Ep 112 ｜ ＂Calming Feeling＂
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In this episode, Allie talks about Rashida Tlaib's anti-Semitic comments, AOC's climate change denial, and the "Constitutional Crisis" with William Barr. Allie also answers a dating question from a listener.
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Hello, Relatable listeners. Happy Wednesday. I hope that everyone has had a wonderful week so far.
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We are halfway there, and I am just here to let you know that you can do it.
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You can make it. Whatever is happening this week, you've got this. I don't really know why I started
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like that, but I just wanted to give you a little motivational pep talk in case you are hitting that
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midweek slump. It is me, Allie Stuckey, here to tell you that you are going to make it through.
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Okay, today we're not going to talk about that. We are going to talk about a few different things.
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Actually, there's a lot of different things that I want to talk about,
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but I don't think that we have time to go through them all. We might. We'll see. Okay,
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what I definitely want to talk about is Rashida Tlaib and her crazy comments on the Holocaust and
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what this means about the state of our dialogue right now. I'm going to talk about the sex strike
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with Alyssa Milano and the heartbeat bills. And then, of course, we are going to talk about
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our socialist darling AOC and her walking back of her original statement that the world is going to
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end in 12 years because of climate change. And then I might be able to get to Chips Ahoy and their
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Mother's Day ad. And then I'm going to answer a dating question that I received. And so there's
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more that I want to talk about. I want to talk about Trump and China and tariffs and everything
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that's happening there. If you didn't know, there's like this kind of like trade conflict
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going on. You've got conservatives that are against the tariffs saying tariffs never work.
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You also have conservatives that are for the tariffs saying that this is our strong stance
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against China. This is what we have to do in order to accomplish both free and fair trade.
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There are both sides to that issue. We're not going to be able to get into that today,
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but I do want to cover that at some point because I think it's an important topic to kind of
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flesh out and to look at the background of because knowing my audience and knowing myself really,
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and a lot of you out there, I know for a factor like me, you might not have been paying attention
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to that because you feel like, okay, it doesn't affect your everyday life. And maybe you don't know
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that much about tariffs. Maybe you do, but maybe you don't. And so I think it would be good to kind
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of walk back and give a little bit of background, but we don't have time to talk about that today.
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I also wanted to talk about William Barr and this so-called constitutional crisis that I really think is
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nothing more than political theater being perpetrated by Democrats who want to cause some
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sort of crisis and chaos since the report on so-called Russian collusion that they've been
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trying to gin up for the past two years didn't end up how they wanted. So they still want to say that
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somehow Trump and the attorney general William Barr are going against the constitution and going against
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the rule of law. I just don't believe that as yet we are in that place. But again,
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I just wanted to kind of give you a brief little summary of my thoughts, but with everything else
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that's going on and with the requests that I've gotten over the past few days of the things that
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you guys want me to talk about, we're just not going to have time to dive into all of the Trump
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stuff. There's always a lot going on with Trump and I feel like I kind of skip over him because
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there's just, there's, it just hurts my head sometimes the back and forth between all of that.
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And I think that there are other things going on that are better indicators of our society and of
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our culture and of our politics as a whole than Donald Trump. So let's go into one of those
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first topics, which is Rashida Tlaib and her antisemitic comments. So Rashida Tlaib is a
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freshman Congresswoman. Uh, she is Palestinian. Now this is also the woman who said that she believes
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that we should impeach the MFR when she was first elected. Uh, so that's kind of how we heard of her.
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She is good buds with AOC and Ilhan Omar, other freshman Congresswoman. And she also has a map in
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her office of the Middle East and where, uh, Israel is. She put a little sticky note over that and wrote
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Palestine with an arrow. Now this caused a lot of controversy, especially in the Jewish community
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saying that this is basically her, uh, her supporting the Palestinian obliteration of Israel,
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which of course a lot of Palestinians do want. They want the obliteration of Israel so they can
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take control of the entire region. And so that was kind of strike one. There's probably been other
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strikes before that, but strike one against, uh, the Jewish community, a community that kind of
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approved that she, uh, was, or had antisemitic leanings. And then this latest comment is probably
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the worst strike against her in that regard. Uh, so she was on, on Monday, she was on a Yahoo news
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podcast and she was asked to weigh in on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. She had already tweeted
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about it. Of course, a historical madness saying that the Palestinians are being oppressed by Israel.
