Ep 23 ｜ The Mirthless Left
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Summary
Alexandria Ocasio-cortez is a self-avowed democratic socialist who is running for Congress in New York s 14th congressional district. She was a bartender a year ago, working as a bartender. She is also a far-left socialist, which means she is far left. And as it turns out, she doesn t seem to understand much about her own agenda or any of the views that she holds.
Transcript
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Hey guys, what's up? It's Allie with CRTV and this is Relatable. So it's Thursday and I'm a little
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afraid that I'm going to be kind of beating a dead horse by talking about this because it's
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been going on all week. But I'm going to try to make it a relevant conversation for today for all
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of us. We are going to talk about humor and why it is dying a slow, gruesome political death. And
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then I'm going to answer some of your amazing questions that you guys sent me via Instagram.
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OK, so for those of you who haven't been paying attention to every detail of my life this week,
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that's OK. I don't expect you to. So I'll give you a recap. My producer and I published this
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brilliantly edited video, if I do say so myself, jokingly portraying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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and me in an interview. If you don't know, AOC, as I am going to affectionately refer to her today,
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is the self-avowed democratic socialist who is running for Congress in New York as she just
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recently won her primary there, which honestly was an impressive feat because she defeated an
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incumbent. She's only 28 years old. And a year ago, she was working as a bartender. And like I said,
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she is also a democratic socialist, which means she is far left. I have said publicly that because of
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these things, her rise to prominence is pretty darn impressive, but that it is ironically accredited
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not to socialism, but to capitalism. Only in a capitalistic free society could someone like
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Ocasio-Cortez go from being a bartender to being a congressional candidate in a matter of a year.
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There is no such thing as social mobility in a capitalistic society. There is no such thing as
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innovation in a capitalistic society, which enables people like AOC to grow her platform on social
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media. But she doesn't seem to understand that. And as it turns out, she doesn't seem to understand
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all that much about her own agenda or any of the views that she holds. Um, she did an interview with
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PBS last week and guys, it was bad. It was bad. If you haven't watched it, you should go watch it.
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Uh, the interview itself was edited a lot and it still wasn't good. Uh, people on the right and
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the left berated her for clearly not knowing what she was talking about. And I'm actually going to
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play a little excerpt for you now, but, uh, I am of course the dynamic there in terms of geopolitics
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and the war released is very different than people expressing their first amendment right to protest.
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Well, yes, but I also think that what people are starting to see, at least in the occupation, uh, of, of
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Palestine is, um, just an increasing crisis of humanitarian condition. And that to me is just
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where I tend to come from on this issue. You use the term the occupation of Palestine. What did you mean by
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that? Oh, um, I think what I meant is like the, the settlements that are increasing in some of these
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areas and, and places where, um, where Palestinians are experiencing, uh, difficulty in access to,
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uh, their housing and homes. Do you think you can expand on that? Yeah. I mean, I think I'd also
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just, I, I am not the expert on geopolitics on this issue. Yikes. So my producer and I, like most people
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in the country, watch that interview and thought, okay, homegirl doesn't really know, or doesn't seem
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to know, at least from this interview, what she's talking about. So we thought, let's have some fun
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with this. Thus, our satirical video was inspired. We used a tactic that has been used by many, uh,
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comedians before we didn't claim to give birth to it ourselves. And that is taking pieces of an
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interview and pairing it with your own questions, but in a way that is obviously a joke. Um, and it's
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like all satire, taking something to the most absurd degree to make a legitimate point. And that is what
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we did. Uh, here is our interview. Alexandria. Thanks for being here. Thank you. Thank you for having me.
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Do you have any experience that qualifies you for this job? I was growing up during the,
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the Clinton era. Um, and then basically when I was in middle school, 9-11 happened.
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Do you have any knowledge whatsoever about how our political system works?
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Yikes. Does that make you a little bit nervous?
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Put socialism into your own words. Unprecedented concentration of wealth at the very top,
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tippy top of the 1%. Wow. I'm, I'm kind of surprised to hear you admit that. It,
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it sounds like what's going on in socialist Venezuela. What do you think about what's going
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on in Venezuela? Just an increasing crisis of humanitarian condition. And to me, it would just
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be completely unacceptable if that happened on our shores. Well, couldn't that happen here if,
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if we adopted socialism? It's hard to say what direction that that takes.
