Ep 489 ｜ My Response to Brenè Brown’s Toxic Post
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Today we talk about the California Recall, the abortion law in Texas, and why we should be wary of people who claim to have a monopoly on empathy and mental health. Also, Brene Brown is a woman who transitioned from being a man to being a woman and now is an MMA fighter.
Transcript
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This has kind of been a long feeling week for me.
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I felt like today was Friday and that's never really, that's never really a good feeling.
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You want to wake up on a Thursday or on a Friday and feel like it's still Wednesday
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and then you're happily surprised when you realize that it's the end of the week.
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Now that doesn't mean that I'm not excited to be here with you guys because I very much am
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and I always have so much to talk about at the end of every week that I feel like I didn't
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So in a way, it is a good feeling because I realize I still have two more episodes with
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you guys this week to talk about the things that I want to talk about.
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Today, we are going to talk just a little bit briefly about the California recall election
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And then I'm going to talk about this Brene Brown Instagram post about the abortion law
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in Texas and where our friend Brene Brown has it wrong, very, very wrong, and why we should
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be wary of following people that make this kind of argumentation, especially people who
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claim to basically have a monopoly on empathy and mental health.
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And then if we have time, we're also going to talk about this MMA fighter, a guy who lived
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for 30 years as a man, then transitioned so-called into being a woman and now is an MMA fighter
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and one against, you know, a natural born woman in a match the other day and what this
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all means and why we should be pushing back against this kind of absurdity for the sake
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of reality, for the sake of sanity, for the sake of morality, and for the sake of the rights
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and safety and the fairness of women and girls.
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Let's first talk just about the recall election since that's something that happened last night.
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So Governor Gavin Newsom, Democrat, was not recalled.
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There were a lot of people who were super enthusiastic about it, millions of people who
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And we didn't know who would be on the Republican side to replace him.
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There were a lot of Republicans who were, I'm sure, really great contenders.
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But Larry Elder kind of came in hot towards the end there and said, I'm running.
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He posed the most serious threat, it seemed like, to Gavin Newsom.
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That's why you saw ridiculous headlines from outlets like the LA Times saying that he's the
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That's why you saw every major media outlet, every major Democratic politician coming to
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Gavin Newsom's aid and trying to slander Larry Elder.
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Like, if you ever wondered if for whatever reason you were still on the fence about whether
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or not the media is on the side of the Democratic Party wholeheartedly, completely, all you have
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to look at is the coverage of Larry Elder and the recall election in California.
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I mean, they're not even trying to hide their bias anymore.
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Obviously, that means that Larry Elder is not going to be the governor of California.
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And at least right now, Gavin Newsom is up for election in 2022.
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Yes, there was a lot of enthusiasm behind Larry Elder and this recall effort.
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It has been a Democratic stronghold for a hot minute now, and it is extremely corrupt.
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It is impossible, almost impossible in some places in California for a Republican to,
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And now a lot of people on the left are saying that because Larry Elder is bringing up voter
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fraud and people are talking about accusations of voter fraud, that this is yet another Republican
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assault on democracy and that there's no evidence of that whatsoever.
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Well, I think a lot of people know, Democrat and Republican who have been living in California
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for a long time, that there's a lot of funny business that goes on, that there's a lot of
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And so maybe it's true that this recall election was just business as usual for California.
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But that doesn't mean it was on the up and up like that doesn't mean that it was an election
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with a whole lot of integrity, just because I'm not sure very many elections in California
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The major cities in this country, especially the ones that are in strong blue areas, are
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known for their corruption places like Chicago, places like L.A. and San Francisco and D.C.
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Maybe there was no new kind of fraud in this recall election.
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But can you honestly say that you think that this was a completely honorable process?
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The recall election had universal mail-in voting, I believe.
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And they also have ballot harvesting, which is legal in California.
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And ballot harvesting is basically where a third party can come and they can get a whole
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bunch of ballots from, say, like a nursing home or something like that.
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And they, of course, are not supposed to mess with the ballots and they're not supposed to
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convince the people who are voting on those ballots to vote a certain way.
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But we've seen instances all across the country, not just in liberal states, of ballot harvesters
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actually trying to influence the votes of the people that they are picking up those ballots
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Another unfair thing is that Gavin Newsom was allowed to raise as much money as he wanted
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But there was a limit to how much Larry Elder, for example, could raise.
