Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1172 ｜ No, the SAVE Act Doesn’t Stop Married Women from Voting

00:00:00.000 Is the SAFE Act going to stop married women from being able to vote? 1.00

00:00:06.880 Also, SNL is making fun of gay surrogacy, and yet another baby has been mauled to death by a pit bull.

00:00:17.320 We've got the facts rebutting all of the grotesque pit bull propaganda on today's episode of Relatable.

00:00:30.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.

00:00:38.840 If it sounds like I'm a little under the weather, it's because I am. I don't know if it's allergies.

00:00:44.180 I spent all weekend outside, so that could be it. I don't know if I actually have a full-on cold.

00:00:51.620 I thought that I avoided it. My whole family had colds going around a couple weeks ago, and I was like, yes, immune system stood strong.

00:00:59.540 And now I might have finally succumbed to it. So now I have my giant immunity vegetable fruit juice right here, and I'm trying to combat it.

00:01:08.900 All right. So just a little recap of my weekend.

00:01:12.320 For those of you who are interested in a little bit of a lesson within this, too, I had so much fun speaking at Clemson University last Thursday night.

00:01:20.080 So many of you were there. I did not realize that the room that I was speaking in would have a limited capacity.

00:01:26.740 So about 75 to maybe even 100 of you showed up who weren't able, because of the fire hazard of the overflowing room, you weren't actually able to attend and enter into the classroom.

00:01:42.660 They had to close the door. And I was super sad about that.

00:01:47.760 Turning Point USA did their best to accommodate everyone, and I was thankful.

00:01:51.880 But to those of you who showed up and you weren't able to actually hear the talk, I'm so glad that I got to meet you.

00:01:58.680 And I'm so grateful to all of you who drove all the way that you did and you showed up and you took the time to do that.

00:02:05.720 I'm just so appreciative, and I'm glad that I got to chat with so many of you and that we got to take pictures and all of that good stuff.

00:02:12.680 But thanks to Clemson, thanks to Turning Point, and thanks to all of you who showed up.

00:02:17.120 We also got to see Chief Related Bro and I, the Red Clay Strays, and concert on Friday night, which was super fun.

00:02:24.720 We haven't been to a concert together. We were trying to remember the last time we went to a concert together.

00:02:29.060 It's been a while. I think the last concert that I went to, something tells me that I'm wrong and I'm forgetting about something,

00:02:35.500 but I think it was the Backstreet Boys, like three or so years ago, which was really fun.

00:02:41.880 You know, it's very different when they're like 50. It's impressive. It's just different.

00:02:48.100 And so we went to the Red Clay Strays because we're big fans.

00:02:51.540 They're like kind of like rock and roll slash country.

00:02:54.600 But I was really impressed that the lead singer shared about his love for Jesus and his faith in Christ from the stage.

00:03:02.280 It was a really sweet moment. We were in a sea of mostly drunk college students with like clouds of cigarette smoke and other kinds of smoke around us.

00:03:12.280 And I was like, please, Lord, Holy Spirit, enter into the hearts of these people through this man sharing the gospel from the stage.

00:03:19.660 I had a feeling that he was a Christian just based on his songs, but I hadn't really looked into his faith and things that he shared.

00:03:26.440 So I was so happy just to hear that clarity. And that was a really good time.

00:03:31.740 And then on Saturday, it was such like a fun and full weekend. We got to spend so much time with family and it was beautiful.

00:03:39.380 And then on Saturday, Chief Related Bro and I went to the Masters.

00:03:45.840 And if you don't know, this is a golf tournament that happens in Augusta, Georgia every year.

00:03:52.180 And it is such a special place. Augusta is such a special place.

00:03:57.940 And I just want everyone to be able to go to the Masters once.

00:04:01.740 If you're watching, you see this picture of Chief Related Bro and I.

00:04:07.220 And this is OK. Let me explain what this is, because I saw a comment on X saying,

00:04:13.500 wait, I thought that they banned cell phones. How did you take this picture?

00:04:17.680 And they do ban cell phones at Augusta. You cannot bring your cell phone in.

00:04:24.520 You leave it in the car or you can, I think, drop it off actually at the entrance of the tournament.

00:04:31.960 But you can stand in line and they do professional photos and then you take a little card.

00:04:37.860 It's got a QR code on it. Then when you get back to your phone, you can scan that QR code and then it takes you to a web page where that picture is.

00:04:44.560 And you can save it and share it and all that good stuff.

00:04:47.020 But as we were standing in line for this picture, there was there were two guys ahead of us, probably in their early 20s.

00:04:55.620 And then there were two women right in front of us who were probably in their 70s. 1.00

00:05:00.640 And CR and I were just standing there and kind of watching their conversation unfold.

00:05:06.440 The two guys turned around. They struck up the conversation with the older women and they were just chit chatting.

00:05:12.480 The older women were from Germany. I wasn't meaning to eavesdrop, but it was kind of hard.

00:05:18.440 You're all standing there together. And these two young guys from, you know, somewhere in the U.S., probably from Georgia.

00:05:24.680 And they just started talking for about 20 minutes about the differences in golf, in Europe versus the United States.

00:05:31.200 And CR and I were like, you know, that conversation probably would not have happened if we all had our cell phones.

00:05:40.020 I mean, the two young guys probably would have been scrolling and they would have been distracted.

00:05:44.500 They wouldn't have even thought to turn around and talk to these women.

00:05:47.980 But that's kind of what the day is like. It feels like you're going back in time.

00:05:51.900 You are completely unplugged from the world.

00:05:53.880 They do have these phone booths set up.

00:05:55.980 So if there was some kind of emergency or if you needed to check in on your kids or something, you could call them.

00:06:02.260 But there's not only, you know, cell phones, but you can't even take in like any kind of camera.

00:06:07.620 You're not taking pictures there.

00:06:09.100 And so you are forced to focus on what is ahead of you in that moment.

