>> Tim Wildmon: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your. Host Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back everybody to Today's Issues. That's the name of this program on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to afr. We're here every weekday month. well, weekday would be Monday through Friday, Monday through Thursday with this news current event show called Today's Issues. And on Fridays we have just a little bit of fun with the Trivia Friday show that's coming up. this Friday, Tim, Fred Ray, we are hosting the program today. And now Steve Paisley Jordan comes in. Good morning brother Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hi.
Hurricane is coming right over Jamaica, still a Cat five
>> Tim Wildmon: Any update that you know of about the hurricane, ravaging.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's just hitting right now so there's no data out as far as like damage or anything.
>> Tim Wildmon: Jamaica, it's coming right over Jamaica.
>> Steve Jordahl: Over Jamaica. Still a Cat five. they're expecting devastation. They just, there's, there's just, it's country, there's just. They don't have the infrastructure to withstand this. And yeah, we're gonna, there are some cameras that, that are up showing live shots but this one's a monster.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I'm looking at this. Of course we're all familiar with hurricanes this time of year, right. Because from August to November is hurricane season. But this, this eye wall that they're showing on the weather channel and CNN's Fox, Fox News, this eye wall of this hurricane, I've never seen anything so quite. So it's a complete, it's a perfect circle which means it's very fast. well.
>> Fred Jackson: And very strong.
>> Tim Wildmon: Very strong.
>> Fred Jackson: Very strong. 185 mile per hour winds going right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Over, starting to go right over Jamaica right now. And Jamaica's. I've never been there but I know many people who have. It's mountainous too. Right. So you're talking about the rain. If you get 20 inches of rain for example, you could get mudslides. Mudslides.
>> Steve Jordahl: Basically 100 mile wide tornado.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah. Well and worse in the sense that it sustained wind, sustained 150, 170 mile an hour winds or an hour whatever storm surge. Surge. Yeah, it's going to be, it's gonna, it's gonna change Jamaica for a long, long time. sadly, unfortunately. but I know Americans will be there to help, especially American Christians will be there to help.
>> Fred Jackson: Samaritan's purse.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, we'll be there for sure. Well now they're saying winds up to 8, 185. Yeah, right now 185. I don't, I don't know any house or building that could take 185 mile an hour sustained winds without it doing so they'll be, they'll be leveled in Jamaica, probably be leveled. so.
Carol King: Democrats changed from global warming to climate change
All right, you're listening to today's issues on afr. Steve, what's our first story?
>> Steve Jordahl: Did y' all feel the earth shake beneath your feet here the, last day or two?
>> Tim Wildmon: I feel the earth shake under my. That was, ah.
>> Steve Jordahl: Carol King.
>> Tim Wildmon: Carol King.
>> Steve Jordahl: Okay, the Democrats, the left is about, I think is about to lose m. One of their major talking points.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, I'm just saying one of their.
>> Steve Jordahl: One of their pet projects is going away. I think Bill Gates is headed towards cop, 30 climate.
>> Tim Wildmon: Headed towards what is that a title?
>> Steve Jordahl: Climate conference.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, it's going to a climate conference.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's going to be Brazil. It's going to be November 10th to the 21st.
>> Fred Jackson: About flying there in his private jet.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, but it doesn't matter anymore.
>> Tim Wildmon: Fred beat us to that one. We all ready to go? That one. Go ahead.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'll tell you why. This is what he writes. Some things I want everybody to know at, cop 30.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is this you talking or him?
>> Steve Jordahl: No, I'm now quoting Bill Gates. This is the column that he wrote. Quote, there's a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this. In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us. Just look at the heat waves, the storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature. He continues, fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences, particularly for people in the poorest countries, it will not lead to humanity's demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on earth for the foreseeable future.
>> Fred Jackson: Can I paraphrase? We've been lying to you for years.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: A change of position for him.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, yeah, it is.
