Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 224 ｜ Week’s Worst

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Friday. Hope everyone has had a good week. So I told

00:00:06.080 you guys on Wednesday that I would be interviewing Lila Rose. That is a guest that a lot of you have

00:00:11.960 asked me to have on and I've been so excited about it. But unfortunately, we had to reschedule

00:00:17.040 last minute. But don't worry, we are going to be having her back on soon or we're going to be

00:00:22.280 having her on for the first time soon. And we're going to have a great discussion. We're going to

00:00:25.520 talk about obviously abortion, which is her expertise, the pro-life movement, some of the

00:00:31.660 things that are going on on a legislative level and the Supreme Court level. We will talk about

00:00:36.440 birth control, a hot topic that a lot of you guys asked me to talk about. We are going to talk about

00:00:41.180 some of the differences between Protestantism and Catholicism. So that should be a good, 1.00

00:00:46.020 lighthearted, substantive debate. So I really look forward to talking to her. And I know you guys are

00:00:51.380 excited about that too. Today, since we kind of had to redirect last minute, we're going to be doing

00:00:57.360 something fun. I am going to be showing you some highlight clips, or you will be listening to these

00:01:03.700 highlight clips if you are not watching on YouTube, of some of the craziest things and the best slash

00:01:09.700 worst things that have happened over the past week or two. And we're going to talk about them. So

00:01:15.100 we're going to talk about this crazy thing that happened with Joe Biden and a voter this week.

00:01:20.780 We are going to talk about the busy Phillips madness in front of the Supreme Court and maybe a couple 0.99

00:01:25.960 of other things if we have time. And for the things that we don't have videos for, because we might not

00:01:30.260 have time or have the ability to get videos for everything, we'll also be talking about headlines

00:01:34.860 and things like that. So we'll see how much we actually get to. So we had another primary happen

00:01:40.560 on March 10th. Results of that went into went in the direction of Joe Biden. So Joe Biden,

00:01:46.540 come back kid, man. I mean, a few weeks ago, we were saying Joe Biden down the tubes in the tank.

00:01:53.220 This guy was the imagined front runner. At one point, we said he is the one that is going to be

00:01:59.720 able to win over the people in the middle of the country who no longer like Donald Trump or who maybe

00:02:05.100 never liked Donald Trump, but wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton. They would vote for Joe Biden.

00:02:09.600 He is going to get these blue collar workers. And, you know, we thought that he was going to be the 0.69

00:02:14.720 front runner. And then he completely dropped like he just did not do well in the first two primaries

00:02:21.300 in the first the first caucus. He ended in fourth and fifth place. I think he was down in the polls.

00:02:26.940 Looked like Bernie Sanders was taking the lead for a second there. We even thought, hey, is Pete

00:02:31.300 Buttigieg just going to do this huge upset? But then things changed on Super Tuesday for Joe Biden.

00:02:37.780 He did really well. And the so-called moderate portion of the party and by moderate, I just mean

00:02:44.520 not communist. So that's how far the Democratic Party has moved to the left. They consolidated

00:02:49.820 behind Joe Biden, which seemed to help. So right before Super Tuesday, you had Pete Buttigieg drop

00:02:55.000 out. You had Amy Klobuchar drop out and they endorsed Joe Biden, two people that a lot of people

00:02:59.860 saw as moderates that may have taken votes away from Joe Biden. But Elizabeth Warren stayed in,

00:03:05.100 which presumably took some votes away from Bernie Sanders because she is in the left, left,

00:03:11.840 left part of the party in the same way that Bernie Sanders is. So Bernie Sanders is no longer

00:03:17.560 considered the front runner like he was before Super Tuesday. So now we're back. We're back to

00:03:23.540 believing that Joe Biden is a front runner and he is like he is basically the presumptive nominee

00:03:29.580 at this point. Now, there is a debate as I'm recording this. There's a debate coming up.

00:03:35.440 And I do think that Bernie Sanders is going to do a better job in that. Again, Joe Biden has this

00:03:42.480 issue to where he is just not articulate. Like we have played some videos in the past of him not even

00:03:48.200 being able to quote the Declaration of Independence that all men were created. Oh, you know, the thing is

00:03:53.480 what he said. Now, I've gotten this question before and it's it makes me laugh. And I've seen these I've

00:04:00.720 seen these tweets. I've seen these headlines saying, oh, people are making fun of Joe Biden for having a

00:04:06.840 stutter. It's not that I know people who have a stutter. I certainly do not believe in making fun of

00:04:13.940 people for any kind of true disability, making fun of people, period, but making fun of people for some

00:04:20.500 kind of legitimate speech impediment. And, you know, I guess he really did have a stutter growing up.

