Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 118 ｜ Abortion, Biden & the Media

00:00:00.000 Hello, hello. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. I hope everyone is having a wonderful

00:00:04.960 week so far. As we do on most Wednesdays, I'm going to give you a rundown of some of the things

00:00:10.520 that are happening in the news and, of course, give you my analysis on them. Sometimes we go

00:00:15.800 through one particular thing that's happening in politics or the news. Like last Wednesday,

00:00:20.860 we talked about the Equality Act, and we spent the entirety of our 30 or so minutes talking

00:00:26.620 about that. Sometimes we run through some major stories, and that's what we're going to do today.

00:00:32.340 We are going to talk about a Supreme Court decision on abortion. We are also going to give a little

00:00:39.100 bit of an update on the presidential election or the primaries that are gearing up and some of the

00:00:44.080 back and forth between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. We're also going to talk about, if we have time,

00:00:49.500 this crazy BuzzFeed story about Ben Shapiro and a guy who supposedly was radicalized by Ben Shapiro

00:00:56.380 into becoming a Nazi, which is absolutely crazy. We'll see what we have time for. Sometimes some 0.54

00:01:03.360 of these stories kind of run a little long with my commentary, and I don't get to everything,

00:01:07.100 but we're going to try to get to all of that today. So let's start with what I think is the

00:01:11.080 most important story, and that is a story on abortion. Now, we've been talking about that

00:01:15.940 a lot recently because of specifically the Georgia legislation, which banned abortion after six

00:01:22.800 weeks. It's called a fetal heartbeat bill. That's typically when you can find a baby's heartbeat

00:01:27.160 is at right about six weeks, and it made an exception for rape and incest up to 20 weeks,

00:01:34.720 and then, of course, an exception for the life of the mother. The Alabama law, however, 0.80

00:01:39.820 the Alabama bill that was signed into law by a female governor, by the way, it banned abortion period. 1.00

00:01:47.220 So there were no exceptions for rape and incest. The only exception that was made was for the life

00:01:52.840 of the mother. Now, there's been a lot of misinformation surrounding these two pieces

00:01:57.880 of legislation to protect unborn children from the pro-choice side. You've heard that women are 1.00

00:02:03.200 going to be prosecuted. You've heard that women are going to, they're going to have to be investigated 1.00

00:02:08.140 if they have a miscarriage, and if they ended up, if it wasn't a miscarriage, if it was actually they

00:02:13.960 took an abortive pill illegally or something like that, that they're going to spend their lives in

00:02:18.160 jail. Well, none of that is true. Nothing in these bills, and you can Google read Alabama bill or read

00:02:23.340 Georgia bill, and you might have to actually dig a little bit deeper to read the actual text of the

00:02:28.420 bill. You'll see that nothing is included about prosecution of the woman. There is in no case,

00:02:34.780 no case that I know of, is a woman ever going to be prosecuted for aborting her child. Now,

00:02:40.500 there are pro-lifers who disagree with that. There are pro-lifers actually who disagree and who think

00:02:45.640 that a woman should be held liable for killing her unborn child. But in these pieces of legislation,

00:02:51.660 that is not the case. The person who performs the abortion illegally will be held accountable and

00:02:58.540 could spend a long time in jail, but the women will not be prosecuted. And it's really crazy the

00:03:07.580 links that the pro-choice side is going to, to spread this kind of misinformation into fear

00:03:12.860 monger, saying that women no longer have control of their bodies. It's just white men that are trying

00:03:17.820 to take control because of some addiction to the patriarchy. They forget that there are millions of 0.87

00:03:23.280 women, women like me, probably a lot of women listening to this podcast who are pro-life. They 0.93

00:03:28.060 say that, oh, men are passing these bills and they're passing these laws and they don't know anything

00:03:33.160 about a woman's body. Well, as I've said before, I would venture to guess, and I don't know this as a

00:03:38.900 hard, fast fact, but I would venture to guess that mothers, there are probably more mothers, 0.89

00:03:44.540 people who have actually experienced motherhood for themselves, uh, biologically that have been

00:03:50.160 pregnant and given birth. Uh, there are probably more biological mothers who are pro-life than biological 0.93

00:03:56.180 mothers who are pro-choice. That is just my guess because, and the reason why I guess that is because

00:04:01.580 so many of the arguments, if not every single argument that I see from the pro-choice side

00:04:06.080 denies basic biology of how a baby is made, like how fertilization happens, uh, gestational stages,

00:04:15.260 fetal development. It's so ignorant to basic science that it's hard for me to believe that the,

00:04:20.820 that the people that are making these arguments have actually had children. So as we've talked about

