Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 112

00:00:00.000 Hello, Relatable listeners. Happy Wednesday. I hope that everyone has had a wonderful week so far.

00:00:05.700 We are halfway there, and I am just here to let you know that you can do it.

00:00:11.100 You can make it. Whatever is happening this week, you've got this. I don't really know why I started

00:00:16.360 like that, but I just wanted to give you a little motivational pep talk in case you are hitting that

00:00:21.440 midweek slump. It is me, Allie Stuckey, here to tell you that you are going to make it through.

00:00:26.900 Okay, today we're not going to talk about that. We are going to talk about a few different things.

00:00:30.660 Actually, there's a lot of different things that I want to talk about,

00:00:33.020 but I don't think that we have time to go through them all. We might. We'll see. Okay,

00:00:37.460 what I definitely want to talk about is Rashida Tlaib and her crazy comments on the Holocaust and

00:00:42.700 what this means about the state of our dialogue right now. I'm going to talk about the sex strike

00:00:48.000 with Alyssa Milano and the heartbeat bills. And then, of course, we are going to talk about

00:00:51.980 our socialist darling AOC and her walking back of her original statement that the world is going to

00:00:59.980 end in 12 years because of climate change. And then I might be able to get to Chips Ahoy and their

00:01:06.540 Mother's Day ad. And then I'm going to answer a dating question that I received. And so there's

00:01:12.700 more that I want to talk about. I want to talk about Trump and China and tariffs and everything

00:01:17.200 that's happening there. If you didn't know, there's like this kind of like trade conflict

00:01:21.020 going on. You've got conservatives that are against the tariffs saying tariffs never work.

00:01:26.460 You also have conservatives that are for the tariffs saying that this is our strong stance

00:01:31.480 against China. This is what we have to do in order to accomplish both free and fair trade.

00:01:37.300 There are both sides to that issue. We're not going to be able to get into that today,

00:01:40.320 but I do want to cover that at some point because I think it's an important topic to kind of

00:01:44.440 flesh out and to look at the background of because knowing my audience and knowing myself really,

00:01:50.080 and a lot of you out there, I know for a factor like me, you might not have been paying attention

00:01:54.360 to that because you feel like, okay, it doesn't affect your everyday life. And maybe you don't know

00:01:59.060 that much about tariffs. Maybe you do, but maybe you don't. And so I think it would be good to kind

00:02:03.180 of walk back and give a little bit of background, but we don't have time to talk about that today.

00:02:07.260 I also wanted to talk about William Barr and this so-called constitutional crisis that I really think is

00:02:12.680 nothing more than political theater being perpetrated by Democrats who want to cause some

00:02:18.920 sort of crisis and chaos since the report on so-called Russian collusion that they've been

00:02:25.420 trying to gin up for the past two years didn't end up how they wanted. So they still want to say that

00:02:30.900 somehow Trump and the attorney general William Barr are going against the constitution and going against

00:02:36.520 the rule of law. I just don't believe that as yet we are in that place. But again,

00:02:41.820 I just wanted to kind of give you a brief little summary of my thoughts, but with everything else

00:02:47.740 that's going on and with the requests that I've gotten over the past few days of the things that

00:02:51.200 you guys want me to talk about, we're just not going to have time to dive into all of the Trump

00:02:55.340 stuff. There's always a lot going on with Trump and I feel like I kind of skip over him because

00:02:59.880 there's just, there's, it just hurts my head sometimes the back and forth between all of that.

00:03:06.220 And I think that there are other things going on that are better indicators of our society and of

00:03:11.780 our culture and of our politics as a whole than Donald Trump. So let's go into one of those

00:03:18.620 first topics, which is Rashida Tlaib and her antisemitic comments. So Rashida Tlaib is a

00:03:23.540 freshman Congresswoman. Uh, she is Palestinian. Now this is also the woman who said that she believes

00:03:30.460 that we should impeach the MFR when she was first elected. Uh, so that's kind of how we heard of her.

00:03:36.460 She is good buds with AOC and Ilhan Omar, other freshman Congresswoman. And she also has a map in

00:03:44.560 her office of the Middle East and where, uh, Israel is. She put a little sticky note over that and wrote

00:03:50.520 Palestine with an arrow. Now this caused a lot of controversy, especially in the Jewish community

00:03:55.600 saying that this is basically her, uh, her supporting the Palestinian obliteration of Israel,

00:04:02.940 which of course a lot of Palestinians do want. They want the obliteration of Israel so they can

00:04:08.760 take control of the entire region. And so that was kind of strike one. There's probably been other

00:04:14.900 strikes before that, but strike one against, uh, the Jewish community, a community that kind of

00:04:19.740 approved that she, uh, was, or had antisemitic leanings. And then this latest comment is probably

00:04:26.420 the worst strike against her in that regard. Uh, so she was on, on Monday, she was on a Yahoo news

00:04:32.860 podcast and she was asked to weigh in on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. She had already tweeted

00:04:38.880 about it. Of course, a historical madness saying that the Palestinians are being oppressed by Israel.

