Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 221 ｜ Biden or Bernie？

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Friday. I hope everyone has had a wonderful week and that

00:00:05.580 you are excited about the weekend. Now on Fridays on Relatable, we typically have an interview.

00:00:12.380 Today, we don't have an interview. We are going to talk about Super Tuesday and everything that

00:00:19.020 happened there. And we're going to analyze some of it. And I'll give you a little bit of my take

00:00:25.240 on it. And then if we have time, I'm going to talk about the monologue that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:00:32.760 gave in Congress about religious liberty and why, from my perspective, from a constitutional

00:00:38.620 perspective, she is wrong. So on Super Tuesday, it's Friday, so you probably already know what

00:00:43.740 happened. And I don't want to repeat, you know, all the analysis that you've probably already heard

00:00:48.940 at this point. But Joe Biden obviously had a wonderful night. He had a much better night than

00:00:55.920 was expected. And he took, I think it was nine states and Bernie Sanders only had three. And

00:01:02.420 when I was actually looking at this research, they were still counting California, but it's projected

00:01:07.520 that delegate rich California is going to go to Bernie Sanders, which is really no surprise.

00:01:12.240 If we look at the demographics of who actually voted for whom, so young voters vote for the most part for

00:01:21.520 Bernie Sanders. Young people just really like Bernie Sanders. Ages like 18 to 35 are in love with Bernie

00:01:27.740 Sanders. That's true. If you're a white, black, Latino, I'm looking at the 538 blog that actually broke 0.99

00:01:33.280 down these demographics. But black voters that are older, so not 18 to 35, but the generation ahead of

00:01:41.300 that and then the generations ahead of the younger generations are voting for Bernie Sanders. So

00:01:47.360 are sorry, are voting for Joe Biden. They don't like Bernie Sanders. They're not really apparently

00:01:52.060 a fan of socialism. They like Joe Biden. It's really just young voters. And then older white voters,

00:01:58.760 mostly white voters vote for Bernie Sanders. And I always think this is funny. Like the left,

00:02:03.940 they fancy themselves this intersectional multi-ethnic coalition in which all in their words,

00:02:11.540 the people of color are joined arm in arm against this national and international threat of white 0.95

00:02:18.040 people and white supremacy. But that's not really that's first of all, that's not an accurate

00:02:25.060 depiction of what the left is or what the Democratic Party is. There is all kinds of racism and

00:02:30.480 discrimination and bigotry against all different kinds of groups. Unfortunately, this is just a

00:02:35.040 tragic part of human nature. And being on the left certainly doesn't make you immune from that.

00:02:39.640 That's not something that the left wants to talk about. But they also don't want to talk about that

00:02:43.740 the group that is most liberal, that is most in line with far left policies happen to be white people,

00:02:49.560 like older white people, college educated white people are much farther to the left on every social,

00:02:55.520 cultural, moral, and political issue typically than the other groups are. And whites, well-educated

00:03:03.100 people tend to really like Elizabeth Warren. They tend to really like Bernie Sanders. I just think

00:03:09.080 that that's interesting to note. The left fancies themselves, you know, praising diversity a lot more

00:03:15.160 than the right does. And maybe that's true in some cases. But they've got three, their three front

00:03:22.140 runners, all their front runners are white, which I don't think is a bad thing at all. Of course, 1.00

00:03:25.740 I don't think that's disqualifying. I don't even think that's really important to note.

00:03:29.220 But for a side that constantly talks about race, that constantly talks about the importance of being

00:03:34.860 racially diverse, but having no diversity of thought whatsoever, all of their contenders are white, 0.99

00:03:40.760 and their top two contenders are white, cisgendered, straight, male millionaires.

00:03:47.220 But I digress. So these are the front runners. Biden has made a comeback that we just didn't

00:03:54.440 think was going to happen. I think I said a couple weeks ago that Biden is out, that he's done. He

00:03:59.480 finished in fourth place in Iowa, I think it was, and then fifth place in New Hampshire. I mean, after

00:04:05.300 that, you're just like, okay, that's it. He was seen as the unrivaled front runner for a long time.