00:04:26.460 But we're not talking about that. Like we're talking about memory loss. And I'm not making fun of his

00:04:31.620 memory loss. I'm not making fun of his inability to know where he is or what day it is or what the

00:04:40.180 Declaration of Independence has. I'm not making light of these things. I am pointing out that for all the

00:04:45.460 people who have talked about President Trump's mental fitness in office, he has not had the gaffes,

00:04:51.360 if you can even call them gaffes, that Joe Biden has. He just has it. He looks Donald Trump looks

00:04:57.920 sharp as a tack against Joe Biden. And so does Bernie Sanders. Like Bernie Sanders might be a kooky guy with

00:05:04.580 some really terrible ideas, but he in general knows where he is. He knows what he's saying. He doesn't

00:05:10.440 lose track of his thoughts. Like for all of his flaws and faults, he really is with it, especially

00:05:17.600 for his age, Bernie Sanders. And Joe Biden just isn't. He doesn't have that stamina and that energy

00:05:24.080 and the mental coherence to be able to go up in a debate against Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump.

00:05:31.340 So that's the flaw of Joe Biden. As we talked about in the past, one of the perks of Joe Biden being the

00:05:36.720 nominee is that I do think that he will get moderate people who don't like Donald Trump, but wouldn't

00:05:43.440 vote for Bernie Sanders. And I think that's what we're seeing in his comeback, that a huge portion

00:05:49.320 of the country doesn't want socialism. I don't know if the whole coronavirus thing is actually

00:05:55.180 working in Joe's favor because they think, OK, Medicare for all in this case, to where I couldn't

00:06:00.340 choose my doctor, to where hospitals are going to have a much smaller staff and lower quality of care.

00:06:05.760 That's what would happen in Medicare for all would probably be not good in a pandemic. I mean,

00:06:10.420 they're looking at places that have socialized health care and how they've been able to handle

00:06:14.980 the coronavirus and it hasn't been good. And they're thinking, OK, you know, I don't think

00:06:20.320 Bernie Sanders would actually be the best leader in this kind of scenario. And of course, people are

00:06:25.520 right. Everyone who is scared of voting for Bernie Sanders is is correct to think that he would not be a

00:06:32.640 good leader in chaos like this. He might be good at ginning up passion, at getting energy,

00:06:37.840 at motivating people to get out there and getting followers and things like that. I mean, he's like

00:06:43.000 that kooky 1960s professor that students just love. I mean, he's kind of like that. But leftism is

00:06:51.580 really good at activating. They're really good at activism, but it's not good at governing. Like

00:06:56.700 leftism is not a governing principle. It's not an effective governing principle. And I'm hoping that maybe

00:07:01.520 people are seeing that. So there is some encouragement to Joe Biden being the presumptive

00:07:06.480 nominee that for now, I don't think it's forever. But for now, the Democratic Party is for the most

00:07:12.220 part rejecting socialism. Joe Biden is going to be just as progressive like he's going to be just as

00:07:18.060 left wing. Eventually, I do think that unfortunately that that leftism has taken hold of too much of the

00:07:26.900 party establishment, at least in Washington, to where they are going to use Biden as a dummy to put forth

00:07:32.920 all of their radical leftist and communistic ideas. But at least for now, voters are saying,

00:07:38.680 you know, I don't want the Bernie Sanders form of leftism and socialism and all of that. Here is the

00:07:44.280 problem with Joe Biden. Here's the problem for Joe Biden. So like I said, and here's where we get into

00:07:50.220 the videos. Like I said, we think that we are afraid that as conservatives, as people who are

00:07:56.460 planning to vote for Donald Trump, we are afraid that the people in the rust belt, blue collar workers, 0.98

00:08:02.580 that those who don't like Donald Trump or have decided that Donald Trump hasn't come through on

00:08:08.360 his promises over the past four years, that they would vote for Joe Biden, that he appeals to the

00:08:15.640 the people, the non-college educated white population in America who likes Donald Trump,

00:08:22.740 but doesn't who doesn't like Donald Trump, but doesn't like Bernie Sanders might vote for Joe

00:08:28.060 Biden. So to calm our fears of that, I want to play you a clip of Joe Biden talking to a blue collar 0.76

00:08:35.140 worker. Now, let me warn you, I'm going to we're going to try to bleep out all of the bad words here,

00:08:40.980 but I'm going to warn you that what he says is explicit. And so you might want to just fast forward

00:08:47.860 through this if you've got kids around, if you've got kids in the car. But here is Joe Biden talking

