Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 53 ｜ Midterm Madness

00:00:00.000 What's up, guys? It's Allie. Welcome to Relatable. So today is Thursday, November 8th,

00:00:08.200 which means the midterm elections were on November 6th. If you are anything like me,

00:00:12.880 you stayed up anxiously waiting for the results to come in. I live in Texas, so I was holding my

00:00:19.700 breath for, I don't know, like four hours. Somehow I survived it when I found out finally that Ted

00:00:26.980 Cruz won. Guys, I was, whoo, whoo. I thought, I don't know what I thought. I thought that this

00:00:35.120 was going to be the end and I was going to be extremely mad, not just because Beto O'Rourke

00:00:40.700 won, but also because my prediction would have been wrong. Alas, I was right. I thought that Ted

00:00:46.760 Cruz would win by a narrow margin. It was a very, very narrow margin. So for all of my fellow Texans

00:00:53.220 out there, breathe a sigh of relief with me that Ted Cruz is still our senator. Now, speaking of

00:00:59.560 Texas, speaking of Texas, it is bluer than it probably has ever been. Now, it used to be a

00:01:05.540 Democratic stronghold about 25 years ago, but it's probably bluer as in like what is blue is solidly

00:01:13.300 blue. And then also what is blue is more blue than what it was 25 years ago. There's no doubt that the

00:01:19.580 Democratic Party everywhere is farther left than it used to be. So Texas is in danger. We used to

00:01:27.120 look to Texas as the beacon of conservatism, the beacon of republicanism, a deep red state. That's

00:01:33.800 just not true. There are quite a few other states that are actually redder than Texas. And you want

00:01:38.260 to know why? Austin and Houston. Austin and Houston are really the two cities. There are other border

00:01:43.760 cities, too, that are very blue. But those are really two heavily populated cities that lean to

00:01:49.920 the left. Part of that is because people from California move here for jobs and technology,

00:01:56.280 especially in Austin, and they bring their politics with them. Please don't do that. If you're from 0.98

00:02:01.260 California or listening to this podcast, you're probably great. There are a lot of Californians out

00:02:05.620 there that are conservative. I've been to the Bakersfield, Visalia, Fresno area. Those are some of the

00:02:12.480 the kindest, most conservative people that I've ever met. They, too, want nothing to do with San 1.00

00:02:17.540 Francisco and L.A. Those kind of people, they are welcome to move to Texas. We will take you. We will

00:02:22.480 take your kindness. We will take your politics. But those of you who are coming from L.A. and San

00:02:26.940 Francisco, coming to Austin and trying to California or Texas, I want nothing to do with you. And I don't

00:02:31.760 appreciate it. I do blame them partly for what happened, though. I can't blame them for everything

00:02:36.840 because, you know, what's an interesting statistic is that apparently a greater percentage of people

00:02:43.280 who voted for Beto O'Rourke were born in Texas than the percentage of people born in Texas that

00:02:50.380 voted for Ted Cruz. So apparently more people who voted for Ted Cruz moved to Texas. Apparently more

00:02:55.620 people who were born in Texas voted for Beto O'Rourke. Interesting. Interesting. I kind of just don't

00:03:02.780 believe that statistic, but apparently it's true. So I can't blame it entirely on Californians,

00:03:07.960 although I do think that they are somewhat to blame. But that is just one race that I was very 0.99

00:03:13.760 glad to see go our way. As far as statewide elections in Texas, it went well for us in the sense that we

00:03:21.220 won all of them. Greg Abbott is still our governor. But again, that margin was a little bit narrower than

00:03:28.120 what we would have liked it to be. Now, local elections is where we saw things kind of go

00:03:33.700 downhill for Republicans. Some local elections went well. But for example, my house district where I

00:03:39.180 live, state house district, it got flipped to a Democratic seat. Now, the incumbent was a popular

00:03:45.120 Republican, got a lot of stuff done, very productive. And the opposition to him, the candidate that opposed

00:03:52.140 him is legitimately crazy, disavowed by her own party. I'm sure that most people have no idea who she is.

00:03:57.920 And yet she won. Why? I think partly it was the Beto effect, although I don't think that can

00:04:03.920 entirely be attributed to that. But I think some people just said, I'm not going to I'm not going

00:04:10.500 to vote Republican. I do think that part of this blue wave or part of this resistance did trickle

00:04:15.600 down to the local level, unfortunately. So I'm very sad about my district. There are a few other

00:04:21.360 districts that I know Republicans are extremely sad about in Texas. So we have something to watch out

00:04:26.900 for and conservatives have something to fight for. That is why conservatives, if you live in Texas,

00:04:32.660 stay here, stay here, make sure that you keep on voting Republican, make sure that it does not turn

00:04:38.940 blue. If it turns blue, we're going to have a very difficult time winning national elections.

