Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - January 06, 2025


Ep 1117 ｜ We’re Back! Trump’s Day 1 Moves & Where We Hold the Line


Episode Stats

Length

52 minutes

Words per Minute

166.05298

Word Count

8,794

Sentence Count

659

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

27


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 2025 is here. Trump is about to take office, and that cannot come soon enough. We are here to tell
00:00:07.860 you why, as well as to discuss so much more on today's first episode of Relatable of the Year.
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00:00:30.000 Hey, guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend, a wonderful
00:00:37.560 New Year, a wonderful Christmas. It has been so long since we've been in the studio, and y'all,
00:00:44.080 I have really missed you. It was a great break. I feel rejuvenated. I feel refreshed, but I am ready
00:00:52.400 to go. I am ready. There's so much to discuss, but one of my goals for Relatable this year is to keep
00:00:59.880 every episode under an hour, so I am going to try as hard as I can to do that. That means I've got
00:01:06.220 to pick and choose the things that I want to talk about and how much I'm going to talk about them
00:01:10.760 each day. There are probably some of you, maybe a lot of you, who are new to Relatable. You had a
00:01:17.540 friend share it with you, or maybe you resolved this year that you were going to be plugged into what is
00:01:24.160 going on in news, politics, and you found Relatable. So I want to give you a little introduction, and
00:01:31.640 maybe some of you have been listening for a year, but you have never really been introduced to what
00:01:37.460 Relatable is, like what our mission statement is, and who I am. So Relatable is a place where we
00:01:44.040 discuss culture, news, politics, theology from a Christian conservative perspective. Our goal is to
00:01:52.580 confront the chaos and the confusion of the world with as much clarity and as much courage as we
00:01:59.840 can muster. And the reason it is called Relatable is not because I am sharing a bunch of personal
00:02:06.220 content. It's because I am a Christian mom trying to navigate the craziness of the times, just like
00:02:13.780 many of you. I am trying to gain and apply as much biblical wisdom to this modern era as I can,
00:02:21.140 and I am taking you along with me, both Relatable gals and Relatable bros. We cover evergreen topics
00:02:29.400 and current events, and one to two times a week, we interview a guest. We've had a lot of different
00:02:36.720 guests. We've had President Trump. We've had Vice President-elect J.B. Vance. We've had Kat Von D.,
00:02:42.460 Candace Cameron-Bure, John MacArthur, many, many, many others. We will add many more to the list this
00:02:48.900 year. We love testimonies. We love stories of courage. We love experts that reveal new or
00:02:56.460 previously unknown or misunderstood information. We love interesting, fresh perspectives from people
00:03:04.820 of all different theological and political backgrounds. A little bit about yours truly,
00:03:11.780 the host of Relatable. I am a Christian. I am of the Reformed Baptist persuasion,
00:03:18.980 wife to chief Relatable, CR for short. I am a mom of three. I have known my whole life that I wanted
00:03:27.100 to talk and write for a living, and God has very graciously made a way for me to do that. I am the
00:03:34.220 author of two books, You're Not Enough, and That's Okay. That came out in 2020, and a New York Times
00:03:40.920 bestseller, Toxic Empathy, How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion. Last year, I hosted my
00:03:48.520 first-ever women's conference. It was called Share the Arrows. The name is in reference to a refrain
00:03:54.940 that we use a lot on this show that describes what we as Christians do, what we should do when a fellow
00:04:01.600 believer is being targeted for their faith. We stand up and we say, yeah, I believe that too.
00:04:08.340 Whatever you, adversary, throw their way, you can bring it my way too. I am standing with them. I
00:04:15.340 am sharing their arrows. And it was an amazing event. Nearly 4,000 women from across North America,
00:04:22.780 America, Canada, came to Dallas, Texas for the event. It was a supernaturally incredible day. I think
00:04:31.120 anyone in attendance would tell you that. We had lots of speakers. We had Rosaria Butterfield,
00:04:36.400 Elisa Childers, Candice Cameron-Bure, Francesca Battistelli. We had Abby Halberstadt. It was truly
00:04:44.360 amazing. And very soon, we will be announcing the date and location for Share the Arrows 2025. So
00:04:51.460 get excited. Stay tuned. I'm super pumped about that. One of the questions in light of all of that
00:04:57.200 that I get the most is how do you prioritize being a wife and a mom while you have this show and
00:05:06.680 everything else that I just listed. When I started Relatable back in 2018, it was just me. I was
00:05:15.000 recording. I was editing. I was posting. I was doing all of that. And then I got a producer. And now,
00:05:22.060 thankfully, I have a whole team of people who makes this show. They make my speaking engagements,
00:05:30.520 my social media, and everything else happen. We have producer Brie, who often comes on the show.
00:05:37.160 Brie, say hello to everyone.
00:05:40.180 Hello, everyone.