00:06:14.280 And when you walk in, it takes a little bit of an adjustment to not reach or not try to reach for your phone because your first thought, or at least my first thought when I walk in, is that you want to take a picture.

00:06:28.240 At least that was my first thought because it's so beautiful.

00:06:30.960 It's so picturesque.

00:06:32.280 I mean, the grounds are just gorgeous.

00:06:33.960 And if it's a beautiful spring day and it's sunny, oh my goodness, it's the most beautiful golf course I've been to.

00:06:41.040 And I've seen a lot of beautiful golf courses, but you just, it is so picture perfect.

00:06:46.560 But that adjustment, it teaches you a lot about where your mind typically goes and how easily distractible you are.

00:06:57.140 Not that it's wrong to take pictures, but how rarely we truly are just soaking up what is right in front of us for the sake of its beauty, for the sake of just being grateful for it.

00:07:08.480 It's very easy for our minds to automatically and constantly think, how can I curate this?

00:07:16.580 How can I share this?

00:07:18.060 What will people say about this?

00:07:20.700 Rather than just saying, wow, this is beautiful and leaving it at that.

00:07:24.620 And not only does it change your brain regarding the scenery and your ability to live in the moment, but also, again, just the conversations that you have with the people that you're with and the people around you.

00:07:39.160 There really does kind of feel like a camaraderie there.

00:07:43.560 And I mean, you've got a lot of people from similar backgrounds and similar demographics.

00:07:49.020 So there are a lot of commonalities, but you're all sharing in this moment that really no one, I mean, that so few people ever really get to experience.

00:08:00.020 And that even the people watching from TV, they're not experiencing it like you are, because you are without your connection to the outside world.

00:08:09.220 And it's just a really cool feeling.

00:08:11.040 That was our third time or my third time to go.

00:08:12.980 Well, CR has been several times, but we went in 2015 when we were just dating.

00:08:18.840 We went a couple of years ago in 2023 when I was like pretty pregnant, maybe almost third trimester.

00:08:25.200 And the Friday, the Friday or Saturday that we went, I can't remember.

00:08:30.180 It was super rainy and really cold.

00:08:32.320 And we walked like 20,000 steps or something like that.

00:08:35.220 But I still had a great time.

00:08:36.640 I had a great time this year.

00:08:37.740 I'm very grateful to get to go.

00:08:40.200 Had the pimento cheese sandwich, of course.

00:08:42.260 Had the chicken salad sandwich.

00:08:43.480 Had the barbecue sandwich.

00:08:44.180 You eat a lot, okay?

00:08:45.460 Because you're walking a lot.

00:08:46.680 And so you eat a lot.

00:08:47.660 But really, if I can be honest, the only thing that I think objectively tastes good, those things taste fine that I just listed.

00:08:56.120 But they're not amazing.

00:08:57.480 They're just, it's a novelty because they're very cheap.

00:08:59.620 All the food there is really cheap.

00:09:01.100 But the thing that actually tastes really good is the peach ice cream sandwich.

00:09:06.980 And between the two sugar cookies, those taste amazing.

00:09:11.400 And I'm not even a peach person, but I think I had like three of those ice cream sandwiches.

00:09:16.460 So it was a really fun weekend.

00:09:19.340 Again, I just, I wish that everyone could go one time because it's just so special.

00:09:24.220 And I got to meet a lot of you there.

00:09:26.280 That was really fun.

00:09:27.660 There were a lot of you who came up to me.

00:09:30.680 My husband and I like jokingly say TCM fans, the conservative millennial fans.

00:09:35.380 But they're really relatable listeners and viewers.

00:09:38.500 And I'm just so thankful.

00:09:39.800 And it's cool to have those conversations and to not even have to think, oh, are we going to take a picture?

00:09:45.660 Because you can't take a picture.

00:09:46.840 And so I just had really like sweet, meaningful conversations with a lot of you who told me how much this show has meant to you and how God has used it in your life.

00:09:55.700 And same when I was at Clemson, too.

00:09:57.660 And that's just so encouraging to me.

00:09:59.020 I really do have the best and most thoughtful and most prayingest and smartest and sweetest and prettiest audience in the world.

00:10:05.960 And I'm so grateful for that.

00:10:08.040 So anyway, that's a little recap of my weekend.

00:10:10.920 It is Holy Week.

00:10:12.680 And Sunday was Palm Sunday.

00:10:14.680 And we are looking forward to celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

00:10:18.880 On Thursday, we will have Sean McDowell.

00:10:21.240 He is a theologian, an apologist.

00:10:25.100 And we will be talking about the resurrection and Easter and all of the theology surrounding that.

00:10:32.120 On Thursday, it'll be a really encouraging and educational conversation.

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00:14:56.940 Okay, let's get into the SAVE Act.

00:14:59.780 So many of you have been asking me about this because you've been seeing the Instagram and

00:15:05.140 TikTok videos going around by these liberal female activist influencers saying that this 1.00

00:15:11.060 SAVE Act, which stands for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, HR 22,

00:15:17.740 it was introduced in the House on January 3rd, 2025.

00:15:22.000 It passed the House Thursday last week.

00:15:25.340 And they're saying that, oh my goodness, this is going to stop married women from voting

00:15:30.300 specifically.

00:15:31.660 And if you listen to these influencers without digging for yourself, you would think that

00:15:37.580 the bill actually says, hey, married women, if you change their name, you're not going 1.00

00:15:41.760 to be able to vote.

00:15:42.920 Doesn't matter if you've voted since 1965.

00:15:45.760 You're not going to be able to vote because you're women. 1.00

00:15:48.800 And that is, you know, voter suppression.

00:15:52.920 They're just trying to steal a woman's right to vote. 1.00

00:15:55.000 This is really the handmaid's tale because they don't want women to vote because they

00:15:58.680 know that women typically vote Democrat. 0.86

00:16:01.300 OK, first of all, let me just debunk that before we get into anything the bill actually

00:16:05.340 says, which, spoiler alert, it doesn't actually say that.

