Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 13, 2021


Ep 487 ｜ No, 1⧸6 & 9⧸11 Are Not the Same


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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. So
00:00:15.720 today we're going to talk about a few things. We're going to do some lighthearted things.
00:00:19.800 We're also going to talk about some of the worst, some of the worst takes on the internet
00:00:25.020 when it comes to 9-11 and the comparisons made between 9-11 and January 6th. It's just
00:00:32.740 awful. So I'll give you my take on some of that, but we're also going to just do some
00:00:36.640 random things. This is a more extemporaneous episode. We did an extra episode last week
00:00:42.160 on Friday, what I called an emergency episode after Joe Biden's very ominous and strange
00:00:50.580 strange and disturbing speech on Thursday talking about the vaccine mandate. So if you want to hear
00:00:56.900 my take on that, go back and listen to Friday's episode. Also, if you want an extremely compelling,
00:01:05.420 compelling, compelling story about 9-11, if you want to hear from a survivor of the 9-11 attacks,
00:01:14.420 then you should go back and listen to Thursday's episode. I talked to a survivor of the attack on
00:01:21.180 the Pentagon on 9-11. And a lot of you have given me feedback about that, that you loved that
00:01:29.180 interview, that it was not just emotional in a sad way, but also in a very hopeful way, the way that
00:01:35.600 he talked about what happened that day, but also the love that he has for this nation and the hope that
00:01:41.080 he has for the future of this nation. So go back and listen to those two episodes. First, I want to
00:01:49.060 talk about some of the takes that we saw this weekend on social media. We'll also talk about
00:01:54.600 that George W. Bush speech that a lot of people were talking about. So you probably remember what
00:02:02.280 happened on January 6th. There was a riot of mostly Trump supporters. I don't think there's any
00:02:09.600 evidence that there was this massive infiltration of left-wing agitators. But from what we can see,
00:02:17.240 ostensibly, they were Trump supporters who decided to march on the Capitol. And unfortunately, there
00:02:24.140 was a lot of chaos. There was some violence. We have footage, of course, of protesters trying to
00:02:32.960 threaten and antagonize police officers. And so it was an awful day, an awful thing to watch,
00:02:42.540 an awful thing to hear about. And so I am with everyone who believes that this was a very dark day
00:02:51.940 in American history. What I cannot be on the same page with, what I cannot agree with, because I still
00:02:59.020 am a sane person, is that it was in any way the same or comparable in any regard to 9-11. What we saw
00:03:08.080 was a lot of chaos, a lot of anger fomenting, a lot of illegality, obviously, and a lot of what I think
00:03:15.660 is evil. And I really detest the Christian symbolism that I saw being waived and used on January 6th in a
00:03:23.620 way that doesn't represent anything close to actual Christianity. But to say that January 6th,
00:03:31.240 which a lot of people like to call an insurrection, do you know how many people have been charged with
00:03:35.400 insurrection in connection to January 6th? Zero. Zero people. And a lot of people like to say that
00:03:41.280 Donald Trump incited that, that he was the one that actually caused that. And while you can take issue
00:03:46.900 with maybe some of his more aggressive language, and you can certainly take issue with a lot of his
00:03:51.440 tweets and the doubts that he sowed leading up to January 6th, he also has not been charged with
00:03:58.020 inciting violence. And so you can call it an insurrection, you can call it a coup or an attempted
00:04:04.040 coup, you can try to blame Donald Trump for all of those things. But the fact of the matter is that
00:04:08.460 people haven't actually been charged with incitement or insurrection. What it actually was, was a riot.
00:04:15.320 I think it was a detestable riot, but it was a riot. And because I don't like rioting and I don't like
00:04:23.620 that kind of violence, I can very evenly and I think equitably fairly say that was really bad.
00:04:31.040 So were the riots that were caused perpetuated by Black Lives Matter and Antifa for months on end in
00:04:37.800 some parts of our country. Some people don't like that comparison, but I think they're extremely
00:04:44.060 comparable. You can't say that, well, on the one hand, Black Lives Matter and Antifa were just fighting
00:04:49.500 for justice and that anger was justified, but the people over here, that anger wasn't justified.
