Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 18, 2020


Ep 328 | Cancel Culture, Antifa & BLM Strike Again


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In this episode of Relatable, I talk about a variety of news stories that have been making headlines over the past few days, including the "Transgender" craze, the "Great Reset," and the "Cancel Culture" movement.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone has had a great week so far.
00:00:15.900 Monday, we did a crash course on critical race theory and a bunch of you reached out to me
00:00:21.700 telling me that that was helpful. We've also talked about it on Instagram over the past couple
00:00:26.000 of days. And some of you who follow me on Instagram, hopefully you're now listening to the
00:00:30.300 podcast, asked me, what is CRT? And so if you're curious about that at all, just go to Monday's
00:00:37.000 episode and it gives you a very basic breakdown of what critical race theory is and how it is
00:00:43.380 affecting us as a country, how it's infiltrating academia, social media, the mainstream media,
00:00:51.580 and even church. And there are a lot of different conversations that we've had on this podcast
00:00:56.900 about that, that can break it down even more, especially from a Christian perspective,
00:01:00.580 like my conversation with Neil Shinvee from several months ago, my most listened to episode ever,
00:01:08.120 because he's still good at breaking that down. So if you haven't listened to Monday's episode,
00:01:12.140 make sure that you do that. Today, we're going to talk about a few different news stories,
00:01:16.740 things that have gone on over the past few days. It's as chaotic as ever. If you guys thought that
00:01:23.320 the news was going to kind of calm down, that we were going to go back to this place of normalcy,
00:01:28.720 as if we have been in a place of normalcy for the past, I don't know, 10 years in this country,
00:01:34.220 no, 15 years in this country, we haven't. And things are just, chaos is going forward apace. And so
00:01:42.320 we're going to talk about some of the latest news stories today. And then on Friday, I am going to,
00:01:48.960 a lot of you guys have been asking me, I always post about the corruption of the public education
00:01:53.900 system and teachers unions. And a lot of you have heard me talk about that before, but I am going
00:01:59.480 to interview Rebecca Friedrichs, who is a longtime public school teacher who took a case to the Supreme
00:02:05.680 Court in opposition to the teachers unions. And so I'm going to talk to her on Friday. And then on
00:02:11.700 Monday, we are going to get to a subject that you guys have been asking me, nay, begging me to
00:02:18.300 address. And that is the great reset. Is it real? What's going on with it? Are certain governors and
00:02:26.440 politicians in America in cahoots with that? Is this something that is imminent, this great reset of
00:02:33.220 the economy in the way of communism? Or is it something that we don't really have to worry about?
00:02:38.600 So we are going to get into all of that on Monday after I conclude my very thorough research.
00:02:45.240 First today, I want to talk about cancel culture, the latest in cancel culture. I know that you guys
00:02:52.040 are probably tired as heck of cancel culture. You're just wondering when these corporations,
00:02:57.700 when these social media companies are finally going to be like, you know what, I'm kind of tired of
00:03:02.660 trying to keep up with the arbitrary and ever changing standards of the social justice left.
