Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 673 ｜ Biden Thinks You're a Threat. You Are

00:00:00.000 Joe Biden declares half the country, people like you and me, enemies of the state, but we will not

00:00:06.660 be duped. We will not be gaslit. We will not back down from pushing back against the dangerous

00:00:12.020 ideology of his administration and party. Jackson, Mississippi has a water problem.

00:00:17.280 Who is actually to blame for this? And tragically, a Memphis mom goes missing and authorities may

00:00:24.680 have found her body. We will get into all of this and more today on Relatable. This episode is brought

00:00:31.340 to you, as always, by our friend at Good Ranchers. Go to goodranchers.com slash Allie. That's

00:00:38.280 goodranchers.com slash Allie. Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. Hope everyone had a

00:00:54.380 wonderful Labor Day weekend. So before we get down into the muck and the mire of today's news of Joe

00:01:02.060 Biden's dark and dangerous speech, let me start this episode with something a little lighthearted,

00:01:09.080 a little happy, something that I'm grateful for. And that is that today, September 6th, 2022,

00:01:15.980 I had to remember what day it was, is my husband and my seventh wedding anniversary. And so we are

00:01:23.980 celebrating that today. I'm so thankful for seven years of marriage. If there is any tip that I have,

00:01:30.580 any advice that I have for those who are just getting married, you're looking to get married,

00:01:34.600 or you've been married for any amount of time, something that someone told me a few years ago

00:01:39.500 that I really try to keep to heart. And we do not implement perfectly because just like any people

00:01:45.080 in any marriage, we are imperfect, but you are on the same team. You're on the same team. You're not

00:01:51.820 competing against each other. It's not about who has cleaned the kitchen more or who has cooked more

00:01:56.280 or who carries more weight in the family. You're on the same team. You're trying to push the ball

00:02:01.440 in the same direction. And that can be really difficult to remember, I think, in stressful

00:02:06.680 moments or stressful seasons when you're in that newborn stage and you're waking up every couple

00:02:12.320 hours and you're trying to share the work, but it always feels like you're doing more and then

00:02:18.800 he is doing more. And it's so easy to kind of nag each other or be at each other's throats.

00:02:24.600 And that is, of course, Satan trying to drive you apart. Because as we've talked about many times,

00:02:29.920 Satan hates marriage. He hates that it's a reflection of Christ in the church. He hates the union.

00:02:35.160 And he is going to do anything that he possibly can to divide you and to pitch you against each other

00:02:42.520 and to grow bitterness and resentment and passive aggressiveness. So just a reminder that as you are

00:02:50.180 doing your responsibilities, as you are working, as you are changing diapers, waking up in the middle

00:02:55.420 of the night, doing the dishes, paying the bills, whatever it is, you are going the same direction.

00:03:01.320 You are on the same team with the same goal. And so that is just a helpful reminder for me because,

00:03:08.720 you know, our sin nature is selfish and we are haughty and we try to put our own needs and our

00:03:15.420 own wants and our own glory before the needs and the wants of other people, including our spouse,

00:03:23.000 including the person that we love so much. So that's something that I have learned that I try to

00:03:28.100 remember. And I am just so thankful. I'm thankful for my husband. I'm thankful for what a wonderful dad

00:03:34.540 he is, what a wonderful husband he is, and for how much we have experienced and grown over the past

00:03:40.440 seven years. Seven just sounds like a really long time. And gosh, we have lived so much life during

00:03:47.340 that time. We've moved cities, we've changed jobs, we have two little kids now, and he really is just a

00:03:55.540 wonderful husband and dad. For those who don't know, we met in 2014, fall of 2014, working out at a gym,

00:04:03.880 not like one of those LA fitness type situations where he just kind of came up to me and was like,

00:04:08.460 hey, do you need help with the bench press? But it was like a CrossFit style gym. So we were taking

00:04:13.500 the same classes and we just started talking to one another. I guess we just thought the other one

00:04:19.340 was cute. And that's probably how it initially went down. And then we just really hit it off. And we

00:04:25.340 started talking, just standing in the parking lot outside of our cars after class. And our conversations

00:04:31.840 just got longer and longer. And one night after class, the class probably ended at like 6.30 p.m.,

00:04:37.880 we stood out there by ourselves until like 10.30, just talking, just talking about everything.

00:04:44.560 And so once we realized that we could converse nonstop for four hours, completely skip dinner

00:04:50.920 without a care in the world, we realized, okay, like we should probably start dating.

00:04:54.360 But that wasn't my revelation that night. The night that we talked for four hours about,

00:05:00.780 who knows what we even talked about, books, music, all that good stuff, just getting to know one

00:05:05.780 another. My revelation was not that we should start dating. My revelation that night was that

00:05:10.280 we were going to get married. I didn't tell him that, but I did text my friend that who,

00:05:15.620 or I left her a voicemail, I can't remember, who I'm sure thought that I was crazy at the time.

00:05:19.400 But sure enough, about a year later, we got married. We only dated for five months. We were

00:05:24.620 engaged for four months. We got married September of 2015 and haven't looked back. It's been seven

00:05:31.340 awesome years. And I'm just so thankful to the Lord for it. So anyway, happy anniversary to my

00:05:38.480 husband. Now, before we get in to the dark and the dangerous dark Brandon.

00:05:49.400 All right, let's get into this speech. This happened last Thursday night. President Biden

00:06:02.340 delivered his speech in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in front of a wall

00:06:12.060 that was bathed in blood red light. He was flanked by members of our military. He delivered a speech.

00:06:19.400 That was filled with vitriol, with anger, with resentment, with bitterness, projection,

00:06:27.240 in utter delusion about the country over which he presides. He essentially declared half the country

00:06:33.900 enemies of the Republic, traitors. He categorized those of us who are pro-life, who are against the

00:06:40.680 mutilation of children's bodies in the name of so-called gender affirmation, who are for the 1.00

00:06:45.700 right of self-defense, who are against medical tyranny, those who just want to be left alone

00:06:51.100 from the overreach of the government as a threat. Now, the imagery alone from this speech will go down

00:06:58.800 in infamy as one of the worst optics in political history. I mean, he could have gone up there in that

00:07:06.600 setting and read a chapter from Little Women, and he still would have looked like a scary communist

00:07:12.040 dictator, even Breonna Keller from CNN. She says, whatever you think of this speech, the military

00:07:19.160 is supposed to be apolitical, positioning Marines in uniform behind President Biden, which is what he

00:07:25.060 did for a political speech flies in the face of that. It's wrong when Democrats do it. It's wrong

00:07:30.200 when Republicans do it. She got a lot of pushback for that. People saying, oh, no, they're defending

00:07:34.640 democracy. And he was just talking about democracy. No, he was talking about Republicans being the enemy

