Ep 210 ｜ Taylor, You Need to Calm Down
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Today we talk about President Trump being acquitted, Mitt Romney's vote to remove Trump from office, the Iowa caucus, and Taylor Swift's new documentary. On Monday I will have an interview with Doreen Virtue, who will shed light on the dangers of New Age practices and why they are dangerous.
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but today is going to be a little bit different
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because there was so much that went on this week.
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I wanted to be able to cover it in a timely manner.
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And then on Monday, I'm going to have an interview
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We're talking about the new age, what the new age is.
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and promulgated this stuff for years of her life,
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because of what she taught in new age practices.
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on all of the ways that the new age manifests itself today
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So please tune in on Monday in my conversation with Doreen.
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Now, today we're going to touch on a few things.
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So we're going to talk about President Trump being acquitted.
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We're going to touch on that and Mitt Romney's vote.
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We will talk about the State of the Union just a little bit
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We'll talk about the Iowa caucus and the results,
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at least that I have right now as I'm recording this on Thursday.
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And then we will talk about Taylor Swift's documentary on Netflix
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that you guys have been asking me to talk about for a long time.
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and there was all this back and forth about this.
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I had an interview with Andrew Klavan several weeks ago
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I did at least part of an episode on impeachment
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I talked to Marsha Blackburn last week about this.
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And so you can go listen to that episode last Friday
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I also recommended a podcast called Verdict with Ted Cruz.
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because I want you listening to Relatable as much as possible.
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and is doing a really good job of breaking down the impeachment process,
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what's gone on, what the Senate has tried to do,
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what's been the back and forth in this whole thing.
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So the Senate has voted to acquit President Trump.
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Now, what you're going to hear from people who support President Trump
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So when you're acquitted, that doesn't necessarily mean that you're exonerated.
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So President Trump still could have done something wrong in his call with Ukraine,
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It just means that the Senate does not believe,
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the senators who voted to acquit him do not believe that what he did in the call with Ukraine
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qualified as a high crime or misdemeanor that solicits impeachment.
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Now, the one rogue Republican senator who decided that he was going to vote
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so I probably need to explain that just a little bit.
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He decided to vote to remove Trump from office.
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obviously, because, of course, most Republicans support Donald Trump
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and most Republicans in the Senate besides him have decided that Trump did not commit a crime
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Now, impeachment and removal from office are two different things.
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Someone asked me on Instagram, OK, was President Trump impeached or was he not impeached?
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So impeached doesn't actually mean that you are removed from office.
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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.
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But they have decided this and it has decided that, no, what he did,
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even though he will be eternally impeached, he will always be an impeached president.
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He will not actually be removed from office, at least not right now.
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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,
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they're going to do whatever they can to muddy his name.
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I don't know how it's possible for them to go to a greater length to try to hurt President Trump.
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But I think that this is a political miscalculation.
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Obviously, the Russian collusion thing didn't work.
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And his approval ratings are really good right now, like the best they've ever been,
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which I just think is embarrassing for the Democrats that they have tried so hard.
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They have fought tooth and nail since the day after he got elected to say that this is an illegitimate president,
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that he was helped by the Russians, that he colluded with the Russians,
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that everything that he has done has been impeachable.
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I mean, they've been talking about impeachment for so long, so long before this Ukraine call,
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which is why it was so laughable that they actually considered this a solemn and sober
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and serious and sad and sorrowful thing like they've been saying that it is.
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They've been talking about impeachment far longer than this impeachment process has been going on.
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And whenever someone is looking for a reason to get you out of office,
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it kind of takes away their credibility just a little bit, don't you think?
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And so it's all just kind of been a political show.
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Now, again, we can look at the call that President Trump had with the president of Ukraine,
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and we could say, you know, we don't we don't like that.
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We don't like that he asked them to investigate Joe Biden.
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But again, that doesn't necessarily that doesn't solicit removal from office.
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That still is not a justification for impeachment or removal from office.
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But Senator Mitt Romney thought differently, and he cited his own convictions.
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He said that he is accountable to God before he's accountable to this president or accountable
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And I might be I know that I am kind of outside of the mainstream conservative thought on this,
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Like a lot of people are up in arms about this.
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There are people that are saying that he needs to be ousted from the Republican Party and that
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Like I disagree with him and I don't really buy his whole spiel that, okay, this has to
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do with his faith and his convictions because he's been very wishy-washy.