00:03:07.740 And so, you know, I'm just going to treat everyone fairly and equally and equitably. I'm not going
00:03:12.420 to censor certain viewpoints just because we don't align with them politically. And wow, this social
00:03:18.040 media mob that is coming after us doesn't really have a whole lot of power. And so maybe we aren't
00:03:23.740 going to kowtow to every random Joe Schmo on Twitter who tells us that we have to do something. But no,
00:03:30.380 corporations apparently haven't learned that lesson. And they're very scared of certain segments of the
00:03:35.980 society. Hollywood also hasn't learned that lesson, as we will see in just a moment. But the first
00:03:41.440 example of this is of a book that someone that I've had on this podcast, Abigail Schreier wrote,
00:03:48.760 and it's called Irreversible Damage. And it is talking about the transgender craze that is affecting 1.00
00:03:54.240 our daughters. She argues in the book, based on research, research that she did, and also research
00:04:00.280 of other scholars, that transgenderism, the reason why it has increased so rapidly, especially among
00:04:07.480 young women, is not because gender dysphoria is actually on the rise among young women, but because
00:04:14.680 there's a social contagion aspect to it. She is not saying that every young girl who claims to have
00:04:20.900 gender dysphoria is just faking it, that it's not real. But a large segment of girls who are suddenly 0.92
00:04:26.660 saying, not just they've been saying this for a long time, but are suddenly saying when they're 14,
00:04:31.300 15 years old, that, hey, actually, I feel like a boy, that there's a social aspect to it, that it is
00:04:37.300 more of a trend that's going on in some schools, among some friend groups, and that it is actually
00:04:42.920 a behavior that is part of a pattern of young girls feeling dejected, feeling uncomfortable in their
00:04:51.200 bodies for different reasons, like they don't like how they look, or they're comparing themselves to
00:04:57.280 other people. And so it is just a form of discomfort that is now taking on gender dysphoria that is
00:05:04.880 actually not linked to any kind of long-term desire to be the opposite sex. And so these girls, they have
00:05:14.020 this sudden onset gender dysphoria, and they are going to a doctor's office in some cases without
00:05:22.240 parental consent, like in Oregon, for example, a 15-year-old can walk into a Planned Parenthood, can
00:05:27.600 say, you know, I feel like I'm a boy, and I would like to get started on testosterone, and they can do
00:05:32.940 that without parental consent. That is the case in a variety of states. And so some girls are taking that 0.69
00:05:39.040 option, and they are causing irreversible damage, like the title of the book says, to their bodies, because
00:05:45.120 it affects fertility. It forever affects how your body develops when you're in the middle of puberty, and you
00:05:51.260 start pumping your body with fake hormones, cross-sex hormones like testosterone. It changes your voice. It 0.93
00:05:56.960 changes your facial structure. Of course, it gives you facial hair. And some of these girls, they get to be 18,
00:06:03.480 19 years old, older than that, and they realize they've made a terrible mistake, and they can't go back. They can't
00:06:08.700 change their bodies. And the big problem with it is, is that there is such a low barrier to these girls 1.00
00:06:14.340 getting treatment, even sometimes when the parents do consent, because they don't know what else to do.
00:06:19.160 Because now, psychology and even pediatrics have been so politicized that very often these doctors
00:06:29.260 will not say, okay, you know, you have to have these persistent feelings of gender dysphoria for a
00:06:35.520 certain amount of time. You have to be this certain age before we'll start you on hormone blockers,
00:06:40.780 or we'll start you on cross-sex hormones. Instead, it is very easy. There's a low barrier of entry for
00:06:48.180 these young girls, teenagers, whose brains haven't even fully developed, who can't even critically think 0.90
00:06:59.340 through normal, everyday issues as every teenager struggles with. They are now making decisions that
00:07:07.620 affect their bodies for the rest of their lives without any pushback whatsoever from doctors and
00:07:13.300 psychologists, many of whom, if not all of whom, know better. And so that is why Abigail Schreier wrote
00:07:18.820 this book. Abigail Schreier is someone who is very supportive of gender transition for adults,
00:07:26.000 who make that decision on their own, and they decide that's the path that they want to take.
00:07:30.640 But her specific concern is with teenage girls who are going through with these surgeries and are going
00:07:36.480 through with these hormone treatments, either without parental consent or because of parental ignorance
00:07:42.640 and lack of knowledge of what to do and how to help their daughters in other ways, and a lack of
00:07:51.560 medical guidance from doctors and psychologists, they're causing this damage to their bodies. 0.99
00:07:58.520 And so Abigail Schreier just wanted to write a book raising a flag about what's going on to let 1.00
00:08:04.220 other parents know that, hey, this is pervasive, to let other parents know that, you know, this could
00:08:09.800 happen with your daughter. And here are the resources that you have. Here's the research that's out there
00:08:15.100 that we need to actually know the truth about this. This was a research-driven, very reasonable,
00:08:20.380 nonpartisan book, not a religious book at all. She doesn't insert any kind of ideology or philosophy
00:08:26.140 in it. She says, this is what's happening. This is what's going on. This is the damage that it's
00:08:31.520 causing. Here are the concerns of the parents. Decide what you will. Okay, so that's the book,
00:08:37.180 a very reasonable book that I think even five years ago would not have caused any waves. I think a lot
00:08:43.740 of people would have read it five years ago and said, okay, why are we even talking about this?