00:04:11.660 We said that this is the only guy that is moderate enough, that is appealing enough to people in the

00:04:19.080 middle of the country that could possibly be Donald Trump. We looked at the field. We said, okay,

00:04:23.820 Kamala Harris ain't going to do it. Beto not going to do it. Bernie Sanders not going to do it. Joe

00:04:28.720 Biden is probably the only guy that's going to be able to appeal to some of the people that likes

00:04:35.160 Donald Trump because he said, I'm going to defend the common man. And then for whatever reason,

00:04:40.700 the people who have been disappointed and still felt like they have been left out of Donald Trump's

00:04:46.380 coalition and Donald Trump's policies, that those people might vote for Bernie Sanders or might vote

00:04:52.800 for Joe Biden. But then the debates happened and it turns out that Joe Biden can't talk. And I don't

00:05:01.780 mean to be rude. I actually haven't really jumped on the whole Joe Biden is decrepit bandwagon because I

00:05:09.820 think it's mean, like it feels like an ad hominem attack. And I don't want to, there are so many

00:05:16.980 things, there's so many reasons to oppose Joe Biden. I mean, he truly is a radical leftist. He's

00:05:21.740 not a moderate. And we'll get to more of that in a second that I haven't wanted to attack him too much

00:05:26.820 for his inability to be able to speak well. And the debates, he just, he just didn't do a good job.

00:05:32.340 It seems like he would say to himself beforehand, you know, he'd give himself a pep talk in the

00:05:37.660 mirror and he'd say, okay, Joe, you got to do this. You got to do this. Well, you really got

00:05:41.320 to have energy. You got to get it together. And then he would do that for like the first

00:05:46.200 30 or so seconds of the debate. And then he would just fall apart. He would give away the rest of his

00:05:50.840 time. He would get confused about where he was, what he was saying. He would just kind of lose track

00:05:57.020 of his thought. And it was very obvious that he wasn't going to be the front runner anymore.

00:06:02.640 At least it seemed that way. Bernie Sanders did pretty well at the debates. Elizabeth Warren did

00:06:07.300 okay at the debates, but really Bernie Sanders was emerging as not only the most energetic candidate,

00:06:13.520 but the person with the most energy behind him. And we've talked about the dangers of that. I mean,

00:06:19.420 this guy is not just a far leftist, but he is a self-proclaimed democratic socialist.

00:06:23.620 That does not mean he's a social Democrat. He's not just a guy who wants social programs. If you

00:06:28.860 go back and you listen to Bernie Sanders throughout his political history, which has spanned like 40

00:06:34.340 years at this point, the guy is old and he's lived off the taxpayer his entire career. If you go back

00:06:40.100 and you listen to the positions that he has held and that he has never once renounced, he loves

00:06:45.160 communism. He is very warm towards communism at the very least. And I think in his heart of hearts,

00:06:50.620 like at his core, Bernie Sanders is a communist. Now he probably knows that the term communist

00:06:56.200 doesn't have good PR attached to it at this point in history, considering the track record of hundreds

00:07:01.200 of millions of people that have died at the hands of communist regimes. And he knows America just

00:07:06.140 isn't for that quite yet. But if he could own up to the fact that he is a communist and he's been

00:07:12.060 a lifelong communist, I think he would. I mean, he holds to all of the core communist tenets in his

00:07:17.700 heart of hearts as it seemed throughout his history. And we've talked about the dangers of

00:07:21.320 that. But he is promising this moral revolution like he is promising to overtake the establishment.

00:07:27.520 He's a part of the establishment in a lot of ways. By the way, like I said, he has been a lifelong

00:07:31.920 politician. This is not some outsider coming in the way that Donald Trump was or the way that other

00:07:36.680 candidates have been. This guy has been living off the taxpayer dollar forever off of your hard

00:07:44.120 earn money that you earned by, you know, having a job, something that Bernie Sanders has never really

00:07:50.240 had. He has lived off that his entire adult life. And he is acting like he is this outsider coming in

00:07:57.120 to break down the political establishment that he has been a part of longer than most people listening

00:08:02.600 to this podcast longer than I have been alive. But it's very appealing when he talks about fighting

00:08:10.360 for the poor and defending the least of these. Of course, he doesn't use the language of the least

