Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 23 ｜ The Mirthless Left

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, what's up? It's Allie with CRTV and this is Relatable. So it's Thursday and I'm a little

00:00:07.980 afraid that I'm going to be kind of beating a dead horse by talking about this because it's

00:00:12.460 been going on all week. But I'm going to try to make it a relevant conversation for today for all

00:00:17.280 of us. We are going to talk about humor and why it is dying a slow, gruesome political death. And

00:00:23.580 then I'm going to answer some of your amazing questions that you guys sent me via Instagram.

00:00:28.060 OK, so for those of you who haven't been paying attention to every detail of my life this week,

00:00:33.220 that's OK. I don't expect you to. So I'll give you a recap. My producer and I published this

00:00:38.520 brilliantly edited video, if I do say so myself, jokingly portraying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:00:45.420 and me in an interview. If you don't know, AOC, as I am going to affectionately refer to her today,

00:00:52.600 is the self-avowed democratic socialist who is running for Congress in New York as she just

00:00:58.880 recently won her primary there, which honestly was an impressive feat because she defeated an

00:01:04.880 incumbent. She's only 28 years old. And a year ago, she was working as a bartender. And like I said, 1.00

00:01:11.140 she is also a democratic socialist, which means she is far left. I have said publicly that because of

00:01:17.520 these things, her rise to prominence is pretty darn impressive, but that it is ironically accredited 0.99

00:01:24.540 not to socialism, but to capitalism. Only in a capitalistic free society could someone like

00:01:30.460 Ocasio-Cortez go from being a bartender to being a congressional candidate in a matter of a year. 0.88

00:01:37.040 There is no such thing as social mobility in a capitalistic society. There is no such thing as

00:01:42.060 innovation in a capitalistic society, which enables people like AOC to grow her platform on social

00:01:48.540 media. But she doesn't seem to understand that. And as it turns out, she doesn't seem to understand

00:01:53.920 all that much about her own agenda or any of the views that she holds. Um, she did an interview with

00:02:00.460 PBS last week and guys, it was bad. It was bad. If you haven't watched it, you should go watch it.

00:02:07.620 Uh, the interview itself was edited a lot and it still wasn't good. Uh, people on the right and

00:02:13.380 the left berated her for clearly not knowing what she was talking about. And I'm actually going to

00:02:17.620 play a little excerpt for you now, but, uh, I am of course the dynamic there in terms of geopolitics

00:02:23.760 and the war released is very different than people expressing their first amendment right to protest.

00:02:28.060 Well, yes, but I also think that what people are starting to see, at least in the occupation, uh, of, of

00:02:38.300 Palestine is, um, just an increasing crisis of humanitarian condition. And that to me is just

00:02:46.300 where I tend to come from on this issue. You use the term the occupation of Palestine. What did you mean by

00:02:53.260 that? Oh, um, I think what I meant is like the, the settlements that are increasing in some of these

00:03:02.740 areas and, and places where, um, where Palestinians are experiencing, uh, difficulty in access to,

00:03:11.000 uh, their housing and homes. Do you think you can expand on that? Yeah. I mean, I think I'd also

00:03:16.660 just, I, I am not the expert on geopolitics on this issue. Yikes. So my producer and I, like most people

00:03:24.840 in the country, watch that interview and thought, okay, homegirl doesn't really know, or doesn't seem 0.99

00:03:32.160 to know, at least from this interview, what she's talking about. So we thought, let's have some fun

00:03:36.580 with this. Thus, our satirical video was inspired. We used a tactic that has been used by many, uh,

00:03:43.640 comedians before we didn't claim to give birth to it ourselves. And that is taking pieces of an

00:03:48.560 interview and pairing it with your own questions, but in a way that is obviously a joke. Um, and it's

00:03:54.040 like all satire, taking something to the most absurd degree to make a legitimate point. And that is what

00:03:59.620 we did. Uh, here is our interview. Alexandria. Thanks for being here. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

00:04:05.640 Do you have any experience that qualifies you for this job? I was growing up during the,

00:04:11.540 the Clinton era. Um, and then basically when I was in middle school, 9-11 happened.

00:04:20.420 Do you have any knowledge whatsoever about how our political system works?

00:04:29.300 Yikes. Does that make you a little bit nervous?

