let's get to just the question itself. If you don't fill this space that we call government, society, our culture, our country, if you don't fill this space with the religion, it will be filled with a religion. Do you know what I mean?

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It was filled with Christianity and then we left it. We just left the space and it's been filled with progressivism and really secular humanism, which I'll explain in just a second. And it was all done with this whole separation of church and state hoax. Like Christians had this space and then progressives came in, atheists came in, secular humanists came in and said, you know, this is a public space. Religion's not allowed in here. Look, separation of church and state. And a

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bunch of weak Christians were like, oh wow, I guess you're right. Sorry about that. And the pagans were like I can't believe that worked that's all we had to do we to show them a completely out of context letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to some guy and they all the

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Christians just walked away and they just just waltz straight in the program the the pagan secular humanists just walked for a while and took over every part of our culture and then of course we see all the problems that have

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come from that which we'll get to in a second. But I mentioned secular humanism. What is this? Actually, someone called into the show and mentioned that. I was just mentioning, I just said progressivism, but someone called in and said it's secular humanism.

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So what is secular humanism? Okay, here's 10 worldview beliefs of a secular humanist pagan. James Fowler came up with this list. Number one, man is autonomous and independent. It's me. I'm autonomous.

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I do what I want. I'm independent and free. Number two, man is his own center of reference. Number three, man is self-generative and self-sufficient. Number four, man has the potential to do anything he sets his mind to. Number five, man is the cause of his own effects.

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Number six, man is the source of his own activity. Number seven, man has a free will to choose anything he desires. Number eight, man is innately good. Number nine, man is the subject and object of his own world. Number ten, man is the solution to his own problems. I lied, I got two more.

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Number 11, man deserves to indulge in personal aspirations, personal gratifications, and personal reputation, which is 1 John 2.16. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of this world. And finally, man is his own God. You see this everywhere.

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This is the culture we live in today. Christians left the cultural spaces and the secular humanists walked right in. That's why you have entire sections of bookstores called self-help. This is why you have a self-esteem movement. This is why you have the transgender movement. This is why you have the gay marriage. It all comes down to this. So I don't just on this again this religion question.

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Religion should be kept separate from government policies. It's one thing for the pagans to say yes to that. I'm more concerned about the 56% of Trump voters. Come on, people.

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Let's get it together.

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Let's see the importance of this. But it's a secular humanist world, which is, oh, you know, everyone, who am I to say everyone can do whatever works best for them. Okay well should we be allowed to kill people? Christianity says no. Islam says well are they gay? Is it a girl who dishonored her family? If so then you should be able to murder. In China you can't murder unless it's a girl. If it's a baby girl then you

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can. But our country has always said no to murder except for if you don't want the baby, then it's not really murder. Yes, we need religion back in politics, back in government, back in our culture, first and foremost, and then the politics will follow. Alright, now check out this question. voters who say, so the question is, is society better off if people make marriage and having children a priority? Is society better off if people make marriage and having children a priority?

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Now, to be clear, the question isn't, is it a priority for you? You may not want kids. You may not have kids. You may not want to get married. Like Paul, you don't want to get married.

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That's fine.

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No problem. But the question wasn't, are you better off, which may be up to different circumstances, sure. Is society better off? Just in general, should we generally, culturally, big picture, have, make marriage and having children a priority? And 81% of Biden voters say no. Like, just, just like, definitionally, you can't have a society if you don't have children.

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Society, the word society literally means fellowship with others. You can't, this is such a sign that we're so far off, we're just not, we're in a really, really bad place when such a vast, vast majority of Biden voters don't think that marriage and having children is good. I guess the next step is they'll say it's bad, you shouldn't. For a while, monogamy was important, and then it turned into, monogamy is not for everyone. And now I guess it's, monogamy should be for no one. Outlaw marriage. So those are the Biden voters. What about the Trump supporters? 59%.

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Sorry, did we understand the question? Is society better off if people make marriage and having children a priority? And only 59% of Trump voters said yes. Wow. We're in a bad place here. So the point I made on the radio is it's one thing to have some chipped paint in your house. Maybe I do some grout work. Okay. Maybe vacuum the carpets, do a little Marie Kondo in the closet, something like that. That's fine. But when you got termites or you got some major structural damage, or your well water is full of lead, it's causing brain damage.

