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Summary
It's been a long time since we've talked about the government shut down, but I'm here to catch you up on what's been going on and what's going to happen in the future. I'll also talk about the Democratic Party and how far left they ve gone, and why the government shutdown is affecting so many people.
Transcript
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What's up, guys? Welcome to Relatable. I really missed you. It feels like it's been a long time.
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It kind of has. This is the longest I think we've gone without this podcast since it started,
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since it started in March. Well, 2019 is going to be an awesome year for Relatable. I just feel it.
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I feel it in my heart because all of you are great, loyal, worthy, wonderful listeners,
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and you guys make this podcast really fun. We have been staying connected over Instagram,
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over my many Instagram stories over the past couple of weeks. But before I get into any of
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the fun stuff, I do want to say what we are seriously going to be talking about today.
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I want to kind of catch all up on what's been happening over the past couple of weeks that
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we have not been together, and that is the government shutdown. I'm going to talk about
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why that's happening, what the Democrats want, what President Trump wants, how that's actually
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affecting people, and if we are ever going to be able to reach a compromise. I'm going to get a
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little bit into the Democratic Party and just how far left they've gone, especially with the likes of
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now officially being in Congress. We will talk about that just a little
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bit. I might expound upon all of that and her new proposal called the Green New Deal on Thursday.
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I'm going to answer a few listener questions as well that you guys sent me via Instagram.
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But I did just want to say, I did just want to say from the top that I sent, so I sent you guys
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this kind of questionnaire asking what you like about Relatable, how many times a week you want
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Relatable to be, what you want me to do more of. And the number one thing I got that you guys want me
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to do more is Instagram stories, which is so funny. I feel like I do a lot of them, and they are so
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mindless. I don't know. I just don't say anything. I don't practice them. I don't think about what I'm
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going to say. But for whatever reason, you guys like them, and I like doing them because you guys
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respond so well to them. I love getting your Instagram messages. I don't always, I can't
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message every single person back, but I try to when I can. So if I haven't messaged you back,
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it's not because I'm ignoring you. I probably just didn't see it. But I will respond to that.
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Your wish is my command. So I will try to give you more Instagram stories. We've also got a lot of
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other fun new stuff coming out with the podcast. I think we're going to start putting the video version
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on YouTube, which is fun. Right now, only subscribers to .com, to the website, blazetv.com.
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Blaze TV and CRTV merged, by the way. I don't think we ever talked about that. But now it's Blaze TV. So
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if you subscribe to blazetv.com, you actually see the video version. But now I think we're going to put
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it on YouTube for free so you'll be able to see it. And all my trash person-ness. Not really. I
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actually dress up for you guys, kind of, like from the waist up. I kind of do. Okay, let's get into
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this. I might say one other fun thing at the end of it. I just need to give you guys an update who do
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follow me on Instagram. But I want to get into this because one of the pieces of feedback that some
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people have is, please get into the news. Okay, fine. Fine. Fine. Fine. Fine. Pardon me. Excuse me.
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Pardon me for being fun, for being relatable, dare I say. Let's get into the news. So the news is that
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the government has been partially shut down for 15 days, 15, 16 days, something like that. I don't
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know. Personally, it hasn't really affected my life. And probably for you, you probably haven't noticed
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that the government has been shut down. The people who are furloughed right now who aren't actually
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working are what they call non-essential government employees. But the fact of the matter is, although
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it might not affect you and me, it's affecting real Americans who, quite frankly, I don't believe
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should be paying the consequences for the incompetence of our people in Congress or our people
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in Congress's unwillingness to secure the border wall. And we'll get into all of that. But for
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example, my brother-in-law, sorry, I've got allergies. And so if it sounds like I have allergies,
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it's because I do. I have pregnancy allergies for whatever reason. It's like the craziest thing.
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Anyway, so my brother-in-law, he is a husband and a father of five, husband of one, father of five.