00:04:32.900 Put socialism into your own words. Unprecedented concentration of wealth at the very top,

00:04:44.100 tippy top of the 1%. Wow. I'm, I'm kind of surprised to hear you admit that. It,

00:04:49.620 it sounds like what's going on in socialist Venezuela. What do you think about what's going

00:04:57.140 on in Venezuela? Just an increasing crisis of humanitarian condition. And to me, it would just

00:05:02.900 be completely unacceptable if that happened on our shores. Well, couldn't that happen here if,

00:05:07.940 if we adopted socialism? It's hard to say what direction that that takes.

00:05:13.860 I am not the expert on geopolitics. Didn't you major in international relations in college?

00:05:19.860 Middle Eastern politics is not exactly what's at my kitchen table every night. Venezuela is not in

00:05:27.140 the Middle East. I may not use the right words. How do you respond to the people who say that

00:05:35.300 socialism has never worked? Capitalism was the most efficient and best economy, perhaps. Abject

00:05:42.580 poverty is at the lowest level it's ever been because of capitalism. Well, I, I think the numbers

00:05:49.220 that you just talked about is part of the problem. I, I don't understand. Oh, um.

00:05:58.820 So what do you hope to accomplish when you're in Congress? This is a really good question. So

00:06:05.460 what is it? I just think that that's the wrong question. Okay. So why should voters vote for you?

00:06:12.500 You vote. It's, it's democratic.

00:06:14.900 Okay. Well, this has been enlightening. Thank you so much for coming on. Now, if you're not watching

00:06:23.780 this podcast on CRTV.com, uh, you can still probably tell just from listening that this

00:06:29.700 is a spliced together interview, even considering the absolute absurdity of the original interview.

00:06:36.500 This was still too ridiculous to be real. Um, and you hope that people with brain cells actually 0.95

00:06:43.140 realize that. And the vast majority of people who watch this got it and they appreciated the joke.

00:06:48.180 Um, I've gotten tons of great feedback from a lot of you guys. However, some people were upset,

00:06:54.660 uh, particularly blue check marks and journalists on the left who accused me of fake news of deceptively

00:07:01.780 editing a video to make Alexandria look bad. Um, no, she did that all on her own. She really didn't

00:07:08.260 need my help. All I did was make a joke out of an already really bad interview. Something that Jay

00:07:13.220 Leno, Stephen Colbert, lots of people have done in the past. Um, as you guys know, I've done another

00:07:18.420 kind of satirical interview with Ben Shapiro, where I purposely misconstrued his positions on things.

00:07:23.540 Uh, I've done satirical monologues. I've done skits with Matt Walsh. Um, I haven't done specifically

00:07:29.300 this kind of interview before, but you guys know I do satire. Nevertheless, that didn't stop angry

00:07:35.860 leftists from coming out in full force about this. Uh, I got requests for a comment all day from the

00:07:41.700 Washington post, from Buzzfeed, from media. I demanding that I give some kind of justification

00:07:47.700 for what they called purposely misleading people. I mean, really? Um, I've always been someone actually

00:07:55.140 to give journalists, at least some journalists, the benefit of the doubt, but really this situation

00:08:00.580 has made me lose a lot of faith. Uh, here are some of the headlines from yesterday. Washington post

00:08:08.020 fake Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez interview. CRTV says it was satire after outrage mediaite conservative

00:08:16.740 network. CRTV passes off satirical interview with Ocasio-Cortez as genuine buzzfeed, a doctored video

00:08:24.900 of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is spreading on Facebook. The verge, a million Facebook users

00:08:31.460 watched a video that blurs the line between bad satire and fake news. Independent filmmaker

00:08:38.580 behind fake Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that's me, interview claims video was satire after it went 0.99

00:08:46.020 viral. RT, which I don't really know what that is, but apparently other people do. Conservative blogger

00:08:51.940 post fake interview mocking upstart socialist Ocasio-Cortez media matters. CRTV's fake interview

00:08:59.540 with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went viral on Facebook. Hilarious, hilarious. It's so great.

00:09:07.940 I am cackling my head off. It's one thing to watch fake news though. And it's another thing to actually

00:09:14.420 be a part of fake news to watch it in real time. This is blatantly false reporting and they know it.

