Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 33

00:00:00.000 What's up, guys? Happy Thursday. Welcome to CRTV's Relatable. It's me. I hope that you guys are

00:00:07.100 having an excellent week. I would love to take a poll right now to see how many of my followers

00:00:13.180 are basic. I would venture to say a lot, meaning how many of you went out in 100 degree heat and

00:00:20.940 bought yourself a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks this week? I think yesterday, two days

00:00:25.880 ago, first day, no judgment. It's totally a judgment free zone, especially for basic people.

00:00:32.260 Like I said, I kind of anticipate that I have a lot of basic followers because I myself am kind of

00:00:37.160 basic. I've heard from some people, including my husband. I'm not completely basic, not like not

00:00:43.020 completely, but I'm not on the other side either. I guess that would be like acidic. I'm not. But I

00:00:49.260 kind of want to analyze this for a second because I do think that I want you guys to tell me. I want

00:00:54.580 you guys to tell me whether you think that I'm on the basic side or not. So here are the things that

00:01:00.300 I think are kind of basic about me. One, I do like Starbucks, which I know basically makes me a

00:01:06.080 communist in conservative circles. But I do drink Starbucks and not that much, though. When I do,

00:01:11.620 it's black coffee, which I feel like is not that basic. Sometimes when I'm feeling kind of extra,

00:01:16.640 like I'll get a chai tea latte with almond milk and no water, which I know is super, super basic.

00:01:21.720 But not all the time. It's only sometimes. Number two, I do like Taylor Swift, which is

00:01:27.180 exceedingly basic. But but I'm not as obsessed with Taylor Swift as some people are. And in fact,

00:01:34.500 I don't even think that she has a good singing voice. However, however, really basic is that her

00:01:39.120 fearless album was my first album that I ever had when I got my driver's license. So it basically kind

00:01:45.220 of consumed all of my sophomore year of high school. And it's extremely nostalgic to me.

00:01:49.100 Number three, I like Target, which I also understand makes me a communist among conservatives.

00:01:55.740 I know that the conservatives were supposed to boycott both of these things a long time ago,

00:01:59.760 and I just haven't jumped on that bandwagon yet. I've almost completely weaned off Starbucks.

00:02:06.180 So maybe that'll gain me some conservative points. And I think it deducts a few basic points, too.

00:02:11.900 But my addiction to Target to Target has not ceased since ever, especially since the Chip and

00:02:17.760 Jojo line debuted, which I guess also makes me very basic. But I do not watch Fixer Upper. So again,

00:02:23.920 not completely basic. OK, the next thing, I don't remember what number one. The next thing is that

00:02:28.220 Anthropologie is one of my favorite places to shop. Pretty basic. Maybe consider not, though. You never

00:02:34.160 know. Also, I wear Ugg slippers. I'm wearing Ugg slippers right now. I wear them every single day of

00:02:38.880 my life, every season of my life, but not publicly. And I don't wear Ugg boots. Also,

00:02:45.600 Friends is one of my favorite TV shows. Very basic. The Notebook is still one of my favorite

00:02:50.260 all time movies. Basic. Kardashians. I hate them, but I love them and I know basically everything they do.

00:02:56.360 Basic. This tree that I have behind me, if you're watching, very basic. I cycle. Basic. Used to be a

00:03:03.360 pure bar instructor. Basic. I was in a sorority. Basic. I know word for word, at least three Cardi B

00:03:09.940 songs. Extremely basic. And you know what is also extremely basic that I have fallen into?

00:03:17.160 That basic girls just love. We love some true crime. Like, I don't know what it is, but every

00:03:22.940 basic girl that I know, including myself, loves some true crime podcasts and stuff on Netflix. So

00:03:29.160 I, I am, I guess in those ways, extremely basic, but I would venture to say if I were making this

00:03:35.920 case against my husband, which I have many times who claims that I am basic, I would say that I'm

00:03:39.600 not because I don't care about the Royal family. I don't have designer anything. I don't even know

00:03:44.920 anything about clothing designers. I really don't. I don't care about football. I feel like it's very

00:03:49.480 basic for girls to care about football. Uh, two favorite movies, Braveheart and Boondock Saints. I would

00:03:54.880 say that's not very basic. Um, I'm not organized. I don't ever make things look cute. Uh, that's not

00:04:01.840 basic. I hate kale. Not basic. I have bad, really bad handwriting. Not basic. Third Eye Blind, one of

00:04:07.760 my favorite bands ever. I've seen them live. That's not basic. Uh, there are other things, uh, that are

00:04:13.940 basic that I'm not, I'm sure. So this was all very, very important for us to analyze. I just wanted to put

00:04:19.420 this out there. I want to get your thoughts. Are you basic? Am I basic? I need to know this.