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We talked about last week, what the reality is in that and what's really going on between Palestine
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and Israel, how Israel is acting in self-defense. And this does not mean that we always take up for
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Israel in every single circumstance if they are in the wrong. But in this particular conflict,
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there is no question between, uh, Hamas who runs Palestine and Israel, who is actually doing the
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targeting of civilians. And that is exclusively Hamas. Now, um, she was asked to weigh in on this again
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on Monday, even though she had already tweeted about it last week and to leaves a position of, uh,
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in her, uh, position of a one state solution. And to leave stated this, she said,
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there's always kind of a calming feeling. I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust. Yes, you,
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you, you just, you just heard that correctly. There's always kind of a calming feeling. I tell
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folks when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust and the fact that it was my
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ancestors, Palestinians who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood,
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their human dignity, their existence in many ways have been wiped out in some people's
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passports. So if you can't read the passive aggressiveness that is coming from this,
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that she is trying to make her comment come off as I am so glad that the Palestinians offered
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refuge to Jews after the Holocaust, but she's also trying to take ownership on behalf of the
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Palestinians for this refuge that was given to the Jews. And it was not on the part of the
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Palestinians at all. And she's also trying to passive aggressively insert in there. Yeah,
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we did this so self-sacrificially at the cost to our own lives, at the cost to our own livelihoods
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and freedoms. We gave refuge to the Jewish people. That's just not true. It's not true. And how crazy
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of a tone in which to speak, in which you are speaking of the Holocaust. Really? You have a calming
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feeling over you? She was condemned, of course, for her comments, including President Trump. He weighed
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in on this saying Democrat Rep Talib. I don't even know if that's how you say her name. That's not
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actually how it's spelled, but we kind of just all switch the A and the L and we just go with it.
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So I'm just going to go with that, too. Democratic Rep Talib is being slammed for her horrible and
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highly insensitive statement on the Holocaust. She obviously has tremendous hatred of Israel and the
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Jewish people, Trump tweeted. Can you imagine what would happen if I ever said what she said and says,
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of course, I mean, this is true. Can you imagine if President Trump said this? Can you imagine if
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he said, I get a calming feeling when I think of the Holocaust? Oh, my gosh. I cannot even imagine
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the headlines, how crazy Democrats would go over this, how they would Democrats would pounce on this
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as leftist media like to say of conservatives whenever we are justifiably outraged by something
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crazy that the left does. They would have not stopped talking about this. It would have been the
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cover of every magazine. It would have been the opening monologue of every show on MSNBC and CNN.
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I can't even imagine if Trump had said something like this. According to the New York Times,
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this is a quote, but in Republicans telling Miss Talib never uttered the words tragedy and horrific
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persecution of the Jews. Instead, Representatives Steve Scalise and Liz Cheney, the number two and number
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three Republicans in the House seized on the words, a calming feeling in the headlines of
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back-to-back statements they issued Sunday casting Miss Talib as an anti-Semite. So you'll notice this
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trend in the media that when a Democrat says or does something that is completely outrageous,
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the story is never that this Democrat did or said something completely outrageous. It's that
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conservatives overreacted. So this language that they seized on the words that we casted Miss Talib
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as an anti-Semite. That is the point of their story, that we overreacted, that we were outraged
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needlessly by this. Not what Miss Talib actually said. That is always the main story for them.
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If you look at headlines about abortion, for example, it's always that we are taking away choice,
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that we are always freaking out over something like the New York law or the Virginia bill. It's never that,
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oh my gosh, these extreme measures to allow abortion up to nine months gestation are being
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passed. And this is a huge change in American morality and American policy. That's not the
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story, which it should be because it is an extreme change. It's no, it's conservatives reaction because
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we hate choice and love the patriarchy. Well, it's the same thing here. Republicans are guilty of
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casting Miss Talib as an anti-Semite. It's not that she made comments that are decidedly anti-Semitic.
