Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 67

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to Relatable. It is Thursday, January 10th, and as always,

00:00:06.700 we have a lot to talk about. On Tuesday, if you listened to that episode, I kind of caught you

00:00:11.640 up on the whole government shutdown, how long it's been shut down, why it's happening, what

00:00:16.840 Trump wants, what the Democrats want, and really why we cannot see eye to eye. I said that it has

00:00:22.360 a lot more to do with our differences in worldview than it does our differences on policy, our

00:00:29.260 differences in politics. The left has gotten radically more left, which is something that

00:00:33.600 we're going to talk about a little bit more in depth today, and they simply hate Donald Trump.

00:00:39.120 So even though securing the border is a matter of safety for American citizens, even though it is

00:00:46.180 something that is undeniably good for American citizens, even though in doing so, they would

00:00:54.540 strike a deal that would open up the government that would obviously benefit the furloughed

00:00:59.080 employees that are going without pay right now. They refuse to do it because they hate Donald

00:01:03.940 Trump so much, but also because they just see the world differently than they used to, and than most

00:01:11.800 conservatives do. And that worldview is one, our worldview is one of sovereignty, one of law and

00:01:18.280 order, one of protection for our citizens. And that does not exclude compassion for people in other

00:01:23.620 countries, but it does mean that as a wise sovereign nation, we have to be able to enforce our laws.

00:01:30.200 We have to have some kind of check on the people that are coming into our country. Democrats simply

00:01:37.080 at this point don't agree with that for the reasons that I listed. So on Tuesday night, Trump delivered an

00:01:43.920 address to the American people. It was shown on all major cable news networks, and it was a few minute

00:01:51.180 speech where he just talked about the importance of a wall we had before he even went on. We had

00:01:56.080 a leftist on Twitter saying that they were going to boycott it. They weren't going to watch it.

00:02:00.600 And I said, there's no way that they're not going to watch it. There's no way because then they won't

00:02:04.320 have anything to talk about the next day. They won't be able to say what an evil, awful, bigoted,

00:02:09.980 racist speech it was if they didn't listen to it. And they'll have nothing to talk about and

00:02:13.800 therefore nothing to live for. So all of the people saying that they were going to boycott

00:02:18.140 Trump's speech either are a line or B, they were never going to watch it in the first place. So

00:02:22.800 it was stupid hashtag to be trending. For those of you who didn't get a chance to watch it, but maybe

00:02:28.140 you wanted to, I'm going to play you a little excerpt here. In Maryland, MS-13 gang members who arrived in

00:02:34.300 the United States as unaccompanied bonders were arrested and charged last year after viciously

00:02:42.140 stabbing and beating a 16 year old girl. Over the last several years, I've met with dozens of

00:02:49.520 families whose loved ones were stolen by illegal immigration. I've held the hands of the weeping

00:02:57.900 mothers and embraced the grief stricken fathers. So sad, so terrible. I will never forget the pain in

00:03:08.920 their eyes, the tremble in their voices, and the sadness gripping their souls. How much more

00:03:16.440 American blood must we shed before Congress does its job? Okay, so obviously, I agree with him. I

00:03:24.840 thought it was a good speech. I thought that he spoke extremely simply. I thought that he made excellent

00:03:30.220 points. Everything that people on the right have been saying for a really long time, I think,

00:03:35.700 were encapsulated pretty well in his address. Now, to be honest, he is not the best at a teleprompter.

00:03:42.000 He is no Ronald Reagan. We know that this was kind of Ronald Reagan's trademark. He would go on

00:03:47.260 national television. He would kind of go above the heads of the Congress people to say, this is what

00:03:52.460 needs to happen. And you need to put pressure, the American people need to put pressure on your

00:03:57.380 representatives in order to get this passed. He was very good at that. Of course, he was known as the

00:04:02.920 great communicator. He has a long history of being effective in that realm. Trump just doesn't. That's

00:04:09.400 not his strength. He has other strengths, but that really isn't one of them. And I thought that that

00:04:14.640 was on display in his address. He's just not natural when it comes to the teleprompter. He's

00:04:19.840 much better impromptu. I think we can all agree on that. Plus, I know this is really small, but I was

00:04:24.920 thinking the whole time how it's really annoying how you can hear his breath. After every few words,

00:04:31.100 that's not his fault. That is the fault of the tech people. They should have given him a different

00:04:35.380 kind of microphone. He had, I think, a lapel mic and he probably should have had like an overhead

00:04:39.900 mic or something, something to reduce that noise. They should have figured that out. That's not his

00:04:44.800 fault, but that was bothering me the whole time. So it just kind of, it kind of took away from it