00:04:24.180 So you can message me on Instagram as all of you do, or you can email me at Allie at the

00:04:29.540 conservative millennial blog.com and give me your thoughts. Okay. Now that our highest order of

00:04:35.720 businesses out of the way, let's move on to much less important things than whether or not we're

00:04:41.100 basic. There's really no way to transition from that. Uh, we're going to talk about the midterms

00:04:46.260 and I will probably talk less about numbers and probability and probabilities. One other thing that

00:04:52.540 I'm not very good at and, uh, more about what Republicans can do to fight against the Democrats

00:04:58.680 wily ways. Their ways are very wily and we have to be pretty, uh, strategic in fighting back against

00:05:05.760 it. So first I will address a few of my predictions just on a very, uh, fundamental level. I think

00:05:12.960 Democrats will take the house and Republicans will keep the Senate. Uh, that's based on a lot of

00:05:18.000 different polling data. Now, anything could happen. Obviously we're still a couple months away,

00:05:22.620 less than that now. Yeah. Um, but I think, no, we're still a couple months away. Uh, I think it's

00:05:28.980 really unlikely that Republicans keep the house. Uh, even though this is troubling, we shouldn't be all

00:05:34.880 that surprised. This is typically what happens when one party is in the white house. Uh, the other

00:05:39.700 party takes Congress. Uh, you've probably been hearing Democrats in the news talk about what

00:05:45.000 they're calling this, uh, blue wave. They claim that this is going to be the consequence of the

00:05:49.940 so-called resistance that has been building since Donald Trump was elected. Uh, the resistance is

00:05:55.360 made up of people on the left, mostly on the left. There are some never Trumpers on the right who

00:05:59.980 probably consider themselves part of the resistance, uh, who would rather see Donald Trump fail than

00:06:05.140 America succeed. Uh, they are the crazy people dressing up in handmaid's tail garb and saying that

00:06:10.760 Brett Kavanaugh is going to take away women's rights once he's on the Supreme court. Uh,

00:06:16.040 they are the people comparing Trump to Hitler. They are the people saying that Donald Trump and all of

00:06:21.220 his supporters are racist, Islamophobes, transphobes, homophobes, all the phobes, xenophobes,

00:06:26.540 misogynists, bigots, fascists, and that anyone who isn't actively and loudly opposing him and everything

00:06:33.240 he does, wait for it. Their favorite word, they are complicit. That is the resistance. That is who

00:06:40.620 they are. Uh, that is what Democrats are saying will fuel this blue wave, which they predict will

00:06:46.720 dominate the midterms come November. Uh, they are going to flip all the red seats blue, and they are

00:06:52.400 finally going to be able to legislatively undermine Donald Trump's evil, evil fascist agenda. While I'm

00:07:00.060 not sure that the blue wave is actually going to be the tidal wave that they say it's going to be,

00:07:04.740 it might be more of a ripple. I do think that they'll win the house, like I said, which poses

00:07:08.540 serious problems for Trump and Republicans. Like we should probably just own that. Uh, Democrats are

00:07:13.640 expecting this to be similar to 1994 when Republicans won Congress in a landslide while Bill Clinton was

00:07:19.600 president, uh, which was the first time the Republicans had taken over the legislative branch

00:07:24.160 in 40 years at that point. Uh, that was resistance. That was a referendum on Bill Clinton and all of

00:07:30.180 his policies. Uh, it was called the Republican revolution, but number one, I don't think the Democrats

00:07:36.100 are going to win nearly as big as Republicans did. Then the numbers just are not showing that at this

00:07:41.280 point. And two, even if they do, I don't think that that's going to stop Trump from becoming

00:07:46.140 president. Uh, actually, I probably, I think that it'll probably, uh, get people more excited to vote

00:07:51.840 for Donald Trump for president. Um, even the Republican revolution in 94 didn't stop Clinton from becoming

00:07:57.100 president, like I said, in 96, but it did help lead to his impeachment in 98. And that is precisely what

00:08:03.840 the Democrats are looking to do. Um, the Democrats think that if they take the house, they will be

00:08:09.380 able to launch and bolster all kinds of investigations into, uh, Trump's tax returns,

00:08:14.740 Russia, everything Trump's ever done that they think is sketchy or delegitimizing. Um, Axios is