00:04:44.280 We talked about last week, what the reality is in that and what's really going on between Palestine

00:04:49.380 and Israel, how Israel is acting in self-defense. And this does not mean that we always take up for

00:04:54.980 Israel in every single circumstance if they are in the wrong. But in this particular conflict,

00:04:59.840 there is no question between, uh, Hamas who runs Palestine and Israel, who is actually doing the

00:05:06.560 targeting of civilians. And that is exclusively Hamas. Now, um, she was asked to weigh in on this again

00:05:13.300 on Monday, even though she had already tweeted about it last week and to leaves a position of, uh,

00:05:18.600 in her, uh, position of a one state solution. And to leave stated this, she said,

00:05:23.300 there's always kind of a calming feeling. I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust. Yes, you,

00:05:29.840 you, you just, you just heard that correctly. There's always kind of a calming feeling. I tell

00:05:34.760 folks when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust and the fact that it was my

00:05:39.260 ancestors, Palestinians who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood,

00:05:44.540 their human dignity, their existence in many ways have been wiped out in some people's

00:05:50.740 passports. So if you can't read the passive aggressiveness that is coming from this,

00:05:57.420 that she is trying to make her comment come off as I am so glad that the Palestinians offered

00:06:04.000 refuge to Jews after the Holocaust, but she's also trying to take ownership on behalf of the

00:06:09.880 Palestinians for this refuge that was given to the Jews. And it was not on the part of the

00:06:14.640 Palestinians at all. And she's also trying to passive aggressively insert in there. Yeah,

00:06:19.360 we did this so self-sacrificially at the cost to our own lives, at the cost to our own livelihoods

00:06:25.320 and freedoms. We gave refuge to the Jewish people. That's just not true. It's not true. And how crazy

00:06:33.360 of a tone in which to speak, in which you are speaking of the Holocaust. Really? You have a calming

00:06:40.900 feeling over you? She was condemned, of course, for her comments, including President Trump. He weighed

00:06:48.300 in on this saying Democrat Rep Talib. I don't even know if that's how you say her name. That's not

00:06:53.100 actually how it's spelled, but we kind of just all switch the A and the L and we just go with it.

00:06:57.920 So I'm just going to go with that, too. Democratic Rep Talib is being slammed for her horrible and

00:07:03.580 highly insensitive statement on the Holocaust. She obviously has tremendous hatred of Israel and the

00:07:08.660 Jewish people, Trump tweeted. Can you imagine what would happen if I ever said what she said and says,

00:07:13.680 of course, I mean, this is true. Can you imagine if President Trump said this? Can you imagine if

00:07:20.180 he said, I get a calming feeling when I think of the Holocaust? Oh, my gosh. I cannot even imagine

00:07:25.380 the headlines, how crazy Democrats would go over this, how they would Democrats would pounce on this

00:07:31.900 as leftist media like to say of conservatives whenever we are justifiably outraged by something

00:07:36.580 crazy that the left does. They would have not stopped talking about this. It would have been the

00:07:42.860 cover of every magazine. It would have been the opening monologue of every show on MSNBC and CNN.

00:07:49.840 I can't even imagine if Trump had said something like this. According to the New York Times,

00:07:55.620 this is a quote, but in Republicans telling Miss Talib never uttered the words tragedy and horrific

00:08:01.560 persecution of the Jews. Instead, Representatives Steve Scalise and Liz Cheney, the number two and number

00:08:07.000 three Republicans in the House seized on the words, a calming feeling in the headlines of

00:08:12.720 back-to-back statements they issued Sunday casting Miss Talib as an anti-Semite. So you'll notice this

00:08:17.980 trend in the media that when a Democrat says or does something that is completely outrageous,

00:08:22.800 the story is never that this Democrat did or said something completely outrageous. It's that

00:08:29.300 conservatives overreacted. So this language that they seized on the words that we casted Miss Talib

00:08:37.580 as an anti-Semite. That is the point of their story, that we overreacted, that we were outraged

00:08:44.520 needlessly by this. Not what Miss Talib actually said. That is always the main story for them.

00:08:52.560 If you look at headlines about abortion, for example, it's always that we are taking away choice,

00:09:00.460 that we are always freaking out over something like the New York law or the Virginia bill. It's never that,

00:09:06.160 oh my gosh, these extreme measures to allow abortion up to nine months gestation are being

00:09:11.860 passed. And this is a huge change in American morality and American policy. That's not the

00:09:17.220 story, which it should be because it is an extreme change. It's no, it's conservatives reaction because

00:09:22.760 we hate choice and love the patriarchy. Well, it's the same thing here. Republicans are guilty of

00:09:28.080 casting Miss Talib as an anti-Semite. It's not that she made comments that are decidedly anti-Semitic.

