Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 42

00:00:00.000 What's up, guys? Welcome to Relatable Happy Tuesday. My name is Allie Stuckey, your host.

00:00:06.020 This is a podcast by CRTV. You should definitely go to CRTV.com slash Allie and subscribe if you

00:00:12.320 want to watch this. If you're listening and I sound even more nasally than usual, it's because

00:00:17.720 I'm just a little bit under the weather. I've been traveling nonstop for the past week and a half,

00:00:23.640 and I think my body is just kind of like shutting down. Nevertheless, I am here and we have a lot

00:00:28.420 to talk about. I don't think that I've ever talked about one subject for so long on this podcast,

00:00:34.400 and I'm referring to Kavanaugh because that's what we're going to talk about again today,

00:00:37.720 because usually, you know, the news cycle happens so quickly. We have something new to talk about

00:00:42.200 every time, or we try to talk about something theological, cultural, whatever it is. But

00:00:47.440 there's just so much more to say every single day about Kavanaugh, and the reason why I keep talking

00:00:53.280 about it is because I believe that this is the most politically significant moment in our lives,

00:00:58.840 especially as millennials. We have gone through a lot. When we were little, it was the Bush-Gore

00:01:03.740 election that went on forever. Obviously, 9-11 has happened in our lifetimes. First black president

00:01:09.360 was elected in our lifetimes. A lot of big things have happened, but there's something about this

00:01:15.840 that just, it seems like the entire country is collectively holding their breath. For those of

00:01:23.780 us who were not alive during the Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas controversy in 1991, I was born a year

00:01:31.980 after that, so obviously wasn't around for it. I think that this is just almost a stunning mirror

00:01:39.620 image a little bit of what was happening then. The difference is we have a Republican Senate,

00:01:45.660 so it should be easy as pie to confirm Kavanaugh. Then they had a Democrat Senate, and they still

00:01:52.120 confirmed Thomas. That doesn't seem to be what's going to happen here. I don't know if Kavanaugh is

00:01:58.780 going to get confirmed or not. What I do know is that polling for public opinion is getting worse and

00:02:03.300 worse for his confirmation. Not that that matters that much, but it kind of does because, you know,

00:02:09.320 people that are adamantly against Kavanaugh's confirmation are going to protest. They're

00:02:13.040 going to call their senator. Senators are going to feel pressure. They might be apt to vote against

00:02:17.860 him. But that's the sad reality is that we have Democrats that control the narrative because they

00:02:25.340 have their cronies in the liberal media. The liberal media dominate the news cycle. They dominate social

00:02:30.760 media, and they form this public opinion. They form this story about Kavanaugh that, quite frankly,

00:02:36.080 is not based on fact. So I know that the testimonies of Kavanaugh and Dr. Ford happened last week. But

00:02:45.620 when we talked last week, they hadn't happened yet. So we haven't even covered them. They were

00:02:50.720 stunning testimonies. I was flying and I had terrible Wi-Fi, so I couldn't watch the whole thing.

00:02:57.760 I got to watch her testimony when I was in the airport. So I got that. I was wearing actually my

00:03:02.940 confirmed Kavanaugh pen in the airport. I got some really interesting looks. And then I got some

00:03:07.520 people that came up to me and said, I like your pen. But I thought that's really sad that they feel

00:03:12.120 like they have to they have to whisper about that. But anyway, so I watched her testimony and I thought,

00:03:19.480 wow, this is this is a sad woman. This is a pitiful woman. This is a small seeming woman. And I don't

00:03:28.940 mean pitiful in a derogatory way. I really don't. It's and I when I say pathetic, I also don't mean

00:03:35.300 it in a derogatory way. I mean, like literally like evoking sympathy. I just felt like she was

00:03:41.260 very fragile, both mentally and emotionally. And yes, it is intimidating to talk in front of the

00:03:48.800 Senate, of course. But there was something a little bit more frazzled about her that just

00:03:54.480 really struck me. But it did evoke sympathy from me. It wasn't until she started being questioned

00:03:59.580 by the outside counsel, Rachel Mitchell, who has 25 years experience in prosecuting sex crimes

00:04:06.420 that I started to realize that Ford's story is falling apart. So I listened to her testimony and I

00:04:13.420 said, oh, this is going to be very difficult to this is going to be very difficult to refute. I mean,

00:04:19.320 this is passionate. This is emotional. I could definitely see how people who have been sexually

00:04:24.100 assaulted would watch this and think, you know, that's me. I can relate to this woman. And then

00:04:29.380 she started being questioned. And I said, wait, this woman, this woman doesn't know her story.

00:04:36.040 She doesn't know what she's talking about. She she can't remember basic facts from just even three

00:04:42.720 months ago. She can't remember how she got to the party, how she left the party. We'll get into all of

00:04:47.200 that in just a minute. But she can only remember the facts that implicate Kavanaugh. That's weird.

00:04:55.580 So that's when it started falling apart for me. I think, honestly, most of the country had stopped

00:05:00.520 watching by then. They just watched her testimony and said, oh, yeah, you know, I believe her.

