Ep 196 ｜ Should Porn Be Banned？
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In this episode of Relatable, I talk about the latest impeachment hearings, the Peloton commercial, and why Joe Biden is not running for president in 2020. I also talk about a new law in Kentucky that makes informed consent a part of abortion appointments and why the Democrats are so upset about it.
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Today is Newsday. So we really have no other
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option than to talk about, at least a little bit, about some of the impeachment stuff that
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has been going on this week. I mean, it's absolutely insane. I'm not going to stay forever
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on that topic because there are also a lot of other things that I would like to touch
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on today. I'm going to talk about the Peloton commercial. You guys have been asking my thoughts
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on that. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you will. I will get into it. I am
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also going to touch on a few other news items that I think are important, like the law in
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Kentucky that is making informed consent a part of the appointments that doctors have
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with women who are seeking an abortion, so showing them an ultrasound image and why the
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Democrats are having a conniption over that. We're going to talk about a couple other things
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too. But let's get into some of this impeachment stuff. So guys, guys, guys, if you have been
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trying to avoid this stuff, I do not blame you. We talked about it a couple of weeks ago. I
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tried to give you a rundown of what's happening, all this stuff with Ukraine and quid pro quo,
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and somehow it still connects to the Russia investigation, which was discredited, yet went
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on and on and on. We are back here. If you haven't noticed, since Donald Trump became president,
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they have been trying to delegitimize his presidency, saying that he is not valid, he is not a real
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president, that he somehow stole this election away from the rightful winner of Hillary Clinton.
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Of course, we know that all of their attempts have failed. But yesterday, they finally said,
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OK, we are going to file two articles of impeachment. The first article of impeachment was abuse of power.
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For the second, they say, obstruction of Congress. So here's what the Constitution says about impeachment
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in its impeachment clause. The president, vice president and all civil officers of the United
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States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or other high
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crimes and misdemeanors. So the Democrats in the House are claiming that Trump's actions fall under
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high crimes and misdemeanors, even though they were claiming they have been claiming during all of
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these impeachment hearings, which maybe you haven't caught any of them. I've tried to watch them.
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They have been extremely boring, extremely boring, like and I want to keep up with it because I want
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to be able to relay this information and analyze it for you guys. But guys, I would rather pick out
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every single one of my eyelashes before I sit there and watch another second of these impeachment
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hearings. They are so boring. And I'm sure I'm sure you guys feel the same way. But if you've been
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paying attention just a little bit, you will have known that the Democrats have been saying
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the quid pro quo that they called it the conversation that he had with Ukraine saying,
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hey, you should investigate into Joe Biden. There's some sketchy stuff that went on with his son
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and Burisma and all of this stuff. They're saying that was quid pro quo. That was bribery. While the
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transcript came out, there clearly wasn't a quid pro quo. And the president of Ukraine said,
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no, there wasn't any kind of pressure to investigate Joe Biden. They still said, OK,
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this is bribery. Well, now they've changed the accusation of President Trump from bribery
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to high crimes and misdemeanors, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Democratic Representative
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Jerry Nadler alleged that Trump pressured Ukraine to meddle in our 2020 election, which, as I've already
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said, is not true. Trump telling Ukraine, hey, you should look into Biden is an invitation to meddle
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into our election because Biden is not the nominee. He's not the nominee. He might be the front runner,
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but he's not the nominee. Right now, Trump is not running against Biden. We don't know if Biden is
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going to be the nominee. There is no evidence that an investigation right now into Biden would interfere
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into our election at all. Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren could very well be the nominee.
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This is this kind of accusation then is a sham because we don't actually know if Biden is going
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to be running against Trump. If you want more information on this, you can go back a couple
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of weeks where I did a whole episode or at least a good bit of an episode on this. I remember Biden,
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while he was vice president, actually did threaten to withhold aid from Ukraine.
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If they didn't investigate the prosecutor who was investigating the company that his son was on
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the board of. Yes, that actually happened and is, yes, sketchy. But when you bring these things up,
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Democrats say that, oh, this is just a conspiracy theory. This is a red herring. And you actually
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notice that this is something that Democrats do on a lot. If you bring up a fact that is contrary to
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a narrative that they have presented, that they will just say, oh, that's misinformation. Oh,
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you're spreading lies. Oh, that's that's not true. That's deceptive. That's dangerous, whatever.
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But they won't actually correct the record. So they'll say that something that you're saying
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is a conspiracy, but they won't tell you what's actually true. And that certainly has been
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the case on this. You can read all of the articles in the world on this impeachment stuff.
