Truthspresso, episode 321.

In a world gone bonkers, it is.

Not, generally speaking, unruly, but fires have been started.

And where the culture is a dumpster fire.

We're coming for your children.

And churches have lost their way.

I am really uncomfortable with the story of the crucifixion.

It's time to wake up with Truth Truthspresso, your weekly shot of truth.

And now your host, Daniel Minick.

Well, hey there, friends, family, foes, and of course, lurkers alike.

This is your host, Daniel Minick for another exciting episode of Truthspresso.

And once again, the seasons come and go.

Although this episode is talking about election season, I'm also talking about flu season.

And so I don't know if you could tell from the tone of my voice, but I am once again under the weather.

But I plan to weather out this storm and record this episode because I don't want to wait too long to talk about this topic.

Since the election just happened, it seems a little time sensitive and I think I'm going to be okay here.

So here we go.

And in around where I live, we actually got the first snow of the season.

At first it was like a little dusting, but then the weather said, oh yeah, you think that's something?

Try this.

And then a few days later we got a storm that dumped maybe about 8 inches of snow.

And then we got about one day of not snowing before another storm came and dumped another like foot of snow here.

So it's kind of like welcome to winter weather now.

Sorry we can't ease it into you, but if you like snow, here it is in one big dump.

Get used to it, pal.

So I spent a little bit of the day as I record this Saturday shoveling some of that second round of snow.

And well, the long awaited 2024 election has come and gone.

Well, mostly gone.

There are still a few straggling races in the House and Senate that have yet to be called as of this recording.

Some have called the Senate race in Pennsylvania for Republican David McCormick, but Democrat Bob Casey Jr.

Still hasn't conceded.

And being originally a native from Pennsylvania, the state where I grew up in as a child until I went to college, I know what the Casey dynasty is like there.

Bob Casey senior was originally a Catholic and pro life Democrat for a while a few decades ago, but eventually he kind of caved on his pro life convictions trying to work with other Democrats to do Democrat things.

And it seems like Bob Casey Jr.

Has kind of given up on the conservative positions his proposed faith would entail and is just an all out leftist Democrat.

And so we will see for sure what the final result says in that election.

And Kerry Lake, who ran for governor of Arizona against Katie Hobbs in 2022 and faced the sloth slow incompetent vote counting system in Arizona, tried to sue over election fraud because it seemed like she likely would have won but then eventually decided to run this year for an open U.S.

senate seat from Arizon Kyrsten Sinema, a supposed moderate Democrat who switched to independent and decided not to run for re election, left the Senate open and Kerry Lake ran against far left Ruben Gallego.

Now once again, as it seems always the case now with Kerry Lake, the race is close.

And once again, just like in 2020 and 2022, Maricopa County, Arizona is where all the controversy is happening.

Once again the votes trickle in at glacial speed as various ballot drops happen to spread or tighten the race a bit.

And once again we may never know for sure if fraud happened in this election in Arizona.

There and the so called Republican election supervisors like Stephen Richer and Bill Gates seem to act like nothing unusual or suspicious suspicious happens there.

Now this Bill Gates isn't the billionaire Bill Gates of Microsoft infamy.

This is a different Bill Gates.

But of course the biggest news of this election was the race for President of the United States.

Both sides feared the worst for their lives and for the nation if their favorite candidate, or the least despised candidate maybe in many cases didn't win the race.

All the polls suggested a nail bitingly close race and we even had to worry if there would be a 269, 269 electoral college split and have to resort to parts of the Constitution we haven't had to use in a long time.

You know, kind of like exercising a rarely used muscle group.

Yet that's not what happened.

The more the votes came in during the evening, the more the final scenario was playing out.

And I remember going to bed Tuesday evening, November 5, wondering if the current trends would hold or if we would see the dreaded 3am ballot drops on Wednesday morning again in swing states.

At one point I happened to wake up around 12:30am I think a little after that.

And I checked the news and the maps on my phone again just for kicks.

And then I saw it just starting to get called for Donald J.

Trump.

So Donald Trump will now be the first president since Grover Cleveland to be elected to serve two separate terms.

Cleveland was 22 and 24 and Trump would be 45 and 47.

And what was Astounding was that Trump gained ground in every state and almost every county across the nation.

He gained ground among various demographics.

And I will provide links to my sources where I got this information in the show notes so you could look for yourself.

16% of blacks voted for Trump, which was up from 8% in 2020, so that doubled.

