Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 708 ｜ Dems’ Secret Deal with Ukraine & a Word for Pastors

00:00:00.000 Is the Democratic Party engaging in a money laundering scheme with Ukraine and a 0.90

00:00:05.240 cryptocurrency company? What? Also, what the heck is going on in Arizona? And first, I have a word

00:00:15.680 for pastors seeking to unite their congregants under the banner of truth and why that is so

00:00:23.100 important, maybe more important than ever. We've got all of this and more today. This episode is

00:00:27.520 brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to GoodRanchers.com slash Allie. That's

00:00:31.900 GoodRanchers.com slash Allie. All right. Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

00:00:46.740 A quick news roundup today. Tomorrow, we're going to do a quick pop culture roundup. Lots to talk

00:00:54.080 about in that arena, especially when it comes to childbearing and seriously and all that crazy

00:00:58.920 stuff. But today, I just wanted to look at a few things that happened over the weekend and make

00:01:05.420 sure that we discussed and analyzed them at least briefly today. I'm going to hopefully have a

00:01:10.420 guest on later in this week who is going to help us do more of a deep dive into the elections that

00:01:16.960 are still going on and just ended over the weekend, what happened in Arizona and also the whole FTX thing.

00:01:25.800 But we are going to talk about them a little bit today just so you know what's going on and maybe

00:01:30.440 we'll go a little bit deeper later in the week. But before we get into any of that, I wanted to

00:01:35.480 extend some thoughts that I shared on Instagram yesterday that I think resonated with a lot of you.

00:01:43.120 I was encouraged by the response, but also saddened by the response that I got. And it was just a

00:01:49.740 thought that I had after church, not based on my own experience at church. I'm very thankful for

00:01:54.620 the church that I have. I know where our pastor stands on everything. So that was not a concern of

00:02:00.840 mine. But in looking at the landscape of the United States, when it comes to how Christians talk

00:02:08.560 about issues and what is being talked about in the pulpit about some of the most, would you say,

00:02:15.220 controversial issues of our day. So gender, abortion, sexuality, the definition of marriage

00:02:22.540 and the family, it seems from what I see on social media now, a lot of pastors' sermons or at least

00:02:29.640 soundbites from their sermons do circulate on social media. And from a lot of the complaints that I

00:02:35.340 receive from you all, I see that pastors are very often afraid to talk about these subjects.

00:02:44.180 They think, well, maybe we can just avoid these hot button issues so that we won't be divisive,

00:02:49.860 so we won't push people away. Or maybe it's just not necessary to talk about these things that are so

00:02:55.220 offensive to so many people. We can just preach the other parts of the Bible and hope that by preaching

00:03:02.620 the gospel, people's hearts will be changed, which of course is true. And then they'll just kind of

00:03:08.100 pick up on the rest of the stuff and we don't even have to really explicitly talk about this.

00:03:14.820 And I think that that is a mistake. I understand that I have never and will never be in a position

00:03:22.840 of a pastor and that pastors have a really difficult job. And there is a lot of grace to be had

00:03:28.800 for pastors who are simply doing their best, navigating these new obstacles in our culture

00:03:35.800 that 10 to 20 years ago, pastors didn't really have to think about. Yes, pastors always had to

00:03:41.500 consider sin and preach about sin and preach about cultural and social and moral confusion

00:03:46.160 and repudiate that with the Word of God. That has always been a task of a pastor,

00:03:50.360 and it still is to this day. But the questions that we are dealing with are existential questions.