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But I think that he ran a pretty effective campaign and he was able to highlight so much
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of the incompetence of of Gavin Newsom and California.
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You'll notice, and this is something that I heard Larry Elder point out, is that you'll
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notice that all of the proponents of Gavin Newsom, all of the people that were against
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the recall, they didn't say that they were against the recall or for Gavin Newsom because
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By no objective standard is Gavin Newsom doing a good job.
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For the first time in California's history, their population is actually going down year over
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Because of draconian restrictions in the name of public health, quote unquote, because
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of the homelessness crisis that has absolutely wrought destruction on places like San Francisco
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That is being caused and exacerbated not by a lack of funds, not by a lack of tax dollars,
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Not by a lack of liberal policy, obviously, not even by a by limited housing.
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It is being caused by enabling and incentivizing homelessness that also enables and incentivizes
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indirectly, at least, public defecation, public indecency, public drug use that make certain
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parts of these cities in California completely unsafe and completely unlivable.
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People, again, on both sides of the aisle can tell you San Francisco is not the place that
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used to be sure and the super nice neighborhoods where they're never going to defund the police
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and they're never going to allow for homeless encampments to be.
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But in places where more average people live who are not multimillionaires, it is becoming
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And that is exactly why you saw so much enthusiasm behind this recall effort.
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Now, apparently it wasn't enough, but that's why you saw so much enthusiasm.
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The homelessness crisis, the crime crisis, the inordinately high taxes and accomplishing what,
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Like, what has Gavin Newsom actually done well?
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How can anyone who lives in the state of California say, I like the way the state is going?
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I think that we're going in a better direction.
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I think that things are actually better here than they were before.
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I mean, it is such a perfect example of what far left progressive policies do.
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They never offer anything better in the way of building things up, which is so ironic that
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Progressivism doesn't have the capability inherently to do that.
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Progressivism rails against institutions, rails against what was and what is, but it never has
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And so that's why you always just see chaos and confusion and destruction wherever those
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That's certainly what we're seeing in California.
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Like, it's a real bummer that people just said, you know, vote no on the recall.
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And oh, gosh, Larry Elder is just this scary guy.
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But what's your like, what was your alternative?
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Your alternative is terrible, corrupt, ineffective, incompetent leadership that is making your state
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Like, just because Larry Elder is a Republican, that's really what it was like, ooh, big, scary
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You can't even possibly think that maybe some of the policies that he's advocating for to
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get homelessness down, to get crime down, to get the population rate growing again, to
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try to fix some of the budget issues that are going on in California, to try to root out some
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of the corruption, to try to fight against the corrupt teachers unions, which are ruining
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the public schools in California, to try to support school choice.
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The guy probably would have been pretty socially libertarian.
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Um, and so y'all missed out, like y'all really missed out.
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Now, again, I'm not surprised because they're some of the most liberal people in the country
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and good job for Larry Elder and good job for the other Republican contenders as well, who
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tried to fight a fair fight, who tried to fight an effective fight.
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I think we all knew that there were very low chances of that happening.
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Now, if you're a conservative in California, which there are a lot of you there, it's really
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LA and San Francisco that kind of hold the state hostage.
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The big cities that are so populous really run the show for everyone else.
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I, a few years ago, went to Bakersfield and Visalia and spoke at a couple events there.
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Some of the nicest people in the world, you guys are some of the kindest people.
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Like, I'm from the South, and I thought that you guys were like the nicest and most polite
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and complimentary and just kindest, warmest people that I've ever met.
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Middle California is a beautiful part of the country with beautiful, kind people that
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unfortunately are bearing the brunt in some cases of these really terrible policies.
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And I think a lot of, you know, the questions that you guys have are, OK, should you stay and
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Because if every Republican left California, then certainly there wouldn't have been any
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Larry Elder wouldn't have been able to run and shine a light on a lot of the bad things
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But the question is, do you have a chance anyway?
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Even if all the Republicans stayed, even if you were able to drum up so much enthusiasm
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and show what a terrible leader Gavin Newsom is.
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I mean, y'all did a really good job of doing that this time and it didn't work.
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I think and, you know, I'm open to disagreements on this.