00:09:34.960 Um, so not only though, did Republicans call for a lot of Tlaib's apology, uh, a lot of, I don't know

00:09:41.840 why I said that, call for Tlaib's apology, but a lot of people on the left, uh, called for her to

00:09:47.720 reverse or say something about her, uh, historical inaccuracy. So John King of CNN actually called out

00:09:55.360 Tlaib for her mischaracterization of the Palestinians, uh, relationship with it, with the

00:10:00.820 Israelis pre-World War II. The reality is that the Jewish presence in that area where they are right

00:10:07.540 now, uh, currently known as Israel dates back thousands of years. And so what Tlaib was trying

00:10:12.240 to say was that the Palestinians were there first, which is a big source of the conflicts between

00:10:16.960 Palestine and Israel is whose land is this really? Well, Israel was there before the Palestinians were,

00:10:22.980 this was Israel's land before it was the Palestinians land. The only reason why that land

00:10:27.060 is significant is because the Jewish people are there and because of the Jewish people,

00:10:32.260 the modern migration of Jews dates back before the Holocaust by many decades. It started with the

00:10:37.620 migration of the Jews from, uh, Yemen in 1881, uh, with the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the British

00:10:44.140 government supported the establishment of a Jewish state in the area, an idea that was actually rejected

00:10:49.160 by the Arabs. Um, and during World War II, the Palestinian leader at the time met with Adolf Hitler,

00:10:56.060 and allied with the Nazis. So this idea that the Palestinians were a refuge for Jews who were being

00:11:03.400 persecuted by the Nazis was, is wrong. Uh, Palestine allied with the Nazis. Um, as the U.S. Holocaust

00:11:11.360 Memorial Museum says, Al Husseini, who was the leader of, uh, of Palestine at the time, collaborated

00:11:18.160 with the German and Italian governments by broadcasting pro-Axis, anti-British, and anti-Jewish

00:11:23.660 propaganda via radio to the Arab world, inciting violence against Jews and the British authorities

00:11:28.440 in the Middle East, and recruiting young men of Islamic faith for service in, uh, German military,

00:11:34.940 uh, Waffen SS and auxiliary units. Uh, and so after World War II, when the Jewish people declared the

00:11:42.320 state of Israel, their official proclamation said this, we appeal in the very midst of the onslaught

00:11:47.640 launched against us now for months to the Arab inhabitants of the state of Israel to preserve

00:11:53.080 peace and participate in the upbuilding of the state on the basis of full and equal citizenship and

00:11:59.120 due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions. But the Arab people rejected

00:12:04.660 this. They instead had their leaders, uh, encourage them to flee Israel. And the very next day,

00:12:10.640 Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq, all Muslim countries attacked Israel. And so, uh, this idea,

00:12:18.640 this fantasy, this fairy tale that Talib, uh, is recounting is completely off base and shows a level

00:12:28.260 of antisemitism because, uh, she refuses to acknowledge the true plight of the Jewish people after the

00:12:35.760 Holocaust and how cold and hostile, uh, the Palestinians were not even just that, but downright,

00:12:42.980 uh, downright oppressive. The Palestinians were toward the Jewish people, not only when they

00:12:49.720 established their state, but before they established their state by allying, uh, with the Nazis. So it is

00:12:56.520 insane. It is out of the realm of reality. It is out of the realm of comprehension that she would say

00:13:04.300 that she feels a sense of calm publicly. She says this in regards to the Holocaust, because the

00:13:10.800 palace, the Palestinian people offered refuge to the Jewish people in the area of Israel at the cost

00:13:17.640 to their own lives. I mean, is that the kind of propaganda that she's feeding herself on a daily

00:13:22.540 basis? I mean, that's really, really scary Orwellian stuff. Things have just gone right down the memory

00:13:28.100 hole. And she has decided to rewrite history to appease her own biases. Um, no democratic candidates

00:13:36.440 for 2020, by the way, have said anything about this. None of them have criticized her. None of them

00:13:43.000 have said, Hey, this isn't right. This is antisemitic. Why? Because as we talked about last week,

00:13:48.080 antisemitism is mainstream in the democratic party. Uh, speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded that president Trump

00:13:55.000 and Republican leaders apologize to Ms. Tlaib for their gross misrepresentations. She says the number

00:14:00.580 two house Democrat and the number, uh, number two, number three house Republican, uh, traded pot shots.

00:14:06.940 Uh, Senator Bernie Sanders of, uh, Vermont also jumped in defending Ms. Tlaib and chiding the president

00:14:12.920 for his ugly attacks. Uh, speaking to the Hill in an email house majority leader, uh, Hoyer said,

00:14:19.140 if you read reps leads comments, it is clear that president Trump and congressional Republicans

00:14:23.740 are taking them out of context. They must stop and they must owe her an apology. Of course,

00:14:29.180 fellow antisemite, uh, Ilhan Omar also said that this was completely unfair against Ms. Tlaib. I mean,

00:14:36.180 it is crazy how much Democrats will bend over backwards to say that criticism of a Muslim person

00:14:44.020 who unduly criticizes Israel is Islamophobic. I mean, they will go as far as they possibly can to

00:14:51.320 completely ignore antisemitism. Remember that resolution that they tried to write up, um,

00:14:57.040 against antisemitism because of Ilhan Omar's comments, how all Republican politicians who

00:15:02.560 support Israel are just controlled by the Benjamins, which perpetuated an old antisemitic trope.