00:16:09.360 Married women tend to vote Republican, though. 0.99

00:16:12.160 So if this is like a Republican strategy to suppress the married women vote specifically,

00:16:18.800 that would actually go against Republican interests.

00:16:22.180 It's single women that tend to vote Democrat. 1.00

00:16:24.200 So if Republicans were just trying to steal, you know, Democrat votes away or steal, yeah,

00:16:30.820 steal Democrat votes away and suppress the vote of people who tend to be more liberal,

00:16:35.540 this would not be the strategy.

00:16:37.900 They would not want to suppress the married female vote. 0.96

00:16:41.660 So what what would be the intention behind all of this?

00:16:46.040 The truth is, though, is that these influencers, including Hillary Clinton, as we will get to,

00:16:51.140 they're fear mongering, they're lying.

00:16:54.480 And if you haven't realized at this point, especially watching the craziness of the election

00:16:58.940 and how they used all of these half truths and pieces of propaganda to convince you that

00:17:06.320 you are going to be criminally charged for having a miscarriage, if you haven't realized

00:17:12.040 that these are bad faith actors that are trying to scare you for the purpose of making you vote 0.55

00:17:19.320 Democrat, then I don't know what to tell you.

00:17:23.020 OK, so just start when it sounds when something sounds too bad to be true.

00:17:27.580 Start with the assumption that it's a lie.

00:17:30.080 No matter what side of the aisle you're on, just start with the assumption that what they

00:17:34.520 are telling you isn't true, which I know a lot of you do start with that assumption.

00:17:38.320 And that's why I get messages saying, can you please debunk this?

00:17:41.340 Which I am happy to do.

00:17:44.020 Anytime a lie specifically targets women, like I want to break it down.

00:17:48.660 That's why I wrote the two books that I did.

00:17:50.860 You're Not Enough and Toxic Empathy, because this is what Democrats do.

00:17:55.180 They emotionally manipulate people who are susceptible to emotional manipulation.

00:18:00.600 A lot of times that is women to try to get you to believe that being progressive is necessary 1.00

00:18:08.620 to be a good person or to protect yourself or to protect the most vulnerable.

00:18:13.100 And it's just not true.

00:18:14.740 It's lie after lie after lie.

00:18:16.740 And as Christians, we are obligated to think.

00:18:19.780 We don't just feel.

00:18:21.200 Feeling is not bad, but feeling void of critical thinking and asking discerning questions is bad.

00:18:27.340 It leads you to a bad place.

00:18:28.980 So let's think about this.

00:18:30.580 Let's talk about this.

00:18:31.740 So according to the bill's text, this SAVE Act, individuals must provide documentary proof

00:18:39.600 of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections.

00:18:43.980 That is the stated purpose of this legislation, both in the media that you will see.

00:18:50.440 Well, not left-wing media.

00:18:52.520 What I'm trying to say is this is how Republicans are talking about it.

00:18:56.460 But it also happens to be a true representation of what the bill sets out to accomplish.

00:19:02.440 So here are some examples of the documentary proof that is legitimate, that is valid.

00:19:10.520 So that can include a passport, a birth certificate, or a driver's license or state-issued ID that

00:19:17.400 is marked as real ID compliant and indicates U.S. citizenship.

00:19:22.960 And we'll talk about real ID in a second.

00:19:25.720 If one's government photo ID is not real ID compliant or does not show that they were born

00:19:30.940 in the United States, a birth certificate or other proof of citizenship must also be provided

00:19:36.500 to register to vote.

00:19:38.440 States are prohibited from accepting, according to this legislation, hasn't passed the Senate yet,

00:19:43.420 they're prohibited from accepting or processing voter registration applications unless this proof

00:19:50.120 is provided at the time of application.

00:19:53.400 However, the states are also required to make reasonable accommodations for applicants who

00:19:58.880 cannot provide the standard documents but can demonstrate citizenship by other means.

00:20:04.480 So the bill targets new voter registrations and updates to existing registrations such as

00:20:11.300 with a name or address change.

00:20:14.780 So those who are already registered to vote will not be impacted unless they are purged from

00:20:19.680 the voter roll due to unlawful presence, so you're not here legally, or due to the aforementioned

00:20:25.440 name or address change.

00:20:27.040 So if you change your name or if you change your address, if you change your name, say you're

00:20:33.560 getting married, then you need to make sure that your documents are all updated, that you

00:20:41.880 have your driver's license with your new name, that you're registered under your new name.

00:20:47.580 However, even if you have changed, say you've changed your name, you change your last name because

00:20:54.500 you're married. If you have a real ID that has your maiden name on it, you're probably going to be

00:21:01.840 able to vote with that because I'm not reading anything in here that says that they are going

00:21:06.180 to check to see in some kind of database that you have changed your name after being married.

00:21:12.100 I actually don't really understand what the liberal activists are saying this bill is going to do

00:21:20.280 to hinder women from being able to vote. You need to change your documentation if you're changing your 0.99

00:21:30.740 name anyway. After I got married, I had to get a new passport that matched my name change. I had to

00:21:39.060 get a new driver's license, and in order to do that, you need your marriage certificate, you need your old

00:21:45.380 passport or your old driver's license, and you have to take it to a place, and you have to do all of

00:21:52.480 these things in order to get that done. Yeah, of course, because it's important. They want to make

00:21:56.900 sure that you're really a citizen of this country, that you really are who you say you are, and that's

00:22:04.520 for the purpose of national security. That is part of what it means to be a citizen. You have to have

00:22:10.360 correct documentation that shows the country that you are a citizen of when you are traveling

00:22:15.380 internationally, when it comes to a passport, for example. So it makes sense that you would have to

00:22:20.840 provide documentation to prove who you are, where you are a citizen, in order to vote. That's just