00:04:45.420 So just keep that in mind. Now, there are other midterm things that we are going to get to,

00:04:51.280 we're going to analyze some other races. And of course, the best part of analyzing any kind of

00:04:56.640 thing that happens politically is also analyzing the media's reaction to it. But before I do that,

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00:05:14.100 when I was gone, I was out of town and speaking at the University of Florida. I'm just going to pat

00:05:17.720 myself on the back for that. By the way, that DeSantis one, I'm sure it had everything to do

00:05:21.560 with me in my speech at the university. But anyway, when I was gone for that, my husband

00:05:26.940 stole my pillow. Then the next day when I got back, I went to go to sleep and I was like,

00:05:33.560 oh, this doesn't feel like, this doesn't feel like my pillow. My husband was already laying down,

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00:06:25.280 on Tuesday night. So Democrats won the House, Republicans won the Senate. It was a good night 0.54

00:06:31.460 for Republicans. Now, of course, Democrats think it was a good night for them too. And it was,

00:06:35.840 it was. Now it wasn't necessarily a blue wave. They did a good job. They did a good job in the

00:06:42.540 House. This is not unprecedented. This is not, I wouldn't say any sort of tsunami for the left.

00:06:48.860 I wouldn't say that this is a tidal wave, but they did a pretty good job in the House. They now have a

00:06:55.040 majority. Nancy Pelosi is going to want to be Speaker of the House, of course, but Republicans should be 1.00

00:07:02.460 proud of the gains they made in the Senate. We thought they were going to keep the narrow majority,

00:07:07.420 maybe, you know, keep it even and Mike Pence be the tiebreaker. But they actually have more of a

00:07:13.760 majority than what we thought. There were some major upsets in the Senate races that actually worked in

00:07:19.640 our favor. So Republicans had a really good night considering the fact that midterms were seen before

00:07:25.740 this as a referendum on Donald Trump. It almost always is a referendum on the sitting party or the

00:07:31.400 party in power or the sitting president. And they said that this was going to be it. They tried to

00:07:36.620 weaponize every single event that has happened in order to get the vote to go in the direction of the

00:07:41.920 Democrats. I mean, never have we seen a stronger so-called resistance to a party than we have over

00:07:46.920 the past couple of years. They've tried every tactic possible. They tried to say that the electoral

00:07:51.580 college is unfair. They tried to say it was Russian collusion. They've tried to call him a racist.

00:07:55.940 They've tried to say that he's a misogynist. They've tried to moralize this whole thing and say

00:07:59.920 that anyone who still votes for Donald Trump or votes for a Republican, you're terrible people.

00:08:04.580 They want to take their health care away. And then, of course, they tried the whole Kavanaugh

00:08:08.600 thing. We know how that worked out. I have something to say about that in a little bit.

00:08:12.680 And they have tried to use immigration to say that Republicans are stripping babies away at the

00:08:19.240 border from their mothers. Of course, we know that's not true. They've tried to use the excuse of

00:08:23.780 voter suppression, all of this stuff. And still, they did not have the blue wave that they said

00:08:29.660 that they were going to have. Not as strong as they said that they were going to have it.

00:08:33.880 I've said this is not like the Republican Revolution of 1994, the way that they thought

00:08:38.440 that it was going to be. They thought they were going to sweep through the House, sweep

00:08:41.440 through the Senate. They were going to sweep through the gubernatorial races. And they just

00:08:46.720 didn't. They just didn't do it. There is actually something to be proud of for Republicans and for

00:08:53.120 Donald Trump that we made gains in the Senate. That is really, really good. And it's actually

00:08:59.460 very important. I would argue more important, maybe, maybe there's an argument either way,

00:09:04.400 more important that Republicans made gains in the Senate rather than in the House. Of course,

00:09:09.400 we would have liked to keep both. But Republicans keeping the Senate, having gained in the Senate

00:09:15.100 means that we are going to continue to appoint textualist, good constitutionalist judges.