00:04:57.080 Whatever you think about the motivations of the people who perpetrated this kind of violence and
00:05:03.240 chaos, the fact of the matter is, is that they both had the same means. And they both wrought
00:05:10.880 destruction and they both caused pain for innocent people, for innocent communities,
00:05:18.060 especially on the BLM and Antifa side. I mean, they literally punished people who did nothing wrong
00:05:23.840 in the name of justice. That's literally the definition of injustice. But I, even though I hated
00:05:30.520 what happened both on January 6th and what happened throughout the country when it came to
00:05:36.160 arson and looting and murder and assault perpetuated by BLM and Antifa, neither one of these things was
00:05:44.520 like 9-11. Neither one of these things was like 9-11. On 9-11, almost 3,000 Americans died because of
00:05:53.740 a terrorist attack. 3,000. Do you know how many people died on January 6th? One person. And she was
00:06:00.560 actually, she was an unarmed person that was actually killed by a police officer. And so I don't see how
00:06:06.660 this is in any way close to what happened on 9-11, where almost 3,000 Americans died. And yet, because
00:06:15.960 there is a group of the left, and I won't say everyone on the left, but because there are people
00:06:22.320 on the left who truly despise their fellow countrymen who disagree with them politically more
00:06:29.160 than they despise or resent Al-Qaeda, more than they despise or resent the Taliban, they truly see their
00:06:36.760 fellow Americans as a bigger threat and more of a danger to their safety than these animalistic,
00:06:46.980 rabid, anti-American terrorist regimes. They come up with the worst, worst takes in regards to
00:06:59.140 9-11 and January 6th. So here's Pam Keith, who I don't really know what she is. She's just like,
00:07:07.100 she's like the, whoever that left-wing Twitter agitator is, the Brooklyn dad or whatever,
00:07:13.860 who says ridiculous things. They just say ridiculous, the most extreme hot takes in an effort
00:07:19.300 to get retweets. And they have their, you know, they've got their blue checks, they've got a bunch
00:07:23.740 of followers. So I'm not just picking like random people, although they do function as trolls. I don't
00:07:29.820 even know if they're real people. They kind of seem like they're not real people. But I think
00:07:34.440 unfortunately they are. So this is Pam Keith Esquire. On 1-6-2021, 9-11-2001 ceased being, this is just
00:07:44.320 terrible syntax too, ceased being the worst thing that happened to America in my lifetime. It's really
00:07:50.740 weird and painful to process and say that. Oh, boo-hoo. It's, but it's the truth. And quite
00:07:56.200 frankly, it's not even close. Really, it's not even close. It's not even, it's not even close.
00:08:01.960 January 6th, where only one person died, and it was at the hands of the police, by the way,
00:08:08.340 where only one person died, that is far and away a bigger threat and worse than what happened on 9-11.
00:08:15.700 I think that once we get separated from something by 20 years, that it's hard for us to take ourselves
00:08:24.680 back and remember what a horrible day that was. Now, I was only nine years old on 9-11, so I'm not
00:08:31.760 pretending to remember everything that happened. I didn't have all of the same emotions that other
00:08:40.240 people did who could fully process and understand what was going on. But I do remember that day. I
00:08:46.060 remember the days after that day. I remember my parents talking about it and obviously have learned
00:08:52.300 a lot about what happened on 9-11 since then. And the idea that anyone could say that it's anywhere close
00:09:03.860 to what happened on January 6th is literally insane. That can only happen if you have brain worms that
00:09:12.840 have built a nest in your mind and have caused you to only turn out insane thoughts. And here's the
00:09:21.700 thing about these kinds of comparisons, because Pam Keith was not the only person to make this comparison.
00:09:27.000 No one actually explained why. No one explained why January 6th is worse than 9-11. No one gave us
00:09:34.840 any numbers. No one explicated that in any way. No one even tried to demonstrate that. Really,
00:09:41.260 the only reason they think that is because they actually hate Republicans more than they hate
00:09:46.600 terrorists. And I think they see them as one in the same, honestly. Brain worms. Brain worms. Okay,
00:09:53.080 here's another. Jen M. Jackson, PhD on Twitter. She did this long Twitter thread. We have to be more
00:10:01.980 honest about what 9-11 was and what it wasn't. It was an attack on the heteropatriarchal capitalistic
00:10:09.680 system that America relies upon to wrangle other countries into passivity. It was an attack on the
00:10:16.480 systems many white Americans fight to protect. And so it almost sounds like she's pro 9-11. Does it not?