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Um, so not only though, did Republicans call for a lot of Tlaib's apology, uh, a lot of, I don't know
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why I said that, call for Tlaib's apology, but a lot of people on the left, uh, called for her to
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reverse or say something about her, uh, historical inaccuracy. So John King of CNN actually called out
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Tlaib for her mischaracterization of the Palestinians, uh, relationship with it, with the
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Israelis pre-World War II. The reality is that the Jewish presence in that area where they are right
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now, uh, currently known as Israel dates back thousands of years. And so what Tlaib was trying
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to say was that the Palestinians were there first, which is a big source of the conflicts between
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Palestine and Israel is whose land is this really? Well, Israel was there before the Palestinians were,
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this was Israel's land before it was the Palestinians land. The only reason why that land
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is significant is because the Jewish people are there and because of the Jewish people,
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the modern migration of Jews dates back before the Holocaust by many decades. It started with the
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migration of the Jews from, uh, Yemen in 1881, uh, with the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the British
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government supported the establishment of a Jewish state in the area, an idea that was actually rejected
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by the Arabs. Um, and during World War II, the Palestinian leader at the time met with Adolf Hitler,
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and allied with the Nazis. So this idea that the Palestinians were a refuge for Jews who were being
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persecuted by the Nazis was, is wrong. Uh, Palestine allied with the Nazis. Um, as the U.S. Holocaust
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Memorial Museum says, Al Husseini, who was the leader of, uh, of Palestine at the time, collaborated
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with the German and Italian governments by broadcasting pro-Axis, anti-British, and anti-Jewish
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propaganda via radio to the Arab world, inciting violence against Jews and the British authorities
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in the Middle East, and recruiting young men of Islamic faith for service in, uh, German military,
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uh, Waffen SS and auxiliary units. Uh, and so after World War II, when the Jewish people declared the
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state of Israel, their official proclamation said this, we appeal in the very midst of the onslaught
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launched against us now for months to the Arab inhabitants of the state of Israel to preserve
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peace and participate in the upbuilding of the state on the basis of full and equal citizenship and
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due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions. But the Arab people rejected
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this. They instead had their leaders, uh, encourage them to flee Israel. And the very next day,
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Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq, all Muslim countries attacked Israel. And so, uh, this idea,
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this fantasy, this fairy tale that Talib, uh, is recounting is completely off base and shows a level
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of antisemitism because, uh, she refuses to acknowledge the true plight of the Jewish people after the
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Holocaust and how cold and hostile, uh, the Palestinians were not even just that, but downright,
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uh, downright oppressive. The Palestinians were toward the Jewish people, not only when they
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established their state, but before they established their state by allying, uh, with the Nazis. So it is
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insane. It is out of the realm of reality. It is out of the realm of comprehension that she would say
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that she feels a sense of calm publicly. She says this in regards to the Holocaust, because the
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palace, the Palestinian people offered refuge to the Jewish people in the area of Israel at the cost
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to their own lives. I mean, is that the kind of propaganda that she's feeding herself on a daily
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basis? I mean, that's really, really scary Orwellian stuff. Things have just gone right down the memory
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hole. And she has decided to rewrite history to appease her own biases. Um, no democratic candidates
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for 2020, by the way, have said anything about this. None of them have criticized her. None of them
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have said, Hey, this isn't right. This is antisemitic. Why? Because as we talked about last week,
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antisemitism is mainstream in the democratic party. Uh, speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded that president Trump
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and Republican leaders apologize to Ms. Tlaib for their gross misrepresentations. She says the number
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two house Democrat and the number, uh, number two, number three house Republican, uh, traded pot shots.
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Uh, Senator Bernie Sanders of, uh, Vermont also jumped in defending Ms. Tlaib and chiding the president
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for his ugly attacks. Uh, speaking to the Hill in an email house majority leader, uh, Hoyer said,
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if you read reps leads comments, it is clear that president Trump and congressional Republicans
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are taking them out of context. They must stop and they must owe her an apology. Of course,
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fellow antisemite, uh, Ilhan Omar also said that this was completely unfair against Ms. Tlaib. I mean,
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it is crazy how much Democrats will bend over backwards to say that criticism of a Muslim person
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who unduly criticizes Israel is Islamophobic. I mean, they will go as far as they possibly can to
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completely ignore antisemitism. Remember that resolution that they tried to write up, um,
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against antisemitism because of Ilhan Omar's comments, how all Republican politicians who
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support Israel are just controlled by the Benjamins, which perpetuated an old antisemitic trope.