00:04:25.840 many, many times on this podcast, all of the pro-choice arguments are straw men and we're

00:04:31.460 going to look at some of the worst arguments today. As we examine the Supreme court, uh, case

00:04:37.500 or the Supreme court decision, the Supreme court decided to uphold part of an Indiana law and struck

00:04:43.860 down another part of an Indiana law. This was a law that was, or was a bill that was signed into law

00:04:48.860 by, uh, then governor Mike Pence in 2016, I believe it was. Uh, so before he became vice president,

00:04:58.340 obviously. So the Supreme court upheld the part of the law that says aborted babies have to be

00:05:03.760 cremated or buried. So before that they could just be disposed of any way, Planned Parenthood or an

00:05:10.820 abortion mill wanted them to be disposed of. Of course, we know that they were uncovered for actually

00:05:15.600 selling, uh, fetal body parts. At one point, a lot of people will tell you that's just a conspiracy

00:05:20.840 theory that didn't really happen. No, it's not a conspiracy theory. They were caught on tape. They were not

00:05:26.340 as far as we know, deceptively edited. We know that there is actually an industry that profits

00:05:31.400 from, uh, aborted children. And so that's, that's not a conspiracy. So we have no idea

00:05:37.360 really what was happening to these children who were aborted before this law was passed. So the

00:05:43.440 Supreme court said, yes, Indiana, you can, uh, require that these sinners who perform abortions 1.00

00:05:50.740 have to cremate the babies or bury the babies. And of course, this is an effort to, uh, validate what

00:05:57.840 we already know scientifically about these aborted babies is that they are human beings. And beyond

00:06:04.100 that, that they are actually people. And because they are people, they have rights. Now I would

00:06:08.440 obviously go so far as to say, uh, very, uh, fundamentally that people also have the right

00:06:15.420 not to be aborted, but unfortunately that argument falls on deaf ears for millions of people who just

00:06:21.820 seem to be completely clouded in their understanding of reality. I mean, think about being on the other

00:06:27.780 side of this issue. Think about being on the other side of this, who is arguing that no, that babies

00:06:33.200 shouldn't be buried or cremated. Why, why do you care? Uh, there are legitimately people saying that

00:06:40.580 this law that requires, uh, I keep saying unborn, but it's really aborted babies, aborted babies to 0.99

00:06:47.360 be buried or cremated. There are legitimately people saying that this takes away some kind of

00:06:51.900 rights, that this is too coercive, that this is too burdensome on abortion centers. I just don't

00:06:58.240 understand that. That's when you see that this is no longer about being pro-choice, that this is about

00:07:03.860 being pro-abortion, that this is really dark and demonic stuff. Can you imagine arguing that no, 0.95

00:07:10.260 an aborted child, you can actually see pictures of aborted children. If you just want your heart to

00:07:16.720 break, you can actually see pictures of them online. Uh, no, they shouldn't be buried or they

00:07:21.980 shouldn't be cremated. No, they should just be disposed of. No, they should just be sold or they

00:07:26.740 should just be whatever. They should just be discarded like trash. Imagine making that argument 0.99

00:07:32.440 and thinking that you're making a moral argument. I mean, how, how demonic and how callous do you have

00:07:39.840 to be to think that you are on the right side of history by advocating for that? Because again,

00:07:44.020 you're not talking about a woman's choice at that point. Like the child is out of the woman's body. 1.00

00:07:48.560 This has nothing to do with abortion really has nothing to do with a woman anymore. This has to do 0.93

00:07:53.820 with how you see aborted babies. And if you read about this story on CNN or any kind of left-wing

00:08:01.360 source, they're going to call it fetal tissue. They'll call it fetal tissue or fetal parts. 0.84

00:08:06.440 It's not just tissue. That is an effort to dehumanize what we know is human. If it wasn't

00:08:12.380 human, it wouldn't be called an abortion. Um, I can't imagine, I cannot imagine being on the other

00:08:18.880 side of this and thinking that I am right and thinking that in the freest and the most prosperous 0.98

00:08:26.560 country in the world that we have to tell our women that the best option for them is to kill 1.00

00:08:33.000 their child. I can't imagine that. And of course that goes beyond this issue of cremating or 1.00

00:08:38.640 burying, uh, the aborted child. But again, this entire mindset of the pro-choice side is so

00:08:46.220 baffling to me. Now, this is the even sadder part that I would say that this, any of this had to go

00:08:52.280 to the Supreme court is sad, but here's the even sadder part, um, that the Supreme court actually

00:08:57.180 struck down the part of the Indiana law that says you cannot perform an abortion that is chosen based

00:09:01.860 on race, sex, or disability. So basically saying, uh, what the left says all the time about