00:08:14.840 of these because he is, I'm sure, biblically illiterate. The guy is an agnostic at best, probably an

00:08:20.980 atheist. I know people talk about him being Jewish. He talks about him being Jewish despite having people 0.89

00:08:28.020 having antisemites on his campaign and stump for him like Linda Sarsour and Ilhan Omar. He talks about

00:08:35.360 being proud of being Jewish, but he knows he is not particularly religious. At least Mike Bloomberg

00:08:40.300 comes out and says, yeah, sure, I was born Jewish, but I'm not a religious guy. Like, I appreciate that

00:08:44.940 kind of honesty. But Bernie Sanders, he is trying to win, of course, every vote that he can possibly win.

00:08:52.340 And that's what every politician does. But we know that for the most part, he is anti-Israel.

00:08:58.140 And he is, like I said, campaigning with antisemites. And so he has no credibility.

00:09:06.880 There's no credibility that we know of to his claim that he is actually a practicing Jew or that

00:09:11.600 he is religious at all, or that he even believes in God. He obviously believes that God has no place

00:09:17.240 in the public space at all. He has been anti-religion and anti-having religion in the public arena for a

00:09:24.120 long time. There's a reason why, according to the Pew study that we talked about a few weeks ago,

00:09:28.680 about, I think it's like 85% of atheists support Bernie Sanders and a large majority of agnostics

00:09:36.140 as well. And then if you look at the people who are religious and who they support, very few of them

00:09:41.480 proportionately go for Bernie Sanders. I mean, there's a reason why godlessness and communism,

00:09:47.540 godlessness and big government always go hand in hand. That's why I said if you are a Christian 1.00

00:09:51.700 who supports Bernie Sanders, you should probably ask yourself why your worldview aligned with almost

00:09:57.540 every atheist in the entire country. So anyway, I've talked about the dangers of Bernie Sanders,

00:10:03.320 and I do think that he would be a dangerous nominee. And I haven't wanted him to be the nominee,

00:10:08.540 even though I do think that he would make my job and the job of other conservative political

00:10:15.760 commentators really fun and exciting and really easy for the next few months, because his entire

00:10:21.780 life, his entire career has given us so much content. I mean, in a lot of ways, like this is

00:10:27.240 what a lot of conservative commentators have just been waiting for, like a solid case to make in an

00:10:33.300 obvious case, a personified case against communism. I mean, I guess he's the personified case for

00:10:39.480 communism because of what he believes in the policies that he puts forward. But for us to have

00:10:46.040 the opportunity to say, okay, here's what communism is. Here's what far left of leftism is. If you're

00:10:53.520 not comfortable with me calling him a communist, a socialist, whatever it is, it's all bad. It's all

00:10:57.920 far leftists. It's all big government. It's none of it has ever worked. So for us to have the opportunity

00:11:04.300 to talk about how terrible democratic socialism is, for us to talk about how terrible of a candidate

00:11:09.880 he is, how terrible of a president he would be, to be able to tell you why communism is bad, why it's

00:11:15.680 anti-God, why leftism is anti-God. He is a representation of the most extreme parts of the

00:11:22.900 left. And so it would be so easy to make our case for why he would be dangerous. Now, I'm not saying he

00:11:28.900 couldn't beat Donald Trump or that he wouldn't beat Donald Trump, but there would be a ton of

00:11:33.800 enthusiasm, a ton of energy on the right against Bernie Sanders, not even necessarily for Donald

00:11:41.200 Trump, although it would translate into enthusiasm for Donald Trump, but against Bernie Sanders. I

00:11:46.260 mean, you would have people talking about politics who have never talked about politics before. You

00:11:50.780 would have people caring about politics who have never cared about politics before, because for the

00:11:55.840 most part, even though the country is getting farther to the left, further to the left, unfortunately,

00:12:00.340 especially among the younger generations, when most Americans hear the word communist, their ears

00:12:05.880 perk up and not in a good way. I mean, they have really bad thoughts about what communism is. They

00:12:11.560 think about Pol Pot. They think about every totalitarian regime that they have ever known. They think about

00:12:17.760 violence. They think about destruction. They think about death. They think about suffering. They think about

