Welcome And Good News Setup

SPEAKER_01 0:07

It's Good News Friday. Welcome to the Wall Boulder Show. Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton. Looking forward to a lot of good news today. If you'd like even more than what we're going to share today, go to wallboarders.show. Catch up on the radio programs from the last few weeks and months, and especially those Friday programs packed full of good news. All the other programs throughout the week are good too. But Good News Friday is my favorite for sure. Guys, let's jump in and get some good news. David, what's the first piece?

SPEAKER_02 0:31

Well, I'm going to start with some of the things related to midterm elections because we were talking even earlier this week about the fact that this may be only the third time in 90 years it's possible that Republicans will not lose seats in the midterm, might be able to retain control of House, Senate, and President. And so if that's the case, that's a big deal for the next two years of policy, being able to stop the superwoke stuff that is coming from the opposition. So that's still an important thing to me. And so we're going to be doing a lot. We've mentioned we'll be doing a lot. I think we'll be showing up in 56 different congressional districts working with pastors and other groups to help kind of put some of these guys back in the house that might be within two or three points of winning or losing. So this is a big deal as far as I'm concerned for the direction of the nation. And because of that, I'm also conscious of what other people are saying about it and kind of looking at that. And so this one comes, being a longtime viewer of CNN and such a faithful viewer as I am of CNN and love the network. That's all facetious. None of that is accurate. Explains a lot. Okay, I get it. Yeah, that's right. CNN, this is a this is a news article from CNN. It's an interview uh with their data expert. And so that this guy who is um this is Harry Enton. He's the chief data analyst for CNN. He was on the program and he was talking about how that not that long ago the the black community was a monolithic Democrat constituency. And I've seen uh in previous elections from 93 to 97 percent of black Americans vote Democrat, which they would not do if they knew new history. Nonetheless, um, this is what he said on the program. He said, President Trump and the Republican Party are chipping away at the long-term advantage Democrats have had of black voters. He said you can see it right here. Trump's approval among African Americans this point in term one was at twelve percent. Now it's at 16 percent. And you say, well, that's not that big of a shift. Well, that's that actually is a 33 percent increase with his support among black American voters. But what that means is in marginal districts, and and there's several several of those where that just one percent or two percent of the black vote going different, which switch congressional districts, and that's some of those 56 districts we're looking at where that's only two or three points apart. So that that is a massive change in terms of political and it's interesting. Uh Enton for CNN continues that he's actually gaining ground versus where he was in term number one, and this has major implications for elections because Democrat and a lot of those tight races in Georgia and places down south, this is a movement actually Trump gaining ground. This could have major ramifications and have put Republicans over the top in a number of southern places in the midterm elections. He said, I see this as part of the bigger trend. Trump's Republican Party is absolutely gaining ground, not just him in terms of his approval rating. So not only Trump, but Republicans are gaining ground. He said if you look at party ID among African Americans at this point, in term number one, Democrats set a 63-point advantage in preference of party. He said, but now there's been a double-digit shift away from that. Now, what that may mean, and we talked about this before, is it it may not mean that these these folks that are shifting will vote Republican this time. They may just sit home, but not voting is half a vote for Republicans. And so this this is this really is a a big deal. And so what he concludes with, he says the Trump-led Republican Party is making gains among African Americans that we have not seen the Republican Party make in a generation. So I consider that good news for the direction of the nation for the next several years. And if that does indeed show up in this election in November, um that that may be part of the reason that we're able to see the nation not become not go in a completely progressive direction at the national level, which would be wonderful.

SPEAKER_01 4:33

Do you think, David, that it, you know, because there's been a lot of frustration or disappointment with some of the big things like the SAVE Act, but yet there's been so many victories uh because of President Trump's push through the executive and then some of the things that the House has been able to do. Do you think that's that's been enough that that people are kind of just looking at it on balance and saying, hey, we're s we're gonna stick with the Republicans? Obviously, the Democrats is a ridiculous option, so maybe they're just being savvy enough to not be foolish and throw the baby out with the bathwater. So you just kind of overall, I mean, it sure feels like to me it's been the best year and a half of of political victories we've had in my lifetime, even with the frustrations, right?