00:08:20.720 reporting that house Republicans are anticipating this. Uh, so they're already coming up with a plan to

00:08:26.160 defend themselves against the attacks of a democratic majority, uh, led by a, uh, keystone of the

00:08:31.800 resistance, Nancy Pelosi, who will no doubt become speaker of the house again. Uh, so as if our tax

00:08:38.740 money hasn't been, uh, being spent, uh, irresponsibly enough on an investigation into Russian collusion

00:08:45.300 for two years, that has come up with nothing to prove any collusion ever existed. Now we are going

00:08:50.400 to be paying our Congress people to launch a series of investigations that have much less legal

00:08:55.900 significance, probably than they do political significance. Uh, Democrats are not just looking

00:09:01.860 to November and all of this. They are looking to 2020. Uh, they see 2018 as a stepping stone to 2020.

00:09:09.340 If they can create a team in the house who will stop it, nothing to discredit Trump for the next

00:09:14.280 few years, then the democratic candidate will have a far greater chance of winning the presidency. But,

00:09:19.220 uh, as I said before, I don't think that's going to happen. Uh, if they couldn't do it in 94,

00:09:25.900 enough to defeat Bill Clinton in 96, I'm just not sure that this so-called blue wave is going to

00:09:32.100 either, especially since at this point, it just doesn't seem like it's going to be

00:09:35.320 that powerful. Uh, however, like I said, uh, it definitely has the power to cut away at Trump's

00:09:41.540 legitimacy, especially if legal wrongdoing is, is, uh, is found via their investigations. Uh,

00:09:48.380 so there are three things that I think in the midst of all of this chaos that is so likely to

00:09:53.580 ensue over the next couple of years. Uh, there are three things that Trump and Republicans need

00:09:57.740 to do to combat these attacks. And I actually think they're already doing some of these things

00:10:02.180 really well. Uh, they're alliterations. Are you ready? One, emphasize the economy. Number two,

00:10:09.600 harp on leftist hypocrisy. And number three, call out their crazy. Um, so again, emphasize the

00:10:17.360 economy, harp on leftist hypocrisy and call out their crazy. Uh, number one, they need to emphasize

00:10:24.520 the economy because it's doing really well. Uh, the unemployment rate is at 4%, which is the lowest

00:10:30.800 it's been in decades. Corporate profits are up. Consumer confidence is high. Longest bull market

00:10:36.080 in history. Uh, Trump needs to continue to take credit for all of these things, even though some of

00:10:41.120 them have been going in this direction for a long time. He needs to take credit for them. He needs to

00:10:46.360 brag about the tax cuts, about fair trade, despite those of us who don't like tariffs. He needs to say

00:10:52.440 that what he is doing is working and that he is putting America first and the proof is in the

00:10:57.460 pudding. He needs to say, I promise that I would make America great. And here you go, America.

00:11:02.200 Here is a booming economy for you and your family. You are welcome. Love president Trump.

00:11:06.860 And he needs to say, Democrats, Democrats want to take this away from you. Democrats want to tax you

00:11:12.800 into oblivion. They want to, uh, they want you to pay trillions of dollars over the next 10 years

00:11:18.000 for single payer healthcare. They want your hard earned tax money to support illegal immigrants.

00:11:23.460 Uh, Democrats don't want you to be rich. Uh, they want you to depend on the government. They want you to

00:11:28.680 distribute your success to other people. Whereas I, Donald Trump, want you to make money,

00:11:34.440 to keep your money and to spend it how you see fit. That's what he needs to say. He needs to present

00:11:39.640 himself as father Christmas, benevolently gifting us with the riches of a good economy and the

00:11:47.400 Democrats as the grand shoe stole Christmas who want to steal everyone's Christmas joy, AKA money,

00:11:53.540 uh, to increase dependence on the government, to increase their own power in that way. Trump can

00:11:59.120 actually make himself out to be the good guy, even in the midst of all of this Russia scandal right now,

00:12:03.820 or not really even Russia scandal, just corruption scandal. He can make himself out to be generous,

00:12:08.860 uh, the generous moral one, which would be quite the flip of the script because Democrats are always

00:12:14.300 accusing us of being the greedy ones. Uh, nope. Trump's economy is doing well. Uh, the Democrats

00:12:20.040 want to ruin our success because they selfishly would rather, uh, this country fail than see the

00:12:27.100 country succeed under Donald Trump. That should be the play for Republicans in emphasizing the economy.