00:09:22.340 So we're still going to have Mitch McConnell pushing through Trump's agenda, stacking the

00:09:26.980 judiciary with good judges instead of liberal activist judges. That's a very good thing for

00:09:33.580 Donald Trump's agenda and for conservatism, for liberty, for the future of America, for the

00:09:37.840 perpetuation of the Constitution. Really, I think that the Senate is good for the long

00:09:42.880 game of America. The things that we are doing now, like appointing judges, they're going to have a

00:09:48.340 long lasting effect on the United States, more so than what the Democrats are planning to do in the

00:09:54.580 House. What the Democrats are planning to do in the House, they have subpoena power. They are also

00:09:59.100 going to open all kinds of other investigations into Donald Trump. Of course, we know that we have

00:10:03.880 Robert Mueller's investigation still going on into Russian collusion. But we're going to have the

00:10:09.740 Democrats open investigations. Nancy Pelosi has already said that she wants to look into Trump's

00:10:15.200 tax returns right away. Trump says, you can't do that. My tax returns are getting audited.

00:10:20.620 That does. I mean, it does seem a little bit sketchy that he hasn't shown his tax returns yet.

00:10:25.760 I don't know what we're going to find. But I also think that this whole this whole thing that the

00:10:30.840 Democrats are going to do as a ploy until 2020, wasting taxpayer money on all of these investigations

00:10:37.580 is going to blow up in their faces, probably in the same way that it did with Kavanaugh,

00:10:42.800 that they are willing to sacrifice so much of other people's time, money, energy, character,

00:10:48.980 whatever it is, in order to gain a political power. I'm just not sure if that's a winning strategy for

00:10:54.280 them. They might try to impeach Trump. Good luck with that. Again, the better Donald Trump does,

00:11:00.420 the better the economy is, the better he can present his agenda or his record at this point,

00:11:08.040 the harder time Democrats are going to have trying to paint themselves as vigilantes for taking him

00:11:15.740 down. I just don't think it's going to work very well. But you know, you know, one thing that we

00:11:20.840 have not been hearing about, speaking of investigations and Robert Mueller and all of that,

00:11:24.520 one thing that we have not been hearing about, I would say in a couple months, probably since before

00:11:28.920 Kavanaugh, maybe since June, even, we have not heard about the Russia investigation. We have not

00:11:35.540 heard about Russian collusion. If you really believed, if you really believed that Donald Trump

00:11:42.540 was colluding with the Russians to take down our democracy, why wouldn't you still talk about it? 1.00

00:11:48.200 I mean, we heard about it nonstop over and over again for months. They said that this was,

00:11:53.880 this was Armageddon. This was the end of the world. He's the worst person ever. This definitely

00:11:58.080 happened. He's going to jail. And then we heard nothing about it. Why? Oh, right. Because it was

00:12:05.880 all political, had nothing to do with the truth, had nothing to do with justice. Now, I am someone

00:12:11.000 who has said from the beginning, if Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to win the election,

00:12:15.200 there should be consequences. And I would like to know about it. As someone who voted for him,

00:12:19.460 I'm not against the investigation altogether. Now, I think we need to wrap it up. It's been going on for

00:12:24.380 a long time. A lot of taxpayer dollars have been wasted, it seems like. And I do think that Democrats

00:12:29.100 are using this as a ploy. I don't think that they think it happened. There's been no proof of Russian

00:12:34.100 collusion so far. But of course, I would like to know. I'm not against knowing the truth. I would

00:12:38.520 like to know the truth. I just think that if there was truth out there, that Donald Trump colluded with

00:12:43.680 the Russians, that we would have heard about it by now. And we have it. So they're going to use this 0.92

00:12:49.320 going into 2020, painting him as corrupt. The thing is, though, I think that they have used all

00:12:54.920 of their cards like they have tried everything and it's not working, at least not as effectively

00:13:01.860 as they said it was going to. OK, let's let's I just want to play this clip. I don't even have an

00:13:08.960 intro. I just want to play this clip of Jim Acosta from a press conference yesterday where he

00:13:18.320 was talking to the president. I'm going to play a full one minute and 20 seconds of this.

00:13:24.240 They're hundreds and hundreds of miles away. That's not an invasion. Honestly,

00:13:27.860 I think you should let me run the country. You run CNN. All right. And if you did it well,

00:13:32.560 your ratings. Let me ask if I may ask one other question, Mr. President, if I may ask one other

00:13:36.780 question, are you worried? That's enough. That's enough. That's enough. That's enough.

00:13:39.740 I'm going to ask one of the other folks. That's enough. Pardon me, ma'am. I'm Mr. President.

00:13:43.560 That's enough. Mr. President, I had one other question. If I may ask on on the

00:13:47.060 Russia investigation, are you concerned that that you may have? I'm not concerned about

00:13:51.520 anything with the investigation because it's a hoax. Are you? That's enough. Put down the mic.