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What you will find underneath it is that Democrats have been trying to impeach Trump,
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his entire presidency. They have not for a second, like we already noted, been able to accept the
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legitimacy of the 2016 election. They're already trying to undermine the 2020 election. So they're
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already gearing up the narrative for that by saying that he is already trying to interfere
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into the 2020 election. They do this a lot. They still say that Stacey Abrams is the rightful
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governor of Georgia, even though she lost to Brian Kemp by 50,000 votes. They didn't want to accept
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that Ron DeSantis beat Andrew Gillum in Florida. They wouldn't accept George Bush,
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that he beat Al Gore all the way back in 2000. Within that controversy, Democrats claim that
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whenever they lose, it is because it is unfair. It is because it is unjust. It is like when a toddler
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is learning how to compete and they try to we try to teach them how to accept defeat graciously,
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and they're unable to do that. They claim that the person who beat them in a video game or whatever
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cheated. It's the same way many times with Democrats. I'm not saying Republicans are never
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guilty of this, but as we've seen, especially recently in the past few years, this is Democrats
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mode of operation. Whenever they lose, it is because the system is rigged or it is unfair because there
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is foul play. That is why Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats like AOC and so on have said that they want
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to abolish the Electoral College and other liberals have even suggested abolishing the Senate because
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Democrats cannot appeal to the middle of the country. They cannot accept that the middle of
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the country, that people not just in the middle of the country, but everywhere actually support
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Donald Trump, voted for Donald Trump, like his policies. They don't want to conform to the will
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of the people. They instead want the will of the people to conform to them. They would like New York
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and L.A. to and D.C. to control flyover country. And again, we're not just talking about impeachment.
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We're talking about the election in general. We're talking about our structures in this
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republic. You want to know why that's a bad idea to abolish the Electoral College, to subvert the
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will of the people, to abolish the Senate. I'll give you one tweet by this leftist commentator.
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This was actually the beginning of November, and it was hilarious. It was on Twitter. He tweeted,
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this is this is land by the Colorado, Kansas border from a plane. Pretty cool. I have no idea how
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why it looks like this. I don't know if I talked about this actually a couple months ago on the
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podcast, but with that tweet, he posted a picture from the plane where you can see that the land
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looks like a it looks like a collage of of different squares all put together, different
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colored squares. And obviously, obviously, these are farms. Obviously, these are farms. Now,
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this is just deductive reasoning. You would think, OK, where am I? OK, I know that this is farmland.
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I can tell that this maybe looks like a crop. Most people in major cities, though, have no idea.
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This guy got horrifically ratio just by his wonder and amazement that there are farms and crops that
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look different than New York does. This guy got totally dragged through the mud. I think he had
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a pretty good attitude about it, actually. So to his credit. But most people in major cities have
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exactly no idea what goes on in the rest of the country. They are continually astonished that
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people live in a different way. They do have different priorities than they do, think differently,
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believe different things than they do. And instead of just accepting, OK, those people come from
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different backgrounds. They have different experiences that shape their beliefs. They
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automatically think anyone who believes more conservatively than they do or who has more
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traditional values that they are bigoted, that they are backwards, that they are antiquated,
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that they are just rooted and stuck in their hate. And if they were just more
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metropolitan, if they were just around more smut as they are in New York City, then maybe,
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possibly they would have more progressive and better and more loving and more tolerant views.
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That's what most people in these coastal cities in New York and D.C. and San Francisco and L.A.,
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that's what they think about the rest of the country, that they are just these backwards
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hillbillies. That's why it's a bad idea to abolish the electoral college, not because I want the
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middle of the country to have preferential treatment, but because I want them to have
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fair treatment. I want them to have fair representation. I want them to have representative
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leadership. That's why we live in a representative democracy, not a direct democracy. You constantly
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hear Democrats nowadays talking about democracy, democracy, democracy, trying to make it seem like
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they are on the side of freedom. What they're talking about is the tyranny of the majority, where
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the tiny, tiny sliver of majority controls the rest of the country. So New York and L.A.
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and D.C. and San Francisco, I know I went coast to coast to coast to coast. They're controlling
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the rest of the country, no matter where you live. The system that we have now, the representative
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democracy that we have now makes sure that the less populous states, typically in the
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middle of the country, typically rural states, have a say. But Democrats don't want that.
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They say they want a direct democracy. Our country is not a direct democracy. And there
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is a reason for that. That's part of the genius of the foundings of the founding. But the far
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left Democrats, they don't want to be bothered with those kinds of people. They don't want
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to be bothered with people like you and me. They don't want to try to convince us. They
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certainly don't want to try to debate us. They don't want to try to hold any kind of hearing
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for our views or have any kind of productive conversation or dialogue. We've certainly seen
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that in the past few years. And this whole impeachment sham shows the utter disdain
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that many Democrats, not all, but many Democrats have for people who voted for Donald Trump and
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particularly for people in the middle of the country, people who don't have the same views
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that they do. They hate the president so much that they are willing to subvert the will of the people
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who voted for him. And look, if there were something here, if there were something here,
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I would be for impeachment. And I am willing to hear the other side of this. I am willing,
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if you've got a good case to make for impeachment, email me, message me. Like,
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I am totally willing to hear it. I would like to be on the side of truth, not just on the side of
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part of partisanship, but I just haven't heard it. It seems all flimsy. And after watching how hard
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they have tried for the past few years to take this president down based on basically nothing,
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it's just hard for me to believe. It's like the boy who cried wolf. This is obviously out of fear
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that Donald Trump is going to win in 2020. Uh, they know that he is not actually going to be
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removed though. There will be a Senate trial. Senate is controlled by Republicans. And so again,
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you can be impeached without actually being removed. They will be able to say that Trump
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was impeached though. I think that's probably their strategy. I talked about this in my conversation
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with Andrew Clavin on Friday, that this is probably a PR strategy that if they can just label him as an
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impeached president, they will get enough people to say, Oh, I, I don't want to vote for the guy who
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was impeached. And I know there are a lot of people, particularly a lot of probably suburban moms,
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a lot of young people who aren't paying attention to this. And the only reason I say that is because
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you have a lot of other things going on. If you are a mom of three young kids, if you are a young
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person who is in school, I would say people who are, there are a lot of people who go to work and have
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the news on in the background, or they're reading some kind of, uh, aggregative news in the morning.
