Ep 668 ｜ No, Jesus Didn’t Die to Pay for Student Loans
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In this episode of Relatable, Allie talks about the importance of being a biblical student loan debt plan advocate, and how it ties in with the story of Sophia, a young woman who transitioned from male to female and found God in the midst of her transition.
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Biden's student loan debt plan is just like Jesus dying on the cross for our sins.
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We'll be talking about all of this and more on today's episode of Relatable.
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Last week, we had a lot of wonderful interviews for you.
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And that just makes me so happy because they're such important conversations.
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And I was cracking up because of the number of comments and messages that I received saying,
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This is so ironic that episode 666 happens to be about satanic activity and witchcraft.
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So I decided to just lean into it and talk about the demonic.
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But obviously, from a gospel-centered perspective, and a lot of you were encouraged by that.
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And then you are absolutely loving the conversation with Sophia.
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Because her story of detransitioning and how Christ found her in the midst of that detransition is amazing.
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Share it with the people that you know, especially the Christians in your life.
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I've heard from so many of you that you gain so much insight.
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One thing that she said that stuck with me and that stuck with a lot of you as well was,
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if she had known about Christ, if she had known about the power of His Holy Spirit
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and how He can make us into something new, make us a new creation, that He can save us,
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that He can liberate us from sin, if she had known that, she would not have gone through with her transition.
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And wow, what a good reminder for us Christians who constantly are worried about hurting someone's
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feelings if we share the truth or having someone hate us or simply just feeling awkward.
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I mean, I struggle with those fears and with those inhibitions when it comes to sharing the gospel.
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I think, well, maybe if I'm just nice to someone, maybe if I just smile at them,
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maybe if I just, you know, give a kind word to them, that's equivalent to sharing the gospel.
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And we could get a negative reaction in sharing the gospel with someone.
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Speaking the truth, no matter how loving it is, no matter how gentle you are,
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could absolutely get a vitriolic reaction from someone who hates the truth.
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Actually, that's pretty expected in a lot of cases.
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But that doesn't mean that we are not being obedient.
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Yet that also doesn't mean that God is not going to use that to plant seeds and then to
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As you heard in Sophia's testimony, there were so many things before she actually heard the
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gospel that prepared her to actually receive Christ, to actually believe by grace through
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faith in what Jesus has done for her on the cross.
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So that was a lesson that I drew from our conversation.
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So go listen to it or watch it if you haven't already.
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Also, before we get in to the episode today, just a reminder that tomorrow on the show,
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we will be playing at the end of it some mom moments.
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And so we're doing kind of fun segments at the end of each show.
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And so one of them that I wanted to do was just hear from you guys about encouragement
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to other moms, a funny moment that you had as a mom, some advice that you have as a seasoned
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It can be very practical, whether it comes to which diapers you like, or it can be more
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All right, let's get into this Biden student loan debt plan.
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And I specifically want to focus on the arguments that are being put forth by professing Christians
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It is a Christian position to be for Biden's student loan debt plan.
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Now, we could get into all of the intricacies, all of the complexities of this plan and of
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I am not going to get too in-depth on those things today because there are a lot of commentators,
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a lot of people that have already given a very thorough explanation of what the process
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I think I'll cover that a little bit and tell you a little bit about Biden's plan.
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But I specifically want to focus on this argument that it is necessarily Christian and biblical
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So first, let me tell you what it is in general.
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Now, this is according to USA Today on Wednesday, August 24th, Biden issued an executive order
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canceling at least $10,000 in student loan debt for individuals making $125,000 or less.
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Families or heads of households making $250,000 or less.
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Also, $20,000 in cancellation or forgiveness, so-called, for anyone who received a Pell grant
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And so individuals making up to $125,000, families, heads of households making $250,000
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Now, of course, depending on where you live, like $125,000 may not get you very far if you
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live in L.A. versus living in, I don't know, El Dorado, Arkansas.
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But I mean, we're not talking about exclusively impoverished people.
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We are talking about, in a lot of cases, people who can pay off their debts, but they're choosing
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They're choosing to put their money elsewhere or they haven't.
