Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 220 ｜ Pandemic Pandemonium

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, happy Wednesday. Welcome to Relatable. Hope everyone is having a great week. Got a lot

00:00:06.460 of good responses about Monday's episode. If you haven't listened to that, why feminism will fail 1.00

00:00:12.300 you, I recommend that you do. You can listen, obviously, anywhere you get your podcasts. You

00:00:16.380 can also watch on YouTube. If you haven't subscribed to my YouTube channel yet, I would

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00:00:27.140 relatable, though it has all the relatable episodes on there, as well as some clips and

00:00:31.440 other kinds of videos. So if you just want to go to YouTube and subscribe to my YouTube channel,

00:00:36.620 I would be so grateful. Okay, today we are going to talk about a few things. We're going to talk

00:00:42.520 about the coronavirus and everything that's going on with that, and specifically the political

00:00:48.080 reaction to it. And we're also going to talk about AOC's take on religious liberty. Now,

00:00:53.820 we might touch on a couple other things. I know you might be thinking, how could you not be covering

00:00:57.920 Super Tuesday? It's Wednesday. That happened last night. Well, that is kind of the limitation of not

00:01:04.100 having a live show. So there are so many wonderful things to doing this podcast, how I do it, but it's

00:01:11.200 not a live show. And so I'm recording this before I actually know the results of Super Tuesday. So I'm

00:01:16.640 not able to offer my analysis. As I said in the past, I'm not a prophetess. So I don't know what's

00:01:21.640 going on. If I were to guess, though, I would say that Bernie Sanders is going to be the nominee,

00:01:27.780 even though Joe Biden won pretty big in South Carolina. But anyway, we'll get to all of that,

00:01:32.520 hopefully, on Friday. Today, I want to talk about the craziness of the coronavirus first, because

00:01:38.140 it's just gotten the whole message, everything surrounding it has just become chaos. So coronavirus,

00:01:44.040 as I am recording this right now, at least two people, two people that I know of have died. So a 50-year-old

00:01:50.560 man who has underlying health conditions and a 70-year-old man. Obviously, these are tragic

00:01:55.840 cases. It's pretty sad when something like this happens, when someone dies, rather than thinking

00:02:00.940 about, oh, my gosh, this person died. Like they had a whole life ahead of them or half a life or a

00:02:07.820 third of a life ahead of them, no matter how old they are. They had some kind of life ahead of them,

00:02:12.340 and it feels untimely no matter when someone dies of something like this, just because a pandemic is so

00:02:19.080 unexpected, and it feels like maybe there could have been more things that were done originally to

00:02:25.200 actually inhibit its spreading. But we'll talk about that in a minute. So it's tragic. But instead of

00:02:29.880 thinking about that and all of the people that are affected by it, all of their family members who are

00:02:34.820 suffering from this, we think we do these calculations in our head. We're like, okay, well, so he's 50 years

00:02:39.980 old. Well, I'm only 28 years old. He had underlying health conditions. I'm pretty healthy. We're like

00:02:44.720 thinking about what it actually means for us. And I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing. I

00:02:51.100 think it's probably a natural survival instinct. But because of the pandemonium that's happening with

00:02:56.480 this pandemic, we're constantly just thinking about how this factors into our survival rate or the

00:03:04.740 likelihood of us contracting this disease and having to be hospitalized or dying from it. We also don't

00:03:11.380 know what the underlying health conditions are. So it's hard for people to make that calculation.

00:03:16.940 People say, you know, if you're a healthy person, you're going to be fine. You're going to survive

00:03:20.420 from the coronavirus. But what does healthy actually mean? So does it mean that you don't have cancer or

00:03:27.320 does it mean that you don't have anything wrong with you? Are we talking like people with diabetes,

00:03:31.580 people with thyroid issues, people with like IBS, Crohn's disease? What are you talking about

00:03:38.220 underlying health conditions? So when people are listening to these stories of people so tragically

00:03:43.540 dying and they're making those calculations about themselves, it's hard to do when we don't know what

00:03:48.420 health conditions would have an effect. Most people have some kind of underlying health condition. So

