Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - April 24, 2020


Ep 242 | Believe Accusers! Except Joe Biden's


Episode Stats

Length

38 minutes

Words per Minute

183.53996

Word Count

7,042

Sentence Count

425

Misogynist Sentences

13

Hate Speech Sentences

16


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.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. If you are watching this, then you see that I have a very
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00:00:39.720 do subscribe, thank you very much. So today we are going to talk about a smorgasbord of things. We
00:00:46.780 are going to talk about Joe Biden because you might've forgotten that there is a presidential
00:00:51.480 campaign going on right now in the midst of this pandemic. So we just need to see what our friend
00:00:56.140 Joe is up to. We are going to talk about a little bit about AOC and her calling for a boycott from
00:01:03.680 work. And what a great idea that is. If we have time, I am finally going to tell you my thoughts
00:01:09.980 on the Out of Shadows documentary that has millions of views on YouTube. You can go watch that. It's
00:01:15.920 Out of Shadows. If I don't get to that today, I will get to it soon. I promise I'm going to talk
00:01:22.120 about that at some point. And again, if we have time, we are going to continue the analysis of the
00:01:28.900 Harvard professors who are trying to push a ban on homeschooling and why they're doing that and
00:01:34.740 how that points to a larger flawed and fractured worldview that we as Christians should know about.
00:01:41.520 And then again, if we have time, we will talk about Earth Day, the idolatry of environmentalism,
00:01:47.260 and what the Pope had to say about all that. There's a lot that I want to say today that I
00:01:52.120 might not have time for towards the end. I'll just have to make like game time decisions,
00:01:56.880 prioritizing what we will end up talking about towards the end. But I do want to talk to you
00:02:01.240 guys about Joe Biden because there's a lot going on with him. So Joe Biden, what is our friend,
00:02:07.280 good uncle Joe, Democratic nominee up to? Well, he's been doing media interviews, which he has to do,
00:02:15.260 which I'm not sure his campaign is super excited about because of how they typically go. I will
00:02:21.140 play you an interview on CNN that he was a part of with Anderson Cooper last week. And you can hear
00:02:28.380 how that went.
00:02:29.080 Kinds of things that that have to be done. You know, there's a during World War Two, you know,
00:02:36.880 where Roosevelt came up with a thing that, you know, was totally different than a than the
00:02:43.920 it's called. He called it the, you know, the World War Two. He had the world, the war production
00:02:49.400 board. Well, I don't know why we don't set up something like a pandemic production board where we
00:02:54.360 know, honestly, I couldn't tell you what they're talking about, but I guarantee you no amount of
00:02:58.180 context would make that answer any better. I, I, I, I press you. I press you. Any Joe Biden supporter
00:03:04.920 who was trying to justify his obvious, uh, lack of, uh, ability, uh, capability mentally to tell me
00:03:14.860 what he meant by that, what any of that was supposed to say again, I'm not making fun of the
00:03:20.080 guy. I am concerned truly about his capacity to serve in any way that, uh, I am concerned that
00:03:32.180 he honestly has some kind of degenerative thing going on with his brain and that it is a cruel trick
00:03:41.460 that they are parading him, uh, in to the public arena, into the running for president of the United
00:03:48.560 States, when clearly he's not all there and he's just not able to communicate in a way that is
00:03:53.040 effective or coherent at all. Uh, here are just a couple more examples of him just not being able to
00:04:00.400 make any sense. This is at a campaign rally. And by the way, you know, I sit on the stand and it get
00:04:07.060 hot. I got a lot of, I got hairy legs that turned that, that, that, that, that, that turn, uh, um,
00:04:14.220 blonde in the sun and the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down. So it was
00:04:20.940 straight and then watch the hair come back up again. They'd look at it. So I learned about roaches. I
00:04:27.080 learned about kids jumping on my lap. Again, no amount of context, no amount of context would
00:04:34.280 change that. Please tell me if you think that you can interpret that, if you can translate that to
00:04:40.400 me into something that makes any kind of formidable sense, I would love to hear it. I'm very eager to
00:04:45.900 know. Uh, here's, uh, another one where he can't remember the declaration of independence.
00:04:50.640 We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by, go, you know,
00:04:57.060 the, you know, the thing, not just like a random part of the declaration of independence. That's
00:05:01.820 like a pretty famous, a pretty famous line. There are dozens and dozens of instances of this