00:09:20.340 The video was never meant to be serious. We obviously weren't in the same room together,

00:09:25.780 me and AOC. It was obviously from a viral PBS interview that she did last week. And these

00:09:31.220 journalists know that they know that. And yet they are choosing to falsely report on it because they

00:09:37.700 don't like it. They think that the only people allowed to tell jokes are liberals. They think the

00:09:44.500 only funny kind of joke is a joke that targets Trump or conservatives. How dare someone make

00:09:49.780 a video making light of the ignorance of our sacred golden cow, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

00:09:55.380 How dare they? That's not funny. That is serious. And so what they do is these people on the left, 0.85

00:10:01.380 instead of acting like normal, sane human beings and just saying, you know, meh, that's not really

00:10:08.180 funny. You know, I'll move on. I'll scroll past it. They tried to discredit all humor in this by

00:10:13.940 saying that it was intentionally misleading and deceptive. They know it's not. They're saying,

00:10:20.180 oh, CRTV only said it was satire after it went viral. Yeah, we clarified because insufferable

00:10:26.500 dolts like you were trying to push this completely untrue idea that we were trying to deceive people.

00:10:31.860 And personally, if I could do it again, I wouldn't have even issued the clarification.

00:10:36.260 There are always going to be people who don't get humor. There are always going to be people,

00:10:40.980 especially on Facebook. Sorry, but it's true, who can't for the life of them take a joke.

00:10:46.500 That is OK. I am not going to cater to the lowest common denominator in everything I do.

00:10:54.660 If I have to always say, hey, guys, hey, I'm about to tell a hilarious joke. Oh, and it's going to be

00:11:00.820 a joke. And oh, by the way, I'm not serious when I tell this joke. And hey, what do you think

00:11:05.300 about that totally non-serious joking joke that I just said? It's probably not going to be that

00:11:11.140 funny. Again, these pretentious reporters know this. They do. They just don't want conservatives

00:11:17.700 to tell jokes at their expense because it's mean when we do it. For those of you who doubt that false

00:11:25.540 reporting, narrative pushing and fake news is an actual epidemic. I hope this shows you that it's real.

00:11:30.980 Here is a real life personal example of journalists who care far less about the truth than they do about

00:11:37.220 their prepackaged narrative. They would rather push an idea that fits into their own worldview than be

00:11:43.060 inconvenienced by reality. But it wasn't just journalists, unfortunately, that had an absolute

00:11:49.380 conniption over this. Left wing verified Twitter just about keeled over. They are just about dead.

00:11:56.500 Uh, so really the tweet that I guess kind of started this ruckus was by a guy who works for

00:12:01.380 none other but the New York Times named Shane Goldmacher. Never heard of him. He said in a tweet,

00:12:07.620 this faked interview of Acasio 2018 by at CRTV has nearly 1 million views on Facebook and less than 24

00:12:14.740 hours period interview didn't happen period. It takes clips from at Margaret Hoover's show and edits info

00:12:20.020 questions. Not labeled satire in parentheses other than an emoji. Wow.

00:12:27.780 Great detective work by the New York Times. I mean, amazing sleuthing there. Just,

00:12:33.060 just incredible. Uh, here's what our, uh, girl, Linda Sarsour said. Hashtag fake news. Like it's

00:12:40.340 actually really fake and doctored. Hashtag desperation. Wow, girl,

00:12:45.140 you caught us. Robert, uh, Roberto Abromowitz. Um, it wasn't quote satire until the Twitterverse

00:12:54.260 called it out. It was a direct attempt to subvert Acasio 2018 message and position in an effort to

00:13:00.980 derail her candidacy. Nope. She did that on her own. Uh, Rob McDonough said, obviously satire,

00:13:07.220 but have you considered apologizing just because it was plain S H I T poorly edited tired lines about 0.97

00:13:15.060 socialists being dumb, et cetera, like watching bad political satire from the 1970s. Be funnier FFS. 0.98

00:13:22.820 And I don't need to say what that stands for. Robert Mackey manipulated video to create entirely

00:13:28.580 fake interview presented as real by verified account here and on Facebook where it has over 1.1 million

00:13:34.740 views. Now it's over 2 million views, but those are just details in less than 24 hours. Ned Pyle,

00:13:40.420 this guy was going off all day. So a made up interview that didn't happen, not labeled here

00:13:45.380 as satire parentheses. Not that this is quote satire, just disinformation. He says he continues on

00:13:53.300 CRTV works for the GOP. GOP works for Trump. Trump works for the Russians. CRTV works for the Russians.