But among the blacks that voted in the election, Trump got 24% of the black men.

42% of Latinos voted for Trump, up from 35% in 2020.

But among the Latinos that voted in the election, Trump got 47% of the Latino men.

And when it comes to white voters, things get interesting.

In 2020, 55% of white women voted for Trump, but that actually went down to 53% this time around.

In 2020, 61% of white men voted for Trump, and that also went down 60% this time.

So what was that about Trump being a racist and only appealing to white privilege?

Things are kind of interesting when you compare 2020 to 2024.

And my liberal Democrat coworker who inspired my Was Jesus a Socialist series and my Did Trump really say that series?

Wondered when he came into the office the first time I saw him after the election.

He wondered if the election results showed a mass psychosis of people who otherwise would have voted for Harris.

They wanted to vote for Harris, but they struggled and they retracted at the last minute from unconscious misogyny and voted for Trump instead.

Or something.

I mean, as he articulated eloquently his theory of misogyny here, there had to have been quite a few people who voted for Trump who really wanted to vote for Harris.

But there was something inside of them that said, are you really, really ready to vote for the first woman president?

Maybe you should rethink that.

Like their hands trying to vote for Harris and then their other hands grabbing the wrist and pulling back and directing it over, and they fill in the bubble for Trump, Trump.

And then they start taking deep breaths, trying to encourage themselves that maybe that was the right thing to do.

Now, of course, there are plenty of women in other federal offices, and Hillary Clinton in 2016 won the popular vote, but not the electoral vote.

So maybe that question is not the one to ask, but why couldn't they vote for Harris if the issue, according to statistics, is just an issue of misogyny, especially when black men shifted toward Trump?

It's not racism either, it seems.

Now, I suggested to my co worker that the reason maybe, just maybe, had something to do with policies, and that the question are you better off now than you were four or five years ago was actually the question a lot of voters were asking themselves.

Maybe that's what Occam's Razor would say about the election data.

And Trump saw point gains across rural, suburban and urban voters.

Trump gained 1 point on voters with a college degree and 4 points on those without a college degree.

Now, before you think that that just means Trump appeals to the uneducated.

Those without a college degree include those in the trades like plumbing and electrician, who run small businesses.

And some of them may make as much money as college graduates or even more.

They're small business owners in there.

In fact, I would suggest that if we could subdivide the college degree demographic down to the ones who have outstanding student debt, we would probably see that the young people there who got degrees in gender studies, philosophy, art, history, generic liberal arts, underwater basket weaving, and perhaps any degree starting with something hyphen American or ending in studies probably voted the most for Kamala Harris over others who got college degrees, such as in engineering.

And they were hoping that she would continue Joe Biden's defiance of the Supreme Court and the Constitution to take money from those who never got a college degree, or even those who paid off their debts, and to give that money to the college graduates who can't get a job that would pay off those debts on their worthless degrees.

Now, that's speculation on my part, but I don't see what else would make sense there.

The largest age groups to vote for Trump were gen Xers at 52% and baby boomers at 51%.

So what is that about people worrying that Trump's going to take away their Social Security even as they're in retirement age?

Trump has promised not to take away anyone's Social Security, but nevertheless, the propaganda persisted, and it seems that it didn't work either.

Now, these two age groups, the Gen Xers and the baby boomers, didn't change as much from 2020.

They went up a point or something.

The most significant changes came in the younger voters.

Millennials jumped from 43% in 2020 to 47% in 2024.

So that's a four point jump in favor of Trump in millennials.

Gen Z ers jumped from 36% in 2020 to a whopping 46% in 2024.

That's a 10 point increase from four years ago.

And we're talking about the youngest voting demographic.

Trump seems indeed to be appealing to younger voters even more.

And this tells me that the young people realize that this current administration has Been stealing the American dream from them.

Now, of course, the Fed slashed interest rates to zero in 2020 while Trump was president.

And you know how that works.

Lower interest rates encourage more borrowing, making buying a home more enticing.

But that increases demand for mortgages, which of course then eventually pushes prices up.

But the Biden administration didn't do anything to stop that when they held the reins.

They first said inflation was an illusion, and then it was transitory, and then it was just something wealthy people were paying.

And then it was a thing for the falsely named Inflation Reduction act to solve, which was later admitted to be a green energy spending bill in disguise.

And then we were supposed to be happy just because the rate of price inflation was getting lower?