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But I would say for a lot of moms who feel like they don't have time to pay attention to the stuff
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or who don't care about this stuff. A lot of kids in college, uh, they're not paying attention to the
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impeachment hearings. They might not even know they're going on. And yet in a few months when
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they're thinking about, okay, who am I going to vote for in this election? They just know, okay,
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this guy was impeached. And at that point, the facts get so muddled, the longer it is.
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I think that Democrats believe that having the label of impeachment on him will be enough to
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deter the people who aren't paying attention to what's going on right now to not vote for him.
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The people in the middle, they're just going to say, you know, I don't, I don't want to vote for
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an impeached president. He must be corrupt, right? I think that is their goal to just draw a conclusion
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and hope people will draw their own conclusions based on this conclusion, which is not based on
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any actual logical argument or a fact. Democrats are always depending on deception in order to make
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their point. I won't say Democrats. I would say the left is always depending on deception and
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manipulation to make their point. As Dennis Prager says, truth is not a left-wing value. Narrative is a
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left-wing value. And they are very good and very effective at pushing a narrative. Facts be darned.
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And this is the Democratic strategy. Okay. That's all I have to say on that. You've got the
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IG report. You've got James Comey claiming that he was supposed to go on Fox and Friends and Fox and
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Friends canceled him. Fox and Friends said, no, that actually wasn't true. He was never booked or
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confirmed for Fox and Friends, which I believe I was really surprised anyway that James Comey would be
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going on Fox and Friends in the first place. And then a lot of other Fox hosts like Brett Baird and
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Martha McCallum said, hey, you can come on our show and talk about the IG report. Like, we're more than
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happy to have you. James Comey tried to pretend like Fox News was so scared to talk to him about the IG
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report. The IG report doesn't look good for the FBI. I can tell you that much. The IG report examined
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how the Russian investigation originally started and whether it was legitimate or biased or whether there
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were mistakes made. And basically, the conclusion was that they couldn't prove any kind of bias against
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President Trump, but that there was a lot of sloppiness in the startup of the investigation, especially
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under James Comey. So if you want more details on that, there are lots of resources. You can go to the
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blaze.com. They have plenty of resources on the IG report and everything that kind of went wrong there. I want to
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move along, though, because I promised you guys that we wouldn't spend the entire episode on that. And
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quite frankly, there are so many details, so many details to get into that it would just take too
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long. And I don't want to bore you guys. Like I said, this impeachment stuff is really boring. I think
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we're just going to move past it. And it's more going to have the my prediction. It's more going to
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have the Kavanaugh effect that people are galvanized by this in the in the way that Democrats don't want
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that people are incensed. People are like, really, you are going to spend our taxpayer dollars
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on this dragging this man through the mud, impeaching him for something that isn't really
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impeachable. I think that's the effect that it's going to have. I think it's going to backfire
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on the Democrats. OK, I want to tell you a bit of good news. I know we talk about abortion so much,
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but it's so important. And it's not every day that we get good news about it. So Kentucky passed or
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OK, let me let me read you from liveaction.com because it'll have the most accurate language.
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The Kentucky law requires the Kentucky law that we're talking about requires that women have an
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ultrasound before undergoing an abortion. The doctor must describe the ultrasound and offer
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the women the chance to hear the audio of the heartbeat. She is not required to see the images
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or listen. But as live action investigation found, women are not typically given the truth by abortion
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staffers about fetal development. Of course not. Of course they're not. They call it pregnancy tissue
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and things like that, because if women were given accurate information, there would be a greater
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chance that they might change their mind and leave. And that tells you everything you need
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to know about the abortion industry. Again, they operate on deceit. The Supreme Court has refused
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to hear a challenge to Kentucky's informed consent requirements, therefore upholding the law and
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signifying another win for the pro-life movement. Previously, a federal appeals court upheld the law
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only to have the decision appealed by the ACLU. The ultrasound informed consent act was passed in 2017.
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It was originally overturned by a lower court after the ACLU challenged it. However, after a challenge
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from the state, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling rejecting the idea that the law
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challenged doctors' free speech rights. Of course not. It is just a part of the process now that you
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have an ultrasound. The doctor has to use the ultrasound anyway, because before an abortion, the
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doctor needs to see how far along you are to know what kind of abortion the doctor is going to have to
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perform to kill the baby. So now the only difference is they are offering this woman the opportunity to
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hear the heartbeat, which exists, it is a tangible thing that is really there, and to see the baby.
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So it's just more information. That's all this law requires, is that this woman is given as much
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information as humanly possible before she makes a big decision that will affect her, whether she
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believes it or not, whether the pro-choice side wants you to believe it or not, for the rest of
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her life. And it tells you something about the pro-abortion side that they are against informed
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consent, that they are against the woman knowing what is actually going on inside her body. If you're
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really about pro-choice, like if you were really about a woman making the best decision for her,
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you would want her to have all of the options possible. You would want her to have all of the
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information possible, right? But unfortunately, they're against that because, again, they are pro-abortion.