00:04:49.720 for me. But, but, but I have a but here for all of you out there who think I'm so anti-Trump,

00:04:56.460 which I'm not, by the way. But let me finish here. So I thought it was okay. I thought I agreed

00:05:05.220 with it, but I thought the delivery was okay. Until, until I saw the gift from God. I, so I didn't know

00:05:15.520 how it could get any less charming than Trump's delivery until I saw Chuck Schumer and Nancy

00:05:22.420 Pelosi. Chuck Schumer, of course, is the minority leader in the Senate, Nancy Pelosi, Democratic

00:05:27.020 Speaker of the House. I did not know it was possible to be as lifeless as they were, but still

00:05:36.320 have beating hearts. Like, I didn't know if this was a weekend at, at Bernie's reenactment,

00:05:42.500 or if this was a remake of iRobot. I mean, they honestly, they honestly looked like they had just

00:05:50.140 been wound up and programmed and introduced to the human population for the first time 15 minutes

00:05:56.360 before they were on camera. That is what they looked like. I have never, I've never seen something

00:06:03.000 like it. I was scared. I was scared looking at Chuck Schumer. I was like, he, he is going to stare

00:06:10.640 all the way into my soul and snatch it out of my body like the grim reaper. That is exactly what he

00:06:18.720 looked like. Nancy Pelosi. I mean, she looks great for 78. I'll admit that whoever did her makeup though

00:06:25.160 was like, girl, we got to pound it on tonight. It was, oh my gosh, these two made Trump look like

00:06:33.360 Prince Charming. They made him look like he has the charm of John Stamos for crying out loud.

00:06:38.760 He looked and sounded awesome compared to Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. And that's,

00:06:44.540 that's the great thing about this whole battle between Donald Trump and the Democrats is that,

00:06:49.380 you know, Republicans, conservatives like me, sometimes we look at the things that Donald

00:06:54.500 Trump says and does. And we're like, I really wish you weren't like that. I really wish you didn't

00:06:58.860 tweet that. I really wish you didn't do that like that. Did you have to say that? But then,

00:07:04.180 you know, it's really hard sometimes to criticize him because as soon as he does something that you're

00:07:09.640 like, that's just too much for me. The Democrats do something worse. They out crazy Donald Trump on a

00:07:16.240 regular basis, which I think is pretty hard to do, but they do. And they wonder why they're not more

00:07:22.320 popular. So let me play you just a little excerpt of Nancy and Chuck.

00:07:28.080 And the fact is, President Trump must stop holding the American people hostage,

00:07:33.440 must stop manufacturing a crisis and must reopen the government. Thank you.

00:07:40.060 Leader Schumer.

00:07:41.200 Thank you, Speaker Pelosi. My fellow Americans, we address you tonight for one reason only.

00:07:47.720 The president of the United States, having failed to get Mexico to pay for his ineffective,

00:07:53.180 unnecessary border wall and unable to convince the Congress or the American people to foot the bill

00:07:59.620 has shut down the government. Oh, man. So here's the thing is that no one's mind was changed.

00:08:06.600 Not a single person's mind was changed. All of us, every single one of us went into this with

00:08:14.280 foregone conclusions. We already know what we thought about immigration. We already knew what we thought

00:08:18.540 about the wall. We already knew the outcome that we want to happen with this whole government

00:08:23.820 shutdown struggle. So I highly doubt that any person that any person went into this thinking,

00:08:32.960 OK, you know what? I'm going in with an open mind. Maybe the president will actually will actually

00:08:37.180 say something to change my mind. No, no, not at all. That definitely didn't happen. In fact,

00:08:45.260 the media had already made their minds up, you know, the bias facts first media CNN facts matter.

00:08:52.700 I think that's their slogan or something like that, which sometimes is just absolutely laughable

00:08:58.540 just to show you how biased they were going into this. I want to show you this exchange,

00:09:05.600 which is really an awesome exchange, by the way, between Jim Acosta and Kellyanne Conway,

00:09:10.620 Jim Acosta of CNN, who loves him some Jim Acosta. I'm sure you've heard that before.

00:09:15.260 Uh, listen, listen to the question that he asks Kellyanne Conway before the address happened on

00:09:24.120 Tuesday night. And then, and then listen to her. Just, just go. You just want to cheer. OK,

00:09:30.780 listen to this. Can you promise that the president will tell the truth tonight? Will he tell the truth?