00:15:08.260 Remember when Democrats were supposed to draft some kind of resolution or sign some resolution

00:15:14.080 against antisemitism and they couldn't do it. It ended up just being a resolution against bigotry in

00:15:19.120 general. Why? Because you had people like Linda Sarsour and CARE, which is a front group for many,

00:15:24.800 uh, Islamic terrorist organizations, uh, pressure Democrats in Congress, uh, against writing a

00:15:31.920 resolution against antisemitism because they are antisemitic themselves. Ilhan Omar is an antisemite,

00:15:38.100 Rashida Tlaib, antisemite. And they know that they are going to get cover in the media who are just

00:15:42.580 going to cover the outrage that Republicans have against these kinds of comments. And they're going to

00:15:47.100 get cover, uh, from their leaders in the house. Nancy Pelosi is just a puppet. Now she is completely,

00:15:54.560 uh, subservient to these freshmen Congresswomen to Ilhan Omar, to Rashida Tlaib into AOC. She has

00:16:00.740 completely lost control of the democratic party. If the democratic party at any point in recent history

00:16:06.440 had any dignity, it's completely lost it now. I mean, they are full on embracing and glorifying

00:16:14.600 antisemitism through this kind of fairy tale that has been perpetuated and promulgated by someone

00:16:21.100 like Rashida Tlaib, who apparently feels really warm and fuzzy when she thinks about the Holocaust.

00:16:26.900 And I'm not trying to take that out of common, out of context. I read you her entire comment. I get

00:16:31.440 what she was trying to say. I don't think that she was trying to say that she loves the Holocaust.

00:16:35.880 I don't think that, think that she was trying to say that, um, she's excited by Jews going into gas

00:16:43.060 chambers. I don't think she was trying to say that, but I do think that what she ended up saying

00:16:48.100 is still wrong. It is still antisemitic to say that she had a calming feeling knowing that the

00:16:54.260 Palestinians gave Israel refuge when that wasn't true. When Palestine actually allied with the Nazis

00:16:59.540 and rejected any sort of peace deal when, uh, when the Jews resettled in Israel, sorry,

00:17:05.520 I got tongue tied for a second. Uh, that is antisemitic in and of itself. So I am not trying

00:17:10.560 to decontextualize her. I'm not trying to mischaracterize her at all. And that's something

00:17:15.460 also that we see with these freshmen Congresswomen is that they insist that they are constantly being

00:17:20.560 taken out of context, that they are constantly being attacked, uh, by, by Republicans for not,

00:17:28.140 you know, for just by, by just lying about them. When really all we're doing is quoting them.

00:17:35.160 That's all we're doing. All we do is we hear a quote by AOC or Rashida Tlaib or Ilhan Omar.

00:17:42.240 And we say, well, this is what they said. And then we get attacked for being bigots for literally

00:17:48.980 just quoting them. They make it so easy to criticize them because they say ridiculous things every single

00:17:55.180 day. All we have to do is point to their own words and they say, Oh, I can't believe you would point to

00:18:00.620 my own words and criticize me. You bigot stop saying crazy things, but they can't stop saying

00:18:06.220 crazy things. That's the thing. Rashida Tlaib will not stop saying crazy things. Ilhan Omar won't AOC

00:18:11.680 won't. Why? Because they believe crazy things. It's not just like Donald Trump. I think Donald Trump

00:18:17.600 has, is not a very good communicator. I think that he gets tripped up on things. I think that he says

00:18:24.460 some stuff that he doesn't mean, or he didn't think through. Uh, I think that a lot of the

00:18:29.320 things that might be true sometimes for these freshmen Congresswomen, but I think a lot of

00:18:33.040 the things that they say are coming out of a deep seated and a deep felt ideology, uh, particularly

00:18:38.800 Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. I think that they just didn't realize that their antisemitism either a was

00:18:45.360 antisemitism or that their antisemitism would meet any kind of conflict whatsoever. I think it's just,

00:18:50.320 they have learned for so long to hate Jewish people. And they have been so conditioned by

00:18:55.840 antisemitic tropes, probably their entire lives that they didn't even realize the things they believed

00:19:01.000 were, uh, misinformed stereotypes of the Jewish people. That's what I think is going on. And so

00:19:06.900 every time they say something like, Oh, Palestine, we were such a nice refuge or, Oh, people who support

00:19:14.640 Israel are just controlled by the Benjamins. They've just believed that for so long. It's so deeply

00:19:19.840 embedded in their belief system that, that, that when people criticize him, they're like, Oh, I thought,

00:19:25.040 you know, I thought that everyone believed that. No, not everyone's an antisemite. I know that's

00:19:29.960 shocking to both of you. Um, okay. I want to move on to something that is equally just hilarious.