00:09:08.680 discrimination outside of the womb is that you can't discriminate, uh, against people based on

00:09:13.660 their immutable characteristics. You can't do that. But here they're saying when it comes to abortion,

00:09:20.000 you are totally able to do that. And unfortunately the Supreme court, uh, upheld that they cannot,

00:09:27.100 uh, they cannot prohibit abortion centers from allowing or performing abortions where a mother 0.67

00:09:33.000 is doing so based on the race of her child, which of course you would already know the race based on

00:09:37.840 your own race and the race of the father, but the race of the child, the sex of, uh, the child or,

00:09:42.940 uh, the disability of the child. And again, think about being on the other side of this and trying to

00:09:49.720 make a coherent and even a moral argument for this, that you should be able to do this. Think

00:09:55.120 about making the argument that you should be able to kill your child because your child is a girl 1.00

00:09:59.880 and you don't want a girl. You wanted a son. Think about that. Think about, uh, making the argument 1.00

00:10:07.960 that you should be able to abort your child because your child has down syndrome. What if one day we have

00:10:12.840 technology that shows that, um, we can tell that our child is going to have autism or our child isn't

00:10:18.920 going to have the highest IQ in the world or the child, uh, isn't going to be as beautiful or as

00:10:25.060 whatever, as you want them to be. That is eugenics. That's exactly what eugenics is. That's exactly 0.98

00:10:31.000 how Planned Parenthood got started. That is exactly how every, uh, evil humanitarian tragedy has,

00:10:38.820 has perpetuated or has gone on, uh, throughout the world is by dehumanizing one group by calling them,

00:10:45.760 uh, no longer valuable because of some kind of perceived deficiency. Can you imagine being on

00:10:54.020 that side and thinking that you are righteous and thinking that you are right? There is no other way

00:10:59.920 to describe being pro-choice in America in 2019 with all of the technology that we have with everything

00:11:07.440 that we know about what goes on inside the womb. There is nothing else that we can call this except

00:11:14.300 sin except, uh, an utter travesty that is being held up and inflamed by Satan himself. And I truly mean

00:11:24.240 that. And if you are a Christian who calls yourself pro-choice, I would, I would seriously examine

00:11:31.260 first how much you actually know about abortion. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and I'll say,

00:11:36.840 well, maybe you just don't know that much about abortion. Maybe you don't understand what it is,

00:11:40.880 but if you know that, if you know that and you're still okay with it, you're still okay with giving

00:11:45.740 someone the choice to do that, then I would seriously ask you to examine where you are in

00:11:50.540 your faith. Now, this does not say that you, or this is not to say that you have to agree with,

00:11:55.420 uh, me or conservatives on everything in order to be a good Christian. I am not saying that at all,

00:12:00.260 but this is an issue of life or death. This is an issue that is so black and white, according to God's

00:12:06.820 word, that really we should examine our hearts if we are not passionately for ending something like

00:12:13.220 this. Um, so that's the latest in abortion. This is going to be a conversation that continues to go

00:12:19.900 on for a long time. And as I've said, uh, Christians, I believe have a responsibility to do something about 1.00

00:12:26.140 this. Now, this doesn't just mean legislatively. This doesn't just mean through political processes,

00:12:31.500 although I do think it's important to outlaw something like this in the same way that we, uh,

00:12:36.980 that slavery should have been outlawed. We need to outlaw abortion, but it also means taking care of 0.92

00:12:43.480 these mothers who are in crisis, making sure that they know that they have real options. The true pro

00:12:48.920 choice side, by the way, is the pro life side, because we offer a greater number of options than

00:12:56.500 Planned Parenthood does. Planned Parenthood says you can get an abortion. If you're not going to get an 0.73

00:13:01.160 abortion, we can't really help you. A pro-life pregnancy center says, what do you want to do?

00:13:06.500 We will help you keep your baby. We will help you put your baby up for adoption. We will help you

00:13:11.760 find a family. We will help you get out of this abusive situation. We will help you, um, get, we

00:13:18.800 will help you get education or we will help you get parenthood education classes. We will make sure

00:13:23.900 that you are prepared to have this child as much as we possibly can. We will give you baby supplies.