00:08:53.240 to just your average American. These union workers that have been working countless hours under the

00:08:59.520 Trump administration, I'd like you to explain how you plan to not only keep us working, but how you

00:09:05.920 intend on getting the union vote when there is a large portion of the union workers that are gun

00:09:10.740 enthusiasts and you are actively trying to diminish your second amendment right and take away our

00:09:15.220 gun. You're full of s**t. All right. Thank you, guys. I support the second amendment. The second 1.00

00:09:23.280 amendment, just like right now, if you yell fire, that's not free speech. But from the very beginning,

00:09:29.120 I have a shotgun, I have a 20 gauge, a 12 gauge, my son's hunt. Guess what? You're not allowed to own

00:09:36.140 any weapon. I'm not taking your gun away at all. You need a hundred rounds.

00:09:40.700 I did not say that. So so that's that's how Joe Biden handles conflict. Like that's how he handles

00:09:50.460 confrontation, not with another leader, like not with a politician, not with anyone who is even

00:09:57.000 adversarial, not with someone who is violent or something like that, but someone who is asking a

00:10:02.460 basic question and I feel bad for the guy. Like the guy obviously had a lot of courage. He's just

00:10:07.040 your average hardworking American. You can see that he had written down what he wanted to say

00:10:11.160 on his phone and was reading it to Joe Biden, which I think is a really good technique because you want

00:10:15.980 to, you know, you want to remember what you plan to say. And sometimes when you get in those

00:10:19.760 situations, you can get, you know, nervous, adrenaline, it gets caught up and you don't want

00:10:24.440 to regret not saying the thing that you really wanted to say. So he's reading it to Joe Biden,

00:10:28.300 obviously sincere, but confrontational, which I think is fine. Joe Biden completely condescending,

00:10:36.160 completely shuts him down. Like it's one thing to be defensive. It's one thing to not like what the

00:10:42.620 other person is saying. It's another thing to call someone explicit names and to say they're full of,

00:10:48.100 you know what? I mean, and then there are conservatives, liberals, whatever on Twitter saying,

00:10:52.840 oh my gosh, you know, the people who are criticizing Joe Biden for this, but who defend Donald Trump,

00:10:59.700 who is crass. Oh, you just, you're a hypocrite. You stop talking. I'm sorry. I have criticized Trump 1.00

00:11:05.280 for being crass before. So I think that I have a right to say what I'm about to say. But even if I

00:11:09.860 hadn't, even if I hadn't talked about how I don't like some of the things that Donald Trump says to

00:11:14.960 people, how he talks to people, how he talks about people, even though, even if I hadn't criticized

00:11:20.900 him for those things, I think I would still have a right to say that what Joe Biden did in this clip

00:11:27.420 is bad and that I don't think Trump would do this. I really don't. Am I being naive here?

00:11:33.680 I mean, he might say a lot of things about other leaders. He might say a lot of things about people

00:11:38.540 in the media. There was that one time he went after the Gold Star family, and that was just a really bad,

00:11:43.540 that was a bad look. Like that's not something that I recommend people do. But he usually goes

00:11:50.620 after the people who are in power. He's not going after particular voters like he is not

00:11:58.640 confronting people. He's not confronting people who disagree with him, voters who disagree with him

00:12:02.700 by saying that they're full of BS. I just I honestly do not believe that Donald Trump would do that.

00:12:09.140 I just don't. Like I think Joe Biden and, you know, someone I was with dinner at someone. I was with

00:12:14.920 dinner at someone. I was at dinner with someone about a year ago who knows Joe Biden and who lived

00:12:20.460 close to Joe Biden, lived in their neighborhood and told me Joe Biden is treats people terribly.

00:12:25.760 He treats people who work with him terribly. And not to me. I was like, you know what? That's just

00:12:30.420 I don't know. I never repeated that. That's just a rumor. That's, you know, just what someone thinks.

00:12:35.400 And maybe it still is. There are a lot of things that people could say about Donald Trump or anyone

00:12:40.680 else that we shouldn't take to heart. So I'm telling you, take that with a grain of salt. But then I

00:12:44.540 watch this video and I'm like, OK, now you see the claws come out. Now you see that he's not just

00:12:51.060 sweet Uncle Joe. Now you see that this is who he really is. Maybe we could give him the benefit of

00:12:57.640 the doubt. Maybe we could just say that this was a bad moment, except he's done the same thing to

00:13:03.020 other people. So I'm going to play you another clip from a town hall that happened a couple months

00:13:08.660 ago that was also super bizarre like that one. You don't hear that in MSNBC. You did not hear

00:13:14.660 that at all. But you heard. Look, OK, I'm not going to get in an argument with you, man.