00:14:01.220 Transitively go F yourself. This is so good. Sophia Bush of One Tree Hill fame talked about it on her 1.00

00:14:09.940 Instagram story, calling it criminal libel slander. How can someone do this? Um, and of course,

00:14:15.940 none other than our video star, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez herself had this to say,

00:14:20.820 Republicans are so, are so scared of me that they're faking videos and presenting them as real

00:14:28.020 on Facebook because they can't deal with reality anymore. Here's one bonafide truth. Election day

00:14:33.300 is November 6th. I didn't know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez herself was good at satire. That's 1.00

00:14:38.900 amazing. Um, those are all liberal Twitter celebs. And of course the candidate herself all in a tizzy 0.79

00:14:46.340 over a blatantly edited satirical video. Um, here's why they're so upset. Number one, the video hit a

00:14:54.260 little bit too close to home for them. It was a little too soon. The interview that she did with

00:14:59.540 PBS was legitimately embarrassing for them and they don't like making light of it, making light of it.

00:15:05.300 If they had any sense whatsoever, they would be happy about our version because it was arguably

00:15:10.580 more coherent than her actual interview. Number two, they don't think conservatives are allowed to use 1.00

00:15:16.340 humor. They think you have to hate Donald Trump in order to tell a joke. And the only jokes you're

00:15:21.460 allowed to tell are about Donald Trump and how awful conservatives are. You have to be

00:15:26.100 Sacha Baron Cohen making Republicans look stupid. You have to be, uh, Stephen Colbert making the 1.00

00:15:32.580 president look bad. These are the only acceptable forms of comedy. According to the left to think

00:15:37.540 that they monopoly monopolize all humor and because they monopolize all humor or so they think we have

00:15:44.260 to play by their rules or else they're going to come for you. Well, I have news for them.

00:15:50.100 I am not going to back down. I'm not scared of them. I am not going to apologize. I'm not going to

00:15:56.900 stop making these kinds of videos. And look, you might not think the videos are funny. You might think

00:16:02.660 that I am the least funny person that you've ever watched, which let's be honest, that's a little bit

00:16:07.460 hard to believe if you've ever heard Michelle Wolf or Samantha Bee open their mouths. But still,

00:16:11.940 maybe I'm not your cup of tea. That's fine. That doesn't hurt my feelings. It's super simple,

00:16:16.660 though. If you don't like a joke, don't laugh. But the vast majority of you thankfully do happen

00:16:25.220 to like these videos. I've gotten, I've gotten, uh, many messages and emails and comments asking

00:16:30.980 for more satirical videos, telling me how much you like my satirical satirical videos. When I'm at

00:16:36.300 events, I have followers come up to me telling me to make more. I know that my audience loves them.

00:16:41.460 And look, I also know that there aren't very many people on the right who do them or who even can do

00:16:46.040 them. Um, it's not everyone's thing and that's fine, but I have the ability and the desire to do

00:16:51.360 them. So I do. I think that satire is a very effective tool to add a thought provoking perspective.

00:16:57.140 Maybe you don't. And that's okay. We can agree to disagree on that. Um, thankfully in all of this

00:17:04.360 drama, a ton of conservative influencers have been coming to my defense over this, um, or at the very

00:17:09.320 least coming to the defense of the freedom to tell a joke without having to put an unfunny disclaimer

00:17:15.900 up, which is exactly what the left wants. Um, Ben Shapiro, Michelle Malkin, Dan Bongino, Liz Wheeler,

00:17:21.240 Mark Levin, Michael Knowles, even a non-conservative Yashara Ali was like, dude, this is obviously a joke.

00:17:27.260 Ali does jokes. Uh, those were just few of the many people on social media who showed me support and

00:17:32.420 encouragement. And I seriously appreciate that because even though the liberal mob is at the end of the

00:17:39.080 day, in my opinion, completely harmless, it can be intimidating. It can be anxiety inducing and it

00:17:45.980 does help to have the help of conservative influencers who are bigger than me saying, um, 0.99

00:17:51.860 this is really stupid and Ali did nothing wrong. Um, now I did have very well meaning people say, 0.96

00:17:59.760 look, this is Ali's shtick. This is her thing. She does comedy. Everything she does is satire.