00:03:56.300 They're fundamental questions that previous generations could really take for granted 0.99

00:04:00.380 because we all shared the same basic understanding of them. We didn't have to talk about in detail

00:04:06.880 what the difference is between male and female biologically. We didn't really have to worry that

00:04:13.540 the culture was coming after the definition of marriage that has been the definition of marriage

00:04:17.640 since the beginning of time. We didn't have to worry about crazy assertions that men can become women

00:04:27.100 and can have babies. We weren't dealing with as rabid of an abortion lobby, which doesn't just say 1.00

00:04:34.980 that abortion should be safe, legal, and rare, but actually that babies inside the womb aren't humans at

00:04:39.640 all. And even if they aren't humans, we should basically view them as parasites. And so there is a 0.98

00:04:45.720 difference today than what pastors were dealing with 10 to 20 years ago. Again, a lot of things the same

00:04:50.880 for sure, but a lot of things different and in some ways, in some ways, maybe more challenging. And not

00:04:57.760 only that, but you have a vicious and vitriolic other side of this that is waiting sometimes for a pastor

00:05:07.460 or a teacher to say the wrong thing so that they can blast them as a bigot or exclusive or un-Christ-like

00:05:16.420 or something like that. You have a world today who believes that love is just unconditional tolerance

00:05:22.220 and acceptance. And I think because a lot of pastors are sensitive to the culture and are sensitive

00:05:27.820 to people's offensiveness, they just won't explicitly and clearly lay down what the Bible

00:05:37.460 has to say about these things. They will kind of mention them in passing or they'll be vague about

00:05:42.840 them or they'll cushion them or caveat them or nuance them until it's really confusing what they

00:05:49.980 are even trying to say. Because they don't want to be, and we've learned apparently that a lot of

00:05:56.740 people view, in the past few years especially, they don't want to be what is considered the gravest

00:06:02.240 sin today, and that is divisive. They don't want to divide. We should just be unifying. Let's talk

00:06:06.840 about the things that can bring us together. But look, the Word of God is a double-edged sword.

00:06:13.600 It is going to divide. The truth divides. As Martin Luther once said, truth at all costs, peace if

00:06:21.300 possible. And that should be the mantle that we take up. That should be the mentality that we have.

00:06:26.500 As far as it depends on us, we should be at peace with everyone. That is true, but never at the expense

00:06:33.960 of the truth. And while I understand that pastors have fears and concerns and considerations that I

00:06:40.660 will never fully understand because I will never be a pastor, and I'm very thankful for that. It's a

00:06:45.140 hefty, hefty responsibility. The book of James says not everyone should be teachers. Teachers are going to

00:06:50.940 be judged more harshly. So with all of the sympathy and all of the understanding that I can have in the

00:06:57.400 world, I still say that it is a mistake. It is a grave mistake. It is a grave disservice, not only to

00:07:04.460 the congregations that pastors shepherd, but also the culture at large to not speak directly and

00:07:12.220 explicitly and clearly and consistently on the issues of abortion and gender and family and sexuality.

00:07:21.060 Because all of these, while they do have political and culture war and social implications for the

00:07:28.200 Christian, they are not primarily political. They're not primarily social issues or culture war

00:07:35.880 issues. They're primarily for the Christian biblical issues. And not just biblical issues,

00:07:42.840 they're foundational issues. They go all the way back to the first chapter of the Bible, as we talk

00:07:47.860 about a lot. As I mentioned in almost every speech that I give to try to help people understand how

00:08:04.760 Christians should be viewing these very existential fundamental questions, we go all the way back to

00:08:09.160 the first chapter of the Bible. Really, you go all the way back to the first first of the first chapter

00:08:13.480 of the first book of the Bible, and that is God created the heavens and the earth. If he created

00:08:18.960 the heavens and the earth, then he's the authority over all of it. He is the definer of all things. He

00:08:23.760 is the giver of all truth. He is the arbiter of all morality. He says what is, what isn't, what's right,

00:08:29.480 what's wrong, what's good, what's bad, what's male, what's female, when life begins, why it's valuable.

00:08:35.120 We see all of these things in the first verse of the first chapter of the first book of the Bible.

00:08:40.440 And then if we go down a little bit further in the first chapter of the Bible, Genesis 127,

00:08:46.160 God created human beings in his image, man in his image, male and female. He created them. Part of

00:08:53.900 being made in God's image is to be made male and female. Right there, we see that human beings are

00:08:58.860 made in the image of God from the point that they are humans, which is conception. Any time after that,

00:09:05.520 that you give that entity humanity is just arbitrary, it really only makes logical and

00:09:10.800 scientific sense to say that a human being is a human being when it has its own unique DNA,

00:09:16.760 which is the point of conception. So all human beings made in the image of God, point of conception

00:09:21.540 onward. All human beings are made male and female. And marriage is defined as between one male and one 0.73

00:09:29.660 female. And that is the structure of the family. God defines it in the first chapter of the Bible.

