Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 210 ｜ Taylor, You Need to Calm Down

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable.

00:00:01.720 Happy Friday.

00:00:02.800 I hope everyone has had a wonderful week

00:00:05.020 and is excited about going into the weekend.

00:00:07.800 So on Fridays, we typically do an interview,

00:00:10.640 but today is going to be a little bit different

00:00:12.480 because there was so much that went on this week.

00:00:15.060 I wanted to be able to cover it in a timely manner.

00:00:18.700 And then on Monday, I'm going to have an interview

00:00:21.480 with a woman by the name of Doreen Virtue.

00:00:24.160 Guys, probably the most important interview

00:00:27.440 I have ever done.

00:00:29.440 We're talking about the new age, what the new age is.

00:00:32.380 She was not only a proponent of the new age,

00:00:34.500 she taught the new age.

00:00:35.500 She was in the new age.

00:00:36.960 She was in the depths of the new age

00:00:38.920 and promulgated this stuff for years of her life,

00:00:42.100 had millions of followers

00:00:43.660 because of what she taught in new age practices.

00:00:47.040 And then she came to the Lord.

00:00:48.200 And so she is going to shed light

00:00:49.860 on all of the ways that the new age manifests itself today

00:00:53.140 and why it is so dangerous.

00:00:54.660 And it's going to surprise you.

00:00:56.140 It's going to give you insight.

00:00:57.160 It might even offend you just a little bit,

00:00:59.440 but all in love.

00:01:02.120 She speaks the truth and love so well.

00:01:03.940 I'm so excited for you to hear that interview.

00:01:06.820 So please tune in on Monday in my conversation with Doreen.

00:01:11.360 Now, today we're going to touch on a few things.

00:01:14.380 So we're going to talk about President Trump being acquitted.

00:01:17.480 We're going to touch on that and Mitt Romney's vote.

00:01:20.500 We will talk about the State of the Union just a little bit

00:01:23.480 and Nancy Pelosi's reaction.

00:01:25.200 We'll talk about the Iowa caucus and the results,

00:01:28.880 at least that I have right now as I'm recording this on Thursday.

00:01:31.820 And then we will talk about Taylor Swift's documentary on Netflix

00:01:37.260 that you guys have been asking me to talk about for a long time.

00:01:41.160 We are going to get into that.

00:01:43.640 Okay, let's get into today's episode.

00:01:46.140 So President Trump, if you didn't know this,

00:01:48.840 he was impeached by the House

00:01:50.560 and then it moved over to the Senate

00:01:52.480 and there was all this back and forth about this.

00:01:55.240 We've talked about it.

00:01:56.040 I had an interview with Andrew Klavan several weeks ago

00:01:58.560 where we talked about impeachment.

00:02:00.540 I did at least part of an episode on impeachment

00:02:03.700 a few weeks ago when this was happening.

00:02:06.260 I talked to Marsha Blackburn last week about this.

00:02:09.840 And so you can go listen to that episode last Friday

00:02:12.320 to give us a sense of what's going on.

00:02:14.380 I also recommended a podcast called Verdict with Ted Cruz.

00:02:17.740 It's Michael Knowles.

00:02:18.580 It's Ted Cruz.

00:02:19.260 Lindsey Graham was on there one time.

00:02:21.300 And I think that that podcast,

00:02:22.780 I don't always recommend other podcasts

00:02:24.800 because I want you listening to Relatable as much as possible.

00:02:27.380 But Verdict did a really good job

00:02:29.500 and is doing a really good job of breaking down the impeachment process,

00:02:32.900 why it even started in the first place,

00:02:34.880 what's gone on, what the Senate has tried to do,

00:02:37.620 what's been the back and forth in this whole thing.

00:02:39.500 So the Senate has voted to acquit President Trump.

00:02:42.420 Now, what you're going to hear from people who support President Trump

00:02:45.260 is that President Trump was exonerated.

00:02:46.960 So when you're acquitted, that doesn't necessarily mean that you're exonerated.

00:02:51.880 President Clinton was also acquitted.

00:02:53.980 That doesn't mean that he was exonerated.

00:02:56.520 So President Trump still could have done something wrong in his call with Ukraine,

00:03:02.580 but he was acquitted of whatever he did.

00:03:06.440 It just means that the Senate does not believe,

00:03:09.140 at least the people who voted to acquit him,

00:03:10.800 the senators who voted to acquit him do not believe that what he did in the call with Ukraine

00:03:15.880 qualified as a high crime or misdemeanor that solicits impeachment.

00:03:21.720 Now, the one rogue Republican senator who decided that he was going to vote

00:03:26.880 to not just to remove Trump from office,

00:03:30.280 so I probably need to explain that just a little bit.

00:03:34.040 But OK, I'll get to that in a second.

00:03:35.680 It was Mitt Romney.

00:03:36.580 So he was Republican senator from Utah.

00:03:39.020 He decided to vote to remove Trump from office.

00:03:42.000 He's gotten a ton of backlash because of that,

00:03:45.120 obviously, because, of course, most Republicans support Donald Trump

00:03:49.860 and most Republicans in the Senate besides him have decided that Trump did not commit a crime

00:03:55.720 that solicits a removal from office.

00:03:58.640 Now, impeachment and removal from office are two different things.

00:04:02.360 Someone asked me on Instagram, OK, was President Trump impeached or was he not impeached?

00:04:06.340 So impeached doesn't actually mean that you are removed from office.

00:04:11.400 It means there is going to be a somewhat of a trial in the Senate to see if what you did was worthy of removal from office.

00:04:19.340 But they have decided this and it has decided that, no, what he did,

00:04:23.660 even though he will be eternally impeached, he will always be an impeached president.

00:04:27.380 He will not actually be removed from office, at least not right now.

00:04:31.500 Now, of course, the House is probably going to keep going and whatever strategy they have to if they can't remove Trump from office,

00:04:39.300 they're going to do whatever they can to muddy his name.

00:04:42.600 I don't know how it's possible for them to go to a greater length to try to hurt President Trump.

00:04:49.500 But I think that this is a political miscalculation.

00:04:52.840 Obviously, the Russian collusion thing didn't work.

00:04:55.560 Obviously, the impeachment thing didn't work.

00:04:58.140 And his approval ratings are really good right now, like the best they've ever been,

00:05:02.960 which I just think is embarrassing for the Democrats that they have tried so hard.

00:05:07.180 They have fought tooth and nail since the day after he got elected to say that this is an illegitimate president,

00:05:12.700 that he was helped by the Russians, that he colluded with the Russians,

00:05:17.740 that everything that he has done has been impeachable.

00:05:21.620 I mean, they've been talking about impeachment for so long, so long before this Ukraine call,

00:05:26.200 which is why it was so laughable that they actually considered this a solemn and sober

00:05:31.460 and serious and sad and sorrowful thing like they've been saying that it is.

00:05:35.940 They've been talking about impeachment far longer than this impeachment process has been going on.