00:18:05.020 And even though I appreciate their intentions, that's not true. Um, I am glad that they are

00:18:11.480 defending me, but that is not my whole shtick. I am not a comedian, nor do I want to be. My whole

00:18:17.020 identity is not wrapped in trying to be funny. Uh, you guys who listen to this podcast know this

00:18:22.840 half the time we're talking about theology, things like Calvinism, Molinism, predestination versus free

00:18:27.940 will stuff that most people in the mainstream don't really care about, or we're talking about the

00:18:32.660 dangers of progressivism, free speech guns, whatever's going on in the news. I would say 90 to 95% of the

00:18:39.360 time we are talking about very serious things. And I've gotten from comments, uh, comments from

00:18:44.760 followers saying, you know, pick a lane, either be a satirist, a comedian, be a Bible teacher or be a

00:18:51.500 conservative commentator. But being all three is just confusing. And I hear you, I hear you, but I'm

00:18:58.400 sorry, I'm not going to pick a lane. I'm just not. Yes. I agree that it might be better marketing and

00:19:03.880 branding wise. If I chose one of those identities, if I picked one of these niches and said, I'm the

00:19:10.280 conservative, funny person, or I'm the millennial theologian, or I'm the conservative millennial,

00:19:14.780 which LOL, I have done that. Um, it would be easier. It may be more effective for self-promotion.

00:19:20.080 If I build myself as just one of these things, but I don't do the things that I do for the sake of good

00:19:26.060 branding. Um, even the conservative millennial, it really was just what I was. It wasn't try an

00:19:33.440 attempt to go viral. Um, everything you hear on this podcast and see me say on social media

00:19:38.460 is me. That doesn't mean I haven't made mistakes, but I'm talking about in general, this is me.

00:19:43.340 I talk about the Bible because I have always genuinely been passionate about theology. I do

00:19:48.220 satire because I have always used sarcasm and satire to make a point. Um, I talk about conservative

00:19:53.620 politics because I've always been a proponent of the conservative ideology. Um, ask anyone who has

00:19:58.880 known me since high school or before, if all of these things have always been true about me.

00:20:04.000 I have always been sarcastic, opinionated, passionate about Christianity, passionate about right and

00:20:08.960 wrong, firm in my conservative beliefs. Now, thankfully through the power of the Holy Spirit,

00:20:14.000 I have been significantly sanctified since high school. But as far as personality goes, I am exactly the

00:20:20.680 same as I have been literally since I started talking. Um, and I am not going to box myself

00:20:26.840 into a certain category just because it helps people comprehend who I am and what I offer on

00:20:33.100 social media. Will that make my audience smaller? Maybe. Will that confuse people and make some people

00:20:39.620 mad? Probably. But I want people to follow me who like me, who appreciate who I am and everything

00:20:45.980 that I offer. And if you don't, that's totally fine. No hard feelings. Um, if you guys haven't noticed,

00:20:51.560 I am not doing this to be famous one day. Uh, if I was, then there were probably a lot of different

00:20:59.780 tactics I could pull in order to accomplish this other than what I'm doing right now, talking about

00:21:04.420 things like predestination. Um, I started the blog, the conservative millennial a few years ago out of

00:21:10.600 a very genuine desire to help millennials understand what was going on in the primaries in 2016. I

00:21:16.220 started speaking to college sorority girls about the importance of voting. And it was then that I

00:21:20.360 realized how little they know about what was going on in politics. So, um, I started the blog in the

00:21:26.540 hopes of informing some of those people. That's always been my target. I never thought that it would

00:21:31.200 blow up. I had a full-time job. I started making videos, uh, while I still had this full-time job,

00:21:36.680 then one blew up and then another and another, and long story short, here I am. And I've learned

00:21:41.580 some things during this time. I've learned that you are not going to make everyone happy. And that

00:21:46.340 if you are trying to make everyone happy, you are going to burn out. That's where having values and

00:21:51.040 having principles comes in. That's where having a purpose that is higher than fame comes in. And I'm,

00:21:56.240 I'm not trying to sound self-righteous. Like I have it all together right now, because I certainly

00:22:01.580 don't. There've been plenty of times when I've cared way too much about what people think of me,

00:22:06.080 when I've said things that I regret, but over time and the short amount of time, relatively that

00:22:12.080 I've been in this career, I've realized just how fruitless that is. And let me tell you, it is a

00:22:17.380 really good. And I think an important place to be in. Once you realize that all of these people on the

00:22:22.540 internet, all of these people in the media can do nothing to legitimately and ultimately hurt you.