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Like he was a pretty liberal Republican governor of Massachusetts, and then he switched some of
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his so-called convictions when he became a senator from Utah.
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He comes from a pretty impressive pedigree of politicians doing a similar thing to what
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He has gone back and forth on abortion, on his thoughts on gay marriage.
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And so it's a little bit difficult to take in his the spiel that he is giving right now
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And whether it's true or not, like I'm fine with it.
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And I don't really understand the absolute anger and ire that people are feeling towards
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But okay, like President Trump was acquitted and it's fine.
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And we can disagree with Mitt Romney all we want to.
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We can even say his character is questionable if people want to do that.
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But the outright hatred and the animosity and the vitriol that people are showing towards
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him because he made a decision that I'm sure that he thought a lot about whether or not
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Like, I'm sure he thought a lot about this and he knew that it wasn't going to be popular.
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I don't think that he's someone who is trying to appease liberals or trying to appease the
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But I so I just don't understand the absolute anger towards him.
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And I'm not going to proverbially like condemn him to hell just because he made a decision
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that I happen to disagree with and a lot of Republicans disagree with.
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And again, like, we can't always complain about the divisiveness in our country.
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We can't always complain about how the left and the liberals, they will malign you personally.
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They will launch ad hominem attacks if you do something that they disagree with.
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And then we do the same thing ourselves when someone that we disagree with does something
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I know that was kind of repetitive, but you know what I'm saying.
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I just don't think I just don't think it's right.
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The way that people are absolutely tearing him down.
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So that's what's happened with President Trump.
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If you're wondering what the drama was and all of that, President Trump acquitted, people
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It's the same thing with the Russian collusion thing.
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Yes, President Trump wasn't actually convicted for any crime, but was he exonerated of all
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Now, speaking of President Trump, let's talk about the State of the Union address, which
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It was probably the best speech of his presidential career.
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And there is a lot to applaud if you haven't listened to it.
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If you didn't watch it, you should go on YouTube and you should watch it.
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You can go watch and listen to it with the president's speech.
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It was really good because what he did was he focused on not his own administration's
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accomplishments only, but also the accomplishments of the American people, that unemployment is
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He talked about the American heroes that we can recognize.
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Tuskegee Airmen, who was 100 years old and looks amazing, by the way, was in the audience.
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A child who was born at, I think, 21 weeks or maybe 23 weeks gestation.
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She was a toddler there pointing to the sacredness of human life.
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There was a person in the military who came home to surprise, greet his family, and we
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It made for good television, but it also painted a very positive picture of the United States
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of America that we are not getting from any Democratic candidates.
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The shtick of the Democratic candidates right now is that America is fundamentally a bad and
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a racist and a bigoted and a corrupt and a depraved place.
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We need to overhaul everything in order to make it even a livable place, which is just
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absolute insanity that's mostly coming from people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
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But when you listen to President Trump, you listen to someone say, hey, this is the great
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I said that I was going to make America great again, and look how great America is.
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When he focuses on the goodness and the greatness of America and the American people and is not
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so obsessed with himself and so obsessed with either criticism or praise of himself, it's
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when Trump is so egotistical, which I think he very naturally is.
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It's when Trump gets into that realm that he's so unlikable to so many people.
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When he has such thin skin, like when people say something bad about him and he can't help
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but punch back harder and punch down at them, that's when I think a lot of people, women
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especially, who, I don't know, I just think that we're more sensitive towards that stuff.
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Like we see that kind of behavior on Twitter or on TV from President Trump and we just don't
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But when the president is like this, when he's saying, look, I'm here to serve you.
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I'm here to do what I can along with, you know, along with Congress.
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He's not a monarch to to give you opportunities and to make your life as good as it can be
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or help you make your life as good as it can be.
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The government cannot make your life good, but it can give you opportunities to do that.
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That's what we conservatives believe or it can allow you.
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It allows the country to create opportunities which people can take or leave.
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So that is President Trump in his best when he's talking about the opportunities taken
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by the American people and showing the courage of Americans, showing the hard work of Americans.
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Now, he went into controversial territory, of course, because this is what President Trump
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Now, the things that he talked about didn't used to be as controversial as they are today.
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So he talked about illegal aliens is what he called them or maybe criminal aliens.
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That might be how he referred to them and how it's important to secure our borders and the
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crimes that have been committed by illegal aliens.
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Now, that doesn't mean that we don't like immigrants.
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That doesn't mean that we don't even like illegal immigrants.