SAVE Act Frustrations And Voter Motives

SPEAKER_02 5:09

Yeah, I I agree, but I think there's some differences here. There's different things that motivate different constituencies. I would I would suggest that in the black community, if you were to put the say back up there, it's not really high in the way that that black Americans are approaching government. It is high in the way that a lot of conservatives and constitutionalists approach government. So there's different things that motivate different groups. And at this point in time, Trump has been able to do something that helps stimulate uh appreciation in a lot of different groups. Now, sure, the the conservatives, constitutionalists focused on the Save Act is being a huge thing, but that's not what motivates all the voters that are out there. So I I think he's done a good job and making progress in a lot of different areas.

SPEAKER_04 5:51

Well, Dad, one thing to note on the Save Act is that even though this might not motivate some people that tend to be uh moderates or Democrats, even though it might not motivate them to want to support Republicans, they are supportive of this measure. And this is where there's also levels of some irony when when you have an issue that over 80% of Americans agree on, and yet you have people in Congress, or in this case really the Senate, who are opposing that. It it it really should make us go, why are they opposing it? What's in there that they don't like, or does it threaten maybe some of their electability, their way of life, etc.? Um so even though this might not motivate people, this is also not something that would would probably be as openly opposed as it is if you listen to members of Congress talk about how bad it is if they're a Democrat generally speaking on this issue. So it might not motivate them, but they're not opposed to it.

Moms.gov And Pro-Life Support Resources

SPEAKER_01 6:47

All right. Well, good news looking into uh the fall. And of course, every time we say this looks good or this poll looks good, or we're optimistic about the midterms, that does not mean stay home, people. It means double down. It means you should be motivated, it means be very active in the midterm elections. Get the vote out. That's going to determine who ultimately wins these midterm elections, which are obviously very, very critical. All right, Tim, your first piece of good news today.

SPEAKER_04 7:12

Yeah, well, this is kind of in line with part of the conversation, the things that are happening um that that should excite or motivate people. This one is coming directly from the government, something coming from the Trump administration. They have created a new website. And thinking about all of the thousands of websites that they probably have and are behind, um, it would be probably hard to narrow down uh all of the websites they have if we started listing like, hey guys, so what do you think of the websites that the government has, they care about, etc. But this one is fascinating to me. The new website they created is moms.gov. Moms, like a mother, M-O-M-S moms.gov. And the reason is they wanted to create a place where families that if if there is a girl who's pregnant, she's gonna become a mom. Uh, and whether by the way that's intentional or not, they want to show here are all of the resources to help the mom, to help the family, to help the baby. Uh, here are places where you can get grants, where you can get help, where you can get diapers, all of the resources that arguably, when Planned Parenthood says, Well, we offer all these resources to to women and you know, and then in their pregnancies. Well, no, what Planned Parenthood offers is here are all the different ways and times that we can murder your unborn child. That's largely what Planned Parenthood does. When Planned Parenthood argues that they offer all of these services, and when you break it down, abortion's only a very small percentage of the services we offer. But when you look at what the services are, they're including things like well, we had four meetings with his mom, and it was the fifth meeting that we did the abortion. So, really, it was only like 20% of what we did was the abortion. And you're like, no. Literally, the meetings were to prep and schedule the things for the abortion. Everything you did was promoting and supporting going that direction. Now, the reason I'm saying this in a contrast to Planned Parenthood is because this could not be more clear of a contrast. We finally have a government that instead of partnering with Planned Parenthood, which is largely what's happened, when when you look at even some of the educational system, the school districts, the fact that Planned Parenthood is one of the largest providers of uh any kind of the uh dad, what's the right word for the sex ed curriculum? I I guess really that's what it is. Um they're comprehensive. That's what I was trying to think of. The comprehensive ed program is what Planned Parenthood has offered. And by the way, starting from kindergarten all the way through high school, Planned Parenthood wants to help kids know about sexual activity. Why? Well, probably because they want more kids that are doing things that lead to babies so that they can then intervene and continue their business. Now, I'm saying this because the government used to partner and work with Planned Parenthood in a lot of ways. And we have a government that's backing up, they actually restricted and removed, they defunded Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood clinics closed, they shuttered, and now we're at the place not just that we're not openly partnering and funding with Planned Parenthood anymore, which already should be incredible news in and of itself. We are now at a place where the government is working actively to promote motherhood and families and children. Guys, this is one of the greatest pieces of good news I've seen in a long time. That we have a government instead of promoting a culture of death for unborn children, we are now encouraging moms to deliver their child and help show them here are resources that can help you in this journey. Absolutely incredible news.

