Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 657 ｜ What the FBI Did to Trump, They'll Do to You

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. We've got a lot to talk about today. I will give

00:00:05.520 my reaction to the FBI's raid of Donald Trump's home and why I say this is an indication that

00:00:14.000 conservatives need to be okay with using more power, the power that is at our disposal. I got

00:00:22.140 a lot of support for that statement on Twitter. I also got a lot of blowback. So I'm going to break

00:00:26.220 it down and tell you exactly what I mean and why I really do mean it. We are also going to talk just

00:00:32.800 a little bit about the spending bill, what has been not so affectionately dubbed the Inflation

00:00:39.140 Enhancement Act by many Republicans in Congress. I will also touch on Stacey Abrams and her comment

00:00:48.640 that she is pro-abortion because of her faith. What faith exactly is she talking about?

00:00:55.740 And then in the last part of this episode, I will tell you a personal story that I experienced

00:01:03.260 yesterday on the plane and the commentary I think it gives on the dire lack of strength,

00:01:09.680 of courage, and compassion, particularly from a subset of men in our culture. So we will get to

00:01:18.820 all of this and more today. This episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to

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00:01:39.200 Okay. Now, before we get into it, let me tell you a little bit about my travels. So I went to Austin

00:01:45.740 on Friday. I went to Nashville yesterday. Yesterday, I was at Daily Wire. I was filming some stuff with

00:01:53.460 Michael Knowles of Daily Wire. We did a book club video that you guys are going to love. And then we

00:02:00.040 also filmed this like really fun game. So lots of good content coming out from yours truly and the

00:02:07.060 Daily Wire. That all will be out soon. And then on Friday in Austin, I spoke to two different groups,

00:02:14.600 Network of Enlightened Women. They're an awesome conservative female organization. 1.00

00:02:19.640 And then I also talked to Patriot Academy, another amazing student organization, and just talked to

00:02:26.140 them about the moment that we are in, the kind of courage, the kind of clarity that this moment in

00:02:32.920 our nation's history calls for, particularly when it comes to not just the courage that we show

00:02:39.320 and communicating and standing for that which is good and right and true, but also electing the right

00:02:45.480 people to represent and fight for these things. And I actually think that what I discussed there,

00:02:52.000 what we talked about there is very pertinent to this story of what happened to Donald Trump at

00:02:58.760 Mar-a-Lago with his home being raided. Look, we are at a very frightening in some ways,

00:03:06.420 a very heated, a very tense point in history where the powers that be are being weaponized against and

00:03:14.760 mobilized against political dissent. That happened when we saw the DOJ announced that they were going

00:03:21.800 to be going after concerned parents who confronted school board members by going to these school board

00:03:27.960 meetings. They basically categorized these parents as domestic terrorists and said the FBI is going to

00:03:35.480 be investigating these parents. I mean, that is a symptom of what is typically referred to

00:03:40.940 as the inherently unstable banana republic. It seems increasingly that that is the direction that

00:03:49.580 we are going, that these institutions that are dominated by progressive ideology are intolerant of

00:03:58.100 dissent. You see, leftists, many have this delusion that is constantly playing in their heads,

00:04:05.540 that they are the underdog, that they are the little guy, and that they are fighting on behalf

00:04:10.780 of the little guy, and that the real threat to democracy, the real threat to freedom are these

00:04:15.600 scary Christian nationalists, these scary, what they would call like Christo-fascist fundamentalists

00:04:23.760 who want to try to conform the country to their own image, who want to try to control the minds and 0.97

00:04:31.980 the lives of everyone who is not a right-wing Christian. Like, this is the fantasy that they

00:04:37.940 have going on in their heads 24-7. The reality is, is that every institution, every power that we have,

00:04:49.060 not just nationally, but almost globally as well, is dominated by left-wing ideology. So if you're

00:04:56.940 looking at the federal government, you're looking at our intelligence agencies, you're looking at the

00:05:01.160 leadership in our military, you're looking at our public education system, or academia, or the

00:05:07.100 mainstream media, or Hollywood, or big tech, all of these are dominated by, led by, have been

00:05:16.140 infiltrated by leftists. Institutional capture is very real, and the ideology that has captured all of

00:05:24.500 these institutions that wield all of the power, I think I forgot to mention maybe major corporations,

00:05:30.560 that wield a lot of power, they have been captured by leftism. And so we have seen the result of that.

00:05:39.020 We've seen the result of that in the degradation of our public school system, of academia, of crime

00:05:47.440 stopping and crime response in cities. We have seen public safety go out the window because of this

00:05:55.960 institutional capture by leftists. Progressive ideology is destructive. It is punitive. It is chaotic.

00:06:04.880 It is anarchistic in the consequences that it actually wages, but it is also extremely organized

00:06:14.260 in how it manifests its power. And I think one example of the manifestation of the dangerous

00:06:23.320 and ideological and weaponized power of the leftist state is this raiding of Trump's home

00:06:32.720 in Mar-a-Lago that occurred yesterday. So let me tell you a rundown of what occurred. So the FBI

00:06:40.980 raided Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago on August 8th. This is according to Daily Wire. Trump said this,

00:06:46.700 these are dark times for our nation as my beautiful home Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida is currently

00:06:52.300 under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. After working and cooperating with

00:06:57.980 the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate.

00:07:02.900 Trump claims it was an attempt by the Democrats to weaponize the justice system to stop him

00:07:07.440 from running for president again in 2024 and to hurt Republicans in the midterms.

00:07:11.120 He says they even broke into my safe. It is political targeting at the highest level.