00:19:37.480 Well, that wasn't hilarious. It's hilarious in a more like ironic, sad way. This is hilarious in a

00:19:45.640 more genuinely hilarious way. Uh, so as you know, we talked about on Friday, uh, the Georgia bill that

00:19:52.860 was signed into law by Brian Kemp called the heartbeat bill, which prohibits abortion, uh,

00:19:57.640 after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is usually about six weeks. And as we covered, uh,

00:20:02.460 this does not, this does not, uh, include people who have, or women who had miscarriages. It does not

00:20:08.580 include people who have been raped or who are victims of incest. It doesn't include those people.

00:20:14.920 Uh, this only includes people who are getting an elective abortion for the sake of convenience and

00:20:23.400 when a fetal heartbeat is detected. So that those are the only people that this law covers. You can go

00:20:30.100 read the bill for yourself and you can see that that is true. Um, so after that people started

00:20:36.800 freaking out, um, started saying, well, this is taking away all of women's rights. This is taking away

00:20:41.740 autonomy. You probably saw a lot of misinformation. People saying, uh, women who have miscarriages are

00:20:47.380 going to be imprisoned. They're going to be investigated, taking away all these rights. Sexual assault

00:20:52.180 victims aren't going to be able to get an abortion. Well, none of that is true. You can read the bill

00:20:56.820 for yourself online. The people who are perpetuating these lies either, either haven't read the bill

00:21:00.940 themselves or they have, and they are just trying to drum up some sort of outrage. Uh, so after the

00:21:08.820 legislature passed the bill, Alyssa Milano came out and she said, guys, I have a really good idea.

00:21:16.760 I am launching a sex strike. And what this means is that women pro-choice women don't have sex.

00:21:26.960 And this is how we're going to show them. This is how we're going to pressure these legislators to

00:21:31.900 reverse this law. We're going to have a sex strike. And she thought that this was a grand idea until

00:21:38.500 everyone on both sides of the aisle were like, Alyssa, you're stupid. People on the right side of the

00:21:44.800 aisle were like, Oh my gosh, wow, this is great. Pro-choicers are finally taking our advice because

00:21:51.320 we've been saying forever that you shouldn't have sex unless you want to get pregnant. Of course,

00:21:55.560 from a Christian perspective, we believe you shouldn't be having sex until you're married.

00:22:00.060 That's what we believe. And so now you're going to, you're going to, uh, you're going to fall in line

00:22:04.440 with us. You're going to fall in line with the religious rights by saying abstinence until you're

00:22:09.300 ready to have a baby. Perfect. That's what we've been telling you to do. I thought the abstinence

00:22:14.480 didn't work. I thought we weren't supposed to encourage people to not have sex. I thought

00:22:18.740 that you were supposed to have sex with whoever, whomever doesn't matter and consequences be damned.

00:22:24.760 That's what I thought. We've been saying for a really long time, Hey, don't have sex. If you

00:22:30.180 don't want to get pregnant, because that's how babies are made. And they've said, Oh my gosh,

00:22:34.820 how could you ever give us that kind of archaic advice? We will never take that kind of advice.

00:22:40.640 You anti-feminist footstool of the patriarchy. We will never bow down to your bigotry. You

00:22:47.500 Bible beating bully. That's what they've told us. And here we have Alyssa Milano pro-choice

00:22:54.080 feminist saying, Oh no, no, we're not going to have sex unless we want to get pregnant. And we all

00:23:00.640 on the right say, Amen, girl. Amen. Now there are people on the left. Of course, you didn't like this

00:23:06.480 either because apparently now I'm trying to get into the leftist mindset here. It perpetuates

00:23:12.720 this idea that women are, um, women are commodities, that women are the givers of sex and that men are

00:23:21.300 the consumers of sex rather than the other way around. Apparently this is kind of exploitive or

00:23:26.900 objectifying of women's bodies to just be used either as reproductive tools or as, um, sexual

00:23:35.700 objects. That's apparently what the feminists on the left are saying that, Hey, this is stupid.

00:23:40.920 Alyssa Milano is getting so defensive about this. She's saying, Hey, we might not have a choice after

00:23:46.140 we get pregnant, but we have a choice before we get pregnant. And I'm exercising that choice not to

00:23:51.020 have sex. And I'm like, great. Will you please, I will, I will join this rally. I will join the sex

00:23:57.880 strike rally and I will be up there linking arms with you, Alyssa Milano and say, yes, personal

00:24:04.440 responsibility is great. Unless you are raped, no one is forcing you to get pregnant and no one is

00:24:10.700 forcing you to have sex. This is a great way to make sure that you don't get pregnant. Abstinence has

00:24:15.800 a hundred percent success rate. This is awesome. Thank you, Alyssa Milano. Let me know if you want

00:24:22.700 to speak at the Republican national convention. Um, this is really, really, really great as a

00:24:31.100 self-own. Um, she wrote in a CNN op-ed, our reproductive rights are blatantly and systematically

00:24:38.040 being stripped away before our very eyes. Abortion care is a normal and at times necessary medical

00:24:44.800 procedure, but anti-choice activists have strategically chipped away at abortion rights

00:24:48.760 and access for decades with the hopes of overturning Roe v. Wade. Really? Is that true? Because New York

00:24:55.240 just passed a bill that is now a law that says you can get an abortion for any reason up to nine months,

00:25:01.440 as long as it falls under the wide umbrella of mental health. Virginia tried to do the same thing.