00:05:41.440 Hi. She will be on the show today at the end as we talk about some more lighthearted things. But
00:05:49.760 you will see her frequently. She is a favorite guest on the show. I come into the studio three
00:05:56.380 times a week in the morning to record for about two hours. Then I go home. My husband and I work
00:06:01.740 together full time. We operate kind of like small business owners. We bring our family along for the
00:06:07.740 ride as much as we can. And we have a lot of fun doing it. And the Lord has blessed us immensely with
00:06:14.840 the privilege of being able to do this together. And we're really grateful for that. My parents are
00:06:21.160 also a big part of our lives, a big part of this show. My mom has shared her wisdom on the show a
00:06:26.640 couple of times. And my dad is a frequent guest. He's an audience favorite. Every time we go somewhere
00:06:31.840 and he's there, he always has people coming up to him saying, oh my gosh, I love when you're
00:06:35.600 on Relatable. And in fact, when we asked a lot of you what something you want to see more of or
00:06:41.000 see again in 2025 on Relatable, a lot of you said more conversations with your dad. So he will be
00:06:47.080 here on Thursday. We will be discussing the H-1B debate, much more Trump's presidency, all that.
00:06:53.740 We talk about very serious, very controversial, hot button topics on this show in a way that is
00:07:02.120 unique and sometimes can press buttons that we're not necessarily meaning to press. We only talk about
00:07:09.500 things that we think need to be talked about. It's not about getting clicks. It's not about going
00:07:15.240 viral. Either I want to talk about them or I feel that I need to talk about them. My goal is to not
00:07:23.480 only equip and encourage Christians, but to persuade you and to inform you as much as I can. And we always
00:07:31.900 try to bring it back to the character of God in every story that we are discussing. There are several
00:07:39.960 sayings that you'll hear me say a lot the longer you listen. Relatable has many, many isms and mantras
00:07:45.920 and alliterations. And one reminder that we repeat often is that God's eternal plan of redemption is
00:07:53.640 always going off without a hitch. Nothing throws him off or takes him aback. He is sovereign. As Job 42.2
00:08:01.140 says, nothing can thwart his will. Romans 8, 28 through 39 reminds us that God is working all things
00:08:08.320 together for his glory in our good, even when we don't understand it. That passage that I just referenced
00:08:14.740 in Romans 8, it ends this way. For I am sure that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things
00:08:21.920 present nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be able to
00:08:28.780 separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Seasons change and presidents, administrations,
00:08:37.160 they come and go, but the Jesus by whose birth we all count our years is still on his throne and he will
00:08:44.900 rule eternally. Hebrews 13.8, one of my favorite verses, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today,
00:08:52.920 and forever. And it is against this backdrop of God's unchanging nature, his goodness, his love,
00:09:00.040 his power, his sovereignty, that we talk about what is going on in the world. Jesus is coming back,
00:09:06.220 but he is not here yet. So we occupy this physical space, this temporal world, because a God who does
00:09:14.280 nothing arbitrarily or accidentally placed us here. And because he has called us to love our neighbors,
00:09:21.400 to make better this tiny spot of eternity, this small speck of earth on which he's placed us,
00:09:28.400 we have to care about the issues at stake. Particularly these political issues and social
00:09:34.540 and theological issues today have all become political. Politics matter because policy matters
00:09:40.880 because people matter. Politics affects policy. Policy affects people. People matter. They're made in the image
00:09:46.440 of God. So they matter to him and they matter to us as Christians. So with that, let us get into what
00:09:53.300 is happening in DC, what is about to happen with the Trump administration in 2025, why we should care,
00:10:00.020 and the role that Christians play in all of this. But first, let me pause. Let me tell you about our
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00:11:26.660 All right. So we were going to just get right into what is going to happen post-inauguration. But
00:11:33.600 right as we were about to record, I saw in the news that Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of
00:11:39.660 Canada and the leader of the Liberal Party there, has resigned. And I don't want to take up too much
00:11:45.640 of our time because I am really going to try to meet my goal of having this episode be under an hour.
00:11:51.840 But he basically resigned because he is extremely unpopular. There is a lot of opposition from the
00:11:58.280 Conservative Party there. And it doesn't look like he is going to win the upcoming election or the
00:12:05.020 Liberal Party is not looking like they are going to win the upcoming election, which, of course,
00:12:09.080 we think is a very good thing. So here are some quotes from the Associated Press. Trudeau was facing
00:12:15.840 pressure to call for an election before a scheduled one in October as Canadians reckon with high inflation
00:12:21.160 and president elect Trump's tariff threat. The tariff threat would be bad for Canada's economy.
00:12:28.680 That's something that Trump has threatened to do. And so this led to, it seems, the resignations of
00:12:37.900 several cabinet members. There are a lot of internal conflicts, it looks like, within Canada's government
00:12:43.340 and within the Liberal Party and Trump's election and some of his intimidation tactics,
00:12:49.180 which, of course, I think are good and strategic and smart. It seems to have shaken a lot of things
00:12:56.480 up and scared a lot of people in the Canadian government. So it says this, it says Trump has
00:13:01.940 threatened to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico due to his concerns about the number of migrants and
00:13:06.520 drugs coming into the U.S., which triggered fears of inflation and a trade war. And after Trump met with
00:13:14.880 Trudeau just a few weeks ago, Trudeau came to Mar-a-Lago, met with Trump. Canada then promised
00:13:20.180 they're going to beef up border security in a very muscular way. So Trump is not even president yet.