00:13:19.760 Well, yeah, you do. But look, Pat, look, here's the deal. Here's the deal.

00:13:25.380 It looks like you don't have any of my back more than you're from there. 1.00

00:13:29.500 So he called this guy. He said, hey, fat, an overweight guy. Hey, fat, I'm telling you, 0.95

00:13:42.060 Donald Trump would not do that. So I don't want to hear any conversation, any comment from anyone 0.78

00:13:49.780 that says that, you know, Joe Biden has more dignity than Donald Trump. He is above the fray.

00:13:56.320 He's above reproach. He would never talk the way that Donald Trump does. He is not as disrespectful

00:14:02.100 as Donald Trump. There's going to be people. There's going to be Christians who justify their 1.00

00:14:07.760 vote for Joe Biden by saying something like that. Well, guess what? Joe Biden is not only just as

00:14:13.360 crude, just even more, I would say, crude and crass and rude than Donald Trump. He also supports 0.75

00:14:19.300 infanticide. So there's really no winning with Joe Biden if you're a Christian and you're trying to

00:14:24.280 vote according to a biblical worldview. You can make your arguments against Donald Trump,

00:14:28.300 but you can't make an argument from a Christian worldview for Joe Biden. Even just the abortion

00:14:33.120 portion alone is enough to make you say, no, my vote's not going to be for him. But even if you're

00:14:38.200 trying to build some argument based on decorum, like based on dignity and politeness, you're not

00:14:43.600 going to get that with Joe Biden. I don't think you're going to get that with Bernie Sanders either.

00:14:46.980 But to say something positive about Bernie Sanders, which I rarely have any justification for doing,

00:14:53.340 I don't think that he would do this either. This is just bizarre. I really don't. I mean,

00:14:58.600 you've seen Bernie Sanders all worked up and we're about to actually play a clip of him being very

00:15:04.320 befuddled, but he doesn't react in this way. He seems to have it together. He seems to be more

00:15:11.460 respectful than Joe Biden is. I mean, this is very revealing of who Joe Biden is and what he thinks

00:15:18.260 about people. So if we ever had the idea that Joe Biden is one of the people that he is, you know,

00:15:24.680 one of he's like an average American and he's a champion of the blue collar worker. I don't think

00:15:32.120 so. I think he is just as condescending as anyone who has been in politics for as long as he has.

00:15:37.840 He thinks he's better than you. OK, he thinks he's better than me. He come. He tries to, you know,

00:15:43.620 adopt this persona is being Barack's best friend, is being cool Uncle Joe, sweet Uncle Joe,

00:15:50.420 this kind of paternalistic guy that we can all get along with. I I'm sorry. I'm sorry. This is

00:15:57.240 this is bad. And I'm not saying every single part of his life or every single part of his character

00:16:02.260 is bad. We are all vulnerable to criticism. We all have bad days. We all have bad moments. And if

00:16:09.280 every single part of our lives were filmed, we would probably be embarrassed by something that

00:16:15.080 we say each day. So I understand that I am not trying to condemn his entire character. But this

00:16:21.600 has now happened multiple times to where he cannot take honest, honest confrontation from voters.

00:16:28.980 It's in his aid, his poor aid trying to tell him, hey, Joe, like, let's let's get out of here in the

00:16:37.120 first clip that we played. And he just turns to her and says, shush, shush. Like, are we going to get

00:16:42.240 any criticism of sexism, of misogyny, of at least being patronizing, condescending to his aid,

00:16:49.700 who is realizing that her boss is in over his head, that he doesn't have an answer for this. Oh,

00:16:55.720 we haven't even talked about the fact that he said AR-14s, AR-14s, guys. And these people think

00:17:03.200 that they need to be in charge, in charge of the country and in charge of our guns, because he said

00:17:11.280 that he was going to put Beto O'Rourke in charge of the whole gun problem, the so-called gun problem.

00:17:18.860 Well, Beto O'Rourke said that he is going to confiscate our guns, forcibly confiscate our guns. So

00:17:23.100 that's really that's exciting. That's that's some exciting stuff. So I just wanted to play you those

00:17:28.100 two clips so you could laugh along with me. And again, this is not making fun of Joe Biden. It's

00:17:33.740 pointing out the the public instances of him being not not a great not a great guy, not a great champion

00:17:41.900 of the people that he says that he is. OK, I want to play you a Bernie Sanders clip that I found amusing

00:17:49.560 and also sad. And then we're going to get to busy Phillips and and all of that good stuff. So

00:17:54.340 Bernie Sanders is at a town hall, Fox News. I commend him and every other Democrat for doing

00:18:00.940 town halls with Fox News. They don't like Fox News. They are rude about Fox News, many of them.