00:13:56.760 Mr. President, are you worried about indictments coming down in this investigation?

00:14:02.220 Mr. President, I tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them.

00:14:08.200 You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn't be working for CNN. Go ahead.

00:14:13.280 Mr. President, I think that's unfair. You're a very rude person. The way you treat

00:14:17.300 Sarah Huckabee is horrible. And the way you treat other people are horrible. You shouldn't 1.00

00:14:22.140 treat people that way. Go ahead. Go ahead, Peter. Go ahead.

00:14:25.080 In Jim's defense, I've traveled with him and watched him. He's a diligent reporter who

00:14:28.040 busts his butt like the rest of us. Well, I'm not a big fan of yours either. 0.73

00:14:29.920 I understand. To be honest with you. So let me ask you a question if I can.

00:14:33.060 You are the best. Mr. President, you repeatedly, over the course of the...

00:14:37.660 Okay. Just sit down, please. Well, when you report fake news, no. When you report fake news,

00:14:45.160 which CNN does a lot, you are the enemy of the people. Go ahead.

00:14:48.780 Okay. So politics are really unpredictable. Like I said on Tuesday, we had no idea what was going to

00:14:58.280 happen in the midterms. We don't know. We don't know what's going to happen next week, much less

00:15:03.760 next year, 2020. We have no idea. But there's one thing that you could always be sure of. There's

00:15:10.380 one thing that you could hang your hat on and go to bed at night knowing we'll be true and the same

00:15:15.440 tomorrow. And that is Jim Acosta's obsession with himself. That will always be steadfast. That will be

00:15:22.880 the anchor for our ship in the undulation of political madness that is happening on a daily basis in

00:15:31.940 the United States of America. Jim Acosta's self-obsession and total lack of self-awareness.

00:15:38.560 You know, I was watching this after the fact. I didn't see it live. And I had my head inside my

00:15:47.440 sweatshirt because I could not watch this. I think that my face was red. I had secondhand

00:15:52.060 embarrassment at how awkward and how weird this whole exchange was. I personally, I don't love

00:15:57.600 Donald Trump's confrontational style. I think that he's pretty petty. But in this case, I don't think

00:16:02.380 that he did a bad job. I mean, he said what is true. He is a horrible person. Jim Acosta is not

00:16:08.360 a good person. He is so self-aggrandizing. He only cares about himself. I think Ben Shapiro had a good

00:16:14.560 tweet. I think it was like, find you a woman who loves you as much as Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta.

00:16:19.300 True. True. That's a great standard for finding your future mate. Find someone who has as much

00:16:27.560 affection for you as Jim Acosta has for himself. I think that's a really good standard.

00:16:33.460 So I think what we're going to see now that the midterms are over is we're going to go back to

00:16:38.680 the narrative of Russian collusion. Again, if you thought that Russian collusion really existed,

00:16:43.720 you would have been talking about it this whole time. But you didn't talk about it because it didn't

00:16:49.220 work for you politically. It wasn't the thing that people cared about. If you look at the exit

00:16:53.460 polls, for example, the things that the reasons why people voted the way they did. Of course,

00:16:57.960 a lot of people said health care, which I think is really interesting. Some people said

00:17:01.360 immigration. There was the economy. Not a single person said a Russian collusion.

00:17:06.120 I didn't see a single person that said, you know, it's Russian collusion. That is why I voted to make

00:17:11.260 sure that we get to the bottom of this. Maybe that would have been true a year ago, but that just

00:17:16.360 hasn't been the drum that the media has been playing. And I think that is a really good

00:17:20.400 indication of just how effective the liberal media is at brainwashing people, at pushing a certain

00:17:25.800 narrative and forming what people care about. It's really crazy. And the funny thing is, too,

00:17:33.980 we have heard Democrats after as they have gotten off this whole Russian collusion thing,

00:17:40.900 they've gotten back on health care. Now, we didn't hear about health care for a long time,

00:17:44.600 but I think they realized, oh, right. Our voters care about this. Oh, yeah. 24 million people are

00:17:49.940 going to die. I forgot about that. 24 million people are going to die. My bad. That just slipped

00:17:55.760 my memory. But again, they're going to hyperbolize everything. They're going to make this a life or

00:18:01.460 death situation. By the time we get to 2020, everything will be a life and death situation.