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That's why we say pro-abortion and not pro-choice. So let's move on from that. There is a great porn
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debate going on. Not a great porn debate, as in like, it's great. It is substantial. It is not
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necessarily a fun debate because it's kind of a sad debate, the different sides that we see going on.
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But there is a major porn debate that is going on online, and it started from four Republican
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representatives. This is according to National Review. Four Republican representatives have sent
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a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr this morning calling on the Department of Justice to enforce
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obscenity laws as a means of reducing hardcore pornography that meets the legal task for
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obscenity, especially pornography involving children. No-brainer. Duh. Of course, this is for the best
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interest of the country. The letter, signed by Jim Banks of Indiana, Mark Meadows of North Carolina,
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Vicki Hartzler of Missouri, and Brian Babin of Texas, was provided exclusively to National Review and
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Reminds the Justice Department of Donald Trump's promise as a presidential candidate to enforce
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obscenity laws against the porn industry. The internet, this is, the representatives write this
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in their letter to Bill Barr. The internet and other evolving technologies are fueling the explosion of
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obscene pornography by making it more accessible and visceral. This explosion in pornography coincides
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with an increase in violence towards women and an increase in the volume of human trafficking as well
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as child pornography. This is absolutely right. Representative Banks said this in a comment to
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the National Review. As online obscenity and pornography consumption have increased, so too is
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violence towards women. Overall volume of human trafficking has increased and is now the third
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largest criminal enterprise in the world. Child pornography is on the rise as one of the fastest
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growing online businesses with an annual revenue of over three billion dollars. The United States has nearly
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50% of all commercialized child pornography websites. Let me save that again. The United States has nearly
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50% of all commercialized child pornography websites. Pornography is ubiquitous in our culture and our
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children are being exposed at younger ages. Nine in every 10 boys under the age of 18 have seen porn.
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Children, and I think the number, he doesn't include this, but I think the number is six in every 10
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girls. Under the age of 18 have seen porn. Children are struggling with pornography addiction. Under
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President Obama's administration, the National Review goes on to say, under President Obama's
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administration, Attorney General Eric Holder disbanded the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force in the
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Criminal Division of the Justice Department, which had prioritized prosecuting obscenity cases.
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Eric Holder disbanded the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force in the Criminal Division of the Justice
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Department. So that tells you something that you need to know. Fightthenewdrug.org. It's a nonpartisan,
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non-religious organization. You will see the research on how pornography is intertwined with sex
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trafficking, with child exploitation, with abuse, with rape, with coercion. It also coincides with
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violent mentalities in young boys, especially towards women. I mean, for the side that constantly
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talks about the problem with rape and misogyny, which, by the way, we should all be talking about
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that no matter which side you're on, but especially the left with the Me Too and the Time's Up movement,
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parts of it I agree with, parts of it I don't necessarily agree with, by the way. But for the
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side that is acting so concerned about that, they are amazingly pro-pornography. You are going to be
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hard-pressed to find someone on the left who is against pornography or who is even for a regulating
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pornography. I mean, they love regulations on everything except for on abortion and pornography,
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so that tells you where their priorities are. It is, like I said, mostly leftists that are fighting for
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the normalization, for even the glorification of pornography, because just like their views on
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abortion, on sexuality, on gender, all of those things indicate most people on the left do not
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view human beings as made in the image of God and having inherent value in and of themselves. So
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the only thing that they think matters is autonomy, is making a choice. So if someone is making a choice,
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then morale, any other kind of morality doesn't actually count. What they don't account for is the
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fact that a lot of people who are involved in pornography, unfortunately, do not have, do not have a
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choice. But either way, whether it's someone's choice or not, it is still immoral. It is the
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objectification of image bearers, and it is decontextualizing sex from its intended purpose
00:23:22.100
within marriage to something that it should not be strictly for gratification in a way that is
00:23:28.660
not healthy gratification, but actually leads to psychological problems in the people that watch it
00:23:33.920
and the people that are performing in it. But there are also conservatives. There are also conservatives
00:23:39.520
who have a problem with any kind of regulation of porn as well. If you go to Matt Walsh's page,
00:23:44.680
she was in a conversation with a few different people about this. And I mean, the angry, angry,
00:23:50.840
angry Twitter warriors who claim to be conservatives, who I guess are conservatives in their views,
00:23:56.800
getting so worked up and mad at Matt Walsh for saying that there should be censorship,
00:24:03.140
there should be regulation of pornography. They say free speech, they say small government.
00:24:08.360
But here's the thing. Conservatives don't just believe in small government. Yes,
00:24:13.340
we do believe in limited government. That is a value that we have. But we don't believe in no
00:24:17.740
government involvement at all. We believe that we are only as good. Most conservatives believe this.
00:24:23.820
We are only as good as the structures that we uphold. So we believe in things like preserving the
00:24:28.600
family and protecting children from obscenity and exploitation. Yes, it is ultimately the responsibility
00:24:35.680
of parents to protect their children. Absolutely. I am in no way saying that that is the state's
00:24:42.040
primary obligation or responsibility. Yes, it is absolutely up to parents. But when we're talking
00:24:49.360
about not just children being able to access pornography so easily, whether it's on their
00:24:53.740
phone or their tablet or YouTube, I mean, this happens when kids are watching something on YouTube,
00:24:58.840
something automatically pops up without the parent knowing it. And bam, they're five years old,
00:25:03.560
and they've already been they've already been subjected to pornography. Unfortunately,
00:25:07.160
that happens. And yes, parents can use all the parental controls in the world. And something
00:25:11.280
like that could still happen. So that's one side of it. But the other side of it is that the children
00:25:15.220
that are involved. And yes, people say, oh, well, that's already illegal. Child pornography is already
00:25:22.280
illegal. But the commercialization of pornography aids child pornography. Of course it does. Now, there are
00:25:30.960
people who say that while regulating it or banning porn is just going to lead to some kind of black
00:25:40.120
market for it. It's going to make it so much more dangerous for the people who are involved.