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Of course, that's not the case for all people who have taken out student loans.
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But for a lot of the people who are going to qualify for this so-called student loan forgiveness,
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we are talking about people who probably, who in a lot of cases, make more money than those
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who, through their taxes, are going to be paying off these loans.
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Here's what President Biden said when he announced this last Wednesday.
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That ticket has become too expensive for too many Americans.
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The burden is so heavy that even if you graduate, you might not have the ticket that graduating
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There are a lot of Democrats who say that this doesn't go far enough.
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There needs to be complete and total cancellation.
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Of course, there are a lot of Republicans, a lot of conservatives who are pushing back against
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The White House says that the student loan plans cost will be $240 billion.
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And according to USA Today, experts say it will actually be twice that.
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So this is going to cost Americans a lot of money.
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Now, the vast majority of Americans do not have student loan debt.
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And according to the Washington Post, who is actually citing the Brookings Institute, the
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vast majority of people who are going to benefit from the student loan debt plan are part of
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So the top 60% of income earners in the U.S. will be the ones who benefit most from this student
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So again, we are not talking about a plan that is necessarily going to focus on helping those
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It's actually going to help people who have some of the greatest income trajectories because
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half of all student loan debt is held by people who went to graduate school.
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That's also according to the Brookings Institute.
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And according to the Brookings Institute, they have the greatest trajectory when it comes to
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So what we're looking at is a transfer of wealth from the working class to the elite, if you want
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to call them that, to people who went to graduate school.
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So you're looking at a transfer of wealth from people who chose not to go to college in a lot
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Maybe they've worked hard over the past 15 to 20 years to ensure that they no longer had student
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loan debt, or maybe they decided they didn't want to go into debt in the first place.
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And so they decided to become a plumber or an electrician, make good money that way.
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Now, through this plan, they are going to be paying partly for the loans of people who
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went to college and who went to graduate school, who in many cases are making more money than
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the people who are now going to be forced to pay off those loans.
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And that's really the main problem, or one of the main problems with this, is that student
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loan forgiveness or student loan cancellation is really a misnomer because it's not cancellation,
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it's not forgiveness, it's not that the debt is just going away, it's just being paid for
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So people who decided to go to college, who decided to go to grad school, they willingly
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signed a dotted line and said, I will take out this loan with the full intention of paying
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And now they are saying, well, I don't have the intention to pay it back, now I want someone
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And not just to voluntarily pay the loan, but to be forced by the government to pay this
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So of course, that is why people, one of the reasons why people have a problem with this.
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Now, the other reason why people have a huge problem with this is because it doesn't actually
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I would like for people to not be in hundreds of thousands of dollars or even tens of thousands
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of dollars in debt because of college or because of grad school.
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I would love for people to be able to afford to go to college without having to give up an arm
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That means that the cost of college has to go down.
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But the government subsidizing college and giving out these student loans without any limitation,
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without any thought to whether or not the person who is taking out these loans can actually
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pay them back, that makes the problem worse because that means that universities, even
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universities with huge endowments, can keep on raising the cost of tuition because people
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They're just going to go to the federal government, who is the number one lender of student loans,
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And so they turn around and they go to Harvard or they go to an expensive college without even
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really having to think about the tuition that they're paying because, of course, they have
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And so the colleges just keep on raising the price of college.
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That's why this is unfair for people who didn't take out student loans, who have already paid
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back their student loans, who are now being forced to transfer their wealth to people
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who, in many cases, make more money than they do or who will make more money than they do.
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So that's just the general gist of the problem with student loans in general.
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I mean, I have a lot of I mean, I don't blame people who took out student loans.
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I think a lot of the characterization of people who took out student loans by conservatives is,
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you know, only these like blue haired liberals who decided to major in like, I don't know,
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I was trying to think of something super obscure, like, I don't know, interpretive taxidermy or
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But my crew back there is talking about majoring in lesbian dance theory or theater.