00:08:48.160 Is this even a problem? But now it is such a problem that Target decided that they were going
00:08:53.380 to stop distribution of the book because they got a tweet from a Twitter user with roughly 1,400
00:09:02.880 followers. So that's nothing. Maybe that sounds like a lot to some of you, but it's nothing. They have
00:09:08.240 no big impact, not just on Twitter, but on culture in general. The tweet said this,
00:09:14.980 I think the trans community deserves a response from Ask Target. Target, those are the two handles 1.00
00:09:21.000 that this person tagged, as to why they're selling this book about the transgender epidemic sweeping
00:09:27.420 the country, trigger warning, transphobia. And Target responded saying, thank you so much for
00:09:36.800 bringing this to our attention. We have removed this book from our assortment. And if you went on
00:09:41.920 to Target's website, you were unable to search it right after that. So they immediately took it down
00:09:47.400 because of this tweet. And by the way, this tweet of this person whose handle is BlueIris04 and the
00:09:56.580 name is 10ACAB. ACAB stands for, and I'm about to say a bad word if you're listening with your kids,
00:10:03.160 all cops are bastards. So that's who this person is, 1,400 followers, 2,000 likes. And so not even
00:10:09.900 a viral tweet at all. Now, some other people had picked it up. And so a few people on Twitter were
00:10:14.340 talking about this, but Target immediately responded and decided to take it off of their website. They
00:10:21.760 probably were making moves to take it out of their store as well. Did they actually have time to read
00:10:27.400 the book? Did they look into what the book was about at all? Of course not. I mean, this was an
00:10:31.380 immediate decision, an immediate reaction that they had based on the disagreements of someone
00:10:39.780 with 1,400 followers on Twitter. Now, tell me, do you think there was a little bit of an uproar
00:10:48.460 a few months ago because Target was selling kids books that were teaching them about demons and
00:10:53.260 witchcraft? And there were Christians who were angry about this, upset about this, saying something
00:10:58.500 about this. Did Target ever respond? No. Did Target ever say, hey, we're going to take this
00:11:04.820 stuff down. We'll take a second. Look at this. You're right. Maybe this isn't best for children.
00:11:09.060 I mean, of course, you wouldn't expect them to do that. But did they pay any mind whatsoever to the
00:11:14.120 parents who were concerned about kids learning about demonic activity? No, they didn't even respond
00:11:20.740 because society knows, these corporations know that the people that you have to kowtow to are
00:11:26.900 these identity groups on the left, no matter how much cultural influence they have. Now, thankfully,
00:11:32.060 I will say this is a rare case of a corporation walking back a decision after there was pushback from
00:11:38.520 the conservative side. So there were people who are transgender. There are people who are apolitical,
00:11:45.780 and there are conservatives calling out Target on Twitter saying, whoa, whoa, whoa. Are we really in
00:11:51.060 the banning and burning book stage of our republic? Like, is that where we already are? That the people
00:11:57.160 who are calling conservative fascists are the ones looking to ban material, very reasonable,
00:12:02.600 well-researched material, just because it hurts a group's feelings, just because some people don't
00:12:07.740 like the conclusions that it leads to? Is that really where we are? And Target, are you really going to
00:12:12.840 play a part in that? Abigail Schreier tweeted, target.com just made my book disappear. Does it
00:12:18.280 bother anyone that woke activists and spineless corporations now determine what Americans are
00:12:23.360 allowed to read? Yes, it bothers me very much. And I'm so glad I had her on my podcast. You should go
00:12:29.680 back and listen to that episode. Also, this actually had the opposite effect for her book. It shot up in the
00:12:37.700 Amazon charts because people said, oh, wow, this must, if this book is this contentious and it's causing
00:12:43.280 this much controversy, then it is probably worth reading. And so a lot of people bought her book,