00:12:32.280 They should be asking why are Democrats resisting unemployment and economic success? Um, then they

00:12:40.780 need to harp on leftist hypocrisy the way so many conservatives I think do really well. Uh, whether

00:12:47.780 you like it or not, Trump's war against the media works. It is working. Uh, he discredits outlets like

00:12:54.440 CNN, New York times so much that his supporters won't listen to a single thing that they say. And the thing

00:13:00.560 is it's not just Trump supporters who see this media bias. It's all conservatives and probably some

00:13:06.360 liberals too, if they're honest, uh, Trump is simply exacerbating what a lot of us already know

00:13:12.920 about many mainstream media outlets that they purposely report news about Trump and Republicans

00:13:18.020 in a clickbait dishonest fashion in order to shape negative opinions about them. Uh, they rely on the

00:13:25.020 laziness of their readers to form the public view, to drive their own anti-conservative, anti-Trump

00:13:31.100 narrative, and to ultimately send Trump spiraling into his demise. You don't even have to like Trump

00:13:37.300 to realize this. And the media do themselves no favors whatsoever. Uh, you guys probably heard,

00:13:43.820 or maybe not, about the whole Lanny Davis CNN scandal. Uh, Lanny Davis is the attorney of Donald Trump's

00:13:50.480 former lawyer, Michael Cohen, AKA the fixer. Uh, so CNN released a story at the end of July in which

00:13:57.160 an anonymous source claimed that Michael Cohen claimed that Donald Trump knew about the infamous

00:14:02.560 2016 Trump tower meeting in which Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer. Uh, the anonymous source

00:14:09.640 claimed that Cohen was in the room when Trump learned about the meeting. Uh, this would be a big deal

00:14:14.880 because Trump has denied knowing anything about the meeting. Um, in that same article, CNN specifically

00:14:20.120 said that Lanny Davis, Cohen's attorney refused to comment when asked. Uh, but last week Davis told

00:14:27.080 BuzzFeed that he was an anonymous source on the story and that he couldn't confirm that the story

00:14:33.220 was even actually true. That Cohen was in the room when Trump learned of the Trump tower meeting,

00:14:38.940 uh, the Senate intelligence committee before whom Cohen had already testified that he hadn't heard

00:14:44.820 anything about the Trump tower meeting. And so couldn't have been in the same room when he says

00:14:49.080 president Trump heard about it, uh, re-engaged with Cohen's legal team to make sure asking him, okay,

00:14:54.040 let's get this straight. You told us you didn't know anything about the Trump tower meeting. Now we're

00:14:58.960 reading in CNN that you did and that, you know, Trump did, do you want to revise your testimony? And

00:15:05.760 Cohen's team said, no, we're sticking to our original statement that Cohen did not know about the

00:15:09.720 meeting. Uh, but even after all of this, even after Lanny Davis said he couldn't actually confirm what

00:15:14.920 he anonymously told CNN, even after CNN said they didn't talk to Davis at all, CNN is still standing

00:15:21.880 by their story. Uh, they're saying that there, uh, were multiple sources for the story. In addition

00:15:26.840 to Davis, they're confident in their reporting that this whole thing is overblown. Okay. It's one thing

00:15:33.240 to be confident in your reporting, but one, once you take out the part in the piece that quotes this

00:15:38.220 source who just said he couldn't actually confirm what he had told you and is now actually standing by

00:15:43.840 his client who testified the opposite of what he told you. And wouldn't you apologize for lying for

00:15:49.420 specifically saying that Davis wasn't a source, even if the source is anonymous, you wouldn't

00:15:55.760 blatantly lie. Uh, there are a lot of good people at CNN. I know some of them personally. Uh, there are

00:16:02.860 many fair, wonderful, objective journalists there. Uh, but this whole scandal and their refusal to back

00:16:09.120 down, even after having been proven at the very least that they are sketchy with their sourcing

00:16:14.620 plays into people's distrust of the media. Uh, it confirms all of our fears that the media is pushing

00:16:19.740 a narrative, regardless of the truth, uh, that their agenda has nothing to do with reality, but

00:16:24.500 their foregone conclusions, um, which is that Trump is a crook and that he shouldn't be running the

00:16:31.560 country. And you look at that kind of animus coming from outlets that claim to be unbiased.

00:16:37.440 And I think a lot of people go, okay, if they're being this unfair about him, if they're lying this

00:16:42.840 much, then maybe I really can't trust anything they say. And if I can't trust anything they say,

00:16:48.920 why would I believe them when they report anything negative about Donald Trump?