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I think that conservative people in blue states and maybe maybe even purple states, depending
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on how deep purple, should move to red states and make them redder.
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We need conservative Californias in the sense that it's such a strong conservative area.
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It's such a strong conservative state that there is just no way for a liberal to come
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in and muck things up like they have that on the Democratic side, for sure.
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They have lots of states that you're just not going to be able to win if you're a Democrat.
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We certainly have some red states that are like that.
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I've never heard someone say, hey, I moved from Oregon or Washington or California or
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New York to Florida or Texas or Oklahoma or South Carolina and my life got worse.
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Everyone that I know that moved from a blue state to a red state, so I call them an unfree
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state to a free state, has said, my life is so much better.
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I am surrounded by some like-minded people and I'm able to do the things that I want to
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And that's why you don't see typically people move from red states to blue states, even if
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they are liberal themselves, because you get to enjoy the fruits of conservatism, even as
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Now, of course, and this goes without saying, I think, to my audience, but if you move to
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a red state, if you move to a red state, don't you be bringing those blue policies here,
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We don't want to mess around with that, because remember why you left.
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It's not like California Democrats are not different than Oklahoma Democrats.
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I mean, they might be slightly, but they all kind of have the same ideology and given enough
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That doesn't mean that you can't be a moderate in your policies.
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That doesn't mean that you can't give some credence to some ideas that progressives have,
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or maybe you're economically moderate, whatever.
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Just realize that if you vote for a progressive in a red state and everyone around you does
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too, then you are going to bring that red state into the same state that the blue state
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But I do say we might as well just lean into the polarization and move to a place where you
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know that you can raise your family, at least for the foreseeable future, in a way that is
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I know everyone has a different situation where maybe you can't move.
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And God has called you right there to make the impact that he wants you to make.
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But I'm saying that if you can, maybe that is something that you should finally consider.
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And for anyone who says, well, you know, who's going to witness to those people in blue states?
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I'm supposed to be sharing the gospel and being the light of Christ in these dark places.
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Well, I will say just because a state is red doesn't mean that everyone there is a Christian.
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That doesn't mean that you can't be a light in dark spaces.
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Like there are very dark spaces, dark places in red states too.
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Yes, they may be governed by governors in general who value freedom more.
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But there's a lot of opportunity in red states to share the gospel and to be a light of Christ.
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All right, let's talk about Brene Brown and the post that she made on Instagram.
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I'll put it up on the screen if you're watching on YouTube.
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I might not read every single line because it's a little long, but you can go on her Instagram.
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I think it's still the last post that she posted and you can read the whole thing.
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And so she posted in her notes app, which she then took a screenshot of and posted on
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She said this, the abortion ban in Texas, she's a Texas woman, if you didn't know, is
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It's about protecting power, the kind of power that's based in fear, scarcity and white supremacy.
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It's power fueled by self-protection and tinged with the ever-present threat of violence and
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So first, I forgot to tell you, if you don't know who Brene Brown is, I assume that everyone
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She is very popular and for good reason, for understandable reason.
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She is a mental health professional and she is a speaker.
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She is widely influential for her advice, her wisdom on how to deal with trauma, with how
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to deal with insecurity, with how to deal with self-loathing.
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And truly, her words, when you read them, when you hear them feel like a balm to your
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I completely think that her popularity is, it makes sense.
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There are things that she says that are right and wise.
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I don't know if Brene Brown identifies as a Christian, but if you read her work, what you
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will see underneath the layers of poetic, you know, poetic psychotherapy is a focus on the
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self, on self-fulfillment and self-empowerment.
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That's why I wrote about her in my book, You're Not Enough and That's Okay, Escaping the
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While a lot of what she says sounds good and maybe some of what she says actually is good
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and is sound advice, at the end of the day, she exists, her work exists to show you how
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to find fulfillment in yourself rather than in Christ.
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In the world of Brene Brown and other kind of self-love, self-help gurus like her, God,
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your spirituality, whatever it is, is kind of coming along for your ride of self-discussion,
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your journey to find yourself and to manifest your truest self.
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God might be a helper in that journey, but He is not the journey and He is certainly not
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So this is a quote that I included in my book when I was writing about her from her book,
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Braving the Wilderness, the truth about who we are lives in our hearts.