00:07:16.320 Last month, the Washington Post reported again, this is according to the Daily Wire,

00:07:20.640 that the DOJ's investigation into Trump was part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn

00:07:25.640 the 2020 election results. And that DOJ was looking at areas that could end up ensnaring Trump,

00:07:31.980 including seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct a government proceeding.

00:07:36.720 Here's what the New York Post is reporting. Any search of a private residence would have to be

00:07:41.700 approved by a judge after law enforcement demonstrated probable cause that a search

00:07:45.560 was justified. But in this case, experts said it would have had to come from the highest levels.

00:07:50.920 So this raid is surely one of the most significant the FBI has ever undertaken.

00:07:55.440 Jonathan Schaub, a former attorney advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department

00:07:59.100 of Justice, told the Miami Herald, it would likely have been approved at the highest levels of the FBI

00:08:03.960 and Justice Department. Schaub, who now works at the University of Kentucky's Rosenberg College of Law,

00:08:08.580 added the raid comes as the Justice Department is examining the actions of Trump in his criminal

00:08:13.120 investigation in the efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Apparently,

00:08:20.720 this also has to do with documents that he brought to his Mar-a-Lago home,

00:08:25.940 but weren't supposed to actually leave the White House. New York Post says federal law

00:08:31.940 bars the removal of classified documents to unauthorized locations, though it is possible

00:08:35.840 that Trump could try to argue that as president he was the ultimate declassification authority.

00:08:40.720 The Washington Post also reported on this and said that like among the things that he took into

00:08:46.000 his home, it was like a cocktail napkin and a dinner menu and a couple other things. But it's

00:08:53.340 interesting that the Washington Post didn't include like what would have been, I guess,

00:08:58.880 serious documents that would have solicited a raid by the FBI. You would think that we would have had

00:09:05.340 some information on that. You would think that the FBI, that the Justice Department would want

00:09:09.820 people to know very quickly that this was a totally legitimate raid. But we still don't know what were

00:09:16.400 the documents that apparently justified them coming into his house and breaking into his safe.

00:09:24.020 It's interesting. We still don't know that. So right now, this looks like a political payback.

00:09:31.420 Like this looks like their attempt to try to inhibit or prohibit Trump from running next term,

00:09:39.940 running in the 2024 election. Now, I hope that's not the case legitimately. While obviously I don't

00:09:46.300 want Trump to be indicted, I don't want him to go to jail. I don't think that that's a good thing.

00:09:51.180 I would rather this be an actually legitimate search and seizure than have to face the fact,

00:10:00.560 which I think is the more likely case, face the fact that our DOJ is basically just the political

00:10:06.920 arm of Democrats and is playing politics with people's lives and with people's freedoms. Now,

00:10:15.360 again, I think that that is the far more likely case considering some of the statements and actions

00:10:21.300 of the head of the DOJ, which is Merrick Garland, particularly against people like you and me,

00:10:27.760 people like those who are going to school board meetings. So based on his actions, based on his

00:10:34.460 ideology, I think it is very likely that the FBI and the DOJ is being weaponized against Donald Trump.

00:10:40.240 I think that also perhaps gives us some clarity into why every Democrat just voted to add 87,000

00:10:48.960 IRS agents to the IRS. Like, what do you think they're going to do with that power? You think

00:10:54.980 they're just going to go after billionaires and millionaires? They're just going to go after the 0.90

00:10:59.720 people in charge? No, those IRS agents are very likely for people like you and me. It's probably

00:11:06.000 for political purposes. And so obviously, obviously, the left is not afraid to use the power that they

00:11:16.260 have at their disposal to accomplish the political purposes that they have. Now, the Wall Street Journal

00:11:22.720 is also reporting on this and is trying to kind of enlighten us as to the context of what is really

00:11:30.180 going on here. All right, here's what the Wall Street Journal says about this. Legal historians

00:11:44.800 said they couldn't remember a case in recent history in which the FBI searched the home of

00:11:48.240 a former president. So that's why people are freaking out about this. That sentence right there.

00:11:52.160 That's why it's unprecedented. It's not that there is no possibility whatsoever that a crime has been

00:11:57.020 committed. Of course, there are all kinds of possibilities in any case. And in all cases,

00:12:01.900 of course, we don't believe that anyone should be above the law. We believe that justice should be

00:12:05.660 executed. But again, based on the history of the FBI and the DOJ in general, but specifically of this

00:12:12.080 FBI and DOJ, like there is reason to worry. And because this is the first time that something like

00:12:18.420 this has happened to a former president, this former president happens to be one of the most maligned

00:12:23.500 presidents by Democrats in history. I just don't think that that's a coincidence. That's my personal

00:12:28.740 take. The Wall Street Journal says the search marked an escalation of the Justice Department's

00:12:33.180 investigation into aspects of Mr. Trump's final days in office and is expected to ripple through

00:12:37.620 the run up to November's midterm elections. Again, convenient. Officials can face up to five years in

00:12:42.940 prison for removing classified materials to an unauthorized location. The penalties for breaking other

00:12:47.720 laws related to the removal of official records also include disqualification from holding federal

00:12:54.900 office, including the presidency. Something that people are pointing out is that, OK, even if this

00:13:00.400 if this is the case, like even if there was classified material that had been taken by Donald Trump into

00:13:06.180 his home that justified a raid by the FBI, which like if that is the case, then of course, those materials

00:13:12.860 do need to be handed over. And that would be a breach of the law. And it's a good law. Like it's a good

00:13:18.500 law that those classified materials stay where they are supposed to stay. They are supposed to be

00:13:23.560 protected, of course, for reasons of national security. You don't want that kind of confidential

00:13:28.700 information to be leaving the place where it's protected, where it's supposed supposed to be. But a lot