00:18:07.700 The last I believe it was the last town hall that or maybe it was a couple of town halls ago that

00:18:12.020 Bernie Sanders did with Fox News. He made a point to call out Fox News and make fun of them.

00:18:18.780 Kirsten Gillibrand did that. Remember her? That was a long time ago. And I just think that's very rude

00:18:23.760 and very impolite to do. But, you know, respect to you as a liberal, as a leftist, as a communist

00:18:29.200 like Bernie Sanders to go on Fox News where, you know, they a lot of the hosts don't have your same

00:18:35.540 views. So he goes on there and he is asked about socialism and asked about the Nordic countries.

00:18:42.700 And this is his response.

00:18:45.760 If you look at examples in Sweden and Denmark, they have been lowering or cutting property taxes,

00:18:52.240 lowering corporate taxes, allowing vouchers for schools, for public schools and private schools,

00:18:58.040 which is one of the reasons why their education has improved. The founder of IKEA, who famously came

00:19:02.820 back, came back, left his home country, moved here, has now gone back because he says the tax

00:19:08.180 environment for him is getting better. So they appear to be moving away more towards market reform

00:19:14.160 and not towards what you're describing. You'd like to see here.

00:19:17.260 All right. But if you and I'm not an expert on the current economy in Sweden, but disagree with me

00:19:22.220 if you want. Does Sweden guarantee health care to all people is a human right?

00:19:25.960 Yeah, but they're finding other ways to pay for it. 0.99

00:19:27.900 So good on Martha McCallum for pushing back on him. And he doesn't have an answer for this,

00:19:33.220 guys. Like he doesn't have an answer. He says the kind of socialism that I'm talking about,

00:19:37.800 I'm talking about the Nordic countries like everyone loves Sweden. Everyone loves Norway.

00:19:43.280 That's what I'm talking about. Well, why can't we do that? Well, first of all, Sweden and Norway,

00:19:47.680 number one, they are not socialist countries. They are capitalist countries with a welfare state.

00:19:53.120 Sweden has a flat tax of 60 percent. So no matter how much money you make, you're paying 60 percent of

00:19:59.900 taxes. Well, the way that people make money, the reason why people have a good amount of money,

00:20:04.300 most people in Sweden, is because they have a basically free market. So capitalism,

00:20:08.880 you have to have capitalism in order to fund welfare, in order to fund your social programs.

00:20:14.060 And that's what the Nordic countries have. They are basically, in many ways, free markets

00:20:18.900 with a high tax rate, but a flat tax rate. At least Sweden does. Now, in the United States, 0.65

00:20:24.580 we have a very progressive tax rate. So the richer you are, the more you are going to pay,

00:20:30.900 not just the dollar amount, but the higher percentage you are going to pay. So when people

00:20:35.920 in this country talk about the rich paying their fair share, so what is actually fair? They already pay

00:20:42.020 the vast majority of the taxes in this country. If you want a truly fair tax system, everyone should be

00:20:47.860 paying the same percentage. Now, the dollar amount is going to be smaller the less you make,

00:20:52.280 and the dollar amount is obviously going to be higher the more you make. But the same percentage,

00:20:56.240 that would be flat and that would be fair. So when people on the left say that the rich need to be

00:21:02.200 paying their fair share, it's a really good question to ask, well, what is actually fair and

00:21:06.240 who determines what fair is? The Nordic countries actually have a fair, in a lot of senses, tax system.

00:21:13.440 The other reason that that system works to have such a large nanny state in such a large 0.99

00:21:18.200 welfare state with so many social programs, there is a large social safety net is because

00:21:23.940 they're a lot smaller than we are. And they have a very, very restrictive immigration system.

00:21:29.780 It is very hard to become a citizen in those Nordic countries. But you have Bernie Sanders advocating

00:21:35.980 simultaneously for socialism, for heavy welfare and open borders. Well, that can't go hand in hand

00:21:43.600 because you are not able to financially support. One, you're not able to financially support these

00:21:50.440 social programs if you don't have free markets, which is not what Bernie Sanders is advocating for

00:21:56.180 here. And you also just don't have the money to be able to support all of the people that are going

00:22:01.680 to be coming into our country if we decriminalize border crossings, for example, if we abolish ICE,

00:22:07.540 for example, if we give all illegal immigrants a quick path to citizenship so that they don't have to 1.00

00:22:14.080 wait in line like the millions of other people have been doing responsibly for many years.