00:18:06.480 Nothing will actually just be political. Nothing will actually just be about politics. Everything

00:18:11.340 will be about you're going to die. That's what we saw even with Kavanaugh. I mean, the freaking emails

00:18:17.640 that I saw from the Women's March saying that the poor are going to get poorer. Immigrants are going 1.00

00:18:23.960 to be, I don't know what they said, kicked out. Women are going to be forced into back alley abortions 1.00

00:18:28.520 with hangers. All of this absolutely ridiculous stuff. Everything is life and death. And you know why

00:18:33.860 they do that. They do that. So if you don't vote for them, then you want people to die. You're a bad,

00:18:41.320 immoral person. That's what I call the politics of guilt. Now, the politics of guilt have been around

00:18:47.620 for a long time. They're not exclusive to the left, but the left really loves to do this. And

00:18:53.400 the politics of guilt really mixed with identity politics is what we are seeing today, especially what

00:19:02.360 we are seeing just post midterms, not just in 2018. So apparently white women in a few races, 1.00

00:19:11.360 maybe in most races, but I'm only seeing this for three. People are making a big deal about this. White 0.99

00:19:15.960 women vote Republican. It's true. White women do vote Republican. Black women and black people in 1.00

00:19:21.060 general typically vote Democrat. Okay. So people are pointing out the fact that 76% of white women voted 0.91

00:19:28.000 for Kemp, governor of Georgia. Um, 59% of white women voted for Cruz, Senator in Texas. 51% of white

00:19:37.520 women voted for DeSantis, as opposed to black women, uh, black women, 95% voted for, or 97% voted for 0.93

00:19:46.040 Abrams, 95% for Ork, 82% for Gillum. That's interesting. Only 82%. Uh, people are pointing that

00:19:53.700 out refinery 29. I don't even know if that's like a legitimate publication or if they're just a blog,

00:19:59.240 but they had an article with the title, another election, another failure by white women. Then

00:20:07.120 they go on to say that white women are voting against our own interests because we vote Republican 1.00

00:20:12.600 Mona Elta Howie don't know who she is. She's apparently a liberal activist on Twitter. Her tweet got tons and 0.91

00:20:20.420 tons of likes and retweets. She says, she points out all of the statistics that I already read about

00:20:26.000 white women voting for Republicans in these races. And she says, white women foot soldiers of the 0.62

00:20:31.580 patriarchy. Okay. So really the sentiment is, which the sentiment was also this after Trump, I think it

00:20:37.980 was like 51 or 52% of white women voted for Donald Trump. And so white women have been blamed for the 0.99

00:20:44.100 election of Donald Trump and now white people or white women are being blamed for, uh, for voting for 1.00

00:20:51.380 Republicans or the fact that Republicans took the Senate and took some of these gubernatorial races. I saw a

00:20:57.540 tweet from women's March saying, white women, we need to do better. We need to learn. And we're here to learn

00:21:03.240 alongside you. We're here to help. Like, shut up. Shut up. Like you realize, right? Like this is why we don't vote for

00:21:12.580 you guys. This is part of it. Oh. And the fact that we don't love the idea of children getting sucked out

00:21:18.000 of the womb with a vacuum limb by limb. Like, Oh yeah, that's just a little something, but also what

00:21:23.880 the left does not realize. And especially when it comes to women, we don't like being talked down to 0.99

00:21:29.060 like, don't tell me that I am a self-hating misogynist lover of the patriarchy just because I vote

00:21:35.460 Republican Democrats cannot wrap their minds around the fact that women, minorities, all these people 0.83

00:21:42.440 that should, I say that in scare quotes, should vote Democrat, vote Republican, because we have

00:21:49.320 different values, because we have different priorities that we're not looking for the

00:21:54.500 government to save us. They always talk about voting against our interests or, or voting for

00:21:59.500 people that don't do something for us or don't protect us. I don't, I don't want any kind of

00:22:05.140 protections for myself that a man doesn't get. Why? Oh yeah. Because I don't think that abortion 0.99

00:22:11.180 should be a right. I don't think that you should be able to kill your child. That's all they're

00:22:15.180 talking about when they say that I vote against my interest. That's not in my interest. I don't

00:22:19.240 believe that's in any woman's interest to kill another human being. I am voting for a freer, 0.98

00:22:25.600 lesser taxed, uh, more, uh, freer in a lesser tax and a safer and a more secure in a more life

00:22:34.540 centered community. That's why I vote Republican. I believe in secure borders. I believe in a better

00:22:41.060 economy. I believe in the free market. I believe in the second amendment. I believe in the first

00:22:46.000 amendment. I don't see why it's so hard for Democrats to understand that I might have those

00:22:52.320 values just because I have them because I've come to those conclusions through reason and through

00:22:57.420 critical thinking and through, uh, uh, through careful study. And even if I have it, that's my value