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We got some big problems here, and I think that's where we are right now, where even Trump voters, or conservatives, are, eh, marriage, kids, I don't know, I don't think it's that important. Whoa, whoa, whoa, there may be lead in the water that's causing us, it's like we're being poisoned. And we have been poisoned, we've been poisoned by Marxism.

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Linda Gordon, I could share many, many quotes, but Linda Gordon was an intellectual from Yale. She said, the nuclear family must be destroyed. The breakup of families is now an objectively revolutionary process. She was a feminist, so she came up from that perspective.

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No woman should have to deny herself any opportunities because of her special responsibility to children. So this was, well, we talked about the radio and I just happened, so I prepared a segment about this yesterday afternoon, I just so happened this morning, before the show to read this sermon

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from Martin Lloyd-Jones about the Tower of Babel which of course ties in perfectly because it's the Bible and Genesis is all about life. I love this, this is such a great line I'm just going to share a bunch of lines from this. I love this.

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Far from being remote from life, Genesis is the only book that really does deal with life as it is.

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It's so good.

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What a great perhaps the opposite is true. That's one of the mottos of the show is perhaps the opposite is true. People will be like, oh, they'll say the Bible in general, but Genesis, that has nothing to do with us. That's a long time ago and irrelevant, just a bunch of made up silly stories and here's Martin Lloyd-Jones saying, no, no, far from being like having nothing to do with life, there's no book that has more to do with life and can more explain

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why the world is the way it is than this book right here. So we had a caller call and he said, you know, Slater, we're dealing with the symptoms and not getting to the root of these issues. And I agree. And here's what Martin Lloyd-Jones says. He says I'm assuming that no one is foolish enough to say that diagnosis does not

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matter like the root that all we need is a little relief. It's nothing but sheer lunacy to medicate symptoms only to give temporary passing relief and yet ignore the disease that is causing the symptoms. That is a thoroughly dishonest thing to do. There are people who say oh I can't be bothered about causes and explanations all I know is that I'm in trouble and want relief. Those who say that are the kind of people who make the complete round of all the cults and all the rival philosophies

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and teachings, only to be disappointed by one after the other. The butterfly attitude towards life is always fatal. No, no, the essence of wisdom is to discover the cause of the problems. And whether we like it or not, the Bible always emphasizes that. The cause, what's the root? So we're talking about the Tower of Babel, Genesis 11, 3, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

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So back in Israel they had stones, but where they were now, they did not. So they had to make bricks. And they made bricks by observing. Observing. They saw what happened with the clay and when the clay got wet and then it hit the Sun and it got hard. So they figured out, they learned how to make bricks. It's amazing

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what humans are capable of when we observe. This is true with the invention of vaccinations. There was a guy, Edward Jenner, he noticed that people who milked cows did not get smallpox as frequently as other people got smallpox. He's like, huh, that's weird. What's going on with that? And he observed that the people who are milking cows, they, from their hands, would get cowpox. And he's like, I wonder if because they got this small amount of cowpox, if this is helping them prevent, preventing them from getting a full-blown infection of smallpox.

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So he found a bunch of people that have never had smallpox and he gave them a little bit of cowpox in their hands and those people sure enough did not get smallpox. That was the beginning of vaccination. And these men did the same thing when they were looking at what happens when the sun hardens clay. And they're like, oh, we can make our own stones. We don't just naturally have stones, if we used to, we'd just make them our own. Let me quote from Lloyd-Jones,

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This ought to be a perfect world, what a wonderful creature man is! Nothing should ever go wrong in a world inhabited by such people, people who are capable of such tremendous observations, inductions, experiments, and inventions. Such creatures ought to know how to manage their world and themselves to perfection. They should have a world entirely free from trouble.

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And that is what the secular humanists truly believe. That's why you have these people who believe in technology. They think technology will save us. They think technology can help us live forever. They believe in utopia. And this is a technology.

