Daniel Penny NOT GUILTY

MikeSlater

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Politics By Faith, December 10, 2024

December 10, 2024

Many people on the left are blaming Jordan Neely's death on "the failures of the social safety net". No, that's not it. People on the right are blaming Neely for the bad decisions he has made in his life. Okay, sure. But...I think the most blame goes even before that.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. Thanks for being here. Today was a very interesting show on SiriusXM Patriot. I don't know if it worked at all. It took me a while to talk out loud for a bit and refine my thoughts. So if you were a part of it today on SiriusXM, thank you for going on the journey.

The very short of it is Daniel Penny, if you've been following the story. Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely on the New York City subway. Well, praise God, Daniel Penny found not guilty. That's a wonderful thing. We need more Daniel Pennys in our country. I want to be more like Daniel Penny. I pray we have more Daniel Pennys. So that's thought number Then, we talked about Jordan Neely. Now we have two things that tend to get talked about here.

So if you're on the left and you want to talk about Jordan Neely, they freak out about how the system failed and there's no social safety nets for the Jordan Neelys out there. And I would argue that that's not true. Jordan Neely, when he punched a 67-year-old woman on the sidewalk for no reason, if there's ever a good reason, but for no reason, randomly, he was given a safe place to stay and treatment for his addictions,

etc. and mental health problems. He didn't take it. So I don't know how much more social safety net one needs. It's the progressive worldview is that all good things come from government. So if something is broken, it means there's not enough government or there wasn't enough government. So here we have what Jordan Neely did and who he was and who he became and how he was acting and it's broken and the problem is not

enough social safety nets. Like no, that's not it. And then you have conservatives who blame him. He's been arrested 42 times or whatever it was and and it's his fault, and so I'm looking at it and I blame the parents. Now we got a couple of things on the table here. First thing to reiterate, Daniel Penney, all good. We need more Daniel Penneys. done. Second thought, I totally believe in personal agency always. I have to

believe that. I must believe in that. That must be true. And obviously in the end of the day, at the end of the day, only that person is responsible for the actions or the decisions etc. etc. Yes, that is true. Third point, Jordan Neely really had no chance. Because of the decisions made by the people around him, specifically his parents. We told the full of the story on the show this morning,

I'll do the very short of it. New York Magazine wrote a whole article about him. You have his mom, Christy Neely, met his dad, Andrew Zachary, who by the way, is doing this whole, I love my son so much routine because he sees major dollar signs.

They met at a club. He was a member of an R&B group. They had sex, she got pregnant, and Jordan was born. And he actually, he was a member of an R&B group, and they actually got a song that was on the charts for 20 weeks back in 1995.

And he got some money from it, and he blew it all, and he slept around. So, he left, Jordan had no dad. He was about two years old. He had no role model. His mom was doing the best she could.

She was a telemarketer in Manhattan. They lived in shelters for a while in New York City, but mom wanted a place of their own.

So she took classes to become a paralegal.

And in the class she sat next to this guy. Started dating. She saved enough money, could rent an apartment in New Jersey. And she invited the man to come live with her. This guy's name was Sutherland. Kept a padlock on the door, the bedroom door.

So Jordan, as a young boy, could not enter the room. Weird. Super jealous guy, would call his girlfriend, Jordan's mom, 10 times every hour if she was out with her mom, right, that kind of guy. And one day, his mom always woke him up every morning before school.

And one day, mom didn't wake him up. He was 14 years old. So he got ready on his own and went into the bedroom to say goodbye, but Sutherland, the boyfriend, blocked the door closed. Okay, so he goes off to school, comes home.

No one's home. So Sutherland says, oh, my aunt died, I left to the funeral. For days, he didn't know where his mom was. And he didn't tell anyone.

He's 14 years old.

So finally, he calls her work. And her colleagues were wondering where she was too. And Jordan told the co-worker, I don't know what to do, it's cold, the mail keeps coming in, the heat went off. One of mom's rules for Jordan was you can't cook by yourself and over all those days he never cooked any food because he expected mom to come home at any minute and he didn't want to get in

trouble. He finally got on his bike and he rode to a family friend's house. They filed a missing persons report. They got the boyfriend on the phone. He said she went on vacation. And Jordan's like, no, that's not what happened. While they're on the phone with the guy, they had the TV on. And the reporter on the TV said that a woman's body had been found

in a duffel bag in the Bronx. And the corpse is decomposed, and they don't know who it is. And on the news, they put a picture of her belt and a turquoise ring. And Jordan knew immediately that that was his mom. 14 years old and the boyfriend was the murderer. So that's some trauma. Where's the boy gonna go live with his dad? Nope. When he was 16 he started doing this Michael Jackson

impersonating on the subway. When he was 18 he went to go live with his dad, but his dad was, I mean, I wasn't there. I don't know, I can't judge it, but it didn't work. So, that was it, out in the streets. Now, who's to blame?