00:22:27.600 common sense to me. But the argument is that, okay, all of these things, making sure that your ID is real

00:22:34.120 ID compliant, making sure that if it's not that you have your passport or your birth certificate, well,

00:22:42.160 that's going to be really difficult for poor people to vote, or people who don't have their marriage

00:22:48.600 license, or they can't figure out the name change thing, or people who just find it difficult to find

00:22:54.340 things. These are really the arguments that are being made. And so you hear a lot of people from the left

00:22:59.740 saying that this is voter suppression. This is what the right is trying to do. They're trying to keep

00:23:05.540 poor people, black people, minorities from voting. But well, here's what I want to know. Like, what is

00:23:13.680 their alternative? What's the alternative to this? If providing documentation that proves that you are

00:23:21.420 who you say you are, that you are a citizen of this country is too much of a burden to bear for someone

00:23:28.580 to vote, then what is the less burdensome and more efficient way to prove those things? Because it

00:23:36.240 seems to me what the Democrats are arguing is that there should be no legal barriers at all, that there

00:23:42.140 should be no proof of citizenship or identification required. And actually, we know that in many

00:23:47.960 Democrat-run states, they have done away with any voter ID law saying, oh, there's no proof of widespread

00:23:54.180 fraud. By the way, saying there's no proof of does not mean there's proof that there isn't.

00:23:59.740 And actually, I think that we've seen a lot that proves that our system, especially where there is

00:24:06.740 not voter ID law, that it's very vulnerable to fraud and corruption. And so don't we, as people who care

00:24:13.780 about our country's sovereignty, who should care about democracy, right? We're supposed to be champions

00:24:18.520 of democracy, according to the left. Don't we want to protect the integrity of our elections to make

00:24:24.260 sure only real people, living people and citizens are voting? And so there may be some extra steps that

00:24:31.580 a woman has to go through after she has changed her name to ensure that all of her documents match,

00:24:38.220 including her passport and her driver's license, by the way. And yeah, this just, it might add on

00:24:44.520 another layer to that. It's all part of the process. Our associate producer, Kimberly,

00:24:50.660 she just got married. She just changed her name. And as she's going through this process,

00:24:55.980 she asked about this, okay, do I need to make sure that my voter registration is up to date? And she

00:25:00.980 was able to do those updates all at the same time. It's really not as complicated and as burdensome

00:25:07.440 as the left is making it out to be. And again, they are not offering a viable alternative that helps

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00:26:44.640 Okay, maybe you have been hearing about Real ID for a long time, because for almost 20 years,

00:26:50.680 the government has been saying that the requirement to have a Real ID in order to travel is going to

00:26:58.020 be enforced, but it's continually deferred. And now, finally, Kristi Noam is saying, nope,

00:27:05.500 it's about to be enforced on May 7th, 2025. That means in order to travel, you have to have

00:27:14.900 what's called a Real ID. It's typically a driver's license or state-issued ID marked with a star or a

00:27:23.100 similar symbol to show it complies with these standards. And by the way, all states have been

00:27:28.640 compliant with issuing a Real ID since September 2020. So it is very likely that you have a Real

00:27:36.720 ID if you've gotten your license updated just in the last few years. And so this is just another

00:27:45.540 layer of security. It's just another layer of voting security. So when Hillary Clinton says,

00:27:51.560 are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that can 0.99

00:27:55.640 make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep. This is not a drill. This is just fear-mongering.

00:28:00.560 Eric Swalwell, also a Democrat, says the SAVE Act, he says it's the SAVE the Republicans A-Words Act,

00:28:10.180 is a shameless attempt to block Americans, especially married women, from voting,

00:28:13.760 requiring birth certificates to cast a ballot. That's not election security. That's voter suppression.

00:28:19.420 And Representative Mark Pocan says, under the Republican SAVE Act, your driver's license won't

00:28:26.000 be enough to vote. You need a passport, which more than half of Americans don't have and costs at

00:28:30.800 least $130, a birth certificate, or a birth certificate with your current legal name, which

00:28:36.220 nearly 70 million American women or married women lack, or military service papers with sensitive info.

00:28:45.200 This is modern-day Jim Crow that restricts access to the ballot box. Again, if you have a real ID, 0.71

00:28:56.060 if you have that driver's license, that's good to go. It's really not that difficult. And again,

00:29:02.620 I'm not hearing anything from these guys about what is the alternative to make sure our elections are

00:29:07.860 secure. They don't want there to be any verification at all. And let me just reiterate, Republicans do not

00:29:13.800 want married women not to be able to vote since we typically vote Republican. So I hope that makes 1.00

00:29:18.500 you feel better about all of that craziness. All right, let's move on to your favorite subject,

00:29:26.100 all of your favorite subject, and that is pit bulls. Okay, I'm not talking about Mr. Worldwide. I always

00:29:32.180 feel like I need to clarify that. I am talking about the kind of dog, the kind of dog that I,

00:29:38.800 I don't want to say I detest, but I don't think that they should be legal. I don't because of the

00:29:47.700 loss of life that they cause. And I am tired of talking about these stories where another baby

00:29:55.400 or another toddler dies because a family allowed what they mistakenly call their nanny dog to lay

00:30:03.260 down next to their child to play with their child. And that child is mauled to death. I'm tired of

00:30:09.600 talking about these stories. I'm tired of seeing these headlines. I am tired of us being a Romans

00:30:15.420 one people that we serve the creature rather than a creator. And so we have disordered affections and

00:30:22.340 disordered priorities where we feel more of an inclination to defend a certain breed of dog

00:30:28.900 than we do to defend human life. Like that is a spiritual issue. And whenever I talk about this,

00:30:36.420 I see a truly spiritual blindness among those who will, without condition or caveat, defend owning

00:30:45.540 pit bulls. And they won't even express any sympathy for the baby that died or the toddler that was mauled

00:30:51.440 or the elderly person that was killed or the other pet or the cat that was killed. Like no sympathy for

00:30:58.600 that just immediate, almost like a pit bull, rabidly defending this very on average aggressive breed.