00:22:18.880 We just there's no mathematical way for us to be able to support with our tax money all of the

00:22:25.100 people that are going to be weighing on our system. So the kind of system that Bernie Sanders is

00:22:31.540 advocating for here actually cannot be seen on the world stage. And it can't be seen. There's not a

00:22:38.660 success story for what Bernie Sanders is advocating for throughout history. In fact, every time anything

00:22:44.940 like this has been tried, it has failed. You can't have open borders. You can't have as big of a country

00:22:50.240 as we do. You can't have this kind of progressive tax system to where you are taxing the billionaires

00:22:55.460 and the millionaires out of their wealth completely and still be able to fund all of the social programs

00:23:00.880 that he thinks that we need. But my point is that people don't really care. Like people don't care

00:23:08.000 who support Bernie Sanders. They just like his enthusiasm. They like his moral arguments. They like

00:23:13.220 that he is presenting a rebellion. He is presenting a revolution. It makes people feel good. It makes people

00:23:18.960 feel virtuous. And they say, yeah, we should take care of the poor. Yeah, people should have health

00:23:23.780 care. Yeah, education should be free. And all of it sounds really good. When Bernie Sanders tweets

00:23:29.340 that the coronavirus vaccine sounds really good, or when he tweets that, it sounds really good. Sorry,

00:23:37.560 I lost my train. I thought I had a Joe Biden moment for a second there. It sounds really good. And it

00:23:43.980 makes people feel good about themselves. Socialism, like I've said many times, makes young people feel

00:23:49.960 virtuous without ever having to get off the couch. But it doesn't work. The kind of system that Bernie

00:23:56.840 Sanders is advocating for doesn't work. And this clip that we just played showed that he doesn't even

00:24:02.160 know. He doesn't even know what he's talking about. But he has been saying ideas that halfway,

00:24:07.240 that in a fractured way, sound good for his entire political career, but doesn't actually have

00:24:12.300 anything to show for it. And I think the fact that the Democratic Party is about to probably

00:24:18.300 nominate Joe Biden shows my optimism and my hope is that it shows that people realize that. Now,

00:24:26.220 I do worry as the years go on and as socialism maybe becomes more mainstream and the younger the

00:24:34.840 electorate is, and unfortunately, as poor as the as much of our public education system is,

00:24:41.500 this is likely that people won't have that kind of wisdom. They won't have that kind of discernment

00:24:47.280 to look at someone like Bernie Sanders and to say, OK, he sounds good, but he's not actually a good

00:24:52.100 leader. And the ideas that he's trying to implement don't actually work elsewhere. I mean, just ask people

00:24:57.900 in Canada what their health care, what their health care is actually like and what they would do if

00:25:04.860 they couldn't come to the United States to get the care immediately that they need.

00:25:08.720 Life-saving surgery many times, pain-relieving surgery that you need in Canada, you have to

00:25:14.860 wait months, sometimes years for because that's what a socialized system is. It doesn't prioritize

00:25:21.320 your health care needs based on how emergent it is. It just can't do it. But the United States,

00:25:29.400 thankfully, even though our system isn't perfect, you can get almost immediate care for the things that

00:25:34.240 actually need care for. So I hope people are able to see that and that we continue for the rest of

00:25:40.160 history to battle against the Bernie Sanders of America, the AOCs of America in the battlefield of

00:25:47.340 ideas. I really do hope that. Now, I want to move on. Oh, I wanted to tell you this is what I was going

00:25:53.680 to say before we move on to the busy Phillips thing, because this is just too much for us. I wanted to give

00:25:59.160 an example of the amazingness of capitalism. I was thinking about this yesterday. I started this thing

00:26:06.100 where I started writing down like one thought every day. I was thinking about just the amazingness

00:26:13.100 of capitalism. So I was talking to someone who is a babysitter for a family. And this mom works and the

00:26:23.500 dad works, the mom works part time and pays a babysitter to come sometimes. And the babysitter is an 0.52

00:26:30.760 immigrant from Africa. She's been here for a long time. She's becoming a citizen and she helps out her

00:26:37.880 family who is still in Africa. Well, ever since she got this babysitting job just for a few hours every week,

00:26:44.320 and she's been paid from that, she has been able to take the extra money that her family now has here, send it

00:26:49.820 over to her family in Africa. And her family in Africa for the first time was able to install solar

00:26:54.640 power. So they have electricity for the first time in their lives in rural Africa. That's the