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Remember when Democrats were supposed to draft some kind of resolution or sign some resolution
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against antisemitism and they couldn't do it. It ended up just being a resolution against bigotry in
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general. Why? Because you had people like Linda Sarsour and CARE, which is a front group for many,
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uh, Islamic terrorist organizations, uh, pressure Democrats in Congress, uh, against writing a
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resolution against antisemitism because they are antisemitic themselves. Ilhan Omar is an antisemite,
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Rashida Tlaib, antisemite. And they know that they are going to get cover in the media who are just
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going to cover the outrage that Republicans have against these kinds of comments. And they're going to
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get cover, uh, from their leaders in the house. Nancy Pelosi is just a puppet. Now she is completely,
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uh, subservient to these freshmen Congresswomen to Ilhan Omar, to Rashida Tlaib into AOC. She has
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completely lost control of the democratic party. If the democratic party at any point in recent history
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had any dignity, it's completely lost it now. I mean, they are full on embracing and glorifying
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antisemitism through this kind of fairy tale that has been perpetuated and promulgated by someone
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like Rashida Tlaib, who apparently feels really warm and fuzzy when she thinks about the Holocaust.
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And I'm not trying to take that out of common, out of context. I read you her entire comment. I get
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what she was trying to say. I don't think that she was trying to say that she loves the Holocaust.
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I don't think that, think that she was trying to say that, um, she's excited by Jews going into gas
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chambers. I don't think she was trying to say that, but I do think that what she ended up saying
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is still wrong. It is still antisemitic to say that she had a calming feeling knowing that the
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Palestinians gave Israel refuge when that wasn't true. When Palestine actually allied with the Nazis
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and rejected any sort of peace deal when, uh, when the Jews resettled in Israel, sorry,
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I got tongue tied for a second. Uh, that is antisemitic in and of itself. So I am not trying
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to decontextualize her. I'm not trying to mischaracterize her at all. And that's something
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also that we see with these freshmen Congresswomen is that they insist that they are constantly being
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taken out of context, that they are constantly being attacked, uh, by, by Republicans for not,
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you know, for just by, by just lying about them. When really all we're doing is quoting them.
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That's all we're doing. All we do is we hear a quote by AOC or Rashida Tlaib or Ilhan Omar.
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And we say, well, this is what they said. And then we get attacked for being bigots for literally
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just quoting them. They make it so easy to criticize them because they say ridiculous things every single
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day. All we have to do is point to their own words and they say, Oh, I can't believe you would point to
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my own words and criticize me. You bigot stop saying crazy things, but they can't stop saying
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crazy things. That's the thing. Rashida Tlaib will not stop saying crazy things. Ilhan Omar won't AOC
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won't. Why? Because they believe crazy things. It's not just like Donald Trump. I think Donald Trump
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has, is not a very good communicator. I think that he gets tripped up on things. I think that he says
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some stuff that he doesn't mean, or he didn't think through. Uh, I think that a lot of the
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things that might be true sometimes for these freshmen Congresswomen, but I think a lot of
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the things that they say are coming out of a deep seated and a deep felt ideology, uh, particularly
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Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. I think that they just didn't realize that their antisemitism either a was
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antisemitism or that their antisemitism would meet any kind of conflict whatsoever. I think it's just,
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they have learned for so long to hate Jewish people. And they have been so conditioned by
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antisemitic tropes, probably their entire lives that they didn't even realize the things they believed
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were, uh, misinformed stereotypes of the Jewish people. That's what I think is going on. And so
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every time they say something like, Oh, Palestine, we were such a nice refuge or, Oh, people who support
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Israel are just controlled by the Benjamins. They've just believed that for so long. It's so deeply
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embedded in their belief system that, that, that when people criticize him, they're like, Oh, I thought,
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you know, I thought that everyone believed that. No, not everyone's an antisemite. I know that's
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shocking to both of you. Um, okay. I want to move on to something that is equally just hilarious.
