Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 731 ｜ Craziest Moments of 2022

00:00:00.000 Well, a lot happened this year, the year 2022, and we are going to recap the biggest stories.

00:00:07.680 And we have a lot to say, a lot to talk about, a lot to recap, some things that we didn't even

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00:00:30.000 Okay, guys, welcome to Relatable. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week and holiday season

00:00:36.960 and happy almost new year. This has been almost just a blur of a year, kind of like 2021 and 2022.

00:00:45.660 So much has happened. And my team and I just wanted to recap some of the major things. It was

00:00:51.500 really hard to narrow down what we wanted to talk about today because there are so many different

00:00:58.040 stories, so many different viral tweets and memes and clips and all of that stuff. And so

00:01:03.680 we probably won't even be able to get to everything that we want to get to. We literally have 52 pages

00:01:09.220 of things and stories. And even in these pages, we probably don't have all of the stories that

00:01:16.820 you're thinking of that you thought were the most impactful. Also, there were a few stories that I

00:01:23.340 had put into this document like, oh, we need to talk about this. This was a big thing that happened

00:01:27.260 this year that I was told. Like, for example, I said, oh, we need to talk about the Nick Cannon

00:01:32.820 story when he called white people subhuman or said something bad about Jewish people. That literally

00:01:38.660 happened in 2020. So like I said, the past few years have been a blur because so much is happening

00:01:44.580 all the time. But we're going to just recap. This kind of helps us get our bearings. It helps kind of

00:01:50.120 orient us, reminds us what year it is. And we can kind of have closure on this craziness as we had

00:01:56.940 into 2023. So I thought it'd be fun to just kind of discuss. My team is here. We've got I'll

00:02:03.640 reintroduce them. We've got Kayla, who is director of the show. And then we've got Brie, who is the

00:02:10.240 producer. And then we've got Dylan, who is the assistant producer and editor extraordinaire doing

00:02:16.320 lots of things. And they're not the only people on this team. We have a couple more people who

00:02:20.380 help, but they're not here. So they will also be discussing some of these things with us.

00:02:26.040 All right. Let's get started with what happened in January. Again, one of those things that I could

00:02:30.480 not recall, whether it happened last year or this year, and that is the Freedom Convoy. The Freedom Convoy

00:02:39.740 happened in Canada. And these were truckers who were protesting the vaccine mandates.

00:02:47.100 So let me read you a little bit about this. In January, a group of Canadian truckers decided to

00:02:51.500 convoy across the country to protest vaccine passports, school mask mandates, and school

00:02:56.500 vaccine requirements. And these people were demonized by Justin Trudeau, the head of Canada,

00:03:03.960 who literally said that these people were misogynist, and they were racist. They're people

00:03:09.680 that the rest of Canada doesn't want to share a country with. These were peaceful protesters,

00:03:15.600 by the way. We had, I believe we had a protester on this show. I know that we had a guest who talked

00:03:23.360 to us about what the Freedom Convoy was, what they were standing for, how they were peaceful.

00:03:29.440 We definitely saw videos circulating at the time of family members singing worship songs,

00:03:36.460 eating by the fire, simply trying to take a stand for freedom. And what did Justin Trudeau do?

00:03:42.820 He not only demonized them and otherized, marginalized these peaceful protesters,

00:03:49.180 actually said that they were an inhibition to freedom because up is down in this Orwellian world

00:03:55.900 in which we live, this dystopian madness in which we are forced to dwell. But he also made more than,

00:04:03.460 the police made more than 30 arrests, issued more than 1,300 tickets, and conducted over 75 criminal

00:04:09.720 investigations in connection with the demonstrations. And not only that, but they seized fuel,

00:04:15.760 they cut off material, financial, and logistical support to what they called the occupation.

00:04:21.480 Police also warned of arrests and charges for anyone transporting diesel and other fuels to

00:04:27.060 demonstrators downtown who were idling their trucks to keep warm. So they're going to starve them out.

00:04:33.400 They're going to freeze them out. On February 4th, GoFundMe shut down the organizers' money-raising

00:04:41.660 drive who was organizing the Freedom Convoy, adding it would distribute refunds to donors. We now have

00:04:47.820 evidence from law enforcement that the previously peaceful demonstration has become an occupation.

00:04:53.680 That was just a phrase that the Canadian government was using. Yeah, they were peacefully protesting to

00:05:00.380 try to get the attention of the Canadian government to say, we don't want to stand for this anymore.

00:05:06.740 So here is a clip of this very scary, apparently, occupation that was going on by the Freedom Convoyers in 0.96

00:05:16.880 Canada. Okay, so you've got all different kinds of people there. I know that they were saying,

00:05:34.260 oh, they're just these white misogynists, blah, blah, blah, which, by the way, it wouldn't have 0.97

00:05:38.760 been, it would be okay if they were all white men, by the way, that doesn't negate or diminish the 0.97

00:05:45.660 credibility of the protest at all. But it actually wasn't. It was, there were all kinds of people.

00:05:52.200 They were native people there. There were Muslim people there. There were old and young and all

00:05:58.220 different, poor and rich, all different kinds of people of all different occupations. What you saw

00:06:02.940 right there was simply a peaceful protest. If you want to see what a violent occupation looks like,

00:06:09.060 you can come down to the United States and you can see the different zones that Antifa and Black Lives

00:06:14.520 Matter set up in places like Portland and Seattle, where people were literally murdered because the

00:06:20.300 police were not allowed in these occupation zones. Like that was happening in the United States.

00:06:25.980 And not even Trump was willing to send in, you know, send in any kind of federal law enforcement

00:06:34.700 to break this, to break this up, which I think he should have because it was a matter of public

00:06:40.180 safety. And so if you want to see an occupation, you can look at what the left does down here.

00:06:47.240 And I mean, these people were literally and figuratively trampled upon, like their freedom

00:06:53.060 was trampled upon, but they were literally in some cases trampled by the police riding horses.

00:06:59.000 Here's a clip of that. Literally the police, the Canadian police trampling over peaceful protesters.

00:07:10.900 I think it was at the time, I believe that it was, it was reported that a woman in a walker,

00:07:20.140 an older woman in a walker was actually trampled by the Canadian police. We like to forget this.

00:07:25.120 So we like to forget that this happened in the West. This is not China. All right. This is not

00:07:30.320 North Korea. This is not Russia. This was happening in Canada. That's what happens when you're like

00:07:36.400 chief value is being nice. I'm not saying this is true of all Canadians. Obviously, there are a lot 0.99

00:07:42.500 of Canadians that didn't want to put up with this tyranny. But I think those Canadians who care about

00:07:49.280 freedom would agree with me that when your chief value and characteristic as a nation, as a society

00:07:55.840 is nice, then that leads to widespread compliance. I mean, we have a similar problem here in the United

00:08:03.240 States. Some of the people who say that they value kindness the most are the most intolerant people

00:08:08.740 of dissent. Also, I just want to say one thing about Canada and a story that went on there. And I don't

00:08:15.140 know when it was debunked this year, but it happened sometime this year. Remember when we

00:08:19.540 heard, I believe it was last year, about how all of those like native children were secretly mass

00:08:26.520 murdered, and that their mass graves were underneath these churches. And so these activists in Canada

00:08:34.100 burned these churches down in an act of vengeance. And then the whole thing was debunked that they

00:08:39.420 weren't actually mass graves, that we don't actually know the truth about how children died. They might

00:08:46.860 have been some kind of burial site. But this idea that these churches were built on the mass graves

00:08:53.260 of children that they killed, that there was just like no proof to support that. And yet, these churches

00:08:59.340 were burned down. And from what we saw from the Canadian government, there was very little,

00:09:05.620 any condemnation from these activists. So that's the typical double standard that we've got.

00:09:10.420 All right, let's move on to February. February, of course, was Ukraine. And you know what, this is

00:09:16.200 just kind of like a complicated subject. And so because I don't feel like I have the expertise to

00:09:24.420 break this down, I wanted to bring on someone who does, who just can explain complicated things so

00:09:31.280 clearly in such a sophisticated way. And that, of course, is our vice president, Kamala Harris. So

00:09:36.020 here she is.

00:09:36.520 So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger 0.64

00:09:46.300 country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine.

00:09:52.440 So basically, that's wrong.

00:09:54.740 Okay, thank you so much, Kamala Harris. That breaks it down for us. Now, you might remember

00:10:03.240 at the time, like how quickly this became, how quickly this became the biggest story, the highest

00:10:12.820 priority. And it became the thing like COVID and vaccines that you were not allowed to question.

00:10:19.040 People immediately put Ukrainian flags in their bio, people started hanging Ukrainian flags.