00:12:50.360 and I'm so thankful for that, that God actually used this cancellation situation to make more people
00:12:57.200 aware of her book and buy her book. There were politicians, there were activists, there were
00:13:02.600 influencers all calling Target out. And Target then responded, yesterday, we removed a book from
00:13:09.280 target.com based on feedback we received. We want to offer a broad assortment for our guests and are
00:13:13.960 adding this back to target.com. We apologize for any confusion. Now, good for Target. I'm glad that
00:13:21.840 they reversed this decision. Of course, it was very silly and hasty of them to make this decision in the
00:13:26.680 first place. Again, based on the complaint of someone who doesn't have any kind of like influence
00:13:33.040 or authority or any like that, this is just a random person on Twitter. I mean, obviously,
00:13:37.760 Target doesn't respond to every random complaint about something that they sell. I'm glad that they
00:13:43.080 reversed the decision. However, there wasn't any confusion. They said, we apologize for any confusion.
00:13:48.180 There wasn't any confusion. We weren't confused. We saw exactly what happened. We saw the decision
00:13:52.940 that you made and why you made that decision. Because corporate America kowtows to the social
00:14:00.600 justice mob. They kowtow to these identity groups in a way that they would never kowtow.
00:14:05.620 Typically, they wouldn't kowtow to the other side. Here's the difference between the leftist cancel
00:14:12.720 culture and then what conservatives try to pressure corporations to do. And so you saw the left-wing
00:14:21.080 cancelers try to get a book banned. What conservatives tried to do with their influence is not to ban a
00:14:29.040 leftist book that we don't agree with, but rather to push Target back to a place of neutrality. And so
00:14:35.300 that's what conservatives really want. Whereas leftists, leftist activists, not all leftists,
00:14:41.420 of course, they use their influence to try to get corporations to make statements that align with
00:14:46.700 their ideology, to sell products that align with their ideology, and to give money to groups that
00:14:53.700 align with their ideology. Conservatives, at least nowadays, we don't use our influence to do that.
00:14:59.760 We are trying to bring corporations back to a place of political neutrality to where they are willing to
00:15:07.060 sell a broad assortment of books, whether they are communist books or whether they are conservative
00:15:13.520 capitalist books, whether they are books that are pro-transgender, whether there are books that
00:15:18.940 present research that is anti-transgender. I mean, I believe that people should have the choice,
00:15:26.060 that they should have the choice to read what they want to read, that people should have the choice
00:15:30.100 to choose the things they want to buy. I don't believe in forcing corporations to sell something that
00:15:36.060 they don't want to sell. Of course, it is their business and it is their decision. But conservatives,
00:15:42.720 conservatives don't want corporations making political statements that are necessarily in favor of the
00:15:48.640 conservative side. We would rather them get out of the political sphere altogether. Because when you have
00:15:54.500 corporate America that is using social justice as a bludgeon for half the country and to censor one side of
00:16:02.480 the country's views, then it really doesn't matter what the Constitution says about your freedom of
00:16:11.080 expression and your freedom to write what you want to write and read what you want to read. If people who
00:16:15.540 control our flow of information and control where we can actually purchase the books that we read are
00:16:21.580 saying, no, no, no, I'm going to censor one viewpoint, well, then we're not really free to read those
00:16:26.680 things. We're not really free to learn and to know and to gather the information that we want to
00:16:31.000 gather. The same thing is true of big tech, of course. Here's another crazy example of cancel
00:16:46.660 culture. Melissa McCarthy, she's the actress. She's hilarious. She's so funny in everything that she is 0.75
00:16:54.940 in. And I was really excited when I saw that she was supporting Exodus Cry in her, what was it? It was