00:09:35.520 And I just wonder if pastors were more clear on this, on these issues, which are biblical issues for

00:09:42.940 the Christian, they are pre-America, they are pre-political, they are pre-civilizational, 0.99

00:09:47.620 again, all the way back to the first chapter of the Bible. If all pastors were clear and consistent

00:09:52.720 on these issues, maybe the church wouldn't be as divided. Like maybe the reason that the church is

00:09:59.980 so divided is not because pastors are talking about these things, but because there are so many pastors

00:10:04.940 who are not, maybe of all pastors, considered preaching the entire counsel of God, not worrying

00:10:16.380 about what the culture thinks, not worrying about what political stage that we're in, not worried

00:10:20.380 about who might be offended by what that day, and didn't even think about the politics of it,

00:10:26.880 didn't even consider themselves a culture warrior, but simply looked at the Word of God and said,

00:10:33.300 I'm going to preach all of this. This has been true since the beginning of time. This has been

00:10:38.720 the banner of the church for 2,000 years. I am going to preach this consistently and clearly

00:10:46.540 and courageously in the hopes that everyone who considers themselves under the authority of Scripture,

00:10:55.560 which all Christians should, will be unified around this truth. I mean, really, what value

00:11:01.660 does unity have if we are unified under just, I don't know, an apathy to get to what is actually

00:11:11.260 true? Like if we are all just placating each other, and that's what we define as unity in the sense

00:11:19.080 that, oh, well, we're unified, but that's just because I won't say something that offends you,

00:11:24.700 and you won't say something that offends me, even if it's in my best interest, or even if it's true,

00:11:31.120 I don't think that's a unity worth having. So I just wonder if we would actually, though,

00:11:36.780 be more unified in a healthy and biblical sense if pastors preached what is true about these things,

00:11:45.840 not caring what cultural or political era or environment, atmosphere that we are in.

00:11:54.420 Because again, these go back to the first chapter of the Bible. And listen, pastors,

00:12:01.340 if you are not the one discipling your flock about these things, if they are not getting the truth

00:12:09.000 about these things from you, I promise you they are going somewhere to figure out what is true.

00:12:15.360 I'm talking about believers, all right? Like I'm not talking about, I'm not talking about lukewarm

00:12:21.380 people. I'm not talking about people who aren't believers. I'm talking about believers who have

00:12:26.660 been saved by Christ. It doesn't just, understanding about all the cultural issues today, it doesn't

00:12:36.760 necessarily naturally flow from salvation. Yes, the Holy Spirit is going to sanctify,

00:12:45.360 and is going to conform us to be like Christ, and is going to give us wisdom. But God also gave us

00:12:53.320 the church. God also gave us teachers to impart wisdom and understanding about the Word of God. So

00:13:00.280 that's why you have Christians, born again believers, who are looking for answers on these questions,

00:13:06.760 who are confused about these things. So if they are not hearing it from you pastors,

00:13:11.840 they are going to go to TikTok. They're going to go to Instagram. They're going to go to me.

00:13:18.360 And while I love filling the role of trying to make sense of the craziness and chaos of this world

00:13:23.760 from a biblical perspective, I want to be secondary or tertiary in the line of authority that people have 0.91

00:13:34.240 when they are seeking answers on these things. I want them to be going to the Word of God. Of course,

00:13:40.240 I want them to be going to their pastors. I want them to be going to trusted mentors and other

00:13:44.100 authorities in their life. So I'm somewhere down that line. But I should not be the only person in

00:13:50.200 a Christian's life who is helping them navigate these difficult questions about culture and morality.

