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IT STARTS WITH YOU | Overcoming adversity & finding purpose | The Basement w- Tim Ross #058

The Basement with Tim Ross

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The Importance of Mentorship and Discipleship

As an intern at W&W public relations, Joy was mentored by Patty Webster. "I used to think she was the meanest lady ever,"Joy says of her former boss. She's since gone on to be with the Lord but employed me as a young person.

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They don't want to hear about the past and COVID vaccines, especially if it's used as an excuse to dismiss or blame inflation or lack of jobs. Anyone who tries to sell the border is secure. Our country is in good shape. Jobs are plentiful and growing like crazy. Fuel is cheap and food is affordable. We'll lose. Maybe not tonight, but in the fall, that message will lose. People no longer believe in the system. They don't believe that it's geared for them anymore. They don't believe in the politicians, quite honestly, on either side of the aisle, and they certainly don't believe Jake Tapper and the press. All of those things that were, you know, goodwill or we've got the full faith and trust in the American government is a thing of the past, the distant past. People do not need, want, or frankly believe any more of the fake fear mongering. Why? Because there's enough out there to actually be afraid of. And Americans are. Here's what Americans want to know. Who is going to keep my job secure? Who's going to grow jobs? Who's going to make sure this insane inflation doesn't continue and in fact goes down? They don't care about the Fed, how it works, or what Janet Yellen thinks. People don't want to choose between food and fuel. I don't want to choose between making rent or having a car. I can't afford a new home. I can't afford a loan nor the 30% interest rate on my credit cards which are already maxed out. People want answers. They want an actual plan that they're participating in. That they understand it and they're like, okay. Yep. All right. Let's do that They want a leader They care about the elites who are getting rich the banks are always bailed out without any consequence and it seems like the average American Can't even get a fair deal That's what they to hear about. They're the people who create 70% of all jobs in recessions and tough times. The small business. People who are in small business have always been the backbone of job creation. Yet, they see the pattern. It's the same with the banks. Home Depot made money, was allowed to stay open. But the local hardware store, that was a health danger. What's the game we're playing? Because the American people feel like I'm on the losing end and it's become real for them. They've seen what the reimagining of our economy is doing. They've seen the reimagining of the police. They know what that looks like. What they want to know tonight is who's going to restore safety to our streets and sanity in the houses of justice and the DA offices. Crime is unlike anything I have seen in my lifetime because it's everywhere. I mean, when San Franciscans were pooping on the streets, I thought that was novel. Well, that's happening in a lot of places. Philadelphia, New York, Detroit, you name it. All of California, except the farmland, and they could probably use the poop at the farmland. People want safe and clean streets. They've seen the reimagining of our schools. They want schools that will help them as parents teach their children reading, math, arithmetic, writing, usable skills, not how to march in protests. No matter insane or quite frankly how valid those protests might be, they don't need the school training them to be a protester. Our children need a good education. They don't need some indoctrination camp to teach them that they're gay, not gay, non -binary, one of 93 genders. They don't want any of that. What they really worry about when it comes to their children is what is their children's life going to be like? Because I can't imagine it. If we stay on this road, I don't see a bright future for my children and that's bad. And people know it. And they want to know who was like, isn't this crazy? I mean, don't you just want to and people voted for him because he's an old safe guy. What's he going to do? Well, we've seen what he's done. Are our kids going to be able to afford an education? Is it worth having an education? What should they study? With AI and everything that's coming, what is the plan, guys? Will my children be able to own a house? Will my children be able to inherit my house? Will they be able to have food or even grow food? worry that this is the end of a country that almost all of us 75, 80% plus love and want. We may disagree on the problems or the solutions, but 80% of us love America. They want a solution on the border. They want answers on the border. They worry about war. Is my kid going to be sent off to fight some politician or global elites war? Something I don't want, something that I don't even believe in, something that I don't even understand why we're in it. You're already spending all of my children's money and you can't track any of it. And are we seriously talking tough when nuclear war is an option on the table for not just one country, but seemingly several countries? I mean down on the list they worry about freedom of speech unlike they've never thought of it before because it's becoming more and more real. They're feeling it in their office. They also worry about guns. They worry about the senseless shootings in our schools. But are you going to address the real problem there? Because if there's a shooting in the school, we know who's going to get the blame. It's the gun or the Nazis. But when we have a transgender shooting, in fact, several of them, nobody seems to want to talk about that. Nobody even wants to talk about the real problems of social media. the main driver of suicide and the death in young adults. They won't say anything about that because they're in bed with social media. They won't call out the gangs. They won't call out China and the drug cartels for the huge problem of fentanyl. what they'll do is they'll make it harder for people in actual pain to get pain relief from their doctors. Have you tried to get pain relief from your doctor? Oh, well, you're already, you're already, they're looking at you now to put you in jail because you need pain relief from your doctor. And the doctor is also afraid of going to jail because if he messes up one thing, that's it for him. And it seems more and more like the solution from our government for real pain relief, for pain and suffering is, well, you can kill yourself. But I digress. People care about their future. For the first time in my lifetime, their immediate future. Are my kids going to survive school? Is my wife going to make it after going to the gas station? Am I going to have any money left? Will I be able to keep my house or my apartment? People for the first time in my life are beginning to look at our civil rights, our Bill of Rights, in a different way. For the right and keep, keep and bear arms. That's always been theoretical in so many ways, but it's not theoretical anymore. And here's how. We see on TV all the time people trapped in their cars surrounded by Antifa or Hamas lovers, whatever it is. And there's no help coming for that person in the car. There's no help. But God forbid you defend yourself. No, the riders won't have a problem. No, they'll be fine. You? No help is coming. We see that. You call 911 in several cities. No help is coming. Our wives, our daughters, our son, even us, men. We have to stop and get gas at night occasionally. When did it become normal to keep checking over your shoulder to make sure you're not being cased? The bad guys have guns. And the way they get them is not through breathing down the neck on. They have them. They use them. And the police now are no longer allowed to police anymore. And if they do, God forbid, the DA lets them go. If our government won't stop gangs from coming across our border, from the terrorists of many countries that are known to be coming over our southern border, if the government dismisses rioters, fire bombings, calls the hard -working, tax -paying American that is struggling literally to buy a loaf of bread, the biggest threat to America, then maybe we've already lost our country. And too many innocents will lose their life. People want to know who will keep them safe. People want to know why our veterans are on the streets and illegal aliens are in five -star hotels. People want to know why you won't arrest and convict criminals, You won't go after the gangs or illegal guns.

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