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Let me just clarify. And they're in the process of moving. So they're trying to get a house. It's
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really hard to secure a loan for a mortgage when you don't have a steady salary. So he is a real
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person just trying to provide for his family. He is a hard worker. He would love to go to work and
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to earn his normal paycheck, but he's unable to do that. And so their family is in this very unstable
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place right now, not knowing when President Trump and Nancy Pelosi are going to get their bleep
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together and be able to come to a compromise to be able to open the government so he can just get
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paid. Now, all government employees that are furloughed right now that are not able to go to work
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or are either working and not getting paid will get back pay. So it's not like they are going to go
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without pay forever and ever. However, you're still going these weeks without being able to count on
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that paycheck coming in that you're used to. And so if an emergency happens, if you have to pay bills
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and you don't have enough stowed away, that's a problem for a lot of people. And so even though it
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might not affect your and my daily lives, let's just remember the hundreds of thousands of people,
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hundreds of thousands of families that are affected by this, who are probably stressed out
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of their minds just thinking about how they need to provide for, for example, their five kids. So this
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is a real thing that's happening. It's affecting real working Americans. And the reason that it is
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happening is because President Trump says, look, I need to fund this border wall. I promised the
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American people this border wall, people who voted for me, many of them voted for me because they
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wanted this border wall. I need $5.6 billion to build this thing. Now it's going to take more than
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$5.6 billion to build it. It's going to take somewhere close to $11 billion. So this is already a
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compromise. Republicans compromise. It seems, it feels like Republicans kind of compromise a lot.
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This is yet another compromise. And even another compromise, which you could say, maybe it's not
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a compromise. It's just kind of like a different option. Another compromise is that President Trump
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said, okay, it's not going to be a wall. It's going to be a fence. It's going to be steel slats.
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Okay. So not a wall, but it's still some kind of security. It's some kind of border. So I guess you
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could maybe consider that a compromise. He considers it a compromise. And yet Nancy Pelosi
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and the Democrats refuse. They say, absolutely not. Uh, we're, we're not, we're, we're not going
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to do that. And what is the reason? What's it? What's the reason? Well, Nancy Pelosi, oh, by the
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way, she is Speaker of the House yet again. Has she been Speaker of the House before? Yes, she has.
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Is she Speaker of the House again? Yes, she is. That's because Democrats took over the House. And so
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she is back in power at the ripe old age of 78. Um, so she is saying, no, we are not going to fund
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the border wall. And the reason is her, her reasons that this is Nancy Pelosi, the lady who
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is giddy about supporting the number one abortion mill in the nation who is perfectly fine as a
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practicing Catholic slaughtering, or she is fine with the slaughtering of unborn children inside the
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womb. That's who we're talking about. Nancy Pelosi, representative from California, part of the
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party who is okay with slaughtering babies. She says that the reason why she won't okay with funding
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the wall, she won't, uh, make sure that there are votes in the House to fund the wall is, uh, because
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it's, in her words, an immorality. You heard that right, ladies and gentlemen, an immorality. It is
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an immorality. She said, it's not who we are. Okay. I just wish someone would ask, can someone
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just ask, like, is this impossible in the minds of so-called journalists to be like, oh, what do you
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mean, Nancy? Or maybe they didn't hear her through her dentures. What do you mean it's not who we are?
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What do you mean it's an immorality? Why is it an immorality to try to prevent illegal immigration?
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Why is it immoral to protect our borders? Why is that wrong? Why is that not who we are? Are we not
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a sovereign nation? Do we not have laws? Do we not believe that we should enforce our laws? Do we
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believe that certain people should be able to break our laws, um, under certain conditions and not,
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and not be punished for them? Is that, is that who we are? I wasn't aware that that was who we are.
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So, but no, no one bothers to ask Nancy Pelosi what in the actual heck she means by that. Instead,
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we just, we just all nod our heads. We say, yes, Nancy. Yes. Yes. You're right, girl.