Oh yes, your prices are still sky high and getting higher by the month.

But the speed of that was tapering a little downward.

Stop complaining.

And the price of a home mortgage more than doubled in many places in two years.

That's insane.

And prices haven't been deflating as fast as they inflated.

The fed funds rate climbed from 0% before March 2022, when inflation worries really happening, to 5.5% in July 2023.

That's a 5.5% rate increase in a little over one year.

And that was the Fed's attempt to fight inflation.

That's quite a shock on the borrowing boom of the years from 2020 to 2022.

The average annual salary last year was just under $60,000.

But the average median national price for a home is close to $400,000, making the average median national salary needed to buy that house close to $105,000 per year.

The American dream of getting married, buying a home and raising a family is far out of reach for the average young person, like the average Gen Z voter or the average younger millennial.

And that's a tragedy for a first world country.

And we can understand why many Gen Z and millennial voters switched to voting for Trump this year.

Yet even when interest rates were going up, the Biden administration spent like kids in a candy shop using their parents credit card.

Under Trump's four years, the total deficit spending was 5.56 trillion.

And 7.4 trillion was added to the debt.

And that's a lot.

But over half of that, or about 4.2 trillion of that that was added to the debt was from pandemic spending in 2020, such as from the CARES Act.

Now I was totally against all that, and you can check it out on my 2020 episodes.

But I understand why Trump thought it was politically necessary to fix a problem.

Democrats try to criticize Trump for being a big spending administration, but they don't tell you why there was so much and it was because of the Cares act in 2020 and that 2020 was anomaly compared to the other three years.

And yet there were more Democrats in favor of the Cares act in 2020 than there were Republicans.

And some Democrats wanted to spend even more than what was passed in the final bill.

So they don't have anything to accuse Trump about there.

Under the Biden administration's first three years, not 4, $5.8 trillion in deficit spending happened.

So Biden's administration had a deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars more in three years than in Trump's four years, including the massive pandemic spending.

Just put that into perspective here.

The Biden admin also added $5.1 trillion to the debt in those three years and fiscal year 2024 is set to hit deficit spending of around $2 trillion and add over $2.3 trillion to the debt in this year alone.

The Biden administration seems to refuse to accept that the pandemic is over and maybe we don't need to spend as if we're in a raging pandemic.

And I'll provide links in the show notes to sources showing some of these statistics where I got them from.

And given all this insanity where those in charge keep spending more and more of the money they didn't earn through their own work, it's no wonder that there was a dramatic shift of voters away from Kamala Harris, which to them was more of the same or maybe even worse to someone that they may remember from a few years ago where things felt a lot better.

Also, more normal people from non white demographics shifted to Trump because they were also sick of all the clown world social policies where they have to worry about their kids possibly getting indoctrinated and harassed in school and having boys claiming to be girls and school invading their sports and locker rooms and restrooms.

It seems that Trump's ad that they're all about they them but he's about you seem to pay off seem to resonate with people.

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So now that we have the election results, as I anticipated, there has been quite the meltdown from the other side.

Now, Jimmy Kimmel, when giving his first comedy routine after the election.

So on November 6, he had to choke back tears.

And the parts that he had to struggle the most not to break down was when he was mentioning the effects on illegal immigrants and on Ukraine.

So let's play a clip of that.

Let's be honest, it was a terrible night last night.

It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hardworking immigrants who make this country go.

For healthcare, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech.

It was a terrible night for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on Social Security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the troops and democracy and decency.

And it was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him.

And guess what?

It was a Bad night for everyone who voted for him, too.

You just don't realize it yet.

And most of all.

And yeah, there's plenty of other meltdown things I could do.

I could play clips from the View, from msnbc, from abc, from CNN and so on.

But I would like to play a few clips from average people, like those who.

And when I say average, I mean those who are not in high positions in government and news and stuff like that.

But I'll play clips of some people, mostly women, mostly younger women, that they did on TikTok and showing they're melting down.

And I'll provide a link to a Sky News Australia video on YouTube that has a lot of these clips in one video.

So that made it convenient here.

But the first one that we hear is that one woman screams in her bathroom while covering her face and swaying back and forth on her knees.

Now, the next woman that we will hear is one who's in her car and she screams and cries and grips her steering wheel and shakes herself.

And so let's hear some of that.

I'm sorry.

No, no, no, no.

Why?

Why, why, why, why?

Why?

Do you really hate me that bad?