00:13:34.060 of people are pointing out the obvious duplicity here that, OK, we've got Hunter Biden. We've got the crimes

00:13:42.060 that clearly the Clintons have been a part of. And as far as we know, these families have not been

00:13:48.840 treated with the same harshness, with the same viciousness, with the same severity that Donald

00:13:56.440 Trump has for possibly potentially taking some documents out of the White House. So I think that

00:14:03.180 alone worries people about the lopsided nature of these institutions, of these agencies. House Minority

00:14:10.020 Leader Kevin McCarthy, Republican in California, warned that Attorney General Merrick Garland could

00:14:14.640 expect an investigation into the action should the GOP win control of the House in November's

00:14:19.960 midterm election. Will anything actually come of that? I don't know. Many Democrats have been urging

00:14:25.600 Mr. Garland to be more forceful in investigating the former president's actions. Mr. Garland has said a

00:14:30.740 little publicly about the probe, but told reporters recently when asked about the possibility of

00:14:36.180 charging a former president that no person is above the law in this country. Of course, I don't believe

00:14:40.840 any person is above the law, but it seems like what they mean is that no Republican is above the law.

00:14:46.300 It seems like what they mean is no conservative or no non-leftist is above the law. There are plenty of

00:14:51.700 people on the left that are above the law. And then this is a really interesting development, a troubling

00:14:57.280 development. And sorry to sound conspiratorial here, but this is what's being reported. So this is according to

00:15:02.980 New York Post. The judge who approved the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, uh, more Mar-a-Lago once linked to

00:15:11.200 Jeffrey Epstein. I'm sorry. Like this is just too much. It's too much. So this is according to the

00:15:18.640 article, the Florida federal investigation judge who signed off on a search warrant authorizing the

00:15:23.500 FBI raid of former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort left the local U.S. attorney's

00:15:28.800 office more than a decade ago to represent employees of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein,

00:15:34.980 who had received received immunity in the long running sex trafficking investigation of the

00:15:39.800 financier. Sources tell the Post that Judge Bruce Reinhardt approved the warrant that enabled federal

00:15:46.160 agents to converge on the palatial South Florida estate on Monday in what Trump called an unannounced

00:15:53.300 raid in my home. He was elevated to magistrate judge in March 2018. After 10 years,

00:15:58.500 in private practice that November, the Miami Herald reported that he had represented several of

00:16:03.720 Epstein's employees, including by Reinhardt's own admission to the outlet Epstein's pilots,

00:16:09.040 his scheduler, Sarah Kellen and Nadia Marcinkova, who Epstein once reportedly described as his Yugoslavian 0.66

00:16:16.560 sex slave. So that's just weird. I have no idea if that is connected in any way here, but I think 0.81

00:16:24.080 that's an interesting point that people are going to look at. Of course, when it comes to this, I mean,

00:16:31.020 we hear all the time about these right-wing conspiracy theories, but there seems to be

00:16:36.620 repeatedly, consistently stories that come out that at least affirm parts of what are typically referred

00:16:44.220 to as conspiracy theories. So how is this going to play out? I don't know. But we obviously have a

00:16:52.060 crisis of trust, a crisis of credibility, and we have for a very long time. And it's interesting,

00:16:57.740 the realignment when it comes to the perspective on intelligence agencies and what is often referred

00:17:03.260 to as the security state, the CIA, the FBI, the DOJ, because it used to be classic liberals who were

00:17:12.800 skeptical of the growth of the security state and who were very protective of individuals' civil

00:17:20.620 liberties. And now that skepticism has switched. I mean, Republicans and conservatives have traditionally

00:17:27.720 been the side of law and order. And we still are, of course, in many ways. We believe that the

00:17:35.740 progressive tolerance of crime and murder and recidivism is immoral and wrong and leads to

00:17:42.660 chaos in local cities. But when it comes to the federal government, when it comes to the executive

00:17:47.400 branch, and when it comes to the politicization and the weaponization of our intelligence community

00:17:54.680 and of our security state, it's actually the right now who is calling for the dismantling of these

00:18:01.900 agencies, who is calling for them to be broken up, who is calling for them to be reined in, who is calling

00:18:07.440 for them to have accountability. It's now the right who is skeptical of the FBI and the CIA. That's

00:18:14.240 really switched. And now it's the left who are applauding these agencies and who want these agencies,

00:18:20.660 including the IRS, to have more power. So it's really interesting how this is realigned. And it goes

00:18:27.840 back to that fantasy that I was saying really plays out in the heads of so many leftists, that they are the

00:18:34.600 underdog, that they are the ones without any power, that they're the little guy. No, no, no, no. Like

00:18:40.700 the Democratic Party is the party of the bully, is the party of the security state, is the party of the 0.52

00:18:47.580 administrative state, is the party of the wedding of corporate and government power, is the party of a

00:18:54.360 form of fascism, even as they say they are anti-fascist. And what's funny is that I tweeted yesterday

00:19:02.260 in response to all of this. And while I agree, we got to wait for the facts. And maybe we find out

00:19:09.320 things about Trump's guilt or alleged guilt that will surprise us all. I'm still not sure that it

00:19:15.520 justifies the raid that went on. Actually, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't. I think that we can

00:19:20.480 say pretty confidently that politics at least played a part of that. And that alone is scary. So I think

00:19:26.260 that my reaction, even as we wait for all of the facts to come out, is justified when I say that,

00:19:32.220 look, we're not playing games anymore, okay? Like the old Republican way of just sitting on our hands

00:19:41.620 and sitting back and saying, well, we don't play this game that Democrats are playing of using our

00:19:49.520 power for political purposes. And the free market in the next election, they're just going to fix all

00:19:56.680 of this. Kind of like the laissez-faire, sit back, let things happen. Republican Party, we don't want

00:20:03.540 to interfere. We don't want to do anything. All we want to do is lower the corporate tax rate. That GOP,

00:20:10.900 well, the need for that GOP is dead and gone. And therefore, that kind of GOP needs to expire.