00:31:07.760 Okay. But I have to talk about it. I try not to talk about it a lot, but I do talk about it and I only

00:31:15.200 talk about it because I care about human life. That is the only reason I talk about this. Some people,

00:31:21.200 I don't know, think I have like, I don't even know what they could be. Some kind of like nefarious

00:31:25.400 self-serving motives in talking about this. Not at all. I lost over a thousand followers on

00:31:30.360 Instagram, or at least I don't even know how many, but my little number went down on Instagram. I

00:31:34.320 didn't even check after I talked about this. I don't care. I don't care how many people get angry

00:31:39.000 about this. I will talk about this because this little girl's life matters. So on Wednesday, April

00:31:45.320 9th, a seven month old infant, Eliza Turner was mauled to death by one of her parents, three pit bulls

00:31:50.880 in their home near Columbus, Ohio. So we don't have all of the details. What was going on at this time

00:31:58.280 when the baby was mauled to death? She's like just a precious little girl. The pictures of her just

00:32:04.560 look like a happy, sweet, healthy baby. I'm sure that her parents loved her very much and probably

00:32:11.720 thought that they were doing the right thing and keeping her safe because they had probably imbibed

00:32:17.380 all the propaganda that some of you out there are helping push that these are nanny dogs and that

00:32:23.680 these are protective dogs, that it's all about how you raise them, that it's not the breed. And

00:32:28.000 they'd probably loved these dogs since they were puppies. So just know that every time you push the

00:32:33.460 propaganda that these dogs are safe, that they're okay around children, that they're nanny dogs, 0.63

00:32:39.220 someone is listening to that and they are internalizing that lie and they are deeming it

00:32:44.940 okay to have their dogs around babies. And that leads to the higher likelihood that a baby or a

00:32:52.220 child in their life is going to be mauled by one of those dogs. Know that your words defending the

00:32:57.840 domestication of these dogs, which were never meant to be house pets, can lead to the loss of life.

00:33:04.240 I'm not holding you directly responsible. I'm just saying your words matter. Make sure that you are

00:33:10.440 always on the side of defending human life and not defending animals whom you think like get a bad

00:33:16.420 rap. Okay. So according to Columbus police, the parents took Eliza to the nearby fire station and

00:33:22.700 then she was transported to the local children's hospital where she was pronounced dead. And I'm just

00:33:28.060 so sad. And even though I think these parents made a mistake, I am like, I'm devastated for them.

00:33:32.600 I'm devastated for them because I know they realize now that they've made a huge mistake and that they

00:33:37.600 believed a lie, but I wish it hadn't gotten to this. The Columbus police department ruled the

00:33:42.960 incident and accident will not be filing charges against the parents. They passed the investigation

00:33:49.140 off to Franklin County animal control, who will decide what to do with the dogs after completing

00:33:53.540 their investigation. I don't know if that's the right move not to file charges against the parents.

00:33:57.920 I do think that anyone who owns pit bulls, that you should be licensed, that you should have to sign

00:34:05.200 something, um, that says that you should be licensed under the condition that you have legal liability,

00:34:13.880 uh, for anyone that this dog maims, harms, kills. And I don't know that the, that the people owning

00:34:25.160 the pit bull should have the same punishment for actually like direct murder, um, that actual direct 0.99

00:34:33.620 murderers get, but I think it should be hefty. And I think people would think twice before breeding

00:34:39.060 them and before owning them. If you will have to pay the legal cost of whatever damage your dog does,

00:34:47.800 especially this kind of dog, because you are owning this dog, taking on a risk, a risk to the

00:34:54.420 vulnerable people around you. Like, I think that there should be something there. When police arrived on

00:34:59.760 the scene, an unidentified man outside the home told officers that the family had owned the dog

00:35:04.060 since they were puppies, of course. And people will say it's the owners, it's the owners, it's the

00:35:08.580 owners. They're bred to be aggressive. That's not true. It's not true. It's not two. How long have they

00:35:13.220 had the dog? Uh, since they were born. Oh, yeah. Since the dog was born? Yep. Yeah. A couple years. I got two

00:35:21.140 other ones in there. Okay. So since the dogs were born, this is what I hear over and over again from

00:35:26.860 these stories. Um, those two little kids that were killed in Nashville a couple of years ago,

00:35:31.980 I think it was 2022. Actually, they had two pit bulls, um, pit bulls that they had owned since

00:35:39.000 puppies, just a very like sweet looking family and had defended pit bulls on Facebook before. No one's

00:35:46.220 going to take away our pit bulls randomly out of the blue. Those pit bulls mauled the five month old 1.00

00:35:52.060 baby and the toddler little girl and put the mom in the hospital who was trying to defend her babies. 1.00

00:35:58.640 And again, like you learn too late that you were wrong to imbibe the pit bull propaganda. And it's

00:36:05.040 just very, very sad. Eliza's mother posted on Facebook, April 12th. I will never understand why

00:36:12.180 I am so lost and broken. This was the same dog who was side by side with my baby every day.

00:36:18.000 And then she posted all of these pictures of the pit bull next to the baby. And I guarantee she

00:36:25.620 posted these pictures originally thinking that she was going to convince people, see how loving and

00:36:30.700 kind these pit bulls are. Eliza's father wrote on Facebook, I'd give my life to bring my baby back.

00:36:36.880 And I believe that. I can't imagine how traumatized they are. I cannot imagine how traumatized these

00:36:43.740 parents are. I absolutely believe that they are broken over this. And they believed a lie. And

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00:38:32.100 All right. Let me tell you some other stories because this happens over and over again.