00:05:04.880 But still, even after her testimony started falling apart, I thought this is going to be difficult. And

00:05:11.340 then Kavanaugh came along and Kavanaugh's testimony was maybe at least in my lifetime that I can recall

00:05:21.700 the most compelling piece of rhetoric that I have ever watched. And like I said, I had really bad

00:05:29.180 Wi-Fi when I was watching it. It was on the plane and I was refreshing like every five seconds, the

00:05:34.240 people next to me like they didn't care at all. They were probably wondering what the heck I was doing

00:05:39.280 because I was so frustrated. But I was crying in the plane. I mean, I've never been so drawn in

00:05:45.780 to a speech in my life. And if there was any, any kind of speech that could have refuted Ford's

00:05:51.940 testimony, it was the one Kavanaugh gave. He fought for his life. He fought for his reputation, his name,

00:05:58.420 his honor, his family. I mean, that it was like I left at that was if I had any doubt in my mind,

00:06:05.980 which I really didn't. You know, I still thought that this is a whole smear campaign and I'll tell

00:06:12.560 you why soon. But if there was even a scintilla of doubt in my mind, Kavanaugh's testimony completely

00:06:19.420 eradicated it. He is not he he can't be that good of an actor. He just can't. He just can't. That

00:06:25.480 would make him a sociopath. And I just don't think a sociopath is able to withstand six FBI background

00:06:31.880 checks and 30 years working in the swamp on and also serving on the second highest court in the

00:06:37.480 land, the D.C. Circuit Court. I just don't think that's possible. So anyway, needless to say, I was

00:06:42.920 extremely affected by his testimony. It like I don't want to be dramatic, but it totally shattered

00:06:49.540 me. OK, I'm going to stop talking for a second and I'm going to let you listen to a little bit of

00:06:54.540 Ford's testimony, what I thought was the most emotional and compelling part, and then a little bit of

00:06:59.940 of Kavanaugh's testimony. I went up a very narrow set of stairs leading from the living room to a

00:07:06.480 second floor to use the restroom. When I got to the top of the stairs, I was pushed from behind into a

00:07:14.380 bedroom across from the bathroom. I couldn't see who pushed me. Brett and Mark came into the bedroom

00:07:21.980 and locked the door behind them. There was music playing in the bedroom.

00:07:29.380 It was turned up louder by either Brett or Mark. Once we were in the room, I was pushed onto the bed

00:07:36.240 and Brett got on top of me. He began running his hands over my body and grinding into me.

00:07:43.480 I yelled, hoping that someone downstairs might hear me, and I tried to get away from him, but his weight

00:07:52.000 was heavy. Brett groped me and tried to take off my clothes. He had a hard time because he was very

00:08:00.160 inebriated and because I was wearing a one-piece bathing suit underneath my clothing. I believed he

00:08:08.380 was going to rape me. I tried to yell for help. When I did, Brett put his hand over my mouth to

00:08:16.180 stop me from yelling. This is what terrified me the most and has had the most lasting impact on my life.

00:08:23.760 It was hard for me to breathe, and I thought that Brett was accidentally going to kill me.

00:08:29.660 Okay, that was Ford, and here is just a snippet of Kavanaugh's testimony.

00:08:36.560 I'm not questioning that Dr. Ford may have been sexually assaulted by some person in some place

00:08:44.680 at some time, but I have never done this to her or to anyone. That's not who I am.

00:08:54.500 It is not who I was. I am innocent of this charge. I intend no ill will to Dr. Ford and her family.

00:09:05.940 The other night, Ashley and my daughter, Liza, said their prayers, and little Liza, all of 10 years old,

00:09:12.680 said to Ashley, we should pray for the woman.

00:09:25.040 It's a lot of wisdom from a 10-year-old.

00:09:31.060 We mean no ill will.

00:09:33.220 Okay, so as you can tell, if you were just listening to that, say you didn't know what

00:09:40.960 was going on, you have no partisan opinion, you were just listening to those, you might

00:09:45.780 walk away thinking, shoot, I have no idea what to think. This is really difficult. They

00:09:51.720 both sound so convinced of the truth, of their versions of truth, and they completely contradict

00:09:57.220 each other. I mean, she said 100% she knows that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. Kavanaugh said

00:10:04.640 that he swears to God that he has never sexually assaulted anyone. So you look at those two things

00:10:12.200 and you say, how the heck am I or is anyone else going to be able to come up with the truth?

00:10:17.320 And that would be fine to sit in that place if their testimonies were all that we had,

00:10:24.220 but their testimonies are not all that we had. There is only one side with any corroboration to

00:10:31.160 their story, only one side with any substantiation, only one with 65 plus male and female character

00:10:38.940 witnesses who say that they would never do something like this. There is only one side

00:10:45.360 that is verified by the alleged witnesses that Ford says were there at this alleged incident,

00:10:52.840 and that is Kavanaugh. He is the only one with any facts on his side whatsoever. She doesn't have

00:10:59.460 a sure story. And like I said, there are multiple discrepancies in this story. She does not have 65

00:11:06.700 plus character witnesses. She has not cleared six FBI background checks. She did not keep amazingly

00:11:13.880 close, amazingly pay amazingly close attention to her calendars growing up and keep her calendars

00:11:20.740 from 1982 the way that Kavanaugh did. I mean, he has calendars literally refuting her testimony and

00:11:26.320 say, no, I wasn't there the weekend that she alleges. And that's another problem is that she has changed

00:11:31.880 the weekend that this happened multiple times. She's changed when it happened in the eighties. She said

00:11:36.820 mid eighties, late eighties, early eighties. She said at one point that this happened in her late teens.

00:11:42.080 Then she said it happened when she was 15. We don't actually know. One of the things that I found

00:11:47.220 most disturbing was that she could not remember, you know, all of this came out originally.

00:11:53.420 While we knew her name from a Washington Post piece, and this came out in that Washington Post

00:11:59.060 piece after Dianne Feinstein had released the anonymous vague letter. I won't get into the

00:12:03.400 timeline. We've already talked about it. Christine Blasey Ford named herself to the Washington Post.

00:12:07.860 She said what happened. And in it, in the story of the Washington Post, it said she told her

00:12:12.960 therapist this in 2012 about this sexual assault incident. Well, now in this hearing with Rachel

00:12:22.180 Miller or Rachel Mitchell, Christine Ford could not remember if she gave her therapist notes to

00:12:28.080 the Washington Post or if she just summarized them for the Washington Post. OK, that that's a big deal.