00:23:02.720 system, uh, based on my faith, based on who cares why maybe it was how I was raised. It doesn't matter,

00:23:08.180 but just because I'm not a Democrat, does it mean that I'm a voting against my interest or B that

00:23:14.300 I've done something wrong? I'm sorry. I don't feel guilty for being a white woman that votes

00:23:19.480 conservative. And you know what? You shouldn't either. Like you're going to hear all of this BS

00:23:24.080 over the next two years that if you're a white woman who votes conservative, it's because you're 0.79

00:23:27.920 selfish. It's because you don't care about minorities. You don't care about other women. You don't care 0.99

00:23:32.260 about, you know, the refugees. You don't care about the marginalized and the weak. Do not freaking buy 0.98

00:23:38.800 it. It's all a lie. It's all fake. You vote on your interests and your values. Don't vote on what

00:23:47.800 other people tell you your value should be. And by the way, the entire democratic platform is shrouded

00:23:54.060 in all of these euphemisms that make it sound like they're compassionate. They're not. They're about

00:23:58.920 government control. They're about controlling your life. That's exactly why they're bullying us. That's

00:24:03.260 exactly why they're making us feel guilty for saying, wow, patronizing us, which by the way,

00:24:09.000 patronizing, you know, like the patriarchy, it's so funny that they don't understand that they are

00:24:14.120 more patronizing than the actual patriarchy. Anyway, patronizing us saying that, oh, they need to help us

00:24:19.880 along and help us think differently because clearly as conservatives, we just, we just don't know. Like

00:24:24.520 that is part of the reason why you guys don't get voted for by us. I'm sorry. Allow us to think for

00:24:33.020 ourselves. Like the more that they tell us that the only reason we vote Republican is because of our

00:24:37.920 husbands. I think the more likely we are to keep voting Republican. Like, honestly, I mean, I don't

00:24:45.700 cuss on this podcast, but F you really like go. I, again, I don't want to say anything crass. Go away.

00:24:54.520 I'll say that. Go away. Go away. I don't care what you have to say about me being a moral for

00:25:01.100 voting Republican. I don't care what you say about me being a foot soldier of the patriarchy. Good. I

00:25:06.140 love it. I'll be on the front lines for the patriarchy. If that means Republicans are going

00:25:10.340 to win. I love the patriarchy. I don't care. I don't care about your bullying. It makes me more

00:25:15.400 likely to never vote Democrat in my whole entire life. That and the fact that, oh yeah, I actually have

00:25:20.900 value something that Democrats are completely unfamiliar with. So that's one ridiculous

00:25:29.400 narrative that we are seeing from the left. And I beg of you to resist it. Do not let the

00:25:35.460 politics of guilt get you down. If you ever if you ever feeling guilty or weighted down like you

00:25:40.300 got to vote Democrat or you got to be more liberal to be accepted, you come to this podcast and I will

00:25:44.800 make you feel better about your conservative ways. OK. OK. The next thing that stupid, ridiculous

00:25:51.360 Democrats, they're not all stupid or ridiculous, but just some of them, especially the ones I'm about

00:25:55.300 to talk about are talking about. They are talking about how the Senate, you know, the thing that

00:26:00.900 Republicans won the Senate while Democrats won the popular vote. No, I'm not kidding. I'm not

00:26:07.520 kidding. They really said that they really said Democrats won the popular vote. Now you might be

00:26:12.500 thinking, OK, you're thinking back to civics class, you're thinking about back to, you know,

00:26:17.620 US Gov that you took in high school and you're like, I don't remember. I don't remember there

00:26:23.760 being a popular vote in the Senate. How does that even make sense? Senators are voted on by their

00:26:28.820 states, not not the entire country. And you are freaking right. You are smarter, apparently,

00:26:34.680 the Democratic strategist and this random guy named Mark Kopelovich, professor of political science

00:26:43.960 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. So he tweeted out Senate popular vote Democrats 40,558,262

00:26:53.860 in parentheses, 55.4% Republicans, 31,490,026 votes in parentheses, 43%. And then space-based

00:27:03.460 Senate seats, Republicans plus three. Obviously, he's trying to make the point that this doesn't

00:27:09.040 make any sense. He's trying to say that this is an unfair process for Republicans to have so fewer

00:27:15.700 votes, almost 10 million votes less than Democrats and still take three seats in the Senate. And then

00:27:22.520 you have, you know, the political sage of our time, George Takai, saying the same thing, him

00:27:28.720 basically saying that this is completely unfair. You guys are, are barbarians. You apparently don't

00:27:38.000 know. You don't know. You don't know anything about the country's founding. You don't know why

00:27:42.120 your institutions exist. Of course, the same people who say that we should abolish the electoral college

00:27:46.640 now. If Hillary Clinton had won the electoral vote, they would have never said that. But of course,

00:27:51.880 now they're saying that the Senate, how it's set up is wrong, that it shouldn't be two senators from

00:27:56.840 every state, but it should be in proportion to how many people are in your state. Yeah, you dimwit.