00:12:22.320 the abolition of the family, which goes hand in hand with communism. They think about the abolition of,

00:12:27.480 or the attempt to abolition of religion, which goes hand in hand in communism. And most people,

00:12:33.920 especially people that are a part of families, don't want that. Like they like the freedom to make

00:12:39.460 the money that they want to make. Most people like their health care as well. They don't want single

00:12:44.460 payer health care. Most people don't want to be punished for their success. Most people don't want the

00:12:50.160 abolition of the family. Like most people don't believe that their child belongs to the state,

00:12:54.840 which communism does believe. And so we would be able to make that case, especially for Christians,

00:13:00.140 especially for Christians that sure, you might not like some of the things that Trump has to say,

00:13:05.500 but you're not going to vote for a communist, right guys? Like you're not going to vote for a

00:13:09.680 socialist. Let's just take a walk down memory lane real fast and to see how communism, how socialism,

00:13:15.760 how totalitarianism has worked out for us. So that would be a very, I don't want to say fun

00:13:22.920 thing for the right to be able to do, but the right would be extremely invigorated. Like we would be

00:13:28.440 able to say, I'd be able to say on this podcast, if Bernie Sanders is the nominee, and I'm talking

00:13:32.900 to a lot of you suburban Christian moms who you find you are conservative, but you have bought into 0.99

00:13:38.840 this idea that Donald Trump is the worst of the worst, that he is this racist, sexist bigot and that

00:13:45.020 you can never vote for him and that your conscience and that your faith, you know, makes you not want to

00:13:50.140 vote for him. There are a lot of well-meaning, I think, well-intentioned, honest, Christian,

00:13:55.780 otherwise conservative, suburban moms who just don't like Donald Trump. There are a lot of you,

00:14:02.020 I know, who love Donald Trump, but there are a lot of you who don't like Donald Trump. You're not

00:14:05.200 comfortable with Donald Trump and a lot of Christian women who would consider voting Democrat because

00:14:10.940 they think, okay, Democrat means more compassion for people. Not true. It means a better immigration 0.83

00:14:16.780 policy. Not true. It means social justice, which we can talk about, which we have talked about many

00:14:23.040 times, why social justice isn't justice. But maybe you've bought into the idea that voting for a

00:14:28.740 Democrat would be more compassionate. For all of those people out there, I think that thought,

00:14:34.480 that idea, that line of thinking would go out the window if Bernie Sanders were the nominee,

00:14:39.000 because we would be able to lay out a clear picture of how detrimental that would be for your family,

00:14:43.640 for your children, for your child's education, for your health care, for your 401k, for the money

00:14:50.760 that you are making or your husband is making, for your life. We would be able to make that case very

00:14:56.740 easily. And I don't think that Bernie Sanders would be able to get the people in the middle. I don't

00:15:01.980 think that he would be able to get the people who are conservative, but just don't want to vote for

00:15:07.800 Donald Trump, but might vote for someone like Joe Biden. I just don't think that he would be able to

00:15:12.760 get those people because I would be able to say, for example, and a lot of other commentators would

00:15:17.020 be able to say, as I'm talking to, for example, these Christian women who don't like Donald Trump,

00:15:22.500 I would say, okay, so Donald Trump is like, if you want to go with the metaphor, I guess it's a simile

00:15:28.580 because I said like, he's like a bologna sandwich, okay? So you're really hungry. You got two options to

00:15:36.720 eat. You got this bologna sandwich on white bread, cold mustard. That could be Donald Trump. I'm

00:15:44.260 talking about the people who don't like Donald Trump. Obviously, for people who love Donald Trump,

00:15:49.440 you see him as a filet mignon. You see him as rotisserie chicken, whatever fits your fancy.