00:05:41.160 So they've been looking for something.

00:05:43.140 And whenever someone is looking for a reason to get you out of office,

00:05:47.120 it kind of takes away their credibility just a little bit, don't you think?

00:05:50.640 Don't you think?

00:05:51.320 And so it's all just kind of been a political show.

00:05:54.000 Now, again, we can look at the call that President Trump had with the president of Ukraine,

00:05:58.380 and we could say, you know, we don't we don't like that.

00:06:00.220 We don't like that he asked them to investigate Joe Biden.

00:06:03.800 But again, that doesn't necessarily that doesn't solicit removal from office.

00:06:09.980 It doesn't solicit even impeachment.

00:06:11.600 We know that this is just a partisan show.

00:06:13.780 We can criticize him.

00:06:14.960 We can criticize.

00:06:15.800 We can say we don't like his foreign policy.

00:06:17.840 We don't like the call.

00:06:18.720 We think it was kind of smarmy.

00:06:20.500 That's all fine.

00:06:21.520 That still is not a justification for impeachment or removal from office.

00:06:24.880 But Senator Mitt Romney thought differently, and he cited his own convictions.

00:06:29.400 He said that he is accountable to God before he's accountable to this president or accountable

00:06:34.900 to this political party.

00:06:36.460 And I might be I know that I am kind of outside of the mainstream conservative thought on this,

00:06:43.500 but I just don't really care.

00:06:45.880 Like a lot of people are up in arms about this.

00:06:48.360 Like his invitation to CPAC got revoked.

00:06:50.880 There are people that are saying that he needs to be ousted from the Republican Party and that

00:06:55.440 he needs to resign.

00:06:56.980 I'm just not quite on that page.

00:07:00.340 Like I disagree with him and I don't really buy his whole spiel that, okay, this has to

00:07:07.400 do with his faith and his convictions because he's been very wishy-washy.

00:07:10.860 Like he was a pretty liberal Republican governor of Massachusetts, and then he switched some of

00:07:16.540 his so-called convictions when he became a senator from Utah.

00:07:20.620 He comes from a pretty impressive pedigree of politicians doing a similar thing to what

00:07:27.080 he's done.

00:07:27.500 He has flip-flopped on a lot.

00:07:28.900 He has gone back and forth on abortion, on his thoughts on gay marriage.

00:07:32.820 And so it's a little bit difficult to take in his the spiel that he is giving right now

00:07:40.500 that this is about putting country over party.

00:07:42.580 This is about putting faith over party.

00:07:44.320 Again, maybe that's totally true.

00:07:46.060 And whether it's true or not, like I'm fine with it.

00:07:49.460 I just don't really care.

00:07:51.020 And I don't really understand the absolute anger and ire that people are feeling towards

00:07:56.640 Mitt Romney right now.

00:07:57.880 Again, I disagree with him.

00:07:59.420 But okay, like President Trump was acquitted and it's fine.

00:08:03.860 And we can disagree with Mitt Romney all we want to.

00:08:06.380 We can even say his character is questionable if people want to do that.

00:08:10.680 That's fine.

00:08:12.060 But the outright hatred and the animosity and the vitriol that people are showing towards

00:08:18.520 him because he made a decision that I'm sure that he thought a lot about whether or not

00:08:22.580 we think that Mitt Romney was right.

00:08:24.440 Like, I'm sure he thought a lot about this and he knew that it wasn't going to be popular.

00:08:29.100 I don't think that he's someone who is trying to appease liberals or trying to appease the

00:08:33.300 liberal media.

00:08:34.020 Like, he knows that that's a losing battle.

00:08:36.780 But I so I just don't understand the absolute anger towards him.

00:08:40.400 Like, I don't care.

00:08:41.100 Like, I don't I just don't care.

00:08:42.260 I don't care what Mitt Romney does.

00:08:43.740 And I'm not going to proverbially like condemn him to hell just because he made a decision

00:08:50.080 that I happen to disagree with and a lot of Republicans disagree with.

00:08:53.000 It just seems petty.

00:08:54.780 And again, like, we can't always complain about the divisiveness in our country.

00:08:59.180 We can't always complain about how the left and the liberals, they will malign you personally.

00:09:05.780 They will launch ad hominem attacks if you do something that they disagree with.

00:09:12.240 And then we do the same thing ourselves when someone that we disagree with does something

00:09:18.620 that we don't like.

00:09:19.300 I know that was kind of repetitive, but you know what I'm saying.

00:09:22.420 So I don't know.

00:09:23.480 I just don't think I just don't think it's right.

00:09:25.640 The way that people are absolutely tearing him down.

00:09:28.600 So that's what's happened with President Trump.

00:09:30.960 That's what's happened with Mitt Romney.

00:09:32.420 If you're wondering what the drama was and all of that, President Trump acquitted, people

00:09:36.640 will say exonerated.

00:09:38.160 It's the same thing with the Russian collusion thing.

00:09:42.020 Yes, President Trump wasn't actually convicted for any crime, but was he exonerated of all

00:09:48.300 wrongdoing?

00:09:49.560 Not necessarily.

00:09:51.020 Those are two different things.

00:09:52.400 So I think we have to be careful about that.

00:09:53.840 Again, I think we speak factually.

00:09:55.880 Now, speaking of President Trump, let's talk about the State of the Union address, which

00:10:00.920 was extremely amazing.

00:10:03.940 It was an amazing speech.

00:10:05.000 It was probably the best speech of his presidential career.

00:10:08.660 And there is a lot to applaud if you haven't listened to it.

00:10:13.960 If you didn't watch it, you should go on YouTube and you should watch it.

00:10:18.840 I'm sure it's on C-SPAN and elsewhere.

00:10:21.260 You can go watch and listen to it with the president's speech.

00:10:23.820 It was really good because what he did was he focused on not his own administration's

00:10:28.900 accomplishments only, but also the accomplishments of the American people, that unemployment is

00:10:33.560 down.

00:10:34.080 He talked about the American heroes that we can recognize.

00:10:38.640 Tuskegee Airmen, who was 100 years old and looks amazing, by the way, was in the audience.

00:10:43.100 A child who was born at, I think, 21 weeks or maybe 23 weeks gestation.

00:10:48.440 So extremely premature.

00:10:49.580 She was a toddler there pointing to the sacredness of human life.

00:10:54.120 There was a person in the military who came home to surprise, greet his family, and we

00:10:59.060 just all love that.

00:11:00.180 It made for good television, but it also painted a very positive picture of the United States

00:11:05.220 of America that we are not getting from any Democratic candidates.

00:11:08.640 The shtick of the Democratic candidates right now is that America is fundamentally a bad and 0.98

00:11:13.760 a racist and a bigoted and a corrupt and a depraved place. 0.72

00:11:17.660 We need to overhaul everything in order to make it even a livable place, which is just 0.97

00:11:22.900 absolute insanity that's mostly coming from people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

00:11:28.380 But when you listen to President Trump, you listen to someone say, hey, this is the great

00:11:32.680 American comeback.