00:28:03.600 That's what the House of Representatives is for. The Senate was set up exactly, exactly how it is

00:28:10.360 deliberately so that every state, its own entity, a state is its own entity. And we have decided to

00:28:17.120 unite together these separate states, United States of America. I don't know if you guys realize that,

00:28:22.860 but we're our own separate entity. We have a House of Representatives where we have representatives

00:28:27.140 from each state represent us based on our population. And then we have the Senate and each

00:28:32.620 state gets two senators so that they are evenly represented. Duh! That way, that way, the larger states

00:28:41.520 don't get a say in everything or else it would be the tyranny of the majority. So you'd have the most

00:28:47.820 populous states making all of the decisions, all of the legislative decisions. The smaller states

00:28:53.400 wouldn't. Of course, that is exactly what leftists want because the only opinions that they really care

00:28:58.660 about are the opinions in California and New York. They don't want the person in Wyoming to have the

00:29:03.200 same say as them. But you've got to be an absolute idiot to not know that that's exactly how the

00:29:09.320 Senate was supposed to be set up. That even if you won the, quote, popular vote, which, again,

00:29:15.860 is not something in the Senate because it's not voted on nationally, it's voted on state by state.

00:29:20.880 But even if you won the popular vote, you still have even representation because those smaller states

00:29:26.840 have to be represented. Their interests have to be represented because we're not a country made up

00:29:32.120 of just California and New York. Now, I would love it if those countries just went off on their own.

00:29:36.440 I believe that Texas could pick up any kind of economic slack that existed after we got rid of

00:29:44.980 New York and California. I'd be totally fine with that. But until that happens, they're going to have

00:29:49.400 to function with the reality that there is a Midwest, that there are states that are not as populist as

00:29:55.020 them that have different values than them. But this is what the left does. They want to abolish

00:30:00.400 everything that they don't like or everything that doesn't play into their favor. Of course,

00:30:05.520 if they had won the Senate, they would have said, this is the perfect setup. This is great.

00:30:09.800 This is just great. Thank you so much for the Senate. If they had won the electoral vote.

00:30:13.900 Love. I love. I love the Electoral College. It's great. You know, they also argued for abolishing the

00:30:19.000 Supreme Court. If we had liberal judges, they would say, Supreme Court. We love the Supreme Court. And in

00:30:25.540 fact, we want all activists on the Supreme Court. But no, as it is, because they're losing all of

00:30:31.320 these things, they want to abolish them. Why? Because leftists are children. It's exactly what 0.99

00:30:37.560 kids do when they lose a game. Like if you've ever played a game with a toddler, they have a really

00:30:46.160 hard time losing. You know, you beat them, you don't let them win because, you know, you don't want to

00:30:51.160 create pansies. So you beat them in a game of basketball or video game or whatever. And then they

00:30:57.860 say, instead of saying, you know, good game, they say, you cheated or I hate this game.

00:31:05.480 Yeah. OK. They're three. And so you just kind of laugh it off. But these people are like 60.

00:31:11.060 But that's exactly what Democrats do. I didn't it didn't go my way. So I hate this game. We're

00:31:16.820 never playing this game. And actually, I want to set the rules for the game because you guys cheated

00:31:20.620 because you didn't follow my imaginary rules. That's what happened. Those are the people that we're

00:31:25.980 up against and now are in control of the House. So that's just a little bit a little bit troubling.

00:31:33.060 But that's exactly what they do. So when you see those arguments of abolishing all of these things

00:31:38.400 that they don't like, just remember, just just think like, are those the people that you want

00:31:42.460 running the country? Guys, I am worried. I'm just going to tell you, I'm worried about 2020.