Who do you blame?

In no particular order, I blame the dad for being a deadbeat, sleeping around, and not wanting to raise his child. I blame the mom for making bad decisions. Now real quick, every time I mention a deadbeat dad on SiriusXM, it's very interesting, a bunch of dads call in, and this is true, there's truth to this.

Hey Slater, don't be so hard on dads, it's not always the dads, oftentimes it's the mom who kicks the dad out, maybe it's the mom who goes crazy. And the dad wants to be a part of the son's life, but it's the mom, fair enough. I don't think that's the situation here, but fair enough.

That can happen too. I do blame this mom for making bad mating decisions. We don't talk about that in our country. That's what I really want to talk about here. We don't talk about mating decisions. I don't know a better way to put it.

We don't talk enough about who people sleep with. And then of course you got to blame the murderer. But why are you bringing in this guy? Well it's because the dad left. That's the fault of the dad for leaving the mother and child in the first place and a woman is going to want to bring someone in to provide and make bad decisions all around. and some people are blaming Jordan Neely for his bad choices.

I want to go a little bit further back and I want to blame mom and dad for having sex out of wedlock in the beginning and for not making a family and not providing for a family. That to me seems like the nexus of the whole thing that no one's paying attention to. As we often say, Henry David Thoreau, there's thousands hacking at the branches of evil

to every one who strikes the root. So we're talking about this on the radio today. My whole point, I just want us to do better at helping our kids make better decisions on what to look for in a spouse and who you mate with, who you have children with.

And we had these calls and there was like a moment when I was like, I don't know what to teach our kids. I don't know what we should be telling our kids, but it ain't working now. And I was in this free-fall state. A guy called in and he goes on and quotes God's word.

And you're like, oh, yeah, that's the answer, obviously. Thank you, thank you very much. I was in free fall for a moment there. It was perfect timing yesterday. The two boys were in jujitsu class. It's an hour, so I got me, the two year old boy,

and Grace, who's six. And Grace likes to play, it's good, me and Grace time. And we came up with a game, pin the tail on the donkey. So we're in this long hallway with a waiting room in it, and I put a blanket, or a jacket over her head, and spin her around a bunch of times

and she has to try to find this sign that's on the wall. There's a sign that says, I don't know what it says, like no smoking, I don't know what it says. It has Braille on it. So she has to find the sign without, right, after I spin her around. And it was super fun, we had a great time. And that's what I was like.

I was like spinning, out of control, didn't know where I was pitch black grasping for an answer of I don't know what we should look for and that's all of us too that's like our culture that's our society today we're like where am I what do I do who do I marry who do I have who do I have kids with you and that's it like how's it going not well and when this guy because caller quoted the Bible it was just like taking the blindfold off. You're like, oh, here I am.

And this is what I should do. We need a more intentional conversation in our culture about what we should look for in a spouse. I say, let's do descending order. How we should treat each other in a marriage. Before that, how to find the right person to marry.

There's no conversation about that. And then the world would say, well, before that, it should be, you know, who do you want to sleep with? It's like, oh, we're out of order here. I should be able to marry that, then the sleeping and having kids and then having a proper marriage. So we're all out of order. We're all out of whack.

So first order of business, we have to change our culture about sleeping with people out of wedlock. And it's got to change. And it can. It really, genuinely can. Obviously some people still will. But we need to stop treating it as a norm or celebrating it.

No. We need to stop with this cultural expectation that you should just have sex. And potentially have kids out of wedlock. It's not good. And if you make a claim like this on the radio, someone's gonna call and be like,

well I have two kids out of wedlock and they're fine. Are they?

And it's really difficult to talk about any of this stuff

because people get very defensive or people get full of regret for things that have happened in their life. And it's okay, fine. Get over it. We gotta focus on the next generation.

Let's focus on the next generation and help them make better decisions. Okay, so we're done with the premarital sex. Great. But then said, who should I marry? What should I look for in a spouse? We're not intentional about it. Okay, so what do you want me to do? Well, let's go to the Bible. It's all there. The gentleman who called in with

the God's word, he said, the Bible says, don't be unequally yoked. Like, oh, yeah, that's it. That wooden bar between two oxen. If one is stronger, one oxen is shorter, or whatever, it won't work. The ox is going to pull in circles. You're not going to go straight. You're not going to complete the task.

That's what the Bible says. Don't be unequally yoked. Okay, so what should you look for in a spouse? Well, fear of the Lord. Your spouse, number two, your spouse should be honest, trustworthy. Trustworthy.

Proverbs 31, we just go through Proverbs 31, the heart of her husband trusts in her. Number three, she should be someone who's helpful, builds you up. Verse 12 says, she does him good, not harm, all the days of her life.

