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Brought to you by the Every Dollar app, start budgeting for free today. We are praying for this nation where people of the book and the book tells us to pray for our leaders, even if we don't agree with them. And Trump is one of our leaders. He was a president and Joe Biden is one of our leaders. He is the current sitting president and not many things that President Biden does that I agree with, but it is my job to pray for him anyway. And certainly to not bring him harm. I can disagree with him and still honor the office and still honor the person and certainly not engage in any kind of stupidity like some of the rhetoric that has gone on in the last 48 hours and really has gone on for the last several years. Some of you people are really too serious about what happens in the White House. If you'd concentrate half as much of what happens in your house, you've been in a whole lot better shape because that's really the common denominator of success it hasn't got anything to do with those guys up there. Yes, they do some things that affect our lives, but I've had several of them try to ruin my life and they hadn't pulled it off. And I've had several of them try to make my life better and they hadn't pulled that off. And so I'm old and I've seen presidents that were going to be the end of democracy and they weren't. And I've seen presidents that were going to be the second coming of Jesus and they were not even close. So I mean, seriously people, I think the problem is that the level of anger has to do with the expectations of what the office can provide. And so treat these people like people. They have families. They have children. They have friends. I've got friends that are congressmen, friends that are senators and the stuff that they have to put up with. The stuff that is mailed to this office at me in the Ramsey Solutions because some of you are just out of control and you should not spend your money on Financial Peace University. You should spend it on counseling because you need it. It's that kind of stuff. It's going on out there, Rachel. Oh, yeah. I mean, for sure. And I think it's just a level of the anger comes from a level of fear, scared of where the country's going to go on either side of the spectrum. But I think that that's the sobering idea is going back to, okay, what's going on with my family and my home from the money perspective when my paycheck hits my checking account. What am I going to do with it? Right. So there's a level of control that we can have in our lives. There are, you know, you can go to the polls, right? You can go and vote in November and that's a choice and a level of control you have. And then it's, you know, up to fade at that point of what occurs, but I think, I think you're right. I mean, we, Ramses and people that work at Ramses are all very passionate people. We have loud arguing, fun discussions about things, but we don't wish death on people. Oh, gosh. No, no, no. It's really sad. Yeah. It's the president of Visa. I mean, no, it's just the president of Visa. It's just a credit card. It's okay. Right. You know, don't go on credit card debt. It's stupid. If you're, if you're a payday lender, you shouldn't be doing that. It just takes humanity out of a system. But I'm not going to, I'm not going to suggest that the guy be taken out. I mean, this is nuts. So it's just really sad. It's a sad. It was a sad. Here's the thing. If you, if you will, if you will concentrate on fighting ideas, that is a valid quest to argue about ideas when you have to vilify or destroy a person because you disagree with their idea, you've already lost the argument because you've lost the high ground. You've lost the ability to argue your idea because you can't stay on top of the idea. The idea loses ground. So you have to attack the person. And when you can't, when you can't back up your philosophy, when you can't back up your belief and have an argument about that, a healthy, a good, I'll have a strenuous argument. I mean, we don't scream. We don't scream. But we argue it in high voices around here sometimes because we're trying to figure out which play to call to win the Super Bowl. We're trying to figure out which product to put out there to help you folks next. And we, you know, we struggle with that and passionately, but we, if your idea is so weak that you have to attack the person because your idea won't hold its own water, that's when you've already lost. And so then you've only got a bunch of people that drop to the lowest common denominator are the only people that'll follow a person whose idea has lost, but they're passionate about it. You know, it's just you've got to be able to argue on the points of merit. And that's basic debate. That's basic common sense, it's basic wisdom. And it's just, it's sad. It's a sad comment about what's going on in our country and how someone can not look at the ideas represented, the principles represented by different campaigns. And for that matter, the quality of the person that's going to implement those ideas, can you stand with that or not? And that's, you know, and if you think that, then go there. I mean, we've had arguments about that ever since there's been a president is the quality of the person good enough. And there's always been someone that said, I mean, the stuff that was written about Abraham Lincoln, unbelievable, the stuff that was written about JFK, unbelievable. And by the way, you ought to look at JFK's policies and ideas. You want to see some conservative economic thought bordering on libertarian? Go read what JFK believed about economics and what's putting in place. It's very interesting for a Democrat. So, you know, these things, like the pendulum swings, people argue and push through different things and different people have different quality of reasons and reasoning, but this is out of hand. So our vote is for prayer for this nation. That's our vote. Our vote is for prayer for you and your house that you get your act together and in spite of who's in the White House, not because of who's in the White House, you prosper because if you're waiting on one of them to prosper your life, you have a long wait. Your life's going to suck because government is not designed to make your life awesome. Sorry, it's not. Your cell phone has more power than your president to make your life awesome. I mean, you can push buttons and stuff actually happens with it. I mean, when you push buttons in the voting booth, very seldom does anything actually happen. Think about it. I want to believe it does. I love what you do. I want to believe it does, but name me a time it did. Well, but you're about it. A couple of things here and there, but nothing that I went, oh, everything's okay now. I know. Totally. Yes, I hear what you're saying. Yep. Yep. I just, it reminds all of us to argue ideas and you don't have to destroy people for your idea to win. Otherwise, your idea is not good. This is the Ramsey Show.