And now the next one is a woman who cries and lectures the voters about what they've just done to her and what is wrong with you guys?

So let's listen to that.

What is wrong with you?

I can't.

I can't do this anymore.

I'm literally sick.

I'm literally sick to my stomach.

What has happened to America?

What has happened to democracy?

What has happened to freedom?

I'm done.

This is a mess.

To anyone who follows me.

If you voted for Trump, unfollow me and block me.

If you didn't vote, unfollow me and block me.

The fact that it's this close means I've lost all hope in the American people.

Like, it should not be this close.

Why would anyone vote for this person?

He's so evil.

He's so demented.

I.

Kamala's not perfect.

We all know that.

We all know that she is not a convicted felon, rapist, crazy, fascist, dictator, psycho.

And now, finally, here's a clip of an old man with a beard and he's wearing a rainbow scarf and a rainbow beanie and possibly nothing else.

And then he cries about the election results like a child throwing a tantrum.

You cannot be serious.

How did I wake up to this garbage as my president.

That's right, garbage.

I went to bed last night and she was ahead.

I woke up to this freaking Nightmare.

Donald Trump.

How does America have this many Nazi Hitler following pieces of trash?

I thought America was already great.

Kamala was.

Had our.

Had our economy skyrocketing.

People were.

People were happy.

You could feel the joy in her campaign.

And then all of a sudden, it's just been hijacked by these freaks of nature.

They called himself Trump supporters.

Nobody wants to live in a country full of hate.

It's all hate, hate, hate, hate.

Trump hates everybody that's not white.

And I can't believe people of color.

People of color actually voted for him.

How does that happen?

What does he pay them?

I'll give you some money if you vote against your own people.

Does that.

This is not gonna end well at all.

It is not gonna end well.

Now, there are plenty more clips that I could play, and my purpose in playing these clips is not to just provide entertainment here, but just to show how some people are not happy about the election results.

I also saw on X, formerly known as Twitter, that some woman posted a picture allegedly of her arm as it is in the hospital with an IV in it and said that the trauma of the election caused her to end up in the hospital and that the Trump voters are all morally responsible for this.

You know, her blood is on their hands.

So, yes, before you vote for someone like Trump, you need to keep in mind that someone might end up in the hospital.

Hospital and need an IV for the trauma.

So if you care about people like that, vote accordingly, I guess.

And of course, there are plenty of videos now of women pledging to embrace the 4B movement that began in South Korea, I think, back in 2019, in which they would practice abstinence to punish the patriarchy.

And one video of note is a woman lecturing the evil voters while cutting her hair shorter.

You know, that'll show those men who voted for Trump.

Guess what?

Trump voters.

She is not available.

Feel the hurt.

Just woke up this morning feeling spicy.

You guys feel spicy?

Because I do.

All right.

I don't know how to use this thing.

Let's see what happens.

Is this cutting off hair?

Cut it.

I'm gonna have to cut it shorter than that.

Buzz it down, right?

I think that this is too.

It's getting hair.

Let's see here.

Maybe I gotta cut it.

Here we go.

Have I given up on America?

Have also given up on coloring this hair?

Because right now, unfortunately, you know, I'm not saying that just to be mocking here, because I want us to digest this.

We should pity these people and not just look at that as entertainment.

Now I know it's easy to want to drink and bathe in the tears of those who are acting immaturely, acting like children who had their toys taken away over this election.

Should we look at all of this meltdown and treat the election results just as a victory to rubbing people's faces?

Should we just delight in the immaturity of people on the other side here?

And I don't know who's listening to this episode.

I presume that most people who find this podcast, or listening to it, especially through the Christian Podcast Community feed, probably, you know, are at least more favorable to Trump than they were to Biden or Harris.

I don't presume to guess at what the listeners are like, but I presume that to be the most likely scenario for most listeners of this podcast.

And just know that I've been a critic of Trump quite a bit, especially years ago.

I'm in no way an only Trump person.

And just to let you know, while I didn't really mention it on Truthspresso, Trump was not my preferred candidate for the Republican nomination.

But for most people who listen to this podcast, they're probably feeling a sense of relief and feeling a sense of victory.

Then at least.

Maybe the country has dodged a bullet.

Maybe not everything's going to be absolutely great or awesome, but that they things could have been definitely worse.

And I know it is tempting to add insult to injury, but that is not our mandate.

As Christians, we need to see opportunity here.