00:25:44.820
You're guaranteeing that there are going to be more children exploited. You're guaranteeing that there's
00:25:50.440
going to be more sex trafficking involved with the black market porn industry. But okay, that is the
00:25:56.780
argument for everything. Conservatives who are making this argument, that's the argument for
00:26:01.020
everything. You can make that argument about abortion. You can make that argument about
00:26:05.160
assisted suicide. You can make that argument about everything. So basically, if you go down that trail
00:26:12.460
of reasoning, are you saying that there really should be no laws because regulating something or banning
00:26:17.860
something just makes it more dangerous for everyone involved? Yes, that's true about some things.
00:26:23.480
Of course, we believe that's true about guns, that banning guns actually isn't going to help.
00:26:28.120
People are still going to find a way to kill people. People are still going to find a way
00:26:31.420
to buy guns. But we have a constitutional right to own guns. We don't have the constitutional right
00:26:36.620
to watch porn or to have porn be so ubiquitous in our society. It doesn't make sense for obscene
00:26:45.460
pornography, which all pornography really is obscene, but they're talking about hardcore pornography,
00:26:50.200
whatever that means. It doesn't make any sense for that to fall under the First Amendment's
00:26:54.820
protection of free speech. And in fact, it was never intended to. Conservatives, yes,
00:27:02.100
believe in limited government. We don't believe in anarchy. We do believe that there is a reason for
00:27:07.640
the government, that there is a reason for laws, that there is a reason sometimes for regulation.
00:27:13.500
And yes, does it start with the heart? Absolutely. Does it start with the individual? Does it start
00:27:17.500
with families and communities and societies? Yes, we simply believe the government should do the job
00:27:22.540
that they, the best job that they possibly can to uphold the structures that make it possible
00:27:26.280
for us to protect our children as much as possible, because we do believe that that is our
00:27:31.680
responsibility. Now, of course, the other argument is, or it's really in all of this is, okay, but this
00:27:40.740
is, there's always going to be a supply of pornography as long as there is a demand for pornography.
00:27:45.200
That's the same argument that the pro-abortion side says that you're just, you know, forcing
00:27:50.140
women to have abortions at home or in back alleys or whatever. Yes, that is true, which is why we as
00:27:56.220
Christians have a responsibility, have a responsibility to see all of these things as primarily a heart
00:28:02.860
issue, as primarily a spiritual issue. That's why it is so important for us to share the gospel,
00:28:10.040
first and foremost in our homes with our children, with the people that we know, to be the body of
00:28:16.900
Christ, to share Christ to those around us, because he is the only one who can regenerate. He is the
00:28:22.100
only one that can renew. He's the only one that can make new, that can redeem. He is the only one that
00:28:27.540
changes the heart of stone to a heart of flesh. He is the only one that can fully and finally change
00:28:32.920
someone's desires from desiring something like the objectification of pornography to desiring
00:28:38.360
something that is pure, a life that is pure to see, to see things that are pure and right and good
00:28:45.560
and true. He is the only one that can change those things. So we know, we understand it's a spiritual
00:28:51.800
responsibility. That doesn't mean that legislation has no role in this at all. It is always balanced
00:28:57.320
between balancing personal freedom with the public good. And we tend to go on the side as conservatives
00:29:06.200
of personal freedom, absolutely, but we are always, we're always going to be weighing those things. And
00:29:12.280
if you have an argument for me that you can tell me that absolute accessibility to hardcore porn is
00:29:19.080
better for children, is better for teens, and is better for family, I'm willing to hear it because I
00:29:25.120
want to do the thing. If it's deregulation that truly helps children and adolescents and people's
00:29:31.920
minds who are being fried by pornography, if deregulation is truly the answer, is truly better
00:29:37.880
for those people, then I want to hear your argument. And I'm willing to hear it. I truly am. So please
00:29:43.920
let me know if you believe that absolute accessibility is better for children and better for society than
00:29:50.060
banning or regulating porn. I'm interested in hearing that. Okay. That's the debate that we're
00:29:57.020
having on porn. And a lot of you have asked me to do a whole episode on porn. Sure. There's a lot of,
00:30:02.060
I think that'd probably be better for an interview. There are people who have been studying pornography
00:30:05.960
and the detrimental effects of pornography on our society for decades, who would probably be a better
00:30:12.700
resource for me. Uh, so I will try to, maybe I can get someone from fight the, fight the new drug
00:30:18.740
to talk about, to talk about all of that because it absolutely affects all of, uh, all of, all of
00:30:25.760
society. There's really no society, part of society that is not touched, unfortunately, by the damages
00:30:30.960
of pornography. Okay. I want to show you, okay, I'm going to show you a couple of videos and then I'm
00:30:36.300
going to talk about the Peloton commercial. And then I have one update of one of my friends,
00:30:39.840
Pastor Tom Ascol, who needs our prayers. Okay. I want to show you this quick video, uh, from Cabot
00:30:47.420
Phillips from campus reform. And he is asking students what they think about Medicare for all.