>> Fred Jackson: It's a toning down at the very least.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. Because the reality is that, they've overstated the effects of, quote, climate change.
>> Fred Jackson: Absolutely.
>> Steve Jordahl: Now, he has been for some very, very destructive policies. basically one of his positions is there need to be fewer people on the Earth. but, and it used to be that.
>> Tim Wildmon: So is that, that's any not. Well now again, I don't know what exactly his record is on statements about climate change. I mean, some of. Some of these climate change, slash global warming People are just crazy. They issue all these, you know, the oceans are going to rise 10 inches next year. Remember Al Gore?
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: The polar caps are going to melt five years and all that kind of stupidity.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. And every, every 10 years since it's been five years hence.
>> Tim Wildmon: Listen, I would say if we have got, if we have climate change, by the way, they changed from global warming to climate change because global warming wasn't happening exactly everywhere.
>> Steve Jordahl: It was global cooling in the 70s.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So they had to go with climate change, which it's you can't miss with climate change because guess what? The climate's always going to change. But this, idea that you know, carbon. What am I trying to say? Carbon.
>> Steve Jordahl: They call it carbon pollution. I call it that.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's going to, that, that, that's what then basically they want to say it's coming from America or North America.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: or, you know, I know, but anyway, it's, it's a way, it's a way to control the American economy. That's what they want to do.
>> Fred Jackson: Sure.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what these folks want to do. They're socialistic, communist nature, that is most of these green folks. And so that's, that's what their agenda, if you want to know what is their agenda, because notice they don't put a lot of pressure on China or India, which are the two leading polluters in America. In the world. It's always, you know, what is the US or Western Europe or Canada going to do?
70% of voters think the Democrat Party is out of touch with most voters
All right, go ahead.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, there's a group out there on the left. I want to ask you guys a question. This is a group called welcome and it has put out a report that says that the Democrat Party is out of touch with most voters. They have badly weakened their party with left leaning ideas and rhetoric.
>> Tim Wildmon: This from a left. Left wing.
>> Steve Jordahl: From a left wing group.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow.
>> Steve Jordahl: Growing only with self described white liberals while losing ground with other voters.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: According to a new center left group, that was first shared with this by finding this on semaphore.com is where this report is. 70% of voters think the Democrat Party is out of touch. And most voters found they believe that the party over prioritizes issues like protecting the rights of LGBTQ individuals and fighting climate change. While the Democrats don't care enough about securing the border or lowering the rate of crime. The report urges party members to abandon some of the progressive language that issues have been using since 2012 and recommends nominating more candidates willing to vote with Republicans on conservative immigration and crime bills. Do you think they'll be able to listen, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, what I see in that, they analyzed the 2024 election and they found that what Donald Trump stood for during the election were the big issues that the people were concerned about. I mean, how could the Democratic Party continue to argue what Joe Biden did on our southern border? At least 15 million people storming into this country. And how can you defend that now, especially with the reporting on the crimes committed by many of these people. and there have been some very high profile cases. This group of Democrats apparently is saying if we want to win elections in the future, we have got to move the political needle back, at least towards the center.
>> Fred Jackson: And that's why I think for the Democrats, this government shutdown is going to backfire on them. What is it the biggest, government employee union now is telling the Democrats, you got to end this now.
>> Steve Jordahl: Shut down.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. These are people who vote Democrat. These union members, they, they're saying, you got to stop this now. The Republicans are starting to look really good in this. The Republicans are the ones voting to end the shutdown. The Democrats are voting to keep the shutdown going. And the Republicans are winning on the argument about subsidies for Obamacare, especially going to illegal immigrants. They're winning on this. So I think we're at that point where the Democrats are going to start hurting themselves on this. And then you've got, of course, the Democrat in New York City. Mamdani.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. the question is, in this, you're citing an article about a liberal group criticizing, its own movement or party, that is the Democrat Party. And I, would say they're absolutely right. Now, whether they can change course, I don't know. Because the energy in the Democratic Party seems to be with a far left.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And not with the, traditional Democrats. We'll see. There's an infighting going on there.