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So this is a very new age idea, even though she might not be entirely new age.
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This is a very new age idea that departs from what we know about Orthodox Christian theology,
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that the truth about who we are, our real identity, our best self is found deep inside
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And our goal in life is to dig through all of the rubble of self-doubt and insecurity and
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And it's not only ourselves who are kind of putting impediments between, you know, our
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between ourselves and our true selves, but it's also the world.
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So it's the patriarchy, it's society, it's capitalism, it's toxic relationships, it's
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So we have to throw all those things off and throw off, you know, everything that hinders
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us in kind of a blasphemous way, and we have to find who we truly are.
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And in her work, you see that this is paramount to everything.
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And once you find the truth that is in your heart about yourself, you will find basically
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this flawless goddess that just needs to be unleashed.
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And if you manifest her and you manifest your deepest desires and dreams, then you will finally
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Your relationships will be better and your life will be more fulfilling and you'll be
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able to navigate all of life's ups and downs in a healthier and more effective way.
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Who we are isn't deep down inside of us somewhere that needs to be unleashed and manifested.
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Who we actually are is not this perfect goddess.
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That's what Ephesians 2 tells us, that there are those who are dead in Christ.
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We are dead in our sin, which all of us were, by the way.
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That's all what Ephesians 2 says, are those who are alive in Christ, who have been saved
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We've got the old self and we've got the new self.
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And so when we reach inside of ourselves and dig into our hearts, we're not going to find
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That doesn't mean that we don't take care of ourselves or we don't steward our bodies well.
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That doesn't mean that we shouldn't go to a counselor when we need it.
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I certainly am an advocate of that or that you don't need medication if you are actually
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All I'm saying is that you're never going to find the true fulfillment and satisfaction
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that you are looking for inside yourself because the self can't be the problem and the solution.
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All of those things can only be found in Christ.
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And our imperfections and our flaws are not due to societal factors.
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They're not the fault of other people or even past trauma, even though all of that might be real.
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The flaws and the failures that we find inside of ourselves are due to our nature.
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And in order to be lifted out of that, in order to become new, in order to become sanctified and whole,
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And so these are two divergent messages that you are going to hear from the gospel
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Again, that doesn't mean you discount everything that she has ever said, but understand as a
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Christian, you are starting at a fundamentally different place, a different understanding
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about human nature, a different understanding about the heart, about the soul, about identity,
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about belonging and purpose than someone like Brene Brown.
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And so all of that said, knowing, at least in general, I don't know everything about her,
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everything that she's ever written, but knowing in general her worldview and where she's coming
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from when she is giving advice, I'm not surprised to see this.
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Like she's talked about things like this or at least implied things like this over, you
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I'm not surprised at all that she has come out in favor of abortion.
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This woman who claims to be, you know, a self-love guru and very empathetic and very compassionate
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and very understanding apparently has no compassion and empathy for the unborn woman who is defenseless
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and who is an innocent human being inside the womb who is being torn apart limb by limb with
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Apparently that little person doesn't deserve our compassion.
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And so in order to try to distract from that, which is the reality of abortion, which is
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the reality of what you're advocating for, if you are pro-abortion or pro-choice, they
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might be, you know, different justifications, but the ends are the same.
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She tries to impugn the motives of everyone else.
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She tries to say that it couldn't possibly be because people actually care about babies inside
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the womb, it must just be for these other very nefarious reasons.
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Texans can now carry handguns without a license or training.
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So this is one example of how this is not really about pro-life because Texans can now
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Look, the Second Amendment, people who are pro-life are typically pro-Second Amendment, not
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anti any restriction or regulation whatsoever, but they're pro-Second Amendment and the thinking
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We obviously don't like violence that's perpetuated by people who have guns.
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But you can be for the right of something and be for the liberty to do something and to
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do something lawfully and be against the misuse of that thing.
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And so we are pro-Second Amendment for the same reason that we're pro-life.
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We believe in the ability and the right to protect innocent life.
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And so this doesn't make the point that she thinks it's making.
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Texas has had the highest number of death penalty executions in the U.S.
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Again, I don't find it hypocritical at all to be for the death penalty for convicted murderers
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and be against the death penalty for innocent babies.