00:07:40.600 of democracy. And he was flanked by the military when he did that. What message do you think that

00:07:45.200 that was supposed to send? The White House Press Secretary, Corrine Jean-Pierre, said the presence of

00:07:53.460 the Marines at the speech was intended to demonstrate the deep and abiding respect the president has for

00:07:59.920 these service members to these ideals and the unique role our independent military plays in defending

00:08:06.680 our democracy, no matter which party is empowered. Now, let's use a little algebra, a little deductive

00:08:15.020 reasoning. So Marines are supposed to protect democracy. You, President Biden says, and as we will look at

00:08:24.180 more specifically as we analyze the speech in a minute, you, he says, are a threat to democracy. What do you

00:08:30.680 think that means about how this administration thinks of the role of the military? As many have

00:08:38.140 pointed out, his speech looked very similar to speeches made by Mao and Hitler and Mussolini. Red is 0.86

00:08:46.080 the color of dictators, not to mention, again, the presence of the military at a speech where he is

00:08:53.200 declaring his fellow Americans enemies of the state. Now, to me, my first thought when I saw this picture

00:08:58.640 was that it looks like hell. It looks like hell. I mean, he looks like Satan. And I would be saying

00:09:04.960 this. Honestly, I would, no matter who was in front of that podium, I would be saying, wow, this looks

00:09:09.980 really bad. And now I know all of his sycophants on Twitter can pretend like this wasn't a big deal

00:09:14.900 or that he actually looks really cool and powerful, dark Brandon. That was kind of a meme that was

00:09:20.120 going, going around. But that, I'm afraid, is wishful thinking. Now, he already, just on a daily basis,

00:09:28.540 in any given speech, looks exceedingly weak. And he looks angry about his weakness, about his

00:09:33.900 inability to kind of put a coherent sentence together. But in this speech, he just looked,

00:09:39.180 he just, he didn't look strong at all. He looked deranged. And he looked angry. He looks vengeful.

00:09:47.060 And to the average person who does not spend their day scrolling on Twitter and reading the

00:09:51.880 propaganda in, say, The Washington Post, this speech looked really bad. It looked frightening.

00:09:57.460 And the content, the content of the speech was even worse than what it looked like. So I want to read

00:10:03.880 you and play you parts of his speech. And then I will give you my reaction to it. And I will tell

00:10:10.400 you why I believe he is so wrong, not just morally wrong, but factually wrong in what he says. So

00:10:17.240 here's the first part of the speech that I want to react to.

00:10:20.360 Donald Trump and the Maggie Republicans represented extremism that threatens the very foundations of

00:10:28.540 our republic. Now, I want to be very clear, very clear up front. Not every Republican,

00:10:37.480 not even the majority of Republicans are Maggie Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their

00:10:43.280 extreme ideology. I know, because I've been able to work with these mainstream Republicans.

00:10:50.500 But there's no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated

00:10:56.440 by Donald Trump and the Maggie Republicans. And that is a threat to this country.

00:11:03.020 Now, you see, you hear that contradiction immediately. Not all Republicans, he says,

00:11:10.400 not mainstream Republicans, just Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans. Hang on. Considering that over 70

00:11:18.240 million Americans voted for Donald Trump, I would say that's a pretty large chunk of people.

00:11:23.440 You're not just talking about the French. You're talking about the people who voted for Trump.

00:11:27.240 So all the moms, the dads, the grandmas, the grandpas, the small business owners, 0.86

00:11:31.940 the working class people, all the people who, for the sake of the unborn, voted against Joe Biden,

00:11:37.700 you, he says, represent an extremism. That's what Joe Biden is saying. I know moderates and

00:11:44.460 independents who voted for Trump, people who are just tired of the constant chaos and the confusion

00:11:50.580 that's wrought by Democrats, who saw Democrat cities burned and looted for months without

00:11:56.720 any strong condemnation from the party, who saw the hypocrisy of Democrat politicians,

00:12:01.600 who kept kids out of school for health while they partied with their friends, who couldn't believe

00:12:06.920 that the Democrat Party platform included affirmation of the idea that kids can become

00:12:11.400 the opposite gender. These are people who have voted Democrat their whole lives and then 0.93

00:12:16.800 voted for Donald Trump, who still hold mostly liberal views. Now, these people, because they voted

00:12:23.600 against Joe Biden and voted for Donald Trump because they were tired of the craziness and the

00:12:28.380 radical, the radicalism that is now the Democrat Party. Joe Biden is saying even these people

00:12:34.440 are extreme, a threat to this country. So when he says not all Republicans, just MAGA Republicans,

00:12:42.760 what he is really saying is, OK, I'm OK with Liz Cheney. I'm OK with Adam Krizinger. I'm OK,

00:12:48.600 maybe with Mitt Romney. OK, remember, though, he even said that Mitt Romney was a racist that wanted

00:12:55.740 to put black people back in chains back in the 2012 election. So he's lying. He's lying to you. 0.79

00:13:03.000 He is not just talking about like this fringe group. He is talking about everyone who disagrees

00:13:07.940 with him. Everyone who disagrees with them, he says, are a threat to the republic or a threat to

00:13:14.300 democracy as he is flanked by our military. Now, he says, and here, in my view, is what is true.

00:13:22.000 MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do

00:13:28.360 not recognize the will of the people, says Joe Biden. They refuse to accept the results of a free

00:13:34.400 election. And they're working right now, as I speak in state after state, to give power to decide

00:13:38.480 elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy

00:13:43.740 itself. The projection is off the charts. The gaslighting is insane. It's enough to make you go

00:13:49.600 crazy. Like this is the same person who defied a Supreme Court ruling by enacting an eviction moratorium

00:13:56.300 so that landlords, the vast majority of whom, by the way, are just working class people who manage a few

00:14:02.680 properties to feed their families, couldn't evict tenants who weren't paying. I mean, this is the same guy

00:14:08.440 who forced companies to mandate an ineffective and sometimes harmful vaccine to their employees,

00:14:15.100 telling everyone who opposed him to get out of the way. All of that was unconstitutional.

00:14:20.940 Like this is the same guy who, after the Supreme Court rightly and simply ruled that the right to

00:14:27.120 abortion is just not stated in the Constitution, which is a fact, said that the Supreme Court is dominated

00:14:33.680 by an extreme ideology and they are working right now to figure out how to get around that ruling.

00:14:40.040 Joe Biden and the Democrat Party don't care about the Constitution. They see the Constitution as an

00:14:44.920 inhibition to their agenda. Democrats have not cared about the Constitution in a very long time.