00:25:07.320 Other states have tried to do the same thing. So is it really us? Is it really us that's going in a

00:25:13.080 different direction that we've been going in for literally the entirety of the pro-life existence?

00:25:17.980 I don't think so. I think it's the pro-choice side that's getting a little, little, a little more

00:25:22.140 extreme. And now y'all have come full circle to where you actually think that there's responsibility

00:25:27.780 to be taken before you have sex. Thank you for getting on board. Thank you very much. It's just,

00:25:34.180 it's just hilarious. It's just really great. I hope that this takes off. I would love it if feminists

00:25:42.900 if they would just stop reproducing for a little bit. And I, is that mean to say? I don't know.

00:25:48.980 But when I hear people like AOC or Alyssa Milano say, oh, we're not going to reproduce anymore.

00:25:54.400 We're not going to have sex. And I say, okay, that's okay. Like I'm okay with the only people

00:25:59.060 having kids to be conservatives or to be religious conservatives or to be Christian conservatives.

00:26:05.320 Like I'm okay with that. I think that that would probably be pretty good for the world.

00:26:09.180 I saw this other tweet by some blue check mark. I don't even know who she is. She said,

00:26:13.980 she said, feminists boycott sex with conservatives. And I'm like, good, good news, Pam. Her name was

00:26:21.720 Pam. That's what I remember. Good news, Pam. Conservative men have been boycotting sex

00:26:26.960 with feminists for a really long time. So this will be a really easy boycott for you guys.

00:26:32.880 You're not going to have to worry about it at all. Like of the maybe three conservative men out there

00:26:39.780 who are interested in having sex with a feminist, I'm pretty sure that they'll be able to find other

00:26:45.160 fish in the sea that aren't crazy. So it's just all, it's all very funny how they are just coming

00:26:51.880 into the reality that, oh my gosh, you don't have to be sexually promiscuous. Like you can actually

00:26:58.180 take steps to not get pregnant unless you are a victim of sexual assault. Mind boggling. I know.

00:27:04.740 Why didn't Christians think of that? Gosh, I've learned so much about morality and responsibility

00:27:09.680 from Alyssa Milano. Now I know I just spent the past 10 minutes being sarcastic. So I think that it

00:27:15.900 will be a good transition into AOC. So AOC tweeted the other day that apparently that Republicans,

00:27:27.340 Republicans are ridiculous for making fun of her for saying that the world is ending in 12 years.

00:27:36.080 This is a technique of the GOP to take dry humor plus sarcasm literally and quote fact check it.

00:27:41.900 Like the world ending in 12 years thing, you'd have to be, have the social intelligence of a sea

00:27:47.000 sponge to think it's literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from the office. So who knows?

00:27:52.660 Um, okay. I'm going to play this little clip of AOC saying that we only have 12 years to

00:27:58.700 dramatically change our policies so that climate change doesn't overtake the world.

00:28:04.020 Millennials and people and, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up

00:28:10.080 and we're like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.

00:28:15.240 And your biggest issue is your, your biggest issue is how are we going to pay for it?

00:28:24.500 Okay. So I just want, does that sound, I don't, I, does that sound sarcastic to you?

00:28:29.380 I don't know. I mean, if you want people to take your policy proposals seriously,

00:28:33.660 then you should probably speak in literal terms, right? And not hyperbole and not use sarcasm to

00:28:39.760 bring up. If the world is really ending, like if climate change is that big of a deal,

00:28:43.920 if we are in a climate crisis, why are you joking about it? That's not a joke.

00:28:48.180 If I think the world is ending, I'm not going to joke about it. So why would you joke about it?

00:28:52.360 But that's not the only time she said this. She did this video, uh, with a publication

00:28:57.140 and I'm not even going to play it, but she, uh, it was basically like an animation of saying,

00:29:03.480 it was like her from the future saying, Oh, this is what I did to combat climate change.

00:29:08.900 And I knew I only had 12 years to do this. So was she being sarcastic there? Was she being

00:29:15.520 sarcastic in this animation of her speaking from the future and saying, um, insane, we saved the

00:29:22.380 world from impending doom. I knew that I only had 12 years to dramatically change the economy

00:29:28.040 and change the structure of the United States in order to combat climate change. Was she being

00:29:32.920 sarcastic? Was that her dry humor? Then I highly doubt it. This 12 years number has been perpetuated

00:29:39.300 a lot. It only now is she saying that it's not literal because she's embarrassed by it. And she

00:29:44.700 realizes that it's not true. I mean, a beta award came out and said, Oh, it's not 12 years. It's 10

00:29:49.620 years. So this is what they have to do though. They have to create some sort of crisis in order to get,

00:29:55.320 to get you, to get on board with their radical policy positions. Uh, but this is exactly what she does.