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I am not the expert on geopolitics. Didn't you major in international relations in college?
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Middle Eastern politics is not exactly what's at my kitchen table every night. Venezuela is not in
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the Middle East. I may not use the right words. How do you respond to the people who say that
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socialism has never worked? Capitalism was the most efficient and best economy, perhaps. Abject
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poverty is at the lowest level it's ever been because of capitalism. Well, I, I think the numbers
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that you just talked about is part of the problem. I, I don't understand. Oh, um.
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So what do you hope to accomplish when you're in Congress? This is a really good question. So
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what is it? I just think that that's the wrong question. Okay. So why should voters vote for you?
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Okay. Well, this has been enlightening. Thank you so much for coming on. Now, if you're not watching
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this podcast on CRTV.com, uh, you can still probably tell just from listening that this
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is a spliced together interview, even considering the absolute absurdity of the original interview.
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This was still too ridiculous to be real. Um, and you hope that people with brain cells actually
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realize that. And the vast majority of people who watch this got it and they appreciated the joke.
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Um, I've gotten tons of great feedback from a lot of you guys. However, some people were upset,
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uh, particularly blue check marks and journalists on the left who accused me of fake news of deceptively
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editing a video to make Alexandria look bad. Um, no, she did that all on her own. She really didn't
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need my help. All I did was make a joke out of an already really bad interview. Something that Jay
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Leno, Stephen Colbert, lots of people have done in the past. Um, as you guys know, I've done another
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kind of satirical interview with Ben Shapiro, where I purposely misconstrued his positions on things.
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Uh, I've done satirical monologues. I've done skits with Matt Walsh. Um, I haven't done specifically
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this kind of interview before, but you guys know I do satire. Nevertheless, that didn't stop angry
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leftists from coming out in full force about this. Uh, I got requests for a comment all day from the
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Washington post, from Buzzfeed, from media. I demanding that I give some kind of justification
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for what they called purposely misleading people. I mean, really? Um, I've always been someone actually
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to give journalists, at least some journalists, the benefit of the doubt, but really this situation
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has made me lose a lot of faith. Uh, here are some of the headlines from yesterday. Washington post
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fake Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez interview. CRTV says it was satire after outrage mediaite conservative
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network. CRTV passes off satirical interview with Ocasio-Cortez as genuine buzzfeed, a doctored video
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of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is spreading on Facebook. The verge, a million Facebook users
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watched a video that blurs the line between bad satire and fake news. Independent filmmaker
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behind fake Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that's me, interview claims video was satire after it went
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viral. RT, which I don't really know what that is, but apparently other people do. Conservative blogger
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post fake interview mocking upstart socialist Ocasio-Cortez media matters. CRTV's fake interview
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with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went viral on Facebook. Hilarious, hilarious. It's so great.
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I am cackling my head off. It's one thing to watch fake news though. And it's another thing to actually
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be a part of fake news to watch it in real time. This is blatantly false reporting and they know it.
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The video was never meant to be serious. We obviously weren't in the same room together,
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me and AOC. It was obviously from a viral PBS interview that she did last week. And these
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journalists know that they know that. And yet they are choosing to falsely report on it because they
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don't like it. They think that the only people allowed to tell jokes are liberals. They think the
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only funny kind of joke is a joke that targets Trump or conservatives. How dare someone make
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a video making light of the ignorance of our sacred golden cow, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
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How dare they? That's not funny. That is serious. And so what they do is these people on the left,
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instead of acting like normal, sane human beings and just saying, you know, meh, that's not really
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funny. You know, I'll move on. I'll scroll past it. They tried to discredit all humor in this by
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saying that it was intentionally misleading and deceptive. They know it's not. They're saying,
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oh, CRTV only said it was satire after it went viral. Yeah, we clarified because insufferable
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dolts like you were trying to push this completely untrue idea that we were trying to deceive people.
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And personally, if I could do it again, I wouldn't have even issued the clarification.