00:03:53.820 how severe of an underlying health condition do you have to have in order to significantly exacerbate

00:03:59.960 coronavirus to the point to where you are going to die or you are likely to die? It's really hard to

00:04:05.440 know. So instead of making those calculations, which, like I said, is natural, we should be

00:04:10.460 praying for not only the people who have contracted the virus and not just in America, but around the

00:04:14.840 world, but also the families that are affected, not just affected by fear, but affected by sadness,

00:04:19.500 affected by sorrow, affected by financial situations. And Christians should really be thinking,

00:04:25.140 okay, how does this affect the least of these? Like, how does this affect the people in our

00:04:29.860 communities who don't have access to all the resources that we do? And I've been trying to think,

00:04:34.740 like, what can I do to the people? Because poor communities are going to be affected by this more.

00:04:39.620 They just are. They don't have not only the resources, but they don't have necessarily access

00:04:45.740 always to the kind of care that everyone else does. Now, that doesn't mean they can't go to the

00:04:51.140 emergency room and get care because they can. Anyone can go to the emergency room and they cannot be

00:04:56.040 denied treatment. But we should be thinking, like, what can we do? Not, you know, what a government

00:05:02.160 handout can do, but what can we do to help those around us who are particularly vulnerable to this?

00:05:08.540 And of course, I would say the number one thing that we can do for everyone is to wash our hands.

00:05:13.480 So I'm just going to be a mom for a second. Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash them really good.

00:05:19.200 The CDC actually, I think, I think it was the CDC came out with a video on Twitter that was like,

00:05:23.940 this is how you wash your hands. It's really intense. It's longer than I think most of us do.

00:05:28.620 I think most of us just kind of get like a little soap and just run our hands under some cold water

00:05:33.240 and call it a day. Or a lot of people don't wash their hands. I know that's really gross, but a lot

00:05:37.860 of people, guys, and I'm just going to call you out if you're like driving in your car and you're

00:05:42.400 like, oh my gosh, that's me. I'm just going to call you out. There are some of you out there who go to

00:05:47.020 the bathroom, even public bathrooms, which I just can't even fathom, and you don't wash your hands

00:05:52.080 because you're like, you know what? I can't see germs, so they can't harm me. They can't harm anyone else

00:05:56.960 for your sake and for the sake of other people. Think about the people who have compromised immune

00:06:01.760 systems. Like think about the babies, the older people, the people who do have underlying serious

00:06:07.960 health conditions, all of the people who might get a cold or a flu and it turns into something else and

00:06:12.420 they die. So one of the biggest things that you can do to protect vulnerable communities that I can do

00:06:18.060 is to wash our hands. So like 20 seconds under some warm water with some good soap, back of the hands,

00:06:25.140 in between the fingers, all that good stuff. Cover your mouth. This, if you guys follow me on

00:06:30.660 Instagram, you know that one of my biggest peeves is when people don't cover their mouths when they

00:06:38.040 cough, especially on airplanes. I mean, you're just closed in this tube where everyone's germs are

00:06:43.900 circulating around. Please cover your mouth. You can cover it with your sweater like I'm doing.

00:06:49.820 You can cover it with your shirt. You can cover it with your elbow. You know, like do the vampire

00:06:54.560 cough, like really go into the crevice of your elbow when you are coughing or sneezing. Oh my gosh,

00:07:01.480 I was walking in a hotel the other day and the lady in front of me was just, it was just like she 0.81

00:07:06.240 was enjoying coughing into the air. It was just like no, no even effort into covering her mouth. 0.90

00:07:13.020 She was just, it's like looking up and coughing into the air to see how far she could project her germs. 1.00

00:07:19.300 People sneeze without covering their mouths. So if we want to be compassionate to those around us,

00:07:26.840 which we should all want to do, we should all be concerned with, we will wash our hands. We will

00:07:32.180 cover our mouths when we cough and when we sneeze. And if you are sick, like if you've got a fever of

00:07:38.140 any kind, if you've got a really bad cough and there is any way that you can avoid being in a place with

00:07:43.820 a bunch of public people, with a bunch of public people, what, uh, being in public with a bunch of

00:07:49.240 people, especially in a closed space, try to avoid that. If you can, I know sometimes it's

00:07:54.420 inevitable. Like there've been times where I've gotten on a plane and after I got on the plane,

00:07:58.180 I started feeling bad and I started getting sick. Okay, well, there's nothing you can do about that.