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Theater anyway, so I don't think that that's all I don't think that that accounts for everyone
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There are conservatives who take out student loans who had to go to college for very good
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reason, who are very productive people, and they are trying to provide for for their families.
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And so I don't want to malign everyone who took out student loans as ignorant or wrong or
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immoral or irresponsible, because I don't think that's the case for everyone who takes
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I do, however, think that it is right to pay a loan back when you have taken it out and
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when you have promised that you will pay it back.
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So that kind of in general, that's a very kind of big picture, just skimming the surface
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summary of some of my just practical issues with student loan debt.
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Politically, I mean, it's a good move by Biden.
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I know some people are saying that it's cynical, but this is something that is serving his base.
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This is something that the people that voted for him want.
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Now, it is unconstitutional for the president to go around Congress and to enact something
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Now I'm going to do whatever I can do to give you what you say that you want.
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Republicans don't seem to understand that at all.
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Democrats seem to understand that a lot better.
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So I don't really blame President Biden, even though I don't agree with this move.
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I don't disagree with the politics behind it, the political principle behind it.
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Sure, you can say it cynical, but it's actually good politics to give your base, to give your
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voters something that they want right before the midterms.
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People are saying, oh, they're just he's just buying votes.
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You do you do things that your base likes in order to get them to vote for you.
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We're supposed to vote for people who will represent us and then we'll do the things that
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Again, I think Democrats understand that much better than Republicans understand that.
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I posted about it on Instagram and I don't know who originally said it or else I would
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If you're a Christian and you're big mad about the possibility of student loan debt being
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canceled, let me remind you that the entirety of your faith is built upon a debt you couldn't
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pay for pay that someone stepped in and paid for you.
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John Pavlovitz, who is maybe the silliest person on Twitter, he wrote this book called If God
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And he's probably the most arrogant jerk on Twitter and continually shows his total lack
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of understanding of scripture and the gospel at all.
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I would not like I am not the ultimate arbiter of who is a Christian who is not.
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But judging from the fruit of this person, it would be very hard to believe that he is
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a follower of Christ, just based on the fact that he believes everything that you're like
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average atheist does about morality and cultural and social issues.
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He says conservative Christians are fully enraged at student loan forgiveness, missing the irony
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that their entire professed religion is based on the idea of a canceled debt.
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So really, he just kind of took that from the viral meme and tried to make it his own.
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He also then followed up with a tweet saying that this is like Israel's year of jubilee.
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The year of jubilee in ancient Israel was a celebration that occurred every 50 years.
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Some people are saying that it was every seven years was not every seven years.
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That's a sabbatical year, which was similar, but not the same.
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So jubilee every 50 years in which God requires people to absolve all debts to free prisoners,
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release slaves, VeggieTales creator, podcaster, and podcaster Phil Vischer also seems to agree
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There were several iterations of these kinds of arguments on Twitter from Christians saying,
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you know, this is basically the entirety of Christianity.
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And so, of course, you have to support student loan debts.
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Those Christian conservatives, they're just selfish.
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But these comparisons show a total misunderstanding of both scripture, even the gospel itself,
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and what student loan debt forgiveness is, which, as we already explained, is the forced
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In the gospel, Jesus, God made flesh, voluntarily paid our debt, which is our sin, on our behalf through
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And this is what Colossians 2, 13 through 14 says.
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God made us alive together with him, canceling the record of debt that stood against us with
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Not just voluntary versus forcible, voluntary by Christ and forcible when it comes to student
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loans in that we are being made by the governments to pay these debts.
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But also, Jesus paid a debt that we could not pay, that we are totally incapable of paying
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In the case of student loan debt, the government is forcing other people to pay for debts that
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the debtors, in many cases, can pay, but they won't pay or they have not paid.
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Also, if our basis for debt cancellation, for student loan debt cancellation, is the fact
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that Jesus died on the cross and paid for our sins or the year of Jubilee in which ancient
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If that's the basis, then we should be canceling all debts, including mortgages.
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Why does this biblical argument or argument, you know, based on a misunderstanding of scripture,
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Tell me, like, how economically it would work if all mortgages, for example, were canceled.