00:22:28.080 You feel free to be who you are and to truly be confident in what you feel you have been called to do.

00:22:33.520 Can the Twitter mob dig up your old tweets? Yes. Can they call you a racist? Sure. Can they even get

00:22:39.520 you kicked off social media and get you fired from your job and prevent you from getting new jobs?

00:22:44.360 Unfortunately, yeah, that's the world that we live in. And I think all of that is really sad and awful.

00:22:50.040 But if fame is not my ultimate goal, if it's not your ultimate goal, and if my purpose is to just be

00:22:56.640 obedient to God and his calling to me, then what can these people really do to me? If worse comes to

00:23:02.320 worst, if they prevent me from ever getting another speaking gig, if and this would never happen. But

00:23:07.540 if they convince CRTV to fire me, they still couldn't take away the things in my life that

00:23:13.000 truly last and truly matter my faith, my family, my friends, my church, and they can't even actually

00:23:19.520 thwart. I don't believe whatever plans God does have for my life. You think God is subject to the

00:23:25.140 demands of the Twitter mob? You think the plans of a transcendent, all powerful God are going to be

00:23:29.840 foiled by the Washington Post or a few self-righteous blue check marks? No, he's bigger than that.

00:23:36.300 So even when I am tempted to fear and be anxious, which I am tempted plenty of times, I have to keep

00:23:42.220 that in mind. And, you know, that's true in all situations. That's something I had to remember in

00:23:48.260 college when I was stressed about something like a test or a project or a relationship or whatever it was.

00:23:53.280 Do any of these things have the power to change what has what God has purposed for my life?

00:24:00.840 Is a C on a project, for example, going to determine what he has in store for me? No, because if you are

00:24:06.460 a believer, God has shaped your life for his glory. He has written out every detail of everyone's life

00:24:12.880 and especially believers so that they glorify him. And he is not going to let something like a grade

00:24:19.320 change that. That's not to say that our choices don't have real consequences. They do. But it is

00:24:24.580 to say that God is in control of the seemingly scary. So anyway, that's actually besides the point

00:24:32.160 that I was going to make. And what I really want to highlight here in all of this drama that I've

00:24:37.280 been experiencing the past few days is what is currently occurring that I call the death of

00:24:44.000 creativity that's happening in our politically correct, perpetually outraged, overly sensitive

00:24:49.880 culture. Comedy is just one example. Now, comedy is subjective. And like I said, if you don't like

00:24:55.180 a joke, don't laugh. It's fine. But I don't think it's just my personal opinion that late night shows

00:25:00.600 and liberal comedians are way less funny than they used to be because they've been hyper politicized

00:25:05.260 and specifically hyper anti-conservative and hyper politically correct. We have seen the slow

00:25:11.200 death of comedy because no one is allowed to say anything that is remotely offensive,

00:25:15.940 particularly to a group that the left says is traditionally oppressed. But here's what's

00:25:20.000 interesting. I don't think that you have to be offensive in order to be funny. In fact, if all you

00:25:24.800 do is blatantly and purposely offend people in your comedy, then you're probably not funny. You're

00:25:28.960 probably just a jerk. But instead of comedians saying, OK, so we're not allowed to be politically 1.00

00:25:34.220 incorrect in our comedy. That's fine. Let's get creative in how we tell good jokes that aren't terribly

00:25:39.380 offensive to one group. No, they haven't done that. They've said, no, we're going to abandon

00:25:43.920 creativity altogether. Now we're just going to be terribly offensive to another group,

00:25:49.160 a.k.a. conservatives. And this is the indication that comedy has died, or at least it's dying.

00:25:55.860 Every single comedian, it seems, has the same exact shtick. Make fun of Donald Trump. Make fun of

00:26:02.940 conservatives. There's no creativity in that. There's no boldness. Nothing that is daring.