00:08:01.920 Or if you're in a place and you've got to get home, like I understand some circumstances make it

00:08:06.340 necessary for you to, uh, to go. But if you can avoid it, try to try to not be around people that

00:08:17.020 you could possibly, in fact, just do your best to be considerate of other people. I've seen people

00:08:22.620 out there say, you know, too bad. People just need to be okay with sickness. That's just the cost of

00:08:28.640 going out in public. Come on guys. Really? Is that logical? Is that kind? Is that loving? I don't think

00:08:34.680 so. So let us be as considerate as we possibly can of other people by washing our hands, by covering

00:08:41.600 our mouths, when we cough, when we sneeze, not going out in public, if we're sick, especially

00:08:46.060 where we're going to be around a ton of people, avoiding that if at all possible, uh, not to get

00:08:53.260 like prying too much into your personal life, but take you some echinacea and some zinc, some vitamin C

00:09:00.300 and D, uh, drink your water, all that good stuff. And we can be as vigilant as, as we possibly can

00:09:10.320 in preventing the spread, not just of coronavirus, but of any kind of sickness, because if someone

00:09:14.820 starts out with one kind of sickness, they contract coronavirus, it could end up being even worse for

00:09:19.700 them. So let us just be considerate, uh, of all of those things. I think too many of us are so,

00:09:26.420 um, we've got a one track mind on the things that we want to do and need to do that day that we're

00:09:31.840 like, you know what, people are just going to have to be okay with me, infecting them with my

00:09:36.500 sickness. Let's not be like that. Let's be a little considerate, a little bit compassionate. So that's

00:09:40.560 probably the best thing that we can do for those, especially those who are vulnerable, either

00:09:44.920 physically, financially, or whatever. And if there's anything else we can do for other people, like

00:09:49.920 there, if there are people in your church who are sick and they need you to babysit their

00:09:53.760 children, then maybe you can offer to do that. If you've got free time, bring meals and, uh,

00:09:59.880 different things like that, just to make sure that we are caring for one another, because no matter

00:10:04.180 what, no matter who's in power, we can't rely on the government or any kind of bureaucrat to save us

00:10:10.380 from this virus or to save us from anything, to save us from any kind of catastrophe. The government

00:10:17.000 made up of fallible human beings just doesn't have the ability to do that. Now let's get into the

00:10:22.340 political reaction to, to all of this that is happening. So Trump did a press conference. He

00:10:27.000 held a press conference. I think it was last week. Yes, it was last week about the coronavirus.

00:10:31.620 And some of the things he said, I think were very helpful that, Hey, we're doing absolutely

00:10:35.760 everything that we can. We have blocked travel from places that we wanted to, that we needed to

00:10:40.380 block travel from. Although there are still planes coming in from places that are highly infected

00:10:45.420 with coronavirus. And so I would really like to see that change, but, um, he was very sure,

00:10:51.080 very confident, but there were some other things, uh, that he said that kind of seemed to undermine

00:10:58.260 the CDC that kind of seemed to seem to undermine the experts. And he does seem to be, or he did at

00:11:05.040 least last week downplaying the, the pandemic a little bit too much to the point to where his

00:11:11.440 political enemies are saying that he doesn't really care about it, that he's not really serious about it.