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Making bricks is just a technology. Just like the technologies today. People think that that will save us. But it won't. It never does. Sure, maybe we can observe certain things and come up with different inventions,

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but this doesn't help us figure out how to live with ourselves or with others. Because the problem is we're living apart from God. And that was the root of the problem with these people right here. I mean, look, this was right after the flood. Here's what the Bible says, And God blessed...

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They disobeyed God right from the beginning, these people. And God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth. That's in Genesis 9.1. So God wanted these people to replenish the earth and to fill it, but they didn't do that.

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They didn't scatter around. They said, We're going to build a city. Go, let us build a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." God told them to go and replenish the earth.

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And they said, we don't want to. They wanted to live a self-sufficient life, one without God. They didn't need it. They were the secular humanists of their day. We don't need God. We can build a tower to heaven ourselves.

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They believed in the development of man, and they thought it would bring glory to them. Let me quote from Lloyd-Jones. Oh, here's the line that I love so much. Then they, because this is just today, this is in, then they said, come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves.

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Lloyd-Jones says, marvelous, isn't it? Here is your city and the latest propaganda and advertising and it's all absolutely perfect. Do it, build it, advertise it, get the headlines and the signs so that everybody will see and stand in admiration and wonder. Man, there is no limit to him. He can build a tower to heaven if there is a God in heaven. While man can put a ladder that will take him there, he will build his city in such a way that it will not only encompass the earth, but also the heavens.

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Nothing is impossible. No longer glory to God in the highest, but glory to man in the highest. No height is too great for him. He has it in him to get anywhere. Nothing can stop him. Inventions, discoveries, progress, harnessing the forces of nature, splitting the atom, nothing can ever frustrate human beings or put a limit or a ceiling on their greatness, and they know it. There's no doubt about it. They said, very well, let's prove that we can do it. And we'll write our names all over it.

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We'll bow down and worship ourselves and our greatness and uniqueness. That is secular humanism. That is the people who built the Tower of Babel. That is us today in the United States of America. You want to know why we have all these problems today in America? There's the root of it right there.

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We can stop here.

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We'll do more of this tomorrow. But what's our, we're going to conclude, what do we do instead? I always want to end on a good note, like, all right, this is bad. Secular humanism bad. What do we do now? I think the mission for today is to be aware of these secular humanist thoughts that you

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and I have today that are sort of running in the background. We may not even know it, and to see it all coming at us from every other direction as well. The idea that you're the center of the universe, you're the center of what is good, you have the potential to do anything you set your mind to,

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you are the source of all things, you are, man is innately good, you're the solution to all the problems that you deserve to indulge in whatever personal gratification that you want, and that man is his own God.

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You'll see it everywhere. When you find an example that you didn't expect, I'd love to know what it is. You can find my email on the website, MikeSlater.Locals.com. It's where we put all of these episodes with the transcript and commercial free as well. MikeSlater.Locals.com is my website. MikeSlater.Locals.com is my website. Please, my email is on the SlaterRadio at gmail.com.

 

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were so high. They were awesome. And the rims were full of eyes all around the four of them. So it's a circle full of eyes. When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. Goodness me. So, if you saw one of those, you wouldn't be like, oh, yay, look an angel. You would fall on your face and the angel would have to say, don't be afraid. Now, I don't know if that's what all angels look like. There's certain angels, I'm not an angel expert here, but the point is the inversion,

where Satan and demonic influences in this world come as light, and people are attracted to that, just like people are attracted to socialism, because it always looks good. I don't think it sounds good even. A lot of people say that, they'll be like,

oh, maybe communism sounds good, but it never works. I don't even think it sounds good. But some people still think that it is a light. Now, if I have to tie in the one big beautiful bill, which we'll do more on tomorrow, surely, it's just the deceitfulness of all of it.

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has to be in construction by next year. But in construction only means 5% of the project. That's it. And that's in construction. So people are just gonna throw 5% into a project and then, oh, we're in, we're good.

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And the Senate's going back and forth on that whole thing. So we'll give you an update on what the Senate does with that tomorrow. But there's so much deceit in politics and that is one of the reasons why it's so chaotic and of course one of the reasons why there's so much anxiety around it as well. So much lying, so much deceit, so much ignorance, trying to control an entire country of 330 million Americans. Our founding fathers knew better. But free and

easy and entitlements and all this stuff, all these, this, this fake light seems so appealing and we've fallen for it for so long. Now people can't even imagine another way. We'll see how the one big beautiful bill does tonight. But my point is here, stay close to God so that we know when it is actually Satan masquerading as the angel of light and be aware of ideas and policies and philosophies that masquerade as truth as well. and be aware of ideas and policies and philosophies that masquerade as truth as well.