00:30:54.240
So the main issue that Democrats have taken up and running against president Trump on his healthcare,
00:30:58.020
the policy right now they're proposing is Medicare for all, which is, you know, the idea of
00:31:01.800
government funded healthcare for everyone. Um, is that a concept you view favorably or unfavorably
00:31:06.340
favorably for sure. I do support Medicare for all. I do.
00:31:09.840
I do think that every American deserves healthcare. I do support that. I think it's a
00:31:15.120
important form of universal healthcare. I do support free healthcare for everybody.
00:31:20.160
So the second part, uh, it would eliminate private health insurance, the entire industry.
00:31:24.160
It would be just under a million jobs would be eliminated because all insurance moved to the
00:31:28.480
government. Unfavorably, unfavorably. Unfavorably. And what's your take on that?
00:31:33.120
Um, it does concern me. I think having jobs and being able to make a living and, you know,
00:31:40.720
survive on your own and take care of your family is more important than everybody having healthcare.
00:31:45.120
I think that like the way someone wants to ensure their life and their health is their choice.
00:31:49.680
In the Bernie Sanders proposal, it would be about $32 trillion over the next decade. Um, that would be,
00:31:55.040
uh, every American paying about one fifth of their income towards funding it.
00:31:59.440
Is that a concern? Yes. You have to pay for it. Yes. So taxes will go up.
00:32:05.920
You still have to pay for it. I don't support that. I mean, I'm not paying for taxes currently,
00:32:10.720
so that kind of, I can say favorable, I guess, but if I were financially on my own,
00:32:15.920
I'd probably say unfavorable. Is that too much money do you think? And would,
00:32:19.520
would that change your support of it? No comment. I'm going to take that as a,
00:32:24.720
you don't like that. No comment. That's incredible. That's incredible. I,
00:32:29.520
I love these kinds of videos and Cabot really is, he's the best. He's the best at these kinds of
00:32:34.400
videos. I think that people like to, I think that he is unintimidating. And so people are comfortable
00:32:41.200
around Cabot answering questions and he just does a really good job of kind of leveling with people,
00:32:45.360
not making them feel stupid, not condescending them, but giving the answer that he wants to get.
00:32:49.280
And it's so true of so many young people that they like the sound of policies that seem compassionate,
00:32:56.080
but when they realize that every leftist policy involves coercion and involves the limitation of
00:33:02.400
freedom, which is also a value that young people have, they start to backtrack a little bit,
00:33:06.560
which is why it's so important for us to, uh, to point that out and to highlight the limitations
00:33:11.680
on freedom that leftist policies have, because all of these people say they're, you know,
00:33:16.400
they're pro-choice they're against, they're against the, they're against the man they're
00:33:22.080
against authoritarianism, all of that. And so when you tell them, well, these leftist policies
00:33:26.000
like Medicare for all, they actually, they limit your choice. Then it makes them start thinking
00:33:32.320
differently. And this is true. Like I've already said of like every leftist policy out there,
00:33:37.920
at least right now. Yes. Everyone's pro-choice until they actually know what an abortion is.
00:33:43.040
Everyone is on, is on, on the same page for Medicare for all. Everyone is on board for
00:33:48.560
Medicare for all until they find out what Medicare for all actually is. Everyone's on board for
00:33:52.400
socialism until they find out what socialism actually is, which is why the left censors speech,
00:33:57.040
which is why they just gaslight you and say, well, you're just spreading misinformation.
00:34:01.520
That's not true. When you point out facts about these things, they do not want you to actually know
00:34:06.720
what socialism or Medicare for all or abortion or any of these things actually entail. They don't want
00:34:12.640
you to pick apart their details. They don't want you to inconvenience them with facts. They want to
00:34:18.240
hide under euphemisms as much as they possibly can, because that's how they win. That's their
00:34:23.600
effective PR strategy. And that's why I say conservatives have a much easier job in a way,
00:34:30.160
because all we have to do is remember what's true. It's much harder, harder to remember a lie,
00:34:34.120
but it's also harder because you're fighting against misinformation and euphemisms all of the time.
00:34:39.160
People who are constantly gaslighting you telling you that you're not telling the truth.
00:34:43.000
Okay. Uh, that's one video. The next video is this sweet video of President Trump. Uh,
00:35:02.520
this was the American Israeli council. I think that's what it is, or Israeli American council. And, uh,
00:35:31.240
this was a group from Israel. All of these kids have different special needs and he's just so
00:35:36.600
comfortable with them. I have spent a lot of time around people with special needs. And I can tell
00:35:40.360
you that even very good people, very, and by that, I mean, you know, they're compassionate people.
00:35:46.280
They're nice people. They're kind people. They, most people feel very awkward around people with
00:35:53.160
special needs. They don't know what to do with their hands. They don't know how to talk to them.