00:38:39.160 This is not just once or twice. This is not just once a year. I see these stories all the time. And

00:38:44.800 a lot of times I don't talk about them because I'm like, okay, maybe I've made my point. But then,

00:38:49.300 I mean, y'all send me these stories pretty consistently. And every now and then I just

00:38:54.120 have to drive home the point once again. And I can't tell you how many people message me and say,

00:38:58.860 this changed my mind. I did own a pit bull and then I surrendered it. And I now am more cautious

00:39:07.820 around my family member or around my neighbor who is a pit bull. One of you the other day said that you

00:39:13.640 were at a park. Someone had their pit bull off leash. No dog should be off leash at a park,

00:39:18.100 by the way, ever. But their pit bull was off leash at the park. And you said that you and a group of

00:39:24.580 moms that you confronted this man and basically in the best way possible, like bullied him into 0.56

00:39:30.020 leashing his dog and taking his dog away. That's raising a respectful ruckus for the things that

00:39:35.760 matter. The things that matter in that case is the lives of your children. So some just like recent

00:39:41.240 stories. Again, there are so many. I'll just give you a small sample size. In Texas, 2024,

00:39:49.780 a one-year-old boy died after being mauled by pit bulls at a babysitter's home in Converse, Texas,

00:39:54.980 where the babysitter left him in the care of her 13-year-old daughter. The daughter was also bitten.

00:40:00.580 So when people say it's an owner problem, I don't disagree and not like there's irresponsibility here.

00:40:06.320 There's almost always some level of stupidity going on, but it's not just the owners. In Visalia,

00:40:12.920 California, September 2024, four-year-old girl Zoe Hawkins was fatally mauled by her family's pit bull.

00:40:18.860 The attack occurred as she exited a pool at home. The dog was her constant companion with no prior

00:40:26.440 aggression and turned on her suddenly. In Memphis, Tennessee, 2022, this is the story that I was

00:40:34.160 talking about earlier. I think I said Nashville. It was actually Memphis. This is the Independent

00:40:37.960 reported this. Five-month-old Hollisteen, two-year-old Lily Jane, were killed by their

00:40:43.720 family's two pit bulls outside of their home. Again, they had had these pit bulls for eight years with

00:40:50.880 no prior incidents. And thankfully, they were euthanized. Pico Rivera, California, April 2022,

00:40:58.240 according to ABC. A one-year-old girl was attacked by her family's two pit bulls at their home

00:41:02.680 after she began crying. So the baby started crying. This little girl started crying. That

00:41:08.040 triggered something in the dogs. And they mauled her. She suffered a fractured hip and bites to her

00:41:14.140 leg, shoulder, and ear. Her mother and two other women were also injured trying to stop the dogs.

00:41:21.660 And the mother was bitten on her lip and near her eye. All four victims were hospitalized. Thankfully,

00:41:26.280 it sounds like this one-year-old girl actually survived. But gosh, there are so many stories on

00:41:32.860 Instagram. There's a little boy named JJ who was almost fatally mauled by a pit bull. He was

00:41:39.220 attacked and has suffered so many grave injuries in his little life. There's that skateboarder,

00:41:46.580 Bree. I forget her name. I know you follow her on Instagram. But she was just in the kitchen with her,

00:41:52.700 I think her cousin in a pit bull and the pit bull jumped up and took off her top lip. 1.00

00:41:56.980 Yeah. The whole top lip. She was a model too. So her income was coming from her face essentially. 1.00

00:42:03.200 Yeah. And yeah, over the past couple of years, she's had to reconstruct her whole face because of it.

00:42:06.880 Yeah. And I mean, she's still beautiful, but her entire top lip, I mean, that also makes it very 0.95

00:42:12.420 difficult. It's not just aesthetic purposes. It makes it very difficult to live and to eat and to drink and

00:42:16.760 all of that stuff. And so those are just some examples of these horrific cases of pit bulls or

00:42:23.740 dogs that are half pit bulls just turning on their owners. And that's the thing about pit bulls is they

00:42:29.460 might be sweet for a very long time, but something that I think we don't quite understand triggers them

00:42:35.620 the way other dogs may not be triggered. And I hear a lot, well, chihuahuas bite and dachshunds bite and all

00:42:44.380 of these other dogs bite. Yeah, they do, but they don't mull because it's not just the aggression

00:42:49.800 of pit bulls. It's not just their instinct is that they are so strong and their jaws are so strong.

00:42:55.680 And when they hang on, they do not let go. They try to tear. And so let me define what a pit bull is

00:43:02.060 because a lot of people just, they're like, you don't even know what a pit bull is. And it's true.

00:43:06.520 It is hard to know in every situation how much of a pit bull a dog is, but you can see a pit bull.

00:43:13.720 It's got that big triangle head. It's got that stocky body, very muscular. It doesn't refer to

00:43:20.340 a single dog breed. It's commonly used to describe a group of breeds and mixes known for their

00:43:25.540 muscular build, their strength, historical association with dog fighting, American pit bull

00:43:29.740 terrier, American Staffordshire terrier. That's typically the main one, Staffordshire bull terrier. 0.96

00:43:35.800 Sometimes in American bully, probably the most common ones are pit bull terrier and Staffordshire

00:43:41.040 terrier. When people say I have a Staffordshire terrier, that is them not wanting to tell you

00:43:45.320 that they have pit bull. Okay. Don't go to their house. History of pit bulls. This is according to

00:43:51.240 ASPCA who, you know, they don't agree with me. I'm sure about the danger of pit bulls and these places

00:43:57.380 are always trying to get you to adopt pit bulls. Let me tell you about who they are because a lot of

00:44:02.740 people you will hear say, they're a nanny dog. My pancake would never hurt a fly. This, my little

00:44:09.000 sweet pancake made oatmeal for my baby this morning and rocked her to sleep. And I can't believe that

00:44:18.580 you're saying that she would, that she would ever hurt someone, but that's not really the history of