00:12:36.260 One, it troubles me that you can't remember something that you would have done just a few months ago.

00:12:41.180 So either she wasn't the one who gave the therapist notes, which is troubling,

00:12:46.280 that just confirms this theory that she's really just a pawn by the Democrats or she just has really

00:12:52.340 bad memory, which, again, why would we trust her? Or three, she's lying and this didn't actually

00:12:58.900 happen. She doesn't even have any therapist notes. So those are just a few of the things. And in

00:13:04.860 speaking of discrepancies, Rachel Mitchell, who I said is the outside counsel, she was hired by the

00:13:11.040 GOP to come before the Senate Judiciary and actually question Ford. And she did. And a lot of people

00:13:18.640 criticize Mitchell saying that she didn't do a good job. I actually think that she did. I think that she

00:13:24.420 did a decent job. It was just a horrible format. She had to stop every five minutes and let the Senate

00:13:30.100 ask a question. And every time a Senate Democrat came on, it was just grandstanding. And we never

00:13:34.940 really got to the truth. But she did point out some discrepancies. And she just released a memo

00:13:39.020 on Sunday night, I believe it was, listing all of the discrepancies in Ford's story.

00:13:46.400 I don't want to go through all of it because it's a lot. I encourage you to go read it. I think that it

00:13:52.920 was released again by The Washington Post, but it's on Twitter. I retweeted it. She lists all of the

00:13:59.400 inconsistencies that she doesn't have a good memory of what happened 35 years ago, doesn't have a good

00:14:05.200 memory of what happened in the last few months, like the notes that I just told you from her

00:14:09.960 therapist. She also lied, apparently, about flying because originally they had delayed this hearing

00:14:18.340 because they said that Christine Blasey Ford was scared of flying. But then Rachel Mitchell pointed

00:14:25.240 out, well, actually, you've flown multiple times in the past year. You actually fly a lot. So are you

00:14:31.040 really scared of flying? So that tells us that her lawyers are lying for her again, forming this

00:14:36.920 narrative. Blasey Ford also did not know that Senate Republicans had offered to come out to California

00:14:44.060 and hear her story. She said that she wasn't clear on that, that she didn't know that Republicans

00:14:49.100 offered that. So again, what are her attorneys telling her and what are her attorneys telling other

00:14:54.240 people to shape a narrative that is just not true? I believe this is what I believe that Dr. Ford,

00:14:59.400 from what I can tell from her, Dr. Ford apparently believes that this happened. She has a memory of

00:15:10.040 assault. I actually think she comes across as someone who has been assaulted and probably violated

00:15:16.600 multiple times. She I don't know that at all. This is totally speculative. She comes across as someone

00:15:21.560 who has been abused. I think that she has made this memory in her mind and that the Democrats are

00:15:26.300 using her as a pawn. I actually think from the way that the Democrats reacted to Kavanaugh's very visceral

00:15:33.160 reaction, I think that they know that he is innocent. I mean, you should have seen Dianne Feinstein when

00:15:38.980 he really pushed back on her. She just kind of sat back and she stopped talking. She ceded her time.

00:15:46.580 I think that they know that this is an innocent man and I think that they are okay with ruining his

00:15:51.820 life for political power. And they're forming this narrative and they're shaping this narrative that he

00:15:56.660 cannot be trusted, that he is. They're even going so far to say that he's a serial rapist, which is

00:16:03.780 even beyond the credible allegations that we have. I mean, it's absolutely insane. And they do not care

00:16:09.700 about ruining a man's life. And I know that there are many women who are survivors of sexual assault

00:16:15.240 who are incensed. They are galvanized by all of this. And, you know, they're protesting and all of

00:16:22.160 this stuff. But I think the media underestimates just like they underestimated people that voted for

00:16:27.200 Trump. I think they underestimate how worked up people like me, other conservatives and other young

00:16:33.160 conservatives are about this. Yes, there are a lot of people that I know. They looked at Dr. Ford and

00:16:39.060 they said, you know, that's me. I went through sexual assault. This reminds me of my sexual assault

00:16:44.720 journey. And she's really brave. But I've gotten so many messages, dozens and dozens of messages from

00:16:50.620 women, some of them victims, some of them not saying that it wasn't Ford's testimony that brought

00:16:56.340 them to tears. It was Kavanaugh's testimony. And the reason is because in Kavanaugh, we see every good

00:17:03.120 man that we know, we see our friends, we see our husbands, we see our sons, we see our brothers,

00:17:08.280 we see our dads, and we cannot stomach the idea of living in a world in which the only two words

00:17:14.520 that are necessary to ruin a man's life is she said. I mean, not only is that unjust, but it's

00:17:21.040 also illogical. It's completely irrational. And I'm going to say something that I know was

00:17:25.600 controversial. I'm not going to put it on Twitter because everything on Twitter is taken out of

00:17:29.700 context. So if you are a sexual assault survivor, first of all, I'm sorry that that happened to you.

00:17:39.480 There's nothing that makes me more mad than sexual assault, by the way. Like, I feel like people who

00:17:44.160 rape and sexually assault people should have those things done to them as well. Like, I want them to

00:17:49.520 be punished to the fullest extent of the law. And I want their lives to be ruined. If you sexually

00:17:54.020 assaulted someone, like, your life deserves to be ruined, okay? So know that I hear you, I see you,

00:18:00.320 and I am sorry that that happened to you. It was criminal. It never should have happened. But

00:18:06.280 your collective, your, your story of sexual assault does not make Dr. Ford's story any more credible.