00:17:02.620 90 days of kindness, 20 days of kindness. I should have had that right in front of me. But she was
00:17:10.720 doing several days of kindness where she was donating money to various organizations and she chose
00:17:16.980 Exodus Cry. Exodus Cry is an organization that works to end sex trafficking and to rescue victims out of
00:17:23.800 sex trafficking. They do amazing work. They have done amazing work for a very long time. And I was
00:17:30.300 really excited. I was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe that a celebrity is actually donating to
00:17:34.780 this because you don't typically see, you don't see a lot of celebrities actually saying that this is a
00:17:41.860 problem that needs to be addressed. And Exodus Cry is an organization that is led by a Christian. And so 1.00
00:17:48.540 I was pleasantly surprised by that. And I was excited about it. And then I saw the news on Exodus
00:17:54.920 Cry's Instagram that actually Melissa McCarthy not only changed her mind along with HBO Max, who is doing
00:18:01.340 this in partnership with her, but she also issued a video, an apology saying, quote, that Exodus Cry stands
00:18:10.800 for everything that we do not, which is a very interesting admission when you're talking about an
00:18:16.400 organization that fights to end child sex trafficking. But apparently what she meant by
00:18:22.880 that is that the owner or the founder of Exodus Cry has made statements about his belief in biblical
00:18:32.060 marriages between a man and a woman. He is anti-abortion because again, he's a Christian. And so 0.57
00:18:37.940 he is going to hold to the biblical ethic on life and marriage. Now they have been an extremely
00:18:45.080 inclusive organization. They have never discriminated against, as they have said time and again, they've
00:18:49.800 never discriminated against anyone in the LGBTQ community. They don't judge people who have had
00:18:55.360 abortions. They are exclusively focused on rescuing people from sex trafficking and stopping sex
00:19:05.600 specifically through the, uh, specifically that is popular through the, uh, pornography industry and
00:19:14.640 shedding light on how pornography is actually feeding this giant multi-billion dollar beast of sex
00:19:23.340 trafficking. They don't have anything to do with any of those other issues. There was also a little bit
00:19:29.040 of a scandal because Exodus Cry was started from IHOP, uh, the international house of prayer. And the
00:19:35.500 guy who started IHOP has said some controversial things about, uh, about Jewish people, but that is
00:19:44.160 not Exodus Cry. That has nothing to do, uh, with Exodus Cry. He doesn't have any influence or leadership
00:19:49.800 over Exodus Cry. And yet the Daily Beast ran a hit piece on the Exodus Cry and called out Melissa
00:19:54.980 McCarthy and the LGBTQ community came to Melissa McCarthy and said, you know, this is very harmful.
00:20:00.760 This is very dangerous, which led her to cancel this partnership and to apologize and to say the
00:20:06.040 Exodus Cry stands for everything that we do not. This is just another example of the, of the cowardice of
00:20:12.040 Hollywood. They care so much about approval. They care so much about money. They care so much about not
00:20:19.280 being canceled themselves, even by a small group of people that they are willing to pull support from an
00:20:24.820 organization that exclusively and effectively helps in sex trafficking and rescues victim of victims of
00:20:31.120 sex trafficking. How much better, how much more moral and courageous would it have been for Melissa
00:20:35.780 McCarthy to be like, look, I'm not going to agree with every single stance that every single founder
00:20:40.820 of every single organization and charity, uh, has, has, has made, but this is an organization. I've looked
00:20:48.320 into it. I've done my research that does really great work to end sex trafficking. This is a really big
00:20:53.620 problem. And anyone who stands up against this, anyone who tries to rescue, uh, victims of sex
00:20:59.140 trafficking, that is an organization that I want to support. And I understand that not all their views
00:21:04.960 are going to align with my views. Not all their views are going to align with your views. That's okay.