00:35:57.720
They don't know the tone of voice to use. They don't know what to say to them. They don't want
00:36:01.480
to sound patronizing. They don't want to, you know, say the wrong thing. And so most people are
00:36:06.040
just very standoffish or they start talking to people with special needs like babies. And I can
00:36:11.800
tell you neither one of those options is good. And to see President Trump just so comfortable,
00:36:17.480
so comfortable in this kind of situation, it's heartwarming. I don't care who you are. I don't care
00:36:22.680
what side of the aisle you're on. You might have problems with President Trump. That is fine.
00:36:26.440
This was sweet. Let's just accept the purity of this moment of President Trump being so welcoming
00:36:32.280
and so kind and so warm towards these people who clearly admire him and who maybe haven't seen this
00:36:38.680
kind of acceptance from very many people throughout their lives. I mean, to get a hug by the President
00:36:43.800
of the United States like this, that is so natural. I love it. I love to see it. President Trump's campaign.
00:36:49.720
If any of you connected to President Trump are listening to me, this is the Donald Trump that we
00:36:54.120
need to see more of more of this. Now, I am not advocating for exploiting people with special needs
00:36:59.960
for political gains. I'm just saying we need to highlight Trump's compassion, highlight the fact
00:37:05.720
that he has a big heart, highlight the fact that he cares about people because, you know,
00:37:09.800
I know the guy says a lot of things, but I actually truly do think that he is an empathetic and
00:37:14.760
compassionate person. I really do. I really do. I do. I do. I do not buy that. He is some
00:37:20.360
virulent racist that doesn't care about doesn't care about people based on the color of their skin
00:37:26.200
or their socioeconomic status. I just don't buy that. He's worked with too many different kinds
00:37:29.880
of people throughout his life. You can have lots of problems with Donald Trump, but I'm just not buying
00:37:35.160
that line of reasoning, not based on this one video, but just based in general. So President,
00:37:40.200
based on facts in general, uh, President Trump and his campaign, this is what we need to see
00:37:45.960
more of. This is what moms, the suburban moms that you are at risk of losing. This is what they want
00:37:51.480
to see. They want to see that you are compassionate. They want to see that you have a soft heart.
00:37:55.480
They want to see that you are warm hearted, that you are generous, that you can be this kind,
00:38:00.600
caring guy because they might not like everything they see at the rallies or on Twitter, which I
00:38:06.200
understand that's part of your persona that might be important for a part of your base,
00:38:09.580
but there are other people over here that want to like you, want to support you,
00:38:13.420
but they need to see some kind of morality, what they view as morality from you. They want to see
00:38:21.980
some kind of, uh, compassion. So we need more of that. Last thing, Peloton commercial. So if you
00:38:29.100
haven't seen the Peloton commercial, I don't really want to play it because it's a couple minutes long.
00:38:33.340
So it's basically this woman who was gifted a Peloton bike by her husband last Christmas. And it's
00:38:39.420
an actress portraying this and you know, poor thing. This is maybe her big break. She was
00:38:44.540
excited about this Peloton commercial. It just wasn't a very well done commercial. And I think
00:38:49.500
I might've talked about this a little bit on the podcast a couple of days ago, but anyway,
00:38:54.300
so she is decides that her gift for her husband the next year is going to be a compilation of selfie
00:39:02.860
videos that she took of herself, riding her bike for the past year and showing it to her husband
00:39:09.980
at the next Christmas. This was supposed to be inspiring. It was not inspiring at all. Again,
00:39:16.620
nothing against this actress and maybe nothing against the concept itself, but there were so
00:39:24.140
many problems with it. First of all, she was already thin, which that's totally fine, but you don't see
00:39:28.700
any progress. You don't see any backstory. It's not like we know that she has some chronic illness
00:39:33.020
or that she has some disease that she's overcoming or she has some fear or anxiety that she's overcoming
00:39:38.380
in her year long journey. It's literally just a woman who looks extremely fit and who's looks
00:39:43.420
extremely fit at the end of the year to showing her husband the video that she made on iMovie.
00:39:48.060
Like that's not a good concept. That's not interesting marketing. I have long said that Peloton needs to do
00:39:56.140
better when it comes to their advertising. There's so much that they can do. I read something that they
00:40:02.380
realized in 2017 or 2018 that they would be able to not just get the people who are extremely wealthy
00:40:10.460
living in metropolitan areas, but they also would be able to attract people who are willing to splurge
00:40:16.620
on something like a Peloton who aren't spending a whole lot of money elsewhere. I think that's absolutely
00:40:20.780
true. If you want to reach those people, you can't just be showing the people who clearly
00:40:26.140
live in a million dollar house and are already skinny like the people who are buying to Peloton.