00:05:08.020 happening. And look, I'm not saying that president Trump is like the smoothest talker in the world.
00:05:12.640 I remember when he called Tim Cook, Tim Apple, and everyone was like, Oh my gosh, I can't believe
00:05:16.340 you called him that, but that's kind of understandable. Like you're thinking, okay, he's the CEO of
00:05:20.240 Apple. And so you just say it now. He tried to like double down on it. It was like, I didn't say that
00:05:25.220 when it was obvious that he did say that, but the media was like, Oh my gosh, he's losing it. Well,
00:05:30.180 no, that's much more understandable than saying some of the things that Joe Biden has said. And
00:05:35.720 Trump has pretty much always spoken. Like he speaks now he speaks in superlatives. He doesn't always
00:05:40.860 finish his sentences, but he makes sense. Like it's not just nonsense and gibberish. Even if you don't
00:05:46.060 like him, like you cannot watch Trump's recent press conferences on the coronavirus and say that
00:05:51.220 the guy isn't with it. Like he is on his a game, especially when he is in some kind of adversarial
00:05:56.820 conversation with the press, he is totally and completely with it. Now, again, if you don't like
00:06:01.620 him, you can say, well, he's an idiot even at his best. Okay. That's fine. But he doesn't have
00:06:05.920 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,
00:06:11.080 and I'm not making a light of the fact that he does, but his campaign, his people, his family
00:06:15.660 need to be honest about that, that there is something degenerative going on there that probably
00:06:22.340 disqualifies him for being president of the United States. And Trump is going to absolutely
00:06:27.240 dominate Joe Biden because of that. I mean, Trump beat Hillary Clinton, who was coherent and who I
00:06:33.120 think for all of her flaws and all of her failures and faults was able to form good arguments and to make
00:06:39.940 her case for what she actually believed in these debates. And Donald Trump beat her. He beat her
00:06:45.260 specifically in a lot of those debates, not all of them, but he also beat her with the electoral vote
00:06:50.220 for the president of the United States. So if he was able to beat Hillary Clinton, like it's hard for
00:06:54.400 me to believe that he is not going to be able to do the same thing with Joe Biden. Bernie, like at least
00:07:01.840 he's good at throwing out big moral statements that sound good. It would have been harder, I think,
00:07:07.220 for Trump to actually debate Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders makes what sounds like a very
00:07:12.700 virtuous case. Now, upon further inspection, obviously the things he's saying are nonsensical,
00:07:17.740 but unfortunately a lot of people seem incapable or unwilling to do things like further and further
00:07:23.220 inspection. On Wednesday, I mentioned that the coronavirus is the best thing to happen to people
00:07:29.960 like Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo because, or the best thing to happen to their careers. Okay,
00:07:36.020 the best thing to happen to their careers because, uh, it, they are able to distract people from their
00:07:42.800 corruption and from their budgetary mismanagement, for example, and for their lack of leadership and
00:07:48.300 just point to the catastrophe that this virus has caused and they can blame Donald Trump for
00:07:54.500 everything. Well, that's also true right now for Joe Biden. He can kind of fly under the radar
00:07:59.420 and it's true for most incompetent democratic politicians right now because they can distract
00:08:03.980 everyone from their own incompetence and aptitude, their corruption and point to what a bad job
00:08:09.120 Donald Trump is doing. Uh, he's also Joe Biden is talking about, or other people are talking about
00:08:15.460 Joe Biden picking Michelle Obama as his vice president. That would be smart for him. Probably
00:08:20.060 not that smart for Michelle Obama. It would be smart for Joe Biden because there are a lot of people
00:08:25.660 across the aisle, especially a lot of moderates that really like Michelle Obama. Obviously she's very
00:08:31.260 beloved in the democratic party, but the democratic party is probably going to vote for Joe Biden
00:08:35.600 anyway, but she might be able to win some moderates and some people who just don't like Donald Trump
00:08:41.700 because she's very appealing to a wide array of people. Obviously she's very popular in the African
00:08:47.040 American community as well. And so that might help Joe Biden. I don't think that it's very productive
00:08:53.480 for Michelle Obama's career because she's already so loved. She is a celebrity. She is, um, seen by a lot
00:09:02.340 of people. It's like the mother of America. And so she doesn't need to add anything to her, uh, to her
00:09:10.060 resume in order to make herself any more famous. Like being vice president is not really going to,
00:09:16.880 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
00:09:21.600 good, the good of the democratic party to help Joe Biden win. I highly doubt she would do it.