00:11:34.020 I said that I was going to make America great again, and look how great America is.

00:11:38.080 And this is best Donald Trump.

00:11:39.520 When he focuses on the goodness and the greatness of America and the American people and is not

00:11:45.780 so obsessed with himself and so obsessed with either criticism or praise of himself, it's

00:11:51.620 when Trump is so egotistical, which I think he very naturally is.

00:11:55.720 It's when Trump gets into that realm that he's so unlikable to so many people.

00:12:00.760 When he has such thin skin, like when people say something bad about him and he can't help

00:12:05.860 but punch back harder and punch down at them, that's when I think a lot of people, women 1.00

00:12:10.780 especially, who, I don't know, I just think that we're more sensitive towards that stuff.

00:12:14.680 Like we see that kind of behavior on Twitter or on TV from President Trump and we just don't

00:12:19.300 like it.

00:12:19.980 But when the president is like this, when he's saying, look, I'm here to serve you.

00:12:24.840 I'm here to make America better.

00:12:26.560 I'm here to do what I can along with, you know, along with Congress.

00:12:31.620 He's not a monarch to to give you opportunities and to make your life as good as it can be

00:12:38.320 or help you make your life as good as it can be.

00:12:40.880 The government cannot make your life good, but it can give you opportunities to do that.

00:12:45.140 That's what we conservatives believe or it can allow you.

00:12:49.080 It can even less than that.

00:12:50.880 It allows the country to create opportunities which people can take or leave.

00:12:56.380 So that is President Trump in his best when he's talking about the opportunities taken

00:13:01.420 by the American people and showing the courage of Americans, showing the hard work of Americans.

00:13:06.900 And he did a really good job in that.

00:13:08.820 Now, he went into controversial territory, of course, because this is what President Trump

00:13:14.360 does.

00:13:14.680 Now, the things that he talked about didn't used to be as controversial as they are today.

00:13:19.220 So he talked about illegal aliens is what he called them or maybe criminal aliens.

00:13:24.360 That might be how he referred to them and how it's important to secure our borders and the

00:13:29.540 crimes that have been committed by illegal aliens.

00:13:32.500 Now, that doesn't mean that we don't like immigrants.

00:13:34.840 That doesn't mean that we don't even like illegal immigrants.

00:13:37.520 But that does mean that we think illegal immigration is bad for our country, that it's bad for citizens.

00:13:42.640 It's bad for the most vulnerable citizens.

00:13:44.980 It doesn't help when we don't have a sovereign nation in which we can enact good laws that are

00:13:49.860 good for our citizenry.

00:13:51.820 And so he reiterated that.

00:13:53.560 And of course, people are saying that's demagoguery, that's white supremacist, whatever it is that

00:13:58.420 people are saying.

00:13:58.980 But the fact of the matter is, it was an excellent speech.

00:14:01.400 He focused on you guys.

00:14:02.760 He focused on us as Americans.

00:14:04.360 And he did a good job.

00:14:06.780 Now, when I post about this, like when I say, OK, President Trump did a great speech

00:14:12.160 and there is no Democrat right now that is even close to President Trump, like if the

00:14:18.680 election happened tomorrow, I think President Trump would win in a landslide.

00:14:21.780 We've got a lot of time until November.

00:14:23.660 And we know Democrats are going to try their darndest to beat him.

00:14:26.280 Of course, Republicans would be doing the same thing.

00:14:28.400 But as we've seen so far, they will try every underhanded trick in the book to make sure that

00:14:33.460 he doesn't get reelected.

00:14:34.540 But if the election were happening tomorrow, I think President Trump would win in a landslide.

00:14:37.840 And I think that he is doing a good job right now of conveying a message and of embodying

00:14:46.240 a persona that is attractive to a lot of people, even in the middle.

00:14:50.280 Now, when I say things like that on my page, I get backlash, which might be funny to some

00:14:55.340 of you who have been following me for a while and follow me exclusively for my politics.

00:14:59.320 Like, you know, I'm conservative.

00:15:00.820 You've heard me a million times talk about my true thoughts about President Trump, that

00:15:04.560 I voted for him because I think he's the best option because I looked at my

00:15:07.820 left and I see so much craziness.

00:15:09.880 I see a vision for the country that I don't want for myself, that I don't want for my

00:15:13.500 children and grandchildren, that I don't want for you or your kids and grandchildren.

00:15:17.160 And I say, OK, he's our alternative, like he's our option right now.

00:15:21.440 Yes, he's imperfect.

00:15:22.420 And he says a lot of things and maybe even does some things that I don't really like

00:15:26.280 and I don't agree with.

00:15:27.120 But he is our imperfect conduit for policies that I think are good for the country.

00:15:32.220 You guys have heard me talk about that a lot.

00:15:33.860 And yet whenever I say a positive thing about Donald Trump, like I will either get a review

00:15:39.220 on this podcast saying, oh, my gosh, you're just bending over backwards to worship President

00:15:44.380 Trump or I'll get a comment or a message saying, oh, this is muddying your Christianity, the

00:15:49.240 way you worship Donald Trump.

00:15:50.460 You're too pro-Trump.

00:15:51.320 I can't you know, I can't share this with my friends because you're so pro-Trump.

00:15:54.360 I'm like, you guys are.

00:15:56.500 But it's fine.

00:15:57.700 I was going to say you guys aren't even listening, but the fact of the matter is this comes with

00:16:03.420 the territory of having a podcast or having a following on social media.

00:16:08.100 You're going to have people that don't listen, that misunderstand you, that take one thing

00:16:11.880 that you say and they don't listen to anything else you say.

00:16:14.760 And that's fine.

00:16:15.640 It's just a part of it.

00:16:16.640 And I'm totally OK with pushback.

00:16:18.780 As I've said many times, I completely understand and sympathize with the Christians who say,

00:16:24.260 I just can't vote for Donald Trump.

00:16:25.660 Like, I just can't get past the stuff he says.

00:16:27.580 I just can't get past the stuff he does.

00:16:29.100 I say, OK, that's fine.

00:16:30.620 Like, yes, if you vote for Democrats, we've got to talk about something.

00:16:34.900 We've got to talk about this.

00:16:36.020 But if you're like, I just can't vote for President Trump.

00:16:38.100 OK, I can sympathize with that position.

00:16:40.940 What I don't understand is people not understanding why I and other Christians would vote for Donald

00:16:46.180 Trump.

00:16:46.680 I don't understand how a Christian can't understand that. 0.98

00:16:49.740 Like, I understand you as a Christian not liking Donald Trump.

00:16:52.680 I don't understand how you can't understand why I and so many other Christians will vote

00:16:58.500 for Donald Trump.

00:16:59.320 There's a mischaracterization of Christians who vote for Donald Trump that we are that we're

00:17:05.940 worshiping him, that we think he's our political messiah, that we pretend like he doesn't have

00:17:09.820 any flaws, that we put him in the place of Jesus, that we think he's a perfect Christian,

00:17:14.000 that he embodies all of the Christian values that we want a politician to embody.