00:10:24.940 Outside of their homes. Now, the footage in the news stories that we were getting from Ukraine,

00:10:31.400 I mean, they were absolutely awful. We saw a lot of violence. We saw a lot of women and children have

00:10:35.920 to flee. There were a lot of funds that needed to be raised. There were a lot of people who needed

00:10:39.900 to be rescued. And that was real. That was real. People were fleeing Ukraine, innocent people,

00:10:45.800 because of the violence. But immediately, Zelensky was hoisted up as some kind of hero. There was no

00:10:53.080 question, apparently, about how important this was or where this went on the list of priorities

00:11:00.640 for Americans. And there was no allowance for any questioning for why Democrats and a lot of

00:11:09.160 Republicans suddenly cared more about the sovereignty of a country that most people can't point to on a

00:11:14.360 map than they do the sovereignty of our own country. Why did they care more about Ukraine's borders

00:11:20.560 than our own borders? If you question something like that, then you were labeled as pro-Putin and pro-Russia

00:11:28.040 propaganda or, you know, some kind of propagandizing fascist whatever it was. But there were some people

00:11:37.680 who were willing to ask those questions and say, why all of a sudden do we consider Zelensky a hero?

00:11:43.620 Why are we all of a sudden putting all of our eggs into Ukraine's basket knowing how corrupt that 0.98

00:11:50.760 country is? I mean, that is a corrupt country. Not to say that we should be on the side of Putin. Not to

00:11:56.440 say that we should be on the side of a dictatorship. But acting like Ukraine is objectively and exclusively 0.98

00:12:04.040 virtuous in that this is a fight that Americans must prioritize over the domestic problems that we have

00:12:13.460 that was what was crazy. That was what was crazy at the time. And you got a lot of really

00:12:21.700 strange responses to that, just like really intense responses to anyone questioning this from

00:12:30.020 from the left. The Federalist reported on this, Democrats have been unbearable in flaunting their

00:12:36.940 self-righteousness on the issue of Ukraine. I guess that's what it is. With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

00:12:45.140 reading a poem written by U2 frontman Bono on St. Patrick's Day that pays tribute to Ukraine and

00:12:50.960 the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Oh, St. Patrick, he drove out the snakes with his prayers,

00:12:57.440 but that's not all it takes. With the smoke symbolizes an evil that arises and hides in your

00:13:02.120 heart as it breaks. And the evil risen from the darkness that lives in some men, but in sorrow

00:13:06.740 and fear, that's when saints can appear. You drive out these old snakes once again. Ireland's sorrow

00:13:11.920 and pain is now with the Ukraine and St. Patrick's name is now Zelensky. So that's the crazy part. I'm

00:13:17.940 not saying you shouldn't have been praying for Ukraine or care about the Ukrainian people,

00:13:21.680 but to unquestioningly lift up this person as a saint, as a hero, is strange. And then we had a lot

00:13:31.760 of fake news stories that were surrounding this because people saw this as their new way to be

00:13:37.820 virtuous. You got the mask, you got the vaccine, the virtue of that is starting to wear off, and then

00:13:44.520 you got to be all on board with every single thing that Ukraine did. So we had the ghost of Kiev, 0.73

00:13:51.360 it was reported that there was some like Ukrainian plane that was patrolling the skies in Kiev and

00:14:01.380 that he was killing all of these Russians and their Russian jets. But then there was no evidence

00:14:07.240 whatsoever that the ghost of Kiev exists. It seemed to be Ukrainian propaganda, which we do think that

00:14:13.360 Ukraine has been putting out some propaganda all this time. And so has Russia. Zelensky visiting the

00:14:20.380 troops. There were videos and there were pictures being put out about Zelensky going to visit the

00:14:27.680 Ukrainian troops. It turns out that those pictures were over a year old, but they were used again by

00:14:33.140 Ukrainian media to kind of show, wow, look at our heroic leader. There was this power station explosion

00:14:42.720 that happened that happened or that we heard happened in Ukraine. And we were told that this probably was

00:14:51.660 Russia, but it was actually a chemical plant that was exploding in China in 2015. There were all

00:14:59.360 different kinds of stories of this. And again, if you questioned anything at all about Ukraine, then you

00:15:05.820 were told that you were pro Putin, that you are pro Russia, and you have to unapologetically and

00:15:11.920 completely put Ukraine at the top of your priority list. Even though our support for Ukraine, the 1.00

00:15:18.200 billions and billions of dollars with basically no strings attached going over to Ukraine has

00:15:24.560 increased inflation here at home, has hurt our fuel prices here at home, all of those things

00:15:31.680 Americans care a lot about because it comes down to being able to feed their families. And it's okay for

00:15:39.700 you to care about your family. It's okay for you to care about your country first. That doesn't mean that you

00:15:44.500 don't care about other countries. It's okay for you to prioritize your community, your family and your

00:15:50.780 country first. In fact, that's what good leaders are supposed to do. They're supposed to put your country and

00:15:56.660 their citizens, their constituents first. Every single country's leaders should be putting the interest, the

00:16:04.500 well-being, the safety and security of their people first. This administration and most of the people in

00:16:10.100 Washington don't do that. We literally have an invasion at the southern border. They really don't

00:16:14.860 care about that at all. We have a widespread crime problem, and they don't seem to care about that very

00:16:21.180 much. And yet they care much more, it seems, about the sovereignty and security of Ukraine. Also, you weren't

00:16:28.660 supposed to question about Biden's family's ties to Ukraine that we have seen over the past few years.

00:16:36.040 We did talk about all of that on the show. Took some blowback, but like most things on the left,

00:16:40.800 like the narrative begins to unwind. More people start to be able to, you know, be willing to open

00:16:46.420 up and talk about that. We'll include the episodes that we did on these things in the description of

00:16:51.500 this podcast if you want to go back and get a full refresher. All right, let's talk about March.

00:16:55.640 Things start ramping up in March, especially when it comes to just like cultural stuff.

00:16:59.680 So we got Will Smith. Remember that? Will Smith, during the Academy Awards,

00:17:05.320 he decided that he was going to slap Chris Rock, remember that, over something that Chris Rock said

00:17:15.740 about Will Smith's wife. So let's play that clip just for memory's sake.

00:17:25.640 Oh, wow. Wow. Will Smith just smacked the s*** out of me.

00:17:34.640 Okay, so you didn't get to hear the joke, but the joke that he told, I mean, he made fun of Jada 0.99

00:17:41.560 Pinkett Smith being bald because I think he said something about her being like a G.I. Jane.

00:17:48.040 And Jada Pinkett Smith has alopecia. And so she has to shave her head because of that, because alopecia 1.00

00:17:56.580 can make your hair fall out. And I guess Will Smith just didn't think that was funny, although he

00:18:02.220 is or has been a comedian. And a lot of those things are considered fair game. Like, I'm not saying it was

00:18:07.840 a nice thing to say, but is it worth Will Smith getting up on the stage and literally slap punching

00:18:15.900 Chris Rock for? I don't think so. And I remember the back and forth on Twitter about this. Some

00:18:21.360 saying, yes, you don't talk. And it was racialized immediately. Like, you don't talk about a black

00:18:27.200 man's woman or a black man's wife like that. And when any white person inserted themselves into the 1.00

00:18:32.500 dialogue, they were like their wrist was slapped and told like white people shouldn't insert 1.00

00:18:37.620 themselves into black people's business, which is absolutely ridiculous. Like we share a country, 1.00

00:18:42.460 we share a culture. We're watching the same award show. Like, yes, anyone of any background of any

00:18:49.080 skin color has permission to talk about the things that happen that we all have our eyeballs on. All

00:18:56.300 right. And so we're not going to start segregating these conversations by race, but that's just the

00:19:01.540 clownery of the world in which we live right now. He actually was Will Smith was punished by the

00:19:08.660 Academy. I think he did end up issuing an apology. So in an Academy meeting on April 8th, Smith was

00:19:16.300 banned from attending the Oscars or any other Academy event for 10 years. Guys back there, do you guys have

00:19:26.060 any thoughts on the Will Smith thing? Did you watch it live? Did you have any reaction to it?

00:19:30.660 I did watch it live. I mean, look, I don't know. Maybe this is not right. But I always hope there's

00:19:38.240 some drama at events like that because they're just so uppity. Yeah. Not that I wanted him to get

00:19:44.280 slapped. Obviously it was wrong. But the other thing that frustrates me about this is that Jada Pinkett

00:19:49.740 Smith talks about her alopecia all the time. And before that, she had been very open about it. So that was

00:19:56.300 the other reason why people were confused why Will Smith all of a sudden decided that wasn't okay to

00:20:01.940 talk about because it wasn't like she was it was private. So why do you think all of a sudden

00:20:06.900 because there were like theories about because she also I'm pretty sure like is open about cheating on 1.00

00:20:14.000 Will Smith. And so I think some people were also like, why is he defending her so much? Yeah,

00:20:19.000 they have apparently an open relationship. But it seems to be more open on her. From what I've read,

00:20:27.660 he doesn't like, like it as much as she does. But huh, that's so weird. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't

00:20:35.720 know. I think he's talked about it before. I don't know in detail. But I think he he's just said that

00:20:41.180 like, I just snapped and then like, it's a lot of and some of the race stuff. I don't know. Yeah, 0.92

00:20:46.600 the Guardian. The Guardian said white outrage about Will Smith slap is rooted in anti blackness.

