Ep 242 | Believe Accusers! Except Joe Biden's
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Summary
Joe Biden is a presidential candidate running for the White House of the United States of America. Joe Biden has been in the public eye for a long time, but it is becoming increasingly clear that he is not capable of making any sense at all. In this episode of Relatable, Allie talks about why this is a problem, and why we should be worried.
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. If you are watching this, then you see that I have a very
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do subscribe, thank you very much. So today we are going to talk about a smorgasbord of things. We
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are going to talk about Joe Biden because you might've forgotten that there is a presidential
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campaign going on right now in the midst of this pandemic. So we just need to see what our friend
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Joe is up to. We are going to talk about a little bit about AOC and her calling for a boycott from
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work. And what a great idea that is. If we have time, I am finally going to tell you my thoughts
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on the Out of Shadows documentary that has millions of views on YouTube. You can go watch that. It's
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Out of Shadows. If I don't get to that today, I will get to it soon. I promise I'm going to talk
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about that at some point. And again, if we have time, we are going to continue the analysis of the
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Harvard professors who are trying to push a ban on homeschooling and why they're doing that and
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how that points to a larger flawed and fractured worldview that we as Christians should know about.
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And then again, if we have time, we will talk about Earth Day, the idolatry of environmentalism,
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and what the Pope had to say about all that. There's a lot that I want to say today that I
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might not have time for towards the end. I'll just have to make like game time decisions,
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prioritizing what we will end up talking about towards the end. But I do want to talk to you
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guys about Joe Biden because there's a lot going on with him. So Joe Biden, what is our friend,
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good uncle Joe, Democratic nominee up to? Well, he's been doing media interviews, which he has to do,
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which I'm not sure his campaign is super excited about because of how they typically go. I will
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play you an interview on CNN that he was a part of with Anderson Cooper last week. And you can hear
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Kinds of things that that have to be done. You know, there's a during World War Two, you know,
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where Roosevelt came up with a thing that, you know, was totally different than a than the
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it's called. He called it the, you know, the World War Two. He had the world, the war production
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board. Well, I don't know why we don't set up something like a pandemic production board where we
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know, honestly, I couldn't tell you what they're talking about, but I guarantee you no amount of
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context would make that answer any better. I, I, I, I press you. I press you. Any Joe Biden supporter
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who was trying to justify his obvious, uh, lack of, uh, ability, uh, capability mentally to tell me
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what he meant by that, what any of that was supposed to say again, I'm not making fun of the
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guy. I am concerned truly about his capacity to serve in any way that, uh, I am concerned that
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he honestly has some kind of degenerative thing going on with his brain and that it is a cruel trick
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that they are parading him, uh, in to the public arena, into the running for president of the United
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States, when clearly he's not all there and he's just not able to communicate in a way that is
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effective or coherent at all. Uh, here are just a couple more examples of him just not being able to
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make any sense. This is at a campaign rally. And by the way, you know, I sit on the stand and it get
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hot. I got a lot of, I got hairy legs that turned that, that, that, that, that, that turn, uh, um,
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blonde in the sun and the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down. So it was
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straight and then watch the hair come back up again. They'd look at it. So I learned about roaches. I
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learned about kids jumping on my lap. Again, no amount of context, no amount of context would
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change that. Please tell me if you think that you can interpret that, if you can translate that to
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me into something that makes any kind of formidable sense, I would love to hear it. I'm very eager to
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know. Uh, here's, uh, another one where he can't remember the declaration of independence.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by, go, you know,
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the, you know, the thing, not just like a random part of the declaration of independence. That's
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like a pretty famous, a pretty famous line. There are dozens and dozens of instances of this
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happening. And look, I'm not saying that president Trump is like the smoothest talker in the world.