00:14:51.340 We know how they feel about the Second Amendment. How about the First? During COVID, Democrats in power

00:14:57.440 in states across the country tried to inhibit the right to worship while making sure that places like strip clubs

00:15:04.680 and casinos stayed open. This administration, this presidential administration, has been anti-free speech

00:15:11.180 pressuring private companies like Facebook and Twitter to censor people whose opinions they don't like.

00:15:17.240 This is according to Newsweek. Our friend Josh Hammer wrote this piece.

00:15:21.420 Facebook and the Biden administration arranged weekly and monthly phone calls to discuss what Facebook

00:15:26.960 should be censoring. Those emails from late July 2021 happened to be dated just a couple of weeks

00:15:33.140 after then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki criticized social media platforms for not doing enough

00:15:39.140 to stifle quote-unquote misinformation, aka opinions they don't like. And President Joe Biden criticized them

00:15:47.140 for quote-unquote killing people. The article goes on. Other emails confirmed that the Biden administration

00:15:54.900 actors and agencies is wide-ranging as the Surgeon General, the Department of the Treasury, the Department

00:16:00.300 of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Cybersecurity

00:16:05.380 and Infrastructure Security Agency were all in communication with some combination of Google,

00:16:11.160 Facebook, and Twitter. In every instance of this communication, the goal was the same,

00:16:16.080 to censor misinformation and to constrain the regime's Overton window of permissible civilian opinion

00:16:22.860 information so as to penalize the citizenry's well-earned suspicion of the regime's proffered

00:16:30.060 narratives. And Joe Biden has the audacity to call conservatives fascist. What is fascism in this

00:16:39.120 instance? What is fascism but the wedding of corporate and government power, the collapsing of

00:16:44.360 these two entities to control people? This is all a projection. Let me play you this next part.

00:16:52.260 We've got even more projection coming on. MAGA forces are determined to take this country

00:16:59.460 backwards. Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy,

00:17:08.360 no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. They promote authoritarian leaders and 0.90

00:17:15.120 they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of

00:17:22.620 justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country. They look at the mob that stormed the

00:17:31.080 United States Capitol on January 6th, brutally attacking law enforcement, not as insurrectionists

00:17:38.180 who placed a dagger at the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots.

00:17:45.080 Okay, so many things I want to say. First of all, so the people, the rioters on January 6th,

00:17:50.960 they put a dagger to the throat of democracy simultaneously, Joe Biden believes, as he said

00:17:57.280 just the other day, and these are unarmed rioters, by the way, he said just the other day that people

00:18:04.440 who own guns and AR-15s are going to be no match for the government because the government has fighter

00:18:09.960 jets and has large weapons that, of course, would dominate the average citizen's gun. So unarmed

00:18:18.380 rioters almost completely did away with democracy in the United States, but also well-armed citizens of the

00:18:25.700 United States are no match for the U.S. government, so I'm a little bit confused there. So let's break

00:18:31.640 this down, though, a little bit of what he said. When he says that these radical extremists want to

00:18:38.680 take the country back to a time when we no longer have the right to choose, we know what that's a

00:18:43.680 euphemism for. Choose is a euphemism for dismembering unborn children. The Democrat position is that women 1.00

00:18:49.180 should be free to abort their babies through all nine months for any reason without apology. That is an 0.99

00:18:54.840 extreme radical position. Abortion is extreme radical and violent, and Democrats in the U.S. are far more

00:19:01.480 radical on it than any country in Europe. I mean, talk about extreme. So he's saying that people who

00:19:07.140 don't believe in that, who don't believe that that is some enshrined right in the Constitution, which

00:19:12.700 it's not and should not be considered a right, those people, he is saying, are extreme MAGA Republicans who

00:19:19.200 are a threat to our republic. You hear that, pro-lifers? You hear that, pro-life evangelicals?

00:19:24.660 For Biden? You're lumped into. Promote authoritarian leaders, he says, Republicans do. Like who?

00:19:33.700 Justin Trudeau? Who literally seized the bank accounts of peaceful protesters? Who still is

00:19:39.600 restricting the travel of people who are unvaccinated? Also, again, how laughable, how laughable that the

00:19:48.240 party that allowed the destruction of cities for months in 2020, who called for defunding the police,

00:19:53.740 is now talking about the rule of law? Justice? The same administration using the Justice Department

00:20:00.920 to go after concerned parents at school board meetings? The same president who we now know

00:20:06.700 used the FBI to suppress the crimes of his son and to go after Trump, his political opponent?

00:20:13.060 Now, on January 6th, you guys know I don't really need to repeat myself. I do not at all and have

00:20:19.540 never endorsed the violence that happened that day. What I saw from many of the people there

00:20:23.540 could not be counted in any realm as patriotism. But also, their punishment, many of them, has been

00:20:31.160 completely disproportionate. Putting some of them in solitary confinement, prison time for non-violent

00:20:37.060 offenders, throwing the book at them when, again, Democrat cities are riddled with murder and violence

00:20:42.120 because Democrat prosecutors and judges refuse to enforce the rule of law there. It's hypocrisy. 0.97

00:20:48.800 It's hypocrisy. Also, he says, but while the threat to American democracy is real, I want to say as

00:20:57.020 clearly as we can. We are not powerless in the face of these threats. We are not bystanders in this

00:21:02.360 ongoing attack on democracy. There are far more Americans, far more Americans from every,

00:21:08.840 from every background and belief who reject the extreme MAGA ideology than those that accept it.

00:21:17.400 And folks, it is within our power. It's in our hands, yours and mine, to stop the assault on

00:21:23.820 American democracy. Threat to democracy. Assault on democracy. You and me. You and me. Someone last week

00:21:33.840 made a very angry and earnest video about our funny conversation that we had, I think it was last

00:21:42.100 Wednesday, about like dinosaurs and the moon landing and questioning things and like our favorite

00:21:48.040 conspiracy theories. And someone literally commented on that video. A liberal commented on that video

00:21:53.080 saying, Ali, that's why people like you are a threat to the republic. This is literally on a video

00:22:00.980 where I am talking about how we how do we know what a triceratops looks like. OK, so if that comment

00:22:07.480 makes people on the other side so angry that that is what counts us as a threat to democracy, I promise

00:22:14.300 you the mainstream conservative and Republican is included in that. And here's what I'll say to that.

00:22:21.640 If being against mutilating kids and killing babies and being against rewarding crime, being against

00:22:29.040 putting America last, putting America last, if that makes me extreme, then so be it. You can call me 0.71

00:22:35.220 what you want. You can call me what you want. I am against those things. That is my platform. Whatever

00:22:41.680 is the opposite of that, whatever is the opposite of mutilating kids and killing babies and putting 0.69

00:22:47.480 America last and being soft on crime, that's what I want. If that makes me radical, then I am willing

00:22:53.720 to wear that label. I, though, know that it's simply rational. It's simply sane. It's simply

00:22:59.480 compassionate. I'm not going to be gaslit into believing that I am on the wrong side of things.