00:10:25.100 Does it not kind of sound like she is saying, you know what? We got what was coming for us
00:10:29.440 and we deserved it. And basically, Al-Qaeda attacked the very system that she says that she stands against
00:10:38.340 as well. You know, I saw some other takes like this, basically saying that America deserved this,
00:10:45.840 that we had been interfering in other countries for so long. And we had been so prideful and so
00:10:52.440 arrogant that this is just exactly what we deserved. You can take issue with Americans,
00:10:57.780 with America's foreign policy over the years. There are certainly things that I take issue with.
00:11:03.200 You can be anti-interventionist. You can say, you know, America did some bad things abroad and has
00:11:09.020 done some things. We've destabilized certain regions. Okay, that can be your perspective.
00:11:13.060 That can be your take. Without saying that 3,000 Americans deserve to die. And that maybe even,
00:11:21.120 it sounds like what she's implying, that this was actually a good thing, that she is on the side
00:11:25.340 of Al-Qaeda. I mean, these people, this is a professor, by the way, these people are who
00:11:31.080 are teaching your children at universities. And I guarantee you, there are probably some teachers
00:11:39.740 in grade school who agree with this take. So it was an attack on the heteropatriarchal capitalistic
00:11:48.320 systems. That's what 9-11 was, she says, that America relies upon to wrangle other countries
00:11:55.620 into passivity. Does she think that Islam is anything other than heteropatriarchal?
00:12:04.580 Like, are there a bunch of queer feminists running around in Afghanistan telling people
00:12:09.800 what to do? Is that the system in the Middle East? Like, you think that the issue that Al-Qaeda
00:12:15.880 and the Taliban have with the United States is heterosexuality and the patriarchy? Like,
00:12:22.120 you understand that in majority Muslim countries that gay people are actually getting pushed off
00:12:28.260 the roof, that they are being murdered, that they're being executed because of their professed
00:12:34.820 sexual orientation. Like, you understand that that's what's happening, that there's not, like,
00:12:39.720 queer liberation feminist going on in the Middle East, that probably Al-Qaeda, when they were hijacking
00:12:46.500 the planes, weren't thinking, you know, this is for feminism. This is for the matriarchy.
00:12:52.760 This is for LGBTQ plus movement. Like, that's not what went on. But this is unfortunately what
00:13:00.360 intersectionality does to your brain. It forces you to be unable to see things as they actually
00:13:07.500 are. And this also ties into this whole critical race theory idea that America, white people bad,
00:13:14.380 the rest of the non-Western, non-white world is good. And so you have to fit it into that framework
00:13:21.140 somehow. And this is one of the weirdest, one of the strangest parts of the left to me.
00:13:27.800 The tolerant left, the progressive left, professing progressive intolerant left, the pro-equality,
00:13:36.700 pro-equity, pro-woman left. That's all the things that they claim to be. Their relentless defense
00:13:44.900 of radical Islam. It's so strange to me. It is one of the most, one of the most,
00:13:50.680 maybe not the most, but one of the most contradictory, confusing parts of leftist ideology.
00:13:58.420 Now, it makes sense, again, when you think about things like critical race theory,
00:14:03.960 that in its crudest form, its simplest form basically says, white America, West bad,
00:14:10.740 everything else good. White America, West oppressors, everyone else is the oppressed.
00:14:17.020 And again, when that is your lens, when that is your framework, then every story that involves
00:14:23.340 those two groups somehow has to fit into that narrative. And so somehow that allows you to say
00:14:33.640 that Al-Qaeda, that radical Islamist terrorists were against the heteropatriarchy. Like that's what
00:14:42.680 it causes you to do. That's why it's so damaging for people who have this kind of worldview because
00:14:47.880 it truly is a worldview. It's almost like a religion. They just kind of repeat dogma without
00:14:53.120 actually having to explain it. That's why it's so dangerous for these people to be forming
00:14:58.080 impressionable minds. Now, I am all for this Jen M. Jackson PhD. It's always the people with the letters
00:15:05.080 in their Twitter handles. It's always the people that have to put like their title in their Twitter
00:15:11.800 handles who also always have their pronouns in their bio. It's always these people coming up
00:15:16.360 with the worst takes. But I am all for the pronoun police and the alphabet gang having their free speech.
00:15:25.100 Which I am. Like I am for her being able to live in the United States to be able to say this without
00:15:31.160 fear of punishment. I am for bad, terrible, dangerous ideas like this being allowed in the public square.