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Well, that wasn't hilarious. It's hilarious in a more like ironic, sad way. This is hilarious in a
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more genuinely hilarious way. Uh, so as you know, we talked about on Friday, uh, the Georgia bill that
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was signed into law by Brian Kemp called the heartbeat bill, which prohibits abortion, uh,
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after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is usually about six weeks. And as we covered, uh,
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this does not, this does not, uh, include people who have, or women who had miscarriages. It does not
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include people who have been raped or who are victims of incest. It doesn't include those people.
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Uh, this only includes people who are getting an elective abortion for the sake of convenience and
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when a fetal heartbeat is detected. So that those are the only people that this law covers. You can go
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read the bill for yourself and you can see that that is true. Um, so after that people started
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freaking out, um, started saying, well, this is taking away all of women's rights. This is taking away
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autonomy. You probably saw a lot of misinformation. People saying, uh, women who have miscarriages are
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going to be imprisoned. They're going to be investigated, taking away all these rights. Sexual assault
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victims aren't going to be able to get an abortion. Well, none of that is true. You can read the bill
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for yourself online. The people who are perpetuating these lies either, either haven't read the bill
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themselves or they have, and they are just trying to drum up some sort of outrage. Uh, so after the
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legislature passed the bill, Alyssa Milano came out and she said, guys, I have a really good idea.
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I am launching a sex strike. And what this means is that women pro-choice women don't have sex.
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And this is how we're going to show them. This is how we're going to pressure these legislators to
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reverse this law. We're going to have a sex strike. And she thought that this was a grand idea until
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everyone on both sides of the aisle were like, Alyssa, you're stupid. People on the right side of the
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aisle were like, Oh my gosh, wow, this is great. Pro-choicers are finally taking our advice because
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we've been saying forever that you shouldn't have sex unless you want to get pregnant. Of course,
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from a Christian perspective, we believe you shouldn't be having sex until you're married.
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That's what we believe. And so now you're going to, you're going to, uh, you're going to fall in line
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with us. You're going to fall in line with the religious rights by saying abstinence until you're
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ready to have a baby. Perfect. That's what we've been telling you to do. I thought the abstinence
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didn't work. I thought we weren't supposed to encourage people to not have sex. I thought
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that you were supposed to have sex with whoever, whomever doesn't matter and consequences be damned.
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That's what I thought. We've been saying for a really long time, Hey, don't have sex. If you
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don't want to get pregnant, because that's how babies are made. And they've said, Oh my gosh,
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how could you ever give us that kind of archaic advice? We will never take that kind of advice.
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You anti-feminist footstool of the patriarchy. We will never bow down to your bigotry. You
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Bible beating bully. That's what they've told us. And here we have Alyssa Milano pro-choice
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feminist saying, Oh no, no, we're not going to have sex unless we want to get pregnant. And we all
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on the right say, Amen, girl. Amen. Now there are people on the left. Of course, you didn't like this
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either because apparently now I'm trying to get into the leftist mindset here. It perpetuates
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this idea that women are, um, women are commodities, that women are the givers of sex and that men are
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the consumers of sex rather than the other way around. Apparently this is kind of exploitive or
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objectifying of women's bodies to just be used either as reproductive tools or as, um, sexual
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objects. That's apparently what the feminists on the left are saying that, Hey, this is stupid.
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Alyssa Milano is getting so defensive about this. She's saying, Hey, we might not have a choice after
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we get pregnant, but we have a choice before we get pregnant. And I'm exercising that choice not to
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have sex. And I'm like, great. Will you please, I will, I will join this rally. I will join the sex
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strike rally and I will be up there linking arms with you, Alyssa Milano and say, yes, personal
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responsibility is great. Unless you are raped, no one is forcing you to get pregnant and no one is
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forcing you to have sex. This is a great way to make sure that you don't get pregnant. Abstinence has
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a hundred percent success rate. This is awesome. Thank you, Alyssa Milano. Let me know if you want
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to speak at the Republican national convention. Um, this is really, really, really great as a
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self-own. Um, she wrote in a CNN op-ed, our reproductive rights are blatantly and systematically
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being stripped away before our very eyes. Abortion care is a normal and at times necessary medical
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procedure, but anti-choice activists have strategically chipped away at abortion rights
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and access for decades with the hopes of overturning Roe v. Wade. Really? Is that true? Because New York
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just passed a bill that is now a law that says you can get an abortion for any reason up to nine months,
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as long as it falls under the wide umbrella of mental health. Virginia tried to do the same thing.