>> Steve Jordahl: There have been other voices. Bill Maher is one of those sensible Democrats who's been saying kind of the same thing.
>> Tim Wildmon: But I'm not one for telling your enemy where they're going wrong either. Just let them flounder.
>> Steve Jordahl: I don't know, Ray. It seems to me like they have wed themselves, welded themselves to the extreme left with Mondami and AOC and everything. And I don't know how they can extric.
There's now only 10 points between Cuomo and Mamdani
>> Tim Wildmon: When is that, when is that New York, mayoral race?
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, it's a week from today.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: So we'll know then.
>> Tim Wildmon: And he's still, he's still the huge favorite to win. Right.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, there's a new poll, Suffolk University poll that's out this morning. We were talking about this a little earlier and the gap has closed dramatically in the last month. There's now only 10 points between Cuomo and Mamdani. It was 20amonth ago. So maybe New Yorkers are starting to.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, you had Eric Adams drop out.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: The current mayor. He dropped out and endorsed a three person race.
>> Fred Jackson: Go ahead.
>> Tim Wildmon: If the Republican. What? Curtis Lewis? If he dropped out because there's no chance, there's no chance in the current situation the Republican is going to win. The mayor, they become mayor of New York City. If he dropped out, then it could be a barn burner, right?
>> Fred Jackson: It could be.
>> Tim Wildmon: Or the state of the Democrat Party when Mario Cuomo is considered the moderate to try to save New York City from Andrew. I'm Andrew.
>> Steve Jordahl: I did the same thing.
>> Tim Wildmon: His brother's the dad. Oh, okay.
>> Fred Jackson: When any.
>> Tim Wildmon: Cuomo is considered the moderate.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know.
>> Tim Wildmon: Gone way too far.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know. Right. So anyway.
House Oversight Committee wants probe into former Vice President Joe Biden's auto pen use
All right, next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, their House Oversight committee is chaired by a Kentucky, Republican named James Comer. And he has sent a letter to the Department of Justice demanding a comprehensive investigation into former President Joe Biden's auto pen use. It was a hundred page report and it specifically wants to know whether his inner circle covered up signs of mental decline in the ex president and if that alleged cover up extends to the executive actions signed via auto pen without Biden's full awareness. In the. Absent quoting here, in the absence of sufficient contemporaneous documentation indicating that cognitively deteriorating President Biden himself made a given executive decision. Such decisions do not carry the force of law and should be considered void.
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know how you do that.
>> Fred Jackson: Huh?
>> Tim Wildmon: practically speaking, legally speaking, I don't know how you do that. That may be a little bit of just pointing out how bad it was, in the Biden administration. What we're talking about here is basically that the accusation is that Joe Biden, while president, didn't, didn't know what was going on on a day to day basis. And so anything that was like an executive order that's supposed to come from the president, that he's supposed that he signs, that was not done, with Joe Biden no knowing fully, what was going on that was used in auto. That was an auto pin, an auto pen, meaning, just his signature. Like a, it's like what some people use as a rubber stamp.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's a mechanical Device that holds a pen. And actually, it does hit.
>> Tim Wildmon: Does traces.
>> Steve Jordahl: A signature.
>> Tim Wildmon: So trace. Well, there you go. So, I don't know whether they'll be able to get anywhere with that. What would that mean? I mean, how many. Well, do you make null and void? the, executive orders that he signed. Fred, that.
>> Fred Jackson: That is the contention of the Republicans that issued this report.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who would decide this, like the courts.
>> Fred Jackson: yeah, because it would not be valid if by signing something you're saying I, the signee, agree with this if you didn't know what was going on.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: And so that's the pardons. Remember all the pardons that he issued?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: The computation.