00:11:17.360 And he, but I don't think that's true at all. I don't think that's true at all. I think that

00:11:21.220 the point that he is trying to make is that the liberal media and some people on the left and

00:11:25.220 some democratic politicians are blowing it, not blowing this out of proportion, because I do think

00:11:31.400 it's a big deal at this point, but, uh, blowing certain things out of proportion to make president

00:11:36.660 Trump look bad. So to make it seem like he is, uh, some circus clown that's just running around 0.93

00:11:43.180 and, you know, juggling on his unicycle and not really paying attention to the things that are

00:11:50.080 happening. Um, and that's just not an accurate depiction of how this administration has handled

00:11:55.580 this virus, at least not so far. The headlines that you are going to see is that president Trump

00:12:00.680 proposed cuts at one point to the CDC that, but they didn't actually cut. They didn't actually cut

00:12:08.380 funds to the CDC actually funds to the CDC public funds to the CDC taxpayer dollars have increased

00:12:14.120 while president Trump has been in office. And yet the headlines are he proposed budget cuts and

00:12:18.860 that's, what's making this worse. Well, that doesn't make any sense. The cuts didn't actually

00:12:23.120 go through. And even if they had gone through contrary to popular liberal belief, decreasing the

00:12:28.760 budget for something doesn't necessarily decrease its effectiveness. This is a conservative

00:12:33.360 administration. Of course, they're going to look to see where they can deregulate, where they

00:12:38.000 can cut back on spending, uh, because that is a tenant of conservatism. And because a lot of these,

00:12:45.980 uh, a lot of these programs, a lot of these organizations that are funded by taxpayer dollars

00:12:50.380 are given too much money and it ends up being wasteful. I'm not saying that's true about the CDC.

00:12:55.520 I'm just saying in general. So even if they had gone through with these budget cuts to the CDC,

00:13:01.440 which, you know, there are a lot of places that we can cut in our budget. I'm fine with continuing to

00:13:07.520 fund the CDC exactly how we do right now. Uh, but even if they had, that doesn't necessarily mean

00:13:13.840 that the CDC would have been less effective. So, uh, but the headlines are, are saying that

00:13:21.580 president Trump and his administration proposed these budget cuts. He doesn't really care. He's

00:13:26.260 not directing enough resources to it. And they're saying, Oh, Mike Pence, Mike Pence is heading up this

00:13:31.300 effort against this pandemic. We're all going to die because Mike Pence is so incompetent. Well, 0.99

00:13:35.760 Mike Pence is not incompetent first of all, and he is a perfectly, a perfectly appropriate person

00:13:42.880 to be, uh, heading this effort. He is not pretending as far as I know to be an expert on viruses and

00:13:50.280 expert on pandemics. He has, uh, tapped a lot of people who are the foremost experts in the world

00:13:57.300 on pandemics to lead this effort. And yet the left, because they are so upset still that Donald

00:14:05.100 Trump beat Hillary Clinton because they hate Donald Trump so much because they are so fully immersed in

00:14:10.640 Trump derangement syndrome that they are spinning this into a fully politicized thing when it really

00:14:17.560 shouldn't, but because they've spun it into a politicized thing, people on the right have to

00:14:21.960 react and then it becomes political on both sides. And I do have to react and respond to some of their

00:14:25.960 accusations, even though I don't want to make this a political thing because you can't let them get

00:14:31.520 away with a lie and have people believe that president Trump is somehow causing this pandemic

00:14:37.820 or that Mike Pence is causing this pandemic or that they have exacerbated it or allowed it, uh, to expand.

00:14:44.680 I saw this, uh, post the other day on Instagram. It was actually talking about how it's, uh, how people

00:14:50.660 need to not be racist towards Asian people during this coronavirus outbreak, which, okay. But the last

00:14:56.600 line of the, of the caption said, you know, if, uh, we get sick or like, you know, if we get sick or get

00:15:03.540 killed, it's going to be Donald Trump and his administration's fault. And people really believe

00:15:08.180 that the New York times had an op ed that said we should call this Trump virus. So a virus that started

00:15:14.920 in China and was spread outside of China because of China is Trump's fault. Okay. Like if that,

00:15:22.280 if that's your mentality, you might want to just check in, just check in with yourself, just check

00:15:27.680 in and think, did my, did the logical part of my brain fall off sometime? Did I drop it somewhere

00:15:33.660 behind me in the past three years? Okay. I might need to retrace my steps, go pick it up, put it back