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Other states have tried to do the same thing. So is it really us? Is it really us that's going in a
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different direction that we've been going in for literally the entirety of the pro-life existence?
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I don't think so. I think it's the pro-choice side that's getting a little, little, a little more
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extreme. And now y'all have come full circle to where you actually think that there's responsibility
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to be taken before you have sex. Thank you for getting on board. Thank you very much. It's just,
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it's just hilarious. It's just really great. I hope that this takes off. I would love it if feminists
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if they would just stop reproducing for a little bit. And I, is that mean to say? I don't know.
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But when I hear people like AOC or Alyssa Milano say, oh, we're not going to reproduce anymore.
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We're not going to have sex. And I say, okay, that's okay. Like I'm okay with the only people
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having kids to be conservatives or to be religious conservatives or to be Christian conservatives.
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Like I'm okay with that. I think that that would probably be pretty good for the world.
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I saw this other tweet by some blue check mark. I don't even know who she is. She said,
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she said, feminists boycott sex with conservatives. And I'm like, good, good news, Pam. Her name was
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Pam. That's what I remember. Good news, Pam. Conservative men have been boycotting sex
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with feminists for a really long time. So this will be a really easy boycott for you guys.
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You're not going to have to worry about it at all. Like of the maybe three conservative men out there
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who are interested in having sex with a feminist, I'm pretty sure that they'll be able to find other
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fish in the sea that aren't crazy. So it's just all, it's all very funny how they are just coming
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into the reality that, oh my gosh, you don't have to be sexually promiscuous. Like you can actually
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take steps to not get pregnant unless you are a victim of sexual assault. Mind boggling. I know.
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Why didn't Christians think of that? Gosh, I've learned so much about morality and responsibility
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from Alyssa Milano. Now I know I just spent the past 10 minutes being sarcastic. So I think that it
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will be a good transition into AOC. So AOC tweeted the other day that apparently that Republicans,
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Republicans are ridiculous for making fun of her for saying that the world is ending in 12 years.
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This is a technique of the GOP to take dry humor plus sarcasm literally and quote fact check it.
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Like the world ending in 12 years thing, you'd have to be, have the social intelligence of a sea
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sponge to think it's literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from the office. So who knows?
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Um, okay. I'm going to play this little clip of AOC saying that we only have 12 years to
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dramatically change our policies so that climate change doesn't overtake the world.
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Millennials and people and, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up
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and we're like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.
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And your biggest issue is your, your biggest issue is how are we going to pay for it?
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Okay. So I just want, does that sound, I don't, I, does that sound sarcastic to you?
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I don't know. I mean, if you want people to take your policy proposals seriously,
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then you should probably speak in literal terms, right? And not hyperbole and not use sarcasm to
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bring up. If the world is really ending, like if climate change is that big of a deal,
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if we are in a climate crisis, why are you joking about it? That's not a joke.
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If I think the world is ending, I'm not going to joke about it. So why would you joke about it?
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But that's not the only time she said this. She did this video, uh, with a publication
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and I'm not even going to play it, but she, uh, it was basically like an animation of saying,
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it was like her from the future saying, Oh, this is what I did to combat climate change.
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And I knew I only had 12 years to do this. So was she being sarcastic there? Was she being
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sarcastic in this animation of her speaking from the future and saying, um, insane, we saved the
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world from impending doom. I knew that I only had 12 years to dramatically change the economy
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and change the structure of the United States in order to combat climate change. Was she being
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sarcastic? Was that her dry humor? Then I highly doubt it. This 12 years number has been perpetuated
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a lot. It only now is she saying that it's not literal because she's embarrassed by it. And she
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realizes that it's not true. I mean, a beta award came out and said, Oh, it's not 12 years. It's 10
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years. So this is what they have to do though. They have to create some sort of crisis in order to get,
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to get you, to get on board with their radical policy positions. Uh, but this is exactly what she does.