00:20:17.860 Look, conservatives are going to have to get more comfortable with electing people

00:20:24.800 that are willing to exercise more power than conservatives have traditionally been okay with.

00:20:34.320 Now, what do I mean by that? Because a lot of people get freaked out when conservatives say that,

00:20:39.560 when Republicans say that. I do not mean the unfettered growth of the government. I don't mean that we

00:20:45.240 should add our own IRS agents. I don't mean that we should be growing the administrative state. I'm not

00:20:52.380 talking about weaponizing the central federal government. I am talking about using the powers

00:21:02.260 that are constitutionally available to you to try to dismantle the left-wing powers that are punishing

00:21:10.980 conservative and non-left-wing constituents. Does that make sense? So let me give you an example

00:21:17.820 because I think Ron DeSantis is a great representation of this. If you think about

00:21:24.520 the whole Disney fiasco and the whole parental rights and education bill that he signed into law

00:21:29.980 that said, hey, you can't teach sexuality and gender switching to kindergartners through third

00:21:34.180 graders that the left absolutely freaked out about. Still gross and creepy that they thought that was

00:21:40.300 bad. Disney came out and said, you know what? We're going to oppose this law and we are going to work

00:21:45.940 day and night to make sure that this law is overturned. So basically, this major corporation

00:21:50.560 said that they are going to set themselves against the will of the constituents of Florida,

00:21:54.280 who elected the representatives and duly elected the governor who created this bill and then signed

00:22:00.240 it into law. That in itself is anti-democratic. So in order to protect the democratic process,

00:22:06.560 in order to protect the wishes of the constituents that wanted this bill, rather than DeSantis saying

00:22:15.480 what Republicans typically do, which is, well, you know, the market will take care of it. Well,

00:22:20.780 you know, people will probably stop going to Disney World and that will be their punishment.

00:22:25.200 Let's just see what happens. Or rather than refusing to criticize Disney because Disney brings

00:22:30.760 in a lot of money to Florida, Ron DeSantis said, no, I'm going to do something about this. I am going

00:22:36.380 to use a tool that is constitutionally available to me, which is taking away the tax privileges of

00:22:42.660 Disney, who basically created themselves or set themselves up as an enemy to many constituents in

00:22:49.900 Florida. That's how you do it. That's what you do. Ron DeSantis also decided to remove a Soros-backed

00:22:56.580 prosecutor in the state of Florida that was refusing to prosecute crimes specifically related

00:23:01.740 to abortion. That is not typical of Republicans. Republicans don't typically make those moves. So

00:23:08.160 when I say that we need to elect Republicans who are willing to use the power and the tools that they

00:23:16.220 have to push good policy and to punish bad policy and to punish bad people, that's the kind of thing

00:23:24.860 I'm talking about. And then, of course, like using the powers that they have to dismantle and

00:23:33.100 reconfigure the security in the administrative state. Yes, absolutely. That's what I'm talking

00:23:39.240 about. And people on the left get so scared. And even some people on the right. When you say things

00:23:44.600 like that, when you talk about power, when you talk about like taking control and using your authority

00:23:49.480 to do something, Republicans and Democrats freak out about Republicans and conservatives advocating

00:23:55.740 for that. On the left, you say, oh, that's just fascism. Like Ali is saying that Republicans need to be

00:24:02.680 okay with exercising more authority and using more power than is traditionally used by conservatives.

00:24:10.480 That's fascism. That's hilarious. Because you, someone on the left, you support the party that is

00:24:17.960 exclusively responsible for any instance of actual fascism in the country today. Like you, as a

00:24:24.500 Democrat, continue to vote for people who are forging an inextricable relationship between powerful

00:24:31.760 corporations in and the government to then punish people who fall outside of the progressive zeitgeist.

00:24:38.720 Like they are they are the ones that are advocating for things like what happened in Canada when Trudeau

00:24:44.700 punished the truckers and the protesters by freezing the funds in their bank accounts. And that happens here with

00:24:50.560 PayPal. When there is an organization like Moms for Liberty that goes against progressivism, PayPal freezes their

00:24:57.900 funds. People on the left are okay with that. So people on the left are totally 100% supportive of actual

00:25:04.860 fascism and the capture of every single powerful institution in this country in order to not only push and

00:25:13.700 force their ideology on the people who are in the jurisdiction of those institutions, but also to

00:25:20.460 punish anyone who opposes their ideology. So when the left says, oh, I'm afraid of fascism, or I'm afraid of

00:25:28.060 theocracy, or I'm afraid of Christian nationalism, they're not actually afraid of theocracy. They're afraid of 0.59

00:25:36.300 dissent. They want their own theocracy. They want secular progressivism to be the state-sanctioned

00:25:43.380 religion and to characterize and dominate and tyrannize every institution that they're a part of. And it 1.00

00:25:50.760 freaks them out when dissent says, okay, fine, if that's the game you want to play, we are also going

00:25:57.720 to use the power and the tools that are constitutionally available to us to make sure that we are actually

00:26:02.960 the ones dominating the institutions, that we are the ones making the rules. We're going to shift the

00:26:07.340 Overton window over. Oh, you're going to censor good ideas on the right? You're going to punish good people and

00:26:14.340 good organizations over here? The pendulum is going to swing back, baby. It's going to happen. They get so freaked

00:26:20.480 out by that, not because they're afraid of power, but because they're afraid of their enemies using power. Should have