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There are always going to be people who don't get humor. There are always going to be people,
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especially on Facebook. Sorry, but it's true, who can't for the life of them take a joke.
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That is OK. I am not going to cater to the lowest common denominator in everything I do.
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If I have to always say, hey, guys, hey, I'm about to tell a hilarious joke. Oh, and it's going to be
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a joke. And oh, by the way, I'm not serious when I tell this joke. And hey, what do you think
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about that totally non-serious joking joke that I just said? It's probably not going to be that
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funny. Again, these pretentious reporters know this. They do. They just don't want conservatives
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to tell jokes at their expense because it's mean when we do it. For those of you who doubt that false
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reporting, narrative pushing and fake news is an actual epidemic. I hope this shows you that it's real.
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Here is a real life personal example of journalists who care far less about the truth than they do about
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their prepackaged narrative. They would rather push an idea that fits into their own worldview than be
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inconvenienced by reality. But it wasn't just journalists, unfortunately, that had an absolute
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conniption over this. Left wing verified Twitter just about keeled over. They are just about dead.
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Uh, so really the tweet that I guess kind of started this ruckus was by a guy who works for
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none other but the New York Times named Shane Goldmacher. Never heard of him. He said in a tweet,
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this faked interview of Acasio 2018 by at CRTV has nearly 1 million views on Facebook and less than 24
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hours period interview didn't happen period. It takes clips from at Margaret Hoover's show and edits info
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questions. Not labeled satire in parentheses other than an emoji. Wow.
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Great detective work by the New York Times. I mean, amazing sleuthing there. Just,
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just incredible. Uh, here's what our, uh, girl, Linda Sarsour said. Hashtag fake news. Like it's
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actually really fake and doctored. Hashtag desperation. Wow, girl,
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you caught us. Robert, uh, Roberto Abromowitz. Um, it wasn't quote satire until the Twitterverse
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called it out. It was a direct attempt to subvert Acasio 2018 message and position in an effort to
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derail her candidacy. Nope. She did that on her own. Uh, Rob McDonough said, obviously satire,
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but have you considered apologizing just because it was plain S H I T poorly edited tired lines about
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socialists being dumb, et cetera, like watching bad political satire from the 1970s. Be funnier FFS.
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And I don't need to say what that stands for. Robert Mackey manipulated video to create entirely
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fake interview presented as real by verified account here and on Facebook where it has over 1.1 million
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views. Now it's over 2 million views, but those are just details in less than 24 hours. Ned Pyle,
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this guy was going off all day. So a made up interview that didn't happen, not labeled here
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as satire parentheses. Not that this is quote satire, just disinformation. He says he continues on
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CRTV works for the GOP. GOP works for Trump. Trump works for the Russians. CRTV works for the Russians.
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Transitively go F yourself. This is so good. Sophia Bush of One Tree Hill fame talked about it on her
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Instagram story, calling it criminal libel slander. How can someone do this? Um, and of course,
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none other than our video star, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez herself had this to say,
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Republicans are so, are so scared of me that they're faking videos and presenting them as real
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on Facebook because they can't deal with reality anymore. Here's one bonafide truth. Election day
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is November 6th. I didn't know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez herself was good at satire. That's
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amazing. Um, those are all liberal Twitter celebs. And of course the candidate herself all in a tizzy
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over a blatantly edited satirical video. Um, here's why they're so upset. Number one, the video hit a
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little bit too close to home for them. It was a little too soon. The interview that she did with
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PBS was legitimately embarrassing for them and they don't like making light of it, making light of it.
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If they had any sense whatsoever, they would be happy about our version because it was arguably
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more coherent than her actual interview. Number two, they don't think conservatives are allowed to use
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humor. They think you have to hate Donald Trump in order to tell a joke. And the only jokes you're
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allowed to tell are about Donald Trump and how awful conservatives are. You have to be
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Sacha Baron Cohen making Republicans look stupid. You have to be, uh, Stephen Colbert making the
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president look bad. These are the only acceptable forms of comedy. According to the left to think
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that they monopoly monopolize all humor and because they monopolize all humor or so they think we have
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to play by their rules or else they're going to come for you. Well, I have news for them.