00:23:05.060 When I know I know who is authoring the chaos in this country, you're not going to be able to convince

00:23:10.360 me otherwise. All right, here's what else Biden has to say about MAGA Republicans.

00:23:26.740 MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. 0.78

00:23:33.660 They live not in the light of truth, but in the shadow of lies.

00:23:41.080 I just have to remind you, these people believe men can give birth. These people literally believe

00:23:47.840 men can get pregnant. All right. And they are saying that you and I live in the shadow of lies.

00:23:57.340 Chaos. Chaos. Again, every single city run by Democrats is chaos. 0.65

00:24:02.160 Chaos. Democrats wage moral chaos and physical chaos through their policies.

00:24:06.860 They are literally part of their platform is murder of babies, whether it's abortion or murder

00:24:13.240 committed by those who should be in prison, but aren't because of policies that are put forth in

00:24:18.760 the name of so-called equity. He says Democrats, independents, mainstream Republicans.

00:24:25.040 Who's that? I don't know. Probably just the Lincoln Project.

00:24:29.700 He says we must be stronger, more determined and more committed to saving American democracy than MAGA

00:24:35.600 Republicans are to to destroy an American democracy. We, the people, will not let anyone or anything tear

00:24:41.980 us apart. Today, there are dangers around us. We cannot allow to prevail. So maybe I don't know,

00:24:49.900 maybe that sounds unifying to you. But really what he's saying is that you, you of the 70 million

00:24:57.200 people that voted for Trump and not even if you didn't vote for Trump, because I know there's a lot

00:25:00.700 of people who listen to this podcast who didn't vote for Trump. We agree on a lot of things. You

00:25:04.780 didn't vote for Trump. You either voted for Biden. You didn't vote at all. Whatever. He is still saying

00:25:09.300 he's already listed the characteristics that a lot of you that a lot of you have, though, whether you voted

00:25:14.940 for Trump or not. Oh, you're pro-life. Oh, you're against his policies. You're against the Biden

00:25:20.520 administration. You don't agree with him. He has already lumped you in with extremism. So whether

00:25:25.720 you voted for Donald Trump or not, I guarantee you that unless you are actively working on behalf of

00:25:31.540 the Democrats and you just have a Republican in your name, like the people at the Lincoln Project,

00:25:35.800 he considers you an extremist that is destroying American democracy. If, for example, you think that,

00:25:41.940 hey, I think it's probably a smart idea since most other countries have this figured out and it's

00:25:47.060 just kind of common sense to require voter ID when people vote. It's not logical to say that this

00:25:55.020 somehow excludes black people or excludes poor people. It's just a way to verify that everyone 0.73

00:26:01.400 is voting as a citizen, that they're in the right location and to protect the integrity of our elections.

00:26:06.600 Something that I thought Democrats cared about or I thought that they said that they care about,

00:26:11.580 but they actually vote against every single effort by Republicans to protect the integrity of our

00:26:18.120 elections, to make sure that everyone who votes in our elections are actually citizens. I mean,

00:26:22.480 Democrats actually have, as a part of their platform, have campaigned on allowing non-citizens

00:26:29.800 to vote in American elections. You know that the vast majority of countries across the world would

00:26:34.640 never allow that, that their voting and election rules are much stricter than ours. If you are for

00:26:42.140 those common sense measures to make sure that our elections are taken care of, he considers you

00:26:46.760 an assault on democracy because he considers that, as all Democrats do today, trying to make it more

00:26:52.700 difficult for people to vote, inhibiting democracy. It's crazy, crazy talk. So what he is saying in this,

00:26:59.640 he's saying that you are outside the bounds of what can be considered normal and acceptable. You MAGA

00:27:06.120 Republicans, aka everyone who doesn't agree with him, you are destroying democracy. Here's what else he has to say.

00:27:15.200 We here, you've heard it, more and more talk about violence as an acceptable political tool

00:27:22.620 in this country. It's not. It can never be an acceptable tool. So I want to say this plain and

00:27:32.180 simple. There is no place for political violence in America. Period. None. Ever.

00:27:39.600 Wow. Good job raising your voice, buddy. Awesome. Agree. Tell it to your base. Tell it to your base.

00:27:46.360 Literally, just a couple weeks ago, Roanoke, Texas. There were armed Antifa members standing in front

00:27:52.340 of a bar that was hosting a drag show where children were present, threatening with their guns,

00:27:58.060 peaceful protesters. Remember 2020 when restaurant goers, just peaceful restaurant goers, just your

00:28:05.420 average people, private citizens were harassed by BLM. Remember all those murderous riots?

00:28:11.700 There are far, this is the truth, there are far greater examples of political extremism and

00:28:17.640 political violence from the left than the right, if we're keeping score. He also says they don't

00:28:24.640 understand, MAGA Republicans, what every patriotic American knows. You can't love your country when

00:28:32.060 only you win. It's fundamental. Hilarious. Hilarious. Hilarious. According to Gallup,

00:28:39.720 only 26% of Democrats are extremely proud to be an American. 26% versus 58% of Republicans.

00:28:48.840 Now, Republicans, according to this, if you're going all the way back to, I think it's 2000 when

00:28:55.200 this graph starts, Republicans have always considered themselves more extremely proud to

00:28:59.800 be an American than Democrats, but it used to be the majority of both parties. That has gone down

00:29:05.180 over the years. And for Democrats, when their pride in being an American really plummeted was in 2016

00:29:14.100 when Donald Trump took office. I mean, you heard them. You saw them on Twitter talking about how

00:29:18.360 embarrassed they are to be an American. They didn't say, oh, well, I'm proud to be an American. I'm

00:29:22.780 embarrassed of Donald Trump. No, many of them. I'm talking mainstream Democrat commentators saying

00:29:29.140 that they are not proud to be an American. I mean, you see more and more them saying, I don't really

00:29:33.360 know if I want to celebrate the 4th of July. Only 26% of Democrats are extremely proud to be an

00:29:40.080 American. A large percentage of them are not proud at all to be an American. So again, I won't be

00:29:46.940 gaslit. I'm not going to allow the Democrat president to say, like, who's patriotic and who's

00:29:53.800 not? Like, who really loves their country and who doesn't? The vast majority of Democrats don't.

00:30:00.240 They're not extremely proud to be Americans. He says that he ran for president because he believed

00:30:07.500 that we are in a battle for the soul of this nation. He says he still believes that to be true.