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How would it work if all student loan debt, all student loan debt, was canceled and was
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Now, the Bible does speak to debts, but not in the way that a lot of these professing Christians
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Psalm 37.1 condemns refusing to pay back debts as wicked.
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Proverbs 22.7 says that the borrower is a slave to the lender.
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However, Paul instructs Christians in Romans 13.8 to owe no one anything except love.
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The forced transfer of debts also is not the generosity to which Christians are called.
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You see this a lot from the left, that if you're a generous person, if you're a compassionate
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person, then you should be for wealth redistribution.
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You should be for transferring wealth from one group to another.
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You should be for the expansion of social programs, because look at the early church.
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Christians call us to—or Christ called us to generosity.
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They are constantly confusing government-mandated programs and the voluntary generosity and
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Now, that doesn't mean that I am against every government program.
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That doesn't mean that I am against the government ever helping the impoverished, but I can be
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for some effective or efficient programs that help people who truly need it and also understand
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that that is not the same thing as the Christian obedience that God calls us to.
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Matthew 22, 21 speaks to that when Jesus says, render to Caesar what is Caesar's.
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But we also know that the giving that honors God is done cheerfully and is not done under
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That means that taxation does not count as Christian compassion.
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Christians are also called to work diligently to provide for themselves and for those around
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He who does not work or who does not but will not work, who can work but chooses not to
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Ephesians 4, 27 says, let the thief no longer steal, but rather let them labor so they are willing
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to provide for themselves and for those in need.
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And so the Bible does speak to how we are to handle money.
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The Bible does speak to debts, but never in the way that professing Christians who typically
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identify as progressive Christians say that it does.
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Now, God did forbid Israelites from charging interest on loans when the debtor is impoverished.
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And a lot of people point out, as we kind of mentioned a few minutes ago, that the student
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loan process is a scam, that it's predatory, that it's unfair, that it's unjust in many
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ways, as both the government and universities work together to convince sometimes poor borrowers
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But as I've already mentioned, the transfer of student loan debts doesn't even begin to
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The federal government is the biggest lender of these student loans, and Congress eliminated
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limits on borrowing for college and graduate school in the 90s and the early 2000s.
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And so that is part of what caused this problem.
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If you want to address this, like if you really want to alleviate this burden on people, maybe
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they were 17 years old, maybe they didn't have parental guidance, maybe they've just
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been hit with one crisis after another, and they're just unable to get ahead and to get
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out of debt because of interest rates and everything that comes with taking out student loans and
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paying them back, if you really want to help those people so they can finally get their head
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above water, simply offering them $10,000 of someone else's money is not going to solve
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the problem, it doesn't actually get to the root, which as we've already explained, is
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that as you subsidize college, those colleges are going to keep raising tuition because they
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We should also be trying to cultivate a culture, an economy in which it is not necessary to
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have a degree, which is sometimes completely pointless.
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It's just kind of empty credentialism in some cases.
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We should be cultivating an economy in which skills are more enviable or more desirable
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I don't know if it's necessary in doing what I do.
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Obviously, some degrees are important, but not all degrees are.
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Sometimes people can do what they want to do and really make good money and follow their
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passions by not going to college, by starting a business, by going to trade school, by going
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Also, young people need to be taught about financial competence.
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So if you're really compassionate, if you really want to alleviate the burden of debt
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on young people and on truly impoverished, vulnerable people, which, by the way, a family
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making $250,000 a year does not qualify as being in that category.
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Like, if you really want to help people and you truly are compassionate, one, there's
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nothing stopping you right now from taking out your wallet and paying off the debts of
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If you want to really be compassionate and really show that you care for these people,
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then don't wait for the government to tell you to do it.
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Also, if you really want to help these people, we get to the root of the problem.
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We get to the root of the problem, which is big government and big universities colluding
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together to scam people into taking out more than they can pay back.
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So once again, progressive Christianity basically is based on memes.