00:26:25.900 thought about that. You should have thought about that when you captured these institutions and then weaponized

00:26:30.540 them against the people that disagreed with you. You should have thought about that. You should have

00:26:35.000 thought about the fact that to every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction. And look, as I said,

00:26:42.200 I don't want the unfettered growth of the federal government. I don't. Like, I don't want a political

00:26:48.640 weaponized DOJ, an FBI. I do think, though, that whoever gets in charge, if it's a Republican next,

00:26:55.700 needs to use their power to dismantle these agencies and recreate them, if necessary, in a way

00:27:02.820 that actually represents true and good definitions of impartial justice. So that's what I'm talking

00:27:10.880 about when I'm talking about the right using power. I am talking about the right using power for actual

00:27:16.480 good things, for actual justice, for actual liberty, for actual rights. I mean, not the absolutely

00:27:23.600 deluded and depraved agenda, subversive agenda that the left has when they exercise their power.

00:27:31.300 I think a lot of times, like, we're just moral relativists, especially on the right. Like,

00:27:37.000 we're unwilling to say that power can be used for good things versus power that is used for bad things.

00:27:45.520 Like, we often say, oh, well, no, we don't believe in any kind of indoctrination. We don't believe in

00:27:50.420 any kind of power. We don't believe in, like, any kind of philosophy that should be guiding law and

00:27:58.200 lawmaking. But that's just not possible. Like, nothing is neutral. There are bad ideas. There are

00:28:04.400 good ideas. There's good and there is evil. It's okay to say that the things that we want to do

00:28:10.980 using, like, government power or the curriculum that we want to push are the ideas that, like,

00:28:17.000 that we want to infiltrate these institutions and public schools or whatever are good and left-wing

00:28:22.200 ideas are bad. Like, we don't just have to pretend like we are pushing for neutrality. We're not.

00:28:29.740 Like, we believe that there are good ideas and there are bad ideas. There is a good definition of

00:28:34.460 justice. There's a convoluted definition of justice that's on the left. There's good. There is evil.

00:28:39.700 And I'm not saying that conservatives by any means or the right has, like, some kind of monopoly

00:28:44.640 on good and on justice. I'm saying that we should be unafraid, though, to use all the constitutional

00:28:51.460 tools available to us to push that which is good and right and true when it comes to policy

00:28:56.080 and when it comes to how our systems and agencies work in this country. The left understands that.

00:29:03.260 They understand that nothing is neutral. That's why they dominate every institution that they have

00:29:09.320 with their ideology. What does Oren McIntyre sometimes say? He's a guy that I follow on

00:29:15.000 Twitter. I'll probably, hopefully, have him on the show at some point. And I don't know if it's

00:29:19.040 his original quote, but I've seen him tweet it a lot, is that the side that wants to win will always

00:29:26.600 beat the side that wants to be left alone. So that's where we are. Like, we do have to understand what

00:29:32.620 time it is, right? Like, we have to understand kind of like the threats that we're facing. We

00:29:37.960 have to forsake nostalgia and realize that we as a country are not going to go back to like 1995 or

00:29:42.700 2004 whenever you thought this country was good. Like, whenever the only disagreements that we had

00:29:47.660 between Democrats and Republicans were how involved we should be in Iraq and like how high the corporate

00:29:52.720 tax rate will be. I mean, we're talking about very fundamental moral differences here.

00:29:57.480 Unfortunately, like, that is the battle. That is the division that we're facing.

00:30:01.300 And look, the left is playing ball all while telling you that if you step up to the plate, 0.51

00:30:06.760 you're a fascist. I think we just have to kind of recognize that. And we have to use,

00:30:12.380 as I've said a million times now, the tools that are available to us to push that which is good,

00:30:16.420 right? To push truth and to push actual justice and to dismantle the powers that be that are pushing

00:30:24.100 the opposite of that. That's all I'm talking about when I'm talking about Republicans using our power

00:30:30.000 and using the government and the tools that are at our disposal in the government to do that.

00:30:37.240 The left has been doing it for a very long time. That's why we are where we are.

00:30:41.800 All right. One last thing I'll say about that is that this actually helps Donald Trump

00:30:58.040 for Republicans anyway. Like this makes him shoo-in for the Republican nomination. Now,

00:31:06.840 the powers that be certainly are going to do everything to make sure that he is not only

00:31:12.740 not the nominee, but of course that he doesn't win the general election. I'm not saying whether

00:31:18.080 that's bad or good that this is going to basically automatically beat out all of the competition when

00:31:26.680 it comes to the Republican primary. I'm just saying what it is. Like now you are presenting him as like

00:31:32.800 a symbol. As my friend Steve Day said, he is a symbol of opposition to the administrative and

00:31:41.020 the security state that we understand is not just going after Donald Trump, but they're also going

00:31:48.620 after the supporters of Donald Trump. And so that's going to be his message. He's going to say,

00:31:54.880 look, I'm fighting for you because I got skin in this game. They're after me, but really they hate you.