00:17:18.680 Like, I do not pretend like President Trump is some perfect or even most of the time like

00:17:26.260 moral guy.

00:17:27.380 I don't pretend that at all.

00:17:29.260 I don't watch his rallies because I don't like his rallies.

00:17:31.760 I know a lot of people or I don't dislike all of his rallies, but there's a lot of things

00:17:35.960 that he says that he says.

00:17:37.320 It's just not appealing to me.

00:17:38.240 It's not attractive to me.

00:17:39.400 And I'm not afraid of criticizing him.

00:17:41.140 I have no personal allegiance to Donald Trump and I don't mind critiquing him at all.

00:17:47.560 But like I've said, do I think that he is the alternative that we have to a left that

00:17:52.380 undermines, that directly contradict all of the things that have ever made America what

00:17:58.740 it is, that have ever made America good, that have led to human flourishing?

00:18:02.720 Yes.

00:18:03.360 And so if he is the alternative to that, if he is the, like I've said, imperfect conduit

00:18:08.560 of policies that I think are best for the country, then yes, I'm going to vote for him.

00:18:13.120 And I don't understand what is so difficult to get about that.

00:18:17.720 I understand your position and I would ask for a little bit of open-mindedness to understand

00:18:23.520 why Christians vote for Trump and to not mischaracterize us as pretending like he's a perfect guy.

00:18:30.660 Maybe there are certainly people who pretend like Trump is a perfect guy, like he's ever

00:18:34.780 done anything wrong and that he is their pastor.

00:18:37.400 I'm sure those people exist.

00:18:38.660 But I don't know any Christians that are voting for Donald Trump who are like, yep, love every

00:18:42.460 single facet of his personality, every choice he's ever made.

00:18:45.160 Love it.

00:18:46.100 Completely agree with him.

00:18:47.440 And honestly, I think that he is, you know, I think that he is the best person who's ever

00:18:51.420 existed.

00:18:51.780 I don't know.

00:18:52.660 I don't know any Christian voting for Donald Trump who thinks that way.

00:18:55.940 That's a mischaracterization.

00:18:57.520 And I think a lot of people who are so anti-Trump are on this high horse of believing that not

00:19:04.460 voting for Donald Trump is some form of righteousness that they have over other Christians. 0.96

00:19:09.680 And it's just not true.

00:19:11.680 It's just not true.

00:19:12.900 So anyway, great speech.

00:19:15.260 Nancy Pelosi did not think so.

00:19:17.860 You guys have probably seen that she stood up after the State of the Union.

00:19:21.100 First of all, she was difficult to watch the whole time because she was making these very

00:19:26.400 subtle faces.

00:19:27.140 Now, it's really difficult to know whether she's making faces or if she has just some

00:19:30.920 sort of tick.

00:19:31.680 And I'm not trying to be rude.

00:19:32.900 Like, I just don't know sometimes what's going on with her expressions and what she's

00:19:37.460 trying to convey with her face.

00:19:39.620 But the whole time, you're just kind of like trying to read her emotions.

00:19:43.020 She's apparently following along on the speech.

00:19:46.820 And she is sometimes repeating the things that he is saying.

00:19:51.640 You can tell she's pointing at people, telling them to cut it out.

00:19:55.100 I mean, it's just funny like that in and of itself.

00:19:57.720 Nancy Pelosi in and of herself was a show the entire time that Trump was speaking.

00:20:03.440 Well, after the speech, which was an incredible speech, no matter which side of the aisle that

00:20:09.160 you're on, President Trump said a lot of things that are good for every kind of group in the

00:20:15.140 country, no matter what gender you are, no matter what race you are.

00:20:17.960 The Democrats sat down during all of these bipartisan victories or what should be bipartisan

00:20:23.500 victories that are unequivocally good for the country.

00:20:26.500 Democrats sat there like bullfrogs on a tree stump, just mad, mad, mad about the country's

00:20:32.360 success.

00:20:32.740 While Nancy Pelosi just put an exclamation mark on all the Democrats frustration when she 1.00

00:20:37.740 stood up after the speech and behind Trump's head where she's sitting and now standing next

00:20:43.020 to Vice President Pence, she rips up the speech. 0.89

00:20:46.980 I mean, I have never seen a more childish thing in my life.

00:20:51.140 And some people are saying, oh, you're so offended by it.

00:20:53.400 I'm not offended by it.

00:20:54.600 I'm not offended by it.

00:20:55.560 I would say that impeachment, an unsubstantiated impeachment is a lot more offensive, is a lot

00:21:03.780 worse than her ripping up the speech. 0.99

00:21:06.980 But it was just childish. 0.99

00:21:08.440 It was so silly. 0.90

00:21:09.240 I could not believe she did that. 0.98

00:21:12.020 I could not believe that she stood up and did that.

00:21:13.900 Now, some people are saying, well, it's because or it's payback for President Trump snubbing

00:21:20.240 her handshake before the speech.

00:21:22.440 Maybe President Trump did snub her handshake.

00:21:25.200 If he did, I wouldn't necessarily put that past him.

00:21:28.260 I mean, the lady tried to impeach him for basically no reason, like I've already said.

00:21:34.120 So I wouldn't put him past him to do that.

00:21:35.880 Did I think that it was the right thing to do if he did snub her handshake?

00:21:39.240 No, but not entirely unexpected.

00:21:42.220 But I don't honestly know if he saw her hand like he didn't shake Vice President Pence's

00:21:46.380 hand.

00:21:46.800 And so I don't actually know that she posted on her Instagram a picture of her extending

00:21:51.200 her hand and him turning away from her and saying Democrats will never stop offering

00:21:56.760 or extending the hand of friendship to get things done.

00:21:59.760 That is the biggest joke.

00:22:01.220 Like you've tried to impeach the guy.

00:22:02.780 You ripped up his speech afterwards.

00:22:04.580 Like, did you post a picture of that?

00:22:06.760 I mean, it's really just hilarious.

00:22:09.580 It just adds to the vitriol.

00:22:11.380 It adds the divisiveness of the country.

00:22:13.760 They're constantly complaining about how President Trump has taken us to new depths of impoliteness.

00:22:19.540 Well, I'm not so sure that Nancy Pelosi hasn't been just as much as responsible for the divisiveness

00:22:25.820 in the country as anyone else.

00:22:28.220 So, Nancy Pelosi didn't like the speech and that is fine.

00:22:34.460 Like, that is totally expected because it was a really good speech and it's no doubt

00:22:38.900 that President Trump and his administration have done a really good job these past three

00:22:43.640 years, have totally exceeded Republicans, conservatives' expectation.

00:22:48.160 And he is the frontrunner, absolutely, for the presidential election right now.

00:22:54.440 Democrats just don't have a good candidate.

00:22:56.500 Like, they're even saying that on MSNBC.