00:18:14.960 That's the mistake that I'm seeing people make. That this is about victims in general. This is about

00:18:20.160 championing, champion, championing the woman in general. Well, no, it's not. When you make it about

00:18:27.460 that, that's when the truth becomes irrelevant. That's when facts become irrelevant. That's when

00:18:32.520 justice becomes irrelevant. When corroboration and substantiation becomes irrelevant. All that matters

00:18:38.020 is your, uh, is your feelings and your own experiences and, uh, the progress that you think that

00:18:44.920 we can make from her coming out and telling her account. It no longer becomes about these

00:18:50.140 people. It becomes about your cause. And that's not justice. Yes. I understand that this is not a

00:18:56.660 court of law technically that we are in, that this is a quote job interview, um, in a lot of ways,

00:19:03.800 but we are still talking about right and wrong, true and false. We are talking about a man's life.

00:19:11.560 We are talking about justice. This is not just your standard job interview. Um, and the argument that

00:19:19.340 I've gotten, so people read Rachel Mitchell's, uh, Rachel Mitchell's memo, and that very factually

00:19:27.020 lays out why Dr. Ford is it, she's either not telling the truth or she just doesn't have her

00:19:33.740 story straight. And she also said in it that she is being influenced, um, probably by Democrats and,

00:19:40.520 uh, Democrat lawyers. It says, yeah, she says she's likely affected by that. The argument that I'm hearing

00:19:46.000 to her memo is that, well, she was hired by the GOP. And so nothing that she says can be believed.

00:19:54.740 Okay. That's fine for you to be a little bit skeptical because she was hired by the Republican

00:19:59.840 party. Um, however, you still need to be able to factually refute the memo. If you can go through

00:20:08.520 line by line and say, Oh, here's where Mitchell is wrong. Oh no, that's not a discrepancy. That's fine.

00:20:14.040 We can have an intelligent conversation, but for you to just throw out facts because she was hired

00:20:19.680 by Republicans and the Senate judiciary committee is wrong, but that's where we are. Facts do not

00:20:25.440 matter when it comes to Kavanaugh and Ford. All that matters is your preconceived notions. All that

00:20:30.360 matters is your own experience, your own memories, uh, your own account of survival, which I said is a

00:20:36.140 worthy account to be heard and shouldn't have happened, but it does not make this any more

00:20:42.140 true. Um, but that's where we are. It does, it does not matter what's true and what's false. See,

00:20:48.520 I think that the Democrats who know that he is innocent, um, they see this, they kind of see,

00:20:55.700 uh, him as a worthy sacrifice for the greater good, because if all he would have to do, all he would

00:21:03.900 have to do to stop this whole thing is to come out tomorrow and say, I love abortion. I love abortion

00:21:09.140 and I love Roe v. Wade. Wish I had written him myself. Then none of this would happen because

00:21:13.880 that's what this is about. They are not concerned with what he did 35 years ago. No matter what they

00:21:19.900 say, they're concerned with what he is going to do for the next 30 years. And they see this as okay.

00:21:25.480 If we ruin one man's life for the good of the country, they're thinking, I'm sure, then that's fine.

00:21:31.500 All they care about is his ideology that, uh, he doesn't agree with them, that he, uh, is going

00:21:37.660 to be against women because he is not like a cheerleader for Roe v. Wade. He hasn't even said

00:21:42.940 he would overturn Roe v. Wade, but that's, that's where we are. I guarantee you everyone in their

00:21:47.840 right thinking mind knows that Kavanaugh is innocent. He doesn't have any discrepancies in

00:21:52.040 his story. And yet here we are believing the women. Cause we're, that's what we're supposed to do.

00:21:56.600 That's equality. I guess, um, equality, I guess, to feminists is special treatment. We're supposed

00:22:01.800 to believe women because they're women. Okay. Um, so Rachel Mitchell concludes in her memo.

00:22:08.400 Uh, she says in the legal context, here is my bottom line. Uh, uh, uh, she says, uh, he said,

00:22:16.200 she said case is incredibly difficult to prove, but this case is even weaker than that. Dr. Ford

00:22:21.920 identified other witnesses to the event. And those witnesses either refuted her allegations

00:22:26.760 or failed to corroborate them for the reasons discussed below. I do not think that a reasonable

00:22:32.520 prosecutor would bring this case based on the evidence before the committee, nor do I believe

00:22:37.840 that this evidence is sufficient to satisfy the preponderance of the evidence standard.

00:22:43.640 Okay. I mean, I don't know. I don't even know. I don't know what you say to that. I mean,

00:22:48.420 this woman has spent 25 years, uh, prosecuting sex offenders and we're going to refute her just

00:22:55.880 because we don't like what she has to say. Now there are people trying to make a so-called

00:23:02.100 legitimate argument, uh, that, um, Kavanaugh lied that he's lying about his yearbook that the devil's

00:23:10.160 triangle is, uh, I've heard it. Well, I know that I have children that listen to this, so I won't say

00:23:15.900 what people say it is. You can apparently look it up on urban dictionary because that's our primary

00:23:19.620 sourcing these days. Um, devil's triangle is something sexual and, and, and wrong instead

00:23:25.220 of a drinking game. As he said, boof is not, uh, as he said, flatulence is actually something much

00:23:31.840 more sinister than that. Uh, they're trying to get him on that. They're also trying to get him

00:23:36.560 on saying that he didn't drink to the point of not remembering in high school. So they're trying

00:23:41.580 to paint him as this belligerent guy who can't remember anything that he did. Um, and so if they

00:23:49.180 can get him to the point of saying, you know, I don't remember some nights because I drank, which

00:23:53.900 everyone who has ever gotten drunk has suffered some kind of memory lapse by the way. So he probably

00:23:59.920 should have just admitted that when he was, uh, when he was in the committee, but whatever. He says

00:24:07.360 that he never got to the point of not remembering something, but if they can get him to that point,

00:24:11.180 or if they can show that he actually did, which that'd be really hard to do, it's very subjective.