00:30:13.700 The soul is the breath, the life, the essence of who we are. That's what makes us us. Again,

00:30:18.720 these are the very people who scoff at what America was founded on, who scoff at the Constitution,

00:30:25.860 who scoff at our founding ideals. He says that America is defined by the sacred proposition that

00:30:32.360 all are created equal in the image of God, which, by the way, I agree with. But Joe Biden does not.

00:30:39.380 Joe Biden does not believe that we are all made in the image of God. Democrat policies fly in the face

00:30:44.140 of that every day. Every day. That all are entitled to be treated with decency, dignity,

00:30:51.380 and respect, even the human being in the womb? No. He believes that taxpayer dollars should actually

00:30:57.260 fund the dismemberment of babies inside the womb. That all deserve justice and a shot at lives of 1.00

00:31:03.220 prosperity and consequence. Agree. I agree with that, that everyone deserves a shot at lives of

00:31:09.900 prosperity and consequence. That doesn't mean the outcomes are going to be guaranteed, which, again,

00:31:13.740 are policies that are being put forth by Democrats to try to guarantee outcomes. He says in that

00:31:20.980 democracy, democracy must defend, it must be defended for democracy makes all things possible. First of

00:31:28.280 all, we're a republic. We're not a pure democracy. Democrats want a pure democracy. That's why they

00:31:33.620 would like to get rid of something like the electoral college, because they understand that the major cities

00:31:38.980 in this country, the most populous cities in this country are deeply blue, and they would basically be

00:31:43.620 deciding the election for the rest of the country. So Democrats have been saying for a long time that

00:31:50.080 they want a pure democracy. They want every election to be won, the presidential election to be won by the

00:31:55.180 popular vote. But our founders had some foresight. They know that pure democracies fail. It turns into

00:32:02.260 the tyranny of the majority. It turns into a form of mob rule. There is a reason that we have the

00:32:08.760 representation that we do. And so when he says democracy, I don't think he's just talking about

00:32:14.020 voting. He is talking about a new system of government that Americans are not used to, because as

00:32:20.100 we know, as we know, Democrats are in favor of mob rule. They I mean, again, we saw that throughout

00:32:27.180 2020, and largely in 2021, as well, intimidating people, intimidating juries, intimidating judges,

00:32:34.760 whether it was the case of Derek Chauvin and George Floyd, or whether it was the case of

00:32:39.080 Kyle Rittenhouse. I mean, you had Democrat activists actively trying to change the verdicts by

00:32:44.920 intimidating those who are involved in those cases. So again, I don't want to hear about trying to keep

00:32:51.320 our institutions intact by the people who not only don't respect the justice system when it is working

00:32:57.340 how it's supposed to, but also want to pack the Supreme Court because things don't go their way.

00:33:01.680 I mean, these are the same people who, by the way, barely, if at all, except the results of the 2016

00:33:07.240 election. I mean, they still are saying that it was stolen by Donald Trump and the Russians. I mean,

00:33:14.100 that's a myth. That's a conspiracy theory that they're still running on. So I don't want to hear from

00:33:18.060 them about accepting the results of an election. He says, my fellow Americans, America is an idea,

00:33:25.400 the most powerful idea in the history of the world. And it beats in the hearts of the people

00:33:30.500 of this country. It beats in all of our hearts. It unites America. It is the American creed. Now,

00:33:35.920 it's not the most powerful idea in the history of the world. I mean, I don't know. I guess I'm kind

00:33:42.120 of splitting hairs there because, of course, I would say the gospel is the most powerful, but the gospel

00:33:46.060 isn't really an idea. So maybe I would agree if I want to give the benefit of the doubt. I agree

00:33:51.300 with what Joe Biden says there. But I am not going to forget the rest of the speech just because I

00:33:58.400 agree, at least with the premise of what he is saying, because what he believes is that people

00:34:02.780 like you and I are against that idea or against America when, of course, it is hypocrisy. It is

00:34:11.840 projection. As I've said, democracy, when Democrats say democracy, what they mean is authoritarianism

00:34:18.200 that they like. What they mean is pushing policies, no matter what the Supreme Court says, no matter what

00:34:24.920 Congress says, no matter what the majority of people they want. I mean, remember, this is the

00:34:30.760 same administration as we talked about a few months ago in June. And we'll link the episode if you're

00:34:36.040 curious about this. This is the same administration who used is using the USDA to take away subsidized

00:34:43.220 lunches for poor children in schools that do not allow boys who think they're girls into girls

00:34:49.620 restrooms and locker rooms. OK, this is that administration talking about democracy, talking

00:34:54.860 about decency, talking about integrity. People who know Joe Biden know that he is a nasty man. 0.97

00:35:00.520 He's a nasty politician. He's been in politics for 50 years. He'd be hard pressed to find a Republican 0.96

00:35:05.580 or Democrat who has been in office that long, who doesn't have some serious, scary skeletons

00:35:10.560 in their closet, who doesn't have at least a little bit of nastiness in them. And everyone on Capitol

00:35:17.840 Hill, they know they know that Joe Biden is a nasty guy. This character that he has put on that I'm just

00:35:24.260 slow Joe. I'm just well, he is slow Joe, but that I'm just some moderate, independent guy who just wants

00:35:31.640 to unite us. That was always an act that wasn't real. And he can act pretty well because he is

00:35:37.400 not fully there mentally. And so I think just a lot of people, especially Christian women who were

00:35:43.500 convinced by the propaganda that, oh, I can be for the party that believes in subsidizing the murder

00:35:49.540 of children and still be pro-life because that's what it means to be compassionate. It's all about nuance,

00:35:54.840 yada, yada, yada. Democrats help the poor. Yeah, right. They don't.

00:35:57.620 Um, I think that that kind of character, uh, him pretending to be gentle and genteel and a uniter

00:36:05.360 and a moderate. I think that that won over a lot of professing Christian women who were just tired 0.85

00:36:11.560 of Trump being bombastic. And you think that maybe a lot of those women realize their mistake and maybe

00:36:17.160 some of them do. But the fact is that a lot of them stopped paying attention after the election and they

00:36:22.060 really have no idea what Joe Biden has said or done. That's the sad truth. Now, they will probably get

00:36:27.560 involved again in the next coming months with the midterm, with the midterms, and they will just

00:36:31.380 repeat the talking points. They'll say, oh, yeah, we need democracy. We need voting rights. We need

00:36:36.160 to make sure that women get miscarriage care. We need to, um, you know, protect. Some of them might 1.00

00:36:42.200 even say crazy things like we need to protect trans kids and they will still, they'll buy the lie. 0.98

00:36:47.240 They've stopped paying attention over the past two years. They'll start paying attention again.