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I remember when he called Tim Cook, Tim Apple, and everyone was like, Oh my gosh, I can't believe
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you called him that, but that's kind of understandable. Like you're thinking, okay, he's the CEO of
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Apple. And so you just say it now. He tried to like double down on it. It was like, I didn't say that
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when it was obvious that he did say that, but the media was like, Oh my gosh, he's losing it. Well,
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no, that's much more understandable than saying some of the things that Joe Biden has said. And
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Trump has pretty much always spoken. Like he speaks now he speaks in superlatives. He doesn't always
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finish his sentences, but he makes sense. Like it's not just nonsense and gibberish. Even if you don't
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like him, like you cannot watch Trump's recent press conferences on the coronavirus and say that
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the guy isn't with it. Like he is on his a game, especially when he is in some kind of adversarial
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conversation with the press, he is totally and completely with it. Now, again, if you don't like
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him, you can say, well, he's an idiot even at his best. Okay. That's fine. But he doesn't have
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dementia the way it seems like Joe Biden does. I'm not a doctor by the way. So I don't know if he does,
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and I'm not making a light of the fact that he does, but his campaign, his people, his family
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need to be honest about that, that there is something degenerative going on there that probably
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disqualifies him for being president of the United States. And Trump is going to absolutely
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dominate Joe Biden because of that. I mean, Trump beat Hillary Clinton, who was coherent and who I
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think for all of her flaws and all of her failures and faults was able to form good arguments and to make
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her case for what she actually believed in these debates. And Donald Trump beat her. He beat her
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specifically in a lot of those debates, not all of them, but he also beat her with the electoral vote
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for the president of the United States. So if he was able to beat Hillary Clinton, like it's hard for
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me to believe that he is not going to be able to do the same thing with Joe Biden. Bernie, like at least
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he's good at throwing out big moral statements that sound good. It would have been harder, I think,
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for Trump to actually debate Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders makes what sounds like a very
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virtuous case. Now, upon further inspection, obviously the things he's saying are nonsensical,
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but unfortunately a lot of people seem incapable or unwilling to do things like further and further
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inspection. On Wednesday, I mentioned that the coronavirus is the best thing to happen to people
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like Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo because, or the best thing to happen to their careers. Okay,
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the best thing to happen to their careers because, uh, it, they are able to distract people from their
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corruption and from their budgetary mismanagement, for example, and for their lack of leadership and
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just point to the catastrophe that this virus has caused and they can blame Donald Trump for
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everything. Well, that's also true right now for Joe Biden. He can kind of fly under the radar
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and it's true for most incompetent democratic politicians right now because they can distract
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everyone from their own incompetence and aptitude, their corruption and point to what a bad job
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Donald Trump is doing. Uh, he's also Joe Biden is talking about, or other people are talking about
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Joe Biden picking Michelle Obama as his vice president. That would be smart for him. Probably
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not that smart for Michelle Obama. It would be smart for Joe Biden because there are a lot of people
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across the aisle, especially a lot of moderates that really like Michelle Obama. Obviously she's very
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beloved in the democratic party, but the democratic party is probably going to vote for Joe Biden
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anyway, but she might be able to win some moderates and some people who just don't like Donald Trump
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because she's very appealing to a wide array of people. Obviously she's very popular in the African
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American community as well. And so that might help Joe Biden. I don't think that it's very productive
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for Michelle Obama's career because she's already so loved. She is a celebrity. She is, um, seen by a lot
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of people. It's like the mother of America. And so she doesn't need to add anything to her, uh, to her
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resume in order to make herself any more famous. Like being vice president is not really going to,
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it's, it's just not going to add a whole lot to her unless she wants to do it for just like the common
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good, the good of the democratic party to help Joe Biden win. I highly doubt she would do it.