00:09:35.640 Yes, Jim. And can you promise that you will? I will. Absolutely. The whole truth and nothing but the

00:09:40.040 truth to help you, God? I'm not the one who has the alternative facts problem like you do. Will the

00:09:44.500 president, will the president tell the truth? Make sure that goes viral. OK. This is why,

00:09:48.180 by the way, this is why I'm one of the only people around here who even gives you the time of day. Can you,

00:09:52.780 can you guarantee that the president's speech will pass a fact check? And let me just, let me get back in your face,

00:09:55.640 because you're such a smart ass most of the time. And I know you want this to go viral. A lot of

00:09:59.300 these people don't like you. But let me just be respectful to the media at large, as I always am.

00:10:04.240 I explained that that was alternative information, additional facts. And I explain it many times. And

00:10:09.220 don't you put it back in my face for all the corrections that your network needs to issue.

00:10:12.800 I was on your network 25 or 26 times in 2018. I'm one of the last people here who even bothered to go on.

00:10:18.220 And the disrespect that you showed to me personally, I'll just look past.

00:10:22.420 Ma'am, I just asked if the president would be telling the truth tonight.

00:10:26.040 I mean, that was, that was amazing. Go Kellyanne Conway. I just love when people just like,

00:10:32.560 let it go. When they just are like, you know what, I've been thinking about this for a long time,

00:10:36.700 and someone needs to put you in your place. That's why I loved, I was thinking about this the other day,

00:10:40.560 how Kavanaugh's response to all of the accusations when he was on the Senate floor,

00:10:45.740 when he had to defend himself. Why I thought that was so good because he didn't leave anything

00:10:50.400 unturned. He said it all and he stuck it to them. He said, you are just trying to accuse me unfairly

00:10:56.720 because this is a political game. I love that. I love when people don't leave anyone guessing with

00:11:02.620 what they're thinking. Sometimes, sometimes, I mean, there has to be a filter, but when it's

00:11:06.540 necessary, I just love when someone can articulate it that like that Lindsey Graham moment during the

00:11:11.520 whole Kavanaugh hearings. That was just so good. You're like, yes, you said everything I want to

00:11:15.720 say, well, this was this moment with Kellyanne Conway. But that wasn't really the point. The

00:11:19.580 point was that obviously, these networks, I'm sure Jim Acosta of CNN is not alone,

00:11:24.720 already had their conclusions drawn before going in. Everyone said, oh, well, Donald Trump is going

00:11:32.900 to lie about all this. They had the fact checkers out. I don't really remember them doing the same

00:11:39.160 thing to President Obama. But look, I appreciate a good fact checker. I think we should be fact

00:11:44.300 checking the president, but we should also be fact checking Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. We

00:11:49.000 should also be fact checking the Democratic politicians. We don't seem to be quite as

00:11:53.380 vigilant about that, strangely enough, as we are as we are about President Trump. And like I said,

00:12:00.300 I care about telling the truth. We should call the president out when he is not telling the truth.

00:12:04.840 But if you will remember, if you'll remember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she said in her 60 Minutes

00:12:11.720 interview, which I think we'll get to at the end of this podcast, she said, you know, people are a lot

00:12:17.240 more concerned with me being factually correct than they are with me being morally right.

00:12:23.040 Wow. Spoken like a true, a true socialist. Okay. If that is the standard that we want to apply to

00:12:30.640 everyone, then we should definitely apply it to Donald Trump. Who cares if he's not factually

00:12:36.820 correct here and there? He's morally right. Right. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. No, of course not.

00:12:43.980 She doesn't believe that. But the thing is, is that I do think in this case, he is morally right.

00:12:48.040 And he was factually correct. Has he fibbed a few times or exaggerated a few times? He absolutely has.

00:12:54.220 And we need to hold him to a high standard, but we need to hold every politician to the same standard.

00:12:58.780 But he said a lot of good things in his address last night and a lot of things that I think

00:13:03.880 really resonate with his base. And what we want him to do is follow through on that.

00:13:09.340 Democrats have a much harder case to make, in my opinion. Now, probably not to their radical base,

00:13:14.960 but in my opinion, it's really difficult for them to justify why they're okay with furloughed workers

00:13:20.700 not getting paid. And the reason why they think that that's okay is because they don't want to secure

00:13:27.740 the border. So like I said on Tuesday, you've got two things here that are going to help the American

00:13:32.860 worker and help the American people. One, the American worker gets paid those that work for

00:13:37.600 the government that are currently furloughed. Two, that you secure the border. Both of those

00:13:41.940 things are good for the American worker. Both of those things are good for the well-being and the

00:13:45.600 security of the American people. And Democrats are refusing to do both of those. They're calling

00:13:50.140 this a manufactured crisis. They're saying that this isn't real. This is fear-mongering. This is hate.

00:13:54.900 This is, as Nancy Pelosi says, an immorality. Well, my question is, okay, a wall is an immorality.