00:15:39.700 and reactivate it and see if you can start thinking a little bit more rationally. Uh, that's what I

00:15:45.660 recommend because this has nothing to do this, the spread of this pandemic, which is tragic, which is

00:15:51.700 something at this point that I think that we can be concerned about in a, in a balanced way, uh, has to

00:15:59.140 do with communism. It has to do with China. As I've said many times, both on here and on Instagram is that

00:16:06.620 the thing far more dangerous and far historically deadlier than Corona virus is communism. Not to

00:16:13.560 say that we shouldn't worry, like I said about Corona virus, but the reason why Corona virus is

00:16:18.240 what it is now is because of communism. Uh, we have seen that in, we've seen that in how China has

00:16:24.420 handled this, refusing to allow health officials into the country to help, refusing to report actual

00:16:29.440 numbers of, uh, the infected and the dead, refusing to offer support to their overrun, poorly run

00:16:35.600 hospitals, quarantining people inside their homes, rather than allowing them to get the care that

00:16:40.220 they need. Uh, we're still not totally sure where the virus came from because they haven't been honest

00:16:45.260 about that. We have no reason to believe that they will ever be honest because China, like all 1.00

00:16:49.880 communist governments, uh, do not care, uh, does not care how many people get sick or live or die.

00:16:57.100 They care about staying in power, which means saving face. As we know, power corrupts and absolute

00:17:03.920 power corrupts. Absolutely. Which is why the bigger you make the government, even in the name of

00:17:08.460 compassion, which it always initially is government expansion, uh, the bigger you make the government,

00:17:13.360 the more people suffer. Big government is neither efficient nor effective as China shows us. And yet

00:17:19.760 the left somehow makes this about Donald Trump because the Trump admin has proposed, proposed in the

00:17:27.220 past to make cuts to the CDC proposed to decrease funding from the CDC, but they actually have it.

00:17:32.920 And let me go back because I meant to say this and then I forgot to explain this. So the reason why

00:17:39.300 they are so upset with Mike Pence, uh, being tapped to head up this commission to fight against the

00:17:45.260 coronavirus is, uh, because as governor of Indiana, he oversaw, he was, uh, in office when a terrible HIV

00:17:55.160 epidemic broke out in rural Indiana. He didn't direct enough funds. They say enough public funds to

00:18:02.740 a needle exchange program that would have offered free sterile needles to people who are using

00:18:08.700 intravenous drugs. So that apparently, uh, was Mike Pence's fault. So they blame Mike Pence for the fact

00:18:16.020 that people who were sharing needles with each other to do drugs, uh, got HIV and that HIV spread.

00:18:22.540 That is their actual reason that that was Mike Pence's fault. That is their actual reason for saying

00:18:27.320 that he is not qualified and is disqualified, unqualified from heading up this group that

00:18:34.360 is trying to fight coronavirus. That is how they are spinning this. So that's another way they're

00:18:39.280 making this political rather than pointing to China, which not only is the source of this pandemic, 0.55

00:18:45.500 but is also the reason that it has spread as far as it has and why so many people have died there

00:18:52.420 and elsewhere. Now this is not a slight against Chinese people, certainly not a slight against

00:18:58.120 Chinese people everywhere. So pointing out that this is China's fault has nothing to do with racism

00:19:02.840 and everything to do with China, the government of China being a bad actor on the world stage,

00:19:08.960 a dishonest actor on the world stage. And it also points to the fundamental flaw of communism,

00:19:13.920 which again, the bigger you grow the government, the more people suffer,

00:19:17.360 even, and especially in the name of compassion, which like I said, is always the reason initially

00:19:23.200 that big government is pitched. Uh, liberals are trying to claim that it is America's fault.