00:32:00.760 They say they hate me, but it's really you you're after. They say they hate my values and what I'm

00:32:05.140 doing. Really what they're saying is hating you. And look, they've created this now. They've created

00:32:10.520 Donald Trump as a symbol when I think if they would have just kind of like let him be, he would have

00:32:15.420 fizzled out. We would have had another star rise up. We probably already have that. And that person

00:32:22.080 could have had a fighting chance in the primary. But if they keep doing this, if they keep basically in

00:32:28.500 some strange way, presenting them, presenting him as like a hair, a hero of opposition, then what

00:32:38.160 they're going to get is him running away with the nomination and possibly potentially if it's fair, the

00:32:43.900 election. So that that's where we are in that. And it's and I also think that this is going to mobilize

00:32:51.740 Republicans when it comes to the midterm elections. I do. I think this actually works in Republicans

00:32:57.560 favor because, look, this is scary. If this is actually like a political weapon against Donald

00:33:05.000 Trump because he's Donald Trump and against Republicans, that scares a lot of people who

00:33:10.400 maybe previously weren't scared, who still were under some delusion that like Joe Biden is going to

00:33:15.980 bring in moderation and unity. Remember that pitch? That's funny. We do know that that the progressive

00:33:24.300 powers are trying to crack down on any dissent. Of course, we've talked a lot about big tax censorship

00:33:32.460 and we experienced that here on this show. Just last week, we got an email from YouTube saying that

00:33:40.020 they totally randomly, without warning, removed my conversation with journalist Julie Kelly about

00:33:46.680 January 6th and the prisoners that are in solitary confinement and are incarcerated because of, in many

00:33:55.920 cases, nonviolent offenses on January 6th. And she talked to me about the corrupt system in place that 0.98

00:34:05.820 has unfairly come down on the people who were involved, again, often peacefully in the January 6th riots and

00:34:16.740 protests. Everything that she said was factual. She has backed it up by her own sourcing, her own

00:34:23.260 journalism, her own fact checking herself. And even if it wasn't, like even if it was just her opinion,

00:34:29.740 even if it was just her perspective, so what? There are a million different perspectives on YouTube.

00:34:35.800 A lot of them were straight up garbage and based on abject lies. But because this goes against the 0.95

00:34:43.740 approved narrative, we've gotten the episode, I think it's episode 630. Yep, episode 630. It has been

00:34:53.220 removed from YouTube. So I encourage you to go to Blaze TV. Watch it for yourself if you have not already.

00:35:00.500 We've got the link to the episode on Blaze TV in the description of this episode. You can also listen

00:35:08.540 to it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever you listen while it's still available. So I would

00:35:14.980 hightail it over there right now and listen to that. It's very sinister. It's very sinister. Also,

00:35:21.740 I don't know if I've even talked about, speaking of censorship, I think I did maybe mention it last

00:35:26.480 week that our friend James Lindsay, who has been on here several times, he has been permanently

00:35:30.560 suspended from Twitter. Like we're not talking about a Christian conservative getting kicked off

00:35:36.180 for Christian conservative views, which is often what happens. I mean, we're talking about an agnostic,

00:35:41.420 a political independent who just happens to be against the grooming of children. He got kicked off of

00:35:47.720 Twitter for that. Interesting. I mean, they are, they're turning off the heat right now before

00:35:54.700 the midterms. It's very, very sinister and very, dare I say, in some cases, demonic. Speaking of demonic,

00:36:03.700 the IRS, as I mentioned a few minutes ago, they've added 87,000 employees, according to this Inflation

00:36:12.960 Reduction Act, so-called, that just passed the Senate that was completely partisan. No Republicans

00:36:19.060 voted for it. Only Democrats voted for it. The tiebreaker, of course, was Vice President Kamala

00:36:25.680 Harris. And so there's a lot to analyze in this particular bill. As Representative Thomas Massey

00:36:33.020 of Kentucky has said, it's actually an inflation enhancement bill, that it's going to make inflation

00:36:39.060 worse, of course, because it's spending. And so that's just what we know about what makes inflation

00:36:44.560 worse. They said it's for the climate. They said it's for the economy, that it's going to lower costs,

00:36:49.620 it's going to help inflation. It's actually probably going to do the opposite. And it's looking like

00:36:53.480 it's going to raise taxes on most severely and disproportionately the middle working class,

00:37:00.600 people who make more than $30,000 a year. And of course, Joe Biden is saying that he's only going

00:37:05.560 to tax the rich. I guess that's true if you consider someone who makes $35,000 a year rich.

00:37:12.060 And so unfortunately, even some of the Democrats that we consider to be moderate, they voted for

00:37:20.100 the bill. There were many amendments that Republicans tried to pass to add to the bill that Democrats

00:37:26.420 struck down. And so remember that when the pain gets worse, remember that when costs don't go down,

00:37:32.800 remember that when your taxes go up. Remember that when your small business is getting audited by

00:37:38.800 these new IRS agents. Remember that. Remember who forged this, who authored this, who voted for this,

00:37:46.400 and who didn't. And again, I will say it really matters who we elect in November. That really matters.

00:37:54.380 It can't just be someone with an R by their name. It's got to be people who are fighters. And I think that

00:37:59.800 we're doing that. I think actually the election of Carrie Lake, for example, as the Republican

00:38:07.980 candidate in Arizona, Blake Masters, Senate candidate in Arizona. We've also got J.D. Vance,

00:38:16.000 of course, Senate candidate in Ohio. And Joe Kent's, I think, representative candidate in Washington.

00:38:24.120 He just won the Republican primary. And so I do think that we have like a new crop of Republicans

00:38:31.860 who know what's at stake and who know what time it is and who aren't just going to vote no on these

00:38:37.260 bills, but hopefully are going to push really good legislation. So I just wanted to make sure

00:38:43.760 that we covered that briefly. There are some other things that I also just wanted to talk about.