00:36:50.920 And where they'll get their information is what's trending on Twitter and an infographic on

00:36:55.460 Instagram. I'm sorry, but it's true. I'm sorry. It doesn't have to be that way. But unfortunately,

00:37:01.200 it is that way for a lot of suburban women. Um, and I just don't, I think that they would, 1.00

00:37:08.120 now some of them would watch a speech like this and look at the optics and say, yeah,

00:37:11.420 that looks really bad. Um, but most of them, a lot of them are just going to believe, oh yeah,

00:37:16.780 Republicans, they're a threat to democracy. I've got to vote to save democracy. Good uncle Joe is just

00:37:21.860 going to tell me how it is. He's just such a, such a sweetheart. It's really sad. It's sad. But if you

00:37:27.940 are on the other side of that, if you're like me and you see things, of course, as I believe as they

00:37:33.120 are, and you see the threat that the Democrat party holds, and that's not to say at all that I

00:37:38.100 think Republicans are perfect and that they are the perfect choice. Actually, I don't think

00:37:43.520 Republicans are very, are doing a very good job of trying to, um, push back against the Biden

00:37:49.460 administration, at least in their campaigning or to, um, maximize the momentum, capitalize on the

00:37:56.960 momentum that they should have going in to the midterms. Um, but if you're like me and you at

00:38:03.960 least see that, okay, Democrat party, not it wicked agenda, bad for the country. And if you're looking

00:38:10.440 at every city that has been run by Democrats for decades and you're like, oh yeah, it's destruction.

00:38:16.080 It's really bad. And you're like, yeah, I don't think I can vote for that. And you're realizing

00:38:20.820 that this administration sees you as an enemy of the state and may be willing to use, uh, whatever

00:38:27.120 power it has at its disposal as a weapon against you. I just want to comfort you by saying not that,

00:38:36.940 hey, don't worry, you're not a threat, but yeah, you are, you are, you are a threat to the ideology

00:38:43.480 of this administration. You are a threat to the people who want to mutilate children. You are a 0.94

00:38:49.800 threat to abortion on demand. You are a threat to the overreaching power of a tyrannical state that

00:38:56.880 wants to tell you, um, how to raise your family and how to educate your children. You are a threat

00:39:03.360 to the communist propaganda that is pervading schools in this country. Yes, you are a threat to

00:39:10.340 that kind of damaging ideology. And you should embrace that. You should realize who you are.

00:39:16.440 You should realize, uh, what part of your purpose is here as an American citizen. And it is to seek

00:39:23.360 the welfare of your fellow citizens. And part of that is opposing the wicked agenda of this

00:39:29.320 administration and, uh, many of the people who are in power. Politics matter because policy matters

00:39:36.600 because people matter. Politics affects policy. Policy affects people and people matter. So if

00:39:43.300 you have been in a little bit of a, a snooze recently, you kind of took a break from politics

00:39:48.240 over the summer months. You haven't been involved. You don't really know what's going on. Totally,

00:39:52.320 totally understand because I've kind of been the same way. It's time for us to wake up again now.

00:39:57.200 It's time for us to make sure that we are doing our part, that we are getting the right people

00:40:01.020 elected, especially your local elections. It is, um, crucial that you realize what time it is

00:40:08.680 and what moment we're in and what is at stake here. And just embrace the fact that yes, this

00:40:15.320 administration, those in power will absolutely see you as a threat. And look, we are up against a lot

00:40:22.360 because as I say, every big institution, entity in this country is dominated by left-wing ideology.

00:40:30.100 This fantasy that many leftists have that, oh, that we're facing this great massive threat of

00:40:36.580 Christian nationalist fascism that's a threat to democracy. Really? We're talking about Hollywood, 0.64

00:40:43.800 mainstream media, big tech, major corporations, the federal government, many of our intelligence

00:40:50.720 agencies, public education system. They are all dominated by the same left-wing ideology.

00:41:00.100 Unfortunately, much of the church is also dominated by this left-wing ideology.

00:41:05.540 The institutional power lies unequivocally with the left. And so them trying to deem you

00:41:13.500 pro-life Christian, person who disagrees with the mutilating of children, deem you as the threat, 0.83

00:41:22.160 it's all strategic. So just recognize that. Don't try to downplay it. Don't try to deny it.

00:41:29.060 Just embrace the fact that you simply having Christian beliefs, simply believing the things 0.63

00:41:35.340 that Christians have always believed about who human beings are, being made male and female, 0.99

00:41:41.340 the definition of marriage, the sanctity of life inside the womb, the right of personal property

00:41:48.020 that we see in the Ten Commandments. Just believing all of those things is going to set you against,

00:41:53.220 naturally, the powers that be in this world. So just recognize that Christians have always been, 0.97

00:42:00.500 just by being Christians, just by believing the things that we do, we have always been in opposition

00:42:07.300 to and a threat, if you will, to tyranny. And we will continue to be that. We will continue to be a

00:42:15.140 refuge for the most vulnerable. We will continue unabashedly saying and believing and pushing for

00:42:22.440 that which is good and right and true. And we do so peacefully. We do so joyfully. We certainly don't

00:42:31.120 do so shamefully. We do so courageously. Biden is not the only one who is saying that we are a threat.

00:42:42.320 This is something that you're seeing on MSNBC. This is something that you're seeing from his

00:42:47.220 administration. His press secretary says the president thinks that there is an extremist threat

00:42:53.620 to democracy. The president has been clear as he can be as clear as he can be on that particular piece

00:42:59.520 when talking about a democracy and talking about our freedoms. She says MAGA Republicans are a threat

00:43:05.260 to democracy. She also said on September 1st, we see a majority of Americans who disagree

00:43:11.260 with the viewpoint of the administration. And so when you are not with where the majority of

00:43:17.120 Americans are, then you know that is extreme. That is an extreme way of thinking. Is that so? 0.86

00:43:22.720 So that's the definition of extreme, not by any objective standard. But if you are outside the

00:43:28.020 mainstream, then you're extreme. So people who opposed the majority of those who supported the Nazis

00:43:33.560 in the 1930s and 40s, those people were extreme or is Nazism extreme?