00:15:57.240 But if you don't like Donald Trump, but you're really hungry and you've got two options, because

00:16:01.760 when it comes to the general election, it is a binary election. You've got two options. You've

00:16:07.400 got a Republican and you've got a Democrat. At least that's how it is for now. So if you don't

00:16:12.300 like Donald Trump, you might see him as a bologna sandwich. You don't really like bologna. You don't

00:16:18.180 crave bologna sandwiches unless you've got some weird pregnancy craving. You're never like,

00:16:23.020 you know what I need right now is a bologna sandwich, and you would never choose it. If you had

00:16:27.740 any other option, you would never choose it. Unless that other option is bat soup from Wuhan, 1.00

00:16:32.720 China. Like then you might be like, okay, that, that, that bologna sandwich sounds really good

00:16:38.180 right now. Bernie Sanders is the bat soup from Wuhan, China. So that would be the case that I 1.00

00:16:43.700 would be able to make to you if Bernie Sanders was the nominee. And I, and a lot of other political

00:16:48.460 commentators, I guarantee you would so effectively and successfully get the people in the middle to

00:16:54.400 take that bologna sandwich to, to get the people who don't like Donald Trump, but would never vote

00:17:00.160 for a communist to get the people to take the bologna sandwich and not eat the bat soup from 0.96

00:17:05.700 Wuhan because they know it's bad for them. And they know it's probably bad for everyone else around 0.92

00:17:09.940 them too. So that would be the case. If Bernie Sanders were the nominee, we would be enthusiastic.

00:17:17.060 We would be invigorated. We would be able to make this awesome case about why America is actually

00:17:21.680 great, why capitalism is good, why free markets are good. And it would be good. Now, the danger

00:17:28.200 in having Bernie Sanders be the nominee is that he actually does have a chance and maybe a pretty

00:17:35.120 good chance at beating Donald Trump. And then I'm sorry for lack of a better term, sorry to be crude.

00:17:40.720 We're screwed. We're screwed. Then we've got a communist as our president. Now, I do think that

00:17:46.600 Republicans would have both chambers of Congress and that maybe he wouldn't get a lot done, but I

00:17:53.260 guarantee you the Overton window would definitely move. Now we've just normalized socialism. We've

00:17:59.300 normalized having a guy who identifies as a socialist as our president. Then it becomes not as much of a

00:18:04.080 naughty word. Then it becomes something that is a little bit more normal, maybe even a little bit

00:18:08.620 more glorified. Then we start adding socialist ideas into our rhetoric. And I don't think it's

00:18:15.240 good at all. Even if he were not able to get as much done as he wanted done in his administration,

00:18:19.940 his cabinet would be so insanely radical, so insanely far left, so insanely anti-American as he has been

00:18:28.420 his entire political career. It's hard to even fathom or to articulate right now just how terrible it

00:18:36.220 would be for the country if Bernie Sanders became the president. And we've talked about why many

00:18:40.920 times on this podcast. And if he is the nominee, we'll spend the next eight months doing the same

00:18:45.660 thing. But that is the risk for Bernie Sanders becoming the president. That yes, it would be fun

00:18:51.800 to make the case against him, but then he could become the president. And that would be really bad

00:18:57.940 for everyone, really bad for everyone in every single section of the country. And so the question is,

00:19:04.040 is that really a risk that we want to take? I do think that Trump would beat Bernie Sanders,

00:19:09.740 but I do think Bernie Sanders has a fighting chance. Like we've already said, he invigorates

00:19:14.760 a lot of people. He invigorates the youngest people in the country. He has a lot of energy behind him.

00:19:20.200 I mean, the Bernie bros, they have a reputation for being bullies, for being mean, for being cruel online,

00:19:25.880 but they got a lot of energy. They love Bernie Sanders and they don't really like any other candidate

00:19:31.760 except for Bernie Sanders. In fact, they demonize all of the Democrats. I don't even think they view

00:19:36.280 themselves as Democrats. They see themselves as Bernieites, as Bernie bros, whatever it is.