00:44:24.680 them. So they were actually bred for bull baiting in England, primarily between the 16th and early

00:44:30.620 19th centuries. Okay. So they were created by human beings, like a lot of dogs were. The particular

00:44:37.960 breeds that we have were typically bred by humans for a particular purpose at some point. Very popular

00:44:43.460 between the 16th and 19th centuries for things like hunting, even for things like warmth. So bull

00:44:51.580 baiting was a popular blood sport during this time where dogs were set upon a tethered bull aiming to

00:44:56.080 immobilize it by biting and holding its nose or face and not letting go. So when they bred this pit bull

00:45:03.420 terrier or Staffordshire terrier, they were trying to get characteristics of a dog that was very

00:45:10.580 aggressive, that was very strong, and that could hold on to the throat of a very strong, big animal like a

00:45:21.300 bull and not let go until the bull died. Okay. It had to be that strong. That's a really strong

00:45:28.820 dog to be able to immobilize a bull. And you think your toddler can stand a chance against that? It

00:45:34.700 can't. He or she can't. Breeders selected dogs for traits that made them effective. As I just said,

00:45:40.900 they needed to have raw power to tackle livestock. They had to have success in baiting,

00:45:45.700 in baiting, which required a dog to latch onto the bull's sensitive areas like the snout and hold 0.91

00:45:51.840 on despite thrashing. These dogs were bred for powerful jaws and a bite and hold instinct, which

00:45:57.460 became the defining trait. Okay. The defining trait when these dogs were being bred was the bite and

00:46:03.900 hold ability. That is why these dogs maul. I've been bitten by a dog that's not a pit bull the other day.

00:46:11.220 It wasn't the other day. It was like two years ago. I was on a walk and this, these two guys were

00:46:15.700 behind me and I don't know why they were that close to me. Like back up, give me some space.

00:46:19.680 But they had their dog on a leash. It was a black lab. I love black labs. Just randomly bit me on the

00:46:26.160 back of the, on the back of the calf. One time CR was on a run and someone's little chihuahua came out

00:46:32.080 of their house and bit him on the back of the leg, like left a, left a bruise. So other dogs can bite, 0.73

00:46:39.720 but they don't all employ this tactic of biting and holding and not letting go until their victim

00:46:46.540 is dead. Okay. So when people say it's not the breed, that's delusional. That's just not educated.

00:46:53.700 Okay. And at this point you don't have an excuse not to be educated. Like, you know, that breeds have 1.00

00:47:00.540 an innate instinct. Okay. You don't have to teach a golden retriever to retrieve. You don't have to teach

00:47:06.800 an Australian shepherd to shepherd. You don't have to teach a lab to swim. Okay. All of these things

00:47:15.060 are innate characteristics in their breed and the biting, the holding, the attacking is an innate

00:47:20.880 instinct that pit bulls have, even part pits have. And it might never be aroused in their life,

00:47:29.140 but something, and you never know when, and you never know what at some point can trigger that

00:47:35.760 instinct that they have in the back of their mind. And they're going to do it. Okay. They can't

00:47:41.080 really help it. It's not really like their fault. It's just something that they are born with. Okay.

00:47:49.200 And actually bull baiting was banned in England in 1835. And so the breeding then, uh, focus is shifted

00:47:57.520 for some of these dogs towards illegal dog fighting or other rules like hunting and guarding, but their

00:48:02.920 bull baiting origins left a lasting imprint on their physical and behavioral traits. Okay. According

00:48:08.400 to dogsbite.com. And again, it's hard to know the exact methodology of, of these studies, but they do

00:48:16.760 have the numbers from 2010 to October, 2023 on the 478 fatal dog bites in the United States. 196 of these

00:48:26.960 came from pit bulls that 60% had pit bulls in their bloodlines. 60%. Despite making up a very small

00:48:33.560 population of the dog population, I think it's like 6% of the dog population. They account for like 60%

00:48:39.480 of fatal dog bites, uh, dog bites. 7% had Rottweiler, 4% had German Shepherd, 80% of severe dog bites in

00:48:50.200 children involved. Um, of the data that this organization has collected since 2010. Um, they

00:48:59.920 say that pit bulls are 2.5 times more likely to bite in multiple anatomical locations than other

00:49:06.280 breeds. Pit bull terriers are 48% more likely to attack without provocation than other breeds. Pit bull

00:49:14.000 attacks have higher morbidity rates, higher hospital charges, and a higher risk of death than attacks by

00:49:19.900 other breeds. Um, it is more likely that their attacks will cause facial injuries that will

00:49:26.720 require more surgeries. Um, if you talk to like anyone in the ER who has had to deal with these

00:49:34.200 serious dog bites, almost all of them will say, yeah, the worst dog bites that we see come from

00:49:39.000 these pit bulls. When examining a 13 year data set, 54 fatal attacks included a dog killing its primary

00:49:46.160 owner. Pit bulls were the cause of 63% of those deaths over eight times more than any other type

00:49:52.320 of dog. One study, mortality, mauling, and maiming by vicious dogs published in published in 2011,

00:49:59.340 conducted by researchers at the university of Texas health science center, analyzed dog bite related

00:50:04.840 injuries and fatalities over a five year period in the U S. And it found that pit bulls were associated

00:50:09.980 with a higher proportion of severe injuries and fatalities compared to other breeds. Pit bulls

00:50:14.820 accounted for approximately 41% of dog bite related fatalities during the study period, despite

00:50:19.940 being a relatively small percentage of the dog population. All right. The facts are there. The

00:50:27.120 numbers are there. Okay. Make a decision that is based on wisdom. Make a decision that is based on

00:50:33.560 reality. Honestly, like I could have a section in my book, toxic empathy about pit bull apologists.