00:09:26.920 If Barack Obama was this delayed in endorsing his former vice president, then I have a hard time
00:09:33.980 believing that Michelle Obama is going to do this again, no personal gain. Maybe it would help
00:09:39.360 politically for the democratic party, but I'm not, I'm not sure if that would send Joe Biden over the
00:09:44.120 edge or not. He's also talking about, or some people are talking about him picking Stacey Abrams,
00:09:48.880 the person who ran for governor of Georgia and lost to Brian Kemp. Of course, there is this
00:09:56.020 mythology on the left that she really won, but because of voter suppression and some kind of
00:10:01.880 sketchy business that Brian Kemp beat her, that's not true. Even the Washington post has back checked
00:10:07.860 that claim. It's just not true. It's a myth. And yet you'll turn on MSNBC or CNN, and you will still
00:10:13.780 hear that how Stacey Abrams is the rightful governor of Georgia. It's just not true. And you will see
00:10:20.080 people saying, Oh, she's so qualified. You're so qualified Stacey Abrams. It's very obvious in all
00:10:24.780 of her media interviews that she wants to be vice president. Um, but one, she's not any more qualified
00:10:30.920 than any other state representative. Like that's her background. Any other state representative who has
00:10:35.720 run for a higher office and lost according to that logic is qualified for vice president. Maybe that's
00:10:41.800 true of some people. It's not true just because you're a state rep who lost a statewide election.
00:10:48.600 So I don't really see why she's qualified. Uh, she is not, I don't think in my calculation,
00:10:55.300 a smart pick for Joe Biden for his vice president. She is not going to help him win people in the
00:11:02.040 democratic party or win people who supported Bernie Sanders, but won't support him, but it could turn
00:11:07.120 moderates off and blue collar people, people in the middle of the country who just see her as too
00:11:11.140 radical and wouldn't vote for Joe Biden. If she were on the ticket. And now let's talk about Tara
00:11:17.220 Reed. She was a junior staffer in 1993 who claims that Joe Biden assaulted her in 93. I won't go
00:11:24.780 into details of the assault, but there are a lot of, there are pretty graphic details. You can read
00:11:30.380 about them in NPR. If you want to, she's a Democrat. Okay. She's a lifelong Democrat. She's not a Trump
00:11:35.580 supporter. She did support Bernie Sanders when he was in the running, but she's not some like Republican
00:11:40.260 or Trump plant or anything like that. She filed a complaint actually when it happened. And just
00:11:45.760 coincidentally, I'm using scare quotes was asked to stop managing the interns at the time. And there
00:11:51.480 are interns now who say that they remember that and, or interns that were interns then who now say
00:11:57.220 that they remember that. And they thought that it was really weird. Uh, she told her friends that
00:12:01.720 she felt like she was being harassed by Joe Biden at the time that he would stroke her hair and say
00:12:06.920 things like that. He likes her legs, which is super weird. Her brother actually said that she told him
00:12:12.560 of the account at the time. So just FYI, all of this, uh, all of this amounts to more support for
00:12:20.020 her story than Christine Blasey Ford had for her story against justice Kavanaugh. And yet there is only
00:12:26.860 one count of one story on Tara read as I'm recording this on CNN.com. Most of you probably haven't even
00:12:34.060 heard about this because it is being so underreported. It is being reported, but it's
00:12:38.200 being underreported compared to how the media reported on justice Kavanaugh. The New York
00:12:42.780 times took 19 dates to report on the allegation. After they learned of it, they were the first,
00:12:48.140 uh, they were the first outlet to report on it. The New York times executive editor,
00:12:53.080 Dean Bacchett, I don't know how to pronounce his last name, justified that choice, waiting on
00:12:57.400 reporting it and then under reporting it. He justified it this way. He said Kavanaugh was already in a
00:13:02.420 public forum in a large way. Kavanaugh status as a Supreme court justice was in question because of
00:13:07.540 a very serious allegation different than a public way of Tara reads. I'm kind of paraphrasing, but
00:13:13.600 you can see, you can see the quote online. This is again by Dean Bacchett, the executive editor of
00:13:19.520 the New York times. He said, so I thought in that case of the New York times is going to introduce
00:13:24.040 this to readers. We needed to introduce it with some reporting and perspective. Kavanaugh was in a very
00:13:28.520 different situation. It was a live ongoing story that had become the biggest political story in
00:13:34.380 the country. It was just a different news judgment. He says that they chose to delay this and kind of
00:13:39.580 sit on it for a while. Cause most people didn't know what Tara, who Tara read was. Well, yeah,
00:13:44.180 people didn't know who Tara read was because the New York times didn't report on it. The only reason