00:13:56.200 Your congregants are wondering about these things. They're actually wondering,

00:14:00.240 do I use preferred pronouns? Do I announce my pronouns when people ask? Do I put them in my email

00:14:06.540 signature if my employer is asking that I do? How do I navigate these things? Should I be for exceptions

00:14:19.460 on abortion? When really does life begin? Does the Bible say that abortion is okay in the book of

00:14:27.860 Numbers? Is it more compassionate to be for, quote-unquote, bodily autonomy? Why should I care

00:14:35.400 about the definition of marriage? Why should I care about the definition of the family? Are there any

00:14:40.960 ethical or biblical questions to be had about reproductive technology and the surrogacy industry,

00:14:46.380 all of these things? I'm not saying that every weekend that a pastor has to tackle a big,

00:14:52.980 hot-button cultural issue. But they should be absolutely firm and consistent and clear on these

00:14:59.920 things where the Bible speaks to them. And I just fear that one of the reasons why we're divided as

00:15:05.280 the church, one of the reasons why we are vying so much for the approval of the world is because we

00:15:10.380 have pastors who do. So just something to consider. I also think that that alone, like if the church

00:15:18.960 was just, just the church, just the evangelical church, and I mean, I don't even, there are so

00:15:25.800 many different definitions of that. What I mean is non-mainline Protestant and non-Catholic. Like if

00:15:32.140 that church alone was firm and united on all of these Genesis 1 issues, that alone, I think, would be

00:15:41.020 enough to change the culture. And yet, people are confused. People are confused. People are confused

00:15:49.020 about how God divines justice. People are confused about social justice versus real justice, about

00:15:55.020 the value of life and the definition of marriage and gender. And we really should not be. These are 1.00

00:16:00.220 basic, basic biblical questions that pastors should be addressing. And thank you, by the way, pastors who do,

00:16:05.860 who lay it all out and who are unafraid and who you fear God more than you fear man. I see you and

00:16:13.860 I'm so thankful for you. And by the way, based on so many of the comments and the messages that I

00:16:18.720 received after I posted that yesterday, your congregants are thankful for you. Your congregants

00:16:24.280 are so grateful to have found a church where a pastor is unafraid to say what is true. I mean, people

00:16:32.080 are just like craving courage right now. They're craving clarity. I would even say that the world,

00:16:38.280 the lost world, is craving clarity and meaning and purpose. And while they're trying and failing to

00:16:43.440 find it in the wrong places, they still want it. And there are Christians who want that too. Please 0.89

00:16:49.340 give me clarity. Please show me courage. Please be relentless on this. Please don't cave. Please

00:16:55.720 don't compromise. People are craving that. At least the remnant, God's remnant, God's church

00:17:01.360 is absolutely craving that from their pastors. And so, I mean, maybe we take the time today,

00:17:07.560 like if you have a pastor, you have a Bible study leader who is clear on these things,

00:17:12.180 who has been unafraid, who has taken heat for it. Like maybe we take the time today to just thank them

00:17:18.040 and to just say that we're praying for them and we know that it's difficult,

00:17:21.960 but we are so thankful for their courage. I'm thankful too.

00:17:31.360 All right. So just wanted to talk about a couple things. First, I quickly wanted to talk about

00:17:41.340 this FTX story, which I just think is wild. Now, your girl, unsurprisingly, is not an expert on

00:17:50.420 cryptocurrency. So we're not going to get into the intricacies of that. We have been talking for quite

00:17:55.040 a while about getting an expert on cryptocurrency on the show because my husband's tried to explain it

00:18:00.580 to me. And at the end of every explanation, I'm like, so it's not real. Where is it? What do you

00:18:07.320 mean by computers? Like, I know what a computer is, but it seems like you're talking about a different

00:18:12.300 kind of computer. And so I do not know everything about cryptocurrency. My husband knows way better

00:18:19.020 than me. And we're going to have someone on at some point to talk about it. But I can talk about

00:18:23.360 some of the details of the story that I've read that I think it's quite pertinent. And it should be a

00:18:28.540 much bigger story among the mainstream media than it is right now. So this is according to

00:18:33.800 Post Millennial. Ukraine invested in top dim donors crypto company FTX as Biden admin funded war

00:18:42.280 efforts. So let me just like simplify that a little bit. This FTX company is a cryptocurrency company.