00:13:29.440 We will give you bottles and cribs and everything that you need. There are thousands of pregnancy

00:13:35.580 centers throughout the country doing that, giving real options and real alternate alternatives to

00:13:40.840 abortion. Planned Parenthood does not do that. So not only is pro-life the life giving side,

00:13:47.080 it's also the choice offering side as well. Again, as I've said before, and I will say a million times,

00:13:52.700 there's no reason there's no logical, moral, philosophical, or theological reason to be

00:13:58.940 pro-choice. There just isn't. One thing you can do if you are interested in helping mothers who are in

00:14:05.940 crisis and helping, uh, their babies or just helping mothers in general who, uh, are, are wanting to keep

00:14:12.340 their babies, but they're just feeling unprepared. Maybe they're not in crisis, but they're just scared

00:14:16.420 because they're young or they're, they weren't expecting to be pregnant. If you want to help

00:14:21.420 these mothers, which like I said, we all should a really easy way to do that. Um, I have a registry

00:14:27.120 on Amazon and you can see it. If you go to the link in my profile on Instagram and it's under my name,

00:14:34.320 but anything that you buy on that registry goes to a pregnancy center in Texas, a pro-life pregnancy

00:14:41.120 center. I have been there. I have seen firsthand their work. Uh, we give our own money to this

00:14:46.820 pregnancy center because we believe so much in what they do. They have mobile sonogram units where

00:14:52.260 women can get free sonograms, where they can get prenatal vitamins, where they can, um, get help in

00:14:59.800 finding a doctor that's going to be able to help them through their pregnancy. Uh, they are amazing and

00:15:06.040 they do incredible work and they're also sharing the gospel when they have the opportunity with

00:15:11.140 these women and offering real wisdom. And like I said, real option. So really easy way to do that. 1.00

00:15:17.160 You can go to my profile, go to my Amazon registry. You can buy prenatal vitamins that are, you know,

00:15:23.280 seven bucks. You can buy a crib, which is maybe 150 bucks, or you can just donate money. But none of this

00:15:29.380 stuff goes to me. The only benefit that I get from it is knowing, um, that there are so many generous

00:15:35.360 people out there who want to help these mothers. So that, uh, that is a really easy way that,

00:15:41.620 that you can help. And you could do that right now if you wanted to. Okay. So moving on from the

00:15:46.620 abortion topic, uh, let us talk about what's going on in the presidential election. If you didn't know

00:15:51.960 that's happening, there are, I think there are exactly 1,732 Democrats that are running for the

00:16:00.820 Democrat, uh, nomination for president. So I think that's the exact number the last time I looked,

00:16:06.900 but the person that is leading in the polls is none other than former vice president, Joe Biden.

00:16:14.220 Uh, now here's an interesting thing about Joe Biden is that he hasn't actually had a public

00:16:19.100 appearance in a while. He's just done some small things, some high dollar donor meetings and things

00:16:25.240 like that, but he hasn't actually done a rally in a while. Now, some people are saying that this is

00:16:30.480 maybe because he is, uh, lacking enthusiasm at these rallies and the attendance is low and he knows

00:16:38.040 it's going to kind of be bad PR if he keeps showing up at these places with a ton of seats and only half

00:16:43.660 of them are filled. And I think there's probably something to that. I mean, it's a little odd otherwise

00:16:49.380 for him not to be having consistent public appearances when the other presidential candidates are.

00:16:54.700 And when people like Elizabeth Warren are picking up steam, um, but I think he realizes that his best

00:17:01.780 bet is just kind of sitting back and existing, uh, that he will probably win the democratic nomination

00:17:08.260 and he doesn't have to go out there and risk that not a lot of people are going to come to his rallies

00:17:13.200 because I don't think that he has a lot of enthusiasm behind his name, but I think people will vote for

00:17:19.420 him. Does that make sense? Like, I think that people will vote for Joe Biden. Democrats will

00:17:24.640 vote for Joe Biden, um, in the primary because they realize that he is a safe bet against Donald

00:17:31.060 Trump, that he's probably going to beat Donald Trump, that he's not too radical. He's not a

00:17:36.580 moderate, but they kind of see him as a moderate. They see him as being able to reach blue collar

00:17:41.160 Americans. And I think what most Democrats are concerned with is not as much pushing a far left

00:17:48.220 wing ideology, but beating Donald Trump. And I think that a lot, the reason why he's leading in

00:17:53.660 the polls is because they see him as the best way to do that, but they're not so excited about him,

00:17:59.560 that they're going to leave their homes and go rally for him. That is my hypothesis about this

00:18:05.240 whole thing. And I think that Joe Biden realizes that, which is exactly why he's not going out and

00:18:10.720 doing a bunch of these public events. So I do think that my prediction is that he is going to

00:18:16.960 win the nomination who actually knows. I think that there are a lot of people on the far left,

00:18:22.820 on the socialist left who would not be happy about that, who don't think that he is radical enough.

00:18:28.540 He's not far left enough. I think that there are a lot of millennials who probably aren't excited about

00:18:33.240 that. I mean, he has been in politics for twice my lifetime. Maybe not. No, that's a little much.