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Like, it's basically based on, like, a meme-level understanding of Scripture and emotionalism and
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things that really have no substance and have no correlation with Scripture whatsoever, but
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pull on your heartstrings and really sound good.
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And I understand as people who want to be compassionate, who want to be seen as empathetic, that it's
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really easy for us to get sucked into that, but we have to think a little more deeply about
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Like, if you don't agree with this, like, obscure policy or program, if you don't believe
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in the unfettered growth of the government who uses the pretense of helping the poor in
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order to gain more power, then you're not really a good Christian.
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Also, let me just point out the irony that so many of these people, like, so many of these
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professing progressive Christians, they call Christian conservatives, Christian nationalists
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every time we use the Bible to support our policy positions.
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Like, if I say, hey, look, the Bible says do not murder.
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The Bible says that God created us, knit us together in our mother's womb.
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They'll say, oh, no, that's Christian nationalism.
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But they are never afraid to use the Bible, to misuse and abuse the Bible, decontextualize
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They'll say that loving the foreigner means that we should have open borders.
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They'll say that the early church's generosity means that we should have socialism.
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They'll use and abuse and misuse all kinds of verses in order to support their policy positions.
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But when Christian conservatives actually use scripture, even in context, to say, this is
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why I believe what I believe about policy, they'll call that scary Christian nationalism,
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They should just say, look, yeah, we're OK with using the Bible to support policy positions,
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I want to briefly talk about what's happening with libs of TikTok.
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And she has been revealing the policies, the procedures going on at different children's
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You've got you've got a lot of different journalists out there.
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Christopher Rufo, who have been revealing the publicly available information coming out of
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children's hospitals about procedures that are being performed on minors.
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We're talking about castration, phalloplasty, where you construct a fake penis on a girl
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who thinks she's a boy using the using the skin from her forearm or the skin from her thigh
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vaginoplasties, which, of course, requires castration and then trying to form some kind
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But we need to understand this is happening in this country and not just to consenting
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But we're talking about minors, minors who are confused, minors who are very often mentally
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ill, minors who are very often on the autism spectrum.
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And there are several journalists who have been revealing this, who have been talking about
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this to try to sound the alarm that, hey, this is happening.
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Matt Walsh, of course, is another one who has been talking a lot about this.
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Libs of TikTok recently published an audio recording, a conversation between her and a representative
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from Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C.
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And the representative from this hospital seems to admit in this phone call that, yes, they
00:30:22.260
are performing hysterectomies on 16 year old girls who are confused about their gender,
00:30:27.620
what they would call, quote unquote, gender affirming hysterectomies, which is just the
00:30:31.660
most Orwellian and wicked phrase that I can even think of on 16 year old girls and younger.
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Is it a common procedure that you guys do for that age?
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Um, we have, um, all different type of age groups that comes in for that.
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Just out of curiosity, do you know, like, what's the youngest age you would do it on?
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And I'm not, you know, either hip, I'm not allowed to say that, but I have seen younger
00:31:37.800
Uh, you can kind of tell, or it seems like to me that the hospital representative was
00:31:48.280
And this is, of course, not the only hospital that is engaging in this kind of atrocity.
00:31:53.260
I mean, we've seen, and this is, like, publicly available information that journalists are just
00:31:57.620
going to the website, taking screenshots or, like, recording the videos that these hospitals
00:32:04.400
I mean, we're talking about Boston Children's Hospital.
00:32:06.680
We're talking about Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, Seattle Children's Hospital.
00:32:12.200
There are several hospitals across the country that are performing these kinds of procedures
00:32:17.300
as young as we have heard them admit, like 16, 17 years old.
00:32:24.500
At Kaiser Permanente, there was a psychologist who admitted that they were doing a double mastectomy
00:32:32.180
And so what has the reaction been from the left and the mainstream media to lives of TikTok
00:32:39.840
Has it been, wow, this is such an atrocity because this is a Nazi-level experimentation on
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There needs to be some accountability about this.