>> Tim Wildmon: Including Hunter Biden, including his whole family.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right. That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So family, he pardoned. Pre preemptively pardoned them and Anthony Fauci and. Yes. I don't know who else he pardoned. so, yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Haven't heard from Fauci lately.
>> Tim Wildmon: Now where'd he go?
>> Fred Jackson: It's amazing. some of these people. Alejandro Mayorkas, remember that Homeland Secretary, haven't heard from him. Even CNN doesn't interview him anymore.
>> Tim Wildmon: He was awful.
>> Fred Jackson: Just awful.
>> Fred Jackson: what a bunch.
>> Tim Wildmon: That whole Karine Jean Pierre. Now Ray, she's out there doing a book tour, interviews. Have you seen that?
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah. And, and she supposedly is saying crying foul ball about what happened when they got rid of Joe Biden and put in Kamala.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. She's not happy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. What is. What is that about? I mean, she.
>> Tim Wildmon: I still feel like I. I've said this all along. Tim said this on there a few times. I don't feel like a real accounting has ever been given about what happened over that weekend. Right. Where Joe Biden is going. He's running for reelection going into the weekend and coming out of the weekend, suddenly he's off the. He's off and suddenly.
>> Tim Wildmon: You mean after the debate with Trump where he was staring off into space? Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And I'm, But I'm still asking what happened in the weekend? I don't think any real accounting has ever been given about how did they.
>> Tim Wildmon: Mean the weekend subsequent to that, when he dropped out?
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. That's right.
>> Steve Jordahl: There's a. There's a new book out by Kamala as well, and there's been some reporting using some very. That Obama called Nancy, Pelosi. Pelosi. With some foul language, wondering what in the world did you just do?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, right.
>> Tim Wildmon: I saw that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Supposedly what. Obama was upset, was Was Nancy Pelosi endorsing Kamala Harris too early? Because Obama knew that Kamala Harris was likely to lose to Donald Trump. That's what that was about.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, then who did he want to run against? Trump?
>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know.
Tim Ferriss: Democrats selected Kamala Harris because she was a woman
That's a good question.
>> Steve Jordahl: He wanted a primary at least. Ah, a discussion.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Of some kind of primary. Yeah, yeah. Some kind of primary where. I don't know, Gavin Newsom or Whitmer or Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania. Somebody else besides Kyle. I think. I think pretty well. Everybody knew that Kamala Harris was. She was a disaster as. As vice president. I mean, she did a few issues when she first got into office, and then they just. After that, they just parked her in the basement, try to keep her away from the public because she was not a good spokesperson for the administration. remember they. All the Cacklin and all the.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Word salads and all.
>> Steve Jordahl: She's not done.
>> Tim Wildmon: Where. Where the. Not to revisit history too much. I know, but, she is. But I tell her that. But, what. What? That is a lesson. If the Democrats could ever learn a life lesson, which I hope they don't, because I want them to continue to lose. Yeah, but, where the Democrats made their mistake. Well, they made it twofold. Number one, they selected a guy who was cognitively in decline when he was elected.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Joe Biden. So it only got worse after he. Remember he. After he went into, the White House. The second thing they did was they got a DEI hire as their vice president. So they selected Kamala Harris because she was a woman of color. That was the first criteria she needed to meet. And then after that, what is her ideology? I guess, or some. Or, they would both be. In other words, they didn't take the most qualified candidate, whether it be a white male or a white woman or maybe a black man or black woman or.
>> Tim Wildmon: What are you saying, Tim? They didn't send their best people?
>> Tim Wildmon: No, I know. They selected Kamala Harris because she was a woman of color. And when you do a DEI hire.
>> Tim Wildmon: And you don't get what you get.
>> Tim Wildmon: This is what you get. You don't. You get a person who's incompetent, sometimes. And that's what happened to the Democrats right there. And they had to live with it. And they lost a presidential election because of it.