00:27:00.880 amazingness of capitalism. So because these two parents have jobs that have some kind of value in

00:27:07.200 the market that they are paid for, they are able to pay a babysitter for the valuable work that she 0.86

00:27:12.180 brings to their lives. And she is able to use the money that she has to help her family that is in

00:27:17.760 Africa. That is one example of how capitalism and not socialism is compassionate. Now, in a socialist 0.93

00:27:24.680 system, that wouldn't happen. Everyone would be taken care of. You wouldn't have to hire a babysitter

00:27:29.320 because you would have state-sponsored child care, universal child care, all of that. And your family

00:27:34.960 would be taken care of. Your needs would be met. But you wouldn't have any of that extra money, any of

00:27:41.040 that extra capital to be able to help the other people who need it. There is no charity in a socialist

00:27:46.560 system. You don't have the ability to send money over to your poor parents in Africa to make sure

00:27:52.100 that they have electricity for the first time in their lives. That is why capitalism, not socialism,

00:27:58.440 is compassionate. Because people, when they are freed, when they are given the opportunity to make money

00:28:03.980 and then given the freedom to be charitable and to be generous, many people take that opportunity.

00:28:09.600 You don't get generosity in a socialist system. There is greed and generosity in a capitalist system.

00:28:15.780 There's only greed in a socialist system. It is the gospel of envy, as Winston Churchill said.

00:28:22.800 So I just wanted to give that one point. Okay. Now, for this amazing protest that happened in front

00:28:30.300 of the Supreme Court. So there is a Supreme Court case that's going on, and it has to do with

00:28:36.440 Louisiana passing this law that says if you are an abortion clinic, you have to have admitting

00:28:42.320 privileges in a hospital in case something goes wrong. Pretty simple, right? Sounds pretty pro-woman. 1.00

00:28:47.600 So if something goes wrong in the abortion, which does happen either for the woman or the child,

00:28:53.780 the abortion clinic has admitting privileges into a hospital for the case of an emergency. Very simple.

00:29:02.240 While abortion activists are very, very upset about this because they say that it is more of a

00:29:09.040 restriction on abortion access, and they think it's just terrible that doctors should have to have

00:29:14.460 admitting privileges with a hospital because they think that if, you know, something goes wrong in a

00:29:20.240 woman's abortion procedure, then she should just be left there to fend for herself. And they say, 1.00

00:29:24.940 oh, that never, ever happened. So really great bunch, all of them. And apparently, I don't know why

00:29:30.660 the abortion advocates of the world have decided that Busy Phillips, Busy Phillips is going to be 0.92

00:29:37.120 their spokesperson, but they have. And I just want to play you a little bit of her inspiring speech.

00:29:42.860 Here I was sitting in Los Angeles in my beautiful office of my own late night talk show. Soon I would

00:29:52.180 be driving my hybrid car to my beautiful home to kiss my two beautiful and healthy children and my

00:30:01.600 husband who had taken the year off to parent so I could focus on my career.

00:30:10.260 And I have all of this. All of it. Because. Because. Because. Because. I was allowed bodily autonomy at 15.

00:30:31.380 What? What? Okay. So this is why feminists talk a lot about how men don't take women seriously 1.00

00:30:43.660 and how men are really the reason for they're really the reason for our problems. It's the

00:30:50.500 patriarchy that oppresses us. Have we ever considered that maybe it's feminists? Like maybe, 1.00

00:30:56.060 maybe it's radical feminists that are holding us back. Like, do you watch this and you're like, 1.00

00:31:00.520 you know, that's a woman that I respect. Like that's a woman who I'm taking seriously. This,

00:31:05.560 this is doing a lot. Thank you, Busy Phillips. This is doing a lot for advancing women's rights

00:31:10.500 and getting men to see that we are equal, that we are honorable, that we can do everything that a man

00:31:16.580 can. No, I watch this and I say, okay, no wonder men call women emotional. No wonder they call us

00:31:24.100 unhinged. No wonder they say that we don't have the same toughness that they do. I mean,

00:31:29.680 this is absolutely hysterical. This is hysterical. This is not a compelling argument. I want you to

00:31:36.320 compare Busy Phillips's screed to the well-reasoned arguments and the speeches that you hear from pro-life

00:31:44.840 advocates, from anyone, really anyone that you know in the media, on the front lines, any kind of

00:31:51.280 celebrity, any kind of journalist who has made a pro-life argument. Have you ever seen something like

00:31:57.840 this? No, but you get her and you get people like Chuck Schumer getting out there and saying that

00:32:03.440 Gorsuch and that Kavanaugh need to watch out because they're coming for them. I mean, actually making a