00:15:39.700 And then I am also for people coming along with better ideas and better speech and just absolutely
00:15:45.260 ratioing this person into oblivion. That's what I'm for. Unfortunately, something like this,
00:15:51.520 this radical, absolutely anti-intellectual, ahistorical take. People on the left are totally
00:15:58.600 fine with this. I would say in general, not to say that she has no left-wing critics at all.
00:16:04.760 But the same people that are for a take like this being in the public square and being able to
00:16:12.220 gain legitimacy in any way are against people on the other side having their own opinions,
00:16:19.360 good and bad, or being able to publicly articulate those terrible opinions. That's why you have those
00:16:26.300 people saying, you know, it's fine that the Taliban is on Twitter and Trump is not on Twitter. Because
00:16:32.760 they are just not for, they can't advocate for, they can't give permission to, they can't be okay with
00:16:43.520 right-wing positions and right-wing opinions having any air or being publicized in any way. That's,
00:16:53.380 that's the difference. I would say that's one big difference between the left and the right is that
00:16:57.940 I am for bad ideas being out there and us being able to take them down. The left in general is not
00:17:04.560 for bad ideas or things that they perceive as bad ideas and bad speech, being out in public and being
00:17:10.920 able to take them down with their own better ideas and their own better speech. They are for silencing,
00:17:16.720 they are for censoring, they are for shutting down and bullying, and they are going to elevate someone
00:17:22.060 like Jen Jackson and Pam Keefe, who have terrible, dangerous, awful, offensive speech being given some
00:17:29.980 kind of position of influence. Now, I want to get to another bad take, and this time by the former
00:17:40.280 president, President George W. Bush, in a 20th anniversary speech.
00:17:49.740 All right, let me play you a little clip from George Bush's speech that he gave on 9-11.
00:18:00.180 And we have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders,
00:18:07.140 but from violence that gathers within. There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists
00:18:14.840 abroad and violent extremists at home. But in their disdainful pluralism, in their disregard for human
00:18:22.820 life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit.
00:18:31.860 And it is our continuing duty to confront them.
00:18:35.280 All right. So I agree with him, obviously, in some ways. I mean, I agree that all violent extremists
00:18:43.380 are born of the same spirit in general. I agree that the conclusion of all kinds of violent extremism
00:18:56.940 is the same. And therefore, no matter the reason for violent extremism, it has to be condemned. It has
00:19:03.880 to be combated, whether it's on our soil or whether it's abroad. That's true. But how people read into
00:19:12.580 this, I mean, I made a joke that, of course, a lot of people on the left got mad at when I said,
00:19:18.340 oh, I'm so glad that he's, you know, he's calling out BLM and Antifa. And they were like, no, he's
00:19:23.680 calling out January 6th, which I think is true. I think they're right that he is trying to call out
00:19:29.100 January 6th. But again, it's not the same. This is such a terrible comparison. It is not the same at all.
00:19:36.720 And, you know, actually, this mentality is what got us into the mess that we are in,
00:19:42.260 that administration after administration in the United States has gotten it wrong when it comes to
00:19:53.280 why there are terrorist attacks coming from the Islamic world into the United States or even there.
00:19:59.760 It's not just because people are violent. It's not just because they're angry. It's not because they
00:20:04.600 resent the United States, although all of those things might be true. It is because of theology.
00:20:10.340 It is because they are religiously, theologically, ideologically motivated to do what they do.
00:20:16.440 That is why the Middle East has been characterized by terror, by violence, by unrest, by oppression,
00:20:25.560 pretty much its whole existence. Those things weren't started by the United States or the West. That has
00:20:30.980 been the characterization that has been true of that part of the world for a very long time.
00:20:36.620 Does that mean all people who identify as Muslims perpetuate that kind of violence or believe in
00:20:43.180 that kind of violence? No, I don't think so at all. But the organizations, the sects of Islam that are
00:20:52.440 running the show there absolutely do. And they are not just motivated by, you know, their own selfish
00:20:59.320 desire for power. They are not just motivated by misogyny or any other kind of secular explanation
00:21:07.960 for why they do the things that they do. They're theologically, religiously, doctrinally motivated
00:21:14.860 by all of it. And we have been naive. There's been, you know, two different kind of secularist
00:21:21.280 schools of thought, I would say, on the right and the left when it comes to terrorism in the Middle
00:21:26.200 East. And one that is kind of the more right wing mentality, that if we just introduce them to
00:21:32.640 democracy, if we just introduce them to freedom, if we introduce them to equity and equality and gender
00:21:38.700 studies, then they will finally realize that our way of life is better. And they will abandon their
00:21:46.420 fundamentalist Islam, Islamic beliefs. And they will, you know, they'll just build democracy there.