00:13:25.840 And already the conversations and the deal making that he is doing is improving border security both
00:13:33.040 in Canada and Mexico. Mexico responded in a very similar way when Trump talked about tariffs. So
00:13:38.480 just a reminder that the border disaster that we have, that we're going to talk about a little bit
00:13:43.640 today, it is a choice. It's not some disaster that governments can't control. It is the result
00:13:51.300 of a policy choice. And because now we have a president that believes in the strength of America
00:13:57.600 and he is not afraid to flex America's muscles, countries are responding. Exactly how conservatives
00:14:04.060 have said the countries respond when America is strong. But currently under Joe Biden, we have a very
00:14:09.940 weak government, the way that we also did under Barack Obama. AP goes on to explain his resignation
00:14:17.200 came as polls indicated that the Liberal Party was set to be trounced by the opposition Conservative
00:14:21.760 Party in the upcoming election expected in or before October. Trudeau's decision to leave the post
00:14:28.380 amid his government's deepening on popularity is a far cry from the popularity he enjoyed when he became
00:14:34.180 prime minister when polls showed he boasted approval ratings above 60 percent. This is via Axios. By the
00:14:43.140 way, Trudeau noted that the Canadian parliament will be prorogued, essentially suspended until March 24th
00:14:50.500 while a new leader is chosen. With Trudeau out as party leader, he will remain prime minister until a
00:14:55.780 new leader is chosen. Once a party leader is selected, that person will become the next prime minister
00:15:01.660 per the New York Times. So we will see what goes on there. Very interesting development. I mean,
00:15:10.180 the stories that I'm hearing from Canada, not just that their health care is in absolute shambles. You
00:15:15.380 just can't get the care that you need. It's just so costly. And I'm not talking about the money that it
00:15:22.540 costs, although of course it does cost tax dollars, but I'm talking about the lives that it costs and the
00:15:27.480 time that it takes for people to get their very serious illnesses addressed. It's just a travesty.
00:15:34.700 But also housing costs and the mass migration that has changed the demographics, changed the politics
00:15:41.240 there, changed the economy there has been really devastating for Canadians. It seems like the average
00:15:47.980 person can't even afford to live there in a civilized way. So of course, Justin Trudeau is deeply
00:15:54.480 unpopular and I hope the best for Canada. I hope that they do get new leadership that actually has
00:16:00.600 the courage to make the changes needed. All right. So Trump is about to take office. I envy all of you
00:16:07.960 who are going to the inauguration and all of the inaugural celebrations. That's going to be wonderful.
00:16:14.260 Many of us, most of us will be celebrating from afar and it just cannot come fast enough. So here's what
00:16:22.220 we want to see from Trump. When people say that Trump has a mandate, that he was given a mandate
00:16:29.020 because he won the popular vote, because he also obviously won the electoral vote, it was overwhelming.
00:16:36.420 That's what people mean when they say that he was given a mandate. This is the American people's way.
00:16:41.500 Voting for him is the American people's way of saying, look, we're giving you our votes. We're giving
00:16:47.380 you power. We want things to change. How things are going right now are not good. So have the guts and the
00:16:54.980 determination to do something about inflation, about the border, about the involvement in unnecessary
00:17:05.220 wars. People want to see him gut and rebuild our security apparatus, the FBI and the DOJ.
00:17:14.660 People want to see a change in America's health care system. Also how America and American medicine
00:17:22.300 approaches health. This is from the Pew Research Center. The economy and immigration were top issues
00:17:29.040 for Trump supporters, even more important in 2024 than in 2020. Trump supporters were unified also on
00:17:36.120 several cultural issues in polling conducted over the course of the year. So, for example, 92 percent of
00:17:43.160 Trump supporters believe, I don't even like to say believe, but know that sex is not changeable,
00:17:50.240 that it is fixed. It's something that happens at conception and identity declaration cannot change
00:17:56.860 that. 89 percent said gun ownership does more to increase than decrease safety. 83 percent view the
00:18:04.120 criminal justice system as not tough enough on criminals. I guarantee you that spans the political
00:18:10.640 spectrum that transcends race. People don't like to see the recidivism that we see. We don't like to see
00:18:18.560 violent criminals let back out on the streets only to steal and to murder and to destroy. No one likes
00:18:26.120 that. Only radical activists truly believe in defunding the police or the soft on crime policies
00:18:31.560 that are implemented in the name of so-called restorative justice. People want to see criminals behind
00:18:38.660 bars for good. They want to be able to go downtown again. They want to be able to enjoy Seattle or New York
00:18:47.160 City or Philadelphia. But unfortunately, again, policy decisions, deliberate policy decisions by liberals in
00:18:54.260 charge have made that impossible. It's made it less safe because of soft on crime policies, but also because of the
00:19:01.780 soft on drug policies that have exacerbated the homelessness issue and the poverty issue and health
00:19:10.000 issues in all of these cities. You can't go and enjoy downtown San Francisco. You can't enjoy downtown D.C.