00:32:55.020
No, it, of course, has been to attack libs of TikTok and the other journalists for revealing
00:33:02.080
So the atrocity, according to the media, according to places like NPR and The Washington Post,
00:33:07.680
is not that little girls are getting their uterus and their fallopian tubes and their ovaries
00:33:13.780
removed before they're even at an age where they can begin to understand the implications
00:33:22.660
Not that we're butchering young kids who are very often autistic.
00:33:26.100
The atrocity is that people are talking about it.
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She has been suspended out of Twitter because she dared to notice and allowed other people
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to notice the absolute nightmare that is happening at our children's hospitals across the country.
00:33:47.000
Children's hospital threatened after libs of TikTok recording on trans hysterectomies.
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Children's National Hospital has been inundated with threatening emails and phone calls after an
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influential right wing Twitter account published a recording that falsely suggested the hospital's
00:34:00.580
performing hysterectomies on transgender children.
00:34:05.460
So even though libs of TikTok says that she has this on record, they just say, no, this is not true.
00:34:12.640
And Washington Post, the journalist, his name is Pete Jameson.
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He reached out to libs of TikTok for a comment.
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She responded 12 minutes later, but he already published the piece without getting her comment.
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And NPR also also reported on this saying children's hospitals are the latest target of anti-LGBTQ harassment.
00:34:36.260
Is that not a tell that it is apparently anti-LGBTQ to be against the genital mutilation of children?
00:34:44.080
There is no data, by the way, no actual data that shows that removing the healthy breasts
00:34:50.340
and the uteruses and the penises and the testicles of young people who are confused about their
00:35:02.080
Actually, there was a study out of Sweden a few years ago that followed people who went
00:35:06.940
through these gender reassignment surgeries for the next decade or so after their surgery
00:35:14.660
and they found that they were 20 times more likely to commit suicide than the rest of the
00:35:24.300
So you can't just say it's because they got bullied.
00:35:26.940
No, that's because this is not solving the problems, the mental health issues that they have.
00:35:31.780
As Sophia told us last week, like she was a depressed girl.
00:35:37.260
She had a past that she hadn't really dealt with.
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She had trauma that she was working through or really refusing to work through.
00:35:49.200
And the psychologist, the endocrinologist, the surgeon, none of them stopped to really say,
00:35:56.860
Maybe wait a couple of years and let's kind of work through the other issues that they have.
00:36:00.380
So that is happening to young teenagers across the country.
00:36:05.180
Of course, once they realize that they've made a mistake and that they cannot get their
00:36:09.200
body back, they cannot get their fertility back.
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They cannot get the feeling back in their crotch or in their breasts.
00:36:15.360
Or even if they can get pregnant because they haven't had a hysterectomy, they'll never be
00:36:19.880
Things that you cannot even fathom when you're 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 years old.
00:36:26.600
You can't fathom the consequences of that and the pain that that's going to cause.
00:36:31.420
Like, who else is going to stand up for these kids except for us adults, except for the journalists
00:36:36.720
and the journalists who are standing up for them are getting canceled.
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NPR says children's hospitals in Boston, Seattle, Chicago, Portland have claimed that they have
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been targeted by hostile and threatening phone calls and emails.
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So again, the story here is that these is that these doctors are scared, that these doctors
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are getting harassed, not that they are performing these atrocities on kids.
00:37:08.840
You were not supposed to notice that they were performing these genital mutilation procedures
00:37:14.760
You were not supposed to notice that young children are getting puberty blockers and young teenagers
00:37:21.860
You weren't supposed to notice that 12-year-olds are getting their healthy breasts cut off.
00:37:25.020
You weren't supposed to notice that 16- and 17-year-olds are getting their healthy uteruses
00:37:29.320
You weren't supposed to notice that these things are actually leading to suicide and not
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helping the suicide rate among people who think that they are the opposite gender.