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In immorality. Yes. Yes. Tell us more, please. No, I'm not buying it. Well, first of all,
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I'm not going to take morality lessons from Nancy Pelosi or any Democrat. I mean,
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quite frankly, I wouldn't take one from Donald Trump either, but I'm not going to take it certainly
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from her. I'm not going to take it from the abortion party. I'm not going to take it from
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the socialist party. So don't lecture me on, on morality. And please, if you're going to provide
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some kind of explanation. So that is why that is precisely why the government is shut down. That is
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why hardworking people like my brother-in-law and his family are suffering. That is why hundreds of
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thousands of people are not getting paid because the Democrats and Nancy Pelosi refused to fund the
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border wall. Now, could Donald Trump have done this more effectively when Republicans had both
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chambers of Congress? Yeah, he could have. And so that's, that's on him too. Okay. So we can blame
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him retrospectively for not doing this earlier. Why he waited for the Democrats to take over Congress
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or to take over the House after midterms? No one really knows, but he is. And so now we're in this
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position where we have to get Nancy Pelosi to, okay, funding the government or Donald Trump has to say,
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okay, nevermind, whatever. I don't really care about securing the border. I see personally, in my
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opinion, I see the latter happening before the former. So I see Donald Trump giving in before I see
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Nancy Pelosi give it in because Nancy Pelosi has already staked her claim in the morality camp.
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She has already said, well, it's immoral to fund the wall. So now she's not going to turn around
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and say, okay, fine, because that would make her immoral. Now we already know that she is,
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but she's probably not going to show her hypocrisy that quickly. So there's just no way that she's
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going to compromise. Donald Trump, on the other hand, Donald Trump, yes, I know that he really cares
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about the wall. I know that his constituents really care about the wall, but he also really
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cares what people think of him. That is something that is simply true of Donald Trump. And one thing
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that I think is bad about the character of Donald Trump, lots of good things. That's a really bad
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thing is that in my opinion, he really cares what people think. And I think that he even cares what
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Nancy Pelosi thinks. Like, I think he would love to get along with Nancy Pelosi and come to some kind
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of compromise with her. I really think that he would love nothing more than that. And they probably,
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when you think about it, like Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump, two rich people born around the same time,
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probably have very similar worldviews. Like if they were just in a vacuum, if they weren't
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representing the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, Donald Trump is not an ideologue. Nancy Pelosi
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might be a little bit more, but they probably see the world in a very similar way. Donald Trump
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probably wants to get along with her. He wants to be the dealmaker. He is, you know, the master of the
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art of the deal, as he has said. And so he would be okay with compromising. Nancy Pelosi, however,
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she's not going to. She laid it all in the line by saying this is an immorality. So I think that
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Donald Trump will give in before Nancy Pelosi does. However, if he doesn't, I also think the longer
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that Donald Trump holds out, the better it looks for him. And the reason is because it is very simple
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and he needs to play this up as much as possible. Oh, the reason you furloughed worker, the reason
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you families of the non-essential government workers are suffering right now, the reason you're
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stressed out of your mind, the reason why you're worried about paying that emergency room bill or
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whatever it is that you have, the reason why you're worried about not being able to make your
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payments right now is because Nancy Pelosi refuses to put the American people first and secure the
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border. That's the bottom line. Democrats don't care about you. That's what he needs to say. They
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don't care about you. If they cared about the American people, this would be easy. Okay, secure the
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border, pay the workers. Easy. But apparently this is very complicated. And you know why? The reason
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why Nancy Pelosi says that this is immoral. She's taking cues from the far left of the Democratic
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Party, which has completely taken over the Democratic Party. There's only a few of them,
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but they're loud, they're bullying, and they're very popular among millennials who are soon going
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to take over the country because we are very large and very stupid. The reason behind this immorality
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is the fact that apparently the wall is racist. It is racist. That is why it is wrong.
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Now again, if you are a journalist, CNN or MSNBC, you're not going to ask, well, why is it racist
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to want to secure your borders? Are you honestly saying that if we had a mass infiltration of
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illegal immigrants coming from Canada, that we wouldn't build a wall on the Canadian border?