00:19:42.880 So he has the ability for a really old guy who really has never done anything and really never 0.98

00:19:50.580 says anything. He has the ability to rally the troops, not the literal troops, because he thinks

00:19:57.080 America is a wrongly militarized industrial complex, whatever phrase he uses, but rally the

00:20:05.100 proverbial troops. He has the ability to get people excited about his campaign. And even though I think

00:20:13.120 that he and his ideas are extremely detrimental to America, he has the ability to win people over

00:20:19.140 and do his moral revolution, even though his promises are empty, even though they are not just empty,

00:20:26.860 but they are counterproductive to American prosperity and American and just American well-being,

00:20:35.240 welfare, not literal welfare, because he likes that. But again, in another sense, it's counterproductive

00:20:42.580 to the things that would make America great and keep America great. On the other hand, we've got Joe

00:20:49.360 Biden. Joe Biden, I think, could win people that would not vote for Bernie Sanders. So there are people

00:20:58.640 who would vote for anyone against Donald Trump except for Bernie Sanders. Like Bernie Sanders is just a step

00:21:05.680 too far for them. Like they're not going to vote for a communist or a socialist, but they'll vote for pretty 0.97

00:21:10.580 much anyone else. Like they would have voted for Buttigieg. They would have voted for Amy Klobuchar.

00:21:15.040 They would have voted for, heck, probably even better work. But they won't vote for Bernie Sanders.

00:21:23.760 But Joe Biden is compared to Bernie Sanders, like very unoffensive. He's just a noodle. He's just a

00:21:32.180 noodle. That's all he is. He's a noodle. And so people who hate Donald Trump, who believe that either

00:21:40.220 Donald Trump is a dangerous president, he's a threat to our republic, actually, they say democracy,

00:21:45.880 a threat to our democracy, whether they're conservative or liberal, they just hate Donald

00:21:49.920 Trump. I think they would vote for Joe Biden because he just doesn't seem as extreme as Bernie

00:21:57.560 Sanders. So that's the danger with Joe Biden. And he's not going to make the right as enthusiastic,

00:22:05.060 I don't think, to make a case against leftism as Bernie Sanders is because he's not quite as

00:22:12.420 extreme, if that makes sense. Now, I do think that there are a lot of people who are energized

00:22:17.620 for Donald Trump. And I do think that Donald Trump will beat Joe Biden. I do, simply because

00:22:26.300 Joe Biden, well, there's a lot of reasons. I think for the most part, Trump has been a good

00:22:30.500 president. So he's a lot of successes to be able to point to. And Joe Biden just really doesn't. But

00:22:37.320 Joe Biden, he can't talk. Okay, he can't talk. He's losing. He's losing it. And like I said,

00:22:44.800 I don't really like to point this out. I don't like the dementia jokes. I didn't like it when people did

00:22:49.400 that to Donald Trump. I thought it was rude. And I never thought it was true about Donald Trump. I

00:22:53.580 always thought that was crazy. And I don't like jokes about that about Joe Biden. At this point,

00:22:59.500 though, guys, it's not it's not a joke. Like it's not a joke anymore. He doesn't seem to be able to

00:23:07.360 finish his sentences. He doesn't seem to be able to recall very simple information. And I understand

00:23:13.460 that sometimes I totally do. Like I've lost my train of thought. In a speech, I've lost my train

00:23:17.980 of thought. On this podcast, I've lost my train of thought. On TV, I've lost my train of thought. I

00:23:22.640 mean, it happens. It happens to everyone. Everyone misspeaks. Everyone even, I would say,

00:23:26.620 if you're traveling a lot, you might forget where you are. And you might say you're in one state when

00:23:30.800 you're really in another state. But this happens all of the time, it seems like all of the time.

00:23:37.680 And not just that he's slurring his words. And that does seem to happen to him a lot, unfortunately.

00:23:42.980 But he completely forgets what he is going to say, not just in debates, but also in rally speeches.

00:23:48.500 So I'm going to play you this clip. You've probably seen it by now of him trying to,

00:23:53.360 you know, rally his people and say a line that I think most of us probably know by heart.