00:21:54.280 Now, that was true when it came to somewhere like Imperial Japan. But that's because Japan
00:22:02.640 doesn't have and did not have the same ideology and the same religion, the same theological motivations
00:22:10.060 as the Middle East does when it comes to radical Islam. And so this more neoconservative belief that
00:22:18.000 if we just export democracy to the world, it's the same thing that Ronald Reagan, one of my favorite
00:22:23.760 presidents, but he erroneously believed that if we exported democracy and capitalism to somewhere
00:22:29.980 like China, they'll embrace freedom and they'll become more like the United States. That didn't
00:22:34.920 happen. They just took advantage of world trade and they became capitalistic in some ways, but they
00:22:41.940 continued to repress and oppress their people and they do to this day. So that didn't happen. We
00:22:49.380 actually allowed China to then import some of their, you know, autocratic ideas, communistic ideas to the
00:22:56.780 United States. We thought the same thing when it came to the Middle East. We thought that we were
00:23:01.540 going to be able to export freedom. We were going to be able to export liberty and democracy and
00:23:05.460 capitalism. They would embrace it and everything would be hunky-dory. That obviously hasn't happened.
00:23:13.200 And that all came crashing down when we saw the disaster in Afghanistan a couple weeks ago. And
00:23:19.100 that's actually still ongoing, even though Biden would like us to believe that it's not. And then
00:23:22.840 you have the more kind of left-wing secular belief that I think is also secular and erroneous that
00:23:29.480 if America just leaves them alone, they'll be peaceful and they'll be happy and they will end up,
00:23:38.180 you know, you know, embracing equity and equality and human rights in these things because they
00:23:45.800 believe that America has actually been the instigator of violence. And if we just allow them
00:23:51.160 to, you know, live how they want to live, then they will embrace peace. And it's actually American
00:23:57.660 imperialism that has made that region unstable, that America in the West has actually caused that
00:24:05.340 unrest. Well, that is also not true. That's also not true. The fact of the matter is, is that that
00:24:11.080 region, as long as it is Islamic, is never going to have the same kind of order that we have in the
00:24:20.100 West. It's never going to have the same kind of rule of law that we have in the West. And you can think
00:24:27.080 that that's fine, that we should just, you know, allow them to do what they want to do and realize
00:24:33.260 that it's not going to change just because we have, you know, a capitalist evangelist go over
00:24:40.680 there and try to tell them how great the free market and women's rights are. You can just try
00:24:45.700 to embrace that. Or you can try to do what we failed to do over the past 20 plus years, which is
00:24:54.280 basically make it into some kind of imitation of the West and the Middle East. I just don't think that
00:25:00.960 is ever going to be accomplished. And how this goes back to George W. Bush's speech is that he
00:25:10.020 actually thinks that all violent extremists have the same kind of worldview, the same kind of
00:25:15.960 mentality. And so he and a bunch of people on the left here think it's totally fine to compare people
00:25:21.080 on January 6th to the Islamic terrorists in the Middle East. They're not the same because they don't
00:25:26.460 have the same motivations. And because one is theologically motivated, and I would argue that
00:25:32.220 the other, well, I mean, maybe you could argue that the people on January 6th were somewhat
00:25:38.020 theologically motivated in some strange and convoluted way, but not in the same uniform way
00:25:43.560 that I would say Islamic terrorists are. But because I think George W. Bush is secular,
00:25:49.360 and I think he's got that secular, neoconservative mentality that rejects the fact that Islamic terrorists
00:25:58.160 are motivated by fundamentalist Islam. And therefore, they're not the same as people here,
00:26:08.000 even the ones who actually do pose a threat of extremism. So it's his kind of secular,
00:26:14.020 faulty mentality that led to a lot of the disastrous foreign policy that we've seen over
00:26:21.100 the past few decades in the United States. And that's why, I mean, that's part of why theology
00:26:27.480 matters. Understanding not just what we believe as Christians and why we believe what we believe,
00:26:34.460 understanding also the principles that America was founded on, what ideas and ideals we were founded on,
00:26:40.300 why the West is the way it is, why the East is the way that it is, what kind of theological
00:26:47.120 presuppositions founded each region, and what kind of fruit that has borne. All of that is very
00:26:55.360 important if you are going to try to understand why things happened. And I think it's important for us
00:27:02.220 to understand why things happen, because our understanding the why actually dictates both our
00:27:07.220 domestic and our foreign policy. But in a more superficial way, I think that George W. Bush is
00:27:14.700 just kind of playing into the left hand with all of this. I do think that Democrats in the United
00:27:23.020 States are using this narrative that the biggest threat to our safety, the biggest threat to public
00:27:32.540 health and the biggest threats to our well-being and unity as a country are the people that voted
00:27:40.240 for Donald Trump. I think that they are using that to try to get as much control as possible,
00:27:46.660 trying to stoke as much fear as possible so they can present themselves as the solution to all of our
00:27:52.660 problems by, you know, going after the people that those on the left don't like and view as a threat.