00:21:09.780 That's going to be true of the majority of charities, but she didn't do that. Instead, she made the 0.99
00:21:14.580 ridiculous state. She apologized and made the ridiculous statement that Exodus Cry, the organization that
00:21:21.360 fights against sex trafficking and rescues girls and boys from sex trafficking stands for quote,
00:21:29.200 everything that we do not, everything that we do not. So are you saying you're for sex trafficking?
00:21:35.100 Like you're, you're for the rape of children for profit. That's such a ridiculous, stupid,
00:21:41.200 thoughtless statement. The fact that there were people applauding her for this great, uh, apology
00:21:47.980 that she showed so much honesty and morality and integrity. Are you kidding me? This was the most
00:21:53.480 cowardly thing that I've ever seen. How small of a person do you have to be to do something like this?
00:21:58.240 I mean, it's so embarrassing for you, honestly. I mean, this just makes me so mad. This makes me so
00:22:04.280 mad that there is a group of people that, um, everyone is so afraid to offend. Everyone is so afraid that
00:22:11.880 that group of people, that those activists, left-wing activists are going to ruin their lives and to
00:22:16.880 ruin their careers, that they are willing to lay everything down on the altar of progressivism.
00:22:23.780 That includes, uh, children that are in sex trafficking. That includes any good cause. As
00:22:29.200 long as it means that they won't be canceled by people, as long as it means that they don't offend
00:22:34.540 this small minority of people, as long as it means that they can stay in the good graces of the
00:22:39.560 progressive left, they are willing to lay down anything on that altar. It's really amazing
00:22:45.440 how self-serving Hollywood is. And they love to parade around like they are our moral betters.
00:22:52.920 Like they are the people who can teach us virtue, who can teach us about generosity and integrity.
00:22:58.840 Please, for the love of all that is good, do not take your moral cues from people like Melissa
00:23:03.820 McCarthy. Do not take your moral cues from Hollywood. These people are so vapid. They're so
00:23:09.420 empty. They're so self-contradictory constantly. And yet they feel like because they pretend to be
00:23:16.580 other people for a living, they somehow have a platform and have a place to tell us how to live
00:23:23.520 our lives and to tell us what is politically correct, what is morally correct. Please, if you idolize
00:23:30.400 anyone in Hollywood, if you idolize anyone, but especially anyone in Hollywood, if you are getting
00:23:36.660 any of your moral cues from them, your political cues from them, your worldview cues from them,
00:23:42.900 stop. Stop it right now. It's going to lead you in a stupid, bad direction. It's going to lead you in
00:23:48.460 the direction of apologizing for supporting an organization that fights to end sex trafficking
00:23:54.180 because the leader has some Christian views. I mean, it's just crazy. It's just crazy.
00:24:00.400 Okay, so I wanted to make sure that we get into what happened in DC. And that's going to be the
00:24:15.980 end of this episode. But I wanted to make sure that you guys saw the craziness and the violence that went
00:24:24.440 on over the weekend after the Million MAGA March, I think it was called, where there were Trump
00:24:30.120 supporters marching and protesting, I guess you could say, against fraud in the election or potential
00:24:37.020 fraud in the election and marching in support of President Trump in DC. After that was over and
00:24:43.600 people were leaving, going back to their hotels, etc. Violence broke out between some marchers for
00:24:50.120 President Trump and Antifa and BLM. And so I'm going to play you a couple of those clips now.
00:24:57.040 So you saw that guy getting sucker punched. It's actually come out the guy that sucker punched him
00:25:18.160 is a convicted child abuser. I think child sex abuser, actually. And so just a gem of a person,
00:25:27.940 he was just let out of jail, I think a couple years ago. So now he's sucker punching people on the street.