>> Steve Jordahl: They have a next one up mentality. They've had it for a while. Because, remember, before Biden, it was, Clinton. Hillary Clinton. They chose her as a candidate, and she's One of the most despised people in America, even among Democrats. She was not. Didn't have a whole lot of favorable ratings.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but I think she was qualified.
>> Steve Jordahl: Oh, no, that's. I'm not saying she wasn't qualified. I'm just saying she. She wasn't going to win, probably.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, she did win the popular vote.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, I mean, Trump barely won. He. But that was God's hand. Okay, people, don't write me. I don't know. I did talk to God about that, but I'm just saying, for a man to take, Virginia. Trump took Virginia. No, he took Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin by the narrowest of margins to be able to pull off the Electoral College, vote. But I do think it was God giving America another chance. I do think that. Save us from Hillary Clinton. All right, you're listening to today's issues. If you don't agree with that theology, that's fine. I got. We can still be friends. All right, go ahead, Steve.
Catholic University in New Orleans denies Turning Point USA charter application
>> Steve Jordahl: Catholic University in New Orleans, Loyola University, is denying Turning Point USA a charter application.
>> Tim Wildmon: Now, why?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, because the student group, that is opposing this, the student government that's opposing this.
>> Tim Wildmon: So it's not Tulane University itself, it's.
>> Steve Jordahl: Loyal student group, Loyola University Loyola.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm sorry, that's too late.
>> Steve Jordahl: Student government, okay. Which grants those. And the student government says basically that the Turning Point's values do not comport with the school's Jesuit Catholic values. They say, what are those values?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, what are they?
>> Steve Jordahl: That queer, that Kirk said that queer people and quoting here are trying to corrupt your children, and that transgenderism and gender fluid are fluidity, are lies that hurt people and abuse kids. That's what they say. The values that, that Loyola doesn't like, that they like transgenderism, they like lgbt, and for some reason, they say they're Catholic.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Ah. that's not the teaching of the Catholic Church. Teaching of the Catholic Church is pretty strict on moral values in terms of human sexuality. Let me ask you this, by the way, up the road in Baton Rouge, the governor, of Louisiana, Landry, Jeff Landry. He is. He said, quote, we're going to put a challenge out there to the LSU Board of Supervisors to find a place to put a statue of Charlie Kirk to defend freedom of speech on college campuses. So I just applaud and. Wow, the governor of, Louisiana.
>> Fred Jackson: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: because, that would be a great thing to do is put up a statue of Charlie Kirk, because, Charlie Kirk's not because of the man himself, although he was a wonderful fellow. Charlie Kirk was, by all accounts, is because he stood for freedom of speech on college campuses. And so that's how he made his mark, was going to LSU and college campuses all over America and doing debates and promoting, the First Amendment of the Constitution.
>> Steve Jordahl: The students at Utah Valley University, where he was assassinated, are opposing a memorial on the site of his assassination.
>> Tim Wildmon: The students.
>> Tim Wildmon: Some students.
>> Steve Jordahl: Some students.
>> Tim Wildmon: Some students. Wow. I think they're, My lot of these college campuses, I think there are more traditional or conservative students. There are, the far lefties, but the far lefties, they do the protest and they get the. No, they make the noise and they get the cameras on them. I really believe that. I'm, talking about in the majority of campuses across America. Listen, tomorrow night, there's going to be a turning, Point event at Ole Miss, which hopefully I'm going to get to go to. and, there's going to be over 10,000 people in the basketball arena. That just goes. That's just one example of the power of, the Turning Point. Turning Point organization and the message of Charlie Kirk.
>> Fred Jackson: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: And, vice president's going to be there.
>> Fred Jackson: Vice president there. And also Charlie Kirk's widow.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, Erica.
>> Fred Jackson: Erica is going to be there as well.
>> Steve Jordahl: And Chris Woodward.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: And some other people.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hopefully I'll be there.
>> Fred Jackson: And we'll report on it Thursday morning.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, take care, everybody. We'll see you tomorrow. Sam.