00:18:41.100 Well, probably almost twice my lifetime. He has been in politics for a really long time,

00:18:48.200 and he hasn't always been as far left as he is claiming to be now or as progressive as he's

00:18:53.680 presented himself to be under Barack Obama. He voted yes on the 1994 crime bill that a lot of people

00:18:59.780 are decrying. A lot of people are saying was bad because it was so tough on crime.

00:19:05.600 He voted against partial birth abortion. He's done that time and again. He was against or opposed

00:19:12.580 Anita Hill in her testimony and the whole Clarence Thomas controversy. He has said comments in the past

00:19:19.000 that have been construed as racist. He called Barack Obama a nice, clean African-American man. I don't even

00:19:27.060 know if he said African-American, but he called him nice and clean because he was African-American,

00:19:32.140 which I would say is a racist thing to say. And so he's not quite woke enough. He is an old white guy

00:19:39.920 that's been around for a long time that is also a product of his time. And of course, there was the

00:19:44.660 whole controversy with him being overly touchy with women and even girls in public. And so there are a lot

00:19:50.920 of people that have a problem with him. But again, I think they see him as an alternative to Trump and a

00:19:55.600 safe bet. And they realize that once he's in office, they're probably going to be able to get him to do

00:20:01.620 what they want him to do, even if he's not quite woke enough for them. I mean, we already saw him kind of

00:20:07.420 acquiesce to the far left with the whole thing. He said something nice about Mike Pence in public and

00:20:12.740 then Cynthia Nixon, you know, the socialist and the sex in the city actress from New York who ran and lost when

00:20:19.540 she ran for governor. She got mad at Joe Biden publicly for saying anything nice, saying that

00:20:25.760 Mike Pence was a decent man because of what he's done to the LGBTQ community. And Joe Biden came out

00:20:32.860 and said, oh, you are right, Cynthia. I was just talking when it came to foreign policy or something

00:20:38.380 like that. But you're absolutely right. So he's already bowing down to the woke left. He's already

00:20:45.040 bowing down to these people. And so they probably see him as and I'm not actually calling him this,

00:20:53.200 but I think they see him as a useful idiot that they will that he will do whatever they want him 0.98

00:21:00.140 to do, even if he isn't as far left himself as they want him to be. And I would say that's how a lot 0.99

00:21:07.260 of Republicans saw and see Donald Trump, that he might not be as ideological ideologically, gosh,

00:21:13.860 conservative as we would like him to be. But we realize that once he's in there, he's going to

00:21:18.860 surround himself by conservative voices, a conservative administration, that he's probably

00:21:23.800 going to carry out a lot of the things that conservatives want him to. And so I think

00:21:27.780 Democrats probably see Joe Biden in much of the same way. Now, speaking of Donald Trump and Joe

00:21:33.220 Biden, there was a back and forth. Well, I wouldn't even say a back and forth. It was really just

00:21:39.480 Trump, I guess, trying to trigger Joe Biden. Trump said this about him on Twitter. North Korea fired

00:21:46.220 off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people and others, but not me. I have confidence

00:21:52.020 that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me and also smiled when he called swamp man Joe Biden a low

00:21:58.720 IQ individual and worse. Perhaps that's sending me a signal question mark. OK, so he this was a tweet 1.00

00:22:06.380 by the president of the United States. He actually tweeted this exact thing first, but he misspelled

00:22:11.500 Joe Biden's last name. So, OK, so he deleted that. He sent it out again and then he repeated basically

00:22:19.520 the same thing at a press conference in Japan. Kim Jong-un made a statement that Joe Biden is a

00:22:25.280 low IQ individual. He probably is based on his record. I think I agree with him on that. But at

00:22:32.340 the same time, my people think it could have been a violation, as you know. I view it differently. I

00:22:40.000 view it as a man. Perhaps he wants to get attention and perhaps not. Who knows? It doesn't matter. All I

00:22:46.640 know is that there have been no nuclear tests. There have been no ballistic missiles going out. There have

00:22:53.160 been no long range missiles going out. So I am I'm not particularly down on this. Like I'm not I don't

00:23:02.700 like hearing the president talk about a fellow American in this way when it's when it's to flatter

00:23:10.840 a dictator. Now, of course, we know that President Trump is going to throw punches like that. I expect

00:23:16.800 I expect him to call Joe Biden swamp man or call him a low IQ individual. That's just something that

00:23:23.020 we've come to expect from this president. And I guess we've come to expect this next part, too.