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What I do think is hypocritical, which is exactly what she's saying that she is, is
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to be anti-death penalty for convicted murders, but pro-death penalty for innocent babies.
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That's a grotesque example of immorality and inconsistency right there.
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As we've talked about, I can link it in the description to this episode.
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As we have talked about, the death penalty is prescribed by God before the Mosaic law for
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For murder, for especially premeditated murder, God demands the death penalty.
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Now, you can totally be against the death penalty and still recognize that you can be against
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the death penalty in the United States for a variety of reasons.
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You could say the possibility of a wrongful conviction and taking someone's life in the
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United States is just, it's not, it's not worth it.
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You can recognize that the death penalty is not unbiblical and therefore is not unjust per
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se, because there's no biblical support for the idea of the death penalty being in itself
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Again, go back and listen to that episode if you haven't listened to it already.
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But you can still be against the death penalty because of certain policies and processes
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I still don't think it makes sense to be pro-abortion, pro the death penalty for babies
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in the womb, but anti-death penalty for convicted murderers.
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Literally, the same combination of chemicals is used to stop a baby's heartbeat in the second
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trimester as is used for lethal injection for convicted murderers on death row.
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And so you're using the same combination of lethal chemicals that, and this is graphic,
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in the second trimester abortion, you have to ensure fetal demise.
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And the way that you do this is you have to put a needle through the woman's abdomen into
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We're talking about a moving, kicking, squirming, sucking thumb baby at this point in the second
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By the way, still in the first trimester, that baby looks like a baby.
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And unfortunately, this happens thousands of times a year in the United States.
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That needle full of a lethal chemical combination goes through the woman's abdomen.
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It goes into the amniotic sac, or if the doctor is really skilled, the abortionist is really
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skilled, it goes directly into the heart of that squirming baby.
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The lethal injection is pushed into the heart, and horrifically, the baby even just instinctively
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tries to move away from the pain of that needle.
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And when the needle goes into the heart or into the amniotic sac, that causes the baby to
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You're talking about a defenseless baby who's literally just trying to grow and is given
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And then that baby, of course, is removed, is torn apart limb by limb with forceps.
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And so to be for that, to call that bodily autonomy, to call that reproductive justice,
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but be against the death penalty, which is actually more humane when administered to convicted
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But again, being for it for babies and against it for convicted murders just doesn't make a
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whole lot of sense, especially for this, you know, so-called compassionate self-love guru.
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She goes on to say, the abortion ban is not about protecting life.
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It's dismantling the Constitution with the help of SCOTUS.
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Show me, Brene Brown, where you see a constitutional right to abortion.
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I know the, by the way, the white male justices who decided Roe v. Wade, they said that they
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found it somewhere in the nooks and crannies implied in the Constitution and some kind of
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But even if you are pro-abortion, you can see that that was a terrible judicial decision.
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Like it just didn't hold up to constitutional muster.
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And unfortunately, it's led to the slaughter of millions and millions of babies.
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Again, Brene Brown, constitutional scholar, tell us where you see a right to kill a child
00:31:53.040
With the help of SCOTUS, by the way, the reason why SCOTUS didn't decide not to do anything
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in this particular law was actually procedural.
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It didn't have anything to do with the justices' views on abortion necessarily.
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They will probably hear a challenge to this case.
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Again, the voting restriction legislation is not about preventing voter fraud.
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We've talked about this on this podcast, the voting restriction legislation.
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Restriction legislation, actually, the legislation makes it easier in some cases to be able to
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So I guess you're implying that Black and brown voters aren't able to get ID, but they are able
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to get vaccine verification, to be able to, you know, function in polite society.
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Okay, it actually is about preventing voter fraud.
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It doesn't make it harder for Black and brown people to vote.
00:32:59.600
Again, Brene Brown, you are welcome on this show to try to tell me, again, how abortion
00:33:04.580
is constitutional, where that right exists, and then you can also tell me how specifically
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which parts of the voting legislation specifically will restrict Black and brown citizens.
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White male power over is making a last stand, and they're afraid.
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And by the way, the majority of the pro-life movement is made up of women, okay?
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So she goes on to say that Abbott and Patrick have shown no real leadership in protecting
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all Texans, but they seem ever ready to serve us up to keep the threatening zip-tie-wielding
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A group that they themselves radicalized using race, gender, immigration, and anti-trans bathroom
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Even as their approval ratings fall across Texas, the Faustian bargain remains solid,
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and women on the far right remain a strong voting constituency.