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We wouldn't have a problem with that? You're saying that it's only Hispanic people, it's only
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Latino people that we have a problem with. Do you really believe that? Like, do you really believe
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that? And they would say, well, yes, I do. Yes, yes, I do. Okay, why? Well, what makes you think that
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every single person who wants to secure the border is a racist? Well, what about the African Americans
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that want to secure the border? What about the immigrants who want to secure the border? What
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about the Hispanic community that wants to secure the border? They exist, you know, you can't just
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pretend that they don't. Oh, yes, I can't pretend that they don't exist. Okay, I guess you can. And
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that would be the end of the conversation because there's no logic whatsoever in their little minds
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about this. It's racist. It's wrong. It's immoral. It's wrong. It's racist. And CNN and MSNBC just say,
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mm-hmm, mm-hmm, you are right. You are just, you are right. That is powerful. Speak truth to power,
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girl. But that's where we are. One side says, look, this is just logical. Let's just secure the
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border. The other side says, no, it's racist. With no facts whatsoever, at least the side who says,
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hey, we want to secure the border has a little, has some, has some logic, a little, a lot,
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some logic on their side. The logic is, okay, we are a nation, right? Like, can we at least agree
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on that? I'm not even sure if I sat down across from a far-left Democrat if they would agree with
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me. Are we a nation? Someone say, well, not really because we stole it from the indigenous people. Okay,
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go away. Next. Are we a nation? Yes, we're a nation. Okay, if we are a nation, do we have a right?
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Do we have a right to enforce our laws? Do we have laws? Well, yeah, of course we have laws.
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Okay, what is a law if you can't enforce it? Well, it's not really a law. It's just a suggestion.
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Okay, do we have a law that you should not be able to enter the country illegally and make a
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mockery of that law? Well, yeah, I guess. Well, then why should we disobey that law but not be able
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to disobey other laws? Why do we punish our own citizens for breaking laws inside our country but not
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punish non-citizens for breaking the law coming into our country? Why? They don't really have that
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much of a reason for that because, because it's just, it's just wrong. Look, I share with them
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compassion for the people that are fleeing violence in these corrupt countries in South America and
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corrupt parts of Mexico. I do. The two young kids that we've heard in the past couple of weeks who
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have died from flu-like symptoms and from other things, when they got to the border and they died
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in custody but they had the symptoms before they got there so let's not even get on that tangent.
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I am sad for them. It breaks my heart. Those are people made in God's image. They're not any less
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than me. They're not any less than you. They're not any less worthy of life and care and protection
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than we are. Of course, I feel badly for them. But we have to ask ourselves, as logically thinking
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people, is the most compassionate thing I can do for those people say, fine, our laws don't matter.
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Our country doesn't matter. We have no right to sovereignty whatsoever and everyone, no matter
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what, can come in unconditionally. Is that the right thing to do? Is that compassionate for them?
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Well, the journey seems pretty darn dangerous and there's nothing we can do about the danger of the
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journey. So is the right and compassionate thing to do to incentivize these people, to make a journey
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on which vulnerable people will die, will be trafficked, will be violated, is that the most
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compassionate thing to do? Or is it to do what we can as individuals and even as the government,
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we already give billions of dollars in aid to these corrupt countries. Is the right thing to do to help
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them where they are? And to make sure that they are not incentivized to come into this country illegally,
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to secure the border as much as we can, to make sure that we have a merit-based system.
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So if you are immigrating here illegally, we say, okay, can you contribute to society? Or can you
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at least take care of your family? Maybe you have a family member who can't contribute to society. Okay,
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can you take care of them? Do you have a high likelihood of being able to contribute rather than just to
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take? I think that's perfectly moral. That's perfectly compassionate. We should disincentivize
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as much as we can. We should disincentivize people from taking this dangerous journey and
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risking their lives simply to break the law. Of course. And some people say, well, it's not really
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people entering illegally. That is the problem. That's why the wall is a waste of money. It's half of
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the illegal immigrant population in America, which is about 11 million people. 32% of those apparently
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are visa overstays. And so they are here illegally. They're working. They've got a visa, but they
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overstay their visa. And so then they're here illegally. That is almost half. And so people say,
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well, we need to deal with those people just as much as we need to deal with the people crossing the
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border illegally. And I say, absolutely. But they're not mutually exclusive. We can deal with both.