00:13:48.440 that people knew who Christine Blasey Ford was, was because the Washington post, if I'm remembering
00:13:53.760 correctly reported on it, the only reason people feel the way that they do, or the only reason why
00:14:00.280 people see something at least online as a monumental moment is because the press makes it a certain way.
00:14:08.060 And so the press ran with the allegations of Christine Blasey Ford, not just the Washington
00:14:12.700 post and the New York times, but CNN, NBC, CBS, all of those outlets said that she is a hero,
00:14:18.360 that she is undoubtedly telling the truth that no woman has any ulterior motive when they are saying
00:14:23.720 that they are victims of, uh, some kind of assault or harassment, but she didn't have any corroborating
00:14:29.360 evidence. She didn't have any substantiating or substantiating evidence or corroborating witnesses.
00:14:34.640 She constantly contradicted herself. She didn't have substantive answers to the questioning when they
00:14:39.960 were on trial. And yet we were told by these outlets and by leftist activists, by feminists,
00:14:46.980 that we need to believe all women. And that's, that was a turning point for me and understanding
00:14:52.460 just how far a lot of people, not everyone, but a lot of people on the left, in the media,
00:14:57.060 democratic politicians will go to push their agenda and push their ideology. They tried to ruin
00:15:02.680 a man's entire life based on a wholly unsubstantiated allegation. And I remember
00:15:09.300 watching Kavanaugh's testimony. I watched Blasey Ford's testimony. Then I watched Kavanaugh's testimony.
00:15:14.100 And there was no question in my mind after that. Um, now none of us were there on that night. And so
00:15:19.820 I, you know, none of us were eyewitnesses to that, but I was changed by his testimony. That's why I was
00:15:27.360 going to rallies and all that kind of stuff, because it was obvious what the Democrats were trying to do
00:15:32.120 and they didn't question it. They never questioned it. There was no critical thinking about Blasey Ford's
00:15:37.240 accusation. They ran with the accusation by Julie Swetnick, who said that, uh, and Deborah Ramirez,
00:15:42.960 Julie Swetnick said that she was gang raped by him at a party. And then in an interview said,
00:15:48.560 uh, through Michael Avenatti, her totally not sketchy now in jail attorney, by the way. Um,
00:15:55.840 and not sketchy was sarcasm in that description, by the way. So Julie Swetnick said that she was
00:16:00.820 gang raped by Kavanaugh. And then in an interview said, Oh no, actually I don't ever remember seeing
00:16:05.540 Kavanaugh there. And the media had already run with it. So they tried to drag this man through the mud,
00:16:10.540 absolutely ruined his life based on unsubstantiated allegations without any critical thinking
00:16:15.620 whatsoever. And now with Joe Biden, well, we have a more measured response. We're going to sit on this
00:16:20.580 for 19 days. As the Washington free beacon recently noted, Joe Biden has been asked 81 questions in
00:16:28.360 over two hours worth of media interviews since a former staffer in his U S Senate office accused him
00:16:34.040 of sexual assault three weeks ago. He hasn't fielded a single question about the allegation.
00:16:39.000 According to an article by Mark Hemingway and real clear politics,
00:16:43.240 but Kett admitted that the times edited story on reads allegations at the behest of the Biden
00:16:48.920 campaign. So they had said that the times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden
00:16:55.220 beyond the hugs, kisses and touching the woman previously said made them uncomfortable. It's an
00:17:00.420 amazing statement. And then they actually changed that. They changed the second part of that sentence
00:17:05.260 because the Biden campaign reached out to the New York times and said, Oh, that makes us
00:17:09.340 uncomfortable. We feel like that's inaccurate. And so the New York times is taking editorial
00:17:14.560 direction from the Biden campaign. And they want us to believe that they are a trustworthy news site.
00:17:21.000 Alyssa Milano, the leader of me too, who led protests against Kavanaugh said that she's still going to
00:17:26.700 support Joe Biden. That's amazing. Remember, as a good reminder for all of us, if we didn't already
00:17:34.160 know this, leftism is hollow. It's built on nothing. It's built on virtue signaling. So that means that
00:17:42.300 it's all empty talk. Very few, not all, but very few leftists actually believe or put into practice
00:17:50.980 what they're saying. So that's why Bernie Sanders, for example, has three houses and preaches about
00:17:56.280 the evils of the rich. That's why Nancy Pelosi will talk about the need for the rich to pay their
00:18:01.460 fair share while she's swimming in her millions of dollars, doing a PSA about coronavirus in front
00:18:07.000 of her two $24,000 refrigerators or freezers, refrigerator freezers that have a $5 a pop ice cream