00:26:07.940 Nothing that takes a bit of effort. That is comedian's way of avoiding outrage. Avoiding

00:26:15.460 outrage that is always associated with saying something against a liberal or something that

00:26:21.060 is politically incorrect. You know what would actually be funny and bold? An equal opportunity

00:26:26.540 comedian that makes light of everyone and everything, including his or herself. That's why I love the

00:26:31.700 Babylon Bee, for example, which I happen to write for. They make fun of liberals and conservatives.

00:26:36.720 They make fun of themselves as Christians, and it's really funny. People on both sides are mad all the

00:26:42.180 time, and I think that's great. Good humor is always going to make someone mad. I don't think

00:26:46.980 its sole purpose is to make people mad. Some jokes are just legitimately mean and inappropriate,

00:26:51.860 in my opinion. But good humor might always hit someone's nerve, and that's okay. Especially when

00:26:57.800 it's used in a satirical way to make a legitimate point. Someone is always going to be upset.

00:27:02.540 And by the way, people have been saying satire is supposed to be funny. This Alexandria video

00:27:08.240 wasn't funny. Well, A, it's not funny to you. And okay. And B, satire is actually not always

00:27:16.660 supposed to be funny. Satire is not always laugh out loud funny. Sometimes it's just,

00:27:22.380 ha, funny. It makes a serious point. It might not be hilarious, and that's okay.

00:27:27.700 But we've lost all creativity also, not just in comedy, but in a lot of things. Entertainment in

00:27:34.900 general, in movies, music, TV shows. Every market now is oversaturated with politicized content

00:27:40.400 that doesn't make any point rather than push a progressive agenda. We are losing our ability

00:27:45.860 to create because we're only concerned with clicks, and what gets clicks is advancing a particular

00:27:51.260 narrative. I'm not saying there's no creative people out there, no good creators, but it does seem

00:27:57.200 like that is getting more and more rare. Anyway, that's all I have to say about that. It's all

00:28:02.560 absolutely absurd. Oh, and also, thank you guys so much for supporting me and for following along.

00:28:10.220 And I did want to tell you, because of that, in honor of you guys and all of this,

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00:28:28.300 I love it. So you should take advantage of that. That way you can watch this podcast in its entirety

00:28:32.840 every Tuesday, Thursday. Okay, now I have some questions that you guys sent me on Instagram

00:28:41.300 that I'm going to answer that have really nothing to do with what we just talked about. They're just

00:28:45.100 really good questions, I think. So someone asked me, hi, Allie, I was just curious on what your

00:28:52.200 opinion is on people who fly Confederate flags at their homes and trucks, especially in my home state

00:28:57.920 of Pennsylvania. Okay, so my take on this is a little bit nuanced, I think. So I think a lot of

00:29:05.320 conservatives say, you know, free speech, you should be able to, you know, wave whatever flag you want

00:29:11.760 to. And, you know, the Confederate flag stands for Southern pride, not anything racist. And on the

00:29:18.080 one hand, of course, I agree with free speech. People should be able to fly a flag that they want

00:29:22.000 to. I don't think it should be illegal. Now, I think that people can be outraged about that. They

00:29:25.760 can be offended by the Confederate flag. I was raised in Texas thinking that the Confederate flag

00:29:31.700 was a symbol of racism. My parents just raised me thinking that. And now they are not anti, they

00:29:39.500 weren't anti-South or anything like that, or anti-Confederacy when we were talking about the

00:29:46.140 war, or the Civil War. But they did teach me that the Confederate flag nowadays is a symbol of racism

00:29:54.940 and a symbol of slavery. Now, I don't think that everyone that waves the Confederate flag

00:29:59.540 has that intention. I don't think that they're all saying, oh, we don't like African Americans.

00:30:05.560 Um, I personally have just, I don't, I don't know. I don't see the benefit in, uh, waving a

00:30:13.200 Confederate flag when you are an American. What's the point? Do you have Confederate pride? Why do

00:30:18.860 you have Confederate pride? I have American pride. And I'm not saying we should acquiesce to every 0.53

00:30:24.300 single person's, uh, hurt feelings. But in that case, you know, that categorically and generally

00:30:29.440 that represents something that has caused a lot of pain, legitimate pain for a lot of people.