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If Barack Obama was this delayed in endorsing his former vice president, then I have a hard time
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believing that Michelle Obama is going to do this again, no personal gain. Maybe it would help
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politically for the democratic party, but I'm not, I'm not sure if that would send Joe Biden over the
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edge or not. He's also talking about, or some people are talking about him picking Stacey Abrams,
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the person who ran for governor of Georgia and lost to Brian Kemp. Of course, there is this
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mythology on the left that she really won, but because of voter suppression and some kind of
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sketchy business that Brian Kemp beat her, that's not true. Even the Washington post has back checked
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that claim. It's just not true. It's a myth. And yet you'll turn on MSNBC or CNN, and you will still
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hear that how Stacey Abrams is the rightful governor of Georgia. It's just not true. And you will see
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people saying, Oh, she's so qualified. You're so qualified Stacey Abrams. It's very obvious in all
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of her media interviews that she wants to be vice president. Um, but one, she's not any more qualified
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than any other state representative. Like that's her background. Any other state representative who has
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run for a higher office and lost according to that logic is qualified for vice president. Maybe that's
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true of some people. It's not true just because you're a state rep who lost a statewide election.
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So I don't really see why she's qualified. Uh, she is not, I don't think in my calculation,
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a smart pick for Joe Biden for his vice president. She is not going to help him win people in the
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democratic party or win people who supported Bernie Sanders, but won't support him, but it could turn
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moderates off and blue collar people, people in the middle of the country who just see her as too
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radical and wouldn't vote for Joe Biden. If she were on the ticket. And now let's talk about Tara
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Reed. She was a junior staffer in 1993 who claims that Joe Biden assaulted her in 93. I won't go
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into details of the assault, but there are a lot of, there are pretty graphic details. You can read
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about them in NPR. If you want to, she's a Democrat. Okay. She's a lifelong Democrat. She's not a Trump
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supporter. She did support Bernie Sanders when he was in the running, but she's not some like Republican
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or Trump plant or anything like that. She filed a complaint actually when it happened. And just
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coincidentally, I'm using scare quotes was asked to stop managing the interns at the time. And there
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are interns now who say that they remember that and, or interns that were interns then who now say
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that they remember that. And they thought that it was really weird. Uh, she told her friends that
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she felt like she was being harassed by Joe Biden at the time that he would stroke her hair and say
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things like that. He likes her legs, which is super weird. Her brother actually said that she told him
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of the account at the time. So just FYI, all of this, uh, all of this amounts to more support for
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her story than Christine Blasey Ford had for her story against justice Kavanaugh. And yet there is only
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one count of one story on Tara read as I'm recording this on CNN.com. Most of you probably haven't even
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heard about this because it is being so underreported. It is being reported, but it's
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being underreported compared to how the media reported on justice Kavanaugh. The New York
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times took 19 dates to report on the allegation. After they learned of it, they were the first,
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uh, they were the first outlet to report on it. The New York times executive editor,
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Dean Bacchett, I don't know how to pronounce his last name, justified that choice, waiting on
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reporting it and then under reporting it. He justified it this way. He said Kavanaugh was already in a
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public forum in a large way. Kavanaugh status as a Supreme court justice was in question because of
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a very serious allegation different than a public way of Tara reads. I'm kind of paraphrasing, but
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you can see, you can see the quote online. This is again by Dean Bacchett, the executive editor of
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the New York times. He said, so I thought in that case of the New York times is going to introduce
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this to readers. We needed to introduce it with some reporting and perspective. Kavanaugh was in a very
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different situation. It was a live ongoing story that had become the biggest political story in
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the country. It was just a different news judgment. He says that they chose to delay this and kind of
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sit on it for a while. Cause most people didn't know what Tara, who Tara read was. Well, yeah,
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people didn't know who Tara read was because the New York times didn't report on it. The only reason
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that people knew who Christine Blasey Ford was, was because the Washington post, if I'm remembering
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correctly reported on it, the only reason people feel the way that they do, or the only reason why
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people see something at least online as a monumental moment is because the press makes it a certain way.
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And so the press ran with the allegations of Christine Blasey Ford, not just the Washington
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post and the New York times, but CNN, NBC, CBS, all of those outlets said that she is a hero,
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that she is undoubtedly telling the truth that no woman has any ulterior motive when they are saying
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that they are victims of, uh, some kind of assault or harassment, but she didn't have any corroborating
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evidence. She didn't have any substantiating or substantiating evidence or corroborating witnesses.