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We need to have an e-verify system to where you have a system to where you can look up the status
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of the person that you're about to hire to make sure that they are a legal immigrant before you
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hire them. That disincentivizes people from overstaying their visa. There are all of these ways
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that we can actually incentivize legality in this country and following our laws and expressing our
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sovereignty. At the very least, that's what the government is supposed to do as a government for the
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people by the people. And so the elected officials chosen by the people should be providing protection
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for the people. And yes, that includes border security. That is compassion. That is compassion
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for our citizens and for the people who would otherwise be encouraged to make this dangerous
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trek and possibly die or be harmed along the way. So I'm just not getting the argument that it is
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immoral to secure our borders. If there is anything immoral in this whole thing, it is making sure
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that American workers don't get paid because you are prioritizing illegal immigrants being able to
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cross the border whenever they want to. So Democrats are really showing their hand. They're really showing
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their hand because for a long time, conservatives have been saying, gosh, it feels like the Democrats
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don't really care about the American people. God, it feels like they care about everyone else a little
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bit more. And it seems like that must be the case because this isn't that hard of a decision.
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But what it comes down to really, like I probably, I actually think to give her the benefit of the
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doubt, Nancy Pelosi is probably okay with securing the border. Democrats were okay with securing the
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border. I think it was as recently as maybe 2009. We had people talking about Chuck Schumer in 2013,
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the importance of cracking down on illegal immigration. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama have
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all said statements about the importance of cracking down on illegal immigration. This really
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has to do with Trump, which that might be even sadder that they are allowing Trump derangement syndrome
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to get in the way of protecting the American people and making sure that American workers get paid.
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That's what it comes down to. And Republicans need to be singing the song till the cows come home
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because, you know, Democrats are calling this the Trump shutdown. You know, they're going to blame
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it on Trump. It's all political posturing. It's a political power play. This is the Democrats fault.
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There's no doubt about it. There's no doubt about it. President Trump wants to secure the border.
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Okay, that's good. That's what a president should want to do. That's what Congress should want to do.
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Congress hates President Trump so much that they're not willing to serve the American people.
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They're willing to let the American people suffer. But Nancy Pelosi doesn't care. She just got back
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from her Hawaii trip where it was apparently $5,000 a night to stay where she stayed. She doesn't care.
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She's a millionaire. She's fine. She's going to die probably in the next 10, 15 years. She doesn't
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have to deal with all of this socialist mess that's about to happen. She doesn't have to deal with open
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borders. But that's true of all liberal elites. They want all of these things that are good for me and
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you, but not for them. Representative Swalwell, I think that's how you say his last name.
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He tweeted. He tweeted something that I've seen a lot of stupid people tweet lately, something like
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it. Now, let me just refresh you. He's the representative who, well, he hates the Second
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Amendment. He is Democrat, obviously. He's pretty far left. He's just not smart. I know President
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Trump talks about low IQ individuals. Maybe he's not. Maybe he's smarter than he appears.
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And the last few statements. But he just comes across like a low IQ individual. So he is the
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same person that said not too long ago, oh, you know, it's a stupid argument for Second
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Amendment supporters to say that it protects them against the tyranny of the government.
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We have nukes. So you had a lot of conservatives and gun owners being like, are you saying that
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you're going to nuke us? Like, oh, oh, yeah. Great. We're not scared of Democrats. Well, oh, yeah.
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That's not why we voted for President Trump at all. Sure. Yeah. We'll definitely give up our guns now.
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Sounds good. Buyback program. Confiscation. Awesome. Like crazy person. So he tweeted something else.