00:32:11.640 threat towards two Supreme Court justices. Really? I mean, it's no wonder that this movement is

00:32:18.720 increasingly not taken seriously. And it's no wonder that feminism is increasingly not taking seriously, 1.00

00:32:25.480 taken seriously when they are so violent with their rhetoric, when they're so aggressive and so,

00:32:31.000 like I said, hysterical. I mean, Busy Phillips, calm the heck down. And not to even mention the just

00:32:37.920 absolute evil of the things that she is saying. So she's saying because she drives an electric car,

00:32:43.180 because she has a big house now, because she has her own talk show, which I don't know, 13 people

00:32:49.020 might be watching. I have no idea. I've never seen it before. That all of these things were worth

00:32:54.060 killing her child for. I mean, they exchanged the truth of God for a lie. That scripture is so true. 1.00

00:33:00.000 Romans 1 is so true of these people. And we should be praying for Busy Phillips. Like, I pray that God

00:33:05.140 would change her heart of stone into a heart of flesh because he can absolutely do this. And I want

00:33:09.720 us to just look at Busy Phillips, all of the things that she lists in her life for, why her life is so 0.86

00:33:14.680 awesome and great. Do you think that she's telling the truth? Does she seem like an emotionally

00:33:21.600 stable person? Does she seem happy? Does she seem joyful and fulfilled? Does she seem like she's proud

00:33:29.800 of the choices that she has made in her life? To me, it doesn't seem like that at all. It seems like

00:33:34.940 she is trying desperately to justify the mistake that she knows that she made when she was 15. She

00:33:41.700 would never admit that until Jesus changes her heart, which I pray that he does. She would never

00:33:46.760 admit that because, of course, I mean, you don't want to deal with that kind of regret and that hurt

00:33:51.060 and that trauma and all that. It's much easier to yell and scream and throw crazy temper tantrums

00:33:57.220 like this to cover up any kind of pain or guilt that you might be feeling. I mean, that's what's behind

00:34:03.720 all of these shout your abortion movements. This whole abortion is moral movement that is happening

00:34:09.900 on the left. I mean, it's absolute craziness. But I want you to be honest with yourself. If you're a

00:34:14.140 and you're listening to Busy Phillips, are you like this is someone that I want to emulate? Like I want

00:34:18.480 to be like her. I want to replicate that attitude in my life. I don't I don't think so. And then I just

00:34:23.600 want to play one other clip from an amazing leader of this country, Rashida Tlaib. Here it is.

00:34:29.360 This past year, I realized, my, my, my, are they obsessed with our bodies, how we talk, how we look,

00:34:36.360 what we stand for? I mean, this type of policing of our bodies is so interconnected to all the social

00:34:42.980 justice movements all around the country. I represent the third poorest congressional district

00:34:48.200 in the country. This issue is an economic justice issue. This issue is a racial justice issue.

00:34:56.200 And let me tell you this obsession with our bodies. You know, I in the legislature,

00:35:01.500 in the Michigan legislature for six years, used to say people to people, yo, yo, you know why you're

00:35:07.000 so freaking obsessed with what I decide to do with my body. Maybe you shouldn't even want to have sex 0.86

00:35:13.120 with me or with you or with any women. The power that we have over our bodies to push back and use 0.93

00:35:21.320 that power and saying enough is enough. We won't stand by for you to commercialize, for you to profit,

00:35:28.760 for you to do all the things you do to what? To make us less than in this country, because that's what it does.

00:35:36.100 So I want you to know there is more of us than them.

00:35:40.760 Again, I say, what? What? Rashida Tlaib? Like, there are a lot of things that I want to say that

00:35:48.420 I'm just going to, I'm just going to not, like, I'm just going to hold back because unlike these

00:35:53.300 people, I try to exercise a little bit of self-control in the things that I say, but just,

00:35:58.420 I'll just leave it at, I promise no one's thinking about that. Like, that's not why we're against

00:36:04.440 the dismemberment of babies inside the womb because we're thinking about Rashida Tlaib in

00:36:09.900 that way. Like, I'm just pretty confident. I'm pretty confident that that's the case.

00:36:14.600 Okay. This was a fun episode. I hope that it leads you straight into your weekend in a way

00:36:21.720 that you thoroughly enjoyed. And I will see you back here on Monday. For those of you,

00:36:26.160 for those of you who've been wanting a theology Monday, we are going to do a most

00:36:30.100 misused on Monday. So get ready for that. I will see you guys then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - March 13, 2020

Ep 224 ｜ Week’s Worst

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