00:22:58.800 They don't have a good candidate.

00:23:00.880 You've got Bernie Sanders that's too extreme.

00:23:03.320 You've got Elizabeth Warren that's too extreme and she's just trying to be like Bernie Sanders, 1.00

00:23:08.960 but no one can be like Bernie Sanders for all of his many, many flaws and bad ideas.

00:23:13.460 He has been consistent, consistently wrong, but he has been consistent and sincere for a

00:23:17.320 long time and people like that.

00:23:18.820 That's not true for Elizabeth Warren.

00:23:20.260 She's changed her mind many times and I think she still even calls herself a capitalist. 0.64

00:23:23.660 Well, the people that like her ideas don't like capitalism, so that's not really going

00:23:28.660 to work for her.

00:23:29.580 And then you've got Joe Biden who just really can't string a sentence together.

00:23:33.380 And I really don't like attacking people like that or saying things like that about people

00:23:38.760 and I don't want it to seem like I'm trying to make fun of him.

00:23:43.560 But that really, truly is the problem with Joe Biden is that he is not able to articulate

00:23:50.460 anything in a compelling way.

00:23:53.260 And so he's not an attractive candidate.

00:23:55.000 Like no one is excited to vote for Joe Biden.

00:23:58.480 The Iowa caucus, as of right now, as I am talking, Pete Buttigieg is ahead of Bernie Sanders

00:24:04.700 just a little, little bit.

00:24:06.260 A 96% reporting in the Iowa caucus, as we talked about on Wednesday, craziness surrounding

00:24:13.020 the Iowa caucus.

00:24:13.920 The results were supposed to come in on Monday night and they're only now on Thursday, as

00:24:19.240 I'm recording this, still coming in.

00:24:21.080 Pete Buttigieg slightly ahead of Bernie Sanders, which is a shock to me.

00:24:24.640 That is totally shocking.

00:24:26.080 Now, Pete Buttigieg has done a lot of work in Iowa.

00:24:28.460 He also apparently, his campaign apparently gave money to the app that was running, that

00:24:33.880 was collecting the votes for the caucus.

00:24:36.580 I'm kind of confused about that.

00:24:38.940 And so some people are calling him Mayor Cheat, which I think is funny, maybe not fair, but

00:24:44.040 is kind of clever.

00:24:45.620 I'm surprised.

00:24:46.800 I'm very surprised that Pete Buttigieg has done such a good job there.

00:24:52.020 Now, that could tell us a couple of things.

00:24:54.380 Well, it could tell us nothing that he's just put in a lot of work in Iowa and that he's not

00:24:58.120 going to go anywhere for the rest of the primary season, which I personally think is going to

00:25:02.460 happen.

00:25:03.120 But also, he has poised himself as a little bit of a moderate.

00:25:05.840 Now, he's not actually moderate.

00:25:07.300 He is just as extreme as the rest of them on abortion and other things like that.

00:25:10.980 But he's said a couple of things that are not quite as far left as someone like Bernie

00:25:15.760 Sanders.

00:25:16.480 So Bernie Sanders believes that felons should be able to vote from prison, not just rehabilitate

00:25:22.020 after prison and be able to vote then, but should be able to vote from prison.

00:25:26.480 And Pete Buttigieg just said, oh, no, I don't agree with that.

00:25:29.300 I don't think you should be able to vote from prison.

00:25:31.420 He does believe in rehabilitating after and being able to gain back your right to vote.

00:25:36.500 But he doesn't believe that felons should vote from prison.

00:25:38.760 I know that's like a moderate view now.

00:25:40.640 And he also doesn't believe in Medicare for all.

00:25:43.540 Like he believes in health care for all, but not Medicare for all.

00:25:46.240 So whereas Bernie Sanders believes that we should take away everyone's private health

00:25:51.060 insurance, that you should not be able to get insurance through your employer, that you

00:25:54.780 shouldn't have health care coverage of your choice.

00:25:56.720 You shouldn't be able to choose the doctors that you want to choose.

00:25:59.140 You shouldn't have the kind of quality health care that you can afford to have or that you

00:26:03.340 want to have.

00:26:04.060 But you have to be on single payer health care like everyone will be on Medicare.

00:26:09.840 That is what Bernie Sanders wants to do, costing the country trillions and trillions of dollars.

00:26:14.300 He doesn't even know how much it costs, but he just says this is what we have to do.

00:26:17.780 He wants to take away your health insurance.

00:26:19.300 Pete Buttigieg just said, I don't want to take away your health insurance.

00:26:21.300 I want to give you a public option if you want the public option, but if you want to

00:26:25.500 keep your health insurance, you should be able to keep your health insurance.

00:26:27.820 Now, health care for all, there are still problems with that.

00:26:30.700 I did an entire podcast titled health care.

00:26:33.440 So if you're on Apple, you can just type in a relatable health care.

00:26:38.000 It'll pop up.

00:26:38.560 You can listen to that.

00:26:39.420 You can probably just Google it to relatable Allie Beth Stuckey health care.

00:26:42.620 You can watch it on YouTube so you can know all the ins and outs of that.

00:26:47.020 But could it be that people aren't looking for the extremism of Bernie Sanders and that

00:26:53.260 there are a significant number of people that are looking for somewhat of a moderate in Pete

00:26:57.980 Buttigieg? 0.60

00:26:58.580 Now, again, he's not really moderate, but are people buying into that?

00:27:01.900 That could tell us something or again, it could tell us nothing at all.

00:27:04.580 And Pete Buttigieg could just go by the wayside and we could never really hear that much from

00:27:08.680 his campaign again.

00:27:09.800 He's obviously lost a lot in the past few days with the results coming out so slowly because

00:27:16.380 he doesn't get that.

00:27:17.940 He doesn't get that momentous moment on the night of victory on Monday night to be able

00:27:23.960 to give a victory speech and for people to take notice of him and for the media to really

00:27:28.100 put a spotlight on him.

00:27:29.600 So he's unfortunately for him lost a lot of momentum going into New Hampshire.

00:27:34.400 That's where we're headed next, by the way.

00:27:36.200 OK, because we have already we're already basically at 30 minute mark.

00:27:40.600 I want to get into I did want to talk about a couple other things.

00:27:43.240 I want to talk about Mike Bloomberg, if he is a viable candidate and just the crazy things

00:27:47.960 that he believes specifically about China.

00:27:49.860 I want to talk about the coronavirus.

00:27:51.360 But because so many of you have asked me to talk about Taylor Swift and her documentary

00:27:55.240 Miss Americana on Netflix, I want to at least touch on that.

00:27:59.620 So I watched this for you guys.

00:28:02.240 You are welcome.

00:28:03.920 Hard work having to sit in front of the TV and watching a Netflix documentary.

00:28:08.680 You guys really make me just bend over backwards for relatable, obviously being sarcastic.

00:28:14.800 So I watched it and it was good.

00:28:16.940 Like it was a good documentary.