00:30:01.500 This is exactly what she does. She says something, she is checked on it. People say, Hey, that's not

00:30:08.620 accurate. That actually isn't right. Or criticize her for something ridiculous that she says. And then

00:30:16.460 rather than saying, Oh, uh, okay, let me correct myself. Or I spoke incorrectly, or this is what I

00:30:24.820 meant to say. She criticizes the other side for criticizing her, which of course is exactly what

00:30:30.480 Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and all Democrats do. It's the problem of the criticizer has nothing to

00:30:37.220 do with the substance of the actual critique. And so that's what she does. So she plays the victim

00:30:42.240 immediately. She says, Oh, you know, it's just because I'm a woman of color. It's just because

00:30:46.840 I'm young. It's just because they can take advantage of me. Or she says, wow, y'all are so stupid for

00:30:52.740 actually believing me. How could you, you're Dwight from the office. Okay. If we're Dwight from the office,

00:30:58.060 then you're Kelly. And I don't think that's that much better. I think I'd rather be Dwight

00:31:02.380 than Kelly girl. Uh, come on. So this is what she does though. She can't actually take any legitimate

00:31:09.180 criticism. She can't actually take any pushback. She can't actually reform something that she said

00:31:13.540 and just say, Hey, I got something wrong. No, she's got so much pride. She's got so much arrogance.

00:31:20.520 And when she is called on something, she doesn't know how to deal with it. She doesn't,

00:31:25.120 she's got so much hubris. And I think ultimately that will be her destruction. It's not going to

00:31:30.040 be her absolute ignorance. I don't think, I think it's going to be her pride that people are just

00:31:36.460 going to get annoyed with it. Even people on her own side. I think they're going to be like,

00:31:40.900 who are you? And it's not because you're young. It's not because you're a woman. It's not because

00:31:45.920 you are a woman of color. It is because you don't know very much and you're not very articulate.

00:31:51.480 And so you are in that way, an easy target. And so you're going to get a lot of people on the right

00:31:57.880 and the left, the left, probably in their back rooms, they're probably shaking their heads and

00:32:02.320 rolling their eyes and kind of, you know, pinching the bridge of their nose and thinking, why, why,

00:32:06.300 why, why, why is this girl a Democrat? And why is she representing the democratic party?

00:32:11.740 They're probably doing that silently. Whereas conservatives of course are outright about it. But I,

00:32:17.020 I would guess that a lot of Democrats and Republicans are saying the same thing about AOC.

00:32:21.500 It's just one is saying it out front and one is saying it behind closed doors because the fact of

00:32:26.140 the matter is she has not proven to have a whole lot of substance. That is why she is being criticized.

00:32:31.900 If I were her, I understand not wanting to acknowledge your ignorance, not acknowledging that

00:32:37.220 you don't know that much. I get that. But I would just be quiet. Like I just wouldn't talk as much

00:32:42.460 and I wouldn't be as arrogant and I wouldn't be as prideful. Just don't say anything. Just sit back,

00:32:48.320 learn a little bit and get done what you need to get done. Let your staff write your speeches and do

00:32:53.800 your stuff for you and represent the people of your district. I think that's fine. You don't have to do

00:32:59.680 clapbacks on Twitter where you're constantly embarrassing yourself and contradicting yourself.

00:33:03.440 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

00:33:10.160 answer a dating question because I told this person that I would answer. So I got a question

00:33:16.320 from someone who is dating a guy who is not a Christian. This person is a Christian. She is

00:33:23.720 a strong believer and she really cares about her faith, but she's dating this guy, has been dating

00:33:28.300 him for a little while and he treats her really well. And she feels like, okay, this guy treats me

00:33:35.960 better than any other guys that I've dated before, regardless of faith. And you know, I want to stay

00:33:41.740 with this person. Uh, and so this person is asking for advice. Is this okay? Shouldn't it matter how

00:33:49.520 someone treats you? And of course it should matter how someone treats you. But if you are a believer

00:33:53.760 and you are not just a believer nominally, like you're not just a Christian in name only. You're not

00:34:00.000 just someone who goes to church on Christmas and Easter, but you are someone who has a relationship

00:34:03.720 with Jesus Christ. And you are in a relationship with someone who does not have a relationship with

00:34:08.920 Jesus Christ. Something's going to give, and it's probably going to be your relationship with Christ

00:34:13.520 because this new person makes you feel really good. This person makes you feel tangibly loved that

00:34:19.340 acceptance and that approval that you have been longing for that we all long for in a significant

00:34:23.560 other, um, is finally being satiated. And so what's probably going to happen is that your faith is going

00:34:30.720 to wane and you need to ask yourself if that's worth it. And you might tell yourself, no, no, no,

00:34:36.460 no, it's, that's not going to happen. I've got a strong relationship with Christ. That's not going

00:34:40.880 to happen. I've continued to go to church. I've continued to read my Bible. Okay. Unless that

00:34:46.200 person that you are dating quickly repents and comes to know Christ and genuinely expresses a desire

00:34:52.760 to come to know Christ, I guarantee you your relationship, uh, with Christ, unless you also,

00:34:58.540 or unless you break up with this person is going to end up faltering. Um, you cannot serve two

00:35:04.320 masters. It is too dating and marriage is already difficult. Uh, loving another person, sacrificing

00:35:11.020 yourself for another person after those honeymoon feelings have gone away is already really difficult.