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She constantly contradicted herself. She didn't have substantive answers to the questioning when they
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were on trial. And yet we were told by these outlets and by leftist activists, by feminists,
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that we need to believe all women. And that's, that was a turning point for me and understanding
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just how far a lot of people, not everyone, but a lot of people on the left, in the media,
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democratic politicians will go to push their agenda and push their ideology. They tried to ruin
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a man's entire life based on a wholly unsubstantiated allegation. And I remember
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watching Kavanaugh's testimony. I watched Blasey Ford's testimony. Then I watched Kavanaugh's testimony.
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And there was no question in my mind after that. Um, now none of us were there on that night. And so
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I, you know, none of us were eyewitnesses to that, but I was changed by his testimony. That's why I was
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going to rallies and all that kind of stuff, because it was obvious what the Democrats were trying to do
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and they didn't question it. They never questioned it. There was no critical thinking about Blasey Ford's
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accusation. They ran with the accusation by Julie Swetnick, who said that, uh, and Deborah Ramirez,
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Julie Swetnick said that she was gang raped by him at a party. And then in an interview said,
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uh, through Michael Avenatti, her totally not sketchy now in jail attorney, by the way. Um,
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and not sketchy was sarcasm in that description, by the way. So Julie Swetnick said that she was
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gang raped by Kavanaugh. And then in an interview said, Oh no, actually I don't ever remember seeing
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Kavanaugh there. And the media had already run with it. So they tried to drag this man through the mud,
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absolutely ruined his life based on unsubstantiated allegations without any critical thinking
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whatsoever. And now with Joe Biden, well, we have a more measured response. We're going to sit on this
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for 19 days. As the Washington free beacon recently noted, Joe Biden has been asked 81 questions in
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over two hours worth of media interviews since a former staffer in his U S Senate office accused him
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of sexual assault three weeks ago. He hasn't fielded a single question about the allegation.
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According to an article by Mark Hemingway and real clear politics,
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but Kett admitted that the times edited story on reads allegations at the behest of the Biden
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campaign. So they had said that the times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden
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beyond the hugs, kisses and touching the woman previously said made them uncomfortable. It's an
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amazing statement. And then they actually changed that. They changed the second part of that sentence
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because the Biden campaign reached out to the New York times and said, Oh, that makes us
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uncomfortable. We feel like that's inaccurate. And so the New York times is taking editorial
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direction from the Biden campaign. And they want us to believe that they are a trustworthy news site.
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Alyssa Milano, the leader of me too, who led protests against Kavanaugh said that she's still going to
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support Joe Biden. That's amazing. Remember, as a good reminder for all of us, if we didn't already
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know this, leftism is hollow. It's built on nothing. It's built on virtue signaling. So that means that
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it's all empty talk. Very few, not all, but very few leftists actually believe or put into practice
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what they're saying. So that's why Bernie Sanders, for example, has three houses and preaches about
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the evils of the rich. That's why Nancy Pelosi will talk about the need for the rich to pay their
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fair share while she's swimming in her millions of dollars, doing a PSA about coronavirus in front
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of her two $24,000 refrigerators or freezers, refrigerator freezers that have a $5 a pop ice cream
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cartons in them. Like while 22 million people are out of work. I mean, it's just amazing. It's why
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Chris Cuomo can talk to you about the moral imperative of staying locked down while he is
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going to public with coronavirus. It's why democratic elites, liberals in Hollywood talk about the
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immorality and the racism of building a wall while all living in gated homes and communities
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themselves. It's why they talk about climate change and still fly private jets. It's why they talk about
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taking people's guns away, but they still used armed security. It's why they claim to be for
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every form of sexuality and love and blah, blah, blah, and mostly lead very traditional normal lives
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themselves. It's why they talk about the existence of 79 genders, but still have their own gender reveal
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parties when they're pregnant to announce whether or not they are having a boy or a girl. There was this
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article in an outlet called Mel Magazine titled, Why Won't Woke Boys Pay for Sex? About a trans
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prostitute that learned that his feminist male friends would talk about making sex work, legalized
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sex work. It's real work, but they wouldn't actually pay for prostitutes because they saw it as immoral.