00:14:03.100 This is a manufactured crisis, which it's absolutely not. There are millions and millions

00:14:08.700 of undocumented, I shouldn't even say undocumented, illegal immigrants in the country that actually

00:14:13.200 cross the border illegally. They're not just visa overstays. And there is violence at the border.

00:14:18.560 We're making it harder on our border patrol agents to do their job because there is no physical

00:14:22.620 barrier stopping these illegal immigrants from getting in. And as President Trump mentioned

00:14:27.080 in his address last night, this endangers children that are exploited, that are sometimes kidnapped,

00:14:32.520 that are often trafficked. Why? Why wouldn't an American politician want to do something about that?

00:14:41.900 And yet all they have to say is, well, you know, we care about securing the border. We do. We just

00:14:47.120 think this wall. We just think this wall is racist and wrong. Okay. You secure. You care about securing

00:14:53.080 the border. Okay. Okay. If someone can tell me one proposal that a Democratic congressperson has put

00:15:00.060 forth to secure the border and to deal with illegal immigration recently, since Donald Trump has become

00:15:06.000 president, I would love to hear it. I want you to hear this exchange, which is awesome. Between

00:15:11.540 between Stephen Miller, who works for President Trump and CNN's Wolf Blitzer. This is a few weeks

00:15:17.480 old, but it's just another one of those clips that you're like, yes, keep going. Okay. Listen,

00:15:24.280 Democrats, all they need to do is support border security and the government will be funded.

00:15:28.080 But that barrier we're talking about is what the border patrol wants.

00:15:31.440 The Democrats support border security. They don't support $5 billion for a wall.

00:15:35.600 Could you identify, Wolframi, some of the kinds of border security you're saying the Democrats are so

00:15:39.920 they support border security? But like what? Where they all do respect, Wolf. They voted against

00:15:45.440 Kate's law. They voted against ending sanctuary cities. They voted against deporting MS-13 gang

00:15:50.140 members. They voted against deporting violent criminals. They voted time and time again against

00:15:54.500 a physical border wall to stop illegal entry. I mean, where is the evidence that you keep asserting

00:15:58.900 they're for border security? They haven't been. So love him or hate him. A lot of people have

00:16:02.900 different opinions about Stephen Miller. He was 100% right. I mean, he had all of his facts right there.

00:16:08.400 I'm like, how do you just recall that off the top of your head? But he's right in that Democrats

00:16:13.000 right now are not interested in securing the border. They're just not. They are interested

00:16:17.280 in offering illegal immigrants the same privileges and the same rights that our citizens have,

00:16:23.060 actually at the expense of our own citizens. So not only are American workers right now,

00:16:28.420 hundreds of thousands of them not getting paid because Democrats don't want to fund border

00:16:32.820 security, but Americans are actually footing the bill for illegal immigrants to have things

00:16:37.120 like health care coverage. So New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio promised guaranteed health care

00:16:43.240 coverage to illegal immigrants. And so did the new California Governor Gavin Newsom. He said that

00:16:49.100 he's going to guarantee illegal immigrants health care coverage until the age of 26. So not only are we

00:16:54.180 hearing now that health care coverage, they like to say health care, but it's important. We're talking

00:16:58.280 about health care coverage. So health insurance, they are saying, is an absolute right,

00:17:03.740 is an absolute right to every citizen. That's what they want. Single payer health care. They don't

00:17:07.840 want to allow you to get a health care coverage from your employer. You have to get it from the

00:17:11.820 government. That is the direction that they would like us to go in. So not only are they saying that,

00:17:17.700 okay, health care coverage is an absolute right for every single citizen, whether or not they can

00:17:22.260 afford it. And oh, by the way, everyone else needs to pay for the health care coverage of everyone else.

00:17:27.580 Okay, got that. They're also saying that not only do we have to pay for the health care coverage of

00:17:33.900 our fellow citizens that can't afford it, but we also need to pay for the health care coverage

00:17:37.360 of illegal immigrants, people that broke the law by entering our country illegally. We need to pay

00:17:42.560 for their health care coverage, too. Why? Because it's just the right thing to do. I guess it's morally

00:17:49.160 right to steal from people to accomplish purposes that you don't agree with. Sure. I guess it's moral

00:17:56.920 for us to incentivize people to make an extremely dangerous and sometimes deadly journey to come

00:18:02.120 into our country by offering them all of the things that we offer their citizens. I guess it's

00:18:07.780 moral to not have a sovereign country and be able to enforce our laws or protect our communities. I

00:18:15.460 guess that is the morally right thing to do. And we know where all of this is leading. Illegal

00:18:22.180 immigrants are given more and more privileges. They're given a greater and greater number

00:18:26.880 of rights to soon. It's going to be basically indistinguishable, whether you are an illegal

00:18:32.320 immigrant or a citizen. And that is going to lay the foundation for being able to say, well,

00:18:37.580 obviously, all illegal immigrants can vote. We already know that that's a problem. In Texas,

00:18:42.260 Texas Democrats were actually caught registering non-citizens to vote by lying and saying that they

00:18:47.340 were citizens. So we already know that this is a problem in some states. But it's laying the

00:18:52.940 foundation for saying, of course, illegal immigrants can vote. What is illegal anyway? People are just

00:18:59.240 people. They live here. Why shouldn't they be able to vote? So this is about power for the Democrats.