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Politics By Faith, June 27, 2025

The head of NATO, sort of, in the middle of an analogy, called President Trump "Daddy". Every other president would have tried to spin it away, but Trump leaned in to it. 

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. I want to talk about something that happened at the NATO conference the other day. So start at the beginning here. Trump was getting on Marine One at the White House and he was asked about Iran and Israel. This was right after the ceasefire was announced and they were still launching a couple more missiles at each other. And Trump's like, I'm angry at everyone, but they've been fighting And he was asked about Iran and Israel. This was right after the ceasefire was announced and they were still launching a couple more missiles at each other.

And Trump's like, I'm angry at everyone, but they've been fighting for thousands of years. They're so screwed up. They're so messed up. It's all they know. And he said, they don't know what the blank they're doing.

And he turned and he got on the helicopter. He gets on the helicopter, helicopter goes over to the Netherlands for the big NATO conference and he's sitting next to the head of NATO and a reporter asks him, hey man, you dropped the F-bomb the other day, you know, tell me about that. Here's what Trump said. I mean, we may do papers on it,

Marco. Maybe we're going to do papers. I don't even know if you need them. They're not going to be fighting each other. They've had it. They've had a big fight, like two kids in a school yard. You know, they fight like hell. You can't stop them. Let them fight for about two, three minutes. Then it's easier to stop them.

And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language.

You have to use strong language.

Every once in a while, you have to use a certain word.

I think that-

Okay, so people took that, some people in the media spun that as the head of NATO called Trump daddy. Now, he clearly didn't. He wasn't like, hey, Trump daddy. Trump was using an analogy of parenting with two kids and then he working with the analogy said, oh, well, you know, then daddy comes home.

All right, here we have, I kind of call them daddy, okay? So then Trump was asked about that later.

It's from Sky News. Mark Ritter, the NATO chief, who is your friend, he called you daddy earlier. Do you regard your NATO allies as kind of children?

No, he likes me. I think he likes me. If he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back and I'll hit him hard. Okay. Do you he likes me. If he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back and I'll hit him hard. Okay. He did. He did it very affectionate. He daddy, you're my daddy. Do

you have a God? You're okay. So Marco Rubio is in the background just busting up. Okay. So then the head of NATO was asked about calling him daddy.

Thank you. Deborah Haynes from Sky News. Same woman, same woman. She's obsessed with this. She's absolutely obsessed. Deborah Haynes from Sky News. Hello. The language that you have used when talking to Donald Trump has been notable because of its flattery. Today you called him daddy. You sent a text message.

Now, again, to be clear, he didn't. But you heard what happened.

To him that was gushing with praise. Is this the way that you feel you have to act when doing business with the US president through flattery and praise? Isn't it a bit demeaning and doesn't it make you look weak?

Ooh.

Okay. Let me pull up the text that she is referring to. So Trump the other day, screenshot it, a text that he, the head of NATO, said, Trump says, Mr. President, dear Donald, congratulations. And thank you for your decisive action in Iran. That was truly extraordinary and something no one else dared to do.

It makes us all safer. You're flying into another big success in the Hague this evening, the Netherlands. It was not easy, but we've got all of them signed on to 5%. We'll get to that in a minute. Don, you've driven us to a really, really important moment for American Europe and the world. You will choose something no American president in decades could get done. Europe is going to pay in a big way as they should, and it and see you at his majesty's dinner. I don't know, is that fawning? That flattery or like, hey, great job.

No, I don't think so. I think it's a bit of a question of taste, but I think he's a good friend. And when he is doing stuff, which is forcing us to, for example, when it comes to making more investments, would you ever think that this would be the result

of this summit if he would not have been elected president? Do you really think that seven or eight countries who said, yeah, somewhere in the 2030s we might meet the 2%? We've now all decided in the last four or five months to get to 2%. So doesn't he deserve some praise? And when it comes to Iran, the fact that he took this decisive action, very targeted, to make sure that Iran would not be able to get his hands on a nuclear capability. I think he deserves all the praise.