00:37:39.480
You weren't supposed to notice these things, just like you weren't supposed to notice
00:37:42.020
that the vaccine didn't work how they promised that it was going to, just like you weren't
00:37:46.540
supposed to notice that inflation is increasing, just like you weren't supposed to notice
00:37:49.980
that the gas prices were a lot lower under Trump, just like you weren't supposed to notice that
00:37:53.840
we're still sending billions and billions of dollars to Ukraine, even as the country here
00:37:59.180
is suffering, just like you weren't supposed to notice that the border is open and that they are
00:38:03.140
shipping illegal migrants to different parts of the country. You weren't supposed to notice all
00:38:08.200
of those things. And so because people are noticing, because there are journalists who
00:38:13.540
are actually doing good work to help you notice these things, the only thing that the regime
00:38:18.740
media can do, the only thing that the left can do is attack the people, censor the people who are
00:38:24.600
allowing you to notice. Attack them as conspiracy theorists, attack them as extremists, attack them
00:38:29.700
as radicals, even as terrorists, to try to make you feel like it is immoral to notice. So you just go
00:38:36.960
back, put your head in the sand, pretend like it's not happening. That's really what they want you to
00:38:42.480
do. I think more than support the left wing regime and all of their wicked institutions would rather
00:38:49.660
you just not notice and to just kind of start paying attention right before an election when
00:38:57.180
a big story comes out that emotionally manipulates you into voting Democrat. Don't notice any of the bad
00:39:06.120
things that are happening that are being authored by progressives, but be convinced right before the
00:39:12.060
election that women aren't getting miscarriage care because of the overturning of Roe v. Wade or believe
00:39:18.520
right before the election that Democrats are somehow going to solve racism. That's what they do. That's the
00:39:26.860
playbook. That's how the Democrat Party gets Christian women, because most of the time they're not paying
00:39:32.080
attention. They're only paying attention when it's trending on social media and then they're convinced
00:39:36.220
by their friends that the only compassionate route to take is to vote Democrat. They haven't noticed.
00:39:41.960
That is how the left wins. They ensure that you don't notice. That is why one of our sayings that we
00:39:48.400
are constantly repeating is raising a respectful ruckus for the things that matter. We raise a respectful
00:39:54.360
ruckus for the things that matter because I want you to notice. Politics matter because policy matters
00:39:59.580
because people matter. These kids matter. These kids matter. And I think if you're looking for a
00:40:05.220
hill to die on, this is a great one. This is a great one. And you don't have to worry about if
00:40:10.480
you're on the right side, if you're on the compassionate side, if you're against the butchering
00:40:13.620
of children, whether it's in the womb or out of the womb, you're on the right side. I mean, I think
00:40:18.060
history probably tells us that. So you can be extremely confident in that. Now, I hope lives of TikTok and
00:40:23.540
the other people who have been censored because of their reporting. I hope that they're placed back on
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Twitter. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of confidence in that. I mean, this is an idol of
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the left and they really don't they really don't allow any dissent when it comes to this. I mean,
00:40:41.020
it's got to be the most Orwellian two plus two equals five belief that the left has the idea that a man
00:40:47.420
can become a woman and that a child can consent to that kind of thing. And so it is absolutely worth
00:40:54.260
pushing back on. It is absolutely worth sticking up for no matter what they say. So I'm thankful
00:40:59.480
to all the journalists who, despite the pushback, despite the true persecution that some of them
00:41:05.020
have endured because of their stance on this and because of their persistent courage on this,
00:41:09.660
I'm just thankful that they have continued to stand firm. All right. I just want one more short
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segment where I react to Lizzo saying that she is an oppressed woman as she stands up on stage,
00:41:25.600
accepts an award after making millions and millions of dollars.
00:41:29.680
All right. Let's play. Let's play this clip of Lizzo from last night.
00:41:46.900
I don't know what music video for good means, but I do know what your vote means.
00:41:52.920
And that's a lot. Your vote means everything to me. It means everything to making a change in this
00:42:01.980
country. So remember when you're voting for your favorite artists, vote to change some of these
00:42:09.700
laws that are oppressing us. Okay. So she is saying like, because there's one kind of voting and
00:42:21.980
then there's another kind of voting and you voted for her for a favorite artist. So you should also
00:42:27.840
vote in like elections. Is that what she's trying to say? And she is claiming that she is oppressed.