00:43:37.980 Like, that's what happens when you don't have an objective standard. I mean, you can see a window

00:43:43.060 into what mob rule and the kind of so-called democratic rule that Democrats want. You can

00:43:49.920 see what that would look like. That if you don't agree with the majority or what they say as a majority

00:43:54.560 thinks about something, then you are extreme. No objective standard. It's just what they say,

00:44:01.880 what they determine in any given moment. MSNBC had a segment. Roland S. Martin, he was a guest

00:44:12.660 on MSNBC, and he said, we are at war with Trump voters. These folks are evil. They have allowed 0.99

00:44:17.840 evil into their house with Donald Trump. He has now dominated the party. The evil is spreading. And

00:44:22.360 when you are in a war footing, you have to respond accordingly. Wow. These are the same people who,

00:44:27.340 by the way, want to disarm you. Who said that we're in a war. Who defend the military. Flanking

00:44:34.020 the president. As he says, millions and millions of Americans are a threat to democracy. These are

00:44:39.260 the same people who say, you don't need guns. Interesting. That's scary. Another guest says,

00:44:46.380 obviously, Republicans are, I think, the biggest threat to democracy. See, Republicans. Republicans are

00:44:51.760 the biggest threat to democracy. We don't separate right-wing extremists and the Republican Party

00:44:57.060 anymore. Think about that. Think about who you are. Think about all of the moms and the families

00:45:04.600 that you know. Think about the sweet old ladies in your church who just believe that abortion is wrong, 1.00

00:45:09.980 who just believe in a more limited government, who just believe maybe in lower taxes, who just believe

00:45:14.960 that maybe kids shouldn't be reading pornography in school, who maybe just believe that there are

00:45:22.680 two genders, as everyone has believed for all of time, and as science says. And so they vote Republican.

00:45:28.460 These people are saying that they are right-wing extremists. Right-wing extremism today is getting

00:45:34.580 married, having kids, and going to church. That's what they apparently see as extremism,

00:45:40.700 as radical, as a threat to democracy. Also, they're saying in the segment that the civil war

00:45:50.200 may have already begun. Civil war may have already begun, they say. Again, these are the same people

00:45:58.200 who, I'm sure it's just coincidence, want to take away your Second Amendment rights. That's really

00:46:04.560 troubling. That's really troubling. Biden doubled down on all of this, saying MAGA Republicans,

00:46:09.740 the extreme right, the Trumpies, have chosen to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate,

00:46:14.640 and division. So he's doubling down on this. His regime, his supporters in the media, doubling down

00:46:21.620 on all of this. It's really unfortunate. The heat has been turned up really high. I mean,

00:46:29.040 these are the same people who, anytime there is some kind of violent act, they say it's Republicans'

00:46:36.480 rhetoric who is causing this. They never hold themselves by the same standard. Again, just

00:46:41.960 recognize where we are. Recognize what we're up against. And look, we trust in a totally sovereign

00:46:47.980 God. If God is for us, who can be against us? Romans 8. And so we simply trust and obey. We continue

00:46:54.440 to do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God. I mean, that might be,

00:46:59.900 of course, supporting your local candidates to make sure that they're winning their elections,

00:47:04.120 but that also means leading your family in love and in truth and in grace. That does mean speaking

00:47:08.940 the truth in love and refusing to lie, as Rod Dreyer's book says, live not by lies. If that's

00:47:16.820 the only thing that you can do, that is enough. But maybe you can do more. Maybe you can get more

00:47:21.200 involved. Maybe you can talk to your friends. Maybe you're being called to run for local office.

00:47:27.200 Maybe you need to get involved in the school district in your area. Whether or not kids go there,

00:47:32.180 you are still a taxpayer. Therefore, you are invested and you have a say in that. Now is

00:47:37.000 the time for us to raise a respectful ruckus for the things that matter. There's a lot at stake.

00:47:41.760 There's a lot on the line. And yes, you are going to be called a threat. You are a threat to their

00:47:46.040 ideology. Because you represent, if you are a believer and you believe what the Bible says about

00:47:52.580 human beings, about human nature, you represent what is good and right and true. Of course,

00:47:56.960 of course, there will be people who oppose that. And I do not believe as Biden does that everyone

00:48:04.900 in my opposing party is evil and a threat to democracy. I don't. Because I know, I know

00:48:10.020 Christians, good people, loving people, compassionate people who vote Democrat. Now, I think they are

00:48:15.180 straight up wrong. I think they are wrong. I think they have a really big misunderstanding of theology,

00:48:20.260 or they have a really big misunderstanding of politics or both. I don't really think that there

00:48:25.640 is an excuse for voting Democrat. Now, maybe I think you can make a case for not voting. I don't

00:48:31.500 agree with that. I think you can make a case for voting third party. That's fine. I don't agree with

00:48:36.280 that. I do not think you can make a Christian case for voting Democrat. I simply do not. So I think those 1.00

00:48:40.760 people are wrong. But do I think that they are my enemies simply because they vote Democrat,

00:48:45.380 simply because they're on the other side of the aisle? I guarantee there are people that we interact

00:48:49.240 with on an everyday basis, have totally pleasant conversations with in the grocery store or

00:48:53.780 elsewhere that vote the opposite way that we do. I don't see those people as my enemies. I do think

00:49:00.420 that the platform, that the ideas, the ideology of the Democrat party is dangerous, that is driving

00:49:06.960 the core of their platform. I do think it's deadly. I do. And I think it's wrong. I think sincere and

00:49:13.180 well-intentioned people can vote in that way without really knowing what they are

00:49:18.780 voting for. But I don't see the people as people who I have irreconcilable differences with and that

00:49:26.440 are a threat. I don't see it that way. And I don't think that we should as Christians. I think we

00:49:31.180 should keep the first things first while still realizing what each party and what each vote

00:49:35.040 represents. So there is a balance there. All right. So speaking of Democrat failure, I just wanted to

00:49:51.300 like briefly mention what's going on in Jackson, Mississippi. So you've probably seen some commentary

00:49:58.240 about this on Twitter about how in Jackson, Mississippi, the city is running out of water

00:50:05.800 or the water that is coming out of the faucet is like dark brown. It's totally undrinkable. Apparently

00:50:11.700 authorities are saying that they can just boil it. But that's not the case. I mean, it is brown. We are

00:50:20.640 talking about water that is undrinkable. And many people there do not have access to bottled water.

00:50:26.840 People are saying, well, the majority of the city is black and Mississippi is run by a Republican

00:50:33.700 governor, a white Republican governor. Therefore, therefore, this is environmental racism. That is

00:50:42.100 what Kat Tinbarge says on Twitter, whose tweet went viral about this. She said, this is because of years

00:50:50.480 of neglect. This is environmental racism. Well, let's talk about the context of this a little bit. So

00:50:56.120 Jackson had contracted with the company and subcontractors for new water meters and new

00:51:01.940 automated billing system, sewer and water treatment plant upgrades. Then Jackson claims that the

00:51:06.640 company botched the job and caused more than $450 million in damages to the water, sewer infrastructure

00:51:11.920 and billing system. Jackson filed a lawsuit against the company and the subcontractors in June of 2019.