Okay. Now that leads up to this. Oh, should we talk about the 5%? Stop at the 5% quick. So when Trump's first term, he said, Hey, NATO countries, you all need to pay more. And the media said, oh, Trump's attacking NATO.

Well, no, he's not attacking NATO. He's saying he's saying countries need to spend more money, which strengthens NATO. Well, that was 2%. What Mark had a NATO is talking about is now the country's agreed to spend 5% of their GDP on defense. And that's what he's saying is that no one would have no country would have done that if it weren't for Trump. Trump strengthened NATO. Now, Spain is not playing along. So Trump said, I'm going to make them pay double tariffs.

He's like Spain. They think they're going to free ride through in NATO without paying more for defense. No, it's not going to happen. So you're just going to pay double tariffs to the United States. No more freeloading. That's what they're talking about there.

Now, here's what happened yesterday.

Saw this on Trump's Instagram.

After every trip he makes, they do like this hype reel video of him, you know, getting off Air Force One and all the things, right? Everywhere he goes, they put these out every week or so. And this is the one they put out yesterday.

♪ I just wanna get your attention.

You want to be all up in your head. I don't. It's kind of a weird song choice. I don't want to be my first choice. I don't some like weird kind of pop song thing, but okay, I will keep listening here. So the song is by Usher. It's called Daddy's Home.

And all the video is of him meeting with NATO leaders. Here's the NATO flag. Here's Pete Hagseth. Here's Marco Rubio. Here's Trump at the podium. So fit, just perfect. Every other president would have put their whole crisis team on this, send out press releases saying, Oh no, no, that's no we're gonna make our allies feel good no we're not daddy we're all equal members in a league of

nations Trump's team comes out and says I know you've been waiting for this loving all day. You know your daddy's home. Very good. Very good. Well done. Very funny. All right.

So what do we do with this? How do we turn this into a biblical segment? Well, God is your real daddy. No, I'm not going to, not going to do that. Not going to make that point. Abba means daddy.

I want to make a point about delight. This is fun. Right? Trump is having fun. You see him up there when he's having fun. It's fun to watch.

This whole administration is having fun. Hard work of course, but they're doing it all with a smile. The other day we did a segment on the origin of peace through strength. Where did that idea come from? It didn't come from Reagan. It came from the year 400. The other day we did a segment on the origin of peace through strength. Where did that idea come from? It didn't come from Reagan. It came from the year 400. There was a book called De Re Militaris written by Flavius Vigetius Renatus.

It's about Roman warfare and the line is, if you want peace then prepare for war. Then we did the origin of the line, speak softly but carry a big stick. That came from Teddy Roosevelt, 1901, Minnesota State Fair. It is a beautiful speech, highly recommend it. Just search for national duties, Teddy Roosevelt, 1901, and it'll pop up, it's a beautiful speech.

But where did the term happy warrior come from? It's another line that people associate with Reagan, right? The happy warrior, where did that come from? That came from a Wordsworth poem, William Wordsworth, that's gotta be the best name of a poet, right? He wrote a poem called Character of a Happy Warrior,

another beautiful read. But let me just go through, instead of making it poetic, I'll just give you a list here. A happy warrior has a generous spirit, noble ideals, an inner light, a sense of purpose, eager to learn, he has moral integrity,

turns adversity into advantage, can meet the worst that can befall the best and make it his own good. I would argue that's what Trump did with the whole daddy thing. Self-control, passionate, forgiving, resilient,

guided by reason, virtuous, honorable, faithful to duty, unselfish, courageous, serene in adversity, the line is, can meet the storm and keep his heart serene, loving, loyal, persevering, unwavering purpose. And who of course in world history has best exemplified all of these wonderful characteristics? That would be Jesus, every one of them.