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But that does mean that we think illegal immigration is bad for our country, that it's bad for citizens.
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It doesn't help when we don't have a sovereign nation in which we can enact good laws that are
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And of course, people are saying that's demagoguery, that's white supremacist, whatever it is that
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But the fact of the matter is, it was an excellent speech.
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Now, when I post about this, like when I say, OK, President Trump did a great speech
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and there is no Democrat right now that is even close to President Trump, like if the
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election happened tomorrow, I think President Trump would win in a landslide.
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And we know Democrats are going to try their darndest to beat him.
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Of course, Republicans would be doing the same thing.
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But as we've seen so far, they will try every underhanded trick in the book to make sure that
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But if the election were happening tomorrow, I think President Trump would win in a landslide.
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And I think that he is doing a good job right now of conveying a message and of embodying
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a persona that is attractive to a lot of people, even in the middle.
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Now, when I say things like that on my page, I get backlash, which might be funny to some
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of you who have been following me for a while and follow me exclusively for my politics.
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You've heard me a million times talk about my true thoughts about President Trump, that
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I voted for him because I think he's the best option because I looked at my
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I see a vision for the country that I don't want for myself, that I don't want for my
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children and grandchildren, that I don't want for you or your kids and grandchildren.
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And I say, OK, he's our alternative, like he's our option right now.
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And he says a lot of things and maybe even does some things that I don't really like
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But he is our imperfect conduit for policies that I think are good for the country.
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And yet whenever I say a positive thing about Donald Trump, like I will either get a review
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on this podcast saying, oh, my gosh, you're just bending over backwards to worship President
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Trump or I'll get a comment or a message saying, oh, this is muddying your Christianity, the
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I can't you know, I can't share this with my friends because you're so pro-Trump.
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I was going to say you guys aren't even listening, but the fact of the matter is this comes with
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the territory of having a podcast or having a following on social media.
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You're going to have people that don't listen, that misunderstand you, that take one thing
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that you say and they don't listen to anything else you say.
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As I've said many times, I completely understand and sympathize with the Christians who say,
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Like, yes, if you vote for Democrats, we've got to talk about something.
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But if you're like, I just can't vote for President Trump.
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What I don't understand is people not understanding why I and other Christians would vote for Donald
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I don't understand how a Christian can't understand that.
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Like, I understand you as a Christian not liking Donald Trump.
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I don't understand how you can't understand why I and so many other Christians will vote
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There's a mischaracterization of Christians who vote for Donald Trump that we are that we're
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worshiping him, that we think he's our political messiah, that we pretend like he doesn't have
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any flaws, that we put him in the place of Jesus, that we think he's a perfect Christian,
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that he embodies all of the Christian values that we want a politician to embody.
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Like, I do not pretend like President Trump is some perfect or even most of the time like
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I don't watch his rallies because I don't like his rallies.
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I know a lot of people or I don't dislike all of his rallies, but there's a lot of things
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I have no personal allegiance to Donald Trump and I don't mind critiquing him at all.
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But like I've said, do I think that he is the alternative that we have to a left that
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undermines, that directly contradict all of the things that have ever made America what
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it is, that have ever made America good, that have led to human flourishing?
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And so if he is the alternative to that, if he is the, like I've said, imperfect conduit
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of policies that I think are best for the country, then yes, I'm going to vote for him.
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And I don't understand what is so difficult to get about that.
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I understand your position and I would ask for a little bit of open-mindedness to understand
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why Christians vote for Trump and to not mischaracterize us as pretending like he's a perfect guy.
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Maybe there are certainly people who pretend like Trump is a perfect guy, like he's ever
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done anything wrong and that he is their pastor.
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But I don't know any Christians that are voting for Donald Trump who are like, yep, love every
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single facet of his personality, every choice he's ever made.
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And honestly, I think that he is, you know, I think that he is the best person who's ever
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I don't know any Christian voting for Donald Trump who thinks that way.
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And I think a lot of people who are so anti-Trump are on this high horse of believing that not
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voting for Donald Trump is some form of righteousness that they have over other Christians.
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You guys have probably seen that she stood up after the State of the Union.
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First of all, she was difficult to watch the whole time because she was making these very
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Now, it's really difficult to know whether she's making faces or if she has just some
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Like, I just don't know sometimes what's going on with her expressions and what she's
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But the whole time, you're just kind of like trying to read her emotions.