00:24:16.500 Then they can say, well, how can you, how can you logically say, or how can you confidently say

00:24:21.580 that you didn't assault her? If there are times that you blacked out and didn't remember, but of

00:24:25.740 course I would say, well, you should ask her the same thing. She obviously doesn't remember

00:24:30.480 everything. Um, so anyway, I got two more things regarding the specific trial. So one, uh, Lindsay

00:24:38.540 Graham's speech, I want you to hear at least some of that and just how amazing it was and, um, how he

00:24:45.460 defended Kavanaugh. I thought it was so good. And really the only thing you need to hear, like if I

00:24:50.220 played baseball, this would be my walk-up song. It's like, it's that motivating.

00:24:54.380 Are you aware that at 9 23 on the night of July the ninth, the day you were nominated to the Supreme

00:25:03.260 Court by president Trump, Senator Schumer said 23 minutes after your nomination, I will oppose

00:25:10.340 judge Kavanaugh's nomination with everything I have. I have a bipartisan and I hope a bipartisan

00:25:15.940 majority will do the same. The stakes are simply too high for anything less. Well, if you weren't aware

00:25:22.720 of it, you are now. Did you meet with Senator Dianne Feinstein on August 20th? I did meet with

00:25:28.640 Senator Feinstein. Did you know that her staff had already recommended a lawyer to Dr. Ford?

00:25:34.160 I did not know that. Did you know that her and her staff had this allegations for over 20 days?

00:25:41.620 I did not know that at the time. If you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come to us.

00:25:47.680 What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020.

00:25:54.720 You've said that, not me. You've got nothing to apologize for. When you see Sotomayor and Kagan,

00:26:03.280 tell them that Lindsey said all because I voted for them. I would never do to them what you've done to

00:26:09.400 this guy. This is the most unethical sham since I've been in politics. And if you really wanted

00:26:18.500 to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy. Are you a gang

00:26:24.340 rapist? No. I cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through. Boy, y'all want power. God,

00:26:35.740 I hope you never get it. I hope the American people can see through this sham that you knew

00:26:41.220 about it and you held it. You had no intention of protecting Dr. Ford. None. She's as much of a

00:26:48.340 victim as you are. God, I hate to say it because these have been my friends. But let me tell you

00:26:55.060 when it comes to this, you're looking for a fair process. You came to the wrong town at the wrong

00:27:02.660 time, my friend. Do you consider this a job interview? The advice and consent role is like

00:27:10.040 a job interview. You consider that you've been through a job interview? I've been through a

00:27:15.040 process of advice and consent under the Constitution. Would you say you've been through hell? I've been

00:27:21.100 through hell and then some. This is not a job interview. Yeah. This is hell. This is going to

00:27:29.660 destroy the ability of good people to come forward because of this crap. Your high school yearbook.

00:27:39.140 You have interacted with professional women all your life. Not one accusation. You're supposed to

00:27:45.500 be Bill Cosby when you're a junior and senior in high school. And all of a sudden you got over it.

00:27:52.220 It's been my understanding that if you drug women and rape them for two years in high school,

00:28:00.600 you probably don't stop. Here's my understanding. If you lived a good life, people would recognize it

00:28:09.000 like the American Bar Association has the gold standard. His integrity is absolutely unquestioned.

00:28:16.860 He is the very circumspect in his personal conduct. Harbors no biases or prejudices. He's entirely

00:28:24.700 ethical. He's a really decent person. He is warm, friendly, unassuming. He's the nicest person.

00:28:33.520 The ABA. And one thing I can tell you, you should be proud of. Ashley, you should be proud of this.

00:28:40.240 That you raised a daughter who had the good character to pray for Dr. Ford. To my Republican

00:28:48.420 colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in

00:28:57.260 politics. You want this seat? I hope you never get it. I hope you're on the Supreme Court. That's

00:29:05.380 exactly where you should be. And I hope that the American people will see through this charade.

00:29:12.980 And I wish you well. And I intend to vote for you. And I hope everybody who's fair minded

00:29:18.780 will. Republicans loved that. It was such a motivating speech. Some people are saying,

00:29:25.900 oh, he just did it for attention. I'm like, I really don't care if he did it for attention.

00:29:29.680 It was true. Just refute anything that he said. It's completely factual. He's right. As I've said,

00:29:35.120 the only reason they are doing this is to not get to the truth. They do not care about Ford. They

00:29:40.120 don't care about what happened 35 years ago. They don't care about victims. They just want to hold

00:29:44.580 the seat open. They think that it's going, they're going to, he's going to overturn Roe v. Wade and all

00:29:49.780 of that stuff. And so it's all ideological. So, um, it, it looked good for Kavanaugh. I thought towards

00:29:57.580 the end of, of the hearing. Um, and we heard the next day on Friday that, okay, Jeff Flake,

00:30:04.200 who is usually a swing, a swing vote, um, you know, on a lot of things, he's, I won't even call

00:30:11.040 it moderate. I just think he's pretty cowardly. Um, he said that he was going to vote yes, which was

00:30:17.840 great. So they were supposed to vote at 9 30 AM on Friday. And, um, then all of a sudden it was

00:30:23.940 1 30 PM on Friday. And I thought that's not good. Jeff Flake is going to flake and it's true. He

00:30:32.140 cannot not live up to his name. So that's what he did. He did vote to get it out of committee. So

00:30:36.900 that was the vote. So they had to vote to get it out of the judiciary committee on Friday and Ford

00:30:42.020 did agree. So that made it a majority, but he said, the only way that I am going to vote officially.