00:20:53.260 It's inequality in plain sight. Because you know, I guess I are they saying like, I would support

00:21:00.300 a white guy slapping another white guy. I'm not really sure. Forbes said while talking about Will 0.98

00:21:08.300 Smith behavior, don't forget to also talk about the system that helped create it. So for some people,

00:21:13.300 you don't have to take responsibility. You just don't have any agency, I guess.

00:21:18.720 Yeah, there were a lot of people who were supporting Will entirely and saying that it's

00:21:23.460 completely justified. Oh, you know what I remember now? This is what it was. I was thinking about this

00:21:28.420 as I was talking Glennon Doyle, who is like, probably whose work is probably the number one

00:21:35.960 driver of instability and selfishness and insecurity and narcissism and divorce in suburban women. 0.96

00:21:48.760 She had the audacity to say like violence should never be used as the proof of someone's love,

00:21:57.300 which I agree with. Like, I thought that that was a, you know, a good statement. I mean,

00:22:02.480 I don't think it's always bad to like defend someone if you not, I don't think it's always

00:22:07.900 bad to like, obviously, like in self defense, if someone is like attacking someone that you love,

00:22:12.900 you obviously should be able to like fend them off physically. But I agree with her point that

00:22:18.800 violence should not be someone's indication of love. And so she said that she said a true thing.

00:22:26.940 And then she kept it up, but she like edited her caption on Instagram and was like, you know what,

00:22:34.820 I never should have inserted myself into this conversation as a white woman. There are clearly

00:22:40.320 cultural things here that I don't understand. I'm going to leave this up as a learning opportunity. 0.81

00:22:45.580 I'm like, oh my gosh, so exhausting to be like a white liberal woman. So exhausting. You can't even

00:22:53.620 say things that are true because you apparently have to apply different standards to people based

00:22:58.760 on the color of their skin. It's really sad. Um, all right. Uh, more in March, Dylan Mulvaney's rise to

00:23:07.200 power. That's how it's phrased in my, in my outline. Um, all right. So he, in March, 2022,

00:23:18.280 Dylan Mulvaney announced his transgender identity and started a TikTok days of girlhood 1.00

00:23:23.520 series where he documented each day of his transition. And you've probably seen his clips

00:23:29.400 going around. And if you're new here, I don't, I don't use preferred pronouns. I use the pronouns

00:23:35.900 that match someone's biology. As long as we know, um, their biology, because biology is not bigotry.

00:23:43.600 I, if there's any value that I have, it's not lying. I will not live by lies. And, um,

00:23:50.940 so I will simply not play a part in that because I believe that that lie is what is the foundation

00:24:00.160 for not just the destructive ideology, but also an ideology that is leading to the physical

00:24:06.880 mutilation of children and of people who claim that they are confused. And also the infringement

00:24:15.160 upon the rights and the privacy and the fairness of women and girls. And so I'm just not going to play

00:24:20.280 along with that. Dylan Mulvaney. He is, he plays a caricature of a girl. And so we have reacted to

00:24:28.800 his clips where he is, Oh my gosh, it's day whatever of being a girl. And I'm scared of bugs or like

00:24:36.520 whatever, like all of, he's basically, he pretends to be a floocy. And this is a guy, he was a Broadway

00:24:43.000 actor and singer, amazingly talented, amazingly talented and decided that he not, didn't just

00:24:51.460 want to like transition so-called into a woman, um, but into a girl. And he often dresses in very

00:24:59.200 infantilizing ways, which I also think is creepy. Uh, he wears things that really like only little

00:25:05.580 girls would wear, like the kind of pigtails and stuff that he wears. And so it's all very bizarre to me.

00:25:10.620 It's all very offensive. Um, of course, because you don't get to declare yourself or identify as

00:25:19.080 something that you simply are not. And I actually don't, I, while I think that he probably truly

00:25:25.940 believes that he is a woman and he truly is going through this transition process. I also know that

00:25:32.180 he has a background in acting, like only the best of the best actors and singers really make it to

00:25:38.160 Broadway. Like he was in Book of Mormon as I think like a main cast member. So really talented. I also

00:25:44.080 think, so because of that, like, I think that he's really good at playing a character and I think his

00:25:49.660 like, um, soft, delicate, doe-eyed flower character that he puts on that when he like does those, uh,

00:25:59.460 videos talking about how he's a victim of transphobia, X, Y, Z. I think that is a character.

00:26:05.060 I think that there is probably a lot going on behind the scenes in this person's mind and this

00:26:10.860 person's life that would disturb us if we knew. I don't, that's just what it seems. That's how it

00:26:16.940 appears to me. Um, okay. So I, I should have played this a couple minutes ago, but I just realized that

00:26:23.220 we do have a clip of him being afraid of bugs and hiking and high heels as, you know, just typical

00:26:29.960 Saturday for us girls, right? Here he is. Day 66, being a girl and today I'm in nature.

00:26:37.120 Trees? I love them. Heels? They're my hiking heels. I love them. Okay, come on.

00:26:42.440 Ah, ah, ah, ah. Ah! Did you see that? It was a dragon. Oh my god. Okay, so. I don't know,

00:26:51.320 I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but he went from a Broadway actor to just a broad.

00:26:56.120 I don't know if I can say that in a room full of women. That's a good one. That's a good one. I 1.00

00:27:01.300 wish I had thought of it myself, Dylan. I wish I had thought of it myself. The better Dylan,

00:27:05.620 the preferred Dylan at Relatable. Yeah. Oh, just to be clear for everyone listening,

00:27:09.500 it is not Dylan Mulvaney on the mic. It is a different Dylan. Um, all right. Uh, okay. And

00:27:16.080 then we had, this was in October, but because we're talking about like his transition diary

00:27:22.700 starting in March, um, I'll play this little clip from a couple months ago where he says that he

00:27:28.900 wants to be a mom. And now I know I can find love. I know I can still be a performer. I know

00:27:34.940 that I can have, I want to have a family. I want to be a mom one day and I absolutely can. All right.

00:27:39.820 So he wants to be a mom one day. We responded to that at the time. Look, you can be a dad. You'd

00:27:45.500 probably be a great dad. Um, but you can't ever be a mom. You can't be a mom via adoption. Can't

00:27:52.520 be a mom in any way. Um, because you are a man and men cannot be moms. And there's nothing rude

00:28:00.220 about that. There's nothing mean about that. I think that he is made in the image of God. He is

00:28:05.560 just as valuable as you and me. He's a human being. Um, but God made him a man and God didn't

00:28:12.700 make a mistake when he made his body, when he knit his DNA together in his mother's womb. That

00:28:18.380 was very purposeful. That's the Christian belief that Genesis 127 says that God made us male and

00:28:23.760 female. Not only does the Bible tell us that, but biology tells us that. And to try to suppress that 1.00

00:28:28.740 or change that or manipulate that in any way, it's not just damaging for the individual. It's damaging

00:28:32.920 for a society. Society seeks, uh, needs, distinctions and definitions and order. And one of the

00:28:42.060 most basic orderings of things is the reality of male and female. We didn't even have to 1.00

00:28:46.940 contrive that or come up with that on our own. God just gave it to us. We need order. We need

00:28:52.060 things that distinguish one from the other. We need categories. That's how societies are built.

00:28:57.440 And we don't do well with chaos and gender ideology is, is chaos, not just for one person's soul, 1.00

00:29:03.420 but again, for society as a whole. Um, and then along these lines, we also had the don't say

00:29:09.200 gay so-called bill. We covered this a lot at the time and actually just the other day. 0.82

00:29:14.400 I don't really know why media matters who, I mean, they're just obsessed with me. Maybe I should

00:29:20.900 send them a Christmas card or something, or I should have, um, they wrote an article talking

00:29:27.140 about how I supported or support Ron DeSantis and supported the, um, parental rights and education

00:29:34.860 bill. Like you'll remember, this was such a big thing at the time that the left was absolutely

00:29:41.200 freaking out about that. The media at the time were all freaking out about that. He is banning the word

00:29:47.300 gay, which wasn't true at all. The parental rights and education bill, as we talked about,

00:29:52.840 was just the prohibition on teachers, kindergarten through third grade, hosting formal classroom

00:30:04.740 discussions on sexuality and so-called gender identity. Uh, that is so non-controversial that

00:30:13.920 I am embarrassed for our country that we even need a piece of legislation saying that. Like,

00:30:19.520 I don't care how you identify or what your sexual preference is. We can't agree on that.