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This is exactly what she does. She says something, she is checked on it. People say, Hey, that's not
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accurate. That actually isn't right. Or criticize her for something ridiculous that she says. And then
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rather than saying, Oh, uh, okay, let me correct myself. Or I spoke incorrectly, or this is what I
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meant to say. She criticizes the other side for criticizing her, which of course is exactly what
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Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and all Democrats do. It's the problem of the criticizer has nothing to
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do with the substance of the actual critique. And so that's what she does. So she plays the victim
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immediately. She says, Oh, you know, it's just because I'm a woman of color. It's just because
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I'm young. It's just because they can take advantage of me. Or she says, wow, y'all are so stupid for
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actually believing me. How could you, you're Dwight from the office. Okay. If we're Dwight from the office,
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then you're Kelly. And I don't think that's that much better. I think I'd rather be Dwight
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than Kelly girl. Uh, come on. So this is what she does though. She can't actually take any legitimate
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criticism. She can't actually take any pushback. She can't actually reform something that she said
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and just say, Hey, I got something wrong. No, she's got so much pride. She's got so much arrogance.
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And when she is called on something, she doesn't know how to deal with it. She doesn't,
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she's got so much hubris. And I think ultimately that will be her destruction. It's not going to
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be her absolute ignorance. I don't think, I think it's going to be her pride that people are just
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going to get annoyed with it. Even people on her own side. I think they're going to be like,
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who are you? And it's not because you're young. It's not because you're a woman. It's not because
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you are a woman of color. It is because you don't know very much and you're not very articulate.
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And so you are in that way, an easy target. And so you're going to get a lot of people on the right
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and the left, the left, probably in their back rooms, they're probably shaking their heads and
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rolling their eyes and kind of, you know, pinching the bridge of their nose and thinking, why, why,
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why, why, why is this girl a Democrat? And why is she representing the democratic party?
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They're probably doing that silently. Whereas conservatives of course are outright about it. But I,
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I would guess that a lot of Democrats and Republicans are saying the same thing about AOC.
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It's just one is saying it out front and one is saying it behind closed doors because the fact of
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the matter is she has not proven to have a whole lot of substance. That is why she is being criticized.
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If I were her, I understand not wanting to acknowledge your ignorance, not acknowledging that
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you don't know that much. I get that. But I would just be quiet. Like I just wouldn't talk as much
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and I wouldn't be as arrogant and I wouldn't be as prideful. Just don't say anything. Just sit back,
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learn a little bit and get done what you need to get done. Let your staff write your speeches and do
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your stuff for you and represent the people of your district. I think that's fine. You don't have to do
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clapbacks on Twitter where you're constantly embarrassing yourself and contradicting yourself.
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You don't have to do that. Oh man. Okay. I don't have time to get to the Chips Ahoy thing. I'm going to
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answer a dating question because I told this person that I would answer. So I got a question
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from someone who is dating a guy who is not a Christian. This person is a Christian. She is
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a strong believer and she really cares about her faith, but she's dating this guy, has been dating
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him for a little while and he treats her really well. And she feels like, okay, this guy treats me
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better than any other guys that I've dated before, regardless of faith. And you know, I want to stay
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with this person. Uh, and so this person is asking for advice. Is this okay? Shouldn't it matter how
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someone treats you? And of course it should matter how someone treats you. But if you are a believer
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and you are not just a believer nominally, like you're not just a Christian in name only. You're not
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just someone who goes to church on Christmas and Easter, but you are someone who has a relationship
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with Jesus Christ. And you are in a relationship with someone who does not have a relationship with
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Jesus Christ. Something's going to give, and it's probably going to be your relationship with Christ
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because this new person makes you feel really good. This person makes you feel tangibly loved that
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acceptance and that approval that you have been longing for that we all long for in a significant
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other, um, is finally being satiated. And so what's probably going to happen is that your faith is going
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to wane and you need to ask yourself if that's worth it. And you might tell yourself, no, no, no,
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no, it's, that's not going to happen. I've got a strong relationship with Christ. That's not going
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to happen. I've continued to go to church. I've continued to read my Bible. Okay. Unless that
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person that you are dating quickly repents and comes to know Christ and genuinely expresses a desire
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to come to know Christ, I guarantee you your relationship, uh, with Christ, unless you also,
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or unless you break up with this person is going to end up faltering. Um, you cannot serve two
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masters. It is too dating and marriage is already difficult. Uh, loving another person, sacrificing
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yourself for another person after those honeymoon feelings have gone away is already really difficult.