00:30:47.060 So when the vote actually goes to the floor and all of Senate has to vote is if there's an FBI

00:30:51.420 investigation, which is exactly what Democrats want. Um, and the only reason they want it is

00:30:56.260 again, to delay has nothing to do with the truth. Of course, Kavanaugh has already passed six FBI

00:31:01.200 background checks. There's not going to be anything that they find, um, that is going to corroborate her

00:31:06.840 account. I'm sure. So he said, you know, I want an FBI bet. I want an FBI investigation. It's the

00:31:11.900 only way I'm going to vote. Okay, whatever. I don't like Jeff Flake. Most Republicans don't like

00:31:16.940 Jeff Flake. Oh gosh. I wish I could say what I think he is, but it's not a very PG word. Um,

00:31:24.760 so that, that is what happened. Um, and so now there is, uh, uh, uh, FBI investigation going on

00:31:32.380 that's supposedly limited in time and scope, which supposed to be one week. It's supposed to be done

00:31:37.440 by Friday. I'm not really sure if that's actually going to happen. Uh, considering FBI investigations

00:31:43.080 just typically take a lot longer and they, I think are kind of bound to pursue the truth or bound to

00:31:49.360 pursue crimes when they find them. Um, so it'll probably extend longer than that, which again,

00:31:54.840 is exactly what Democrats want. They don't actually care what is found here. Um, but of course people

00:32:03.200 on the left are saying, Oh, the fact that this is limited in time and scope just shows that Republicans

00:32:07.260 are trying to obstruct justice. They don't really want to know the truth. No, that's not true at all.

00:32:12.680 It's because this is all a delay tactic. And we actually see that. Um, and the New York times

00:32:18.020 actually reported that it is not rare for the white house to limit an investigation in time and

00:32:22.860 scope. Of course that was buried in paragraph like 17 of the New York times, uh, thing because

00:32:28.340 they want it to seem like Republicans are the ones that are grasping for power here when it's the

00:32:33.240 Democrats. But Republicans are so weak that we haven't stopped this whole circus when we could have,

00:32:39.380 we have the majority. We should have stopped it. We never should have let this

00:32:42.600 go on. When Ford said that she wouldn't testify on the day that Grassley offered,

00:32:46.940 it should have been done. It should have said, okay, sorry, we gave you your chance. We're holding

00:32:51.420 the vote, but no, we had to acquiesce. We had to give in because we had to be, you know, the nice

00:32:57.660 people. We didn't want to be seen as the people who silenced an accuser or whatever. Huh? So now here

00:33:04.920 we are and they're going to be, I'm sure further allegations that come out. There's already been two

00:33:09.580 more by a Debra Ramirez who once again, um, these people go to the press and they don't go to the

00:33:16.520 cops or they don't tell anyone. It doesn't make any sense. So she claims that Kavanaugh exposed

00:33:22.640 himself to her at a party in high school. Um, again, her, her story was very, um, it had a lot

00:33:31.700 of holes in it. There was like Swiss cheese. And the New Yorker admitted that they really didn't know,

00:33:36.580 um, if all of the things that she was saying is true, but what did they do? They ran with the

00:33:40.600 story anyway. And I think I talked about that on my last podcast. So that's not, that's not a

00:33:45.620 credible allegation. Um, and then of course we have Michael Avenatti. Everyone knows Michael Avenatti

00:33:50.220 is a super credible guy that everyone can believe and has no ulterior motives whatsoever. And probably

00:33:54.800 a squeaky clean record. Um, he came out with a third allegation from a Ms. Swetnick who says

00:34:01.220 this is the most unbelievable thing of all. And yes, this was actually brought up in the hearing,

00:34:06.060 which is absolutely absurd considering that there are again, no substantiation. And it's

00:34:11.680 so ridiculous that, um, he was a part of a gang, a gang rape ring that this lady Swetnick

00:34:20.300 went to multiple parties when she was in college. And, uh, Kavanaugh was in high school, by the

00:34:25.280 way. And she said that at least 10 parties, there was this gang rape, uh, thing going on

00:34:30.780 where Kavanaugh and his friends would drug these girls and, uh, wait in line and rape them.

00:34:38.340 Okay. Okay. So one gang rape party. Okay. I mean, I guess, I guess you go to one and you're like,

00:34:46.820 wow, not doing that again, 10 gang rape parties. And you're just going, you're, you're just calling

00:34:52.440 a suit and you're like, Oh yeah, that gang rape party. Not bad. Pretty, pretty fun. If you ask me.

00:34:57.360 And then she says that she was the victim, but she doesn't know if Kavanaugh was someone who

00:35:01.460 actually raped her. Okay. Okay. I mean, if you want to be taken seriously with claims of sexual

00:35:07.400 assault, don't go to Michael Avenatti. I mean, it don't make them so extreme. At least make them

00:35:11.900 like a little more believable. I mean, really? I mean, the guy Kavanaugh already said that he was

00:35:16.280 a virgin through high school and college. People are saying that he's lying. Um, if he wasn't lying,

00:35:21.260 there would have been someone that would have come forward so far and said, uh, I had sex with him.

00:35:25.500 And consensual sex, they would have talked about that, but no one has because I'm sure that it's

00:35:30.920 true. I'm not really sure why that's something that you would lie about. Um, so anyway, we've got

00:35:36.500 all these ridiculous allegations coming forward. It's just a narrative that they're trying to push

00:35:40.260 that he's not to be believed that he is this belligerent drunk who raped and assaulted girls

00:35:45.960 when I don't think anything could be further from the truth. I mean, his life, his record,

00:35:50.340 his reputation that people have, uh, verified over and over again from both sides of the aisle,

00:35:56.100 male and female, just completely refute that narrative. But again, facts don't matter.