00:19:29.380 It's actually not America's fault. It's Trump's fault that all of this is chaos and things are

00:19:33.360 spreading that we're totally unprepared. This administration has no idea what they're doing,

00:19:37.260 but there is no evidence that that's true. America is the most prepared country for this epidemic

00:19:42.660 in the world because we have the best healthcare in the world. Uh, the system isn't perfect

00:19:47.340 I've talked about this. I spent 30 minutes on this podcast talking about some of the problems

00:19:51.700 with their healthcare system. But the fact of the matter is you cannot deny that we have the best,

00:19:57.660 most innovative, uh, uh, most advanced medical care in the world. There is a reason why the entire

00:20:05.260 world, uh, depends exclusively on America for medical innovation. The entire world depends exclusively

00:20:13.900 on the United States for medical innovation. We have the best people in the world, in this country,

00:20:19.980 in the fight against coronavirus. That doesn't mean that people aren't going to get it. Actually,

00:20:24.040 the CDC predicted that most of the country, uh, will be exposed to it. At least it doesn't mean people

00:20:29.740 aren't going to die. Unfortunately, that's going to happen. It's going to be, at least it's going to be

00:20:35.000 the last illness that some people get before they do die. They might have other underlying conditions,

00:20:41.180 but it's pathetic. It is pathetic that anyone would say any different that, uh, that we are 0.96

00:20:48.200 unprepared. Uh, it is pathetic that anyone would push that narrative that Trump is the cause of this 0.99

00:20:54.000 or Trump is exacerbating this. So Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders, the liberal media, everyone who is 0.87

00:20:59.900 running with this storyline, they are shameless. Uh, and because they're false accusations require a

00:21:06.140 defense on the other side, the whole thing gets politicized. Uh, but it's important, like I said

00:21:13.380 earlier, to respond to what they're saying. Okay. Uh, let's get into the rest of this coronavirus

00:21:18.780 analysis, which unfortunately, in addition to being a physical pandemic has turned into a political

00:21:24.740 pandemic as well. It's a physical pandemic that has caused political pandemonium. And it's simply

00:21:31.040 because the left never wastes a good tragedy. The left never wastes a good crisis because remember

00:21:37.520 truth. This is something that I heard Dennis Prager say that I've thought about a lot. Truth is not a

00:21:42.620 left-wing value. Now, am I saying everyone on the left side of the political aisle is a liar? No,

00:21:47.180 I don't think that at all. I don't think all Democrats are liars. They don't think that everyone

00:21:50.360 on the left is a liar. Does that mean that everyone on the right is honest? No, I don't think that at

00:21:54.620 all. Of course not. That is very far from the truth. There are plenty of conservative politicians who

00:21:58.600 have lied. And as a Christian, we should be able to stand, uh, stand firm on the fact that we should

00:22:03.580 all be telling the truth, no matter what side of the political aisle that we're on. But I'm talking

00:22:07.220 about the ideology in general, the ideology of leftism, uh, does not hold truth as a value.

00:22:14.060 Their motto is not whatever is true. Uh, it's whatever works. So leftism's motto is not whatever

00:22:21.560 is true. It's whatever works. So because leftists believe that they are fighting for the greater good of

00:22:27.560 leftism, whatever lie gets them. There is justified again by many people on the left,

00:22:33.740 not all people on the left, particularly people on the far left, which whether you like it or not,

00:22:38.220 they're becoming more mainstream. Uh, now Donald Trump Jr. Said something about, um, that Democrats

00:22:45.200 are hoping millions of people will die. And vice president Pence said that he's justified in saying

00:22:50.780 that that's something that I've been thinking and haven't said out loud because I didn't know how to

00:22:56.920 phrase it because there are some caveats that I want to give to that. Do I think that there are

00:23:01.800 a lot of Democrats that want people to die? No, I don't. Do I think that there are even a lot of

00:23:06.440 people who are leftists that, that want millions of people to die? No, I don't. But do I think that

00:23:13.260 there is a probably growing number of radical leftists and radical Democrats who would be okay if

00:23:22.000 millions of people died so that they could use this against Donald Trump in November for November?

00:23:28.020 Yes, of course I do. Of course I do. Again, because truth is not a leftist value and whatever

00:23:34.720 requires or whatever is required for them to win, uh, for them to accomplish what they believe is the

00:23:42.620 greater good. And they believe the greater good is absolute power for leftism and the complete

00:23:48.260 drowning out of any conservative, any right wing, any moderate voice whatsoever. If that accomplishes,

00:23:55.140 if millions of people dying is what is required for them to win in November, I do think that there

00:24:00.360 is a group of radical leftists who would be perfectly fine with that. Who would be okay with that?