00:16:53.180 So when Donald Trump says that the media is the enemy of the people, this is what he means. I think

00:16:59.000 not that all journalists are the enemy of the people, but that false reporting is, uh, blatantly

00:17:04.440 biased media who leverage the assumed stupidity of their readers to push a narrative down their

00:17:11.120 throats. And I would agree that there is intimacy between media and Americans. And much of that

00:17:17.260 intimacy is earned by a press with a flagrant disregard for truth. Um, and Republicans need

00:17:24.140 to keep pointing that out, keep pointing out the disparate coverage, uh, keep pointing out the

00:17:29.020 misleading headlines. A couple of weeks ago, uh, all of these news outlets, uh, uh, coordinated to

00:17:35.680 release the same headline on the same day. Journalists are not the enemy. Well, I can tell

00:17:40.260 you that this did not make their case very well banding together like this. How about instead of

00:17:46.720 saying you're not the enemy, you just stop acting like an enemy, tell the truth. Or if you're not going

00:17:52.700 to tell the truth, that's fine. Just own up to your own bias. Like, like I do, like a lot of

00:17:57.880 commentators do. I'm a conservative Christian podcaster. And while I will always do my best

00:18:03.700 to kind of look at both sides of the story, uh, I never want to purposely mislead anyone.

00:18:08.260 I'm really open about my perspective on things who I support, why support them, what I believe.

00:18:13.540 I don't pretend to be objective, even though I always try to be fair, but so many in the media

00:18:18.300 have this kind of self-righteous attitude that everything they say and believe is gospel truth

00:18:23.340 and that any bias they have is because they're good people and they just think like all good

00:18:28.200 people do. Uh, that is the attitude of condescension that Trump supporters and other and other people

00:18:33.680 are feeling from journalists. Uh, they think that they are better than us, that they are smarter than

00:18:38.600 us, that they can manipulate us and that they can get away with telling one side of the story.

00:18:43.500 People don't like to be patronized. And that is part of why Trump won. Uh, conservatives and

00:18:49.880 anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders started to feel like we don't matter. That's what we felt

00:18:54.840 like under the Obama administration, that our patriotism was problematic, that our concerns

00:19:00.280 were just going to go unnoticed, that everything that we really believed in our core values, God,

00:19:05.600 family, country, uh, capitalism, we're all being tossed aside and demeaned as morally wrong.

00:19:10.840 And the media played a huge part in driving that sentiment. So for Trump to go after the media,

00:19:16.380 for conservatives to go after the media, when indeed the media are being biased is a winning

00:19:23.260 strategy. Uh, they have to be willing to be aggressive in taking control of the narrative

00:19:28.760 when we need to, uh, because for too long, we have been bullied by the left who changed

00:19:33.880 words, who manipulate language and control the conversation to depict anyone who does not

00:19:38.840 think the way they do as bad. We have to push back against that, uh, which leads to the third

00:19:44.260 thing that Republicans and Trump need to do. And that is call out their crazy. Uh, now let me be

00:19:51.100 fair for just a second. Uh, yes, it is very easy to call out leftist craziness because it is so

00:19:57.080 prevalent because many of them quite literally are out of their gosh dang minds. But also, also we have

00:20:06.260 a president who does not always come across as very stable himself and his Twitter rampages, uh,

00:20:12.180 that sometimes don't make any sense, kind of make it a little more difficult to build our case of

00:20:17.780 leftist insanity when the leader of our party says and does some questionable things. Uh, but

00:20:23.640 thankfully that said, the left is always ready and willing to out crazy virtually any crazy person on

00:20:30.700 the right. Uh, there was a closed door meeting with evangelicals this week in which Trump told them

00:20:36.140 that there will be violence if the GOP loses the house. Uh, he said they will overturn everything

00:20:43.120 that we've done and they'll do it quickly and violently and violently. I guess he said that

00:20:47.940 twice. There's violence. When you look at Antifa and you look at some of these groups, they are violent

00:20:53.640 people. The level of hatred, the level of anger is unbelievable. Uh, he also went on to say that

00:20:58.900 Democrats will be pushing back on everything evangelicals and conservatives stand for. Uh, a lot of people are

00:21:04.640 saying that this is a stupid exaggeration. I think it's actually all absolutely true. Um, the left is

00:21:11.460 increasingly violent and unlike conservatives who call out neo-Nazis in Charlottesville and elsewhere as

00:21:17.440 horrific people who have no place in our movement, uh, liberals embrace Antifa. Uh, CNN's Chris Cuomo

00:21:24.360 had a whole monologue a couple of weeks ago saying how Antifa is, uh, morally superior to neo-Nazis