00:30:27.340 And I know there are some people who identify themselves as LGBTQ who do agree with that,

00:30:33.460 who don't want to go into the classroom and talk to kids about their genitalia and talk to kids about

00:30:39.100 these very sensitive subjects. They are in a lot of ways, complicated subjects. The only person that

00:30:45.320 needs to be talking to kids about those things if and when and how they want to is the parent

00:30:50.940 in this child's life. So the fact that this was controversial at all, I think it revealed a lot

00:30:56.040 about the left. And it also showed this conflation that only the left is doing. The right, I don't think

00:31:03.040 is doing this. The conflation between, um, uh, demonizing, rightfully criticizing pedophilia

00:31:10.160 pedophilia and demonizing LGBTQ people. Why is saying, Hey, you can't talk about this stuff in

00:31:17.640 kindergarten through third grade, which I think it should be all the way through 12th grade, by the

00:31:21.620 way, but you can't talk about this to little kids. Why is that the same as being anti-gay?

00:31:27.480 You tell me, are you saying that gay people have to talk to a five-year-old about like how their 0.99

00:31:33.620 genitalia doesn't match their brain? Like what? So that was revealing. There were some tweets about this. 0.99

00:31:39.940 Jack, uh, Cochiarella. These are all like left-wing kind of viral tweets that went out. Ron DeSantis

00:31:47.280 says Disney crossed a line by denouncing the don't say gay bill. I think Ron DeSantis crossed a line

00:31:51.940 by signing the don't say gay bill. Um, again, it's called parental rights and education. You'll remember

00:31:57.500 the whole drama with Disney taking a stand against this. And then when it was actually signed saying

00:32:02.560 that they're going to do everything to make sure that it's overturned. And Ron DeSantis and the Florida

00:32:06.840 legislature responded by saying, okay, we're going to take away your, uh, tax privileges when it comes

00:32:13.260 to your zone and Florida, which I think was absolutely the right move. They didn't take

00:32:18.580 away their rights. They took away a privilege, um, that they had had. And Disney, a major, huge,

00:32:24.860 powerful corporation said that they were going to work against the democratic will of the people of

00:32:29.760 Florida to get a law overturned that was duly created and, um, and signed, uh, by Florida

00:32:38.980 legislators and the Florida governor. So that was a problem. So I think he used the power available to

00:32:44.220 him to, uh, protect the people of Florida. That's absolutely what he should do. David Hogg said,

00:32:52.300 let's make the don't say gay bill cost DeSantis his career. Homophobia belongs in our history books,

00:32:57.720 not power. That did not happen. Ron DeSantis completely trounced the competition in Florida

00:33:04.860 and he turned a light blue slash purple state into a red state. So didn't happen, Dave.

00:33:14.320 I was, I was about to say that'll make a really good, um, how it started, how it's going meme when

00:33:19.400 DeSantis wins the Republican, uh, primary. Yeah, that's true. Um, it would have, and you could

00:33:27.120 already, you could just go ahead and make the meme from what David Hogg said at the beginning of the

00:33:31.220 year to what actually happened in November in Florida. Yep. George Takai, Ron DeSantis just

00:33:37.380 signed the Florida don't say gay, don't say trans bill doesn't have the same ring to it. George,

00:33:42.680 uh, into law. Ron DeSantis is garbage. Hmm. Occupy Democrats. 1.00

00:33:49.400 A great account. If you want to have a difficult time distinguishing between reality and satire

00:33:56.140 breaking in a huge slap in a huge slap in the fact. Oh, I think they meant to say face. LOL.

00:34:05.840 And a huge slap in the face to Florida governor, Ron DeSantis and his don't say gay bill. New York 0.93

00:34:10.200 city announces that it's putting up dozens of rainbow studded digital billboards that say the

00:34:15.260 word gay all over five of Florida's largest cities. RT to think New York city. This is what I'm

00:34:22.780 talking about. It's really hard to distinguish between satire and reality when it comes to this

00:34:28.580 account. Also, is this the same New York city that said that they didn't have the resources to deal

00:34:34.680 with all of the illegal immigrants there? Maybe they shouldn't have been sending rainbow billboards 1.00

00:34:42.760 to Florida to make a point that no one really understands. Um, so that was March. And then also

00:34:52.780 we have this nice little clip from Ron DeSantis that people were very upset about, but I like it. So we'll

00:35:00.140 bring it back. Um, where he talks to the kids behind him and like a photo and he's like, no more masks.

00:35:07.660 Thanks. You do not have to wear those masks. I mean, please take it. Honestly, it's not doing

00:35:13.980 anything and we got to stop with this code is theater. So you want to wear it fine, but this is a, this is

00:35:19.140 ridiculous. All right. I love it. I love how genuinely annoyed he is by it. Like you can really tell. I mean, 0.75

00:35:29.060 this is a battle that DeSantis has been fighting and wanted to fight, uh, for a really long time.

00:35:34.740 And he recently announced, what was it? Can someone look this up for me? I'll come back to it. Like a

00:35:40.280 loss. What was it? A lawsuit against the vaccine manufacturers. Um, I'll come back to that after,

00:35:46.360 uh, they look it up. And then in April, we don't have too much. I'm sure there were more things that

00:35:53.000 happened in April, but we just can't get through all of them. But April was Easter. And then we

00:35:58.900 have this amazing clip of our formidable president, Joe Biden, not knowing what is happening and if

00:36:05.760 the Easter bunny is real or not. Thank you. And happy, happy Easter. All right.

00:36:16.000 Okay. So if you didn't catch that, that is Dr. Jill Biden telling her husband, she's going wave, 0.62

00:36:22.600 wave, because I guess that's just what she has to do. She's got to tell, uh, she's got to tell her

00:36:29.300 husband how to, how to function. Um, also, okay. So back to the, uh, back to the governor DeSantis

00:36:36.660 thing. He made the announcement following a round table with Florida surgeon general,

00:36:40.620 Joseph Lodapo and a panel of scientists and physicians in which some discussions centered on

00:36:45.520 the fact that pharmaceutical companies have not provided their data on the COVID-19 vaccines to

00:36:50.300 independent researchers. We'll be able to get the data, whether they want to give it or not to

00:36:54.560 Santa said in Florida, it is illegal to mislead and represent, especially when you're talking about

00:36:57.680 the efficacy of a drug. So I think this is a good move by DeSantis. Um, you'll remember that Trump

00:37:03.540 was in charge of operation warp speed and really took credit for a lot of that and even praise Johnson

00:37:08.860 and Johnson as recently as a few months ago. So I'm not saying that Ron DeSantis is running for

00:37:13.500 president, but I think that this is just kind of like a, it's a good way to distinguish himself.

00:37:18.920 Um, among Republicans, um, by fighting against a vaccine that is very unpopular among conservatives.

00:37:27.100 So that was something that happened recently, but that was connected to the clip that we just played,

00:37:33.160 uh, about DeSantis that happened back in, um, back in March. And then, all right, we move on to May.

00:37:42.140 May was a crazy month. We had, um, the Evalde shooting in Evalde, Texas that happened in May.

00:37:50.120 An 18-year-old killed 21 people, 19 children, two teachers. You'll remember the husband of one of the

00:37:57.320 teachers died of a fatal heart attack the next day, leaving behind their four children. I mean,

00:38:03.080 it just doesn't get more heartbreaking than that. The shooter shot, um, his grandmother as well.