00:18:49.640 It's a multi-billion dollar company. Turns out that they were scamming their customers,

00:18:56.560 turning around and like spending the money that was invested in the company. This company is also

00:19:02.700 a top Democratic donor. So it funds the campaigns, donates to Democratic politicians. It's actually the

00:19:09.480 second biggest donor to the Democratic Party behind George Soros. And we found out that not only is the

00:19:17.440 company a scam, but also that Zelensky in Ukraine had partnered with FTX. So what it seems like from

00:19:26.220 the reporting that we have is that we, our tax dollars, billions and billions of our tax dollars

00:19:35.300 in the midst of an inflation crisis are being sent to Ukraine to fund a war effort. We've talked about

00:19:43.440 that several times how just strange it is that our politicians seem to care more about the sovereignty

00:19:49.400 and the borders of Ukraine than they care about our own sovereignty and borders. So our money is being

00:19:55.740 sent there. And then Zelensky is then turning around and apparently using that money to invest in and

00:20:04.360 partner with this company FTX. FTX is then using that money to fund the Democratic Party. So how is

00:20:13.380 that not money laundering? I mean, I just as a simple gal and putting that together and that seems kind of

00:20:19.780 scandalous to me. So here's what Post Millennial says. It was, let's see. So it was also revealed that

00:20:27.560 FTX had partnered with Ukraine to process donations to their war efforts within days of Joe Biden pledging

00:20:32.120 billions of American taxpayer dollars to the country. Ukraine invested into FTX as the Biden

00:20:36.740 administration funneled funds to the invaded nation and FTX then made massive donations to Democrats in

00:20:42.120 the U.S. So an article from the cryptocurrency news website CoinDesk from March 15, 2022, reported that

00:20:49.920 Ukraine partnered with FTX and that FTX is converting crypto contributions to Ukraine's war effort into fiat for

00:20:56.200 deposit at the National Bank of Ukraine. And then Putin invaded on February 24. And by March, the Biden

00:21:04.140 administration had already sent a total of two billion dollars to Ukraine for security assistance.

00:21:08.880 And then on March 16th, two days after the Ukraine FTX partnership, Biden gave another 800 million

00:21:14.280 dollars to Ukraine. As of November, the U.S. has sent 60 billion dollars to Ukraine. Bankman Fried, who is the

00:21:21.580 guy that runs FTX, the cryptocurrency company, made donations to the Dems that totaled 39.8 million

00:21:28.460 dollars, putting him just behind George Soros and his 128 million dollars. It's amazing that George

00:21:34.320 Soros is even allowed to have any say in our political in our political world at all. Bankman Fried became a 0.76

00:21:44.460 significant donor to Biden starting in 2020. As Bloomberg reports, Bankman Fried had his net worth

00:21:52.020 go from 15.6 billion dollars to one billion dollars in the biggest one day collapse that had ever seen

00:21:58.120 among billionaires over this past weekend, a personal loss of funds that coincided with FTX's

00:22:03.020 implosion. He will probably go bankrupt because of this. He lost he lost roughly one billion dollars.

00:22:12.860 This is the scandal that happened over the weekend that made him lose so much of his money.

00:22:16.800 FTX lost roughly one billion dollars of customer funds and the money, quote unquote, vanished,

00:22:22.320 causing federal regulators to look into the company. The investigation will be conducted to determine

00:22:27.040 the extent of harm to clients and what laws FTX may have broken, though FTX is not based in the U.S.,

00:22:34.080 a move that makes it possible for FTX to skirt U.S. financial regulatory laws.

00:22:42.860 So this is interesting. I mean, I don't see how in any sense this can be legal. This is a guy that has

00:23:01.080 contributed to both Republicans and Democrats far more millions more to Democrats than Republicans.