For some reason right now, serene and adversity stands near the top of them all, but he is all of them. And we're called to show these as much as we possibly can as well. And when I think of the happy warrior, I want to put the emphasis on the happy part, but what does that mean? I like the word delight. And that reminds me of Psalm 37, four, delight yourself in the Lord. Have fun with these other things,

but delight yourself in the Lord. Trust in the Lord and do good. Dwell in the land and feed on his faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the Lord and he shall give you the desires of your heart. I just want to focus on the delight yourself

in the Lord part. Charles Spurgeon, he said, Believers who know Christ understand that delight and faith are so blessedly united that the powers of hell cannot separate them. Those who love God with all their heart find that his ways are pleasant ways and all his paths are peace. Proverbs 317. Such joy, such abundant delight, such overflowing blessedness. The saints discover in their Lord, so much so that

far from serving him out of obligation, they would still follow him even if the whole world put down his name as evil. We don't fear God because of any compulsion. Our faith is no shackle, our profession, no slavery. We are not dragged to holiness or driven to duty. No, our devotion is pleasure. Our hope is happiness, our duty, delight.

Have fun, happy warrior. Whatever it is you do, do it with all the great virtues from that Wordsworth poem. And throughout it all, delight yourself in the Lord. Mike Slater dot locals dot com transcript and commercial free if you want to listen over there and commercial free if you want to listen over there on the website Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

 

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The Muslim, Communist Mayor of NYC
Politics By Faith, June 26, 2025

NYC might elect a Muslim, communist from Uganda as their next mayor. How is this possible? Because people want fast and free. We want something more.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. Been working on some thoughts here about the New York City mayor's race. Zohan Mamdani, 33-year-old Muslim communist from Uganda, who it's pretty likely will become the next mayor of New York City. Made a bunch of different arguments this morning, of course, how did this happen? I don't think it's immigrants, although that's

certainly part of it. You know, do you know what percentage of New York City is foreign born? It's 40%. So that's clearly part of it, but this is mostly homegrown. Uh, what got him across the finish line was progressive white women, rich, progressive white women. Mostly we'd talked about it for three hours today. So I can't do the whole thing. I'll just tell you what he stands for and what he's calling for. He's calling to end the NYPD, like totally defund the police, abolish prisons, abolish medical bills, abolish private health insurance,

ban all guns, legalized sex work, safe injection sites end cash bail, decriminalize drug possession, end all cooperation with ICE. He said taxation isn't theft, capitalism is. $65 million on transgender medical treatments, including on kids. I mean, it's like as crazy, crazy as you can get.

There's so much to be said here. I think my, well, I'll just make two quick points and then I'll get to the new stuff. This is the future of the Democratic Party. When the baby boomer generation passes on. The Clintons and Bloomberg

and all those establishment Democrats who have been around forever who endorsed Cuomo, they'll be gone and we will all this whole country will be left with Zohan dumb daddies, daddies all over the country. That's the future of the democratic party. It's the first point.

Second point. I don't want to cede any ground to communists in America. If, if we were talking about the capital of Uganda, electing a communist mayor, probably wouldn't talk about it, but it's New York city. This is in the United States of America. And I totally understand this desire to just let them, you know, they voted for these people, let them have it and they'll learn from their mistakes. But I don't agree with that anymore. We saw what happened when

we did that with college campuses. I thought that all the wackiness on college campuses would just stay in the bubble, but it doesn't stay in the bubble. Now all the craziness from the Ivy League schools is that every university and in K through 12 and med schools and law schools and teaching schools and every other institution across America doesn't just stay in the bubble and it won't just stay in New York, maybe start in New York, but it won't stay in New York. And I don't want to cede any ground

to communists. Let me move on to something new though. Nature does what's easiest. This is one of the reasons why evolution is so stupid. Because nature doesn't get better on its own. Nothing can't evolve up into an eye.

Right?

You can't have nothing and it just gets better because turning into an eye would be hard to do. And that's not how nature works. We were in the Grand Tetons a week or so ago. There's rivers everywhere. And they come from. We were in the Grand Tetons a week or so ago. There's rivers everywhere. And they come from the snow melt in the mountains.

And the rivers are fast. These are fast moving rivers and it just keeps coming. There's just an endless supply of water that's constantly rushing down the mountain. And you're in the river, these big huge rivers, you're like, where is this? This water just keeps coming and it goes all summer long, and the snow never melts away.