00:28:18.400 I appreciate a documentary.

00:28:19.900 My husband will tell you I can become like interested in anything, even if I'm not initially

00:28:25.320 interested in it.

00:28:26.200 So I'm not like the biggest Taylor Swift stan that you've ever met.

00:28:30.980 I just haven't I'm just not like totally into her.

00:28:33.820 But it was a very interesting documentary.

00:28:35.600 I was sucked in.

00:28:36.800 I've been sucked into hunting documentaries like I'll watch hunting shows.

00:28:41.660 I watched a show about Conor McGregor the other day and I was so fascinated by it.

00:28:46.520 So I can really be fascinated by anything.

00:28:48.300 But I thought this was a good documentary.

00:28:50.560 I went to one of her shows in 2014 or 15.

00:28:53.300 I don't remember why.

00:28:54.360 I don't know if someone gave me these tickets, but I went with my husband or maybe I wanted

00:28:57.820 to.

00:28:58.240 I don't know.

00:28:58.700 But the show was amazing.

00:28:59.880 It was incredible.

00:29:00.940 Like she is an incredible performer.

00:29:03.820 I remember as a sophomore.

00:29:05.380 So like I said, I'm not a huge Taylor Swift stan, but I was like all high schoolers were

00:29:10.820 at at this time, at least in like 2008 to 2010, maybe even 2007 listening to Taylor Swift.

00:29:18.900 And when I first got my driver's license, her her album Fearless was out.

00:29:24.540 And I listened to that all of the time.

00:29:28.100 She's three years older than me.

00:29:29.440 She was born in 1989.

00:29:30.480 I was born in 92.

00:29:32.040 And so our lives, the stages of our lives did overlap quite a bit.

00:29:36.680 So I liked Taylor Swift's albums for the same reason that a lot of teenagers did.

00:29:42.120 A lot of teenage girls did is that she related to us. 0.92

00:29:44.820 Like she talked about our insecurities.

00:29:47.500 She talked about our awkwardness.

00:29:48.880 She talked about our crushes.

00:29:50.280 She talked about our heartbreak.

00:29:51.860 Or she sang about these things.

00:29:53.420 And this was probably the first artist that a lot of us teenage girls around this time

00:29:59.680 really felt like we could relate to.

00:30:02.020 And she was just likable.

00:30:03.320 But at the same time, people loved to hate Taylor Swift.

00:30:07.340 And I think I was also one of those people who kind of just thought she was fake and that

00:30:11.800 her whole persona was contrived, that someone was behind her and that her voice wasn't real.

00:30:17.320 But when I watched this documentary and you go back and you look at where she started and

00:30:23.320 how she started, what you see is that A, she actually does have a really good voice on her

00:30:28.300 own.

00:30:28.780 Like she doesn't need a whole lot of computerization in order to make her voice good.

00:30:33.800 She has a good voice and she's a really good songwriter.

00:30:37.140 Like she has been creative and clever in her songwriting from the beginning.

00:30:40.720 And you also see you just get this feeling when you're watching some of her first days that

00:30:45.080 she was really born for this.

00:30:46.320 Like she was made for this.

00:30:48.720 She is extremely talented and she's just had that thing.

00:30:53.100 Some people are talented, but they don't have the thing that it takes to make them famous

00:30:58.320 and to give them a big audience and a lot of followers and to propel them forward.

00:31:02.840 And some people are really hard workers, but they don't have that thing.

00:31:07.000 Some people are talented and really hard workers, but they don't have that it factor.

00:31:10.940 And some people aren't really that talented.

00:31:12.880 They're not that hard of workers, but they do have that it factor.

00:31:15.540 And they still move forward at least to a degree.

00:31:18.560 Well, she seems like she's a hard worker.

00:31:20.460 She is talented and she just has that intangible thing that you can't learn, that you can't

00:31:25.580 teach, that people are born with and that people watch her.

00:31:28.240 Now you might be listening to or watching this and you're like, I don't like Taylor Swift

00:31:31.180 at all.

00:31:31.420 I don't know what you're talking about.

00:31:32.680 Well, it doesn't really matter whether you or I like her.

00:31:34.620 But the fact of the matter is, is that millions upon millions of people have loved Taylor Swift

00:31:39.720 for over a decade now.

00:31:42.760 And she has done a really good job of building a career.

00:31:47.360 So I want to say all of that positive stuff about Taylor Swift.

00:31:51.140 And I also want to give the caveat that I don't know Taylor.

00:31:53.600 So I'm not pronouncing when I'm about to talk about some of the political things that she

00:31:57.240 said.

00:31:57.440 I'm not pronouncing any personal judgment upon her.

00:31:59.880 I will assume the best in her and believe that she's sincere, believe that she's a

00:32:03.680 compassionate person that truly does care about other people and wants to have the right

00:32:08.160 position in politics.

00:32:08.980 I just think that she is miseducated. 0.87

00:32:12.180 I won't even say uneducated, but miseducated on the subject of politics.

00:32:16.180 And though she means well, doesn't actually understand the ramifications of the policies

00:32:21.420 that she is advocating for.

00:32:23.880 Now, before I even say that, something that struck me before I started listening to some of the

00:32:28.840 political things she was saying is that she comes across as very young, just very young,

00:32:35.460 like younger than me.

00:32:36.520 The way that she talks about having kids as this thing that she like can't even imagine

00:32:41.520 or, you know, settling down and having a family.

00:32:44.680 And again, she's three years older than me.

00:32:46.420 So that would make her 30 years older.

00:32:49.120 I guess she'll be turning 31 years old this year if she was born in 89. 0.97

00:32:52.500 And she just struck me as I don't like to say the word immature because it sounds like

00:32:58.100 such a pejorative, but she just seems young.

00:33:02.460 She just comes across as like, I just think that if you're 30 or 31 years old and you're

00:33:07.080 still talking about, oh, the responsibility of kids, that scares me.

00:33:10.760 Like, OK, well, it might it might be time to start, you know, catching up, even if you

00:33:15.420 don't have kids, but just mentally realizing, OK, you are an adult.

00:33:19.140 It's time for other responsibilities and to care about people other than other than just

00:33:24.240 like your little small circle.

00:33:25.780 And that's something that all of us go through.

00:33:27.280 So that struck me at first that she seems to be in a younger stage of life than most people

00:33:33.480 I know that are 30 and 31, which is kind of interesting because obviously she has a ton of responsibility

00:33:38.520 and commitments in the things that she does as far as her career goes.

00:33:43.000 But I've heard a lot of, you know, 25 to 35 year old people talk.

00:33:48.360 And she came across as just in a much younger stage of life than me and all of the people

00:33:53.900 that I know that are in her same age group.

00:33:56.700 So when she started talking about some politics, like she started talking about the fact this

00:34:03.280 was I guess this was filmed in 2018.