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I am not going to back down. I'm not scared of them. I am not going to apologize. I'm not going to
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stop making these kinds of videos. And look, you might not think the videos are funny. You might think
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that I am the least funny person that you've ever watched, which let's be honest, that's a little bit
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hard to believe if you've ever heard Michelle Wolf or Samantha Bee open their mouths. But still,
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maybe I'm not your cup of tea. That's fine. That doesn't hurt my feelings. It's super simple,
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though. If you don't like a joke, don't laugh. But the vast majority of you thankfully do happen
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to like these videos. I've gotten, I've gotten, uh, many messages and emails and comments asking
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for more satirical videos, telling me how much you like my satirical satirical videos. When I'm at
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events, I have followers come up to me telling me to make more. I know that my audience loves them.
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And look, I also know that there aren't very many people on the right who do them or who even can do
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them. Um, it's not everyone's thing and that's fine, but I have the ability and the desire to do
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them. So I do. I think that satire is a very effective tool to add a thought provoking perspective.
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Maybe you don't. And that's okay. We can agree to disagree on that. Um, thankfully in all of this
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drama, a ton of conservative influencers have been coming to my defense over this, um, or at the very
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least coming to the defense of the freedom to tell a joke without having to put an unfunny disclaimer
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up, which is exactly what the left wants. Um, Ben Shapiro, Michelle Malkin, Dan Bongino, Liz Wheeler,
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Mark Levin, Michael Knowles, even a non-conservative Yashara Ali was like, dude, this is obviously a joke.
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Ali does jokes. Uh, those were just few of the many people on social media who showed me support and
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encouragement. And I seriously appreciate that because even though the liberal mob is at the end of the
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day, in my opinion, completely harmless, it can be intimidating. It can be anxiety inducing and it
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does help to have the help of conservative influencers who are bigger than me saying, um,
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this is really stupid and Ali did nothing wrong. Um, now I did have very well meaning people say,
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look, this is Ali's shtick. This is her thing. She does comedy. Everything she does is satire.
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And even though I appreciate their intentions, that's not true. Um, I am glad that they are
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defending me, but that is not my whole shtick. I am not a comedian, nor do I want to be. My whole
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identity is not wrapped in trying to be funny. Uh, you guys who listen to this podcast know this
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half the time we're talking about theology, things like Calvinism, Molinism, predestination versus free
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will stuff that most people in the mainstream don't really care about, or we're talking about the
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dangers of progressivism, free speech guns, whatever's going on in the news. I would say 90 to 95% of the
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time we are talking about very serious things. And I've gotten from comments, uh, comments from
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followers saying, you know, pick a lane, either be a satirist, a comedian, be a Bible teacher or be a
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conservative commentator. But being all three is just confusing. And I hear you, I hear you, but I'm
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sorry, I'm not going to pick a lane. I'm just not. Yes. I agree that it might be better marketing and
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branding wise. If I chose one of those identities, if I picked one of these niches and said, I'm the
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conservative, funny person, or I'm the millennial theologian, or I'm the conservative millennial,
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which LOL, I have done that. Um, it would be easier. It may be more effective for self-promotion.
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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
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branding. Um, even the conservative millennial, it really was just what I was. It wasn't try an
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attempt to go viral. Um, everything you hear on this podcast and see me say on social media
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is me. That doesn't mean I haven't made mistakes, but I'm talking about in general, this is me.
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I talk about the Bible because I have always genuinely been passionate about theology. I do
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satire because I have always used sarcasm and satire to make a point. Um, I talk about conservative
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politics because I've always been a proponent of the conservative ideology. Um, ask anyone who has
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known me since high school or before, if all of these things have always been true about me.
