We'll see if Governor Walz does the right thing and works with the Trump administration and ICE, but this was headed towards another George Floyd cultural moment. The emotional blackmailers were using "love" as their weapon once again.
Welcome to politics by faith. Thanks for being here and talk about what's been going on in Minnesota lately. Hopefully it all calms down now. And I think it will with the president's statements yesterday that he talked with the governor and with the mayor of Minneapolis. And that seems like they have agreed to work with ice and handing over the criminals of criminally aliens in Minneapolis. What are we, how, how was that thing that they already did?
It's because they decided that Trump is the enemy and can never be supported in any way. They're the resistance, and they have to fight against Trump. If you want to get more cynical, it's to cover up for all the fraud and failure that's been occurring in their state. And if you want to get even more cynical, it's because all the illegal aliens are counted towards census apportionment, which means they're counted in the census. Still, if you're an illegal alien, you're counted in the census. And that counting goes towards congressional and electoral college apportionment.
In Minnesota, in the last census, kept their house seat, one of their house seats by 26 people, 26, which means if there were 27 fewer Somalis in Minnesota, then they would have lost a congressional seat and they would have lost an electoral college vote. So there's that consideration from progressives as well as to why they were doing everything they could to not support Trump. Alas, perhaps Trump found a way to get walls and fray to fall in line. But what I want to talk about here is the last couple of weeks, It seems like this has all moved in the direction and gotten pretty close to the hysteria of Covid and even George Floyd. And it was crossing the line of pop culture where people, even outside of the political realm. So people on Instagram, like all the mommy accounts on Instagram and interior designing accounts and food accounts and comedy accounts, all these people were posting about ice and stopping ice.
And of course they were using all their pseudo Christian empathy, language of loving others and human decency. And I support whatever political parties in favor of human rights and all this stuff. So I want to chat about that right now. I've also been hearing from more listeners about family and friends and co -workers being more vocal about how horrible ICE is and what's happening in Minnesota. And it doesn't matter how much you say, they're trying to deport child molesters and murderers. And they have, we could spend 20 minutes here going over all the monsters that they've detained in Minneapolis that were just living in the streets, like living in their neighbors.
But it doesn't matter. We could talk about how That illegal alien abandoned his five -year -old son in the car. He ran away from his son. And now no one in the house would accept custody of the child. What's going on there? But it doesn't matter.
Ben Shapiro is famous for saying, facts don't care about your feelings. But the truth is, feelings don't care about your facts. Most people, feelings is all that matters. And you can give as many facts as you want. It doesn't change anything. None of that matters to stiff -necked people.
Someone called in today and said that we need to do a better job of discovering the facts of the fraud in Minneapolis and not just accusations and not just Nick Shirley trick -or -treating on Somali daycare to Somali daycare, but actually get the numbers that people can can see. And I love it. Like, let's do that. And I get the sentiment, but that's not going to matter. That's not going to move people to do what is obviously the right thing to do. During the 2024 election, American citizens got murdered by illegal aliens.
And there were people who didn't care. Now, maybe enough people in the middle, quote unquote, middle did. Trump did win and people voted for deporting illegal aliens. So I remember there was a survey back in March of last year, and it was do you support deporting illegal aliens? And 32 % said, excuse me, 35 % said all of them. 51 % of people said some.
Okay, well, let's break down the sum of those 51 % who said some. 97 % said criminals, criminally, you committed another crime. But 44 % of that 51%, so you're going to get all the people out of all the people that were asked, 35 % said deport all of them. 51 % said some of that 51%, 44 % said any illegal alien who's arrived in the last four years. So that means a majority of people wanted to deport all illegal aliens who have been here the last four years. And then we can even talk about those who have been here longer than that, but there is a mandate here and we cannot forget that.
And it's right. And it's good. And I support it. We've been going hard on the facts on the radio, but I also mentioned this scripture on the radio today. So I want to do it here too, because a lot of people were calling in about people they love. One guy called in about a sister.