00:34:05.620 So it was during the midterm elections she was talking about she has to stand up and

00:34:10.660 finally say something because Marsha Blackburn is running for Senate and she called Marsha 1.00

00:34:18.180 Blackburn, who I had on the show last Friday.

00:34:21.080 Again, I encourage you to go listen to that if you're curious who Marsha Blackburn is. 0.76

00:34:25.560 She said that she was a racist homophobe.

00:34:27.780 She made some claims about her that she voted against the Violence Against Women Act, which

00:34:32.080 just protects women from stalking. 1.00

00:34:34.080 And she related that back to herself.

00:34:36.200 She also said that she believes that Marsha Blackburn believes that a gay couple or a couple 0.58

00:34:43.880 that even looks gay should be able to be kicked out of a restaurant. 1.00

00:34:47.920 And really the whole documentary seemed to have these undertones of women are being victimized 0.80

00:34:55.740 and Taylor Swift is one of those women. 0.99

00:34:57.920 I'm not saying she hasn't been victimized.

00:35:00.140 There were there was a part about the sexual assault trial, which I am very glad she won.

00:35:06.340 There was a part about, you know, her being stalked and someone breaking into her home and

00:35:11.200 sleeping in her bed, which is very scary.

00:35:13.600 And we should have compassion for her and anyone who is a victim for that.

00:35:17.360 I am all for listening to and showing sympathy and compassion towards victims and listening

00:35:23.480 to women's stories.

00:35:24.380 Absolutely.

00:35:25.500 But the underlying the undertones were certainly that women are being victimized. 0.99

00:35:32.380 And now is the time the remedy to that.

00:35:34.760 Now is the time to stand up and basically be a liberal and voice your liberal politics.

00:35:39.000 And that is what Taylor Swift did, because she believes that Marsha Blackburn, in her words, 0.90

00:35:44.560 is a racist homophobe. 0.78

00:35:46.480 And so I want to clarify some some of these things that she said against Marsha Blackburn.

00:35:53.820 So one of the things that she said was that she voted against the reauthorization of violence

00:35:57.660 against women act.

00:35:59.120 And I want to clarify that using an article from the Washington Examiner by Madeline Frye.

00:36:05.060 When Blackburn voted against the reauthorization of the violence against women act in 2013,

00:36:09.460 she was in the House of Representatives.

00:36:10.800 So this is an aside by Allie.

00:36:12.460 She's in the Senate now. 1.00

00:36:13.500 This was in the House of Representatives in 2013.

00:36:15.460 She voted for the House Republican version, but against the Senate version, which she said

00:36:20.200 had been diluted.

00:36:21.420 She said this on MSNBC.

00:36:23.340 When you start to make this about other things, it becomes an against violence act and not

00:36:28.180 a targeted focused act that is there to address the issue of violence against women.

00:36:33.600 Despite Blackburn's disapproval, the bill passed.

00:36:36.280 For context, this article in the Washington Examiner says the Violence Against Women Act was 0.97

00:36:41.020 first passed in 1994, but it must be renewed every few years to ensure federal funds.

00:36:45.460 continue to help women who have been victims of domestic abuse and other forms of violence

00:36:50.140 each year.

00:36:50.680 The act is modified with provisions to which members of the GOP object.

00:36:55.200 Last year, the House passed a bill closing the boyfriend loophole, but also included language

00:37:00.740 that would entitle transgender women to share shelters with biological women. 1.00

00:37:04.620 The Senate has not yet voted on that bill.

00:37:07.400 So there are these provisions that Democrats mostly have added in that a lot of Republicans,

00:37:12.020 a lot of conservatives don't agree with now.

00:37:14.400 And this is one of them, at least now that transgender women, so biological males to our 0.99

00:37:20.300 their Democrats are pushing for them to be able to share shelters with biological women. 1.00

00:37:24.460 So again, we see which we've talked about a million times that there are no safe spaces

00:37:28.980 for biological women anymore, not sports, not even abuse shelters. 0.91

00:37:33.760 Biological men now have a right to those spaces, which endangers biological women. 1.00

00:37:40.560 Why?

00:37:40.900 Because men and women aren't the same. 0.98

00:37:42.600 There are fundamental biological differences between us.

00:37:44.960 Women are weaker than men. 1.00

00:37:46.500 Again, this endangers women. 1.00

00:37:48.180 This is where feminism, this is where leftism has brought us. 1.00

00:37:52.580 So this is what Taylor Swift is talking about.

00:37:55.220 There are provisions that Marsha Blackburn disagreed with.

00:37:58.240 She doesn't disagree with she doesn't disagree with protecting women against violence.

00:38:03.300 She doesn't disagree with protecting women against stalking.

00:38:05.540 Of course, she agrees with those things.

00:38:07.200 She didn't agree with the provisions that were put on this particular bill in 2013.

00:38:11.420 And she thought that whatever provisions those were actually endangered women and made 0.98

00:38:15.640 them more vulnerable.

00:38:17.120 That is the kind of nuance that Taylor Swift is not going to probably even read or know,

00:38:23.420 because my guess is that she probably has a bunch of liberal resources that she is referring 0.63

00:38:29.600 to when she is looking for these things.

00:38:31.280 Because as I've said many times, the default as a young person in America is to be a liberal.

00:38:36.680 And if you are listening to the mainstream anything, if you're listening to the mainstream

00:38:39.960 media, if you're on social media, if you're watching Netflix, all of it is bent towards the

00:38:45.040 left.

00:38:45.360 And so that's where your worldview, that's how your worldview is going to be shaped.

00:38:49.740 And so you just assume that there's no other side of the story.

00:38:52.440 There is no other part to this.

00:38:54.520 There couldn't possibly be nuance.

00:38:55.760 There couldn't possibly be facts that you don't know. 0.98

00:38:57.980 It must be that Marsha Blackburn just hates women. 1.00

00:39:01.360 She also said that Marsha Blackburn wants to take us back to the 1950s with women, whatever 0.93

00:39:06.380 that means.

00:39:07.320 She doesn't actually cite any evidence of that.

00:39:11.300 And the same thing with her saying that Marsha Blackburn believes that gay people should 0.98

00:39:15.160 be able to be kicked out of restaurants.

00:39:17.580 I have not been able to find any proof whatsoever that Marsha Blackburn believes that.

00:39:23.740 Now, you can tell me if you have seen where Marsha Blackburn said that or why Taylor Swift

00:39:31.100 would accuse her of something like this.

00:39:33.740 You can let me know.

00:39:35.360 She also called her a racist.

00:39:37.040 Again, citing no facts whatsoever.

00:39:38.980 But this is the thing with the social justice left.

00:39:41.500 If you ask them, hey, like, what do you mean by that?

00:39:44.820 Could you clarify that?

00:39:45.920 Could you give me some specifics on that?

00:39:47.440 Could you point me to a resource on that?

00:39:49.040 Like, where did you find that evidence?

00:39:50.520 Well, they just get flustered.

00:39:51.560 They get very mad.