00:38:09.600 And I believe his grandmother survived. Um, the shooter is deceased, was shot and killed by border

00:38:18.260 patrol. Now you'll remember how strange this was and how many videos we saw afterwards of

00:38:26.100 police just not going in, waiting for backup. Um, even though there were a lot of police officers there,

00:38:34.140 there's literally that video going around of a police officer, like, standing outside while the murders

00:38:39.840 are going on, like, getting some hand sanitizer. And it was a total failure of leadership by Evalde

00:38:47.340 police. And there were still some commentators after all this information was coming out, saying,

00:38:53.420 oh, no, we have to defend them. You know, we don't, no, they did the right thing. Or the media is not

00:38:59.820 reporting the truth on this. You literally called me by name, a fake conservative for just raising some

00:39:06.420 questions about, uh, the response to this and said that I call myself a Christian. Uh, what? Because

00:39:15.820 I didn't think that the Evalde police, uh, protected these children enough. And it was ultimately,

00:39:21.640 ultimately border patrol that did something. Um, at least three police officers initially followed

00:39:28.380 Ramos, who was the killer into the building within minutes, but failed to engage him in the next half

00:39:33.700 hour. As many as 19 officers piled into a school hallway, but we're told by, um, or Adondo, who is

00:39:39.020 the police chief to stand down, believing that the shooter had barricaded himself inside a classroom

00:39:43.260 and that children were no longer, um, under an active threat. That decision, however, left Ramos free

00:39:48.360 to carry out his attack within one fourth grade classroom. Stephen McCraw, the director of Texas

00:39:52.420 Department of Public Safety said during a contentious news conference on Friday, another 47 minutes

00:39:57.680 passed before a border patrol tactical team breached the classroom door and shot and killed

00:40:02.060 Ramos. And a lot of people are there. Um, they don't really believe what Oradondo was saying that,

00:40:08.360 Oh, we thought that he was barricaded in a classroom and not doing anything because gunshots were probably

00:40:13.840 heard. There was also a little child in that classroom calling his or her mother. I don't remember

00:40:19.740 if it was a boy or a girl. You'll remember the mother who was trying to rush into, uh, the school to get

00:40:25.760 her children. She was then detained. She was held back, but then parents were able to run into

00:40:32.200 the school and to get their children and get out safely. So you're telling me that these unarmed

00:40:37.780 parents were able to do that, but these armed police officers weren't. So I think there's still

00:40:43.460 a lot of disturbing questions surrounding this. Again, this guy who was the shooter, he had,

00:40:50.760 had, um, a storied past, uh, fatherless, not even living with his parents at the time. He had been

00:40:59.380 inflicting violence on animals. Um, and so there was a lot that told us that, okay, there are red flags

00:41:08.680 here. This person should not be, uh, should not be free. Like you certainly shouldn't be able to have

00:41:15.600 these kinds of weapons. So, um, still very tragic and still these parents who are dealing with this,

00:41:22.220 just like parents who deal with any kind of loss, but especially in these kinds of tragedies,

00:41:26.820 like we stopped talking about it. We moved on to the next thing, but they didn't. This is still

00:41:32.240 obviously the biggest thing that happened to them this year. Those little four children whose mom was

00:41:37.240 shot and killed and whose dad died out of a heart attack the next day, they are spending their first

00:41:40.980 Christmas without their parents. Their first Christmas is orphans. And then you've got all

00:41:45.520 these parents who are spending their first Christmas without their children. Um, I mean, just, it's just

00:41:52.580 unthinkable how, uh, tragic this is. And then we also had the Buffalo shooter who shot up a grocery store

00:42:01.820 in Buffalo, um, New York, who was, um, reportedly an actual white supremacist who was trying to target

00:42:11.420 a minority. So another absolute, um, tragedy there. I mean, the area has all of the gun laws that it can 0.98

00:42:18.900 possibly have to try to restrict something like this from happening. And unfortunately that evil was still

00:42:26.140 carried out. Then in May, there was the Dobbs decision leak, the Dobbs, uh, v. Jackson Women's

00:42:35.860 Health Center decision that ended up overturning Roe v. Wade. Um, you'll also remember how wild this was

00:42:44.500 and what a reaction that it caused when Alito's arguments, um, were interpreted as, uh, the overturning

00:42:54.640 of Roe. I mean, people lost their minds. Uh, we have some clips from protests. Here's the first one.

00:43:03.260 Mayor's大安 elemento ISP, my choice, my body, my choice, my body, my choice, my body, my choice.

00:43:11.540 My whole world is watching. The whole world is watching. The whole world is watching. aún

00:43:27.540 whole world is watching the whole world is watching so if you didn't see that if you're

00:43:44.460 not watching on youtube i mean these were protests that were happening outside of the homes

00:43:49.300 of these supreme court justices there were lots of tweets uh threatening violence and

00:43:56.660 saying that they have no right to privacy they have no right to safety because if abortions aren't

00:44:03.000 safe then neither are they we saw all kinds of vandalism of pro-life pregnancy centers that

00:44:09.960 happened over the next few months as far as we know there have been no arrests that have been made

00:44:14.500 um if we can find those pictures we should put them up of different pregnancy centers that were 0.81

00:44:21.100 firebombed that were threatened and that were vandalized i mean people absolutely freaked out

00:44:27.200 about the potential of roe v wade being overturned which would simply which did simply send the

00:44:34.820 abortion decision back to the states it just shows you that violence begets violence people who want 0.55

00:44:40.800 to be able to be free to kill unborn children of course why wouldn't they be violent towards people 1.00

00:44:47.220 outside of the womb the only difference is size age location um all right and then in june uh we had

00:44:56.700 the actual overturning of roe v wade and let me just read you the reaction to that we didn't know

00:45:03.640 when it was actually going to uh be overturned but it was and this was like a an amazing day it was an

00:45:12.700 amazing day when i thought that roe was going to be overturned and it was amazing day when um it was

00:45:20.040 actually overturned this was something that people fought for for 49 years the torch was passed from

00:45:28.520 one generation of pro-life activists to the other there was so much unseen and unsung work being done

00:45:35.700 by christians in particular to help women who needed it to adopt these children to foster these

00:45:42.440 children and to get women connected to the resources that they needed there were groups who were

00:45:49.240 working to um influence legislators to write laws that would make its way to the supreme court to

00:45:56.140 elect republicans that would then appoint these kinds of judges and justices that would make pro-life

00:46:03.220 aka constitutional decisions it was 49 years of work and persistence and something happened that we never

00:46:10.620 thought would happen by the justice and the grace and the providence of god roe v wade was overturned

00:46:15.720 so that laws that recognize the rights and the dignity of unborn children could be passed in

00:46:21.040 particular states i mean praise god for that praise god for that that's why the culture wars matter

00:46:26.420 that's why politics matter because things can actually change and so roe v wade overturned june 24th

00:46:34.620 and uh justice thomas i think has a really great concurrence when he says i joined the opinion of

00:46:41.060 the court because it correctly holds that there is no constitutional right to abortion respondents 0.99

00:46:45.040 invoke one source for that right the 14th amendment's guarantee that no state shall deprive any person of

00:46:49.580 life liberty or property without due process of law the court well explains why under our substantive

00:46:54.480 due process precedence the purported right to abortion is not a form of liberty protected by the due

00:46:59.200 process clause such a right is neither deeply rooted in this nation's history and tradition nor

00:47:03.720 implicitly in the concept of ordered liberty um twitter reactions abby martin said millions will be

00:47:11.000 forced into motherhood because of six unelected religious extremists uh who do you think decided

00:47:16.780 roe who do you think decided roe 50 years ago i mean there were a bunch of unelected men that decided roe

00:47:24.840 a minority right wing is ascendant and useless democrats will only use this war on our rights to fundraise not

00:47:30.760 fight um emmanuel macron abortion who is the head of france abortion is a fundamental right for all

00:47:37.360 women it must be protected i wish to express my solidarity with the women whose liberties are

00:47:41.740 being undermined lol the mississippi law that the supreme court appelled today bans abortion after

00:47:47.440 15 weeks michael tracy says france bans abortion after 12 weeks our abortion laws in the united states

00:47:53.400 are uniquely radical um and then a bunch of uh corporations said that they were going to pay

00:48:00.420 for abortions disney expedia dick sporting goods paypal bank of america patagonia tesla

00:48:06.920 uh amazon microsoft airbnb all kinds um which is really frightening then there were continued protests you'll also

00:48:18.040 remember that there was a man who traveled from california to virginia to attack uh to attack

00:48:25.180 kavanaugh he was setting out to assassinate kavanaugh apparently and he was apprehended by authorities

00:48:32.620 thankfully lives of tiktok tweeted that there's a tiktoker that posted all of the addresses of the

00:48:37.420 supreme court justices and um then someone commented the top comment apparently on that tiktok um was

00:48:46.920 describing how to make a pipe bomb to throw at these justices houses i mean imagine loving

00:48:52.720 killing children that much that you are willing to murder the supreme court justices who simply said 0.96

00:48:58.060 that it's up to the states really wild carlos meza said i mean this is a guy who is i believe that 0.86

00:49:06.720 this is the guy who's the son of millionaires who says that he's a communist duh uh the suffragettes 0.86

00:49:12.640 planted bombs queer people through bricks violence has always been a necessary and important part of 1.00

00:49:16.820 social justice probably always has been a necessary part of social justice social justice is toxic

00:49:21.920 um uh he says violence is a legitimate and appropriate response to um oppression is it is

00:49:31.660 it oppression to say that children have a right not to be dismembered all kinds of calls for riots and

00:49:38.000 things like that some people said that this was the reason why the red wave didn't really materialize

00:49:44.040 as much as we thought that it would maybe so there's a lot of misinformation you'll remember

00:49:48.480 about banning miscarriages and things like that um of course all of those things were propagandas we

00:49:55.960 talked about at the time um and then this okay we're sorry we're gonna speed up a little bit because