00:24:00.160 We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by, go, you know, 1.00

00:24:06.100 you know the thing. So that was just one example. One example of many examples of Joe Biden just not

00:24:14.360 being able to get it together. After he had a great night on Super Tuesday, he confused his

00:24:20.480 wife and his sister. Now that could have been innocent. People were making a big deal about

00:24:25.020 that on Twitter. That could have been an innocent mistake. He said that they had, you know, switched

00:24:30.100 places behind him, but he grabbed his wife's arm and said, this is my sister. But then he corrected

00:24:36.040 himself. So I don't want to point out gaffes where there aren't really gaffes, where it was just an

00:24:41.440 honest mistake. But the fact of the matter is, is that it's hard to tell. And President Trump being

00:24:46.620 who he is, is not, is not going to let up on that. What I'm afraid of though, because Trump is such an

00:24:53.060 attack dog and he is not, uh, he's not scared to go after people. He's not scared to hit people where

00:25:01.460 it hurts. He's not scared to go below the belt. Like he's got no qualms with that at all. He's got no

00:25:07.280 rules about where you can and can't punch. Like he's just going to go for it. I do wonder if that

00:25:13.600 is going to draw sympathy, especially from women, uh, towards Joe Biden and make Trump look more

00:25:21.320 malicious than is actually helpful for, I'm always thinking of the suburban moms. And so that's who I'm 0.95

00:25:29.640 thinking about the suburban moms who already don't like Trump's crassness, who already don't like the 0.99

00:25:34.800 fact that he's crude, who already don't like the fact that he's a little bit too harsh, that he kicks

00:25:39.080 people when they're down. I'm not sure if that strategy for beating up Joe Biden because of his

00:25:46.680 apparent, um, lack of mental faculties. I'm not sure if that's going to be an effective strategy

00:25:53.660 for the people who don't like Trump because he's already too aggressive. Maybe he doesn't care about

00:25:59.580 that. Maybe it's going to be an effective enough strategy overall, but Trump is going to

00:26:04.740 absolutely dominate, dominate Joe Biden at the debates because Joe Biden, he can't talk. Like

00:26:12.740 I've said, probably four times now he can't talk. He doesn't have it together. He doesn't seem to be

00:26:17.980 able to even properly articulate a platform. Now, Bernie Sanders can't really do that either in a

00:26:25.120 specific way, but he can say, you know, I believe in Medicare for all. I believe that billionaires should

00:26:30.820 pay their fair share. I believe in a free college. Like I can even list someone who doesn't listen to

00:26:37.180 Bernie Sanders that much. I can list what I know Bernie Sanders believes in and the policies that

00:26:41.960 he believes in. I can't tell you one thing that Joe Biden actually believes in rather than just like

00:26:48.180 your boilerplate Democrat stuff. I mean, he did say that he was going to put, um, uh, Beto O'Rourke,

00:26:54.920 Beto O'Rourke in charge of guns. Now Beto O'Rourke said that he believed in confiscating guns. So

00:27:00.720 that's not very, that's not very comforting, but I don't know what Joe Biden's platform is.

00:27:05.380 So the other thing about Joe Biden is that while I do think that he could probably get some of those

00:27:10.700 people who are on the fence, who are conservative, but they don't like Donald Trump, like those moms

00:27:15.980 that those women who are conservative, but they just think Donald Trump is just too much for them. 1.00

00:27:22.000 And maybe even a moral, they've been convinced by people that they need to be a Democrat to believe

00:27:27.160 in social justice and all of that craziness. I do believe that those people would vote for Joe

00:27:31.780 Biden, but Joe Biden is not going to energize what is a growing portion of the democratic party.

00:27:39.520 That is the far left. Like they're not going to get Bernie bros out to vote. They're not going to

00:27:44.480 get the people who support the Ilhan Omar's and the AOC's. And I don't think that's a huge number of

00:27:49.820 people. It's blown up. It's amplified by the media and even by conservative commentators to

00:27:55.500 just show what actually exists on the left. But he's going to have a hard time energizing young

00:28:01.080 people as well, because again, he doesn't really have a platform. He doesn't have really that

00:28:05.340 magnetic energy. I was going to say maybe he did at one point, but he's run for president several

00:28:09.900 times and he's never been successful. Like, I don't think he even won a democratic primary when he

00:28:15.580 was running before. So this is, this is apparently Joe's time, but I don't think he's going to have

00:28:20.600 the Joe momentum in a general election to be able to win over the young people that are needed

00:28:27.180 to beat Donald Trump that Bernie Sanders can't. So there are some gives and takes with both

00:28:33.320 candidates becoming the nominee. Uh, Mike Bloomberg is done. He won, I think, uh, American Samoa.