00:50:39.840 It's like the same thing. It is showing more empathy for a dog than it is for the victims

00:50:45.620 of their attacks and toxic empathy. It blinds you to reality and mortality. That is certainly the case

00:50:52.240 when it comes to pit bulls. Now, if you are a person that you're like, I have a pit bull. I like my pit

00:50:57.540 bull. I never allow my pit bull around children. I keep my pit bull in my backyard. I am very careful

00:51:04.260 about it. I am as careful with my pit bull as I am with my gun. All right. Then I think, you know,

00:51:10.360 that's fine. You can do what you want. I still think it should be illegal to breed them. I think

00:51:14.780 that you have to have a license to own them, that you have to take on the legal liability of whatever

00:51:20.220 harm they cause. And that is my, that's my nicer alternative to just eradicating the breed altogether. 1.00

00:51:27.720 Again, care about human life more than you care about these dogs. Okay. Some people say,

00:51:34.760 well, God created these dogs. Yeah. He also created tigers. I don't think that you should

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00:52:35.860 Okay. I just got to play this SNL skit. I personally don't think most things on SNL

00:52:41.820 are funny and I love to laugh. Okay. It's not just because they're liberal. It's not just because

00:52:47.340 they're crass. Like I can see the humor in things that I disagree with. Even if someone is making fun of

00:52:52.860 a conservative or a Christian, I might not appreciate it, but I can see how people think

00:52:57.800 it's funny. Like I love all different kinds of humor. I love comedians. I love it. So I would

00:53:04.920 love to love SNL. Like I would love to enjoy it, even if it doesn't align with my values. And even

00:53:10.680 the skit that I'm about to play you, I literally didn't crack a smile. Even though I appreciate what it

00:53:15.760 is mocking, I was like, this is literally not funny. I don't see how people think that this is

00:53:22.180 like clever, but I do appreciate what they did. Okay. Because this actually deserves mockery. So

00:53:29.040 last Saturday, April 12th, Saturday Night Live aired an episode hosted by Jon Hamm with musical guest

00:53:35.920 Lizzo. Lizzo's not a part of this, but she was a musical guest. I guess we needed to note that.

00:53:41.680 One of the ensemble sketches called Family Dinner took place at a chaotic dinner party

00:53:46.640 where guests shared increasingly bizarre personal updates. A short segment from the sketch

00:53:50.360 has been making the rounds in which a gay couple is asked how they acquired their newborn baby.

00:53:57.200 Here's thought three.

00:53:58.520 Oh my gosh. Whose baby is that?

00:54:02.340 Excuse me?

00:54:03.280 It's ours.

00:54:04.680 Wait, but how?

00:54:06.340 Okay. I'm sorry, but gay people can't have a baby? 1.00

00:54:09.480 Yeah, but like, where did it come from?

00:54:13.280 Excuse me?

00:54:14.240 Excuse me?

00:54:15.560 Wow. You are not allowed to talk like that.

00:54:18.360 That is so invasive.

00:54:20.580 Okay, but like, we were with you last night and you did not have a baby.

00:54:25.680 Yeah, and you guys said that after dinner you were going to go to a rave called Bulge Dungeon,

00:54:30.740 and now today you have a baby.

00:54:33.180 What we're asking is, how did this happen?

00:54:36.140 I think we're just wondering who the mother is.

00:54:39.820 Okay, well, between the two of us, I'm more emotional, and I like shopping, so me, I think?

00:54:45.960 Yeah, but I mean, I have long hair, and he is an alcoholic, so I guess it's like two moms, I guess?

00:54:51.880 Guys, how did you get this baby?

00:54:54.080 What do you want us to say, that we stole her?

00:54:57.220 Did you?

00:54:57.760 Well, we like to think of it as she stole us.

00:55:03.300 So does that mean yes?

00:55:04.800 Okay, so there are two different ways to see this.

00:55:10.200 Either you can see it as using comedy to normalize two men purchasing a baby,

00:55:17.380 or you can see it as a big vibe shift that we are actually starting to mock and deride something

00:55:23.900 that deserves our mockery and derision, because it is a legitimate question.

00:55:29.200 How could two men who do not have the genetic material nor the wombs to create and bear a 1.00

00:55:36.800 children have a child?

00:55:38.980 And that line about last night you were talking about going to Bulge Dungeon, and now you have

00:55:45.640 a baby, and we're just wondering how to square that circle, that is a good one.

00:55:52.060 That was the best line, because if you see a lot of these men who are purchasing children,

00:55:56.880 you do have some questions, like, do you know the first thing about raising a child?

00:56:03.440 Like, do you have any kind of instinct for nurturing that is biologically hardwired in

00:56:11.700 the women who create and carry their own children? 1.00

00:56:16.380 And so I appreciate that, you know, whatever the motive is, that we are in the mode right

00:56:22.860 now of mocking something that is absolutely depraved and destructive, and that is the purposeful

00:56:31.840 creation of motherless children.

00:56:35.700 These children deserve all of our compassion.

00:56:38.720 They deserve us to ask good questions.

00:56:40.880 They deserve that we stop making them, forcing them to be the subjects of progressive social

00:56:51.940 experiments.

00:56:53.140 Every child has a right to a mom and a dad.

00:56:56.180 And the fact that in the name of toxic empathy, in the name of love is love, in the name of

00:57:02.040 tolerance and inclusion, we are sacrificing them on the altar of LGBTQ inclusion. 1.00

00:57:13.700 It's really sad.

00:57:15.240 It's cruel.

00:57:16.520 They can't consent to this.

00:57:18.700 And they will suffer from it.

00:57:21.420 So I'm sure SNL and I aren't on the same side when it comes to this, when it comes to

00:57:26.300 surrogacy.

00:57:26.940 But maybe this will get people thinking about something that really deserves our scrutiny.

00:57:32.620 All right.

00:57:33.080 That's all we got time for today.

00:57:34.440 We will be back here tomorrow.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - April 15, 2025

Ep 1172 ｜ No, the SAVE Act Doesn’t Stop Married Women from Voting

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