00:35:16.460 And if at the end of the day, you cannot look someone in the eye and trust as a woman to a man and

00:35:22.500 say, I know that even though you don't like me right now, that you love me like Christ loves the church

00:35:27.720 and that you are dedicated to me as Christ is dedicated to the church. Then I don't know how

00:35:32.120 you have any real confidence. Yes. He treats you well right now because you guys might be in love

00:35:37.840 and you have these wonderful romantic feelings, which are all great. I think wonderful romantic

00:35:41.700 feelings are awesome. And I think they're a gift of common grace from God that it's wonderful to be

00:35:47.780 attracted to someone. It's wonderful to have those, like those first few months or even years of

00:35:52.680 dating and marriage where you are just head over heels for that person. You can't stop thinking

00:35:57.140 about them. You can't eat. You can't sleep. That's awesome. That's wonderful. But those things fade

00:36:01.240 and life gets hard. And when life gets hard, when the going gets tough, what do you have to stand on

00:36:08.480 at the end of the day? It's not going to be your feelings because those are fleeting. Those are going

00:36:13.600 to be gone. What do you have to stand on? Is it going to just be that, okay, at one point you really

00:36:20.020 liked this person at one point, this person really treated you well, or is it going to be the covenant

00:36:24.940 that you made before God to love one another in the way that Jesus has loved you? Because that kind

00:36:32.260 of love is radical. It is forgiving. It is gracious. It is unconditional. It is unwavering.

00:36:39.000 It is self-sacrificial. If you don't even have that foundation, what do you have? And when it comes to

00:36:45.240 raising your children, I mean, raising kids, I'm pregnant. And so I don't know exactly what this

00:36:50.900 is like, but from what I've seen, what I've experienced secondhand, raising kids is hard.

00:36:56.560 You already have disagreements with your spouse on how to raise your kids because you were raised in

00:37:01.720 two different ways. You have different opinions on discipline. You have different opinions on the

00:37:06.560 kind of food they eat, the kind of sports they play, things like that. You have disagreements on

00:37:11.160 money. You have disagreements on all of these kinds of things. But again, at the end of the day,

00:37:16.740 if you know that your central value system is based on Christ, you can get through anything.

00:37:22.460 If you know that at the end of the day, you both want your kids to love Jesus and to be more like

00:37:27.020 Christ, you can figure out the rest of the stuff. But as long as you have that as your foundation,

00:37:33.760 you're okay. But if you don't have that as your foundation, it's like building a house on the sand

00:37:38.160 rather than on any kind of firm, solid foundation. I know I was repetitive, saying foundation twice in

00:37:47.580 a row. But that's what it's like. And so I do not encourage anyone, any Christian to date a

00:37:55.480 non-believer. I know sometimes it works out. I know stories of people. I have friends, parents who

00:38:00.440 one was a believer, the other one wasn't a believer. They ended up getting married. The guy became a

00:38:05.320 believer. That happens. That happens. That is the exception. It is not the rule. And here's what

00:38:12.280 I'll say that I always say when I give people advice. It is better to be single and sad than

00:38:19.540 trapped and sad. And so you might be sad being single. You might think, I don't know when I'm

00:38:26.440 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

00:38:31.640 to love me. And that is a sad feeling. That's a lonely feeling that every woman that I know has

00:38:38.460 felt. We have all felt that way. But what's worse than that is the feeling of being trapped in a

00:38:45.440 marriage that you have said yes to for the rest of your life and waking up one day and realizing what

00:38:51.660 did I do? What did I do? This person doesn't love Christ. So this person can't love me as Christ loves

00:38:59.120 me. Understand that God loves you far more than this person does. God satisfies you far more than

00:39:07.120 this person does. And he has set up something good in Christian marriage that is not just a suggestion.

00:39:13.680 It is a command in the reflection of Christ in the church. It is supposed to be, it's exemplified in

00:39:20.960 Ephesians 5, which is a gospel reality, a spiritual reality, not just a physical reality. So that's my

00:39:27.360 encouragement to you. This is bigger than you. This is, um, more important than what you feel like

00:39:33.860 right now. This is not only the rest of your life, but it has eternal implications as well. So that is

00:39:38.780 my encouragement to you. Okay. I hope that you guys have a great rest of your day and I will see you

00:39:44.120 here on Friday.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - May 15, 2019

Ep 112 ｜＂Calming Feeling＂

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