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She's apparently following along on the speech.
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And she is sometimes repeating the things that he is saying.
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You can tell she's pointing at people, telling them to cut it out.
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I mean, it's just funny like that in and of itself.
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Nancy Pelosi in and of herself was a show the entire time that Trump was speaking.
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Well, after the speech, which was an incredible speech, no matter which side of the aisle that
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you're on, President Trump said a lot of things that are good for every kind of group in the
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country, no matter what gender you are, no matter what race you are.
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The Democrats sat down during all of these bipartisan victories or what should be bipartisan
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victories that are unequivocally good for the country.
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Democrats sat there like bullfrogs on a tree stump, just mad, mad, mad about the country's
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While Nancy Pelosi just put an exclamation mark on all the Democrats frustration when she
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stood up after the speech and behind Trump's head where she's sitting and now standing next
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to Vice President Pence, she rips up the speech.
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I mean, I have never seen a more childish thing in my life.
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And some people are saying, oh, you're so offended by it.
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I would say that impeachment, an unsubstantiated impeachment is a lot more offensive, is a lot
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I could not believe that she stood up and did that.
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Now, some people are saying, well, it's because or it's payback for President Trump snubbing
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If he did, I wouldn't necessarily put that past him.
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I mean, the lady tried to impeach him for basically no reason, like I've already said.
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Did I think that it was the right thing to do if he did snub her handshake?
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But I don't honestly know if he saw her hand like he didn't shake Vice President Pence's
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And so I don't actually know that she posted on her Instagram a picture of her extending
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her hand and him turning away from her and saying Democrats will never stop offering
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or extending the hand of friendship to get things done.
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They're constantly complaining about how President Trump has taken us to new depths of impoliteness.
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Well, I'm not so sure that Nancy Pelosi hasn't been just as much as responsible for the divisiveness
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So, Nancy Pelosi didn't like the speech and that is fine.
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Like, that is totally expected because it was a really good speech and it's no doubt
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that President Trump and his administration have done a really good job these past three
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years, have totally exceeded Republicans, conservatives' expectation.
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And he is the frontrunner, absolutely, for the presidential election right now.
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You've got Elizabeth Warren that's too extreme and she's just trying to be like Bernie Sanders,
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but no one can be like Bernie Sanders for all of his many, many flaws and bad ideas.
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He has been consistent, consistently wrong, but he has been consistent and sincere for a
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She's changed her mind many times and I think she still even calls herself a capitalist.
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Well, the people that like her ideas don't like capitalism, so that's not really going
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And then you've got Joe Biden who just really can't string a sentence together.
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And I really don't like attacking people like that or saying things like that about people
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and I don't want it to seem like I'm trying to make fun of him.
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But that really, truly is the problem with Joe Biden is that he is not able to articulate
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The Iowa caucus, as of right now, as I am talking, Pete Buttigieg is ahead of Bernie Sanders
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A 96% reporting in the Iowa caucus, as we talked about on Wednesday, craziness surrounding
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The results were supposed to come in on Monday night and they're only now on Thursday, as
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Pete Buttigieg slightly ahead of Bernie Sanders, which is a shock to me.
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Now, Pete Buttigieg has done a lot of work in Iowa.
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He also apparently, his campaign apparently gave money to the app that was running, that
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And so some people are calling him Mayor Cheat, which I think is funny, maybe not fair, but
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I'm very surprised that Pete Buttigieg has done such a good job there.
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Well, it could tell us nothing that he's just put in a lot of work in Iowa and that he's not
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going to go anywhere for the rest of the primary season, which I personally think is going to
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But also, he has poised himself as a little bit of a moderate.
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He is just as extreme as the rest of them on abortion and other things like that.
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But he's said a couple of things that are not quite as far left as someone like Bernie
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So Bernie Sanders believes that felons should be able to vote from prison, not just rehabilitate
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after prison and be able to vote then, but should be able to vote from prison.
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And Pete Buttigieg just said, oh, no, I don't agree with that.
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I don't think you should be able to vote from prison.
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He does believe in rehabilitating after and being able to gain back your right to vote.
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But he doesn't believe that felons should vote from prison.
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And he also doesn't believe in Medicare for all.
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Like he believes in health care for all, but not Medicare for all.
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So whereas Bernie Sanders believes that we should take away everyone's private health
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insurance, that you should not be able to get insurance through your employer, that you
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shouldn't have health care coverage of your choice.