00:23:07.200 But I do think it's sketchy that he has been taking money from Republicans. And I could look

00:23:14.460 more into it'd be interesting to look more into what these particular Republicans that he is donating

00:23:19.240 to, what they have stood for and what their stance has been on Ukraine. But he's also donated to people

00:23:24.200 like Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, who are obviously Democrats in Congress. And so this is a whole

00:23:33.040 sketchy thing. You know how we talked about with Steve Dace last week that Democrats don't even

00:23:38.440 necessarily have to break any laws in order to undermine the very democracy that they say that

00:23:44.760 they are saving. There was that whole Time Magazine article, we can link it in the description,

00:23:49.280 that basically bragged about what they called fortifying the election, combining the powers of

00:23:54.420 big tech and corporations and the media to ensure that people did not vote for Donald Trump.

00:24:00.840 I mean, I mean, it's laughable. It is laughable that these are the same people who say that they

00:24:05.780 are against fascism and that the Republican Party represents fascism because they don't want their 0.91

00:24:10.600 kids reading porn in third grade at school. It's wild. It's all projection. And it's amazing how many 0.81

00:24:16.940 people believe it. Like if we look at the election, again, this is just another example. Oh, we have to

00:24:23.480 undermine democracy in order to preserve it, which is basically like the Democrats pitch right now.

00:24:29.440 If we look at the election, I think that we can say that if you look at the state of Arizona and how

00:24:35.520 long it has taken to count votes, also in the state of Nevada, Nevada, I think you did correct me the

00:24:41.240 other day, Nevada, that there is at the very least, at the very least, being as kind as possible,

00:24:50.080 total incompetence going on, total incompetence. Because in Arizona, you basically have an election 0.88

00:24:55.840 month and election season, which I'm sure you've heard a lot of people say so far. It's not just a

00:25:01.220 day. It's not even just a week. Like you basically have two months of election season. Somehow people

00:25:06.640 start voting a month before election day and they can't get the votes counted until a week to two

00:25:11.740 weeks later. And so if you don't already know, Blake Masters, he did not win his Senate seat,

00:25:17.960 which I am surprised by. I honestly never even considered that he would lose to Mark Kelly. I

00:25:24.880 know the polls were pretty neck and neck, but he had a lot of support from the right. I mean,

00:25:31.800 maybe more, you know, more of like a subset of the right who really wants like a new kind

00:25:39.180 of anti-establishment, in a sense, Republican Party. And then Carrie Lake, at least while I am

00:25:46.860 recording this right now, it is very unsure how she is going to attain a path to victory.

00:25:53.520 And so that's concerning. So at the very least, there is incompetence and just outright stupidity. 1.00

00:25:59.460 Like what? Were you surprised that there was an election? Like, did you not know that it was coming? 1.00

00:26:04.060 How can you have so much malfunctioning at once? It just doesn't make sense. Like,

00:26:08.500 look at the state of Florida. They literally had a devastating hurricane a couple of weeks ago.

00:26:12.820 It's an extremely populous state. And many of the cities are extremely densely populated. And somehow

00:26:19.360 they were able to count all of their votes on election night. Same with other very populous

00:26:24.080 states. And yet these swing states, especially the state of Arizona, because it was like this in

00:26:29.600 the 2020 election too, they just can't seem to get it together. And why is that? And there are a lot

00:26:35.040 of people who are following this more closely than me. People in Arizona, Charlie Kirk has been all over

00:26:40.000 this. Jack Posobiec has also been on this, that have been talking about like, what is going on and

00:26:46.080 why things are questionable. I'm not someone who has spent a lot of time on looking at the 2020 claims

00:26:52.240 and like diving into the claims of fraud and all of the lawsuits that happened in all of the swing

00:26:57.020 states. I'm just not someone who has spent time on this. But I think that we can look, all right,

00:27:02.080 this is several elections in a row where these particular counties don't have it together.

00:27:05.980 And it seems to always go the same way for me to at least question the integrity of our system.