00:18:16.920 cartons in them. Like while 22 million people are out of work. I mean, it's just amazing. It's why
00:18:23.500 Chris Cuomo can talk to you about the moral imperative of staying locked down while he is
00:18:29.620 going to public with coronavirus. It's why democratic elites, liberals in Hollywood talk about the
00:18:35.620 immorality and the racism of building a wall while all living in gated homes and communities
00:18:41.720 themselves. It's why they talk about climate change and still fly private jets. It's why they talk about
00:18:46.440 taking people's guns away, but they still used armed security. It's why they claim to be for
00:18:51.620 every form of sexuality and love and blah, blah, blah, and mostly lead very traditional normal lives
00:18:58.880 themselves. It's why they talk about the existence of 79 genders, but still have their own gender reveal
00:19:04.080 parties when they're pregnant to announce whether or not they are having a boy or a girl. There was this
00:19:08.960 article in an outlet called Mel Magazine titled, Why Won't Woke Boys Pay for Sex? About a trans
00:19:15.560 prostitute that learned that his feminist male friends would talk about making sex work, legalized
00:19:21.480 sex work. It's real work, but they wouldn't actually pay for prostitutes because they saw it as immoral.
00:19:26.580 It's why even though liberals talk about importance of diversity and the evils of whiteness and the
00:19:32.860 patriarchy, they have nominated an old white rich dude to run as their nominee for the president of the
00:19:40.040 United States. And you know what's hilarious about that last point? Pew Research surveyed Democrats
00:19:45.320 asked them if it bothers them that their nominee is an old white man. Most of them actually said
00:19:50.720 no, 59 percent, and no, it doesn't bother me at all. Then you see the breakdown by education in this
00:19:56.940 survey. The more degrees you have, the more likely you are to be bothered by the fact that Biden is an
00:20:04.100 old white guy. 58 percent of post-grad Democrats say it bothers them versus only 24 percent of high
00:20:09.280 school educated Democrats. Doesn't it say something about our higher education in this country that you
00:20:14.260 get more and more stupid the more degrees you have? The younger you are, the more it bothers you,
00:20:19.680 the survey says. And let's look at the breakdown of race. Which race does it bother the most that Biden
00:20:24.700 is an old white guy? Is it black people? No. 72 percent of black Democrats say that they don't care
00:20:30.760 that Biden is an old white man. Only 28 percent care. Hispanic people? No. 70 percent of Hispanic
00:20:37.100 Democrats don't care that Biden is an old white man. Only 30 percent care. It's white people.
00:20:42.120 White 41 percent of white Democrats care that Biden is an old white man. They would prefer some more
00:20:49.100 diverse intersectional candidate. And this is true, guys, of almost every social, cultural, political issue
00:20:56.880 out there. The most liberal, extreme, leftist, radical people in the country on almost every single issue
00:21:04.380 is metropolitan, highly educated white people. They are the most paternalistic bigots in the country.
00:21:13.200 Every stance they hold they claim they are doing out of compassion for the marginalized minority when
00:21:18.740 the marginalized minority very often doesn't even hold the same view as them. So look at the
00:21:23.540 circumstances on things like transgenderism, gay marriage, religion, capitalism. The black and
00:21:28.900 Hispanic communities in this country are far more moderate, far more conservative and hesitant to
00:21:34.020 embrace the tenets of leftism than white liberals are, even though they tend to vote Democrat.
00:21:39.260 The truth is that that liberal white millennials with master's degrees are the elites in the country
00:21:44.860 who honestly resent minorities more than the conservatives that they accuse of being bigots.
00:21:51.160 They think they know better. They think that they know what's best for minorities, that they know
00:21:56.240 what's best for the marginalized. They're the biggest stuck-up, bigots, self-righteous, biggest in the
00:22:03.600 country. They purport that all of these far-left ideals that they themselves don't typically abide by in
00:22:10.340 their own lives but nevertheless want to force upon other people are best for everyone. They say that they're
00:22:17.040 doing it for the sake of the minorities who by the way don't even agree with them. This is what the
00:22:22.200 Democratic Party has been about and I would say it's increasingly until now but it's been about in
00:22:28.080 some sense since the era of LBJ patronizing minorities who are poor promising to do things for
00:22:35.600 them to give them stuff only to gain more money and power themselves and never accomplishing anything
00:22:41.920 that they promise that they'll do. Think about all the Democratic-run cities with large minority
00:22:46.320 communities. Detroit, Chicago, New York, Compton, Baltimore. Have Democrats who have run these areas