00:23:28.540 But it's what really bothers me is doing it almost in favor of a dictator. Now, a lot of people are

00:23:35.640 going to say, no, this is just strategy. This is just Trump speaking truth. But that really bothers me

00:23:42.000 that people are starting to have that mentality. Like I got some comments on Twitter when I said,

00:23:46.980 you know, basically that this is stupid that he said this. A lot of people saying, well, 0.99

00:23:50.860 if Kim Jong Un is right, he's right. No, no. Like I'm going to stick up for Joe Biden over Kim Jong Un

00:23:57.760 every day of the week. That doesn't mean I like Joe Biden. That doesn't mean that I agree with Joe

00:24:02.500 Biden. But he is a fellow American. And Kim Jong Un is not just a leader of another country. He is a

00:24:08.980 dictator of another country who has wrought more suffering on his own people than I think that

00:24:14.620 any of us can even imagine. He's poisoned his own people. He's killed his own people. He has

00:24:19.920 tortured and put in internment camps anyone who would oppose him or who who doesn't follow exactly

00:24:28.060 to the letter what Kim Jong Un wants. There is no freedom of speech. There's no freedom of religion.

00:24:33.240 There is no freedom of the press. There is no freedom of anything in North Korea. He is an evil, 0.93

00:24:37.880 evil man who has caused so much human suffering in his own country. So for us, even in a joking 0.98

00:24:49.080 manner as the freest country in the world and as the last beacon of liberty that exists to say that,

00:24:54.500 you know, wink and a nod at Kim Jong Un. He said something that I don't like about my political

00:25:01.800 opponent. I'm just not comfortable with that. But with Donald Trump, we know that what he cares about

00:25:07.240 more than anything is loyalty. That's what he cares about. That's why he probably does have a little

00:25:13.600 bit of an affinity towards Kim Jong Un and people like Putin. Now, I don't think as a lot of people

00:25:19.820 on the left have said that it's because he is a dictator, too. And that's why he's doing these

00:25:24.480 things. No, I don't think so. His policy has not supported at all that he is a dictator. He's not a

00:25:31.160 dictator. I do think that he has an affinity for these strongman personalities, unfortunately,

00:25:37.620 in some of these dictatorial countries because they have showed, I guess, some kind of deference to him

00:25:44.360 or like some kind of respect to him. And he just wants loyalty. I don't think he really cares if

00:25:50.100 someone's an American or not, which is why it bothers me that part of his agenda is the America

00:25:55.960 first agenda. I'm not so sure that's true ideologically for him. I think loyalty to

00:26:02.440 Donald Trump is really what he cares about more than anything. And you can totally disagree with me

00:26:06.940 on that. You guys know I voted for Trump in 2016. I thought that he was the only alternative to Hillary

00:26:13.080 Clinton, whose presidency I thought would be absolutely disastrous. And I think I was right on that, that

00:26:18.000 it would have been disastrous. But that doesn't mean that I'm not going to say something when Donald

00:26:22.440 Trump does something like this that I think is totally atrocious and totally uncalled for. It

00:26:26.680 also is why it really bothers me when people compare Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan. No, Donald Trump is

00:26:33.520 not Ronald Reagan. I mean, you could say maybe in some ways that he was hated by the establishment,

00:26:39.100 that he was this kind of like charming entertainer that came in. OK, sure, you can say that. But Ronald

00:26:46.700 Reagan, the man, Ronald Reagan, the person of integrity and character and charisma and even just

00:26:56.480 his articulateness, if that's a word, that man and Donald Trump really have nothing in common.

00:27:03.440 They really they really don't. And so I don't appreciate that comparison. You can love Donald

00:27:07.860 Trump and there are a lot of good things that Donald Trump has done. I just don't think that's a very

00:27:12.280 accurate or fair comparison to Ronald Reagan just because they're a little bit different. I just

00:27:17.180 don't see Ronald Reagan putting the or or winking at a dictator just because that dictator said

00:27:26.120 something that he didn't like or said something that he liked about one of his opponents. In fact,

00:27:31.560 I think Ronald Reagan would have chastised the dictator and said, hang on just a second. You can't say

00:27:37.720 that about one of my fellow Americans. And it would have been awesome and such a change and such

00:27:42.980 a breath of fresh air to see President Trump do something like that. But I just am not sure

00:27:47.040 that that is within his character. Now, a lot of people are talking about impeaching Donald Trump

00:27:53.600 right now. We had Rashida Tlaib recently on a show say that we, you know, we're moving towards

00:27:58.680 impeachment. There's been a lot of back and forth on this. I personally don't think it's going to

00:28:03.500 happen because Democrats aren't united. Not only are they not united on whether or not they're

00:28:08.800 going to do this, but they're also not united on why they're going to do this. So we get a lot of

00:28:14.380 different reasons. We know that Mueller's report in the Russian Russian collusion investigation