You should look for someone who loves God, fears the Lord. Number two, honest. Number three, supports, builds up. Number four, hardworking. Proverbs 31 says she seeks wool and flax, works with her willing hands. She's like the ships of the merchant. She brings food from afar. She rises while it's yet night and

provides food for, right? Number, so hard worker. Number five, somebody who's generous and hospitable. Sticking in Proverbs 31, she opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy. Number six, you want to look for someone who loves wisdom. Verse 26 says, she opens her mouth with wisdom and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

Number seven, you want someone, my favorite, in verse 25, my favorite part of Proverbs 31 is verse 25, she laughs at the time to come. Trust Jesus. Someone who trusts Jesus. Number eight, someone with self-control. Proverbs 23 20 says, do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat for drunkards and gluttons become poor and drowsiness or laziness clothes them in rags. So get someone with self-control. That's not

just a hard worker. That's right. That's one of the other ones we listed here. But someone with self-control. If you lose, if you lack your self-control, then you will become poor and you will be in rags. And number nine, someone who is patient. James 1, So then my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. For the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

So those are nine things that I think we should be telling our kids from a young age, I don't know, 14, this is what you should be looking for in your future spouse. Put it in there pretty young, I don't know when the right age is. You want to be looking for a spouse that you're going to spend the rest of your life with. Someone who's a hard worker someone generous and hospitable

someone who loves wisdom Someone who trusts Jesus laughs at time to come that's good perspective Friends of ours put it someone who's in on the joke Like they get they get life they understand life Number eight is someone who has self-control. And number nine is someone who's patient.

Those are nine really good values, aren't they? Do we tell our kids about those nine?

I just came up with those nine.

I didn't spend an hour on this. I just looked up the Bible real quickly.

That's all there is there.

I'm sure there's more.

Can we be intentional about this? So I'm thinking, well, what do we tell our kids now about who to look for in a mate? And we had a guy call in and he said, well, today, you know, it's all about what clicks. Do we click? Isn't that an interesting word that we've come up with?

Oh, we click. And the guy's like, well, this is no good, this caller, because he says, you often seek what you grew up. So if you grew up in dysfunction, you're going to seek that same dysfunction because it's comfortable in a perverted way.

So you find someone who's equally dysfunctional and the person says, well, we click. Okay, that doesn't mean it's good. Click doesn't mean good. So we have to do better than that. We have to get rid of that term entirely.

Oh, we just click. Like, no. So, alright, so what are we basing our decisions off of now? I guess looks. But the Bible speaks to that too. Proverbs 11, 22, like a gold ring, oh that's nice, a gold ring. In a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.

A gold ring, oh that's nice, and a pig snout. So if you focus on a woman's physical beauty, you can often miss her lack of character. That would be the ugly pig. Proverbs 12, you would never marry an ugly pig. The pig, you get it, the gold ring is the beauty on the outside and the pig is the woman's character.

Man's too, we'll apply it equally. You don't want to marry the pig. Proverbs 12.4 A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones. Proverbs 31.3

Charm is deceptive, beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. I read this. Outer beauty is often what initially attracts a man to a woman, but it can also trap him. Instead of obtaining a wife who is a crowning jewel to be highly praised, the man who selects a beautiful woman who

lacks discretion gains a frivolous and sensible companion who will make him look like a fool. My point of this Giordanile segment is we need to be more intentional about this in our churches. So I don't know what this means to you as a parent, and someone wrote me an email that says parenting doesn't end when the kids turn 18 But there's still a lot of life decisions to be made and there's maybe this cultural push it like you're 18 You're out of the house. You're on your own and I raised you and now you make decisions, but it's like oh

I don't know. Maybe your daughter's 22 and needs some helps. I could still be guided well, right? So we need to kind of fight back against that cultural thing too, but so as a parent What can you do with this stuff and also someone in your church what can you bring into the church what can you encourage the leaders of the church to do to speak more to this into kids with its youth ministry or whatever because we have to be more intentional about this we just have to be we can't wing it

anymore so what should you look for in a spouse and then a challenge for men and women is to be that person that people should be looking for. Again, there are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to everyone who strikes the root. People are talking about lack of city services, like, hmm, that's not it. Well, he just, you know, Jordan nearly made bad choices. Okay, fine. Let's keep digging. It's all about the family, and I would like to prevent almost every social problem in our country

is caused by broken families. So I'd like to really get to the root of these social problems and encourage everyone to make better decisions before families are even made. Think of what heartache can be avoided and what godliness can be gained. I hope that's helpful.

I hope that's something.