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It's why even though liberals talk about importance of diversity and the evils of whiteness and the
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patriarchy, they have nominated an old white rich dude to run as their nominee for the president of the
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United States. And you know what's hilarious about that last point? Pew Research surveyed Democrats
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asked them if it bothers them that their nominee is an old white man. Most of them actually said
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no, 59 percent, and no, it doesn't bother me at all. Then you see the breakdown by education in this
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survey. The more degrees you have, the more likely you are to be bothered by the fact that Biden is an
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old white guy. 58 percent of post-grad Democrats say it bothers them versus only 24 percent of high
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school educated Democrats. Doesn't it say something about our higher education in this country that you
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get more and more stupid the more degrees you have? The younger you are, the more it bothers you,
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the survey says. And let's look at the breakdown of race. Which race does it bother the most that Biden
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is an old white guy? Is it black people? No. 72 percent of black Democrats say that they don't care
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that Biden is an old white man. Only 28 percent care. Hispanic people? No. 70 percent of Hispanic
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Democrats don't care that Biden is an old white man. Only 30 percent care. It's white people.
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White 41 percent of white Democrats care that Biden is an old white man. They would prefer some more
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diverse intersectional candidate. And this is true, guys, of almost every social, cultural, political issue
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out there. The most liberal, extreme, leftist, radical people in the country on almost every single issue
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is metropolitan, highly educated white people. They are the most paternalistic bigots in the country.
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Every stance they hold they claim they are doing out of compassion for the marginalized minority when
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the marginalized minority very often doesn't even hold the same view as them. So look at the
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circumstances on things like transgenderism, gay marriage, religion, capitalism. The black and
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Hispanic communities in this country are far more moderate, far more conservative and hesitant to
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embrace the tenets of leftism than white liberals are, even though they tend to vote Democrat.
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The truth is that that liberal white millennials with master's degrees are the elites in the country
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who honestly resent minorities more than the conservatives that they accuse of being bigots.
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They think they know better. They think that they know what's best for minorities, that they know
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what's best for the marginalized. They're the biggest stuck-up, bigots, self-righteous, biggest in the
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country. They purport that all of these far-left ideals that they themselves don't typically abide by in
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their own lives but nevertheless want to force upon other people are best for everyone. They say that they're
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doing it for the sake of the minorities who by the way don't even agree with them. This is what the
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Democratic Party has been about and I would say it's increasingly until now but it's been about in
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some sense since the era of LBJ patronizing minorities who are poor promising to do things for
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them to give them stuff only to gain more money and power themselves and never accomplishing anything
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that they promise that they'll do. Think about all the Democratic-run cities with large minority
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communities. Detroit, Chicago, New York, Compton, Baltimore. Have Democrats who have run these areas
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for decades actually made these cities better? Have they done anything for their constituents? No.
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Now I want to talk about AOC and something completely ridiculous that she recently said but before I do that
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claimed that only in America, only in America would the president who said liberate, because you know,
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the president tweeted liberate, liberate, liberate, liberate each state. And she said only in America
00:24:29.380
would that mean that Americans have to go back to work? Here's she, here is she saying that in that
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interview. There's a lot that we could be doing right now, but ultimately the, I think when we talk
00:24:43.100
about this idea of reopening society, you know, only in America does the president, when the president
00:24:50.320
tweets about liberation, does he mean go back to work? When we, you know, have this discussion about
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going, going back or reopening? I think a lot of people should just say no.