00:38:51.300 First, let's let's stick with politics. And let's first talk about Stacey Abrams and her 0.99

00:38:57.060 recent comments about pro-choice being a part of her faith. So we're talking about electing good

00:39:04.100 people that are going to push good policy and that are going to fight for the values that you and I

00:39:08.920 hold dear. Let's look at the opposite end of the spectrum and look at someone like Stacey

00:39:13.600 Abrams. So this is according to TheBlaze.com. The headline is Stacey Abrams says being pro-choice is part

00:39:20.620 of her faith. And according to her faith, you protect the vulnerable and you wrap them up in

00:39:24.900 your love. Oh, the irony. Oh, the irony. So she says the decision to be pro-choice is exactly part of

00:39:33.300 my faith. I cannot strike down another person's rights simply because I don't agree. So it might

00:39:42.660 be a part of her faith. The question is, what does she worship? She doesn't worship the God of

00:39:46.720 Scripture, of course, who demanded the death penalty for child sacrifice, who says that he

00:39:52.420 made us in our mother's womb fearfully and wonderfully. She doesn't worship the God who

00:40:01.380 says, let the little children come to me for to such as these belong the kingdom of heaven.

00:40:06.220 She worships the God of self. The God of self has two supreme values, and that's autonomy and

00:40:12.440 authenticity. Autonomy and authenticity can be two very good things, very good values. But when they

00:40:19.240 are not submitted to a higher authority, the God of Scripture, they actually become idols that then

00:40:25.300 justify sin, that then justify us doing whatever we want to do, as long as it serves A, our autonomy,

00:40:33.540 our control over ourselves in our lives, and B, our authenticity, being ourselves. That's what abortion is.

00:40:40.200 It is serving the God of self and one of its subsidiaries, which is the idol of autonomy,

00:40:47.680 that you are even willing to sacrifice the life of another human being if that means that it is

00:40:54.320 serving the control that you want to have. And then, of course, how we see the idol of authenticity

00:40:59.920 show up is, well, I can be anyone that I want to be. I can be whatever I feel, even if that is

00:41:08.340 sacrificing your own body and sacrificing your reality on that altar. Autonomy and authenticity

00:41:15.560 can be two good values, but only when they are submitted to Christ. Only when they are submitted

00:41:20.880 to God's law. Only when they are submitted to what God says, the phrase that we say so often,

00:41:26.340 is good and right and true. So, this idea that she has to defend abortion according to her faith

00:41:33.140 might be true, but that is because she ascribes to not Christianity, but to secular humanism,

00:41:38.120 which has a God and the God is self. So, please don't vote for Stacey Abrams. Please do whatever

00:41:46.800 you can to make sure that she does not win. I don't think that she would. It would be a disaster for my

00:41:52.780 beloved state of Georgia. I love Georgia. I have a lot of family there, lived there, met my husband

00:41:58.440 there. It's a great place. It's got a lot of libs there, 100%. But let's make a better decision.

00:42:04.480 Let's not, let's not vote that silly woman in office. 1.00

00:42:17.880 All right. Let me tell you a little, a little story, a little, I just want to go on a little rant. 0.99

00:42:23.260 So, yesterday, I was flying home from Nashville. And there was a woman. She was an older lady. I 0.88

00:42:32.520 would guess she was probably 85. And she was using a cane to walk. And she was standing outside of

00:42:39.560 the bathroom, which was right next to my seat. And I saw that she was swaying. And she had a hard time 1.00

00:42:46.500 holding on to, holding on to the walls. And it was turbulent. And I saw that the flight attendants

00:42:53.620 were trying to talk to her. And they were telling her, hey, you really need to, you really need to

00:42:59.600 go sit down. It's going to be bumpy. But they were not getting up from their seats. And it was very

00:43:04.440 clear to me that she could not understand what they were saying. Turns out she could not speak

00:43:09.360 English. I don't know what language she was speaking, but she couldn't speak English. She was

00:43:12.820 clearly very confused. I'm not sure that she could see very well either. I mean, we're talking about a

00:43:17.700 very feeble older woman. I thought maybe she was trying to get into the bathroom, but the bathroom 1.00

00:43:23.240 wasn't occupied. And so, everyone was just like looking at this situation. And this has nothing to

00:43:29.600 do with me being valiant or anything. When I say that it caused me like zero inconvenience or sacrifice

00:43:36.560 whatsoever, I mean that. And this is not the point of the story. But I just stood up. I asked the

00:43:42.280 flight attendants like, what's going on here? Does she need help being stabilized while she's waiting 0.98

00:43:46.860 for the bathroom? And they were saying, oh, she needs to go back to her seat. She needs to go back

00:43:51.120 to her seat. And so, I was like, okay. Well, I don't really, I was thinking, I don't really understand

00:43:57.200 why no, like the flight attendants aren't doing anything about that. So, long story short, I led this

00:44:02.540 older lady back to her seat. She sat down. And on the way back, I had these men. It turns out I was

00:44:10.660 sitting around, like six adult, able-bodied men who had just been looking on with their mouths

00:44:16.100 hanging open. One of them gave me a fist bump. One of them was like, wow, that was so nice of you.

00:44:22.680 And I just thought, you know, I'm thankful to have done it. It was really easy. It took two seconds of

00:44:28.100 my life. It took like no, as I said, sacrifice whatsoever to do that. But why was it me? Why was it

00:44:36.080 me? Why did none of those adult, able-bodied men who are all standing there with their mouths open,

00:44:42.720 like a large mouth bass, why didn't they do anything? Like, why didn't they stand up and say,

00:44:47.880 you know, this is a feeble old lady and how society is ordered. Adult men, able-bodied men 1.00

00:44:54.940 are supposed to be the ones to first step up for the most vulnerable. They're supposed to be the ones

00:45:00.380 to step up on behalf of the weak, of the elderly, of the child, of the woman. Why are all these men

00:45:06.980 just sitting there while this woman is unable to stabilize herself? Why is it me? Why is it that,

00:45:14.580 why is it the young woman, the only person who was like, okay, maybe I can take my AirPods out and pay 1.00

00:45:19.260 attention to what's going on. I still don't even know why the flight attendants like didn't do the 0.59