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I have always been sarcastic, opinionated, passionate about Christianity, passionate about right and
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wrong, firm in my conservative beliefs. Now, thankfully through the power of the Holy Spirit,
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I have been significantly sanctified since high school. But as far as personality goes, I am exactly the
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same as I have been literally since I started talking. Um, and I am not going to box myself
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into a certain category just because it helps people comprehend who I am and what I offer on
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social media. Will that make my audience smaller? Maybe. Will that confuse people and make some people
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mad? Probably. But I want people to follow me who like me, who appreciate who I am and everything
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that I offer. And if you don't, that's totally fine. No hard feelings. Um, if you guys haven't noticed,
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I am not doing this to be famous one day. Uh, if I was, then there were probably a lot of different
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tactics I could pull in order to accomplish this other than what I'm doing right now, talking about
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things like predestination. Um, I started the blog, the conservative millennial a few years ago out of
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a very genuine desire to help millennials understand what was going on in the primaries in 2016. I
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started speaking to college sorority girls about the importance of voting. And it was then that I
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realized how little they know about what was going on in politics. So, um, I started the blog in the
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hopes of informing some of those people. That's always been my target. I never thought that it would
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blow up. I had a full-time job. I started making videos, uh, while I still had this full-time job,
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then one blew up and then another and another, and long story short, here I am. And I've learned
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some things during this time. I've learned that you are not going to make everyone happy. And that
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if you are trying to make everyone happy, you are going to burn out. That's where having values and
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having principles comes in. That's where having a purpose that is higher than fame comes in. And I'm,
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I'm not trying to sound self-righteous. Like I have it all together right now, because I certainly
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don't. There've been plenty of times when I've cared way too much about what people think of me,
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when I've said things that I regret, but over time and the short amount of time, relatively that
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I've been in this career, I've realized just how fruitless that is. And let me tell you, it is a
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really good. And I think an important place to be in. Once you realize that all of these people on the
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internet, all of these people in the media can do nothing to legitimately and ultimately hurt you.
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You feel free to be who you are and to truly be confident in what you feel you have been called to do.
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Can the Twitter mob dig up your old tweets? Yes. Can they call you a racist? Sure. Can they even get
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you kicked off social media and get you fired from your job and prevent you from getting new jobs?
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Unfortunately, yeah, that's the world that we live in. And I think all of that is really sad and awful.
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But if fame is not my ultimate goal, if it's not your ultimate goal, and if my purpose is to just be
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obedient to God and his calling to me, then what can these people really do to me? If worse comes to
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worst, if they prevent me from ever getting another speaking gig, if and this would never happen. But
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if they convince CRTV to fire me, they still couldn't take away the things in my life that
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truly last and truly matter my faith, my family, my friends, my church, and they can't even actually
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thwart. I don't believe whatever plans God does have for my life. You think God is subject to the
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demands of the Twitter mob? You think the plans of a transcendent, all powerful God are going to be
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foiled by the Washington Post or a few self-righteous blue check marks? No, he's bigger than that.
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So even when I am tempted to fear and be anxious, which I am tempted plenty of times, I have to keep
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that in mind. And, you know, that's true in all situations. That's something I had to remember in
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college when I was stressed about something like a test or a project or a relationship or whatever it was.
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Do any of these things have the power to change what has what God has purposed for my life?
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Is a C on a project, for example, going to determine what he has in store for me? No, because if you are
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a believer, God has shaped your life for his glory. He has written out every detail of everyone's life
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and especially believers so that they glorify him. And he is not going to let something like a grade
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change that. That's not to say that our choices don't have real consequences. They do. But it is
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to say that God is in control of the seemingly scary. So anyway, that's actually besides the point
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that I was going to make. And what I really want to highlight here in all of this drama that I've
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been experiencing the past few days is what is currently occurring that I call the death of
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creativity that's happening in our politically correct, perpetually outraged, overly sensitive
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culture. Comedy is just one example. Now, comedy is subjective. And like I said, if you don't like
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a joke, don't laugh. It's fine. But I don't think it's just my personal opinion that late night shows
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and liberal comedians are way less funny than they used to be because they've been hyper politicized
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and specifically hyper anti-conservative and hyper politically correct. We have seen the slow
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death of comedy because no one is allowed to say anything that is remotely offensive,
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particularly to a group that the left says is traditionally oppressed. But here's what's
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interesting. I don't think that you have to be offensive in order to be funny. In fact, if all you
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do is blatantly and purposely offend people in your comedy, then you're probably not funny. You're
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probably just a jerk. But instead of comedians saying, OK, so we're not allowed to be politically
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incorrect in our comedy. That's fine. Let's get creative in how we tell good jokes that aren't terribly
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offensive to one group. No, they haven't done that. They've said, no, we're going to abandon
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creativity altogether. Now we're just going to be terribly offensive to another group,
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a.k.a. conservatives. And this is the indication that comedy has died, or at least it's dying.