NATO Burden Sharing And Troop Pullbacks

SPEAKER_01 10:56

And that's a you know, we keep talking about all these complete shifts, like 180s from a a government that that's been doing horrible evil things to a government that's doing the exact opposite, actually doing good. And on the life issue to see that happen is massively good. And most of our audience, I mean, all of us, I mean, that was the the main issue that got us involved. It could continues to be the number one issue. So to see that shift uh is is huge, man. That's very, very good news. Uh all right, David, another piece of good news before we go to break.

SPEAKER_02 11:25

Yeah, when you look at um America's role in the world, we really are an ally for so many nations, and so many nations depend on us, uh, especially in Europe. A lot of those Western nations are our allies, and so they don't do much with the military because we've got such a great military. And you may recall that in Trump's first term, he told uh he he told Europe, you guys, look, you're supposed to be funding NATO, not just America. And if you guys don't pony up and start putting in what you're supposed to, which I think it was only 2% of their GDP, they're supposed to put in military spending. And America was doing the military spending for all of Europe, and you know, they're happy to do that because that gives them more money for all those socialist programs that the progressive programs are doing. And so he he made them start ponying up, and they did. And so now he's had it again with Italy, especially after what happened with Iran, because he's trying to protect all these civilized nations from nuclear attack, uh, the nuclear threat that that Iran has become, that is unquestionable that they're not going to use those nukes on themselves. They're gonna use it on the West, which is their enemy. And so Trump's doing all this to get the nukes out of their backyard, and here they are just complaining and griping and and saying, oh, this is really terrible, what Trump's doing against Iran. And that now they're seeing the Strait of Horamu shut down as a result, which of course Iran could have done that any time and would have done it when it was the appropriate time to start putting pressure on Europe. So at this point, the the allies, the so-called Western allies in Europe have not ponied up to help with the stuff in Iran. And so Trump said, okay, then why are we even supporting you? And so he says, We're gonna start pulling the troops out of Spain and out of Italy. And by the way, um the five largest I guess the five largest deployments of troops we have in Allied nations is number one, Japan, and then number two is Germany, and then you have South Korea, and and then you you get to uh Italy and and so forth. And so most many of those nations are not helped, but especially the European ones. And so Trump said, okay, Italy's Trump said, Italy's been of no health, and Spain has been horrible, absolutely horrible. So let's just pull our troops out of there. We we we'll spend our money elsewhere. And and so that's especially after a German chancellor said to his people that Iran was humiliating the United States and that the entire nation of America is being humiliated by what Iran is doing in this war, which I'm not sure maybe he's watching CNN. But anyway, it's it's crazy. So Trump is doing that, and then he ordered the withdrawal of 5,000 troops out of Germany, and there's about 60, 36,000 stationed in Germany, and so 5,000, you're you're down 14, 15 percent. And all of that is enough to make these Western countries start saying, wait, well, we've got to have protection from our enemies. Well, yeah, well, you're poking America in the eye, and we've been giving you protection. You haven't been ponying up. So why don't we just leave town? And so that's that's currently what's happening, which is kind of getting the attention of Europe. And we talked about how that even Great Britain now, it's no longer part of Western civilization. It's really more part of Eastern civilization than Western civilization. So Europe is headed in a really bad direction. They have been for a number of decades, uh, but now Trump is is is really putting them in a vice. They're gonna have to decide whether they want to be friends with the West or with the East. And if they want to be friends with the West, they're gonna have to start acting like it, and we're not gonna keep just pouring money into people that are laughing at us and mocking us and objecting to what we do. So I think that's absolutely good news that Trump is aligning his strategic assets in such a way that if it's not producing something good for us, it's time for us to get out of that relationship.

SPEAKER_01 15:08

Well, I I said we'd go to break, but but since we're doing international for a second, just wanted to get y'all's thoughts on what we've seen so far in the last you know 24, 48 hours on uh China and just the show of of, in my opinion, just absolute professionalism and the big dog coming to town, basically. So what what do y'all think in terms of how Trump and the whole team, I mean Rubio and Hex that they're all there. What's been your impression on that?