I mean, it's snow melt, so some is melting, but you look up in there, you're like, it's still there? And it's there all summer long. And we're on this, we're hiking around this lake. It's the most popular there's this huge waterfall. It's about a hundred feet tall. It's awesome.

And you're watching this waterfall and it comes, pours down, it's huge, pours down. And then it hits the side of this rock and it turns 90 degrees and it comes at you. It's so powerful. And at some point in the trip, it would just fascinated me and I'm living it

now that these rivers at one point in time, who forever ago first cut their way through the mountains, like the water's up top and it's got to get down and the water's gonna take the easiest path. And my point is once it makes its path, that's it. The path is set. It's not gonna change. Nothing naturally is going to move that waterfall to a new place or any of the rivers.

They're not going to change. There can be some erosion, of course, but it's not gonna be like, you know what's a better direction? Uphill and around the rivers. They're not going to change. There can be some erosion of course, but it's not going to be like, you know what's a better direction uphill and around the bend and that like that doesn't once the path is set, once it has its foothold, it's never going to give it up. And even if humans wanted to change, it would be a massive task for humans to come in and divert

that river to make a new waterfall or a different waterfall, even if we wanted to. My point is, this is why we can't let communists win elections anywhere. Because the devil gets a foothold. The river makes its groove. People keep voting certain ways. It's really hard, if not impossible, to change that path.

Nature does what's easiest, and so do people. This is why last week we talked about AI boyfriends and AI girlfriends, and I said that a majority of people will do this. If there's any kids listening now, you may want to hide their ears for a second. But a majority of people watch pornography pornography and it's the same principle it's selfish and easy once physical ones emotional but it's the same principle and

so it's communism it's easy the pitch is easy it is brilliant for Mamdani to call for free buses but he doesnani to call for free buses, but he doesn't just call for free buses or the elimination of bus fares. He doesn't call it, he calls it fast and free. Now it's not really free and someone's gotta pay for it.

Taxes, and of course it won't be fast. It's neither of those things, but the marketing is brilliant because it appeals to what people want. It appeals to people being selfish and easy, fast and free. This is what we want everything to be. We want everything to be fast and free.

And we have an entire political party and a massive cultural movement that provides people with all their heart's desires, whatever appeals to people's sinful nature. Fast and free, sometimes at a price. But, or at least a monetary price, there's always a real price, but we know that what's easy

is almost never what's best for the individual or what's best for society. Tonight for dinner, you know the easy thing is to just grab some ice cream from the freezer. That's the easy thing. But the better thing is to get some chicken and broccoli and cook it up and eat it. But that's harder.

We all know what the right thing is to do.

But the 99 cent tacos at Taco Bell, that's fast and pretty almost free. And it gets the job done. But does it? I mean, it'll satiate you in the moment, but long-term it destroys you. We all know that.

We know that the easy thing is rarely the right thing. Now we, unfortunately, as conservatives, we are members of a political party that advocate for hard things. We call upon people to engage in hard work and to strive. We call for virtue and accomplishing things.

The other party advocates for fast and free. Now I'd rather be on our team because our team when we accomplish what we stand for leads to greatness. But man, it's harder to win elections that way, isn't it? Here's the last analogy I wanna make

and then we'll get to the Bible. June 25th, 20, or excuse me, June 25th, 1929. President Herbert Hoover authorized the construction of the Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam is a spectacular achievement, stunningly beautiful, stunningly beautiful in every way.

And it's full of art. The people who built this dam, who designed it and built it, they believed that they were building something that would last forever. I'd love one day, we can spend more time on this, but they built a celestial map on the site of the Hoover Dam

where, it's not ancient, where civilizations, thousands of years in the future from now, can read this map and figure out just by the stars, the positions of the stars and what's characterized on this map when this Hoover Dam was built.

Not using any words, but when the dam was built because they really believed that they were making this for something that would last forever, as forever as humans can build a thing, even without maintenance. I think they said it can last for a thousand years as humans can build a thing. Even without maintenance. I think they said it can last for a thousand years

without any maintenance on it even. Things spectacular, but it's beautiful too. It's built in this beautiful art deco theme. And it's an incredible engineering achievement that we're still celebrating today. We're still benefiting from today.