00:30:34.000 We're not just talking about feelings. We're actually talking about, um, a really egregious

00:30:39.520 sin that America committed once upon a time. And I'm just not sure if we should be waving flags that

00:30:45.680 represent that era. Now, again, I'm not judging the hearts of every single person that wave a

00:30:49.580 Confederate flag, and I'm not saying it should be illegal or anything like that, but I am saying

00:30:54.560 that I understand why it's offensive. And I, I wouldn't love it if someone that I knew and loved

00:31:00.640 was waving a Confederate flag. I'd probably be like, what's wrong with you? Um, so that's my 0.75

00:31:05.720 take on that. Uh, another question is how about some encouragement for those of us who voted for

00:31:12.120 Trump, but, or voted for Trump, uh, for obvious reasons, but struggle with how awful he is. I

00:31:18.400 wouldn't change my vote, but he's awful. And it's so hard when he is lying or being shady about

00:31:24.640 something every other day. Um, okay. So I appreciate this question. I don't think that

00:31:31.360 he is awful. I think that he has done some pretty bad things and you guys know who's who have listened

00:31:37.080 to this podcast that I am willing and ready to call out Donald Trump when I think that he is wrong.

00:31:42.260 We all know that he's tactless. Some people like his tactlessness, his lack of decorum.

00:31:46.740 I personally think that he should tweet things less, that he should be a little bit more civil,

00:31:52.120 uh, than he currently is. A lot of people disagree with me on that. Nevertheless,

00:31:56.140 I voted for him and I'm glad that I voted for him. I think obviously he was a much better

00:32:00.000 alternative to Hillary Clinton. Um, I had an entire episode on this. Uh, it was like one of my very

00:32:06.600 first episodes that I did and talking about, okay, how can I, as a born again, Christian who talks a

00:32:13.020 lot about my faith, support someone who has obviously been unfaithful to his wife, um, and who

00:32:17.840 doesn't necessarily represent the values and morals that I say that I have as a Christian.

00:32:22.120 And how I answer that is, well, I don't feel like I have to support every single thing that

00:32:26.700 Donald Trump says and does in order to say, you know what, his policies are pushing liberty in

00:32:31.300 the right direction. Um, and that's what I think. And I think in the longterm and in general for

00:32:35.540 America, a president who is pushing liberty in the right direction is good for us. Now the question

00:32:40.760 comes into play and I've talked about this, like I did on the previous episode that I just referred to,

00:32:45.940 when does decency actually matter? When do you say, okay, yeah, this person believes in all of the,

00:32:51.040 uh, in all of the same policies that I do, but he's, you know, not a moral or decent person.

00:32:57.360 And I think that is something that we have to wrestle with. For example, Roy Moore, I didn't

00:33:01.500 support him. Um, but he probably would have advanced a lot of the policies that I liked,

00:33:06.780 but I just thought that his past was too far. It was too much him messing around with underage 0.73

00:33:14.480 girls. Um, so I don't have an easy answer for that. I think that we have to take everything

00:33:20.400 that Trump does case by case, call him out when he's wrong, say, okay, this was indecent. This

00:33:25.340 was immoral. This was something that I don't agree with. Obviously I hate that he's been unfaithful,

00:33:29.660 especially with porn star gross. And I think that we can call that out. What I don't agree with is 0.99

00:33:34.240 defending him wholesale just because we voted for him. I don't understand that. Don't tie yourself to

00:33:38.980 any politician. And if at one point, maybe one day I'll say, you know what, it was actually wrong

00:33:44.580 of me to support him. I don't know. Um, so far he's done a lot of good for our country. Like I

00:33:50.020 said, I don't always agree with him, but the policies that in the agenda that he is advancing,

00:33:54.580 he and his administration are advancing, I think have been really good for the country. And I think

00:33:58.340 we're in such a better position than we would be than if Hillary Clinton, uh, were president. So

00:34:02.620 anyway, all that to say, I don't think it has to be an easy answer. I think it's something to

00:34:06.960 wrestle with. Um, I think you criticize him when he's wrong and you praise him when he's right.

00:34:11.840 And, uh, you make sure that in your life you're being obedient and sticking to your own values

00:34:16.420 and don't, like I said, uh, pledge allegiance to any politician because they all change.

00:34:22.020 Um, okay. That's it for today. Thank you guys so much for watching and for listening and for

00:34:26.540 following along. And I will see you guys back here on Tuesday. Have a great weekend.

00:34:36.960 Bye.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - July 26, 2018

Ep 23 ｜ The Mirthless Left

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