00:50:01.520 this is i know that it's long there's so many stories and then the galane maxwell she was sentenced 0.99

00:50:08.100 also in june remember that crazy story i think that people have forgot about she was sentenced to 20 years

00:50:13.940 in prison for conspiring with jeffrey epstein to sexually abuse minors what do y'all think about

00:50:20.700 the galane maxwell story have any conspiracy theories to share with us

00:50:24.700 do you have any conspiracy theories no i feel like it's less of a conspiracy theory but i'm just really

00:50:31.700 frustrated that there's still like there's still our names right right what's that about like who

00:50:39.940 went to the island what other arrests are being made yeah who was a part of this yeah so some

00:50:47.300 something shady is going on well i think some people would say that the authorities are trying

00:50:52.020 to protect themselves because there are so many powerful people involved in this probably not a

00:50:57.160 conspiracy theory probably yeah i mean with all the intelligence that our intelligence agencies

00:51:02.520 have to spy on americans not only do we not know everyone who was involved with epstein going to

00:51:08.600 epstein island i mean remember that i don't think we have the clip but that really awkward interview

00:51:14.580 with bill gates when he was asked by a reporter like his relationship with uh jeffrey epstein it was

00:51:22.340 super awkward with all the intelligence that we have we apparently can't get any answers on that

00:51:26.780 we also still don't know who leaked the dob decision i forgot to mention that there was a leaker and i

00:51:33.320 think that goes to show that it was probably a clerk for one of the liberal justices but we still don't

00:51:38.080 know we still don't know the answer to that which i think is really odd in july we had my personal

00:51:44.200 hero and a social justice hero in general um arrested for very very very bravely protesting let's see hang

00:51:55.500 on what was she protesting oh she's protesting for um abortion she's violently and brutally

00:52:02.140 arrested you guys might remember that disturbing video here we go

00:52:06.300 so awkwardly like sauntering off so slowly um and she had like held her hands behind her back 0.91

00:52:27.660 and then there were images of her and i think uh whatever her name is uh not not rashida ilhan omar

00:52:37.720 and you can only see them from the front and it looks like they're actually getting arrested because

00:52:41.900 their hands are behind their back but there are no handcuffs there's no handcuffs there um i also

00:52:46.720 was violently arrested that day uh here's that

00:52:49.860 scariest day of my life and i like aoc in the month of july needed to wear a thick coat

00:53:08.240 um because it gets cold in jail and i knew that was my fate just like it was aoc's fate um and then

00:53:17.880 let's see in june or no wait no we're in july we're in july the respect for marriage act was introduced

00:53:26.880 which was just signed i think we spent probably enough time on the respect for marriage act that

00:53:31.940 we don't need to get into all of that right now but that was the beginning of that and then

00:53:37.660 also media matters started um one of their it's just their like thread of obsessions with me

00:53:45.620 um by dedicating an entire hit piece to me ali beth sucky tweet teeters between culture war crusader 0.57

00:53:53.720 and fundamentalist christian they actually inspired my twitter bio they called me a pastel hate influencer

00:54:00.060 that is attracting a young audience through an instagramable aesthetic i try i try i don't think

00:54:07.640 i could have come up with a better a better description of this podcast um stucky regularly

00:54:15.680 spews hateful misinformation about lgbtq people on a relatable podcast hosting anti-lgbtq guests and

00:54:23.960 pushing far right talking points one of the things um that they included that i that i loved

00:54:30.840 oh this is funny stucky's bright pink twitter header instagramable set decorations and aesthetic

00:54:37.280 podcast are apparel are apparel are sorry aesthetic podcast apparel are in stark relief against the

00:54:45.700 backdrop of the virulently anti-lgbtq rhetoric that fuels her extremist right-wing view one of my favorite 1.00

00:54:53.000 things that they said she uh is she said being a biological mother is the best thing she has done

00:54:59.080 other than being a follower of christ and a wife to my husband that is so evil and terrible um

00:55:08.160 they actually did like put all of my comments at this conference where i said that in there that i

00:55:15.760 actually appreciate because i meant them that every woman has not only the capability but also being a

00:55:23.140 the also the calling to be a mother that doesn't necessarily mean a biological mother it could be

00:55:30.020 in a mentorship role a spiritual mother but i do believe that we all have the capability and the

00:55:34.500 responsibility to mother in some way media matters was very upset um about uh about that my researcher

00:55:43.580 put in here i take personal offense to the thought that you would be spreading misinformation especially

00:55:47.260 since i find a lot of sources for you that's right we're not in the business of spreading

00:55:51.180 misinformation um okay leah thomas uh some of this story also happened in july like you'll remember

00:55:58.560 back in march um that he competes as a woman for the university of pennsylvania became the first openly

00:56:06.060 transgender woman that is the phrase the phrase that the new york times use uses to win an ncaa

00:56:12.420 swimming championship and then in july leah thomas was nominated for woman of the year even though he

00:56:21.020 is not a woman can never be a woman will never be a woman didn't actually end up winning but there's

00:56:26.600 that um and then also in july this was a big month the daily dot reported that a political meme subreddit

00:56:33.300 kicked off an internet-wide call to get baseless groomer claims classified as hate speech and so as we've

00:56:41.300 talked about many times with james lindsey he started this thing saying okay groomer whenever

00:56:47.080 people were going to bat for the idea that we should be talking to kids about changing their gender and

00:56:52.480 sexuality and all those things especially in schools it was a play off the okay boomer meme

00:56:57.440 and so twitter literally started banning accounts suspending accounts that called people and called this

00:57:06.980 kind of behavior grooming and they called it anti-lgbtq which again is just very odd because

00:57:13.520 they weren't going around and calling gay people groomers or even people who call themselves trans

00:57:18.360 groomers they were saying if you're talking to kids about this stuff and they're not your own kids

00:57:23.320 and you're not doing it like in a you know healthy way out of love for them you're just you're trying to

00:57:30.220 groom them ideologically or in some cases sexually then yeah you're a groomer literally kicked off of

00:57:37.400 twitter for that and now we know after elon musk has taken over now we know that they protected child

00:57:45.480 sex abuse material and did nothing almost to restrict the distribution of this kind of material so it almost

00:57:54.420 seems like it was intentional they don't like to be called what they are and they're afraid of the

00:58:00.200 stigma um around sexualizing children because they like to sexualize children so that was wild

00:58:07.460 all right moving on to august fauci stepped down as director of the national institute of allergy and

00:58:26.460 infectious diseases um he said that he was hinting for some time that he was going to do that he's 81

00:58:33.500 and so it was just time for him to step down after he has been made into a saint a votive candle

00:58:40.060 some kind of hero but of course we believe that he was a spreader of misinformation that his flip-flopping

00:58:46.420 led to policy which then led to the robbing of livelihoods of people and the childhoods of

00:58:53.440 millions of millions of kids and they'll never be able to get that back um and so he's been wrong so

00:59:01.400 much and in such consequential ways i don't think he should go down as a hero but you know in our

00:59:06.380 bureaucracy you get rewarded for being wrong and you never held accountable for it also in uh in august

00:59:15.480 at the beginning of august the fbi raided trump's home at mar-a-lago saying that they needed documents

00:59:23.940 that were apparently taken out of the white house after his time at um as president um that compromised

00:59:35.800 our national security but there was a lot of people calling bs on that a lot of people saying

00:59:41.860 is that really true or is this just joe biden weaponizing the doj against his potential

00:59:50.580 presidential opponent in 2024 and so we had a whole big episode on that a lot of people were like

00:59:57.720 oh my gosh it's starting like this is actually a form of fascism but there's been a lot that's come

01:00:02.700 out since then and a lot of debate and discussion about whether or not the fbi raiding his home was

01:00:09.360 really justified um and then let's see uh we had a few other things happen in august we had our top

01:00:19.180 viewed episode ever on youtube uh sophia galvin a former um a a former person who identified as

01:00:30.860 transgender someone who tried to transition from female to male who then de-transitioned

01:00:38.240 and became a christian and is now talking about that process and is sharing her faith

01:00:44.120 really amazing interview i think it has at least right now as i'm recording over 400 000 views

01:00:50.120 um and so i'm so thankful for that i hope so many lives have been changed because of her

01:00:54.860 boldness and because of how god is using her so that's exciting and then we had that volleyball

01:01:01.460 racial slur hoax remember that that duke university's volleyball team accused brigham young uh young

01:01:10.780 students at a volleyball game of calling a black player in uh for duke university the n-word and then

01:01:20.960 there was video footage that came out that showed that no one was saying that that wasn't heard

01:01:27.340 anywhere it was also just not plausible that people would be bold enough to say something like that

01:01:32.720 and that no one would be reacting come on but then the girl who accused some students of this her god 0.91