00:19:20.020 You feel like you have to not only watch your back, you really feel like you can't leave after dark in our
00:19:25.900 country. And this is not inevitable. It's the result of policy decisions. 75% of Trump supporters,
00:19:33.960 according to Pew Research, did not think the legacy of slavery affects the position of Black people in
00:19:38.500 American society today, much or at all. And that really needs to be higher than that. 2020 really did
00:19:48.320 a number on people in a good way and a bad way. I mean, a lot of people just got really confused in
00:19:54.900 2020 because of all of the social justice nonsense, but it was also clarifying for a lot of people who
00:20:00.380 were previously confused. The vast majority of people, it seems, from the conversations I have
00:20:05.700 started listening to this show in 2020, there just weren't that many Christians in the evangelical
00:20:12.580 space saying, yeah, I'm not going to post a black square. And actually, riots are not the voice of
00:20:19.680 the unheard. And actually, I'm not sure about some of these claims about systemic racism and pervasive
00:20:25.840 white supremacy and white privilege. I'm not so sure that social justice is justice according to the
00:20:34.040 God of the Bible. I don't think this is going to end up well. And we received, those of us saying
00:20:41.400 those things received a lot of flack, like more than ever, just the hateful, angry messages that
00:20:49.900 I received from professing Christians during that time. But I would say that we have been at this
00:20:55.780 point vindicated because we've seen the really dark and ugly underbelly of the real ideology of
00:21:02.600 critical race theory and social justice ideology and Black Lives Matter. It was really all just a
00:21:09.160 money grab. And people laughed when we called it Marxist or communist. But of course, that's exactly
00:21:15.800 what it was. And like all left-wing collectivist movements, it lends itself to destruction and
00:21:23.520 confusion and chaos because they are all satanic and Satan is the author of chaos and confusion.
00:21:30.880 And so I actually think part of that chaos of 2020 actually helped Trump win in 2024. It helped
00:21:38.580 him lose in 2020. But as people saw the light, it took them a few years and the craziness of COVID
00:21:44.280 and the corruption that was all exposed there. I actually think that helped Trump a lot win in
00:21:48.980 2024. And because of that, we have a broad coalition. We talked a lot about this at the end of last year.
00:21:57.340 We have new people that we have brought into the fold on the conservative side, on the Republican side,
00:22:02.180 that were not there previously, who don't share all of our values. We've got a lot of people in the
00:22:07.520 Make America Healthy Again movement that I really appreciate and whose boldness is an example to us
00:22:13.840 all. I have learned from them. I am so thankful that these people have been given positions of
00:22:19.440 influence and authority, not just in the Trump campaign, but also potentially the Trump administration.
00:22:25.140 But a lot of these people are pro-choice. A lot of these people aren't bold when it comes to the
00:22:30.320 reality of gender. A lot of these people don't know where they stand on things like immigration. So that
00:22:36.400 means conservatives, and in particular conservative Christians, that we have our role to play in
00:22:42.260 holding the line. I'm not saying we should excise the moderates out of our party. I'm not saying that
00:22:47.680 there is no room for the RFK types, the people who would have never voted for Trump a few years ago,
00:22:53.660 but have seen the light on a few issues, but aren't conservative on other issues. I'm not saying
00:22:58.660 we shouldn't partner with them and link arms with them. They were necessary to winning the election,
00:23:03.420 so I'm thankful for them. But that doesn't mean that we as Christians abandon our priorities.
00:23:09.360 We also have our place at the table, and we cannot give in just because we are afraid that truly
00:23:17.620 advocating for Christian values and our conservative positions on a variety of issues is going to cost us
00:23:24.760 future elections. We have to be an anchor over here on the right and to pull those people who are now
00:23:30.160 newly in the fold over in our direction through the power of persuasion. So we'll get into a couple
00:23:36.120 of those issues that we really have to hold the line on over the next four years, that we really
00:23:42.360 have to work hard at making our case to convincing those who are in the middle, center right, center
00:23:47.160 left, to come over to us. But before we get to that, let me pause. Let me tell you about our next
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00:23:58.740 the March for Life in Washington, D.C. on January 23rd. I'm so excited about it. I am going to be
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00:25:10.300 are going to have to hold the line on as Christians in the Trump administration, not that we are in the
00:25:17.400 Trump administration. But when it comes to the Trump administration and the policies that they
00:25:21.040 will be putting forth is abortion. You will remember during the campaign, Trump was very
00:25:25.800 wishy-washy on abortion. And some of us raised a respectful ruckus and said, oh, I don't like what
00:25:33.080 he's saying about Amendment 4, that he doesn't know how he's going to vote for it. Amendment 4,
00:25:37.080 you'll remember in Florida where Trump has a residence where he was voting, that would have
00:25:41.500 allowed abortion through all nine months in the state of Florida, whereas previously they had,
00:25:46.720 and they do still have, because Amendment 4 didn't pass, a heartbeat bill that says, sorry,
00:25:50.920 once you detect a heartbeat, you're not going to be killing this baby. And Trump originally said,
00:25:55.580 oh, well, I don't know. That's, I think, heartbeat bill. That's too soon. I don't know how I'm going
00:25:59.420 to vote. But a lot of people said, whoa, whoa, whoa. Really? That's your stance, President Trump?
00:26:04.940 And thankfully, he backed down and he said, yeah, I'm going to vote no on Amendment 4. That goes to show
00:26:10.920 that Christians do have influence in his administration, had influence over his campaign.
00:26:16.720 And of course, that wouldn't have been the case with Kamala Harris. So even though
00:26:20.940 Trump wasn't as, isn't as pro-life as I am, as I would like him to be, I know where pro-lifers can
00:26:28.540 have influence. And it wasn't going to be in a Kamala Harris presidency, the most pro-abortion
00:26:34.200 candidate we had ever had. Just as a reminder, here is Trump on abortion. Stop one.
00:26:39.980 Will you restrict the availability of abortion pills when you're in office?
00:26:44.940 Probably. I'll probably stay with exactly what I've been saying for the last two years.