One person called in about his mentor. He admires deeply, but his mentor has gone off the deep end. saying things like, well, like Tim Wall said, that the people... Minnesota are like Anne Frank hiding from the Nazis. Anne Frank was captured and killed in a concentration camp. That's not, that's not what's happening here.
I was also talking to a friend of mine who used to be in a cult. And he said, he sees a lot of cult tactics going on everywhere. And he's very aware of this. And he's very careful not to get sucked into another cult. I also am aware. I'm very careful.
to not go too far with different things, because I don't want to have egg on my face. The other day I told the story about, I wasn't even lying, I was making it seem like I knew what I was talking about, which is like a kind of a form of lying, I suppose. But I got egg on my face from that, and I learned a lot of lessons from that moment. I remember the story about the bull weevils, bull weevil fur trapper. You've heard the expression before, you know, if you always tell the truth, you don't have to keep your story straight or something like that. Similarly, if I pause and I think, and I wait, and I take some extra consideration for things, Man, that'll save a lot of heartache later.
There used to be an instinct, or maybe there still is for people. I think, I think in my industry, there's a lot of instinct to be first. I don't have that anymore. And for a lot, there's an instinct to be wild and get attention. I don't, I don't have that either. I'd rather wait and then give context and insight when helpful.
So let's turn to the Bible this morning. I happened to read Hebrews five and this line stood out to me for every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God. that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. He can have compassion on those. The priest can have compassion. The high priest, he can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray.
Why? Since he himself is also subject to weakness. So you have the high priest here, chosen among the people, making sacrifices for people's sins. This is before Jesus died on the cross. And this priest has to have compassion for people because he's also human. He's also weak.
He's also a sinner. How do you change the mind of someone who has gone astray? I wrote a book about this many years ago called How to Change Someone's Mind. It's more of a pamphlet. It's $5 on Amazon. I think I make $1 .20 if you buy it.
But the most important step for changing someone's mind is making sure that when you go into a conversation, you're willing to have your mind changed as well. I'm not saying you have to change your mind. I'm not saying you're wrong, but you have to be willing to have your mind changed. If you're not, then they're not, and you're never going to change their mind if that's what you want to do. If you want to win an argument, that's a different thing. But similarly here with these political topics going on today, we need to always be reassessing, always be willing To have your mind changed, always be willing to see where you're wrong, because the sooner you admit it, the easier it's going to be to get to the truth.
And that has to be our ultimate goal. Paul said in Philippians 1 9, and this, I pray that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Christ Jesus to the glory of God and praise of God. On the TV show, we're recording it tomorrow. Michael Clary is going to be here. He's going to talk about how he just wrote this piece about how Christians need to stop falling for this weaponized empathy. You're not called to be gullible.
You're called to love, but love with knowledge and discernment so that you can approve of what is excellent. Stick with the truth. Pursue excellence. To love more. Love who? Love what?
Exactly. I think all the outrage from the left is misplaced love. Disordered love. Christian love is a thinking love. It's not a feeling. It's not a trick to love.
It's not a manipulated love. It's not a gullible love. Clary said, without discernment, love gets twisted into a sentimental monstrosity. For the gullible and undiscerning, this kind of pseudo -love claims the moral high ground. It does have some rhetorical advantages, which is why so many people fall for it. It sounds biblical enough to convince undiscerning people that it might be right, but it's not.
These are not arguments of fact or facts. They're ear -tickling slogans, nothing more. It is good to always be on the lookout to see where we might be wrong. Always be on the lookout to see and make sure that we're in the right. You have a lot of people out there who say, we need to love. Just love, love, love.
And you're like, love what? Love how? Love who? Love in what way?
Doesn't matter, just love.
Love evil? Love sin? No, no, no. We're called to have a discerning love towards what is excellent. We are called to love rightly and to love well. MikeSlater . Locals . com for the transcript and commercial free. MikeSlater .