00:36:01.180 And there's this whole, uh, there's this whole thing too about, um, really the crime that he is

00:36:08.300 committing is not that he might have assaulted this person. It's that he is a white male. I mean,

00:36:14.620 that's what we keep seeing that he's a privileged white male who's not getting his way. And that's the

00:36:18.440 only reason he's upset. I mean, that pisses me off. That really makes me mad. I don't think that

00:36:23.680 people realize how upset and how outraged and how distraught people like me have been over this

00:36:29.540 and how motivated we are more motivated than ever, more outraged than ever to go vote red

00:36:37.100 in November. And you should too, do not be apathetic. This is not the election to be apathetic over.

00:36:42.640 The stakes are higher probably than they've ever been higher than they were, um, back in 2016.

00:36:50.480 You have to vote. Do not be complacent. The only way that Republicans lose November is if you do not

00:36:56.700 vote and you are complacent vote, talk to your family about voting, talk to your friends about

00:37:01.900 voting, make sure that you are registered to vote, uh, send your absentee ballot in, do whatever you

00:37:07.200 have to do. It is your responsibility. It is your right. It is your privilege to be able to vote. And

00:37:13.340 if Democrats win the Senate in, in, uh, November and you did not vote, you have yourself to thank

00:37:19.740 vote, vote in your local election research. I say vote right all the way, but do your research,

00:37:25.840 do your research and, and vote the Democrats out and make sure that we keep hold of Congress. I don't

00:37:34.440 think that there's a big chance that we hold onto the house vote anyway. I do think there's a chance

00:37:39.040 that we hold onto the Senate, which is really important. We've got to get the Supreme court

00:37:42.200 pick in. If you care about the constitution, if you care about human rights, if you care about babies in

00:37:46.720 the womb at all, if you care about Liberty, if you care about, uh, our constitutional rights, then you

00:37:52.460 should vote Republican. Do not forget that. Okay. That's my spiel on all things Kavanaugh. Um,

00:38:00.980 a couple more things. Um, one, I just wanted to, so I've gotten so much encouragement from you guys

00:38:07.900 over the past couple of days because I posted that video of me getting booed in Austin when I said that

00:38:13.660 we should not be unconditionally believing women. Um, because obviously that's disingenuous and

00:38:21.120 discriminatory. And I got booed in Austin when I was speaking at a conference on a panel and you guys

00:38:27.080 have given me so much encouragement and I just really appreciate that, that you feel like in some,

00:38:33.620 even if it's just a few of you, even in some small way that I represent what you think and I'm able to

00:38:38.540 articulate what you think. And I appreciate that. Um, but as you guys know, I also get a significant

00:38:44.800 amount of hate. So I, I want you to know that your encouragement means a lot to me. Um, I, uh, so I

00:38:52.020 experienced something over the weekend that really made me, it just, it made me sad. So I've lost a few

00:38:58.620 friends since the election. Um, and not like in a loud confrontational way, but just in kind of a

00:39:07.300 quiet, we understand that we don't see eye to eye anymore. And we're just kind of going to not keep

00:39:12.360 touch. Not my best friends. Like I have my best friends that I've had for years and that will never

00:39:16.780 go away. And it really doesn't matter what we think politically, but people that I was friends with in

00:39:21.360 college, um, that, you know, we don't agree and they don't seem to be happy for me and my career.

00:39:26.300 So we've kind of lost touch. Part of it's probably my fault too, but nothing dramatic. Um, I had one

00:39:31.480 friend a couple months ago, she really hated what I said about the me too movement that women do have

00:39:37.800 just in general responsibility for our actions. That's not to say we're to blame for sexual assault,

00:39:42.940 but we do have responsibility. So she really didn't like that. I think she kind of wrote me off after

00:39:48.880 that. But, uh, this past weekend I had a particular situation where someone who I went to college with

00:39:55.640 was trolling me saying really mean things on my Instagram, like really pointed things about,

00:40:00.460 you know, 15 minutes of fame and like your, your life or existence is so menial, whatever,

00:40:06.720 just saying stupid stuff. All these people, all these trolls always think they're going to be the

00:40:10.240 ones to like finally take me down and make me insecure and like make me change my career. I'm like,

00:40:14.820 y'all been talking about my 15 minutes of fame for three years now. So just keep talking.

00:40:18.680 I mean, I've had trolls that are way meaner than this and way smarter than this. And I just love

00:40:24.020 how every troll thinks that they are like going to be the one to take me down. But anyway,

00:40:28.240 so this person was leaving really mean comments. She'll probably do it for the next couple of

00:40:31.500 weeks. I really don't block people. I just let them vent. I'm like, if you have enough time on

00:40:35.240 your hands to comment on my Instagram, you're a loser. So in a mean way, I mean, comment on my

00:40:40.320 Instagram in a mean way and just troll me. Um, but one girl that I was really good friends with

00:40:46.300 and that I, she was actually in my wedding. Uh, we were roommates in college. She commented on this

00:40:52.940 very mean comment to me and said, you're my hero to this girl who, uh, who was saying really mean

00:40:59.460 stuff to me. And it really made me sad. I mean, this girl and I aren't best friends anymore,

00:41:04.160 but we've always maintained a very friendly, a very respectful relationship, at least in the past

00:41:09.520 couple of years. I know she disagrees with me. She told me she's Democrat. She told me she's

00:41:13.020 pro-choice. I've, I've never argued with her before. Um, but this, like, it really hurt me.

00:41:19.360 I felt like I was like in fifth grade a little bit, like, Oh my gosh, why doesn't this person

00:41:23.580 like me? Literally? Like I called my mom and was like, this is really sad. But I realized one,

00:41:29.300 that's the age in which we live. Um, unfortunately is that partisan politics can break relationships.

00:41:36.920 And some people put partisan politics over relationships, um, and two people on the left

00:41:44.060 in specifically really feel like conservatives are bad people. Like they're not worthy of respect.