00:28:19.380 really showed up with nothing. Now they're trying to spin this narrative that, oh, no, it did show up

00:28:24.540 with something and we can actually prove obstruction of justice, even though they were betting fully and

00:28:31.460 depending on Mueller to come up with what they wanted. Mueller didn't come up with what they

00:28:34.880 wanted. And so now they're saying, no, there's still reason. There's still obstruction of justice

00:28:38.560 here. We're going to impeach him. But some people don't agree with that. Some people are saying,

00:28:42.820 oh, no, no, it has to do with his financial dealings. The New Yorker had a piece on their site

00:28:48.200 that said, no, we need to impeach him for bigotry. And then you have this whole thing with

00:28:53.720 arms sales to Saudi Arabia, where he bypassed Congress, which, by the way, I don't agree with. But

00:28:59.500 now there are some Democrats saying that, oh, well, we need to impeach him because of that.

00:29:05.280 So there are a lot of different reasons, which makes it seem like they're just grasping for

00:29:10.180 straws. If they were united behind one message and one why for why he should be impeached,

00:29:16.780 then it might be a little bit more convincing. But the majority of the American public, I think it's

00:29:21.500 like something like 56 percent is not in favor of impeachment proceedings. And that includes people who

00:29:28.080 don't like Donald Trump. They just don't think that it's going to be worth it. So Democrats,

00:29:32.540 I think, are not playing this probably as well as they could, especially for a side that's typically

00:29:38.580 pretty almost creepily united on their message. They seem to be very fragmented. And that's because

00:29:44.340 they don't have a leader right now, because Nancy Pelosi has completely bowed down and acquiesced to 1.00

00:29:49.820 the far left freshman in her party, particularly in the House. And she just doesn't make decisions. 1.00

00:29:54.660 She said that she didn't want impeachment. Now she's saying, OK, maybe so. They're just

00:29:59.200 oscillating so much on this that it's really hard to see how they're going to be able to go through

00:30:04.460 with it. So we'll keep our eye on that. OK, one final story that doesn't have anything to do with

00:30:09.220 that, but it's just crazy and something that we've talked about in the past. So BuzzFeed reported a

00:30:15.340 story about a guy who vandalized a synagogue with swastikas, just an idiotic boy. He actually must be 1.00

00:30:23.480 older than he looks in this picture because he has a wife. So here's what they tweeted about this

00:30:29.760 story. A man who vandalized a synagogue with Nazi symbols told federal agents his road to

00:30:34.560 radicalization included meeting with the far right group Identity Europa and reading Ben Shapiro,

00:30:40.700 Breitbart News and the Nazi propaganda site Stormfronts. Well, people all had a good laugh about that. 0.90

00:30:49.440 And of course, we're ratioing BuzzFeed on Twitter. So you're telling me this guy who vandalized a

00:30:56.460 synagogue was radicalized by an Orthodox Jew like that? That's what you're going for. That's the line 0.99

00:31:02.480 of reasoning you got for us. That's your investigative reporting BuzzFeed. OK, well, don't worry, because

00:31:08.260 then then they corrected the tweet. They corrected the tweet. They said we have deleted this tweet because

00:31:14.000 it was inaccurate. The man told prosecutors his road to radicalization included his wife

00:31:18.440 reading Ben Shapiro, Breitbart News and the Nazi propaganda site Stormfront. Except except the problem

00:31:24.700 with this sentence still is that he didn't say that this was his road to radicalization. He just said

00:31:30.040 his wife started reading Ben Shapiro. Obviously, anyone who has listened to Ben Shapiro, whether you like

00:31:36.260 him or not, knows that in no way are you going to go from listening to Ben Shapiro and being like,

00:31:42.540 you know what? I love this guy. I love this guy. I'm going to be a Nazi. No, the people who are on

00:31:50.260 in the alt right or the people who are white supremacists, the people who are part of these

00:31:54.620 white supremacist groups hate Ben Shapiro. They hate Ben Shapiro just as much, if not more than

00:32:01.180 they hate people on the left. I have talked to some people in the alt right. They also hate people like

00:32:06.540 me. They like identity politics. They think identity politics are great. They have no problem

00:32:12.040 with people on the left perpetuating identity politics and perpetuating the supremacy of their

00:32:18.160 own groups because they believe as white supremacists that they have just as much of a right to do

00:32:23.560 that. So these people that are in these groups have nothing to do with Ben Shapiro

00:32:28.560 whatsoever. Like I said, anyone who has read Ben Shapiro, anyone who listens to Ben Shapiro understands

00:32:34.240 that he is thoughtful, that he is a mainstream conservative. You might not agree with everything