00:24:06.900 Who would even rejoice over the fact at least secretly of millions of people dying so that they

00:24:11.800 could gleefully get on Twitter and say, see, this is all Donald Trump's fault. We'll be able to now

00:24:15.540 you the pandemic, the deaths of millions of people against him for Bernie Sanders or whoever the

00:24:19.940 nominee is to win. Yes. And if that's not, if that's not what a group of leftist belief, then they

00:24:28.000 need to be clear about that because their glee right now, their dark glee right now, that people are

00:24:35.160 dying, that there is a pandemic, that there are people infected with the coronavirus here in America,

00:24:40.160 that they're able to leverage that to criticize Donald Trump, uh, the, that is making it seem as

00:24:47.220 if it's making it seem as if they're glad about that, that they're okay with that because I mean,

00:24:53.720 that's what it means to be deranged with Trump derangement syndrome is that even something like

00:24:59.020 a pandemic can bring you some kind of deep and morbid satisfaction because the hatred of Donald Trump

00:25:06.960 is at the forefront of your mind at all times. And I think that they probably believe that they have

00:25:12.740 good intentions because they have been so indoctrinated, so brainwashed into thinking that

00:25:16.840 they're fighting fascism, that they're fighting Nazism. And so they think, sure, we're fighting Nazism.

00:25:22.920 Like I saw someone say that Republicans are, uh, they're domestic terrorists and that they are, uh, 0.97

00:25:29.620 a domestic threat. And so if you believe that, like, if you really believe that in your mind, 0.88

00:25:36.960 then sure, you think that, you know, a million people dying of coronavirus and being able to

00:25:42.860 leverage that against president Trump is no big deal. These people who are using this against

00:25:47.620 president Trump are not shedding a tear for these two people that have died. They're not shedding a

00:25:52.720 tear for anyone who has died. They're, they're not sad about this at all because they see this as a

00:25:57.740 political opportunity. Now, does this happen on the other side of the aisle? Yes, it does. And I think

00:26:01.840 it's shameful. I think it's shameful that we use tragedies, um, to not just use it to say,

00:26:09.920 Hey, this policy needs to happen because that's inevitable. Okay. Like the right does that. For

00:26:15.200 example, when there are illegal immigrants who commit murders, the left does that when there 0.98

00:26:18.980 are school shootings, people say, use tragic situations to say, okay, we need to put certain

00:26:24.680 policies in place in order to change this. Of course, I don't agree with the left's stance on the

00:26:29.400 second amendment, but both sides do that. They use chaos and they use tragedy in order to say,

00:26:34.920 Hey, these are the policies that we are proposing. That is not the case right now with what's going on

00:26:39.460 with this pandemic, because there are no policies that they're proposing. They're just leveraging

00:26:43.880 this to make people angry, to make people scared, to make sure that people know that this is Donald

00:26:49.680 Trump's fault and that you shouldn't vote for Donald Trump in November, which is sad because people

00:26:53.580 are actually dying. Like this isn't a theoretical pandemic. People are actually dying. People are actually

00:26:58.820 hurting. People are actually suffering. People are actually planning funerals right now because of

00:27:03.820 this. And this is not about Donald Trump. And there's no evidence whatsoever that Donald Trump

00:27:08.000 and his administration have mishandled this. So it's just, it's gross. It's nasty. As Christians, 0.99

00:27:14.740 we need to be able to take a step back. And first of all, we need to pray. Like we need to pray for this.

00:27:20.440 We need to pray for God's mercy. We need to pray for his grace. We need to pray for his wisdom,

00:27:25.140 for his protection. We need to pray for opportunities to serve, opportunities to lead,

00:27:30.800 opportunities to point people to Christ, to share the gospel. And I'm talking about,

00:27:34.540 you know, myself here. I'm certainly not saying that I have, I've done all of these things,

00:27:39.660 but this is what we should be asking the Lord for. We should be praying for truth, for truth to win

00:27:44.860 out. We shouldn't be a part of all of this outreach that's surrounding this. We shouldn't be

00:27:49.320 part of this pandemonium. We know that God is still on his throne, that he is completely sovereign.