SPEAKER_02 15:32

And by the way, did you guys see what Rubio's wearing in the jacket on Air Force One going over to meet with China? He's got on. Oh, yeah, sort of. It's it's kind of a silent message, but he's wearing the the same same kind of jacket that Maduro was wearing when we captured him. And it's like, uh, hey, remember Venezuela? Remember what we did there so efficiently and so quickly and quietly, a one-day overthrow. Um and so I thought that was brilliant for Rubio to put that jacket on. As and certainly the media's already picked up on it, and they're already, you know, it's already going viral, and here's the jacket he's wearing. So I think it's really fun the way they're going at China.

SPEAKER_04 16:12

I do think that has no meaning uh for uh President Z. Uh I I don't think he's intimidated by that, but certainly it's fun, it's funny. Uh Marco Rubio is brilliant, has a sense of humor. Um, but you know, Rick, to your point, I do think it's super interesting that President Trump is showing, look, we're not your enemy, and we would love to work together, but President Trump has some very hard lines in the sand, and he said, Look, we're not gonna cross those. We're there's certain things we are not going to do, and he's very clear on it. And I think that one of the encouraging things that I'm seeing from the outside is President Trump showed up looking as professional as you could. But the fact you're going into his house, you're talking with him, you're connecting with him, and you're working to do what President Trump would say is the best for both nations, but obviously he's representing America's best interest. Uh I am very encouraged by this because also it would seem to say something that could be a little intimidating to uh Russia or Iran or anybody else that might be paying attention.

SPEAKER_02 17:18

Hey, I I've got to add a story that uh I got last night. Um, was in a room with Sean Duffy, and there were there was a small group of us meeting with Sean Duffy, and he's the the secretary of uh of transportation. And so Sean, he's over all the the airports and all the railways and all the other stuff. And he was talking about how that right now the air traffic controllers are still using software and and using programs from the 1970s. That's that's what's being used in the towers and how bad it is. And so we got to have this just dramatic, dramatic upgrade of software, and that's makes it much safer and much more efficient. Uh they get rid of a lot of the delays that are happening with airlines right now because we're still using 70s software that can't calculate and can't project where the planes are gonna be and how busy it's gonna be at JFK or anywhere else. And so he said that he went out and in a Trump-like fashion, he really put these companies against each other, negotiating, uh going back and forth. Well, you got to do better than that. And so using all his Trump-like skills, he got it down to about$1.7 billion as the price to get a completely new system, new software, new hardware, et cetera. And so he went and reported to Trump and said, okay, I've got them. I've got them down to$1.7 billion. And Trump said, I can do better than that. And so Trump called the top contractor, the top three guys, and said, Hey, I want this at$1.5 billion. I'm not going to do it if I don't get it at$1.5 billion. And he said, I'm giving you four minutes to tell me yes or no. And so eight minutes later, the the CEOs called back and said, Yeah, we'll do it for$1.5 billion. It's like we just saved$200 million on a phone call, and Trump is a negotiator, and as much as Sean had done, and as well as he had done when he got, he like he said, he he's he's the real negotiator. And so having him negotiate with China, that's that's gotta be something that is definitely good for America, no question.

Break And WallBuilders Resources For Families

SPEAKER_01 19:15

With just another day at the office for him and just you know 200 million here, 200 million there. All right, quick break, guys, we'll be right back. More good news. You're listening to the Wall Builder Show.

SPEAKER_03 19:26

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Virginia Redistricting Blocked By Court

SPEAKER_00 20:30

Welcome back to the Wall Builder Show. Delping back in with some more good news. Back over to Tim.