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And if at the end of the day, you cannot look someone in the eye and trust as a woman to a man and
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say, I know that even though you don't like me right now, that you love me like Christ loves the church
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and that you are dedicated to me as Christ is dedicated to the church. Then I don't know how
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you have any real confidence. Yes. He treats you well right now because you guys might be in love
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and you have these wonderful romantic feelings, which are all great. I think wonderful romantic
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feelings are awesome. And I think they're a gift of common grace from God that it's wonderful to be
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attracted to someone. It's wonderful to have those, like those first few months or even years of
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dating and marriage where you are just head over heels for that person. You can't stop thinking
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about them. You can't eat. You can't sleep. That's awesome. That's wonderful. But those things fade
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and life gets hard. And when life gets hard, when the going gets tough, what do you have to stand on
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at the end of the day? It's not going to be your feelings because those are fleeting. Those are going
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to be gone. What do you have to stand on? Is it going to just be that, okay, at one point you really
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liked this person at one point, this person really treated you well, or is it going to be the covenant
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that you made before God to love one another in the way that Jesus has loved you? Because that kind
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of love is radical. It is forgiving. It is gracious. It is unconditional. It is unwavering.
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It is self-sacrificial. If you don't even have that foundation, what do you have? And when it comes to
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raising your children, I mean, raising kids, I'm pregnant. And so I don't know exactly what this
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is like, but from what I've seen, what I've experienced secondhand, raising kids is hard.
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You already have disagreements with your spouse on how to raise your kids because you were raised in
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two different ways. You have different opinions on discipline. You have different opinions on the
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kind of food they eat, the kind of sports they play, things like that. You have disagreements on
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money. You have disagreements on all of these kinds of things. But again, at the end of the day,
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if you know that your central value system is based on Christ, you can get through anything.
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If you know that at the end of the day, you both want your kids to love Jesus and to be more like
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Christ, you can figure out the rest of the stuff. But as long as you have that as your foundation,
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you're okay. But if you don't have that as your foundation, it's like building a house on the sand
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rather than on any kind of firm, solid foundation. I know I was repetitive, saying foundation twice in
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a row. But that's what it's like. And so I do not encourage anyone, any Christian to date a
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non-believer. I know sometimes it works out. I know stories of people. I have friends, parents who
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one was a believer, the other one wasn't a believer. They ended up getting married. The guy became a
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believer. That happens. That happens. That is the exception. It is not the rule. And here's what
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I'll say that I always say when I give people advice. It is better to be single and sad than
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trapped and sad. And so you might be sad being single. You might think, I don't know when I'm
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ever going to find a husband, if I'm ever going to find a husband and I'm lonely and I just want a man
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to love me. And that is a sad feeling. That's a lonely feeling that every woman that I know has
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felt. We have all felt that way. But what's worse than that is the feeling of being trapped in a
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marriage that you have said yes to for the rest of your life and waking up one day and realizing what
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did I do? What did I do? This person doesn't love Christ. So this person can't love me as Christ loves
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me. Understand that God loves you far more than this person does. God satisfies you far more than
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this person does. And he has set up something good in Christian marriage that is not just a suggestion.
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It is a command in the reflection of Christ in the church. It is supposed to be, it's exemplified in
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Ephesians 5, which is a gospel reality, a spiritual reality, not just a physical reality. So that's my
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encouragement to you. This is bigger than you. This is, um, more important than what you feel like
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right now. This is not only the rest of your life, but it has eternal implications as well. So that is
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my encouragement to you. Okay. I hope that you guys have a great rest of your day and I will see you