00:32:39.200 that he said. He's even said, you know, I've said some things that I don't I don't mean or I

00:32:44.180 shouldn't have said, which I would say I have, too. We all have. But to say that someone is radicalized

00:32:49.820 to be a Nazi of all things, a Nazi, not even just I don't know something else, but a Nazi by a radicalized 0.79

00:32:57.980 Jew. It is insane. But this is purposeful. This is purposeful by the media. And before I even give my 0.99

00:33:05.760 commentary, let me read this tweet, which I think sums it up very well. David Rayaboy, I'm not totally

00:33:12.440 sure how to pronounce it. He's a national security expert. He said this on Twitter. The first word is

00:33:17.220 an expletive. It says expletive you BuzzFeed News. Imagine if you would that what we're talking or that

00:33:23.880 we're talking about a jihadi. They wouldn't want to dig too deeply into his reading material. Certainly, 0.92

00:33:28.740 of course, it's not about Ben Shapiro. It's about making even the most mainstream conservative

00:33:33.960 voices akin to Nazism. And he is exactly right. We have talked about this before. This is media's

00:33:40.540 purposeful game is that they put something out there that lumps someone like Ben Shapiro or another

00:33:46.660 mainstream thoughtful conservative. They lump him in with extremists. They lump him in with Nazism.

00:33:52.360 They lump him in with white supremacists or they lump any mainstream mainstream conservative

00:33:57.600 into this group. Even if they retract it later, they understand that the original damage has been

00:34:03.980 done and they do not care when they retract these stories or when they make an edit, when they

00:34:09.520 have made a mistake and they own up to it. It is not because they are people of integrity. It's because

00:34:15.140 they understand the damage has been done. And later, when people criticize them about it,

00:34:19.860 they can say, hey, well, we apologized. We did what we could. We made the correction.

00:34:24.600 But in reality, they are very proud of the mistake mistake that they deliberately made because they

00:34:32.140 know the impression that it put on people. And this is their strategy to drum up as much outrage and

00:34:38.120 as much fear about mainstream conservatism as they possibly can by lumping them in with Nazis so that

00:34:44.040 more and more people who don't know better start associating Ben Shapiro and start associating

00:34:49.280 mainstream conservatives with extremism so that especially kids will be like, well, I don't want to

00:34:54.460 be a conservative because I'm not a racist. I don't want to be a conservative because I'm not a

00:34:58.780 radical. I'm not an extremist. I don't want to be lumped in with a Nazi. I'm not going to listen to Ben

00:35:03.380 Shapiro because I don't want to be known as a Nazi. That's what they're doing. They're trying to scare

00:35:07.840 people away from people like him. And they would not be doing this if Ben Shapiro didn't have an

00:35:13.760 incredible impact. They know how popular his podcast is. They know how popular his content is. They know that

00:35:19.440 he's having an impact. They know that he's changing people's minds about these things and they want to

00:35:25.340 scare people away from him so they can say, you know what? I don't want to be a bigot. So I don't know

00:35:30.160 what I think, but I know I'm not going to follow Ben Shapiro. And if you think that that's not also going

00:35:34.640 to apply to other mainstream conservatives, to people like me, to other people that you follow that are 0.99

00:35:39.120 mainstream conservatives, you are crazy. More and more, the people who don't know better will start 0.99

00:35:44.160 listening to people like BuzzFeed, start listening to outlets like the Washington Post or whatever

00:35:49.100 that makes it seem like being a conservative, aka believing the things that people have believed

00:35:55.340 for hundreds of years, like small governments, like free markets, like family values, that believing

00:36:02.420 all of these things is radical extreme. So people will be so scared that they won't don't want to

00:36:06.900 associate with that site anymore. You've just got to shut it out. And you've got to realize that these

00:36:12.380 people that are perpetuating misinformation are doing so from a place of evil. They're doing so

00:36:17.800 from a place of deceit. And you it is the onus is on you to be able to separate the truth from a lie.

00:36:28.320 You have to be able to do your own research, to dig into these headlines and to ask yourself,

00:36:33.860 what is really true? And you can't let yourself be affected by these narratives that are orchestrated

00:36:40.780 by people who hate conservatism and hate things that are true. So that is my recommendation to

00:36:48.540 you. It just it dry. It drives me crazy. It drives me crazy. But I thank God that there are people out

00:36:53.780 there like you that are smarter than all of this and hopefully are not duped by headlines. OK, that's

00:37:00.100 all we have time for today. We will be back here on Friday and I will see you then.

00:37:10.780 We will see you then.

00:37:11.780 Bye.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - May 29, 2019

Ep 118 ｜ Abortion, Biden & the Media

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