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Again, far right to people like this is anyone to the right of, I don't know, Bernie Sanders
00:34:27.120
Like, there are a lot of conservatives that have a problem with Greg Abbott because they
00:34:30.540
don't believe that he is actually conservative enough.
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Now, I happen to believe that he's pretty conservative.
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I think that he is a lot more conservative sometimes than his dissenters give him credit
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But there are plenty of people on the right who just describe themselves as solid conservatives,
00:34:49.400
not far right, who don't believe that Greg Abbott is far right enough.
00:34:54.140
And so people who support Greg Abbott, some of them are just, I mean, they're squarely
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She doesn't even know what she's talking about.
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So again, I think that she's coming out in favor of men sharing bathrooms with girls,
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even as their approval ratings, blah, blah, blah.
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Um, so she said, because many in Texas homes and churches, girls are still raised to believe
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that the safest way to access power is to protect it and stand next to it.
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And so Brene Brown thinks it's the only reason that a woman would be pro-life.
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The only reason that a woman would be against the horrific procedure that I just described
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of little girls and boys being torn apart limb from limb with forceps is because we want
00:35:39.820
power, like I talked to a group of pregnancy center directors last week, their Texas pregnancy
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center directors, all, uh, I think it was about 20 or 25.
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They feel like they are up against a force that is bigger than them every single day.
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And thank God, thank God, his work doesn't always make headlines, but thank God they are
00:36:07.980
right now overwhelmed with new clientele because of this, uh, because of this Texas legislation.
00:36:15.160
You've got women who are pregnant, who don't know what to do.
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They're showing up at these pro-life pregnancy centers, whereas maybe before they were showing
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up at a Planned Parenthood and they're saying, can you please help me?
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And these pro-life pregnancy centers are saying, yes, what do you need?
00:36:30.220
Do you need help with, uh, do you need help with your, uh, health insurance?
00:36:37.520
If you're in an abusive situation, do you need help with parenting classes?
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Do you need help with enrolling in classes with, you know, educational classes?
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These pro-life pregnancy centers say, here I am.
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I posted, there is a pregnancy center in Texas who desperately needed baby supplies.
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And I posted on Twitter, there were, I think there were like 1600 items, um, that were
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I posted on Twitter, I posted on Instagram within minutes, uh, everything had been bought.
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I mean, people are so pro-lifers are so eager for tangible ways to help women.
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And let me just say, if you're out there, um, anyone, but Brene Brown specifically, why
00:37:20.460
don't you go to your pro-life pregnancy center?
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Before you start running your mouth about the motives of pro-life women just being, catching
00:37:30.020
the drippings of power, uh, from men in charge, why don't you go to your local pregnancy resource
00:37:41.480
Why don't you see what it looks like to actually offer women a choice?
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Something that people at Planned Parenthood don't do because they get a lot of money from
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those abortions, the pro-life pregnancy centers don't get money from women keeping their babies.
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They were literally doing what they do out of love of Christ and love for other people,
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compassion, love for both the mom and the baby.
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So Brene Brown, uh, before you start impugning the motives of people who you do not know, part
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of a movement that you do not understand, saving babies that you do not care about.
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Um, so she goes on to say pro-life women are just trying to catch the drippings of power
00:38:35.380
They just forgot to mention that we'd pay for protecting that power with our bodies, our minds
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You know, who is paying with your position or for your position with their body?
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A price that if you're not willing to pay, it leaves you with no other option, but to
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But I think the fight against bully leaders who use their power to exploit the people they
00:39:00.820
You know, who's being exploited by people with power who have no power themselves?
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As a fifth generation, Texas, Brene Brown says, I hope we're all ready to fight for our
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And if you're looking at us from another state and thinking, uh, what the H-E-Double
00:39:18.100
Hockey 6, she says, don't take your eyes off your own backyard.
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God would be so merciful to this country if more women were showing up at pro-life pregnancy
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centers and getting the help that they need and the love and compassion they deserve for
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both themselves and their babies than if they were going to Planned Parenthood and hearing
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that they're not really carrying a baby, that they're just carrying a comp of cells, that
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their life will be ruined if they actually go through with having this baby.