00:28:39.620 So that's interesting. Interesting. Um, but yeah, he's done. I mean, the guy spent hundreds and

00:28:46.540 hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money on ads, on ad campaigns, and it was utterly

00:28:51.820 unsuccessful. The fact of the matter is, is that Mike Bloomberg, is it different enough from Donald

00:28:58.860 Trump to get the support of Democrats, but he's also not Donald Trump. So he's not going to give the

00:29:05.200 support of conservatives or moderates or Republicans. Like it's just the democratic party at this point

00:29:11.400 doesn't want anyone like that. Like they don't, they don't care about executive experience. They

00:29:16.200 don't care about managerial experience. I don't even think they care. Democrats don't care about

00:29:21.200 a business experience or anything like that. Like they just want someone who represents their ideals.

00:29:26.860 And I, I think that Joe Biden as innocuous as he might seem as, you know, milquetoast as he might

00:29:35.520 seem. I mean, he is still a radical leftist, not as far left as Bernie Sanders, but he still believes

00:29:41.420 in healthcare for all, not Medicare for all, which I would say is a good thing, but he believes in

00:29:46.480 building on Obamacare. He also believes in taxpayer funded abortion through all nine months. So he

00:29:52.100 believes in repealing the Hyde amendment, which says that taxpayer dollars cannot go directly

00:29:56.840 to funding abortions. He believes that taxpayer dollars, you're in my hard earned money should

00:30:02.160 be directly funding abortions through all nine months without restriction. So he's still a radical,

00:30:07.900 like he's still someone that Christians shouldn't vote for. But all I'm saying is that it's hard for

00:30:13.040 me to decide. It's hard for me to decide, uh, which, which candidate would be better going against

00:30:20.300 Donald Trump. On the one hand, we've got an easy and a strong case to make against the communist

00:30:25.180 Bernie Sanders, but really scary. If he becomes president, Joe Biden, I, we obviously saw the

00:30:33.560 strong case to make against him, the democratic party and leftism, but it's not quite as, um,

00:30:40.260 his flaws aren't quite as overt as Bernie Sanders, the communist. It's a little bit of a harder case

00:30:47.520 to make for people who would vote for a noodle over Donald Trump, but wouldn't vote for Bernie Sanders,

00:30:52.700 if that makes sense. But I also, so he definitely, I think has a little bit of a higher chance of

00:30:59.140 beating Donald Trump than Bernie Sanders says. I think just because he would get people in the

00:31:04.740 middle of the country. And there are a lot of anyone, but Trump people that would vote for him,

00:31:08.900 but wouldn't vote for Bernie Sanders. Um, and I don't think, I don't think it would be as scary

00:31:15.860 if Joe Biden became president. So that's kind of the trade off there. I don't think it would be

00:31:22.020 as scary. I don't want him to become president obviously. Uh, and he would be for lack of a

00:31:27.820 better term. I'm not trying to be rude, but he would be seen by the democratic party as a useful

00:31:32.100 idiot. So even if he is not as far left as Bernie Sanders, like they're still going to push for as

00:31:38.540 radical of things as they possibly can through Joe Biden. So even if he's not seemingly as scary

00:31:45.680 as Bernie Sanders, like his presidency would still be a disaster for the country. He is still a far

00:31:51.040 leftist, but a little bit harder to point that out in the way that it is for Bernie Sanders, who has

00:31:56.200 been so overt about his radicalism forever. So that's kind of, that's kind of where I stand. That's

00:32:02.400 my analysis of all that. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens as always. I will keep you

00:32:06.720 guys up to date. Feel free to send me your thoughts on Monday. I'm going to answer some of

00:32:10.580 your questions. So we're going to be talking about biblical things. We're going to be talking about

00:32:13.860 personal things, relationship things, professional things, all of that good stuff. And I will be back

00:32:18.440 here on Monday for that. You don't want to miss this episode. It's really fun. And there's a lot,

00:32:23.040 a lot of good content that's applicable and relatable to you. Of course it's relatable. That's

00:32:26.680 the title of this podcast. Thanks for listening. Have a great weekend. I will see you back here on Monday.

00:32:36.720 Bye.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - March 06, 2020

Ep 221 ｜ Biden or Bernie？

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