00:22:51.620 for decades actually made these cities better? Have they done anything for their constituents? No.
00:22:57.280 Now I want to talk about AOC and something completely ridiculous that she recently said but before I do that
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00:24:16.600 claimed that only in America, only in America would the president who said liberate, because you know,
00:24:24.040 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
00:24:35.420 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
00:24:56.260 going, going back or reopening? I think a lot of people should just say no.
00:25:02.300 Okay. So she thinks that people should boycott, boycott work. And here's, I know that you're
00:25:08.920 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
00:25:23.660 nature. And that's why the regimes run by socialism and communism always end up with subversion or
00:25:30.200 suffering. That's, that's how socialist and communist regimes always end up with subversion by the people
00:25:36.780 or suffering by the people because it denies and suppresses human nature. I talked about, I think it
00:25:41.680 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
00:25:56.800 money, but also for morale. Socialists and communists do not, they don't understand that,
00:26:02.180 especially the kind of brand of socialist that AOC is. So this is the socialistic view of work,
00:26:10.420 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
00:26:22.480 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
00:26:35.360 inherently virtuous. She doesn't believe, I'm sure if you press her on this, that people have to work,
00:26:41.600 they have to be productive in order to have morale. Otherwise our bodies, our minds, our spirits
00:26:48.380 atrophy. Like she believes in her green new deal, she said that there needs to be economic security
00:26:54.300 for people who not just can't work, but who don't want to work. So she thinks that people should be
00:26:59.360 able to just get paid to terribly watercolor if they want to do that. And that should be perfectly
00:27:05.200 moral, but human beings are made to contribute. They're made to do something of worth that doesn't
00:27:11.600 have to be paid work. So if you're a stay-at-home mom, if you're a volunteer worker, like if you
00:27:16.260 volunteer at church and you don't actually get a salary, that is considered the kind of productive,
00:27:20.900 beautifying, nurturing, maximizing work that God has called people to. AOC, I know she claims to have
00:27:29.100 some sort of religion. She doesn't have a biblical worldview. I think we know that based on her
00:27:33.640 understanding of gender, abortion, marriage, all that kind of stuff, but also based on her
00:27:39.120 socialistic outlook, socialism and a biblical worldview are always going to contradict each
00:27:43.500 other. You can go back and listen to my episode titled socialism for a more holistic, uh, holistic
00:27:49.580 explanation of that. But we talk about that a lot. She views work as amoral. So you don't have to do
00:27:55.040 anything productive in order to live any kind of meaningful life. And the human spirit and the human
00:28:00.820 mind doesn't necessarily need productive work in order to survive and thrive. But the Bible tells us
00:28:06.240 differently. If you look at the creation accounts, God made work, uh, God made Adam have a role, a
00:28:12.680 productive role before the fall. Work is not a product of sin. Work is not a product of the fall.
00:28:19.020 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
00:28:37.660 productive, that adds to the world around us. The small plot of the universe on which God has placed
00:28:44.380 each individual. Our responsibility is to do everything we can for the glory of God, for the good
00:28:50.060 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
00:29:02.020 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
00:29:14.540 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
00:29:36.080 work for their souls to thrive and survive because she doesn't have a biblical framework for which she
00:29:43.340 is understanding things. She has a morally relative socialistic framework, but as we as Christians know
00:29:50.240 work is not immoral. It is not immoral in a general sense. Work is inherently good. It is virtuous. We
00:29:57.640 all have to be productive. We were not made to be bumps on a log. We were not made to exist. We were
00:30:02.920 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
00:30:15.060 to make the world around us better. That can be a small circle of the world. That might be a large
00:30:19.560 sphere of influence, whatever, you know, God has given us to be able to steward, but you should
00:30:25.660 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
00:30:54.120 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
00:31:04.800 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
00:31:51.460 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
00:32:46.420 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
00:38:20.360 on Monday. Thanks for listening.