00:51:18.180 In February of 2020, the mayor announced that Jackson and the company had reached an $89.8 million

00:51:27.840 settlement. $30 million went to the attorneys. Overall, Jackson experienced a net $15 million gain

00:51:35.680 from the settlement proceeds. So the question is, where is that money? The money was supposed to keep

00:51:42.420 the water and the sewer enterprise going to keep that fund afloat. But in May 20 of 2022, the auditors

00:51:52.240 reported to the city council that the city had for years spent significantly more than it had taken in

00:51:58.200 and relied on transfers from other sources to keep its water and sewer fund afloat. $14.3 million of the

00:52:05.600 $15 million gain from the lawsuit had been spent on unsuccessful attempts to shore problems in the

00:52:11.740 water and sewer billing department. So this is because of mismanagement of the city. Who is the

00:52:19.940 city run by? The city is run by Democrats, has been run by Democrats literally since the 1940s, has been

00:52:27.780 run specifically by black Democrats since 1997. They've had a black Democrat mayor since 1997,

00:52:34.300 a large number of the city leaders are also black Democrats. So my question is, where's the racism

00:52:43.280 coming from here? Where's the racism coming from? Because water is under local control. This is a city

00:52:51.040 that has been run by Democrats for decades. Republicans do not run Jackson and black Democrats for decades as

00:52:59.320 well. So whenever we see a problem in Flint, Michigan, or we see a problem like this, the answer

00:53:07.020 to the Democrats is always, well, it's racism. Well, it's white people. Well, it's white supremacy. 0.90

00:53:11.740 Well, it's Republicans. Look, these cities have been run by Democrats for decades. That is true of the

00:53:20.040 vast majority of these cities who have these problems. And yet they trick people into saying, well,

00:53:26.020 if you just vote for us again, even though it's been 60 years of uninterrupted Democrat rule,

00:53:31.560 then we will finally conquer all of your problems when really these politicians are corrupt.

00:53:38.040 They're mismanaging their funds. They're not serving their people well because they don't care.

00:53:44.160 I mean, that can be true of either party, by the way. That can absolutely be true of either party.

00:53:48.640 But it doesn't make sense to blame the problems in a Democrat-run city

00:53:52.460 on Republicans when it comes to the local problems there. So this does tie into a lot of what Joe

00:53:58.680 Biden said because he says the Democrats are going to save the day as long as you keep voting for them.

00:54:03.520 Well, let's look at their track record in every city, not just in Jackson, but in cities across

00:54:08.380 the country that have been run by Democrats. I mean, if you look at San Francisco, Denver, L.A.,

00:54:15.380 Seattle, Portland, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City, Austin, all the cities that have been run

00:54:23.340 run by Democrats, are things getting better there? Is crime going down? Are things cleaner? 0.52

00:54:28.440 Is the homelessness problem dissipating? How are things going? Not very well. Not very well.

00:54:45.380 All right. I just wanted to talk really quickly about this story out of Memphis. Tragic story. You've

00:54:53.460 probably heard it. This woman, she's a teacher in Memphis, 34-year-old Eliza Fletcher. She was 0.76

00:55:01.160 running last week. She was running at 4.30 a.m. in Memphis, as she apparently did most mornings. And

00:55:10.280 she was abducted by a man they think is named Cleetha Abstin. He is the man who is accused

00:55:18.040 right now of abducting her. They also think they may have found her body. So unfortunately,

00:55:24.760 she was probably murdered. He is being held right now in jail and at a $510,000 bond. And this is

00:55:38.480 just tragic. She's got two little boys. The man who is accused of kidnapping and killing her

00:55:44.200 just got let out of jail in 2020 for kidnapping. He was charged and imprisoned in 2000 when he was 16

00:55:53.280 for helping with the kidnap of a district attorney and I think also attempting to murder him as well.

00:56:01.500 That district attorney at the time actually asked for leniency against Cleetha Abstin. And so he got

00:56:08.460 out of jail in 2020 and now here he is again in jail for kidnapping. I don't know what the answer

00:56:15.240 is when it comes to how do we solve these kinds of problems in this particular case, although Memphis

00:56:22.120 is, you know, has been run largely by Democrats in power for a while too. I don't know that this is

00:56:29.500 necessarily a soft on crime issue. I mean, this guy served 20 years from the time that he was 16

00:56:35.060 onward for a kidnapping back in 2000. So I don't know what would have been a more just sentencing

00:56:44.380 for him. I don't think life in prison would have been right. But obviously, we're missing something

00:56:49.180 when people get out of prison because our recidivism rate is so high. And so what is missing there for

00:56:57.680 people when they get out of prison and they go back into they go back into everyday life? Like

00:57:05.400 there's got to be something there. What we're doing is not working, especially in the Democrat cities

00:57:11.020 that are that are just allowing people out of prison without actually serving their sentences

00:57:15.720 or just, you know, setting a low bail. And so they're right out of prison after committing murder

00:57:21.240 or committing violent crimes or just not arresting people for the sake of, you know, racial equity

00:57:28.920 quotas. But in this case, I don't know what the answer is either. It's not necessarily soft on

00:57:34.500 crime. We've got to have something that reduces recidivism and we just don't. I mean, I think

00:57:38.740 this is just a case that does show how the things that used to hold people together as a society

00:57:44.620 really have just frayed. The lack of community, the lack of resources that we have for people to

00:57:53.220 be able to hold them to a moral standard and to make sure that they can get their lives together.

00:57:58.460 I'm just so sad for this woman. I'm so sad for her for this experience. I'm so sad for her husband.

00:58:05.160 I'm so sad for her two little boys for the classroom that she was about to teach. I mean, what a tragic

00:58:10.360 situation. Women, and this is not I know people are going to say that's victim blaming. It's not. 1.00

00:58:15.420 I'm just saying my like motherly advice to other women out there is please run with a partner. I 0.94

00:58:23.920 agree you shouldn't have to, but do it. Run with a partner. Run on a treadmill. Carry for the love of

00:58:31.260 God. Please carry when you are running by yourself or even when you're running with a friend. Try to run

00:58:39.160 during the day. I agree that you should not have to think about those things. You should not have to

00:58:43.760 do those things. And I'm not blaming her at all for what happened. It is what it is. I'm just saying

00:58:50.660 if you can take any precaution, please do. This is so sad. Let's pray for her family. Let's pray for

00:58:56.020 justice in this case. Let's pray for her little boys. Gosh, so sad. I just wanted to make sure that I

00:59:00.900 mentioned her and that I asked for, you know, prayer for her family. All right. We've got an amazing

00:59:08.600 interview coming for you tomorrow. It's going, we're going to talk about so much. And I won't

00:59:15.700 even, I won't even tell you what it's about. You'll find out tomorrow. It's going to be an

00:59:18.620 amazing interview. Thank you guys so much for listening. We will be back here tomorrow.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 06, 2022

Ep 673 ｜ Biden Thinks You're a Threat. You Are

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