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Every single comedian, it seems, has the same exact shtick. Make fun of Donald Trump. Make fun of
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conservatives. There's no creativity in that. There's no boldness. Nothing that is daring.
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Nothing that takes a bit of effort. That is comedian's way of avoiding outrage. Avoiding
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outrage that is always associated with saying something against a liberal or something that
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is politically incorrect. You know what would actually be funny and bold? An equal opportunity
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comedian that makes light of everyone and everything, including his or herself. That's why I love the
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Babylon Bee, for example, which I happen to write for. They make fun of liberals and conservatives.
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They make fun of themselves as Christians, and it's really funny. People on both sides are mad all the
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time, and I think that's great. Good humor is always going to make someone mad. I don't think
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its sole purpose is to make people mad. Some jokes are just legitimately mean and inappropriate,
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in my opinion. But good humor might always hit someone's nerve, and that's okay. Especially when
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it's used in a satirical way to make a legitimate point. Someone is always going to be upset.
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And by the way, people have been saying satire is supposed to be funny. This Alexandria video
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wasn't funny. Well, A, it's not funny to you. And okay. And B, satire is actually not always
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supposed to be funny. Satire is not always laugh out loud funny. Sometimes it's just,
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ha, funny. It makes a serious point. It might not be hilarious, and that's okay.
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But we've lost all creativity also, not just in comedy, but in a lot of things. Entertainment in
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general, in movies, music, TV shows. Every market now is oversaturated with politicized content
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that doesn't make any point rather than push a progressive agenda. We are losing our ability
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to create because we're only concerned with clicks, and what gets clicks is advancing a particular
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narrative. I'm not saying there's no creative people out there, no good creators, but it does seem
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like that is getting more and more rare. Anyway, that's all I have to say about that. It's all
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absolutely absurd. Oh, and also, thank you guys so much for supporting me and for following along.
00:28:10.220
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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
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really good questions, I think. So someone asked me, hi, Allie, I was just curious on what your
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opinion is on people who fly Confederate flags at their homes and trucks, especially in my home state
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of Pennsylvania. Okay, so my take on this is a little bit nuanced, I think. So I think a lot of
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conservatives say, you know, free speech, you should be able to, you know, wave whatever flag you want
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to. And, you know, the Confederate flag stands for Southern pride, not anything racist. And on the
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one hand, of course, I agree with free speech. People should be able to fly a flag that they want
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to. I don't think it should be illegal. Now, I think that people can be outraged about that. They
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can be offended by the Confederate flag. I was raised in Texas thinking that the Confederate flag
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was a symbol of racism. My parents just raised me thinking that. And now they are not anti, they
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weren't anti-South or anything like that, or anti-Confederacy when we were talking about the
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war, or the Civil War. But they did teach me that the Confederate flag nowadays is a symbol of racism
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and a symbol of slavery. Now, I don't think that everyone that waves the Confederate flag
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has that intention. I don't think that they're all saying, oh, we don't like African Americans.
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Um, I personally have just, I don't, I don't know. I don't see the benefit in, uh, waving a
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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
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single person's, uh, hurt feelings. But in that case, you know, that categorically and generally
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that represents something that has caused a lot of pain, legitimate pain for a lot of people.
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We're not just talking about feelings. We're actually talking about, um, a really egregious
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sin that America committed once upon a time. And I'm just not sure if we should be waving flags that
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represent that era. Now, again, I'm not judging the hearts of every single person that wave a
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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
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was waving a Confederate flag. I'd probably be like, what's wrong with you? Um, so that's my
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,
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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
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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
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
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
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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.
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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.
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Um, okay. That's it for today. Thank you guys so much for watching and for listening and for
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following along. And I will see you guys back here on Tuesday. Have a great weekend.