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You shouldn't be able to choose the doctors that you want to choose.
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You shouldn't have the kind of quality health care that you can afford to have or that you
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But you have to be on single payer health care like everyone will be on Medicare.
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That is what Bernie Sanders wants to do, costing the country trillions and trillions of dollars.
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He doesn't even know how much it costs, but he just says this is what we have to do.
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Pete Buttigieg just said, I don't want to take away your health insurance.
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I want to give you a public option if you want the public option, but if you want to
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keep your health insurance, you should be able to keep your health insurance.
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Now, health care for all, there are still problems with that.
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So if you're on Apple, you can just type in a relatable health care.
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You can probably just Google it to relatable Allie Beth Stuckey health care.
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You can watch it on YouTube so you can know all the ins and outs of that.
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But could it be that people aren't looking for the extremism of Bernie Sanders and that
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there are a significant number of people that are looking for somewhat of a moderate in Pete
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Now, again, he's not really moderate, but are people buying into that?
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That could tell us something or again, it could tell us nothing at all.
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And Pete Buttigieg could just go by the wayside and we could never really hear that much from
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He's obviously lost a lot in the past few days with the results coming out so slowly because
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He doesn't get that momentous moment on the night of victory on Monday night to be able
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to give a victory speech and for people to take notice of him and for the media to really
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So he's unfortunately for him lost a lot of momentum going into New Hampshire.
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OK, because we have already we're already basically at 30 minute mark.
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I want to get into I did want to talk about a couple other things.
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I want to talk about Mike Bloomberg, if he is a viable candidate and just the crazy things
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But because so many of you have asked me to talk about Taylor Swift and her documentary
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Miss Americana on Netflix, I want to at least touch on that.
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Hard work having to sit in front of the TV and watching a Netflix documentary.
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You guys really make me just bend over backwards for relatable, obviously being sarcastic.
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My husband will tell you I can become like interested in anything, even if I'm not initially
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So I'm not like the biggest Taylor Swift stan that you've ever met.
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I just haven't I'm just not like totally into her.
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I've been sucked into hunting documentaries like I'll watch hunting shows.
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I watched a show about Conor McGregor the other day and I was so fascinated by it.
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I don't know if someone gave me these tickets, but I went with my husband or maybe I wanted
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So like I said, I'm not a huge Taylor Swift stan, but I was like all high schoolers were
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at at this time, at least in like 2008 to 2010, maybe even 2007 listening to Taylor Swift.
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And when I first got my driver's license, her her album Fearless was out.
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And so our lives, the stages of our lives did overlap quite a bit.
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So I liked Taylor Swift's albums for the same reason that a lot of teenagers did.
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A lot of teenage girls did is that she related to us.
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And this was probably the first artist that a lot of us teenage girls around this time
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But at the same time, people loved to hate Taylor Swift.
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And I think I was also one of those people who kind of just thought she was fake and that
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her whole persona was contrived, that someone was behind her and that her voice wasn't real.
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But when I watched this documentary and you go back and you look at where she started and
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how she started, what you see is that A, she actually does have a really good voice on her
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Like she doesn't need a whole lot of computerization in order to make her voice good.
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She has a good voice and she's a really good songwriter.
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Like she has been creative and clever in her songwriting from the beginning.
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And you also see you just get this feeling when you're watching some of her first days that
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She is extremely talented and she's just had that thing.
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Some people are talented, but they don't have the thing that it takes to make them famous
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and to give them a big audience and a lot of followers and to propel them forward.
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And some people are really hard workers, but they don't have that thing.
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Some people are talented and really hard workers, but they don't have that it factor.
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They're not that hard of workers, but they do have that it factor.
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And they still move forward at least to a degree.
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She is talented and she just has that intangible thing that you can't learn, that you can't
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teach, that people are born with and that people watch her.
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Now you might be listening to or watching this and you're like, I don't like Taylor Swift
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Well, it doesn't really matter whether you or I like her.
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But the fact of the matter is, is that millions upon millions of people have loved Taylor Swift
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And she has done a really good job of building a career.
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So I want to say all of that positive stuff about Taylor Swift.
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And I also want to give the caveat that I don't know Taylor.
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So I'm not pronouncing when I'm about to talk about some of the political things that she
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I'm not pronouncing any personal judgment upon her.
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I will assume the best in her and believe that she's sincere, believe that she's a
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compassionate person that truly does care about other people and wants to have the right
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I won't even say uneducated, but miseducated on the subject of politics.