00:19:06.080 And it's also because of the radical left that has taken over the party. So that's the reason why

00:19:10.960 just a few years ago you had Democrats like Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi

00:19:17.820 saying, yes, of course, we need to rein in illegal immigration. Yes, of course, we need to do

00:19:22.220 something with with border security. I mean, you have them on record saying those things. But now

00:19:27.180 they're saying, no, no, no, it's actually immoral to talk about that. And that is because of the far

00:19:32.300 left. But it's also because of power, because they realize that eventually they're going to be able to

00:19:37.200 get the votes of those however many it is, 11 and a half million illegal immigrants that are in this

00:19:42.000 country. So the more, the merrier for them. And this kind of this movement, this far left social

00:19:48.600 justice, identity, politics, intersectionality, crazy movement that says if you are a marginal,

00:19:55.340 if you are non-white, basically, and so if you are an immigrant, if you are a Muslim, if you are gay,

00:20:01.920 if you are a woman, if you are all of these supposedly oppressed, oppressed kinds, if you are in any of

00:20:10.980 these supposedly oppressed categories, then you get more credibility, you get more privileges than

00:20:17.840 the evil white Christian male. That entire mentality has taken over the left wing part of

00:20:25.000 the Democratic Party, which I think is really overtaking the party as a whole. And you can

00:20:29.500 hear it in their rhetoric a few years ago. Like I said, we were in agreement on illegal immigration.

00:20:34.740 Now we don't even know if we should use the term illegal. 15 to 20 years ago, we all believed that

00:20:39.720 abortion was evil. It was just that some people believed that it was a necessary evil and others

00:20:44.360 of us didn't. Socialism used to be a dirty word. Now it's like this rite of passage. Now it's like

00:20:50.800 the most compassionate person you can be as a socialist. That's where we've gone. And they

00:20:57.160 want to say that Republicans are the extremists, that Donald Trump is the extremist, that we're the

00:21:02.840 bigots, that we're the crazy ones, that we're the ones that have gotten more radical and changed.

00:21:06.820 That's not true. Polarization in politics, a study by Pew Research published in 2017 shows

00:21:13.940 that on every single issue, on race, on welfare, on immigration, on guns, the left has gotten more

00:21:20.560 left. That is not true of conservatives. That is not true of the right. And millennials love this stuff.

00:21:27.100 They love it. It makes us feel good. We're taught this stuff in college. It plays on this desire that we

00:21:35.180 have to be a hero, to be a good person without actually ever having to get off the couch.

00:21:40.080 For some reason, we don't connect socialism with the loss of the things that we enjoy most,

00:21:45.300 which I think predominantly is freedom and flexibility, the ability to build our own lives,

00:21:50.260 to be entrepreneurs, to be innovative, to create the life of passion that we want to create.

00:21:58.860 They don't see how socialism actually stifles that. For some reason, millennials just don't

00:22:04.380 get that. But Nancy Pelosi does. And that is why these mainstream Democrats are saying,

00:22:09.660 you know what? You're right, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We do need socialism. We do need open borders

00:22:15.580 because if Democrats are going to stay in power, then something's got to give. We've got to give the

00:22:22.400 people what they want. And unfortunately, millennials have been so brainwashed into thinking that socialism

00:22:27.080 and communism and all these collectivist ideologies are good, that we really will be steering the

00:22:35.180 country in that direction if something isn't done about it, which is exactly why I and others have

00:22:41.720 podcasts that we do. So I promised you guys that I would talk about this Green New Deal

00:22:47.500 that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is proposing and that other Democrats like Elizabeth Warren,

00:22:53.200 like Bernie Sanders, like Cory Booker, have latched onto and have also said that they are supporting.

00:22:59.500 So this Green New Deal is a deal that will, I'm going to read, cut carbon emissions, eliminate

00:23:04.480 fossil fuels, and cause us, cause the United States to rely 100% on renewable energy.