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The Planned Parenthood, especially in places like Texas, often refuse to, if that woman
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comes in and she says, hey, I want to keep my baby.
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I'm just coming to Planned Parenthood because I didn't know what else to do.
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Um, can you please refer me to a pro-life pregnancy center or something or somewhere that can
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Very often, Planned Parenthood will not do it because they're not pro-choice.
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Um, and so people who, uh, support this practice, who support this industry and who say they're
00:40:28.340
speaking up for the vulnerable truly, they have no idea what they're talking about.
00:40:31.320
Now, Brene Brown, she talks about some other things that, um, are going on in Texas.
00:40:37.060
She talks about how Greg Abbott is standing up against mask mandates, um, in schools.
00:40:43.000
Well, again, show, give me some evidence of what you're saying that mask mandates have
00:40:48.980
stopped the spread of coronavirus in school children, because I can show you a CDC study
00:40:53.860
of 90,000 students in Georgia that shows that it doesn't.
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Like I've got data to back up the fact that we don't need mask mandates in schools.
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Now she does go on to talk about the uninsured rate and she talks about, um, child food insecurity
00:41:13.520
And look, I am totally like, if you want to bring these things to the table and you want
00:41:18.240
to advocate for policies that help more children have insurance that fight food insecurity,
00:41:31.200
I don't think that's always primarily through policy, but I think policy is certainly part
00:41:35.260
I think that we can create a culture of life, uh, voluntarily through our efforts and through
00:41:41.020
our personal acts of love and charity, which thankfully still abound in the United States,
00:41:47.840
But I am totally willing to hear policy proposals.
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And I think Republicans should in general, be willing to hear policy proposals that make
00:41:55.000
people's lives better, that make it easier to bring life into the world without so much
00:42:04.840
Like, if your solution to these problems in our, in, in our country, if your solution
00:42:12.280
to these problems in your state is that you should kill more children before they're able
00:42:17.840
to take their first breath, that's not actually a compassionate solution.
00:42:21.280
Like, you're the only one, the pro-choicers like Brene Brown are the only ones that are
00:42:29.400
Like, either, uh, we can protect life outside of the womb or protect life in the womb.
00:42:36.420
I'm saying bring me your, bring me your solutions.
00:42:38.820
All you've done here, Brene Brown, is list problems.
00:42:41.660
All you've done is say, look, these are problems that are happening in Texas.
00:42:46.000
So again, your solution is just to make it easier to kill the babies in the womb.
00:42:49.560
Why don't you give some policy solutions to try to fight against some of the problems
00:42:54.000
that you're talking about, about food insecurity and lack of insurance?
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Like, if you really want to fight, what it seems like you're fighting is for greater abortion
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access and not for the other problems that you've listed.
00:43:08.800
It's just a reminder that the people that you think are smart, that sound good, um, they
00:43:16.820
They're really, they're really not, um, very wise.
00:43:21.300
Like she's someone who has sold a whole lot of books, made a whole lot of money, um, you
00:43:28.860
Um, but actually I think that she fits the description, at least right now of Romans one,
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Um, and her words are foolish and they're calloused and they're wrong.
00:43:46.260
Now I'm sure she does have true compassion for women in vulnerable situations, but if
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that's the case, go to your local pro-life pregnancy center, Brene Brown.
00:43:55.440
They're doing better work than you writing a screed on your notes app, putting it on Instagram
00:44:00.840
and disabling all comments on it because you don't want to hear any, um, you don't want
00:44:11.420
I don't have time to talk about the MMA fighter.
00:44:14.480
Um, maybe I'll do it tomorrow, but actually tomorrow I really wanted to just talk about
00:44:19.200
I'm just kind of like over the news right now and all of the absurdity that's going on
00:44:24.820
and we haven't done, I mean, we do, we try to take a break every week from the news and
00:44:28.700
do something about, you know, anxiety or do something about the topic or do something,
00:44:38.080
Uh, but we haven't done just like strictly biblical, nothing to do with politics or anything like
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that, um, or nothing to do with anything that's going on in the world in a while.
00:44:47.380
It feels like we haven't done the most misuse in a while.
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Now, if something crazy happens tonight and I have to cover it tomorrow, I will, but my