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And though she means well, doesn't actually understand the ramifications of the policies
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Now, before I even say that, something that struck me before I started listening to some of the
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political things she was saying is that she comes across as very young, just very young,
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The way that she talks about having kids as this thing that she like can't even imagine
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or, you know, settling down and having a family.
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I guess she'll be turning 31 years old this year if she was born in 89.
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And she just struck me as I don't like to say the word immature because it sounds like
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She just comes across as like, I just think that if you're 30 or 31 years old and you're
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still talking about, oh, the responsibility of kids, that scares me.
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Like, OK, well, it might it might be time to start, you know, catching up, even if you
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don't have kids, but just mentally realizing, OK, you are an adult.
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It's time for other responsibilities and to care about people other than other than just
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And that's something that all of us go through.
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So that struck me at first that she seems to be in a younger stage of life than most people
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I know that are 30 and 31, which is kind of interesting because obviously she has a ton of responsibility
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and commitments in the things that she does as far as her career goes.
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But I've heard a lot of, you know, 25 to 35 year old people talk.
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And she came across as just in a much younger stage of life than me and all of the people
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So when she started talking about some politics, like she started talking about the fact this
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So it was during the midterm elections she was talking about she has to stand up and
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finally say something because Marsha Blackburn is running for Senate and she called Marsha
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Again, I encourage you to go listen to that if you're curious who Marsha Blackburn is.
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She made some claims about her that she voted against the Violence Against Women Act, which
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She also said that she believes that Marsha Blackburn believes that a gay couple or a couple
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that even looks gay should be able to be kicked out of a restaurant.
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And really the whole documentary seemed to have these undertones of women are being victimized
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There were there was a part about the sexual assault trial, which I am very glad she won.
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There was a part about, you know, her being stalked and someone breaking into her home and
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And we should have compassion for her and anyone who is a victim for that.
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I am all for listening to and showing sympathy and compassion towards victims and listening
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But the underlying the undertones were certainly that women are being victimized.
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Now is the time to stand up and basically be a liberal and voice your liberal politics.
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And that is what Taylor Swift did, because she believes that Marsha Blackburn, in her words,
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And so I want to clarify some some of these things that she said against Marsha Blackburn.
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So one of the things that she said was that she voted against the reauthorization of violence
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And I want to clarify that using an article from the Washington Examiner by Madeline Frye.
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When Blackburn voted against the reauthorization of the violence against women act in 2013,
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This was in the House of Representatives in 2013.
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She voted for the House Republican version, but against the Senate version, which she said
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When you start to make this about other things, it becomes an against violence act and not
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a targeted focused act that is there to address the issue of violence against women.
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Despite Blackburn's disapproval, the bill passed.
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For context, this article in the Washington Examiner says the Violence Against Women Act was
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first passed in 1994, but it must be renewed every few years to ensure federal funds.
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continue to help women who have been victims of domestic abuse and other forms of violence
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The act is modified with provisions to which members of the GOP object.
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Last year, the House passed a bill closing the boyfriend loophole, but also included language
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that would entitle transgender women to share shelters with biological women.
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So there are these provisions that Democrats mostly have added in that a lot of Republicans,
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And this is one of them, at least now that transgender women, so biological males to our
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their Democrats are pushing for them to be able to share shelters with biological women.
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So again, we see which we've talked about a million times that there are no safe spaces
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for biological women anymore, not sports, not even abuse shelters.
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Biological men now have a right to those spaces, which endangers biological women.
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There are fundamental biological differences between us.
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This is where feminism, this is where leftism has brought us.
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There are provisions that Marsha Blackburn disagreed with.
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She doesn't disagree with she doesn't disagree with protecting women against violence.
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She doesn't disagree with protecting women against stalking.
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She didn't agree with the provisions that were put on this particular bill in 2013.
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And she thought that whatever provisions those were actually endangered women and made
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That is the kind of nuance that Taylor Swift is not going to probably even read or know,
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because my guess is that she probably has a bunch of liberal resources that she is referring
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Because as I've said many times, the default as a young person in America is to be a liberal.
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And if you are listening to the mainstream anything, if you're listening to the mainstream
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media, if you're on social media, if you're watching Netflix, all of it is bent towards the
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And so that's where your worldview, that's how your worldview is going to be shaped.
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And so you just assume that there's no other side of the story.
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There couldn't possibly be facts that you don't know.