00:25:34.540 Now, I will say for that particular clip, people are saying, you know, Andy, no, the guy who posted the
00:25:42.080 clip, you didn't post the whole context. And so people on the left were posting a longer clip that
00:25:49.360 actually showed the guy who got sucker punched was throwing punches first. But then there was an even
00:25:56.760 longer clip that Andy no posted that showed that those people, the Antifa BLM people were harassing
00:26:05.380 an innocent family just trying to get to their hotel. Poor kids crying. It was absolutely terrible video.
00:26:13.960 But these BLM Antifa people were harassing this family. And so this guy was kind of throwing punches,
00:26:21.700 not actually punching people, but just kind of swinging, trying to get them back and to protect this family
00:26:27.280 because the police were not doing their jobs in D.C. And so he was just trying to protect these families
00:26:33.040 from the harassers and from these assaulters so they wouldn't assault these children. And then he gets sucker
00:26:39.800 punched. And so that is the entire context. And no matter what, a sucker punch is never justified. I mean,
00:26:46.220 coming up from behind. But we see that time and again with Antifa and these Black Lives Matter activists,
00:26:51.840 whenever they are confronted by people who they disagree with or they are just not even confronted
00:27:01.120 by these people, but they come across these people when they are trying to protest or block roads,
00:27:06.400 they are always coming up from behind and knocking these people out. And then after they're knocked out,
00:27:12.860 there's usually a roundhouse kick to the head that either nearly kills people or actually kills the
00:27:18.180 person that's down. And in this particular case as well, this guy's phone was stolen from what looks
00:27:23.680 like a BLM activist. And so I'm not saying that I agree with every single person that was at the
00:27:29.740 MAGA march. I don't know all of them. There were some crazy videos out there of some crazy people
00:27:35.600 saying crazy things. But this continually happens from the BLM Antifa side. I mean, we also saw these
00:27:42.460 BLM activists harassing diners. And so we're not talking about people that were at the march. But
00:27:47.000 that day, they were going up to outdoor diners, harassing them, yelling at them. I mean,
00:27:52.020 we've seen this time again for the past few months. They've been doing this since May.
00:27:56.000 This has been going on. Antifa and BLM starting violence, inciting violence. And people are saying,
00:28:02.660 oh, well, what about the Proud Boys? I don't know about the Proud Boys. I'm against anyone that is
00:28:07.800 inciting violence and that is starting violence. I am against that. And what we see time and again is
00:28:13.360 that the harassers, the people that are causing trouble, the people who are going out there
00:28:17.180 to instigate this kind of violence, are Antifa and BLM. Again, they've been doing it for the past
00:28:22.200 few months. They've been burning down cities. They've been harassing innocent people at diners,
00:28:26.960 people who are dining outside. They have been the ones who are looting and who are rioting.
00:28:33.000 And for what reason? Well, a lot of people say it is, you know, rioting is the voice of the unheard.
00:28:39.080 But we have busted that myth several times on this podcast. The fact of the matter is,
00:28:43.860 is that these people are instigators. A lot of these people don't have anything to do
00:28:47.340 and they have criminal records. And so they are looking to start trouble. That's a problem.
00:28:52.780 I'm just wondering what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris do if they officially take the White House,
00:28:57.580 what they're going to do to quell this. These are their supporters. These are people who voted,
00:29:02.320 who voted for them. A lot of people got mad because President Trump told the Proud Boys to stand
00:29:07.280 back and to stand by, which I think that he just was not even thinking about what he said and he
00:29:12.920 shouldn't have said stand by. That was stupid of him. It didn't even make any sense. Well,
00:29:18.840 are you going to show the same anger and the same frustration towards Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,
00:29:25.440 neither of which have called out these groups by name, by the way? I highly doubt it because there
00:29:31.340 is this conspiracy theory that Antifa and BLM just don't exist, that they're just peacefully sitting
00:29:36.260 on their couches talking about how to go volunteer to save puppies when that's not the reality. That's
00:29:41.960 not the reality. These people are causing violence because Marxism always does, as we talked about
00:29:46.740 on Monday. And so Joe Biden and Kamala Harris keep talking about restoring the soul of America,
00:29:52.440 which is a line that they took from John Meacham, who is an author who wrote the book.