00:21:31.420 because they are actually against the hate. So they might be fighting violently, but at least they're

00:21:36.080 fighting violently against the right things. Um, so Antifa, AKA anti-fascists, uh, they are a far left

00:21:43.620 group who wear, they wear masks, they cause chaos, they inflict violence against people and groups and

00:21:48.860 ideas that they don't like, which, oh yeah, is kind of a key aspect of fascism itself. Uh, they are just as

00:21:55.540 bad and as bigoted and as harmful as neo-Nazi white supremacists. And they are probably even more

00:22:01.160 dangerous because many mainstream Democrats refuse to condemn them as French. Uh, they refuse to try

00:22:07.780 to marginalize them the way that we marginalize white supremacists and say that, no, they're actually

00:22:12.200 not conservatives at all. And yet we are the ones, we conservatives are the ones who are accused of

00:22:17.540 racism and bigotry and insensitivity and radicalism. We are called religious zealots for having mainstream

00:22:23.540 beliefs about marriage and, uh, about basic values and decency. Uh, yet when these people on the left

00:22:31.940 literally treat their politics as their religion and they are openly holding people back, repressing

00:22:37.840 people who do not agree with them. Uh, we see it on college campuses via a giant tech company,

00:22:43.620 social media, the bias in the media that we just talked about. Uh, the left shuts down conversation

00:22:48.780 when someone says something that they do not agree with and not just that they actually seek to ruin

00:22:54.860 your life. They want you fired. They want you silence forever, but we are the fascists. Uh, a Brown

00:23:01.980 university professor recently released a study about gender dysphoria, AKA transgenderism, uh, that suggested

00:23:08.800 that transgenderism and kids can be created in part by social media and their social environment. So

00:23:15.420 it's not entirely biological. Uh, the woman who conducted the study said that the study needs more

00:23:22.000 research, but that it does contradict the increasingly popular idea on the left, uh, that we should be

00:23:27.700 affirming kids desire to transition to another gender at such a young age. Uh, Brown university ended up

00:23:34.400 pulling the study off of its site after complaints, uh, because they were afraid the study would offend the

00:23:41.140 community or discredit the experience of transgender kids. So instead of having a reasoned conversation

00:23:47.940 about the findings or, uh, debating the methodology, they invalidated a carefully conducted study because

00:23:54.760 it might be offensive, offensive to some people. Uh, this is how increasingly it seems the left views

00:24:01.500 facts as secondary to feelings. And to the detriment, I think of actual people, because apparently,

00:24:08.280 apparently, according to them, the more loving thing to do is to allow your child at 12 years old

00:24:14.840 to start hormone therapy, to become the gender that they think they want to be and to start affirming

00:24:20.660 their gender dysphoria from an even younger age. Um, when I was little, I refused to wear dresses.

00:24:27.280 I only ever wanted to wear jeans and a white t-shirt. I hated girly things, or at least I thought that I did

00:24:33.060 for a period of time. Uh, did that mean that I was supposed to be a boy? Should my parents have said,

00:24:38.060 you know, Ali or Al, whatever we're going to call you now, let's encourage this a little bit. Let's

00:24:43.880 suggest that maybe, maybe you're supposed to be a boy and start asking you some questions about what

00:24:49.040 you feel your gender is. No. And you know what? The stage of my life where I only wanted to wear

00:24:56.020 jeans and a t-shirt, I think it was when I was like, I think six or maybe it was even younger than

00:25:00.940 that, like four. It lasted for like a year. Uh, boys go through stages of playing with dolls. Are we

00:25:07.000 supposed to set them on a path to cut off their genitalia in 10 years? No, I don't think that's

00:25:13.220 the loving, logical thing to do. I think that's child abuse. That's what that is. And it denies

00:25:18.860 basic science and sociology, which has shown for literally millennia, literally millennia,

00:25:24.420 that there are traditional gender characteristics that correspond with sex, that there are female

00:25:29.220 internal qualities that correspond with female anatomy and the same for men. But prestigious

00:25:33.880 universities like Brown thinks, think that that is, uh, that's mean. So by all means,

00:25:40.120 uh, let us reverse thousands of years of, uh, accepted knowledge to cater to the delusions

00:25:45.580 of a few people. Uh, and look, I have talked about before, uh, that I think that we should

00:25:51.140 have compassion for people who struggle with gender dysphoria. I think it's a real struggle

00:25:55.560 for most people that deal with it and that there is an internal aspect to it that is not caused

00:26:00.320 probably by their environment, social media or whatever. Uh, but it is a disorder and the loving