00:26:50.120 And the answer is no.
00:26:51.880 You commit to that?
00:26:53.400 Well, I commit. I mean, are things, do things change? I think they change.
00:26:57.020 So he didn't want to commit to saying that. And we'll see what happens. But the abortion pill
00:27:04.580 is responsible for a huge percentage of killing image bearers of God every year. And that's where,
00:27:13.100 you know, Catholic J.D. Vance, pro-life Catholic J.D. Vance, staked his position too when he was
00:27:18.620 campaigning. Of course, he wasn't going to disagree with Donald Trump, but said, yeah, you know,
00:27:23.360 we support the legality of the abortion pill. And if we truly believe that these babies are made in
00:27:30.360 the image of God, if we believe that they are just as much human as you and I are, and they are
00:27:36.020 scientifically, then of course, we don't believe in legally being able to poison them and kill them
00:27:43.960 with the abortion pill. And you are going to hear a lot over the next few years. You thought this
00:27:48.920 propaganda was done. It's not done. You're going to be hearing a lot over the next few years
00:27:53.260 from the pro-abortion lobby that any restriction on abortion is going to restrict miscarriage care.
00:27:58.780 We don't have time today to go into all of the facts and the data and the debunking of that.
00:28:03.940 We have done so many episodes on that topic. All you have to do is type in a topic, type in a guest
00:28:10.620 that you want to hear about on Relatable. Type in the guest or the topic name and Relatable in the
00:28:17.960 search bar of wherever you listen or watch and something will probably come up. We've got a ton
00:28:24.620 of episodes on that topic. We've talked about abortion maybe more than any other subject, but
00:28:30.820 you just need to be aware that that toxic empathy propaganda is going to come down the pipeline.
00:28:36.600 I'm restricting the purposeful, intentional killing of unborn children does not legally restrict
00:28:42.960 miscarriage care. So just understand that. Read toxic empathy if you haven't already. If you just
00:28:49.260 want to read the abortion chapter, you can listen on Audible. You will be fully prepared for all of
00:28:54.200 those arguments. So when we're looking at any indicators of what the Trump administration will
00:29:00.920 do or will be like when it comes to abortion, we can look at some of his appointees or some of his
00:29:06.480 nominees. We've got RFK Jr., who, of course, we like in a lot of ways. He will oversee the health and
00:29:12.540 human services department. He says that he supports abortion access until viability. So that is about
00:29:21.080 24 weeks. But the fact that that's always debated, is it 24 weeks? Is it 21 weeks? Is it 26 weeks?
00:29:26.980 Shows that that's a very arbitrary standard for when it's OK to murder someone. He has also argued for
00:29:32.980 a national ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy. He walked back that stance. So again, very wishy-washy.
00:29:38.440 You'll remember, he's a lifelong Democrat. He is pro-choice at heart. I don't think that he
00:29:43.420 is gleeful about abortion the way Kamala Harris is, but he's pro-choice, as is President Trump.
00:29:50.440 And just a reminder, the head of the HHS oversees Title X, Title X funding for a host of family planning
00:29:58.740 services, has sweeping authority over agencies that directly affect abortion access, including the FDA
00:30:05.280 and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services. And so he's going to have a lot to say about abortion
00:30:13.020 policy and what our tax dollars can do when it comes to abortion. So it's very important that he
00:30:21.040 has a pro-life, a truly pro-life, holistically pro-life. I don't typically like that phrase, but if
00:30:27.720 that's what can persuade him to hold the line on the pro-life causes ahead of the HHS, then I'm willing
00:30:35.020 to say that. Because I know he believes in the abundance of a healthy life outside of the womb.
00:30:41.100 And so it's up to those who do have influence over him to show him that abortion doesn't fit into that
00:30:48.000 healthy worldview, to that compassionate worldview. The compassion that he has for children should
00:30:53.760 extend to the children injected with poison and dismembered inside the womb. Is he an upgrade
00:31:01.600 from Xavier Becerra, who is our current HHS, who was the Attorney General of California, and who has
00:31:08.860 been rabidly pro-abortion, raking him money from Planned Parenthood for decades? He absolutely is.
00:31:15.640 We can trust that he believes that a man is a man, a woman is a woman. That's another thing he's going
00:31:21.320 to have to hold the line on. The guidance that has been released by the HHS saying that, and we'll get
00:31:29.220 into this in just a second, but saying that boys can become girls and vice versa. We hope that that
00:31:34.100 will end under RFK. We've got Dr. Marty McCary. He is Trump's pick to lead the FDA. He has been on this
00:31:42.460 podcast before. He has sat on this couch talking about the corruption in the healthcare system.
00:31:47.320 He has spoken in the past about what I think is a pro-life perspective. He has talked about
00:31:54.300 the reality of babies being able to feel pain inside the womb. The FDA plays a critical role in
00:32:01.640 access to medication, abortion, and contraception. We've got Pam Bondi, Trump's Attorney General pick.