They finished it in five years, two years ahead of schedule. 21,000 people. It provides power today for 1.3 million homes. Water for Southern California, Arizona. So they built it fast, ahead of schedule, and it still works. People of California high-speed rail

can learn a lesson from here. But here's why I wanted to bring it up here. 100 people died making this thing. There's a big plaque at the Hoover Dam. And it says, they died. So there's this man, this art deco man

rising out of the water. And it says they died to make the desert bloom. The desert doesn't bloom on its own. It takes hard work to make it bloom. All good things. Now, of course, God does all of this, right?

God even, he made the concept of blooming and he made flowers and he made, right? So all this is God and God could do, of course, but our role on the earth is to participate in that creation and to create and make beautiful things too. And that can't be done without effort. The left promises fast and free, fast and free, everything fast and free, everything. It never works. Of course. Can't never can. Uh, like meaning the buses will never be like those won't work. It'll work when

it like getting elected. It'll work in that regard, but it'll never actually work in governance. But they promise fast and free, very appealing. We promise good, beautiful, and true. It's much more difficult, but obviously it's better. Satan's world is one of temptation. When people are selfish and want the easy way. I just this morning,

I kid you not just this morning, read Proverbs 28 and it says, better is the poor who walks in his integrity than one perverse in his ways, though he'd be rich. In his ways, like his own ways. Better to be poor and walk in his integrity than one perverse in his own ways, even though he be rich. This one stood out, again, this is Proverbs 28, 20. A faithful man will abound with blessings,

but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished. Hastens means quickly, but like you'll do anything to be rich will not go unpunished. Hastens means quickly, but you'll do anything to get rich. You'll cheat, you'll compromise, you'll do whatever it takes to get rich. I must be rich and nothing else matters. You will not go unpunished this life or the next, but the hasten, the fast, I want it now. Me, me, me now fast and free. Another one of Proverbs 28, a man with an evil eye hastens after riches and does not consider the poverty that

will come upon him. Fast and free. And just speaking to the how the good things the righteous is hard. It takes effort. It takes effort. 1st Corinthians 9. Do you not know, says Paul, do you not know that those who run in a race all run but one receives the prize run in such a way that you may obtain it. Go get it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown but we for an

imperishable crown. See all these people competing in like the Olympics, they do it for a silly medal or crown, right? But we do it for one that lasts forever. Therefore I run in this way, not with uncertainty. Thus I fight not as one who beats the air, like silliness, but I discipline my body and bring it into subjection.

Lest when I've preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. They had like these, this athletic competitions in Corinth. So he's using their language, but run in a way that you could win it, train for it, be disciplined, just like the great athletes are.

But here's what's interesting. When he says, I, where is it? I discipline my body. We don't translate that quite right. The actual Greek means to beat black and blue, to smite so as to cause bruises and livid spots like a boxer beats his body, to be disciplined by hardships. It means to give a black eye. That's what he's talking about, discipline.

Why? To bring the body into submission. Meaning to make the body my slave. So with the temptations in the world, we act like our souls are slaves of the body, that the body's in charge, right? Our emotions drive our actions, our desires, our impulses, our cravings, our lusts. So much

of politics today is about feelings. Well, I feel this, I feel like that, I feel for these people, I feel, I feel, right? I feel all the time. I'm gonna cry, that person's crying, oh we better do what they want, they're crying. It's all about the feels, what feels good. Because for most people, our body, the flesh, is the master over our soul. So we do whatever the body says. But Paul here says, no, flip that around,

bring your body into subjection. Now that doesn't mean work on your six pack, although that's good too, but work against your lusts. Like your body's not in charge of your soul. Your soul with the Holy Spirit needs to be in charge of your body, meaning all the temptations around us,

all the promises of fast and free. Politically, this is a very difficult thing to do. It's definitely the uphill battle, but I believe it is the good one. And spiritually, it's the most important thing.

And Jesus took the ultimate beating and punishment for all of our sins, not just physically on the cross, but all the sins of the whole world on him as well. Mike Slater dot locals.com transcript commercial free on the website, Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript commercial free on the website. Mike Slater dot locals.com transcript commercial free on the website, Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript commercial free on the website. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

 

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