If you think this election at least has the potential for speaking the truth, in love and furthering the gospel, then do that.

Listen to people who are grieving about the election.

Hear their griefs.

Hear their reasons.

They may be off base, but they believe things.

So challenge their beliefs.

Not with insults or gloating, but with probing questions.

Get them to think maybe some of these things you're thinking just aren't true.

Have you considered this?

Ask them questions.

Don't just hurl statements.

Be someone who asks them questions, because that shows that you're interested in what they have to say.

Then ask a question that does, of course challenge them, but it gets them to think.

And they're also saying things and you're also listening and you're not mocking them or making fun of them.

Some of these people see the world as nothing but a big power struggle.

You know, anyone who was kind of reared on Marxist thought, that's how they think.

It's our fight for rights against the fascists trying to take them all away.

It's our power versus their power.

We Just have to make sure we're in power versus them.

We can't let them win.

If they win, it will be a handmaid's tale for the whole world, and maybe not just for women.

That's what they think, men versus women, whites versus minorities, all kinds of stuff like that.

And they've been fed these lines since they were tykes, many of them.

They learned it in elementary school and high school and college, and they hear it constantly from the mainstream media that they trust as a source of news.

They hear it from their favorite celebrities and from their favorite representatives in Congress whom they see as their freedom fighters.

It's easy to make fun of the bad ideas, but try to show deep empathy from a Christian perspective for people who have only been getting a cheap form of empathy from people who don't really care for them personally.

Also, even if you favored the election results as Christians, Donald Trump isn't the model.

Okay?

Be the first to point out to those who are grieving that you recognize his flaws.

Be the first even to point them out.

Gain some common ground there, because these people have kind of been boxed into this idea that they're all impersonal numbers and the cause is what matters.

It's for the greater cause.

Everything is about the grand cause and not striving for personal virtue.

And do not be the one who simply laughs at them to scorn and entrenches them further in their delusion.

Be the one who breaks the mold in their lives and is more to them than petty politics.

If they see you as a listening ear and an inquiring mind, they may be more open to critical thinking and of course, open to the truth of the gospel.

Let this election and what you think might come of it not just be healing politically as you might think, or healing financially for the nation or healing for people's bank accounts or wallets.

Let it be an opportunity to speak the truth of the gospel.

And when I talked to my co worker when I saw him after the election, I did not express any sign of gloating.

I listened to his theory of the election results and I looked for common ground where I saw it.

I asked questions with a demeanor of concern for him because I knew he was disappointed, as he said.

And anything I suggested to challenge his ideas, I did so calmly and reasoned and empathetic.

Trust me, that goes a long way toward a establishing trust over the kind of nasty garbage that I've seen on social media from both sides.

And what does this election show?

What does the meltdown Show As Hosea 4:6 says, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

There's a lot of people who don't have the truth, and we need to bring them the truth in love.

Colossians 2:8 says, Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit.

After the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Our goal is Christ, and we recognize that there's philosophies of the world, traditions of men, rudiments of the world that have people captive.

And we're trying to set them free.

And you do not set them free by whipping them with something they are dreading and do not understand.

First Corinthians 2:12 says, now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us, of God.

We recognize that there is a spirit of the world that we are battling, not with physical weapons and not even with nasty words.

We shouldn't do that as Christians.

We should offer the truth in love.

And First Corinthians 1:21 says, for after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

And there's a lot of perceived wisdom in the world, the people who don't like the election results.

But in the grand scheme of things, what they really are against is the truth of Christ.

And in no way am I saying that Donald Trump embodies that.

But the reasons that they don't like the election results can be the same reasons that they don't like the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And by the wisdom of the world.

We need to battle that.

Not with a sharp tongue, not with a sword, not with a club to badger them, but it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching or the gospel itself to save them that believe.

So do we want these people as the conquered, under a whip?

May it never be Christian.

We need to speak the truth in love.

We need to be a listening ear and ultimately to direct conversations, show people the kind of empathy and sympathy that maybe they've never experienced before, kindness, even when it doesn't even seem anywhere near deserved.

Even if they've been nasty to you, heap coals of fire on their head, as the Bible says, by rendering good for evil, and use the foolishness of preaching.

It's foolishness to them, but speak the truth in love and ultimately lead to the truth of the gospel.

And maybe this election can be the start of revival for this country.

And I hope you enjoyed this episode of truthspresso.

And stay tuned for the next episode.

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