00:32:08.420 She was AG of Florida in the past. She has defended abortion restrictions, including a 24-hour
00:32:15.600 waiting period. So after a woman goes to the abortion clinic, says that I want an abortion,
00:32:22.980 implementing some kind of restriction that says, okay, you got to wait 24 hours before you can
00:32:26.700 actually have the procedure. I mean, that 24 hours can really make or break it for that baby inside
00:32:33.620 the womb. Her nomination is being celebrated by abortion opponents. It's being denounced by the
00:32:41.420 demonic pro-abortion lobby. So I would say that that is a good sign. Because right now, under our current
00:32:49.020 AG, we have people who are being prosecuted under the Obscure Face Act. So people who are blocking
00:32:55.940 entrances to these murder mills, these abortion clinics, like 74-year-old Joan Bell, they are going
00:33:02.080 to prison for a long time. But not the people inside the clinics that are actually doing the violent
00:33:07.840 murdering of the babies. That is called calling evil good and good evil. That is the definition of
00:33:15.420 injustice. So we can trust that that is going to come to an end. And we are hoping and praying for
00:33:21.140 a pardon for all of those who have been prosecuted and imprisoned under the Face Act. We've had at least
00:33:28.720 one of those who was in prison on this show, Herb Garrity. And so we are hoping for all of their
00:33:36.820 releases. We've got Dr. David Weldon, Trump's pick to head the CDC. He's got a strong record of
00:33:43.280 supporting the rights of the unborn, religious conscience rights. The CDC collects and monitors
00:33:48.380 abortion data across the country. And so this is also an important role when it comes to abortion. So I
00:33:56.760 think we've got some, we've got reason to believe that things are going to head in a pro-life
00:34:02.460 direction. Now, what Congress is going to do and Trump, what Trump will actually sign when it comes
00:34:08.440 to federal legislation, I'm not totally sure. But I am feeling much better about the direction of this
00:34:15.860 country when it comes to, when it comes to these federal agencies than I would be if Kamala Harris
00:34:22.660 was president, of course. But we have to do everything we can with the influence that we have
00:34:29.220 to make it very clear to the Republican Party that if you want to win elections, you have to move in
00:34:35.320 a pro-life direction. We've got a little bit more on this when it comes to LGBTQ issues, immigration.
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00:36:12.100 important. And one of the quickest changes that we are going to see is on the trans issue. Trump is
00:36:19.780 with us on that, at least when it comes to women's sports. Now, of course, he's going to be pals with
00:36:26.940 people like Caitlyn slash Bruce Jenner. I don't know that he's going to go so far as to say it's always
00:36:33.620 wrong. But he's with us when it comes to children. And of course, that is what we are most concerned
00:36:41.800 about, because children are always the unconsenting subjects of progressive social experiments.
00:36:47.600 Now, saying that anyone can change genders or change sexes is assenting to a demonic lie.
00:36:54.980 It is saying that two plus two equals five. And if you're willing to say that two plus two equals five
00:36:59.960 because someone tells you that it is, you're willing to say and believe anything. And if as
00:37:04.040 a Christian, you are willing to deny Genesis 127, what is clear as day in the first chapter of the
00:37:10.820 first book of the Bible, that God made them in his image, male and female, then it is hard to believe
00:37:16.080 that you will defend the much more controversial truth that we see in John 14, 6, that Jesus is the
00:37:21.600 only way of truth in the life. No one comes to the Father except through him. That is much more
00:37:26.560 offensive that you are a sinner in need of a Savior bound for hell without Jesus Christ,
00:37:32.420 the Messiah, than the biologically observable reality that we read in Genesis 1, that we are
00:37:38.680 created male and female. So I just want to be clear on my stance on that. I am not someone who is like,
00:37:44.200 oh, yeah, adults can do what they want to do, but let's just focus on the kids. Sure, adults can do what
00:37:51.080 they want to do. Should they do what they want to do always? No. And should we change society in any way
00:37:58.900 to accommodate the absolute dangerous, both personally and to others, both individually and
00:38:05.720 societally, this delusion that you can change your gender or you can declare your gender to be something
00:38:14.240 that is separate from your sex? No, I'm not going to go along with that in any way. I will not use
00:38:20.860 pronouns that do not correspond with your biological reality because I will not participate in a lie,
00:38:27.280 and sometimes that is the only thing that we can do to make a difference. I don't think Trump is
00:38:33.340 there with us, but he is against the chemical castration of the stopping the natural puberty of
00:38:41.460 the butchering the bodies of children who have been convinced that they were born in the wrong
00:38:46.760 body. He spoke at AmericaFast in December. So did I. No big deal. I was the speaker before him.
00:38:54.400 Now, I wish I could say I was warming up the crowd for Trump, but I wasn't. It was like a whole 12 hours
00:38:59.640 before Trump actually talked. But I was the speaker the night before Donald Trump at AmericaFast.
00:39:07.240 And he did say in his speech that he was going to end the transgender lunacy, that he was going to
00:39:16.620 sign an executive order to end child sexual mutilation, which is exactly what it is, by the
00:39:22.320 way. Here's that, too. With a stroke of my pen on day one, we're going to stop the transgender lunacy.
00:39:29.740 And I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the
00:39:41.660 military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high school.
00:39:46.580 Of course, people are enthusiastically, uproariously applauding to that because, yes, it is crazy that
00:39:57.260 we are even here, that we need a president to even say something like that. It is insane.