00:39:52.520 And the fact that you've even questioned them, the fact that you've even asked for clarity

00:39:56.240 means that you are on the wrong side of history. 0.84

00:39:58.600 Taylor Swift said that she wants to be on the right side of history, which is just silly.

00:40:04.240 She said, you know, I'm from Tennessee.

00:40:07.000 I'm a Christian.

00:40:07.960 Marsha Blackburn doesn't represent Tennessee Christian values, which I had no idea that Taylor

00:40:14.460 Swift identifies as a Christian.

00:40:16.720 I would love for Taylor Swift to come on this podcast.

00:40:20.160 We can talk theology.

00:40:21.420 We can talk about what the Bible says.

00:40:23.380 We can talk about a biblical view of government.

00:40:26.780 She doesn't have to agree with me on everything.

00:40:28.600 But if she identifies as a Christian and we can find a common ground as sisters in Christ,

00:40:33.840 then I am willing to talk to her about any of this stuff.

00:40:36.180 One of the things she said or she agreed with someone else saying that the GOP is attacking

00:40:41.300 her intelligence because they don't actually want to debate her ideas because they don't

00:40:45.640 believe women are worth debating. 1.00

00:40:47.640 That is so laughable. 0.59

00:40:49.480 Like the GOP, the Republicans, conservatives, we are obsessed with debates.

00:40:54.400 We are obsessed with the debates.

00:40:55.980 We constantly ask people to debate us.

00:40:57.880 Debate me.

00:40:58.420 Debate me.

00:40:59.040 Like we want everyone to debate us.

00:41:01.160 Do you know how many conservatives have asked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

00:41:05.660 I almost forgot her name because I call her AOC.

00:41:07.460 Do you know how many conservatives have begged her to come on their shows and debate them?

00:41:12.740 I would love Taylor Swift to come on my show and to have a very respectful dialogue about

00:41:18.840 if she is identifying as a Christian.

00:41:21.880 Again, I don't know her personally.

00:41:23.660 So, you know, I'll take her word on that.

00:41:26.340 We can talk about what the Bible says about politics, what the Bible says about marriage,

00:41:31.080 for example.

00:41:31.760 She talked a lot about gay pride in this documentary.

00:41:35.160 We can talk about that.

00:41:36.060 She did an entire music video for a song called You Need to Calm Down,

00:41:42.820 basically saying that all of the people that believe in traditional marriage,

00:41:46.320 all of the people that believe in the orthodox definition of marriage,

00:41:49.620 which has been the definition of marriage for millennia, by the way,

00:41:54.280 that we all need to calm down.

00:41:56.580 Well, we're not the ones making a music video about our ideology.

00:42:01.520 That was the most condescending, the most patronizing, the most hateful music video that I've ever seen.

00:42:07.700 All of the things that she's accusing Christians of for abiding by the Bible,

00:42:12.680 for abiding by the Bible's definition of marriage.

00:42:15.500 We apparently need to calm down.

00:42:17.700 You're telling orthodox Christianity to calm down. 0.99

00:42:19.760 You're telling God that he just needs to calm down about the institution that he created in the Bible,

00:42:25.220 and that we need to all just be metropolitan and sophisticated like you.

00:42:28.960 And she's the one that pretends to be the loving one who is on the right side of history.

00:42:33.100 And if you watch that video, you need to calm down.

00:42:35.760 And she portrays everyone who disagrees with the liberal, the worldly definition of marriage as,

00:42:42.200 oh, it can be between, you know, any gender that you might happen to identify as that day. 0.89

00:42:48.080 That she believes that we are all toothless hicks, that we are all gross, 1.00

00:42:53.140 that we are all backwards and backwoods, and that we smell bad and that we're stupid, 1.00

00:42:57.340 that no one with any intellect, no one with any ability for critical thought 1.00

00:43:02.540 could possibly be against homosexuality, could possibly be against gay marriage.

00:43:07.220 There are no thoughtful Christians, apparently, according to Taylor Swift, 0.57

00:43:10.600 that abide by the Word of God and believe in the Word of God

00:43:13.440 and believe that God created marriage for a purpose, both physically and spiritually.

00:43:19.180 That's what Taylor Swift thinks about Christians who believe in the Bible.

00:43:24.180 And this documentary portrayed her as this, which she has always done this,

00:43:30.060 and I think this documentary did this well, portrayed her as a hurt animal

00:43:34.440 that is being victimized, that she's never on the attack.

00:43:38.360 Well, you did.

00:43:39.300 You attacked Christians. 1.00

00:43:40.800 You attacked conservatives.

00:43:41.880 You attacked people who disagree with you in this documentary and specifically in your music video.

00:43:47.680 So if you are offended by people who have unfairly mischaracterized you,

00:43:54.760 which I do think people have unfairly mischaracterized Taylor Swift,

00:43:58.120 that whole Kanye West thing was very sad and I felt very badly for her and all of that.

00:44:02.540 If you are offended by how people have maligned you, how people have talked badly about you,

00:44:08.780 do you really expect us to feel bad for you when you make a video making fun of people like me,

00:44:13.880 calling me a backwards, backwoods, toothless hick because I believe that the Bible is the word of God

00:44:19.880 and as such is the authority on all morality, including marriage?

00:44:24.420 Like, do you really expect us to have sympathy when you're doing the same thing to us?

00:44:30.240 Now, I do have sympathy for you, even if you don't have any sympathy for me.

00:44:33.520 I do have compassion for you, even if you don't have any compassion for me.

00:44:36.640 I do have understanding for you, even if you don't understand me at all.

00:44:39.980 And I would invite Taylor Swift to a dialogue.

00:44:41.700 I don't think that's going to happen.

00:44:43.840 But, so those are all of my thoughts on Miss Americana.

00:44:47.540 I can't disprove all of the claims that she made about Marsha Blackburn

00:44:50.240 because I haven't been able to find any evidence whatsoever for them.

00:44:54.000 So, but this is typical. 0.99

00:44:55.440 Like, it's just very easy to say, well, duh, she is a sexist, racist, bigot, homophobe 0.99

00:45:01.880 because she's a Republican and people just nod their heads without even thinking critically about it. 0.97

00:45:06.100 Because, again, all of our mainstream sources of information characterize us this way.

00:45:10.220 And that's okay.

00:45:11.360 That's fine.

00:45:12.140 I like, I don't, I don't need, I don't need the proper characterization of the mainstream media.

00:45:17.560 Like, I don't, certainly we don't need their approval as Christians.

00:45:21.240 We know that Jesus has sent us out as sheep among wolves and that's how it's going to be. 0.54

00:45:27.620 But I would just encourage Taylor Swift.

00:45:29.720 Like, if she is sensitive to being attacked, which I understand, maybe you should be more sensitive about the other people that you are yourself attacking.

00:45:40.780 So, anyway, those are all of my thoughts on that.

00:45:43.680 And that concludes today's episode.

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - February 07, 2020

Ep 210 ｜ Taylor, You Need to Calm Down

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