00:27:15.500 Like, isn't that fair? Isn't that fair? The left questions it all the time when they lose. They

00:27:20.200 talk about voter suppression constantly, even when they have years of record turnout. I think it is

00:27:25.580 totally legitimate for you to at least ask, okay, if this is taking so long, why? It can't just be

00:27:32.460 because of incompetence at this point, right? There's got to be some nefarious intent going on

00:27:42.100 here. It's just a little strange. Now, it does look like the House has been taken over by

00:27:58.640 Republicans, which of course is good. But we've lost the Senate, Laxalt lost in Nevada,

00:28:06.180 which is really unfortunate. Another one that I did not see coming. And so we have this runoff now

00:28:12.420 with Herschel Walker and with Raphael Warnock. And I know that I talked about a couple weeks ago,

00:28:19.220 the scandal and the allegations against him, which I still think are egregious. And I still wish,

00:28:23.280 as I talked about with Delano last week, it would have been handled differently. But look,

00:28:32.120 you've got a choice. You've got a choice. You've got a choice between Raphael Warnock,

00:28:37.300 who has allegations of abuse against him by his ex-wife, who is distraught talking to the news,

00:28:42.760 saying that he tried to run her over with his car, who pretends to be a pastor, yet is ardently

00:28:48.120 pro-abortion and is pro-disorder against everything that God calls good and right and true, not just in

00:28:55.000 his personal life and in his preaching, but also politically. So he is voting for the slaughter of

00:29:00.040 babies. He is voting for the chaos and disorder. And you have Herschel Walker, who also has allegations

00:29:05.540 against him, which he says are not true, who will not vote for disorder. So if those are your two

00:29:10.840 options and we believe it's our civic duty to vote, no, I don't think that your salvation hangs on your

00:29:15.480 vote or even on your civic participation. But these are the choices that we've got. And I think that the

00:29:24.080 right thing to do in this case is to vote for the person who is not going to vote for the slaughter

00:29:28.600 of babies and also just the degradation of our society. I mean, and I don't think that Democrats

00:29:35.940 have any room to talk whatsoever about candidate equality or things like that. I mean, a zombie

00:29:43.380 in Pennsylvania won. They voted for him. I mean, we also have close to that in the White House. 0.98

00:29:51.340 So I don't think that they have any room to talk about that. Dr. Oz, of course, I think was just

00:29:55.920 a terrible candidate. There's a lot more that I could say about all of that. So I don't know what's

00:30:01.980 going to be done about the integrity of or the efficiency at the very least of our elections. But if you

00:30:08.240 really care about democracy, if you really care, like if you really care about continuing this American

00:30:16.500 experiment, what is really a representative democracy, a republic, then you have to care not just about the

00:30:22.660 integrity and the honor of our elections, but also the efficiency of them, because even the appearance

00:30:28.780 of not counting all of the votes legally is enough to crumble at the trust that is necessary for

00:30:37.000 freedom. And honestly, we might be past that at this point. Republicans, I think, in a few red states did

00:30:44.460 pass some good laws to ensure that we have integrity in our elections. But the whole I mean,

00:30:50.400 the widespread mail-in ballots, the whole process, the process of voting for a month beforehand and

00:30:58.520 then not counting in for a week after, I mean, there are some major, major reforms there to be

00:31:05.000 made. And then, but I'm not really sure if Democrats care about playing by the rules if this whole Ukraine 0.76

00:31:10.480 operation is really a whole money laundering scheme. Wow. There's a lot going on. Good thing that we as

00:31:17.540 Christians do not trust in politicians or princes or the political process. And good thing that Jesus 1.00

00:31:24.400 is King and Jesus is Lord. And all we have to do is to do the next right thing for the glory of God.

00:31:32.840 So that's all I have time for today. Thanks so much for listening. Like I said, tomorrow we will do a

00:31:37.380 pop culture roundup. Lots to talk about. Jennifer Aniston, Nick Cannon, what all these things have in 0.98

00:31:42.560 comments. So I'll see you back here then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 14, 2022

Ep 708 ｜ Dems’ Secret Deal with Ukraine & a Word for Pastors

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