00:40:03.600 It is. It's the true pandemic. It is the virus of the mind that has not only infected people's
00:40:10.980 thoughts and feelings, but has mutilated their bodies. It is satanic to the core. And if we as
00:40:17.140 Christians love those around us, we will not play a part in it and we will do everything we can
00:40:22.320 to fight against it, no matter what they call us. And so just understand that, yes, this is popular
00:40:29.740 when it comes to one niche of transgender ideology, but we have to continue to use the power of persuasion
00:40:35.900 to show that you can't ascend, assent to any part of the lie. You can't play a part in any of it. And I
00:40:43.620 just, I long for the day that Christian women are absolutely unapologetically strong on this and on the
00:40:51.100 definition of marriage. Now, I don't think there's going to be any change to the legal definition of
00:40:56.060 marriage in the United States. That doesn't mean that you and I need to compromise on it though.
00:41:01.120 Trans women are women is the same nonsense math as love is love. And again, it goes back to Genesis
00:41:07.360 127. And if you can't be convinced of Genesis 127, I don't think that you're going to be convinced of
00:41:13.780 the rest of it either. So those are the things that we need to hold the line on. When it comes to
00:41:20.220 immigration, most people are with us, at least when it comes to the top priority, which is deporting as
00:41:26.880 fast as possible, the most violent criminals and securing the border so they can't come back in.
00:41:33.020 And the punishment needs to be brutal. If we are talking about people who have no right to be here
00:41:38.760 and they are committing additional crimes, in addition to being here illegally, the punishment
00:41:44.860 needs to be brutal and they need to be deported immediately. And thankfully, we've got border czar
00:41:51.340 Tom Homan, who I think will do everything that he can to execute on that. Here's top three.
00:41:57.480 Day one will be ICE offices across the country will be out on the streets. The right out of the gate
00:42:04.520 president has made it clear and I made it clear that priority right out of the gate is public safety
00:42:09.300 threats and national security threats. And there's plenty of them to find.
00:42:12.180 Yeah, I think that most of us can agree on that. Even Democrats. It's hard to find a Democrat,
00:42:19.580 I think. I mean, maybe they won't talk about it out loud. But if you were to sit down with them over
00:42:23.960 coffee and say, so like, do you think the illegal immigrant terrorists should stay or go? I think
00:42:30.420 most of them are going to say go. So I actually think this is this could be something to unite the
00:42:37.200 country. Probably a lot of Democrats and liberals won't like the deportations. If you've actually
00:42:42.900 got ICE officers out there rounding people up and deporting them, you will have some crazy people
00:42:47.520 like defending the terrorist or the would be terrorist, the national security threat. But
00:42:55.140 most people, even if it's just secretly, are going to say, yeah, I'm really glad for that. But then
00:43:01.200 you're looking at all of the people who are here illegally who should all go home
00:43:05.540 because America is not just an idea. It's not just an experiment. It is a sovereign nation. It is
00:43:12.740 a place. It is a homeland for people. And we have a right to decide who comes in legally or illegally.
00:43:23.520 There should be no illegal immigration, whether it's visa overstays or whether it's people crossing the
00:43:29.800 border to the north or to the south. That should absolutely never happen. The border should be so
00:43:35.360 secure that they are so disincentivized from trying to make that dangerous check because they know that
00:43:41.880 they are most likely going to be unsuccessful. But we should also have a say in who comes in legally.
00:43:48.900 That is the right of any sovereign nation, not just America. That's the right of England. That's the
00:43:54.400 right of Germany. That's the right of South Korea. That's the right of Zimbabwe. That's the right
00:43:58.680 of India. Without that right, you are not a sovereign nation. If you're not a sovereign nation,
00:44:03.600 you don't have true citizenship. If you don't have true citizenship, then you don't have any
00:44:08.220 enforceable or protectable rights. And that puts everyone at risk, especially the most vulnerable.
00:44:16.240 Our immigration system, mostly because of illegal immigration, but also because of abuses like of the
00:44:22.880 H-1B system is completely in chaos. And America wants Trump to fix that. There was a huge debate over
00:44:35.200 H-1Bs on X over the holidays. And we won't get into all of that today. I will have my dad on and we will
00:44:43.940 talk about it a little bit more. Elon Musk versus those of us who I would say are more conservative
00:44:49.840 on immigration than Elon Musk. Trump saying we need these H-1B visas to get more workers over here
00:44:56.300 from India. Vivek Rimaswamy saying, yeah, it's awesome. American culture sucks. Indian culture
00:45:02.340 is great. What? And those of us over here saying, actually, H-1Bs are mostly used to hire cheap labor
00:45:11.160 because you don't want to pay Americans more. So we'll get into that debate. But rest assured,
00:45:16.180 that is part of the mandate that conservatives have given Donald Trump. Not only get rid of illegal
00:45:25.780 immigration, but also put a cap on legal immigration. Because we have seen the shift that legal immigration
00:45:34.520 has caused in places like Canada, has caused in places like Londonistan. It is no longer what it
00:45:42.400 used to be. And they are dealing with a huge, negative, cultural, ideological change in those
00:45:50.060 places thanks to legal mass migration. You are allowed to care about the culture of your country.
00:45:56.960 Don't let anyone tell you that it is racist for saying so. So we'll get into more of that,
00:46:03.640 not only with my dad on Thursday, but also tomorrow. We are talking to a reporter from GB News that is
00:46:11.020 going to talk to us about the Rotherham scandal. And that is the Pakistani Muslim gangs that have
00:46:18.260 been for decades grooming. And I hate to be so graphic, but gang raping young British girls
00:46:25.400 and the massive cover up by the British government. Why is everyone talking about it right now? How does
00:46:32.060 this tie into the immigration debate? We will be talking about that tomorrow with a journalist.