00:26:05.360 thing to do is to not to affirm disorders or to cater to them, but to speak the truth and love

00:26:10.420 and be as kind and as empathetic as we possibly can without compromising reality. Uh, but that is what

00:26:17.640 the left cannot do. They always unconditionally equate love with completely accepting someone's

00:26:23.720 lifestyle choices, no matter how harmful they might be. And I find it extremely sad, especially when it

00:26:29.100 comes to kids. Um, and speaking of child abuse and the left, uh, the New York times is now defending

00:26:35.580 the Pope apparently, who, as you may have heard is saying that he is a little too busy to be focusing

00:26:42.220 on the sex abuse stuff when there are things like, uh, the environment and, uh, migrants to worry about.

00:26:48.000 Okay. Uh, the New York times tweeted this the other day, an ideologically motivated opposition has

00:26:53.820 weaponized the church's sex abuse crisis to threaten not only Francis's agenda, but his entire

00:26:59.500 papacy. Uh, the article that it is that it was tweeting is titled Vatican power struggle burst into

00:27:05.820 open as conservatives pounce. The article says that Pope Francis has tried to be tolerant and more

00:27:13.440 inclusive and traditionalists are mad. Really? So it's the traditionalists we want to condemn here.

00:27:20.200 The Pope is literally being accused of covering up child sexual abuse, but you, the New York times

00:27:26.520 are going to defend him because you like his liberal agenda. Okay. I guess nothing says a tolerance and

00:27:34.360 inclusion, like pushing aside raped kids to own the conservatives. Um, all right. And yet, and yet

00:27:42.100 we on the right are seen as immoral. We are the immoral ones. They say, um, Ron DeSantis just won

00:27:50.780 the Republican primary for Florida governor and he will be going against Democrat Andrew Gillum. I think

00:27:56.440 that's his name, uh, his democratic opponent who is running on a socialist agenda. He's backed by Bernie

00:28:02.500 Sanders, uh, really likable seeming guy. And DeSantis actually gave him credit for that, uh, in this Fox

00:28:09.400 news clip. Well, look, I mean, this is a Florida elections are always competitive. And, um, you

00:28:13.780 know, this is a guy who, although he's much too, too liberal for Florida, I think he's got huge problems

00:28:18.940 with how he's governed Tallahassee. Uh, you know, he is an articulate spokesman for those far left

00:28:24.020 views and he's a charismatic candidate. And, you know, I watched those Democrat debates. None of that

00:28:28.520 was, was my cup of tea, but I mean, he performed better than the other people there. So, so we've got to

00:28:33.460 work hard to make sure that we continue Florida going in a good direction. Let's build off the

00:28:38.400 success we've had on governor Scott. The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying

00:28:44.240 to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state. That is

00:28:50.260 not going to work. That's not going to be good for Florida. Uh, but you know what people are saying

00:28:54.100 about that? People are not saying, wow, that was nice of DeSantis, uh, to give him some credit and

00:28:59.740 say that he had a worthy opponent. They are saying that that was racist. Uh, what DeSantis said, uh,

00:29:04.740 if you heard, he said, um, we don't want to monkey this up. We don't want to monkey this process up or

00:29:11.300 monkey our state up by electing a socialist candidate. Um, people are saying that that was,

00:29:17.300 uh, purposely racist. I actually debated this on HLN yesterday and I could not believe what my fellow

00:29:24.200 guests, Michael star Hopkins, whom I actually really like, I could not believe what he was saying.

00:29:29.300 He was saying that this, uh, was meant to be a derogatory racist comment. Like, are you kidding?

00:29:35.620 Do you actually think that someone running for governor would have the audacity to go on national

00:29:40.860 television and refer to his black opponent as a monkey? Of course not. Of course not. I don't know

00:29:47.120 what he's like as a person, but I can bet he's not that stupid. Um, I actually think that it's racist

00:29:53.540 to suggest that. I think it's racist to make that suggestion because that's where your mind is going.