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Pretty crazy. Stupid. Stupid. There's no other word for it. He says, this is his tweet. Mr. Gorbachev
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put up a wall, said no president. Guys, I'm sad. Like, I'm sad. I'm sad. I am sad about
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the utter stupidity of people who run our country. And I haven't even gotten to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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yet. Like, okay. Okay. So in case you didn't know, he's referencing the Berlin Wall. Okay. So
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the Berlin Wall between East Berlin, West Berlin, communist, free. As you know, Ronald Reagan ordered
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Mr. Gorbachev to tear down the wall. The Berlin Wall did fall in 1989. Amazing feat for freedom.
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Amazing feat for liberty and the devastation of tyranny, of totalitarianism. Awesome. What the
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Berlin Wall did was split citizens apart, split Berliners apart, and kept those who were under the
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communist regime in the communist regime and it prevented them from tasting freedom and enjoying
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uh, the fruits of capitalism and liberty that the other side of the Berlin Wall, uh, got to taste
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and enjoy. Uh, so it kept its citizens in. It didn't keep illegal immigrants out, which is basically
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what I said on Twitter. I, I said this to him and he replied like, I get the argument, but a wall is a
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wall. It's medieval. No, but a wall, but a wall is not a wall. Oh, a wall is not a wall. That's like
00:25:30.960
saying my backyard fence is, is the same thing as a prison cell. That, wow, I am keeping my dog,
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who is also named Reagan, ironically, after Ronald Reagan, except her name is Nancy Reagan. We just
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call her Reagan. That's like saying that when I put my dog in the backyard, I'm incarcerating my dog.
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She's actually in a pound because a fence is a fence. Well, no, or a cage is a cage. Well, no,
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it's not like, yeah, sure. It's a barrier, but it's a fence. Like she's in my backyard. It's not the
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same thing as putting her like in a barbed wire kennel. That's basically what he's saying. No,
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different things can serve different purposes. Like I didn't, I don't know if you knew that or
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not. So like a backyard isn't the same thing as like a prison cell or a barbed wire kennel where
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people put fighting dogs in. It's not the same thing. It's not the Berlin wall, which kept its
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citizens in and under tyranny is not the same thing as a wall that would keep illegal immigrants out.
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We're not talking about keeping asylum seekers out. We're not talking about keeping people who
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want to immigrate legally out. We're not talking about keeping our, our, our people in. We are
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talking about protecting our borders. A wall is not a wall. There are different walls for different
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things. And yet this inane argument has been repeated over and over again, not just by people
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on the left, but also by people who say they're on the right, like Bill Kristol, who are just anti-Trump,
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who try to compare these things when there is no historical comparison whatsoever.
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If you want to compare something, that's fine. Just come up with like a good example and we can
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talk about it. If you want to talk about, if Democrats want to talk about, here's the thing,
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guys, I'm going to bring it home. I'm going to bring it home. If Democrats want to talk about
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the most effective way to secure the border, or even, even this, if you really want to debate
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the morality of securing the border, like that would just be a very, like, I think my mind just
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wants to fall out of my ears imagining having that conversation, but Hey, at least we're having
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one. Like if you want to debate the morality of securing borders versus open borders, let's do that.
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If you want to debate the effectiveness of certain border security versus other border security,
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the efficiency of it, the cost of it, then I'm perfectly fine with that. I'm perfectly fine with
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that. But that is not what this is about. Not only is it Trump derangement syndrome that is, um,
00:27:54.300
that is stopping the Democrats from serving the American people. It, it, it is also, it is also
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a collision of worldviews. It's not policy versus policy because you haven't heard someone like
00:28:07.620
Nancy Pelosi saying, well, what about the cost of it? Or what about the effectiveness of it? You
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haven't heard anything like that. You've just heard, it's not who we are. It's an immorality.