00:28:00.440 I think that was really what was behind the whole the unvaccinated speech that Biden gave on
00:28:08.180 Thursday. I think that's why they're constantly talking about January 6th to try to pretend that
00:28:15.520 really are the biggest thing that you should fear are the people who live next door who happen to vote
00:28:22.700 for Donald Trump. At the same time, they're trying to say that they want to unify. They don't want to
00:28:27.900 unify. Like, can we not just simultaneously say, hey, what happened on January 6th was bad. Here's
00:28:34.140 what I didn't like about it. What happened on 9-11 was worse because we had this many people die and
00:28:40.600 they're totally different situations with different threats and different motivations. Can we not just
00:28:46.220 have a rational conversation about those things without conflating things that actually make us sound
00:28:51.220 really dumb and very morally stupid as well? Not just intellectually dull? Unfortunately, I think
00:28:58.480 social media plays into this very sad and what I think is a very damaging conflation.
00:29:04.180 All right. So this happened at Washington University in St. Louis. So YAF every year,
00:29:16.920 wherever there is a YAF chapter at a college, the YAF chapter there puts the same number of the small
00:29:23.800 American flags as Americans who died on 9-11-2977. That's the flag display they do. Obviously, it's a
00:29:33.300 reminder of what happened, the sacrifices that were made on that day. And there was a student by the name
00:29:42.960 by the name of Fidel Alcalani, who decided that he was going to take almost 3,000 of these American flags
00:29:56.380 and put them in trash bags. He was actually filmed doing this. And he said that he wasn't sorry for
00:30:04.300 this, that it wasn't a violation of school rules. And that he made this announcement on Instagram that
00:30:12.840 basically he was fighting against Islamophobia and he was fighting against American imperialism.
00:30:20.500 So here you go again with that left-wing worldview that basically says America has been the cause of
00:30:26.720 all suffering in the world. And that we can't even recognize the lives that were lost on 9-11 because
00:30:33.320 somehow that is celebrating American imperialism. It's really disgusting. It's really disgusting,
00:30:39.220 just the lack of empathy that this kind of progressive worldview causes you to have towards
00:30:44.200 lives that were lost because you think that you're fighting some valiant battle against American
00:30:49.480 imperialism. You're not. You're not. I mean, this guy thinks that he is courageous, that he's on the
00:30:56.520 front lines of this battle while literally taking honor away or trying to take honor away from people who
00:31:03.660 were actually courageous, who were actually on the front lines, saving people from smoldering towers
00:31:10.040 and the rubble. And unfortunately, this is the sorry excuse for courageous men that our university
00:31:18.920 system seems to be churning out. Now, thankfully, there were many displays, many demonstrations
00:31:25.620 of respect throughout the country. Thanks to YAF. They put a lot of effort into, you know, publicizing
00:31:35.680 their displays every year. And there are a lot of students who are involved in it, which is amazing
00:31:40.800 because a lot of these students weren't even alive on 9-11. And it's important that we have this
00:31:46.860 reminder, especially on college campuses, every year of what happened, as I talked about on Instagram,
00:31:52.820 as we talked about last week. And it's so important to pass this down. No matter what you think about
00:31:59.280 the foreign policy that followed 9-11, it's an important reminder that freedom isn't free. It's
00:32:05.540 an important reminder of what courage looks like. It's also an important reminder that freedom is
00:32:10.480 always just one generation away from extinction. And there are people in the world who really hate
00:32:16.380 liberty and they really hate that freedom and they'll do anything to destroy that freedom. It's also
00:32:22.680 a good reminder that there's real good and there's real evil. Objective evil exists in the world.