00:40:31.740
If they are splurging on it and they're investing in it, they are likely doing that in lieu of a gym
00:40:37.580
membership because I would say either for convenience, which is a big reason, but also because they might
00:40:43.740
be intimidated by a gym. Gyms are extremely intimidating or they don't want to do a video,
00:40:48.140
you know, with some kind of circuit, they don't want to run. And so they decided I'm going to do
00:40:52.700
a Peloton. They've got top notch teachers. They don't have to go anywhere. I don't have to be
00:40:56.220
embarrassed. Cycling is really easy. It's low impact. It's really good for people who are out of shape
00:41:01.640
to start with cycling. So you've got a lot of people who are not in shape, who might even have
00:41:06.440
joint issues, who are intimidated by a gym. If you want to reach those people, don't show me someone
00:41:12.400
who's going from skinny to skinny, who doesn't have any problems besides the fact that she was kind of
00:41:16.240
nervous to ride on her stationary bike. Like it just doesn't make any sense. What you need to do
00:41:21.400
is you need to show a variety of people. You need to show the woman who is, uh, maybe she's postpartum
00:41:27.420
and she's trying to get back into shape. You need to show the person who maybe they have some kind of
00:41:33.220
chronic illness or chronic disease that they're trying to get over. You need to show all different
00:41:37.520
walks of life. You need to show the person who's getting up at 4am to ride their Peloton. The person who
00:41:42.800
is coming home from work and they're riding their Peloton coming home at lunch. Maybe they have a
00:41:47.840
night shift and they're riding their Peloton at 8pm. What you need to show is that you can Peloton
00:41:52.560
anywhere that you, or you can't Peloton anywhere. You can only Peloton at home, but you can Peloton no
00:41:58.060
matter what your stage of life is, no matter what you're going through, no matter what your fitness
00:42:03.520
level is, no matter what your goals are, no matter what time of day, no matter what you're wearing,
00:42:09.080
no matter where you have to go next, because Peloton has 10 minute rides, 15 minute rides,
00:42:14.500
30 minute rides, 50, an hour and a half, all different kinds of levels. Some are just fun.
00:42:19.120
Some are really intense. Some are like professional cycling. And so I think that's the appeal. Like you
00:42:25.200
don't know any of that by watching a Peloton commercial. All you think is, oh, this is for
00:42:30.400
rich skinny people. And if you're trying to appeal to everyone else, people who are splurging and saving up
00:42:37.200
for the Peloton rather than people who just have $5,000 to blow, then you need to show that,
00:42:42.620
hey, Peloton's for everyone. Like have a more real commercial. I'm sure if you wanted to show
00:42:48.300
someone's evolution over a year of writing Peloton, you could have probably found someone who has a
00:42:54.500
real story. Like why not just show before and after pictures? Why not interview someone who was like,
00:43:00.840
yeah, I started out, uh, I had never worked out before. I was just wanting to feel stronger. I was
00:43:07.980
wanting to feel more in shape. I got, you know, a bad diagnosis from my doctor about my heart or
00:43:12.340
whatever. He encouraged me to try, uh, the Peloton and I didn't know if I could financially swing it,
00:43:18.100
but I'm so glad that I invested in this because it's paying off, you know, for the rest of my life.
00:43:23.980
Why not show that? This poor marketing company, they're having a hard time. Peloton came out and said,
00:43:29.420
we're revisiting our marketing strategy, considering how often our Peloton ads are
00:43:34.740
parodied. Well, the marketing company isn't doing its job with this ad. Like be real, be real. If
00:43:42.640
there aren't, this makes me think there aren't any stories about Peloton users' lives being changed.
00:43:47.340
And I think that there are. I think that there probably are. I think the Peloton is probably a
00:43:51.800
great bike and I think the teachers are awesome and really fun. I think it's probably a very effective
00:43:56.600
exercise, but the advertising is terrible. And someone, the reason I'm talking about this is
00:44:02.060
because this was talked about on Tucker Carlson show. When someone sent me, it was like, why aren't
00:44:06.440
you talking about this? Cause I went on this Twitter tirade about this, how I have been saying
00:44:12.820
what Peloton should do for their advertising for a long time. And I was tweeting about my different
00:44:19.260
ideas. And I've said, you know what? This is for free. And everyone was like, why are you giving
00:44:22.920
your Peloton ad ideas away for free? Because I'm not in this business. I'm not in this business.
00:44:29.120
Now that I'm talking about this, I think that I did already talk about this, but y'all asked me
00:44:33.360
to talk about it again. So here I am. Because I'm not in this business, but I will one day,
00:44:38.820
maybe if I get out of this, I will think of marketing campaigns for people because it is
00:44:43.260
one of my very few talents in life. So that's all of that, I think. And yes, I am,
00:44:51.400
I'm willing to, I'm willing to render my services to you, Peloton, if you would like to compensate
00:44:57.580
me. But now we all know, we all know if Peloton comes out with a better commercial, it will be
00:45:03.580
because of me and y'all can play them this clip. Okay. Tom Askell. He is an amazing pastor down in
00:45:11.240
Florida. He is the founder of Founders Ministries. I've had him on the podcast before. You should go
00:45:15.220
back and listen to the episode. He passed out this weekend and he was in ICU. And I don't have a
00:45:21.280
whole lot of information right now, but they're an incredible Christian family who have done so
00:45:25.160
much good. And he is just so solid and helps and has helped the faith of so many people. So
00:45:29.320
please pray for the Askells. Please pray for him in particular. I don't, like I said,
00:45:34.120
have any more updates, but I think you can go to his Twitter page. His daughter also has a Twitter
00:45:38.880
page that has been updating, maybe foundersministry.org. They might have an update or
00:45:45.040
foundersministries.org. But please pray for the Askells. Please pray for Drs. Wisdom. Please
00:45:50.400
pray for peace and that he would get better and make a full recovery. He just welcomed their latest
00:45:55.640
grandbaby this year. And so I know they have an entire family that's hurting and praying right now.
00:46:00.300
So just keep them in your prayers. This is a longer podcast. There's just always so much going on.
00:46:04.980
But I hope you guys enjoyed it and I will see you back here on Friday.