00:23:12.360 Okay, so that's the goal. Over the next 11 years, 100% renewable energy. So this is from the

00:23:18.860 National Review. They kind of give a good summary of what this actually means in practical terms. So

00:23:26.300 this is from National Review. Under the Green New Deal, within 11 years, the United States would be

00:23:31.680 required to eliminate not merely our nuclear power, which does not directly produce carbon dioxide or

00:23:37.760 air pollution, by the way. So he's saying that this doesn't even help us accomplish our goals, but we're

00:23:42.700 just going to get rid of it anyway. But all natural gas. Natural gas currently provides about

00:23:48.960 32% of America's energy, and nuclear power produces another 10%. The Green New Deal would also

00:23:58.080 eliminate coal, which provides almost 18% of America's energy, and liquid natural gas and oil,

00:24:03.140 which generates another 28%. So in other words, within 11 years, the United States would need to

00:24:08.880 replace about 88% of its current energy sources. And he says, in his opinion, this is not possible

00:24:15.980 short of a societal collapse to agrarian subsistence. According to the US Department of Energy, roughly

00:24:21.700 1.1 million work in coal, oil and gas production, 2.3 million jobs in transmission, distribution and

00:24:29.480 storage, and 2.4 million workers in motor vehicles and component parts, not counting dealerships. The vast

00:24:36.760 majority of these 5.8 million jobs would be eliminated under the Green New Deal. Of course,

00:24:41.740 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responds to something like this, and she says, all these people are going to

00:24:45.640 have a job. Don't worry. They can work for the government. We're going to create new jobs within

00:24:50.980 this, of course, because that's always the socialist goal to get people to be even more dependent on the

00:24:56.020 government than they were before. So other parts of this bill, because this is not only about climate

00:25:00.880 change, this is a holistic bill that would cover what they perceive to be racial inequalities and

00:25:07.080 social inequalities. So it would also cut military spending by at least half. We would be pulling

00:25:13.200 troops from overseas, costing 1.4 million jobs that are actually in the military right now.

00:25:21.240 I'm not really sure if they've thought about the implications of this. I know a lot of you could be

00:25:25.600 split on this idea of we should not be, you know, the world's policeman, or maybe we should, maybe

00:25:30.720 American boots should be on the ground to make sure that our enemies don't become more aggressive

00:25:36.120 to protect our own interests. And it is always in our best interest for us to spread liberty as much

00:25:42.380 as is feasible anyway, as much as we possibly can. Have they thought about the implications of America

00:25:49.900 leaving these countries and possibly causing more discord than already exists? I'm not sure if

00:25:55.900 they've thought about that. But okay, every home and business in the United States would have to be

00:26:01.520 upgraded for state of the art energy efficiency, comfort and safety. Okay, how we're actually going to do

00:26:10.860 that? How? How? How we're going to upgrade all of our homes and all of our businesses and all of our

00:26:18.560 buildings to match this criteria? How much that's actually going to cost, by the way, a conservative

00:26:24.740 estimate of how much this is all going to cost is going to be about $40 trillion. That's a conservative

00:26:30.120 estimate. Do you realize how much our lives are going to be affected and inconvenienced and interfered

00:26:38.420 in and controlled by this? That this isn't going to be an option? We're not going to be able to choose

00:26:43.500 whether or not we want to greenify our business, whether or not we want to greenify our homes,

00:26:48.100 it's going to be something that is mandated, whether we want it or not. Okay, this also,

00:26:54.940 like I said, is not just climate change, but it also includes a basic income program. So of course,

00:27:02.240 there are issues with that. And then single payer health care, which she has been harping on

00:27:06.460 for a really long time. So it's just a bunch of socialist programs that she says are going to

00:27:12.220 solve racial and social inequity and fight climate change. She doesn't have any whatsoever basis to

00:27:21.300 back this up, that this is going to all of a sudden stop racial inequality. What we're talking

00:27:25.340 about is reparations, which is this idea that we need to pay certain races back for injustice that

00:27:33.640 they've experienced at some point in American history, which is absolutely absurd. Again,

00:27:40.700 there's no factual basis that that's actually going to work or that that's something that we should do.

00:27:45.400 I don't think we have a moral obligation to do that either. That's certainly not part of the

00:27:50.960 American way. The Green New Deal would also establish a federal jobs guarantee. This is what

00:27:56.300 Cory Booker loves because he has proposed something similar to that in the past.