SPEAKER_04 20:34

Well, guys, this one is something we we talked about some yesterday. We've talked about it some this week. It is dealing with the Virginia Supreme Court that overturned the illegal, according to their state constitution, the illegal attempt made by Democrats to redistrict their state. And we we have talked about this often. We understand the nature of politics. Whatever party is in charge, they are going to redistrict for their own best self-interest. That is not necessarily immoral. That's just the reality of the way the game is played. Now we can look and go, you know what? It would be probably better in a lot of ways for the nation if you even had like a grok or somebody say, Hey, give us give us districts, you know, remove any kind of considerations, whether it be like the Supreme Court said, you can't do it based on race or ethnicity or income, etc. If you had AI, just make you a basic map. That could be something that could be considered, and you go, okay, maybe we do that. But I'm saying the reality that what we live in in politics, whatever party's in charge, they're going to redistrict. And Virginia, I think it was in 2020 when they had passed their constitutional amendments saying that they were gonna have a uh a bipartisan, a kind of disinterested party that was gonna come in. Uh, unaffiliated and they were gonna do the redistricting. And then when Virginia realizes, hey, you know, if Texas or California, some of these states do redistricting, we should do it too. And so they decided they wanted to redistrict, even though it literally violates one of the constitutional amendments they had passed a couple years earlier. We talked about there was that local judge who said, guys, this is a clear violation. They try to do it anyway, it struck down the Supreme Court. And we talked about the fact that in that 4-3 decision from their state supreme court, that some of the ones on the four side included people that would be conservatives and liberals slash democrats. So this this wasn't just conservatives on the Virginia Supreme Court striking this down. It was literally people from both sides of the aisle that were justices on their state supreme court saying this clearly violates constitutional law. And this is not to say that we we don't think other states can or should or will redistrict based on what is in their state constitution, but when you literally try to subvert the law to give yourself the political advantage, the good news is that there's at least enough sane people on their state Supreme Court to strike it down. It's a little crazy to me that three uh supported what the Democrats were trying to do, which again probably tells you some of the partisan nature of what's going on. But the good news is it was struck down, and the rule of law was upheld, at least in this case, in Virginia.

Supreme Court 9-0 Pregnancy Center Win

SPEAKER_01 23:30

Yeah, and of course now they're talking about firing their own Supreme Court, so they really it's unbelievable how far they're willing to go. But yeah, this was a big victory, Tim. And I think I think maybe probably the biggest game changer, right? Because that's a net. They were gonna try to pick up four seats, I think. Um, and and everybody was, you know, they were really counting on it. Would they spend 60, 70 million, you said? I mean, it's just insane. Um, so yeah, that was a big, big victory, and uh it doesn't look like there's any uh rational way for them to turn that one around. David, send us into the weekend, man. What's our last piece of good news?

Share The Show And Weekend Sendoff

SPEAKER_02 24:03

So what we got is a decision at the U.S. Supreme Court that is 9-0, and that's uh that's pretty significant, and especially since it deals with the pro-life pregnancy center. It's a pro-life pregnancy center that's made up of five faith-based groups in New Jersey, and they offer services, alternative services for abortion for women. And the Attorney General in New Jersey went after them because they said, hey, you're not you're not referring for abortions, and you can't do that. You you have to provide and refer for abortions, and saying you're you're using false advertising. You're saying that that ultrasound is required before you can take the abortion pill, which it is, and and you're saying that medical abortions can be reversed in some cases, which they can. And so the AG said you're putting out all this false information, and it said, we want to see all your donor records. We want to know who's behind all this radical stuff you're doing, because you claim to be a birth center and you're not doing anything with abortion, which, yeah, that's abortion is not a birth. And so, I mean, just the whole thing was crazy. And so at the U.S. Supreme Court, Aaron Hawley, the the wife of Senator Josh Hawley out of uh out of Missouri, argued the case at the Supreme Court for Lyons defending freedom. And at the Supreme Court, considering all the justices that are there and all the disposition of the liberals, conservatives, everybody else, it was a 9-0 slapdown of the attorney general in New Jersey who was radically pro-abortion. And even the pro-abortion members of the Supreme Court said that wait a minute, this is this is crazy. You've gone too far. And kudos to Aaron Hawley for arguing the case. She is a brilliant, brilliant attorney and ADF. I think this was their 39th win at the U.S. Supreme Court. So really good news on that pro-life front out of a very pro-abortion state. Um giving some more space for pregnancy centers and live centers to operate in the state of New Jersey.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

Well, guys, that's a lot of good news for one day. We'll have more next week, of course. Uh, you know, it's just uh it it for those people that want to disengage because they don't get everything they want or because we might lose a battle here and there, they need to hear Good News Friday on the Wall Builder Show because there's so many victories happening right now. They just don't get covered by the major media, and too often even from our own media in the in the conservative uh you know blogosphere and and everywhere else. So this is just a really important part of the week. We really encourage you to share it with your friends and family. We're on all the podcast apps. Uh you can go to wallboulders.show. You can hear us on bot radio and lots of stations across the country. But it's the kind of program you have to share with your friends and family. That's how you can be a force multiplier. Have a fantastic weekend and thank you for listening to the Wall Boulder Show.