01:01:41.860 her godmother was tweeting about it saying that this is uh saying that this really happened

01:01:48.980 and that there needs to be some kind of legal effort against them and it ended up just being a false

01:01:57.900 claim a video of the entire game was posted on youtube and does not appear to show anyone yelling

01:02:03.440 slurs at any point and no cell phone footage has surfaced i mean come on it's just so crazy how many of

01:02:10.480 these race hate crime hoaxes um turn out to or how many of these like alleged race race hate crimes

01:02:20.100 turn out to be hoaxes turn out to be perpetrated by the very people who are accusing someone of

01:02:28.400 perpetrating this um against them i think that goes to show that victim status pays in the united

01:02:34.600 states like if you're going to go through all the trouble of making something up like this

01:02:38.640 it's not because you're actually oppressed but because you know oppression grants you a certain

01:02:43.560 status that you are coveting um so i think that that knowledge should probably flavor our commentary

01:02:51.440 when we are looking at future allegations of these kinds of hate crimes doesn't mean that they're all

01:02:56.900 false doesn't mean that they never happen doesn't mean that we should never believe the people

01:03:00.740 making these allegations but we should take all of the accusations with a grain of salt um and then

01:03:06.440 we've got september this was martha's vineyard gate you'll remember that um and not only martha's

01:03:13.380 vineyard but the red states were sending the illegal migrants to the blue states who said that they were

01:03:18.000 sanctuary cities and sanctuary states and they said that they wanted all of these illegal migrants to

01:03:24.640 come and the dc mayor said we do not have the resources and then um the new york mayor said we do not

01:03:34.060 have the resources we don't have the places for we don't have the place for all of these people

01:03:38.520 um and then ron de santis decided to do the epic move of sending them to martha's vineyard who called

01:03:45.180 themselves a sanctuary area lots of money lots of space lots of vacant homes by the way um and so

01:03:53.080 they sent them right along on a bus a voluntary program to martha's vineyard and uh here's a martha's

01:04:00.260 vineyard resident saying diversity might be a strength but not for us so what are the most

01:04:07.260 difficult challenges right now the difficult challenges are uh we have at some point in time

01:04:14.760 they have to move somewhere else right we we cannot we don't have the services to take care of 50

01:04:22.140 immigrants um and we we certainly don't have housing we're in a housing crisis as we are on this island

01:04:27.780 and so we don't we can't house everyone here that lives here and works here we don't have housing for

01:04:34.920 50 more people so why'd you call yourself a sanctuary city a sanctuary area because you knew that it wasn't

01:04:42.240 going to happen because you live in an elite island that most people don't have easy access to

01:04:46.580 and so you did it to virtue signal uh you can get the resources brown texas also doesn't have the

01:04:52.480 resources these florida towns don't have the resources these border towns in arizona in california

01:04:58.340 and texas they don't have the resources to care for these illegal migrants either i guarantee you 1.00

01:05:02.560 probably have more resources than they do these are poor towns that cannot support the thousands and

01:05:08.140 thousands and thousands of migrants that have come into their cities and you criticize them for

01:05:13.520 voting republican you criticize them for saying hey we can't help all of these people we want our

01:05:19.940 communities back we want our towns back we want to feel safe and secure we want to have a country

01:05:24.440 again and yet when you're in that with the crisis that you are belittling you say oh we don't have the

01:05:29.660 time we don't have the resources i think that de santis made a really good point um with all of that i

01:05:35.100 know people were kicking and screaming about it but i think that he made an important point that you

01:05:41.240 want diversity for thee but not for me um all right you'll also remember this we've got the

01:05:48.500 fake boob teacher stating that he is trans now is this real is this not real i don't know but he's 0.96

01:05:55.320 wearing these ridiculously large prosthetic breasts and he's teaching woodshop i guess in canada i mean 0.99

01:06:01.780 this is a form of sexual harassment to young boys as i said at the time um i oakville trafalgar 0.94

01:06:10.080 high school they issued a statement saying that they support that they support him actually that there's

01:06:15.900 no problem with this so i whether he was faking it or not the school really did support him um

01:06:22.600 all right also yeah on that note they um have now made it they're threatening students with

01:06:29.700 suspension if they take photos of it so the students aren't even allowed to like 0.96

01:06:33.780 talk about it yeah to share it with people oh my gosh i mean they're fake boobs like without 0.51

01:06:42.220 a bra on it's a man it's a man it's a man wearing this in a woodshop class yeah they're gonna take 0.83

01:06:49.560 photos i mean it's a fetish for him it's a fetish for him he gets off on this and apparently we are

01:06:55.240 supposed to allow people to live out their fetishes publicly it's a protected class a fetish is now a

01:07:01.680 protected class in the united states we're supposed to call it identity and we have to abide by it no

01:07:09.760 matter how uncomfortable it makes us feel it's so sad it feels so bad for the young boys and there

01:07:14.160 also saw like some footage of this person skydiving recently very strange all right so we're in

01:07:20.540 september a couple big things happened the um biden speech where he was in front of independence hall

01:07:29.100 in philadelphia you'll remember that he's flanked by members of our military saying that maga republicans

01:07:34.860 are anti-democracy that they're enemies of democracy and um that they are that they're in a battle for the

01:07:43.340 soul of the nation this was very very strange we'll put up a picture but behind him is like a wall

01:07:51.120 bathed in red yeah very demonic looking and the most divisive speech probably in all of american

01:08:00.860 presidential history way worse way more uh dogmatic than anything trump ever said way more divisive way

01:08:11.140 more violence inducing than anything biden ever said and by the way i don't even know if all of this is

01:08:16.700 included but there has been plenty of political violence against republicans and conservatives this

01:08:21.300 year there was the 83 year old in michigan who was shot in the back by a pro-choicer as she was

01:08:26.840 canvassing for uh for pro-lifers just a couple months ago there was kayler ellingson i believe it

01:08:33.180 was in south dakota who was murdered by a guy because he said that um the guy said that he thought that

01:08:41.440 this guy was some like right winger or something like that and so whether that can be tied directly

01:08:47.460 to biden speech i don't know i'm sure that a lot of the just vitriolic hateful and deceitful rhetoric

01:08:55.020 that we hear um from a lot of people on the left doesn't help the situation certainly and i will

01:09:02.100 i will stand by this it's way worse than rhetoric that you hear on the right way worse um and just

01:09:09.840 way more pervasive too and way more mainstream and so here's a short clip of biden's speech

01:09:15.240 and here in my view is what is true maggie republicans do not respect the constitution

01:09:23.620 they do not believe in the rule of law they do not recognize the will of the people

01:09:28.500 what what i don't i mean basically just casting everyone he goes on in that to basically lump everyone

01:09:39.880 who is pro-life into that so they're an enemy of the country and what do you do to enemies yikes 0.92

01:09:45.240 also on september 8th queen elizabeth died the uk's longest serving monarch died at balmoral

01:09:51.940 on uh age 96 after reigning for 70 years there was a there were a lot of hot takes after that some

01:10:00.820 people celebrating her death saying that she was some kind of you know evil colonizer and things like

01:10:06.760 that and then others saying that she was the unifier of the uk that it's a very sad day most

01:10:13.340 people were saying things like that um and so sad but uh a long life well lived and then also um in

01:10:23.480 october the a um pro-lifers were arrested and raided you'll remember that mark hawk he was a

01:10:31.500 catholic pro-life activist his home was raided and fbi agents rammed into his home when all of his

01:10:39.820 little children were standing there absolutely petrified and demanding uh to see him this is

01:10:47.380 after he peacefully protested at a an abortion center in philadelphia and a man harassed and got

01:10:55.220 into the face of his son saying sexually explicit things to his son and so mark hawk simply pushed him

01:11:00.020 back well this is the federal government saying oh no this was a form of assault and you were trying

01:11:05.220 to prevent someone from accessing abortion that's not what was happening there were several several

01:11:10.160 other people who were um indicted as well not just and not just there but also in uh the state of

01:11:19.380 tennessee and they are facing up to 11 years in prison we also interviewed someone who was being

01:11:25.420 indicted on the face act freedom of access to clinic entrances act of 1994 it's a very obscure law

01:11:33.280 has rarely ever been enforced but this is um who biden is he is uh his administration is extremely

01:11:40.240 fascistic you'll remember that the doj is not just going after trump is not just going after pro-lifers but

01:11:46.660 um has also planned to go after parents who complain at school board meetings so they're

01:11:51.560 completely political and ideological and uh corrupt uh and then we also have in october the paul pelosi

01:12:01.560 story october 28 the very strange story where david de pape was accused of attacking paul pelosi with a

01:12:08.520 hammer after breaking into the pelosi san francisco home there are a lot of theories about what was