00:28:00.900 One of the few non-energy related parts of the plan, Ocasio-Cortez has spent significant time

00:28:06.500 advertising, says Fox News, and it would include provisions to, quote, mitigate deeply entrenched

00:28:12.340 racial, regional and gender based inequalities in income and wealth. OK, how? How? And see,

00:28:19.280 things like this, gender, gender based inequalities. These people refuse, refuse to believe that gaps

00:28:27.660 like a so-called wage gap or an employment gap or a parental leave gap between men and women has

00:28:35.000 anything to do with personal preferences, has anything to do with how we were made, has anything

00:28:39.580 to do with the value systems that men and women have that are just different. They insist that this

00:28:46.920 is a governmental issue that can be solved by more governments. And again, there's no basis for that

00:28:52.680 whatsoever. If you look at Sweden, who in the 60 Minutes interview, Ocasio-Cortez says that she

00:28:58.500 wants to emulate. If you look at Sweden, they have the most progressive system in the world for parental

00:29:04.060 leave. And yet, what do we see? Women still take the vast majority of parental leave, far more than

00:29:08.740 men do. Why? Because they choose to be at home. They want to be at home. They want to take care of their

00:29:14.380 families. There are way more, a much higher number of stay-at-home moms and caretakers in Sweden that

00:29:23.440 are women than there are men. Because that's natural. Men are more driven to provide than

00:29:28.580 women are. That is just a fact. When women are working, it's typically because they enjoy their

00:29:34.160 job. They like their career. They want to move up. I don't think that there's anything inherently wrong

00:29:38.740 in that. Obviously, I work full-time. When a man works, yes, it could be because he's ambitious and

00:29:43.480 he loves his job. But there is a secondary or maybe even primary motivator there. And it's,

00:29:48.760 I got to take care of my family. I got to make sure that my family eats. Yes, in my family,

00:29:53.340 for example, and this is kind of getting off track. But in my family, for example, yes, I do work and I

00:29:58.900 love to work and I work a lot and my husband works. But at the end of the day, it is his responsibility to

00:30:05.180 make sure that our family eats. It just is. At the end of the day, if we are both out of our jobs and I'm

00:30:12.220 like, I got to stay home with my baby. I don't know what to do. He's going to go get a job at

00:30:16.040 McDonald's. He's going to figure it out. He's going to do whatever it takes to make sure that

00:30:21.600 I and our future daughter are taken care of. That's not my primary role as long as I am married.

00:30:28.460 There's a difference between men and women that people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, like progressives,

00:30:33.220 do not want to reckon with. They do not want to come to terms with. They want to say that,

00:30:38.400 no, these social programs and more government control is going to erase any kind of gender-based

00:30:44.500 inequality or racial inequity. And it's just not going to happen. It's never happened.

00:30:51.620 So according to the proposal, this is the last thing. The Green New Deal would deeply involve

00:30:56.960 national and local labor unions to take a leadership role in the process of job training and worker

00:31:01.840 development. And it promises the funding of massive investment in the drawdown of greenhouse

00:31:08.160 gases. That's a code phrase for giving billions of taxpayer dollars to renewable energy companies,

00:31:14.500 says Fox News. So this is the plan and the agenda that people like Ocasio-Cortez have that is

00:31:22.920 overtaking the Democratic Party. You know, a lot of people say that people voted for Trump

00:31:28.180 because of fear. And I actually think that's right. I think people are scared of the Democrats.

00:31:33.140 I think people are scared of Democratic policies. I think they're scared of socialism.

00:31:36.860 I think they're scared of this world the Democrats are leading us into in which we have very little

00:31:41.360 freedom and in which everything is giving up to the government. I don't think that people want that.

00:31:48.580 I think people are scared that this country, the last beacon of liberty that exists in all of the

00:31:54.340 universe, the economy that's booing the rest of the world, that we are no longer going to be the

00:32:00.820 resource and the powerhouse that we have been for all of our history, almost all of our history.

00:32:07.540 So I think it's legitimate to say that people vote for Donald Trump based on fear and that people do

00:32:12.740 vote for Donald Trump based on he's so much better than the other guy. I'll admit that's what I did.

00:32:18.600 I didn't I didn't want to see our country go the same direction it was going when Obama was president,

00:32:24.480 which is so far left. So much of this has been normalized or was normalized during Obama's

00:32:30.240 presidency. I don't want that again. And I will vote for Donald Trump for the same reason again.