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Okay. So she thinks that people should boycott, boycott work. And here's, I know that you're
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thinking what I'm thinking that that's absolutely stupid and ridiculous. She's so naive. Like she's so
00:25:13.820
insulated, not understanding that people are going to go back to work because they have to feed their
00:25:18.380
families, but also people want to work. The communists and socialists are always denying human
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nature. And that's why the regimes run by socialism and communism always end up with subversion or
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suffering. That's, that's how socialist and communist regimes always end up with subversion by the people
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or suffering by the people because it denies and suppresses human nature. I talked about, I think it
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was on Wednesday, how in North Korea during the famine, all of them were setting up these illegal
00:25:46.860
markets, even though they were communists and they'd only learned that capitalism is evil. They all became
00:25:52.000
capitalists because they needed to survive. And also they needed to be able to work not just for
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money, but also for morale. Socialists and communists do not, they don't understand that,
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especially the kind of brand of socialist that AOC is. So this is the socialistic view of work,
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just so you can kind of put this in some kind of framework and understand that everyone who shares
00:26:14.900
her, her political ideas feel this, feel a certain, a certain degree of this way. They see work as
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amoral. So not necessarily immoral, although I would say that AOC sees a lot of work as immoral and how
00:26:29.780
certain work is treated as immoral, but she doesn't see, she doesn't see work as inherently good or
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inherently virtuous. She doesn't believe, I'm sure if you press her on this, that people have to work,
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they have to be productive in order to have morale. Otherwise our bodies, our minds, our spirits
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atrophy. Like she believes in her green new deal, she said that there needs to be economic security
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for people who not just can't work, but who don't want to work. So she thinks that people should be
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able to just get paid to terribly watercolor if they want to do that. And that should be perfectly
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moral, but human beings are made to contribute. They're made to do something of worth that doesn't
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have to be paid work. So if you're a stay-at-home mom, if you're a volunteer worker, like if you
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volunteer at church and you don't actually get a salary, that is considered the kind of productive,
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beautifying, nurturing, maximizing work that God has called people to. AOC, I know she claims to have
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some sort of religion. She doesn't have a biblical worldview. I think we know that based on her
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understanding of gender, abortion, marriage, all that kind of stuff, but also based on her
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socialistic outlook, socialism and a biblical worldview are always going to contradict each
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other. You can go back and listen to my episode titled socialism for a more holistic, uh, holistic
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explanation of that. But we talk about that a lot. She views work as amoral. So you don't have to do
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anything productive in order to live any kind of meaningful life. And the human spirit and the human
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mind doesn't necessarily need productive work in order to survive and thrive. But the Bible tells us
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differently. If you look at the creation accounts, God made work, uh, God made Adam have a role, a
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productive role before the fall. Work is not a product of sin. Work is not a product of the fall.
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Yes, of course there's sinful work and there's work that glorifies God, but work is inherently good.
00:28:24.780
Work is a pre fall invention of God that he gave men and women to do. And again, that can be work in the
00:28:31.880
home that maybe work outside of the home, but God made us to do work that glorifies him, that is
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productive, that adds to the world around us. The small plot of the universe on which God has placed
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each individual. Our responsibility is to do everything we can for the glory of God, for the good
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of other people. That is what work is supposed to be. It can be meaningful, whether you are a janitor,
00:28:56.520
whether you are a CPA, whether you are a blogger, anything that has the capacity to be done
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excellently, morally, according to God's standards for his glory is meaningful and good work. It's the
00:29:08.400
AOCs and the socialists of the world who actually demean certain kinds of work because they think that
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it's not, uh, dignified enough. So they think that minimum wage workers should be paid, you know,
00:29:20.240
$60,000 a year because it's not dignified enough to make a minimum wage. There's a lot of
00:29:26.080
economic misunderstanding among her and socialists that we can talk about, but that is where she is
00:29:31.520
coming from when she says people should have boycott work, not understanding that people need
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work for their souls to thrive and survive because she doesn't have a biblical framework for which she
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is understanding things. She has a morally relative socialistic framework, but as we as Christians know
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work is not immoral. It is not immoral in a general sense. Work is inherently good. It is virtuous. We
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all have to be productive. We were not made to be bumps on a log. We were not made to exist. We were
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not made to just watercolor. If that's not your actual career and people aren't buying it, like we're not
00:30:09.020
made to just exist and have the government take care of us. We are made to actually do something and
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to make the world around us better. That can be a small circle of the world. That might be a large
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sphere of influence, whatever, you know, God has given us to be able to steward, but you should
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read the book AOC and everyone out there, Every Good Endeavor by Tim Keller. He explains this really
00:30:32.020
well, the biblical view of work. I love that book, Every Good Endeavor by Tim Keller, AOC. Highly
00:30:37.820
recommend it. I know you're a huge fan of Relatable, but this is a radical idea. This is an extreme idea.