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So, okay. It's not about policy. It's about worldview. That's what we see colliding right
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now. And we're going to see it increasingly as you have people like Ocasio-Cortez and people
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on the far left speaking more and more loudly. Um, and that, and I know we've talked about this
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before, but it's, it's, it's not that our arguments between the right and the left are
00:28:39.180
more complex than they used to be. It's that they're more fundamental is that I don't know if
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I could sit down across from a Democrat and say, like, I don't know if a Republican and a Democrat,
00:28:50.660
at least a pretty far left Democrat could sit down from a Republican and the Republican would sit
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down and say, okay, look, we both, we both agree that we're going to put America first,
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right? Like we both agree that we want to prioritize the American citizens above, above
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everyone else, right? I'm not confident that the Democrat would say yes. There was a time not so
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long ago in American history when that would be a given. It was just obvious. Yes, we have
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differences in policy. We have differences in what, in what that looks like. But of course we care about
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American citizens before we care about the citizens of other countries. Of course we do.
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That's why recently you had the democratic party also believe in a border security,
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but that is not so anymore. Next week, if, if, if, well, just if a lot of things,
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if there's not something else that comes up before Thursday, we'll probably dive into Ocasio-Cortez
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recent interview. Yes, I'm going to keep talking about her. When her ideas stop being popular,
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I'll stop talking about her. There's a lot of Republicans that say, stop paying attention to her.
00:29:55.940
I'll stop paying attention to her when millennials stop paying attention to her,
00:30:00.280
when thoughtless people stop paying attention to her. I, that's when I'll stop paying attention to
00:30:05.100
her. She has dangerous ideas and they are popular and they're also stupid and we need to expose their
00:30:10.060
stupidity. So I'll hopefully get into that next time. Um, okay. I am going to, now I am going to
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read some of the questions that you guys sent me. Okay. Number one, how do you handle rejection? What is
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your go-to passage in scripture with something like that? So I handle rejection. Well, rejection
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is hard for me. So I get a lot of people saying you, I love that you don't care what anyone thinks.
00:30:39.660
Well, I really appreciate that. I try not to, I try to only care about the opinions of
00:30:45.000
people that matter, but I do. I'm just like anyone else. And it's probably worse for women.
00:30:50.640
I do take rejection and criticism pretty hard, especially on, on certain things. Like when
00:30:56.620
someone maligns your character or your faith, that's the stuff that hurts stuff about your
00:31:00.880
appearance and your voice. I'm like, whatever, you know, I can't change that. I don't really care
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about that. Um, but when it's deeper, when it's heart stuff like that hurts. And of course,
00:31:10.980
rejection hurts. I've been rejected many times in this industry and in other, in other stages of my
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life. I'm sure. Um, something that really helps me is a Psalm 37, one through seven. I happen to
00:31:23.760
have that one off the top of my head because it really is good. Most of you probably know,
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I think it's verse four. That's delight yourself in the Lord. And he will give you the desires of
00:31:30.580
your heart of very often misinterpreted verse, but we won't get into that now. Um, but one through
00:31:35.300
seven really talks about how God is faithful to, um, the ones that he has chosen his followers,
00:31:41.800
his children, and then one day evil and hate and, uh, the people who plot against you will
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fade like the grass and wither like the green herb is what it says. Now that's not to say everyone who
00:31:54.020
rejects you is evil and hateful. And that's not to say everyone who doesn't like you is evil and
00:31:58.080
hateful. Sometimes they just don't like you. And sometimes you're just not the right fit for
00:32:03.440
something. That's perfectly fine. I'm really talking about situations in which you are unfairly
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treated. That's a really good go-to for me. And even if it's not a situation of being unfairly
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treated, I think it is a great reminder of, um, God's faithfulness to his people and his allegiance
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to righteousness and fairness. Okay. Next one. My question is what can we do to save these unborn
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children? I want to do more, but I don't know the best organizations to donate to or volunteer for,
00:32:31.960
or if there's something more we can be doing. Um, so check out local pregnancy centers that you
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know for sure don't offer abortion. There are a lot of local pregnancy centers, uh, throughout
00:32:42.600
America that offer sonograms and other, uh, medical advice and counseling, especially if it's a
00:32:47.820
Christian pregnancy center, they offer so many resources for moms that are in crisis that go
00:32:52.660
beyond just the sonogram and prenatal care and things like that. So much more than Planned
00:32:56.940
Parenthood ever could or would. And they're not funded, but they're not funded by the government,
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but a lot of them aren't. Um, anyway, so you can look that up and you can see if you can volunteer
00:33:09.600
there. A lot of them have mobile sonogram units that go out into communities. And so women who are
00:33:15.260
unable to, uh, afford a doctor, they can go get a free sonogram. And usually that, um, that,
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that lessens the chances of them getting an abortion. If they are abortion minded, you can donate to any of
00:33:28.480
those centers as well. Save the storks is a resource organization. And so they provide local
00:33:34.440
pregnancy centers with resources like mobile sonogram units. So they'd be a great organization
00:33:39.680
to donate to. My sister-in-law has an organization called hope one 39 house that is in the process of
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being built right now in Georgia. And it's going to be a home for a young pregnant women who are in
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crisis. And so definitely look up hope one 39 house. That would be a great place to donate as well.