00:32:34.160 Do I think that he's morally perfect? No. Do I think that he lives like Jesus? No. Am I sure that

00:32:39.420 he's a Christian? No, I'm not. But he's not Kamala Harris. He's not Elizabeth Warren. And I'm not voting

00:32:48.000 for my savior. And I will continue to criticize him. And that's not to say there's nothing that he

00:32:52.420 could do to lose my vote. There is. I don't know what, but there is. But yeah, Democrats scare me a

00:32:58.960 lot. They scare me a lot. I don't like the future that they are painting for our country. And so I will

00:33:06.940 vote for an imperfect Republican or an imperfect person who is going to represent the conservative

00:33:14.520 agenda before I will vote for a progressive Democrat. Absolutely. Absolutely. Now, my mind could

00:33:24.700 change on that. I could I could change. I'm open to discussion on that because I know people have

00:33:29.040 different views. But looking at something like the Green New Deal, it's really it's really hard for me

00:33:35.480 not. It's really hard for me to imagine not voting for the other guy. The at least it's not

00:33:42.780 Acasio Cortez guy. And I think a lot of Americans feel that way. I wonder if Democrats will wake up to

00:33:48.320 that. I hope not. I really do. Because I think it helps our chances a lot in 2020. Okay, I wanted to

00:33:54.960 answer one question. And then we shall be done. Oh, maybe two questions. So someone asks,

00:34:04.020 what is your stance on marijuana legality? And where do you think science diverges from scripture?

00:34:09.320 Love you so much in everything you do. You're an inspiration. Well, thank you so much.

00:34:12.960 My stance on marijuana. Oh, I still have some research to do. So I am okay with medical marijuana

00:34:20.540 for legitimate medical needs. Both of my brothers have epilepsy, and they are pretty much under control

00:34:26.560 with the medicine that they have. My grandma has had seizures. And so I know that if someone came

00:34:32.180 along and said cannabis is going to heal your brother of seizures, one brother still suffers

00:34:36.800 from epilepsy, then I would say yes, especially if that was my son or daughter, they were suffering from

00:34:42.080 epilepsy. And someone said cannabis is going to fix that. And I'm not saying that it does absolutely

00:34:46.980 in every case. I'm just saying, if that were offered to me, I'd say, heck, yeah, we're going to

00:34:51.120 try whatever we need to do to make sure that my son or daughter is better. So I'm okay with

00:34:56.560 medical marijuana. I think most people probably feel that way. I don't believe in harsh criminality

00:35:03.500 of marijuana. My husband and I have discussed this before, how sometimes the punishments for

00:35:10.600 possession of marijuana have been too harsh. Okay, I understand that argument. But on the other hand,

00:35:15.740 I haven't heard a very good argument for legalizing and introducing yet another substance

00:35:22.980 into the mainstream that inhibits the mind. Now, a lot of people say, well, alcohol is worse or

00:35:30.800 something else is worse. Why don't we ban alcohol instead? Okay, well, it's already illegal. So I

00:35:38.580 don't think we need to go backwards on that. But there has been a whole study, not even a conservative

00:35:43.520 study, an entire study. I was actually watching it on TV the other day just about how marijuana really

00:35:50.360 can be a gateway drug and there really are addictive properties to it. And it really,

00:35:56.720 it doesn't, it does not help the mind. It certainly doesn't help the mind. And in that way, I have to

00:36:02.200 wonder if it helps families, if it helps communities, and if there is anything good about legalizing it.

00:36:08.520 I think there is this whole libertarian strand and conservatism that thinks, oh, yeah, cool, cannabis,

00:36:13.740 weed, dude. I just don't think that's that cool. If we believe in responsibility,

00:36:20.180 and if we believe in pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and being the best that you can be and

00:36:25.180 living up to your potential, being a contributor to society and taking care of your family is like

00:36:29.840 weed really something that we want to get behind. It's just not a, it's not a hill that I'm going to

00:36:34.660 die on. I'm just not like, I just don't care enough about that battle to be like, yeah, legalize weed.

00:36:41.940 I mean, okay, sure. If it's legalized, I'm still going to encourage people not to use it. I think

00:36:46.400 it's really stupid. Uh, the last question was, how did my husband and I meet? We met at the gym.

00:36:52.160 Actually, we were at this like CrossFit type gym when we both lived in Georgia. And he, I think like

00:37:00.120 we were in the city, he actually was a trainer there part-time. He had a full, whoa, just dropped my

00:37:04.540 mic. He had a full-time job too. But I think we just started talking. And actually the first time I saw him

00:37:09.640 there, he was with his girlfriend and we did not talk. But after they broke up, we started talking

00:37:14.560 and yeah, just hit it off. I knew after a week of talking to him that I was going to marry him. I

00:37:20.120 texted my friend. I was like, oh, I just, I met my husband. I don't know. Just knew. And as fate would

00:37:25.160 have it, we were married about, we're married a little less than a year after we met. So all happened

00:37:31.020 really fast and I've never looked back. Okay. Thanks for listening to Relatable. I will see you guys

00:37:37.320 next week on Tuesday.

00:37:39.640 We'll see you next week on Tuesday.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - January 10, 2019

Ep 67 ｜ Going Off the Left End

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