00:30:43.660
This is how every socialistic regime has started by saying, oh, we're going to take care of you.
00:30:49.300
You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. We should have this huge social safety net at the
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same time as letting everyone in from every other country. Those two ideas also contradict each
00:30:59.420
other, but there's AOC once again, not knowing what she's talking about. Okay. I do want to talk
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about, um, this, this crazy idea, speaking of communism and just the craziness with, with the
00:31:11.960
socialistic mindset. So we talked about on Wednesday, how there are Harvard professors who are trying
00:31:18.520
to push for a ban on, uh, they're trying to push for a ban on homeschooling because they think that
00:31:25.860
homeschooling is dangerous because 90% of homeschooling teachers, this professor Elizabeth
00:31:30.560
Bartholet said are conservative Christians, very scary. And they learn things about Bibles and about
00:31:38.500
the Bible and the constitution. And it's just very frightening. And they obviously want the state to
00:31:45.700
have control over your children. Elizabeth Bartholet argued that the government has a right to educate
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your children. Would love to hear where she came up with that idea and that it's very scary. She says
00:31:58.300
for parents to have authoritarian control over their children from the ages of zero to 18. There were all
00:32:03.680
these myths about homeschooling in the article. If you want to hear my more thorough analysis of her
00:32:09.300
perspective and the questions I have for professor Bartholet, you can go back and listen to Wednesday's
00:32:15.060
podcast, a little tyrants everywhere, because that's what these people are like. They are tyrants.
00:32:19.580
And it's just funny. They're arguing also that the government has a right to educate your children.
00:32:24.740
So she is saying that children should go to public school. She's teaching at a private school. So
00:32:30.240
that's a little confusing. Now, Harvard is having a conference in June about the scariness and the
00:32:37.680
terribleness of homeschooling. And James Dwyer, who is going to be moderating that, he has something to
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say about parenthood. The state needs to be the ultimate guarantor of a child's well-being. There's
00:32:54.520
just no alternative to that. The reason parent-child relationships exist is because the state confers
00:33:00.920
legal parenthood on people. So I'm hoping you caught that. He says the only reason why the parent-child
00:33:06.840
relationship exists is because state confers legal parenthood. Well, no, God created parenthood,
00:33:14.340
the parent-child relationship. Now, even if I'm guessing he's an atheist, I'm just going to assume
00:33:18.800
that I can kind of pick it up from his view on parenthood and the family. But even if you don't
00:33:24.460
believe in the Bible, even if you don't believe that it's the word of God, it's still a historic text.