00:33:55.700
Uh, we personally donate there and we also donate to a local pregnancy center that does a lot of good
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Christian work. Um, how do you know where to start reading the Bible? Is there a certain way to read
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look at it to fully get all the information on what God's message is? So it can be really intimidating
00:34:12.020
to read the Bible for the first time. I would start in the gospels. I personally am, I might be kind
00:34:18.380
of sacrilegious to say this. I'm like a little biased towards the old Testament. I mean, I love both.
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Obviously you need both. One is not better than the other. I am not saying that, especially
00:34:28.080
theologically you need both a hundred percent. Absolutely. I just love a good story and I love
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the story of the narrative style of the old Testament, but it can be a little, I would say
00:34:41.420
to start in the new Testament, start in Matthew or start in John. Those are my recommendations.
00:34:46.680
Take it slow. It's okay that you don't know everything. None of us do not a single one of us do.
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I recommend a good study Bible. Take all commentary with a grain of salt. Um, you just
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have to pray for discernment, pray for wisdom, pray for the Holy spirit. I would say you're
00:35:00.860
starting in John or say you're starting in Matthew. Take it verse by verse, write down all your
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questions, write down the things you don't understand. Uh, you might think that you don't
00:35:08.900
understand something, but then you really work through it and think through it. And you're like,
00:35:12.400
Oh, okay. I think that makes more sense to me. And like I said, really pray for wisdom.
00:35:16.360
Um, I also have a theology book that's helped me a lot with the basics called systematic
00:35:21.680
theology by Wayne Grudem. Um, it's a really good resource. Uh, commentaries are not inerrant
00:35:27.500
like the word of God is. So again, you have to use discernment in that. And whenever you
00:35:31.580
listen to a sermon, whenever you read commentary, whenever you read a devotional, always weigh it
00:35:35.960
against the truth of scripture. If a pastor or an author says something that does not align
00:35:40.420
with the Bible, it's, uh, just not theologically true. Um, have you ever changed a liberal's mind?
00:35:45.880
There have been a few times where I've gotten emails from someone saying you changed my perspective
00:35:50.440
on this. It's always been about abortion. Um, Oh, and that's the last one. Okay. Well,
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thank you guys so much. This was fine. And like I said, I missed you and we will be back on Thursday.
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Oh, wait, was I going to say something? Oh, I was just going to say one thing. I was going to say
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one thing. And my thing, my thing was that. So if you saw my Instagram stories, I said that
00:36:15.220
Chili's changed their chicken fingers. Well, I slandered Chili's wrongly. It turns out I just
00:36:23.280
got the wrong chicken fingers. They were crispy and not original. I don't like the crispy. They're
00:36:27.020
awful. So I just wanted to say that we're back on track, back to giving Chili's free advertising.
00:36:33.560
And I'm sorry for ever speaking badly of them. I hope you guys can forgive me Chili's. If you're
00:36:38.520
out there, I hope you can forgive me too. Um, I will be starting some kind of trash segment or trash
00:36:44.420
episode because that sounds really fun. And I told you guys I would, uh, anyway, love y'all.
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