01:12:13.880 really going on there they were both in their underwear apparently paul pelosi like told um uh told

01:12:21.540 the police officers while the pape was there that everything was fine and so it was very strange and

01:12:30.160 then um there was that story of the nbc reporter who was who reported uh about the incongruencies with

01:12:40.800 this story that maybe this wasn't a random attack that paul pelosi seemed to not want authorities to

01:12:47.440 help him while the pape was there and that reporter the story ended up getting taken down and that

01:12:53.360 reporter ended up being suspended which was very very strange so there's a fly in the buttermilk

01:12:58.660 here as we say in the south there's something going on that we don't really understand i mean this guy

01:13:03.920 david de pape was apparently an illegal immigrant he was apparently a pedophile he lived in san francisco

01:13:11.220 in a place that had a bunch of pride and blm flags but also he believed a lot of strange conspiracy

01:13:17.140 theories like almost q anon-esque he wasn't stable and yet the left was constantly pinning it on

01:13:23.440 the right saying that this is like right-wing violence i mean pretty amazing if you can

01:13:29.060 say that a san francisco illegal immigrant pro blm and pride flag waving guy attacking paul pelosi is a

01:13:38.080 right-wing extremist incident very strange and then also we've got elon buying twitter on october

01:13:45.620 27th elon musk completed a 44 billion dollar deal to own twitter immediately firing four top twitter

01:13:52.000 execs including the ceo and cfo um donald trump's was donald trump's account restored yeah i guess it was

01:14:01.860 yeah he's just not using it yeah um he restored several big accounts donald trump marjorie taylor

01:14:10.400 green andrew tate jordan peterson the babylon b kathy griffin kanye west kanye west time on

01:14:18.460 on october ended as we will talk or on twitter ended pretty quickly after this and so this was something

01:14:24.820 i never really thought was going to happen and it did end up happening so that was that was a pleasant

01:14:29.400 surprise um in november we had the election the red wave did not materialize quite as much as we

01:14:35.620 thought that it would john fetterman someone who cannot physically speak uh beat dr oz in the

01:14:41.400 pennsylvania senate race i always thought that dr oz was a bad candidate though i always thought he was

01:14:45.520 a bad candidate he was way too liberal and would i have preferred him over fetterman yes but he was way

01:14:51.680 too slick he seemed like a carpetbagger and i just didn't think that he was a good choice 1.00

01:14:57.140 and we had trump and other members of the media trying to hoist him up and to lie about his primary

01:15:04.980 opponents i thought that was very sketchy and disturbing um and then we have uh trump announcing

01:15:13.020 his presidential run on november 15th which came as a surprise to no one he alluded to that even on my

01:15:21.040 podcast last year um and then we had the whole ftx thing that happened in november when sam

01:15:30.820 bankman freed was charged with orchestrating a scheme to defraud equity investors in ftx trading

01:15:38.260 limited he also he raised more than or he also raised a lot of money and gave a lot of money to

01:15:46.480 democrats some republicans but mostly uh democrats he was also supporting um ukrainian endeavors as we

01:15:55.640 talked about a few weeks ago and so there is a strange scheme going on here he was also just

01:16:01.640 arrested i believe it was in the bahamas um and then we had the whole kanye west saga in november and

01:16:09.800 december um he appeared on tucker's show uh on october 6th to discuss the decision to wear a white lives

01:16:19.820 matter shirt in paris fashion week and then he talked about in some footage that wasn't aired about uh jews

01:16:29.640 being the real black people uh or the black people being the real jews and he has said that in other 0.87

01:16:37.380 places as well he posted um on october 7th that he was going to go death con um three on jewish people 0.56

01:16:47.740 very strange thing happening and then there was then it goes into november with the trump dinner which

01:16:54.940 we discussed with nick fuentes and then there was the tim cast interview and there was the alex jones 0.90

01:17:00.200 interview all of which uh in all of which he said basically that jewish people have kind of screwed

01:17:07.540 him over he also said on the alex jones show that he loves nazis and that he loves hitler um he got

01:17:16.040 suspended from twitter after posting a swastika within a star of david which is also like part of a

01:17:24.720 like cult symbol i think it's called the raylian uh cult which we kind of tied together a few weeks

01:17:30.900 ago um two he announced that he was running for president and milo yiannopoulos was running his

01:17:36.700 campaign but milo yiannopoulos stepped down after some texts came out that showed that milo yiannopoulos

01:17:42.820 was apparently calling kanye west gay very strange very strange um another strange thing that we've talked

01:17:49.400 about for the past uh few weeks that is actually more of a december story so we can transition into

01:17:56.560 december now was sam britain the biden nuclear official that was uh he was fired after being

01:18:03.020 charged with stealing women's luggage at multiple airports across the country this is a very strange

01:18:09.280 guy who hosted bdsm workshops at various places he never should have been hired it was very obvious

01:18:16.040 that he was unstable from the beginning he is now facing federal charges for these things i feel

01:18:21.520 badly for the women whose luggage and jewelry and all of that and clothes that he stole and then of

01:18:27.860 course we had the big balenciaga story which we covered extensively on this podcast where they posted

01:18:35.460 photos of children holding these bears that were dressed in bdsm gear and then they had in other

01:18:41.340 campaigns hidden supreme court cases having to do with child pornography child sex abuse material

01:18:47.520 and uh they also had some other like very strange things in the backgrounds of their photos like different

01:18:55.100 books and things like that that seemed to allude to the normalization of the sexualization of children

01:19:02.580 there were all different kinds of statements conflicting statements that came out

01:19:07.820 um from balenciaga about this i still think that they need to be investigated here not enough

01:19:14.200 celebrities that have ties to them have said anything about it again very dark just how mainstream the

01:19:20.100 objectification of children has become and then in december we have the twitter files which we discussed

01:19:25.540 with orrin mcintyre a couple weeks ago and uh just showing the collusion between twitter and the federal

01:19:33.420 government to try to suppress information either about hunter biden or about covid or about uh people

01:19:40.120 who identify as transgender and so the very people who call people on the right fascists were cheering

01:19:46.540 on the collusion between a major company and the federal government to silence dissent i think that's a

01:19:52.680 great part of elon taking over twitter and i also think that um his removal of child sex abuse material

01:20:00.040 from twitter makes his takeover alone worth it and then we have perhaps the biggest story of the year

01:20:06.500 uh that donald trump he teased a major announcement he said i have a huge announcement it's going to be huge

01:20:12.920 and we were all like whoa what's this huge announcement he's already said that he's running

01:20:17.040 for president is he going to say he's not running for president what's a huge announcement who's your vp

01:20:21.380 pick what's going on it's going to be like some major thing it's going to be some policy proposal

01:20:25.980 what is it it wasn't he announced trading cards and we'll put up the picture he announced digital

01:20:34.700 trading cards an nft featuring trump's face on the bodies of superheroes here's the video

01:20:41.440 hello everyone this is donald trump hopefully your favorite president of all time better than lincoln

01:20:51.140 better than washington with an important announcement to make i'm doing my first

01:20:56.140 official donald j trump nft collection right here and right now they're called trump digital trading

01:21:02.640 cards these cards feature some of the really incredible artwork pertaining to my life and my

01:21:08.960 career it's been very exciting you can collect your trump digital cards just like a baseball card

01:21:14.920 or other collectibles here's one of the best parts each card comes with an automatic chance to win

01:21:22.300 amazing prizes like dinner with me i don't know if that's an amazing prize but it's what we have

01:21:27.560 or golf with you and a group of your friends at one of my beautiful golf courses and they are beautiful

01:21:33.500 okay so there it is 99 for his trading cards i don't know i actually just kind of feel bad like i just

01:21:40.000 kind of feel bad for him i do i feel bad for him in this case and i feel bad for the people who just

01:21:46.320 like they can't they can't believe that he would ever do anything wrong it's just wild it's just

01:21:55.180 but that was apparently the biggest story the biggest announcement of the year now as i'm recording

01:22:00.180 this it is december 16th so there could be more that happens in the next couple weeks leading up to

01:22:06.220 when this actually comes out but that was december 15th so that's about as much as we can do there's

01:22:12.040 also like i mean there is a lot uh more that we could talk about we could talk about inflation we

01:22:18.300 could talk about pitbulls continuing to demolish humans and we can talk about the food processing

01:22:25.620 plants that have caught on fire and what the heck was going on there and why aren't there more

01:22:29.340 investigations about any of that but we don't have time this has already been like a mammoth episode just

01:22:35.120 insanely long but a lot happened this year and there was a lot more that we uh there was a lot more

01:22:41.900 that we didn't even get to cover um all right that's all i got for today and i hope you enjoyed

01:22:50.580 our recap and we will be back here soon

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - December 28, 2022

Ep 731 ｜ Craziest Moments of 2022

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