00:31:49.040 Funny. Democrats will whoever they elect is going to be extremely progressive, is going to they don't

00:31:57.260 realize that Donald Trump was a reaction of Obama in all of his extremism. It's just the opposite of

00:32:02.360 Obama. They think that he's just bad. So they're going to say, oh, we're doing this as a reaction

00:32:06.800 to Trump because Trump was the first bad president. I'm like, OK, I guess we could just go on forever

00:32:10.880 and ever like this. Someone's got to stop it at some point. I think that Donald Trump has to win

00:32:15.740 again or else, gosh, the four years after that are going to be crazy unless someone beats him in the

00:32:20.680 primaries. That's probably not going to happen, though. Man, 2020 is going to be ugly. We are

00:32:26.960 officially in the 2020 cycle, by the way. It's going to be we're going to be talking 2020 nonstop,

00:32:34.420 which is absolutely insane that we're already here. Like, I remember so clearly waking up in the

00:32:40.060 middle of the night in 2016 and hearing that Donald Trump became president. And I was like,

00:32:44.100 there's no frickin way. Little did I know of the craziness that would happen over the next two

00:32:49.300 years. But it's gone by so fast. The next two years are going to go by so fast. And you and I

00:32:53.760 have a really big task ahead of us if we're going to keep this Republican.

00:33:00.220 Um, OK, I think that's all I have to say. I think that's all I have to say about the midterms. I did

00:33:07.080 want to do one segment that I haven't done in so long that I know you guys like and I just haven't done

00:33:11.380 it is things I don't get. So most of the things that I don't get happen when I'm in an airport,

00:33:17.520 because that's when I see the weirdest people. Last week, I saw someone chilling in the airport,

00:33:23.260 like leaning back in a seat, like had her legs propped up on something, didn't have shoes on

00:33:28.240 completely barefoot, just reading her book. Now, that's not my thing I don't get because I've done

00:33:33.680 a thing I don't get on people not wearing proper footwear in the airport, which is one of my peeves.

00:33:38.380 I don't like it when you're like foot is exposed in the airport. It just grosses me out. And to know

00:33:45.680 that you had to walk through the metal detector probably and take your shoes off unless you

00:33:51.460 brought socks, which is fine, or you put on those little booties, it just freaks me out.

00:33:56.040 Why would you do that? Now, I've had to do that before, but I regretted it. And I don't want that

00:34:01.380 for you either. So wear proper footwear. I think your foot has to be totally enclosed when you're going to

00:34:07.040 the airport. But again, that's just my soapbox. This is not the thing I don't get. The thing I

00:34:12.540 just don't get today is speaking on the phone in public, on speakerphone. Or really, well, I really

00:34:20.640 don't like it when people speak on the phone, like in tight spaces, loudly. Like, you have to speak on

00:34:28.360 the phone. I speak on the phone in public. Sometimes you have to do it. But when I was writing this,

00:34:33.720 I was thinking really speakerphone. There was someone in the row ahead of me who was making

00:34:39.620 a doctor's appointment. This was a while ago on the airplane before we were taking off. And she

00:34:46.500 had it on speakerphone. And she was making, why would you do that? Is something wrong with your

00:34:50.780 ear? You don't like your phone touching your ear? Are you afraid of the radiation? Or whatever it is?

00:34:55.940 Sorry, lady. You just got to get used to that. That's the price you pay for having a phone. Do not 0.99

00:34:59.940 speak on speakerphone in public. Another thing I don't get, and I just advise you not to do,

00:35:05.380 turn your phone on silent when you're in public. I had two people. I had two connecting flights when

00:35:11.060 I was going to Gainesville. On both flights, I had someone next to me who didn't know the meaning of

00:35:15.740 that, who had the clicky clacky clicky clacky when they were texting someone, their emails, their text

00:35:24.060 coming in, the ding, the bling. Do not do that. Do not do that. Turn your phone on silent in public.

00:35:32.320 No one wants to hear that. It literally greets millennials ears because we have our phones on

00:35:37.540 silent all the time. And when we lose our phones, we can't refine them because our phones are always

00:35:40.960 on silent or dead. At least mine is. So thing I just don't get, people that are loud on their phones

00:35:47.440 in public or people who watch videos on their phones in public loud. No, no, ma'am. No, ma'am.

00:35:55.880 It's really annoying. So just no proper phone etiquette. I might have to do a whole segment on

00:36:00.240 airport etiquette because apparently just some people don't know. There's some gross people

00:36:04.560 at the airport and I'm already mad when I'm at the airport. So I might need to do a whole segment on

00:36:10.740 that. Okay. Well, this was a fun episode, guys. Uh, love you. See you next week. Let's see. Am I

00:36:19.380 going somewhere next week? No, I'm, I'm, I think I'm in town next week. Actually, I'll be in Florida

00:36:24.260 next week, uh, at the end of the week. So if you're in Vero beach, stop on by. Okay. See you later. Bye.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 08, 2018

Ep 53 ｜ Midterm Madness

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