00:32:27.680 It's not all just some scheme about the, you know, white hetero-imperialistic patriarchy versus
00:32:37.600 everyone else. That kind of worldview just doesn't check out. It's not factual. So it's an important
00:32:44.000 reminder that moral relativism is a terrible, a terrible worldview. All right. That's all I have
00:32:52.500 to say about all of that. There are some good things I think that happened over the weekend that
00:32:59.460 I've seen happen over the past couple weekends. And that is that stadiums across the country are full
00:33:06.580 of cheering and maskless fans. I love to see it. I love to see that with all the fear-mongering that
00:33:13.380 is going on in the news as it has for the past year and a half with Biden's very, you know,
00:33:21.560 intimidating speech or an attempt to be an intimidating speech with Dr. Fauci saying that
00:33:26.560 even if you are double vaccinated, even if you are planning on getting the booster shot,
00:33:30.780 even if you are wearing two masks, you still basically need to stay at home and social distance,
00:33:35.020 even when you're outside and all this ridiculous stuff that has no basis in science whatsoever,
00:33:39.820 even with people saying that we should mask kids and force 12-year-olds to get the vaccine,
00:33:44.540 even though the data on that is iffy at best, if not just very, very bad.
00:33:50.900 You have people who aren't paying attention to them and certainly are not heeding their advice.
00:33:56.460 Now, I think this is a wonderful thing. It's not because I, you know, want people to get sick and die.
00:34:01.220 I certainly don't. But I do want people to make their own decisions
00:34:03.900 based on their own medical needs and maybe the medical needs of the people that are closest to
00:34:09.300 them who are vulnerable. I mean, maybe all of the people in those stadiums are vaccinated.
00:34:14.380 Probably not everyone. There's certainly most people were not wearing masks and people have
00:34:19.580 just decided, look, I've got to move on. I've got to live my life. And you absolutely do.
00:34:23.920 And, you know, my husband and I were kind of debating about this or we were talking about
00:34:29.280 whether or not he wants to watch these NFL games because, you know, he's a conservative like me and
00:34:38.180 we hate the politicization of all of these sports. We hate the stands that the NFL and the MLB have
00:34:44.400 taken just, you know, anti-American woke stances that are just totally out of line with their fans.
00:34:52.900 And on the one hand, you want to say, OK, look, we just need to boycott. We need to boycott those
00:34:58.700 companies and we need to not give them our viewership because we need to show them that,
00:35:06.040 you know, you're going to lose customers if you make those kinds of stance. And that is a compelling
00:35:11.000 argument. On the other hand, you can see that the communistic goal is to try to ruin and corrupt
00:35:19.200 and take away everything that brings people joy, everything that brings people together.
00:35:27.380 And so you are also at the same time kind of letting them win if you say, OK, I'm going to give up
00:35:33.420 all all my forms of pleasure, all my forms of leisure, like watching sports because I don't want to
00:35:41.700 support the left wing agenda. Well, then you're sad and then you're kind of miserable. And so
00:35:52.300 what is the better pushback? Is it enjoying these things that bring people together and make people
00:35:59.460 happy and flouting the rules that have been set by Biden and Fauci to just stay inside and stay sad
00:36:07.160 until, you know, some unforeseen date when we have zero cases of COVID? Or is it to boycott all of
00:36:14.960 these things and to say, you know, I'm not going to be a part of this at all because they're taking
00:36:21.300 stands that I disagree with? I don't know. I honestly don't know the answer to it. But I don't
00:36:27.680 know, like when NFL games are giving you, you know, a form of community and a source of happiness,
00:36:36.500 happiness. And when it's been a year that has been characterized by misery and isolation,
00:36:44.300 it's kind of nice to have that. It's kind of nice to, I don't know, have that relief from
00:36:51.140 all of the, I don't know, depression that we've been hearing from the news and all the fear that
00:36:59.080 we've been hearing by the unelected bureaucrats at the NIH and the CDC for the past year and a half.