00:45:23.340 same thing. Why are they just sitting there unwilling to like help this woman back to her seat? I don't

00:45:29.520 know. But it made me very sad for society. I don't think that I am better than any of the people

00:45:34.920 sitting around me. I think that I decided to tune in for a second to like pay attention to do something

00:45:40.140 that wasn't very difficult at all. But the fact of the matter is, is that most people, and I think

00:45:45.000 that includes men, and most disastrously that includes men, most people don't want to look up

00:45:53.040 from what they're doing. Most people don't want to even be slightly inconvenienced, or they have been

00:45:59.960 so trained to not involve themselves in the affairs and circumstances of other people that they would

00:46:06.220 literally watch an elderly woman like fall to the ground before they would get their butts out of 1.00

00:46:12.660 their seat and do something about it. And I really wanted to get on the intercom after I got like a fist

00:46:19.720 bump and a pep talk from one of the guys who was sitting around me and say, I don't want your fist

00:46:24.740 bumps. I don't want your pep talks. I want you to do something. Like I want you to be a man. I want you

00:46:30.820 to do what men are supposed to do, which is advocate on behalf of the most vulnerable. I'm happy to do it.

00:46:37.640 I think all able-bodied people should stand for the weak and should help people who need it. But if that 0.93

00:46:45.780 wasn't a commentary on the lack of masculinity in many cases and the lack of responsibility

00:46:52.900 in our society and the lack of compassion, I don't know what is. And look, you are not looking at a

00:46:59.140 man-hater. I am so thankful for healthy masculinity. I am so thankful for men. I am so thankful for male

00:47:07.440 leadership, male mentorship, and fatherhood. I think that that's absolutely integral to society,

00:47:14.720 which is exactly why I'm saying what I'm saying, is that you got a lot of soy boys out there, 1.00

00:47:19.840 a lot of weak men, a lot of scared people who can't be bothered, who don't really care about

00:47:27.220 the most vulnerable, and who don't see themselves as responsible for the people around them.

00:47:32.780 And this might have just been a small example, a small situation, but I do think it's a representation

00:47:38.380 of a problem that we have in general. And if you haven't listened to yesterday's episode

00:47:43.220 about the importance of the family structure and family formation, particularly the presence

00:47:47.900 of strong fathers, then you should go listen to that. Because that gives some statistical

00:47:54.040 backing to what I'm talking about. And it gives some data that I think supports this idea that we

00:48:03.520 are dealing with a crisis of a lack of masculinity and strong fathers and father figures and men as

00:48:10.360 strong examples in our society. And it also links to everything else that we're talking about.

00:48:16.280 That now, the moment of history that we're in, whether it's moral, theological, political,

00:48:24.800 cultural, social, it calls for strong, brave, courageous, and clear men. Yes, women too. Yes,

00:48:35.300 moms. I mean, I'm out here talking about these things. But, you know, I read in The Lion,

00:48:40.860 the Witch, and the Wardrobe the other day, I think it was, I think it's Father Christmas who says this,

00:48:46.220 not Aslan. Yes, it's Father Christmas. Father Christmas gives Lucy, the youngest daughter,

00:48:53.320 like a dagger and potion, healing potion, and says, you know, this is for anytime someone is hurt,

00:49:01.040 you can heal them. And she says, you know, I think that I'm brave enough to fight in a battle.

00:49:06.120 And Father Christmas says, that's not the point. The point is not whether you are brave enough. You

00:49:10.640 are not to fight in this battle because wars get ugly when women fight them. Ooh, that's politically 1.00

00:49:16.860 incorrect, but it is true. It is true. We need men to be on the front lines. We need men to be taking

00:49:23.540 that role. Yes, women can be courageous and we can have our roles. Absolutely. Obviously, 0.99

00:49:29.280 I believe that, but we cannot replace men. So men, first of all, thank you to those of you who do

00:49:35.020 step up every day. I respect you. I'm thankful for you. But those who don't, now's the time. Now's

00:49:41.040 the time. We need it. And also, by the way, I do think someone asked me about like Republicans

00:49:57.600 exercising power to push policies that are good and to do things that are good and just.

00:50:03.660 And this is someone on the left, of course, pronouns in the profile saying, is that really

00:50:08.160 Christ-like to amass power? Of course, what that person means is that it's Christ-like for Democrats

00:50:12.540 to amass power, but apparently not Republicans. And as I've already said, I don't believe in amassing

00:50:17.360 power for the sake of amassing power. I don't believe that. But yes, I do actually think that it is

00:50:25.080 representative of a Christian value system to go after bad things and to do good things and to

00:50:34.240 punish injustice and to promote justice and to be harsh against those who misuse their power to crush

00:50:42.660 those who are weak and to be soft and gentle towards those who are vulnerable and are being depressed

00:50:48.240 and who are without help. So the answer to that is yes. And of course, the opposite of that,

00:50:58.320 the opposite for advocating for the vulnerable and the oppressed is every value that the left-wing

00:51:05.120 ideology has, whether you are looking at the sacrifice of children and abortion or whether you

00:51:09.800 are looking at the sacrifice of children when it comes to gender ideology or when it comes to

00:51:17.740 the disproportionate effect of bad COVID policy and restrictions on both the elderly and children

00:51:23.720 and the poor, the exact opposite of a Christian value economy and the exact opposite of caring for 0.98

00:51:35.280 the oppressed is what Democrats and progressives continually put forward, which of course is why

00:51:40.500 I believe in pushing back against it with everything that we have. All right, that's all I've got time

00:51:45.360 for today. We'll see you back here tomorrow.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - August 09, 2022

Ep 657 ｜ What the FBI Did to Trump, They'll Do to You

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