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It must be that Marsha Blackburn just hates women.
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She also said that Marsha Blackburn wants to take us back to the 1950s with women, whatever
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She doesn't actually cite any evidence of that.
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And the same thing with her saying that Marsha Blackburn believes that gay people should
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I have not been able to find any proof whatsoever that Marsha Blackburn believes that.
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Now, you can tell me if you have seen where Marsha Blackburn said that or why Taylor Swift
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But this is the thing with the social justice left.
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If you ask them, hey, like, what do you mean by that?
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And the fact that you've even questioned them, the fact that you've even asked for clarity
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means that you are on the wrong side of history.
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Taylor Swift said that she wants to be on the right side of history, which is just silly.
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Marsha Blackburn doesn't represent Tennessee Christian values, which I had no idea that Taylor
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I would love for Taylor Swift to come on this podcast.
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We can talk about a biblical view of government.
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She doesn't have to agree with me on everything.
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But if she identifies as a Christian and we can find a common ground as sisters in Christ,
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then I am willing to talk to her about any of this stuff.
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One of the things she said or she agreed with someone else saying that the GOP is attacking
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her intelligence because they don't actually want to debate her ideas because they don't
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Like the GOP, the Republicans, conservatives, we are obsessed with debates.
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Do you know how many conservatives have asked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
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I almost forgot her name because I call her AOC.
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Do you know how many conservatives have begged her to come on their shows and debate them?
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I would love Taylor Swift to come on my show and to have a very respectful dialogue about
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We can talk about what the Bible says about politics, what the Bible says about marriage,
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She talked a lot about gay pride in this documentary.
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She did an entire music video for a song called You Need to Calm Down,
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basically saying that all of the people that believe in traditional marriage,
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all of the people that believe in the orthodox definition of marriage,
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which has been the definition of marriage for millennia, by the way,
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Well, we're not the ones making a music video about our ideology.
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That was the most condescending, the most patronizing, the most hateful music video that I've ever seen.
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All of the things that she's accusing Christians of for abiding by the Bible,
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for abiding by the Bible's definition of marriage.
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You're telling orthodox Christianity to calm down.
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You're telling God that he just needs to calm down about the institution that he created in the Bible,
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and that we need to all just be metropolitan and sophisticated like you.
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And she's the one that pretends to be the loving one who is on the right side of history.
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And if you watch that video, you need to calm down.
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And she portrays everyone who disagrees with the liberal, the worldly definition of marriage as,
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oh, it can be between, you know, any gender that you might happen to identify as that day.
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That she believes that we are all toothless hicks, that we are all gross,
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that we are all backwards and backwoods, and that we smell bad and that we're stupid,
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that no one with any intellect, no one with any ability for critical thought
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could possibly be against homosexuality, could possibly be against gay marriage.
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There are no thoughtful Christians, apparently, according to Taylor Swift,
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that abide by the Word of God and believe in the Word of God
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and believe that God created marriage for a purpose, both physically and spiritually.
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That's what Taylor Swift thinks about Christians who believe in the Bible.
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And this documentary portrayed her as this, which she has always done this,
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and I think this documentary did this well, portrayed her as a hurt animal
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that is being victimized, that she's never on the attack.
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You attacked people who disagree with you in this documentary and specifically in your music video.
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So if you are offended by people who have unfairly mischaracterized you,
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which I do think people have unfairly mischaracterized Taylor Swift,
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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,
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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
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and as such is the authority on all morality, including marriage?
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Like, do you really expect us to have sympathy when you're doing the same thing to us?
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Now, I do have sympathy for you, even if you don't have any sympathy for me.
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I do have compassion for you, even if you don't have any compassion for me.
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I do have understanding for you, even if you don't understand me at all.
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But, so those are all of my thoughts on Miss Americana.
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I can't disprove all of the claims that she made about Marsha Blackburn
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because I haven't been able to find any evidence whatsoever for them.
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Like, it's just very easy to say, well, duh, she is a sexist, racist, bigot, homophobe
00:45:01.880
because she's a Republican and people just nod their heads without even thinking critically about it.
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Because, again, all of our mainstream sources of information characterize us this way.
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I like, I don't, I don't need, I don't need the proper characterization of the mainstream media.
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Like, I don't, certainly we don't need their approval as Christians.
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We know that Jesus has sent us out as sheep among wolves and that's how it's going to be.
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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.
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So, anyway, those are all of my thoughts on that.
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