00:46:36.660 But this is a huge issue for those who voted for Donald Trump. They want to see positive change
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00:48:05.820 Okay, Brie, let's talk. Hmm. What do we want to end on? Uh, well, typically we would do some kind
00:48:14.000 of like outfit review of what was it? Was it the Golden Globes? Golden Globes. Golden Globes. But we
00:48:19.600 don't have those today. We don't have time for that. Did you watch the Golden Globes though?
00:48:23.520 I only saw clips on X and I saw some outfits. Okay. There was a man in a beard and a dress.
00:48:31.240 I know that for sure. Typical. I didn't see that. Yeah, that happened. I saw the roast at the
00:48:37.540 beginning, Nikki Glaser. Nikki Glaser. Yeah. Um, I had seen one of her roasts in the past. I mean,
00:48:43.580 it's, it's explicit, so I'm not recommending it, but for the style and for the art form that it is,
00:48:50.980 I think that she did a good job. She's pretty good. She's clever. Yeah, she's clever. I know
00:48:56.760 people make fun of female comedians. She, I think she's a good one. No, I mean, she's funny. If you
00:49:02.600 like that kind of humor. Yeah. Yeah. Now, was she as good as Ricky Gervais from a couple of years ago,
00:49:08.720 but no one can be, no one can be. And he went down in flames too, or he went out in flames. Yeah.
00:49:14.780 I don't even care if you never book me again. Um, yeah, I saw some of the outfits. I don't know
00:49:20.740 if there's anything to write home about. I don't even know what the golden globes are. Is it for
00:49:24.180 TV? Is it for movies? It's for both. Okay. Um, but they're pretty well known for like being bought
00:49:29.420 like Emily in Paris, one golden globe. I'm pretty sure. And people were like, Oh, okay. So they bought
00:49:34.540 that. So I don't think it's anything serious. People love Emily in Paris. Yeah. J.D. Vance loves
00:49:40.020 Emily in Paris. Yeah. Um, okay. Do you have any resolutions for 2025?
00:49:46.180 Hmm. I don't know about resolutions. I mean, I'm trying to like make things from scratch more.
00:49:51.800 Okay. That's one big one. Um, are you meal prepping or every day you're making like a
00:49:59.140 from scratch recipe? No, I don't have the capacity for that. I'd love to do that, but no. Yeah. I'm
00:50:04.860 just going to try to make, make stuff in bulk and do you have like a cookbook that you're
00:50:09.740 following or just you find things online? Yeah. Just find things, find things that look good.
00:50:14.840 Um, like I said, I'm making sourdough. Yeah. And, uh, I made butter for the first time.
00:50:21.820 How was that? I heard that that's really easy. I've never done it. It's so easy. If you have
00:50:25.660 like a food chopper or even just like a mixer, all you have to do is put heavy cream in and it just
00:50:30.900 becomes butter. Oh, it's amazing. Wow. I don't, I don't even, I don't know. I just think that when
00:50:36.900 you think of colonial people making butter, it seemed like it was really difficult. A lot of
00:50:40.680 they didn't have mixers. Yeah. They didn't have a KitchenAid. That's probably why. Do you have
00:50:44.740 resolutions? Um, I have goals. I have goals. I have some fitness goals. I have some reading goals.
00:50:51.840 I have some like hosting goals. Um, yes. Like I'm trying to be more, not that I'm, I don't want to
00:51:03.760 say like, I'm not, not hospitable. I just am not a natural, like, Oh, host people over for dinner.
00:51:11.480 And I have a very perfectionist mentality when it comes with that, that puts a lot of pressure on me.
00:51:16.540 And so I end up just not hosting as much as I could because I want my house and everything to
00:51:22.000 be perfectly perfect before I do. But when I go over to people's houses, their homes aren't
00:51:27.520 necessarily perfect and I don't care. And no one cares because it's really just about the
00:51:31.460 conversation and the fellowship. And so I'm trying to have that. And I was convicted after
00:51:37.320 our relatable at home episode with Abby, where she emphasized that. And so I want to do that more,
00:51:43.300 um, this year I've got relatable goals. I've got share the arrows goals. I've got parenting goals,
00:51:49.540 all different kinds of things, but I wouldn't say necessarily like a particular resolution.
00:51:55.380 Um, I'm really trying to focus on, I mean, I, I think I, I am someone who enjoys things like enjoys
00:52:03.300 life and I don't have a hard time being happy, but it's very easy for me to be looking forward to the
00:52:10.200 next thing, to be looking forward to the next event, working towards that, thinking about that,
00:52:15.840 anticipating that, or thinking, well, when that happens, or when I get in that season of life,
00:52:19.860 or when I get in that stage, then I won't be as stressed or I can finally do that or focus on that.
00:52:25.060 And I want to get out of that mentality and just focus on being in the moment as cliche as it might
00:52:32.260 sound. No, love that. In my graduation speech at college, I quoted Jim Elliott. And I think about
00:52:39.520 this quote often, and he said, wherever you are, be all there. So that's what I'm going to try to do
00:52:46.160 in 2025. Okay, let's go. We've got a lot coming down the relatable pipeline this year that we're
00:52:53.380 super excited about. And so buckle up. We'll be back here tomorrow. See you then.