I'm still talking this through. If you have any insight you can give me on this would be very much appreciated. My personal email is slaterradio at gmail.com, slaterradio at gmail.com. Or if you're on the website, mikeslater.locals.com, of course you can leave a comment

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Zohran Mamdani and Masquerading Light

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Be careful of people and ideas who look like The Light, but it's all an act.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. One big beautiful bill. That is the main news of the day. I want to take a bit of that and also highlight something a bit different before I forget it.

We'll bring it all together.

Zoran Memdani may be the next mayor of New York City. This is the 33-year year old Muslim communist from Uganda. The latest mini controversy is that his team made a video of him talking about something where he's eating some rice dish with his hands. Like an animal.

Like they do in a foreign, perhaps third world country.

And it's all performative. like they do in a foreign, perhaps third world country.

And it's all performative. He's got the microphone on a shirt. Like he could have waited to eat and answer the question without, but he did on purpose. And also he knows how to use a fork and knife. There's other campaign pictures of him eating a burrito with a fork and knife, which is a food item

that you're supposed to eat with your hands. So he's doing them both backwards. But the point is, eating with the hands, it's all performative gesture. It's a game, it's an act to appeal to certain people to get attention as well.

And they knew what they were doing. They're like, here, eat this with your hands. They knew. Someone on Twitter said, His mother is a world famous Academy Award nominated Bollywood director worth tens of millions of dollars. His father is a chaired professor at Columbia. He is a perpetual theater kid who's pretending to be third world.

The great Rob Henderson said, rich kid eats rice with his hands. More performative modesty aimed at manipulating you into thinking he's just a regular guy like Castro and his fatigues or Mao and his peasant tunic always the same playbook with rich kid socialists It's also funny. It's a funny place that we're at in politics where we used to mock politicians because they were eating pizza the wrong way or are they they would look awkward when eating a hot dog at the State Fair and

Now we have politicians running for office who are eating rice with their hands. All right, but here's my main point here. I want to steal this from Cernovich. He said, in our inverted society, and indeed everything's backwards,

the demons look soft and non-threatening, and the angels look scary, which is biblical. Mamdani is on the cover of the New Yorker and he looks great. It's a nice photo shoot and smiling and it's all, it's all nice. Communism, but with a nice happy smile on it, soft and non-threatening. The demons look soft and non-threatening.

The angels look scary, which is biblical. And he's right. Satan is not what our pop culture portrays him to look like. I think it's actually an act of the devil to have him portrayed the way he is with red horns and a pitchfork and all that. But the Bible says that Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Second Corinthians 11, 14. He's also the father of lies, John 8, 44. So of course he's going to approach us as something good and beautiful

and safe and easy and full of light. Now, to be clear, the Bible doesn't say that Satan is an angel of light, only that he masquerades as one. So that is how we will see Satan and his deeds as light. Light is good in the Bible. John 8, 44 says,

"'Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling." God created the light, 2nd Corinthians 6, 4, for God who said, let light shine out of darkness has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. It was Moses, wasn't

it? Who after he spoke with God on Mount Sinai, he came back down and his face was shining. Just light pouring off of his face. So light is good. So of course Satan is going to appear as the angel of light. Of course Satan is gonna say, come to me! I am the light! Which is why we have to be very careful. We have to stay close to God, stay close to his word. Psalm 119 says, your word God is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. So how do you stay close to God and know that it's his light? You read the Bible. Your word, the Bible, is a lamp to our feet, lights our path.

Now on the flip side, which is also pretty interesting, God's angels are so terrifying that people fall to their knees. And every time the angel has to say, fear not. Now you've maybe seen this before on the internet. Some artists made biblically accurate angels Now, you may have seen this before on the internet.

Some artists made biblically accurate angels. You can search for that at your own caution here. These are artist composites of Ezekiel. Ezekiel 1, his vision of God and his throne. And Ezekiel goes into detail here. Let's see here. Each had four faces and each had four wings. Their hands of a man were under the wings on their four sides. Each had four faces and wings.

Their wings touched one another. Let's see. There's more craziness here. Each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side. Each of the four had the face of an ox on the left side. Each of the four had the face of an eagle. A little further down on Ezekiel. Here it is. This is about wheels. Here we go. The appearance of their workings was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. When they moved, they went towards any one of four directions. They did not turn aside when they went. As for the rims, they

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.

The accounting, how they measure this, calculate that, move this around, change a word here or there. We'll do more on the radio show tomorrow of the Inflation Reduction Act, the green new scam stuff that's in it and taken out of it and then put back in it

and then a couple words changed here and there. So again, we'll do more of this tomorrow, but the house had in there that you will remove your solar subsidy if, unless something is in construction by a certain date. So this new wind or energy or solar project

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.

And then they get four more years of subsidies. And the Senate did change it to, no, no, it's gotta be placed in service, which means it has to be done by the end of the year 2028. So a couple slight word changes here changes the whole game.

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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June 27, 2025

Yo Daddy's Home

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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June 26, 2025

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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