00:27:55.140 Remember that God is not thrown off by anything. He's not surprised by anything. He's not like,

00:27:59.400 oh gosh, that pandemic got more out of control than I thought. Now I've got to call in the cleaning

00:28:04.480 crew. He does not see messes and come in and clean them up. Like he is suspended in the eternal now.

00:28:10.660 So that means he is just as present a thousand years ago, as he is a thousand years from now,

00:28:14.800 as he is right now. So he is not deterred. He's not inhibited. He's not prohibited by anything

00:28:21.620 that is currently happening. He is still on his throne. He is still completely in control.

00:28:26.460 There was a picture of Mike Pence and the people that he has commissioned, that he has tapped to

00:28:33.940 help in this effort against the coronavirus, all praying. And there was a writer for New York Times

00:28:40.680 magazine that said, oh gosh, look, Mike Pence is praying. We're all going to die. Obviously showing

00:28:45.760 his disdain for Christians. If this were some kind of new age, like goddess circle, I'm sure everyone

00:28:53.240 on the left would be like, yes, this is so effective. Let's empower crystals to help us against the

00:28:58.220 coronavirus. But because this is a Christian person praying to the God of the universe, they're saying, 0.93

00:29:04.100 well, this is just shameful. This is just wrong. This is embarrassing. This is completely ineffective.

00:29:09.860 First of all, he's not praying and just sitting there. He is praying for wisdom as they move forward

00:29:15.520 with the resources and with the wisdom that God has given them. I am so thankful. No matter what

00:29:21.640 you think about the Trump administration, if you are a Christian, shouldn't you just be thankful for

00:29:25.880 the fact that we actually have people in this administration who are not only praying, but are

00:29:30.800 proud of their prayers and are willing to publicly point to God, the God of the universe, the God that's

00:29:37.180 in control of everything. Again, whether you like Trump or not, we should just own the fact that we have

00:29:43.320 been blessed by this administration. Does Trump have foibles? Does Trump say things that I don't

00:29:48.520 like? Absolutely. But this administration, particularly Mike Pence and just his public

00:29:55.140 faith has been a blessing to us. Like people's lives are better than they used to be, not just

00:30:01.520 because of this, but because of the economy, because of various policies that President Trump has put

00:30:07.860 forth. Again, has there been conflict? Has there been some chaos? Have there been things that

00:30:12.280 President Trump has said that I don't like? Yes, absolutely. But thank God, thank God for his grace

00:30:18.400 on a guilty nation, a nation just like any other nation who is guilty of sin, that he has put

00:30:25.080 Christians at the head of things like this, at the head of our government, people who are willing to pray

00:30:30.160 to him humbly, asking him for wisdom. I am so thankful for that. And we should all be. So we didn't

00:30:36.180 have time to go into the religious liberty stuff with AOC. I do want to be able to do that because

00:30:42.100 she has such wide influence and her talking about religious liberty in a way that I just simply

00:30:46.340 don't agree with. I really I want to be able to discuss and give some kind of response to. I know

00:30:52.860 that I'm probably a little bit naive. I do think that AOC, as wrong as I believe she is on everything,

00:30:58.840 I do think that she means well. I do. I think that she means well, but she just happens to be

00:31:04.580 so wrong. She's the embodiment of that Ronald Reagan quote. That's like, it's not that liberals

00:31:10.920 don't know anything. It's that they know so much that isn't so. And that's that's what I feel about

00:31:15.760 AOC. OK, anyway, I will talk about that next time or it might even have to be pushed to next week

00:31:21.640 because we got to talk about Super Tuesday at some point. Anyway, have a great rest of your day

00:31:25.080 and I will see you guys back here on Friday.

00:31:34.580 I will see you guys back here on Friday.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - March 04, 2020

Ep 220 ｜ Pandemic Pandemonium

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