00:29:57.380 I think it's even called Restoring the Soul of America, who wrote
00:30:00.660 Joe Biden's so-called acceptance speech. He's a center-right guy, so it makes sense that that's
00:30:07.100 kind of his language that they're adopting because they're trying to appeal to that crowd right now,
00:30:12.000 and they certainly were before the election to get their votes. But Joe Biden keeps on talking about
00:30:16.520 restoring the soul of America as if it is possible for a president to do that. It's not possible for a
00:30:22.280 president to do that, and it's certainly not going to be Joe Biden. I mean, look at what their
00:30:26.540 supporters are doing, and they refuse to even call this out by name. And of course, Kamala Harris even
00:30:32.600 tried to raise money for the rioters and the looters in Minnesota when that was happening back in June
00:30:41.520 after George Floyd's killing. And so I don't think that the restoration of the American soul is going
00:30:47.360 to happen under this administration, as if that was even possible under any administration. I would love
00:30:53.860 for the soul of America to be restored, but that is impossible outside of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
00:30:59.480 and that ain't coming through. It's not coming through via Trump, and it's not coming through
00:31:04.480 via Biden either. It's just not how it works. And for any president to take on that kind of authority
00:31:10.400 and that kind of responsibility is idolatrous and weird. It's just weird. It's not going to happen.
00:31:15.280 And so if we want the restoration of the American soul, then we better get busy sharing the gospel
00:31:20.300 because that's the only way that it's going to happen. That's the only way that I see any way
00:31:24.580 forward for America, any reconciliation, any coming together. Because like I said, we have such
00:31:29.320 fundamental disagreements about not just how to build society and politics and policies,
00:31:34.940 but we have fundamental disagreements on what truth is, what male and female is,
00:31:38.920 when life begins. I mean, very, very basic disagreements that I don't see us changing on
00:31:47.260 at all are coming together on unless there is a renewal and regeneration of people's soul through
00:31:54.020 Jesus Christ. That's the only way that I see us moving forward because the right says, okay,
00:32:00.340 we're fine with a divorce, like irreconcilable differences. Like we just don't want to do this
00:32:05.440 anymore. Let's create our own country. The left can create their own country. It's interesting that
00:32:09.820 only the right is saying that. And the reason that the only the right is saying that is because
00:32:13.840 leftists, leftism wants power. I mean, they want domination. They want submission. They don't want
00:32:19.680 just a divorce with irreconcilable differences. That's why you never hear them say that. They
00:32:23.160 don't even want the existence of conservatives and people who disagree with them and people who
00:32:28.300 have disparate values. I'm talking about the far left, the far left activists. They're not interested
00:32:35.500 in a pluralistic society. And so you never hear them talking about a divorce the way that you hear
00:32:40.040 some people on the right talking about a divorce because it's about power, whereas we would just
00:32:44.280 have peace, even if that means a kind and polite divorce of the country. But the only way that I
00:32:51.340 see unity happening, which I really do want, and I really do want progress in this country and for us
00:32:55.900 to come together despite our differences, is for us to just agree on the basics and the fundamentals
00:33:01.580 in this country. And I think the only way that happens is a total renewal of the mind. I think Jesus
00:33:07.300 Christ is the only thing, the only thing that could bring us together in any way so that we could at
00:33:11.560 least agree on the fundamentals, even if we disagree on politics and other things. It just seems like a
00:33:17.100 long shot right now, but we pray for it. And hey, if Joe Biden is the official president, we pray that he
00:33:23.000 is as successful as possible, as unifying as possible, and that this country does thrive under his
00:33:28.420 leadership. That is what I want. That is truly what I want, no matter who is president. And so that is what
00:33:33.640 I'm praying for and hoping for. Okay, that's all we have time for today. I will be back here on Friday
00:33:37.540 with Rebecca Friedrich.