00:33:29.560
And you know it existed thousands of years ago. It was written thousands of years ago. And so you
00:33:34.540
know just from reading that that the parent-child relationship existed thousands of years ago. There
00:33:40.140
were other texts, not just the Bible, who talk about the parent-child relationship. It doesn't
00:33:44.820
make any sense historically, sociologically. It doesn't make any sense to say the only reason the
00:33:51.820
parent-child relationship exists is because the state confers that. So you're saying that only in
00:33:56.120
places where the state confers a parent-child relationship, the parent-child relationship
00:33:59.300
exists. No, that's just not true. That's not true. I mean, look again, we've talked about this
00:34:04.440
before, but look in the communistic country. So look at Cambodia, how they tried to break up the
00:34:09.960
family, how they tried to take children away, indoctrinate the children, make them wards of the
00:34:14.560
state and defenders of the state, how they had to break up churches and break up any concept of
00:34:19.580
religion. The same thing happened in North Korea that ended in suffering. Children have to be taken
00:34:25.640
care of. They have to be taught. They have to be instilled with values. And like I asked on Wednesday,
00:34:30.760
who do you think is better? Just any kind, just any logical person out there. Do you think it's
00:34:34.780
better for the parent who had this child themselves, adopted this child, whatever they care more about
00:34:42.440
this child than anything else? They would do absolutely anything for the child. They would die
00:34:45.700
for this child a thousand times. They would do anything to make sure the child is happy. That's how the
00:34:50.900
parents feel about this child. You do not know love. I can't, you can't even explain the love
00:34:55.820
that a parent has for their child. Of course, there are anomalies, there are abusive parents and
00:35:00.520
neglectful parents and all of that. But for the most part, parents will love their children. They
00:35:04.820
will do absolutely anything for their children. So do you think that unit, the parents who absolutely
00:35:10.840
love their kids is better for teaching the kids values? Or do you think the state who doesn't know
00:35:17.840
your kids, doesn't know your kid's name, isn't going to cry if your kid dies from cancer, doesn't care
00:35:21.880
if your kid goes to college or not, except beyond what it can add to its statistics to say, oh, this
00:35:28.420
public school is, is doing so great, who doesn't know how your child learns, doesn't know all the
00:35:34.980
ins and outs of your child's learning ability and capacities, who is going to teach your child about
00:35:41.060
anal sex when they're 10 years old and mandatory sex ed. Like, do you think that the state who's
00:35:47.820
going to do all those things, who really doesn't care on a personal level about your child or the
00:35:53.500
parent who would absolutely do anything for the child? Do you think, which one do you think, like,
00:35:58.740
out of those two options, which one do you think is better for teaching the children? I'm going to go
00:36:04.100
with the parents. But this is what communism, socialism, this kind of collectivist worldview seeks to do.
00:36:11.480
It tries to break up everything that breaks up the family, breaks up religion, breaks up community,
00:36:19.120
anything, any kind of institution that an individual can derive values from outside of the state.
00:36:27.800
Communism and socialism, in order to exist, has to seek to obliterate. So it's going to make fun of
00:36:33.900
you deriving values or worldview from faith. It's going to try to minimize faith. It definitely
00:36:39.060
doesn't like homeschooling because that's subversive. You are not indoctrinating your child
00:36:44.180
with status values. And so it's all about control. It's all making sure that individuals only gain
00:36:51.420
their morality, not from God, not from their families, not from private school, not from
00:36:55.980
homeschool, not from local communities, but from the state. So they can control you, get you to do
00:37:02.740
whatever they want you to do. That's what this conference is about. Of course, this person,
00:37:08.080
neither does Elizabeth Bartholet gives any data for if, uh, homeschool kids really don't perform
00:37:14.980
as well as public school kids. I mean, you're not going to want to look at that data because it's
00:37:18.880
going to be obvious. And like, don't even let's talk. Don't even talk to me about, Oh, homeschool
00:37:25.400
kids might be abused. Of course that might happen. Let's talk about the abuse that's happening
00:37:28.760
in public schools. Um, okay. I think that's all I have time for today. I'm sorry, you guys. I know you
00:37:35.040
guys wanted me to talk about out of shadows too. I really wanted to talk about what the Pope also
00:37:39.740
said about earth day. Maybe we'll talk about that on Monday. Maybe that'll be like the,
00:37:44.900
the theology Monday day. I don't know what I'm going to talk about on Monday, but I'll try to work in.
00:37:50.220
I'll try to work in both of those things really soon. Cause I know you guys want to hear me talk
00:37:54.060
about that. Um, I hope that you guys have an awesome weekend. It's great weather where I am.
00:37:58.700
And I'm really excited about that. There is hope to be had. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
00:38:04.200
We are getting, we're getting there. We're getting there. Things are looking up, I think,
00:38:09.620
and I'm praying for all of you. Thankful for all of you. Um, if you love this podcast,
00:38:14.420
it would mean a lot to me. If you left five stars on iTunes, I will see you guys back here