00:37:04.800 And so I don't know. I like to see the stadiums full, even the NFL games. I like to see people
00:37:12.260 enjoying their lives and making their own decisions and just not listening to the people in charge,
00:37:20.160 especially Joe Biden, because he thinks that he has all of the power in the world. And no matter
00:37:27.580 who the president is, whether it's Republican or Democrat, I think that they need to have a much,
00:37:33.240 much, much smaller, less significant place in our lives, a much smaller place of authority in all
00:37:40.040 of our lives. So good on you. If you are going to football games and you are doing the things that
00:37:46.200 you want to do to live life and to get back to some kind of sense of normalcy, I feel like that's what
00:37:53.100 we really need to be doing. All right, going to close this out with a fun segment. So on the way
00:38:02.580 here, I talked to my mom, who only lives like 10 minutes from me. And yet I talked to her on the
00:38:08.100 phone or, or in person. But when I don't see her in person, I talked to her on the phone like every
00:38:12.420 day, just about random stuff. This morning, I was like, Hey, what do you think my dreams mean? Kind of
00:38:16.860 kidding. She doesn't fancy herself like a, you know, professional dream interpreter or anything
00:38:21.700 like that. But you know, sometimes dreams mean things I think, and sometimes they don't like,
00:38:27.020 and when I say they mean things, I mean, it maybe says that you're like stressed out about something.
00:38:32.260 So I've been having these different kinds of, of perpetual dreams, repetitive dreams. One of them
00:38:38.720 is that I'm flying and I've had this dream, I think for a long time, and I never really took note of it
00:38:43.840 that I had been having this dream. But so we used to have in the house that I grew up in,
00:38:49.560 we had this big backyard that went up like a hill. And I keep having a dream that I am like
00:38:54.400 running up the hill and taking off and exerting a lot of energy to get up in the air. I guess with
00:39:01.040 my arms, I don't know, like, like flapping my arms like wings. And then once I'm in the air,
00:39:06.160 it's kind of like I'm hang gliding. And I'm just having this thought, like I'm looking down at the
00:39:09.980 earth, I'm just having this thought, like, why don't other people do this?
00:39:12.980 Is this like, is this magic? Like what's going on? This is really not that hard. But I don't feel
00:39:18.840 like it's that remarkable that I'm doing it. And I'm just kind of like looking down over the earth.
00:39:23.660 I don't even know what I'm really thinking. But I've had this dream multiple times. There doesn't
00:39:27.980 really seem to be a purpose in any of it. And then this other dream that I'm having, and I don't know
00:39:33.640 that they're connected, but I've been having this dream a lot recently, that I'm like 36 weeks
00:39:38.840 pregnant. And I just like totally haven't prepared or planned at all. Like I'm about to have this baby
00:39:44.500 last night and I had a dream 36 weeks pregnant. And I was like, Oh, you know, I need to find an OB.
00:39:49.940 I haven't even found a doctor to deliver this baby. Why haven't I done that? Will a doctor take me at
00:39:54.180 36 weeks? I've been having this dream perpetually. And I'm like texting, who knows who I'm texting in
00:39:59.520 my dream, but I'm like texting to try to figure out what doctor I should be getting at 36 weeks
00:40:04.600 pregnant. So if you want to tell me what you think those dreams mean, would love to hear. But really,
00:40:11.560 I want to hear, I want to hear some of your strange repetitive dreams that you have had or have been
00:40:18.000 having. Now, not super weird guys, not super weird dreams, but just some, you know, like flying dreams,
00:40:23.580 things like that. And I will tell you what I, what I think they mean, but you have to call me. So this
00:40:30.600 is not a message. This is a voicemail that I want you guys to leave. Now, if you don't want other
00:40:36.360 people to hear this voicemail, do not leave me a voicemail. You are telling me that you want this
00:40:42.820 voicemail to be public. If you send me this voicemail, you don't have to necessarily, you
00:40:47.660 know, leave your first and last name or anything, but here's the number 682-503-1369. That's 682-503-1369.
00:40:58.100 Call me, tell me the strange dream that you're having, or you can tell me what you think
00:41:03.600 my flying dream means, or my dream that I'm about to give birth and I don't even have a doctor to
00:41:09.440 deliver my baby yet. So you can give me your interpretation of those dreams. You can also
00:41:14.240 tell me your, the, the repetitive dreams that you have been having. I love dreams. They're super
00:41:20.440 interesting to me. So that'll be a segment either that we do on this show at some point,
00:41:26.080 or I'll do like a separate video. I'll post it on Instagram and we'll talk about that.
00:41:30.020 All right. That's all I've got for today. We will be back here tomorrow. I'll see you guys then.