00:29:58.840 I guarantee that DeSantis didn't even think of it that way in the slightest. And of course his

00:30:03.200 campus come out and said, you know, that's, that wasn't our intention at all. It's just like

00:30:07.800 throwing a monkey wrench in the situation. Uh, but this is what the left does. They ignore their own

00:30:12.620 complete and utter depravity and point out little unintentional things on the other side and accuse

00:30:18.680 us of being debased. Uh, conservatives shouldn't allow that to happen. We shouldn't apologize when we're

00:30:24.420 wrongly accused or bullied. Uh, we shouldn't back down when we're right. And we should call them out

00:30:30.000 when they're crazy. Um, so if we want any chance at winning this thing, whether it's the Senate or

00:30:36.760 whether it's the white house in 2020, that's what we have to do. We have to emphasize the economy,

00:30:41.540 harp on their hypocrisy and call it. They're crazy. Uh, none of these things, by the way, require,

00:30:45.920 uh, wholesale support of Trump. I have been very critical of Trump as you guys know,

00:30:50.760 and I will continue to criticize him when he's wrong, but that doesn't mean that I want the

00:30:55.220 Democrats to win. And I certainly don't want Trump to fail. I want him to succeed because I want this

00:31:00.000 country to succeed. Um, it's going to be a really ugly fight until November for Congress, for Kavanaugh,

00:31:06.700 and it's just going to get worse, uh, in 2020. So that's really exciting. Okay. That is that. And now

00:31:14.460 the last thing, a listener question. Uh, so this was from an Instagram follower who messaged

00:31:20.680 me and said, my best friend is super into the self-love being intentional, being present sort

00:31:26.300 of things at the moment. She is not a believer, but as a believer myself, it's hard not to do

00:31:31.760 the occasional biblical eye roll. How can I respectfully disagree with her from a Christian

00:31:37.420 perspective without her giving me an unbiblical eye roll? I appreciate the parenthetical biblical

00:31:44.320 and unbiblical thing there. Uh, so I think it's difficult because your friend is not a Christian.

00:31:49.600 And so she is obviously trying to grapple with some sense of goodness and morality without having

00:31:54.740 an actual, uh, you know, unchanging moral compass that we have, uh, which is the Bible. Um, so I think

00:32:03.400 that whenever it comes to any kind of wrong or misguided or sinful belief from a non-Christian,

00:32:10.940 what we need to pull them out of primarily is not that wrong belief, but unbelief in Christ. And so

00:32:17.840 it's actually Christ that renews our mind and changes our way of thinking. So I don't think

00:32:22.480 that your primary concern should necessarily be to stop her from going down this road of self-love

00:32:28.880 or going down this road of intentionality and things like that. That is just her, uh, attempts

00:32:35.300 to try to find some kind of meaning and significance apart from Christ, which we know as Christians,

00:32:40.120 I really can't be found. So how I would approach that is, wow, all of these things that you're

00:32:45.420 seeking after, they sound really good, but at the end of the day, they're not going to fulfill you.

00:32:50.220 Let me tell you, let me tell you about the person who will fulfill you. Let me tell you, uh, the

00:32:55.260 message of, uh, the message that will actually satisfy the, the longings that you have, that you're

00:33:01.500 trying to fulfill with these kinds of worldly dogmas. That's all of this is this whole self-love

00:33:06.820 thing, this whole self-esteem movement that, uh, we're seeing this whole intentionality,

00:33:11.540 self-care thing. It's all a secular attempt to find confidence and satisfaction and identity

00:33:18.380 and worth and value, uh, apart from religion, apart from Christ. And we know as it has for

00:33:24.740 thousands and thousands of years, it comes up short. So I would just kind of redirect her,

00:33:30.680 uh, kind of say, Oh, you, you want confidence. Well, why don't you look in this direction? Oh,

00:33:36.260 you want fulfillment? Why don't you look in this direction? Why don't you look to the person

00:33:39.620 who loves you unconditionally and who cares for you unconditionally? Something that you can't do

00:33:43.780 on your own. This is something I brought up in the Tuesday podcast is that the reason why self-love

00:33:49.220 doesn't work ultimately is because there are some days when we really don't love ourselves and we

00:33:54.660 can't love ourselves. So what do we do when we fail at loving ourselves and we look in the mirror

00:33:58.880 and we don't see anything good. If you can't look to the person who created you, who tells you who you

00:34:03.800 are in his word, then how are you going to be able to find any self-worth? Um, so I think it's just

00:34:09.220 a reminder that all of our attempts to find satisfaction always come up short apart from

00:34:14.900 Christ. Um, so great question and good for you for wanting to reach out to her and obviously praying

00:34:20.900 for her. I have seen prayer personally in my life, in my friend's life, unbelievers, believers alike

00:34:26.700 have incredible, incredible power to change minds, change hearts, change circumstances, change people's

00:34:32.360 lives. So don't take that for granted. Uh, okay. Love you guys. I hope that you have a great weekend

00:34:38.100 and I'll see you next week.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - August 30, 2018

Ep 33 ｜ Advice for Republicans

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