00:41:49.620 Like they're not worthy of a friendship that they're not worthy of love. I've never treated,

00:41:53.160 uh, this person with anything, but respecting kindness, her entire family. Um, and yet she is

00:41:58.700 celebrating me being demeaned and talked down to and condescended. And that's where tribalism can get

00:42:04.980 you. That's where identity politics can get you. Once you start believing that every single person

00:42:09.000 that disagrees with you is a bad person, which is more true, I think of the left than the right.

00:42:13.700 Um, then it, anything goes, you're okay with hurting people's feelings. You're okay with, um,

00:42:20.140 demeaning someone's character, whatever it is. And so I just want you to know one, that if this has

00:42:25.180 happened to you, that I'm with you, that I empathize with you, that I have now been there. Um,

00:42:31.300 but also I, uh, that I really appreciate your encouragement and that it goes a long way because

00:42:38.840 there are days when I get messages like that, or whenever I get comments like that, I know I act

00:42:44.200 like I really don't care. And most of the time I don't, but sometimes it really, sometimes it really

00:42:50.280 gets to me. Um, and, and what got to me was not the comments, but the person who agreed with the

00:42:56.140 comments, who I actually know it's like, I can deal with all the mean comments about,

00:42:59.920 I can deal with the booze. I can deal with the mean comments about like whatever it is,

00:43:03.820 my appearance or whatever it is by people that don't know me, but the comments by people that

00:43:09.260 do know you, that just kind of hurts. But anyway, all I can do is pray for this person. She's

00:43:13.660 obviously very troubled. She obviously is struggling with her own feeling of self-worth and significance.

00:43:18.440 So all I can pray is that she finds her identity in Christ and hope to forgive her,

00:43:22.940 even though it really hurts my feelings. So that's just some encouragement to y'all and some

00:43:25.820 gratitude to y'all. Okay. So at the end of podcast now, I really want to highlight a cause

00:43:31.800 that you guys care about, because I hear a lot from you guys that you want to get involved in

00:43:36.680 your community, but you don't know what to do. And you guys sent me so many emails about nonprofits

00:43:41.340 that are awesome that you want me to highlight. I am going to do that. And today I picked, um,

00:43:47.900 one of them that you guys sent me, it's called star children's bereavement network. And I picked it

00:43:52.880 because it just sounds, it sounds really, really, um, necessary and something that I haven't exactly

00:43:59.300 heard about before. So, uh, someone reached out to me. She said that she is the president for star

00:44:04.080 children's bereavement network. It's a nonprofit, a small nonprofit in Marquette. Um, I didn't put the

00:44:11.260 state, dang it. Sorry. Um, I don't know. I'll have to figure that out and then I'll tell you where it

00:44:17.960 is, but hopefully you can get involved wherever you are. Um, so they're an organization, but, uh,

00:44:24.440 they've been working really hard to grow. And so what they do is that they, uh, serve children in

00:44:30.020 their region. And I'm sure elsewhere who have experienced death of a person in their, in their

00:44:35.140 life. And so, um, they do a camp every August and about 15 to 25 kids attend to have lost someone in

00:44:43.600 their family or in their life. They have a weekend long camp. And so they do just like fun camp

00:44:48.300 activities. And then they also have grief support. So I'm guessing counseling and things like that.

00:44:52.920 And what we know about kids who have lost people in their lives who have experienced death,

00:44:57.780 especially of parents, they are more likely to go to jail, to abuse drugs, to be depressed,

00:45:03.220 to be suicidal, especially when it happens at such a young age. So these kids need community. They need a

00:45:08.780 distraction. They need to know that they are not alone. They need to be loved and reminded, um,

00:45:14.840 that they are, that they, that, that people care about them. Um, so she, this person sent me

00:45:22.700 a letter from a girl named Lorelai who went to the camp and it really helped her. So I'll read at

00:45:31.100 least some of it. She said, my name is Lorelai Caster. I would like to share my story with you and why I

00:45:35.320 think star children's bereavement services in their program. Camp star is so important.

00:45:38.780 I lost my mom to a homicide suicide very unexpectedly. When I was 13 years old,

00:45:43.460 I was angry and I didn't understand why God would do this to my family. I struggled with

00:45:47.400 the grieving process. I kept bottling everything in. I felt as if no one was going to understand

00:45:51.740 how I felt. I felt alone. When I arrived at camp star, I no longer felt alone. Seeing all

00:45:56.700 of these other children going through the same pain that I was, there was someone I could finally

00:46:00.720 relate to. And that was a huge turning point for me. Um, as the days passed on, I learned how to

00:46:05.640 cope with the way I was feeling, whether it was painting my emotions, um, talking about

00:46:09.760 them or writing about them. Camp star provided me tools to cope. Uh, I did not leave camp

00:46:14.440 fixed and no longer broken. I left knowing that I wasn't alone and that it was okay to

00:46:18.320 be feeling the way that I was. Camp star changed my life. That's amazing. I just think this is

00:46:22.120 a very worthy cause. So if that's something, Oh, there it is. It's in Michigan. It's in

00:46:27.060 Michigan. Um, so if you're in Michigan or I'm sure if you're anywhere, I'm sure you can

00:46:31.420 donate or you can get involved. Uh, their website is star cbs.org, or you can go to

00:46:37.620 facebook.com slash camp star. So thank you so much for sending me the nonprofits. Please

00:46:43.720 continue to do that. I love hearing what you guys are involved in. You guys are so

00:46:48.000 compassionate and have huge hearts and I've gotten so many emails about the things that

00:46:51.680 you care about. So thank you for doing that. Uh, leave a five-star review. If you would like

00:46:56.300 on iTunes, if you have any constructive criticism, feel free to DM me on Instagram, or you can email

00:47:01.620 me at the conservative millennial blog.com. Thanks for listening. And I will see you on Thursday.

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