00:42:36.160
The laws that are oppressing her, oppressing us unclear as to who us is in this scenario. Only in
00:42:45.500
America, only in America can you have someone who is making millions and millions of dollars.
00:42:54.720
She's got a net worth in the tens of millions of dollars who has become very famous because she's
00:42:59.540
talented. I don't care what you think about Lizzo. She's talented. She's got a great voice. I think she plays
00:43:04.160
the flute. That's pretty cool. She dances. People really like her. They really like her music. So because of
00:43:10.280
hard work, because of grit, she has been able to become very successful. And look, she doesn't look
00:43:16.340
like your average artist. Like she doesn't look like your average supermodel. I think she's very
00:43:21.540
pretty. But the fact that she has been able to get where she is just because she is like a hard worker
00:43:27.940
and she's talented should probably show you that here in America, you really can do just about
00:43:33.760
anything that you want to do if you've got the talent and the grit to match your goal. Just about
00:43:39.920
anything that you want to do. Only in America can someone claim to be oppressed. Can someone claim
00:43:47.160
that the law is oppressing them and people like them when they are a multi-millionaire? And we keep
00:43:54.960
hearing, well, the example of Lizzo or of any other black millionaire or black successful person,
00:44:02.020
that doesn't disprove anything. That doesn't disprove the fact that America is systemically
00:44:06.820
racist or that America is systemically oppressive. It's still systemically oppressive. There are still
00:44:12.060
great disparities in all of these success stories. And the fact that America has the most successful
00:44:18.380
black people anywhere in the world, the richest black people anywhere in the world, that doesn't
00:44:22.580
change the fact that America is still this racist, oppressive place. And of course, they never
00:44:28.080
have to point to any facts or any specific laws, just kind of the headline that they heard that some
00:44:34.560
kind of policy is maybe indirectly hurting what they would call a historically marginalized group. They
00:44:42.140
never actually have to make any kind of coherent argument. They can just go up on stage wearing
00:44:49.660
thousands of dollars of clothing, making millions of dollars and say we're oppressed and everyone claps
00:44:56.580
like seals. Because the left has this delusion playing in their head constantly, as I've said,
00:45:01.380
that they are the underdog and that they are the little kid holding a slingshot and that this giant
00:45:08.560
of Christo-fascism, this giant of right-wing oppression is standing before them and they're just
00:45:15.800
trying to take them down through democracy and grassroots activism. Of course, it's not true.
00:45:20.960
The left has all of the institutional power. They dominate academia, the public school system,
00:45:26.620
the federal government, our intelligence agencies, media, Hollywood, big corporations, big tech,
00:45:32.120
even the WHO, the UN, the World Economic Forum, all of the biggest institutions in this country
00:45:38.060
are dominated by progressivism. You're not the underdog. You're not the underdog. If anything,
00:45:43.620
you guys are the fascists. You are constantly wetting corporate and government power in order to
00:45:49.420
punish your enemies. Of course, that's what happened. I know I'm kind of going off on a tangent here,
00:45:54.060
but of course, that's what happened in the election between Twitter and the intelligence
00:46:00.680
agencies trying to censor, for example, the Hunter Biden story. And so that goes back to this
00:46:05.840
conversation, though, because every bit of reality opposes this fantasy that leftists have in their head
00:46:13.120
about being oppressed and about being the little guy and about being the underdog. And so that is why
00:46:20.960
Lizzo can be a multimillionaire, can stand up on stage in front of a bunch of other multimillionaires
00:46:26.480
and say, hey, we're oppressed. And everyone's like, yes, it's delusional. It's just another example
00:46:32.080
of right being wrong, wrong being right, up being down to progressives.
00:46:40.220
Um, and so that's all I got to say for today. There was some other stuff that I wanted to get
00:46:44.520
into. We'll have to talk about it, uh, tomorrow. We got lots of good stuff that we're going to get
00:46:48.960
into this week. Thanks so much for listening. Leave a five-star review. If you love this podcast,
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