Ep 84 ｜ The Privilege of Ignorance
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On today's episode of Thick & Thin, we discuss the Democratic Party's new anti-Bigotry Resolution, Ilhan Omar's appointment to Congress, and the privilege of ignorance that AOC is able to have but that is not afforded to other people.
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Hello and happy Monday, relatable listeners. This is the first ever relatable episode that is
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Wednesday, Thursday. I totally understood your reasoning behind that. It was already Tuesday,
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Thursday. Why not just add a Wednesday in? But the reasoning that I got from the majority of
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you guys who voted on this was that this allows a day in between the podcast or two days between
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Friday and Monday for you guys to get caught up. And it's less time that you have to wait between
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Friday and Monday. Between Thursday and Tuesday was kind of a long time. You guys might forget
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about me. Now you can't forget about me. I'm going to make it impossible for you to forget about me.
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I also suggested a structure for our podcast every week. And that is that Monday, I'm going
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to catch you up on some of the latest news. And we're going to analyze that as we always do.
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And then Wednesday are going to be our Wednesdays are going to be our theological dates. And then
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Friday, it's going to be a conversation or Q&A. Maybe Friday will be different sometimes,
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but that's the structure that I have in mind right now. And of course, we can change as you guys give
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me feedback and say, actually, I would like theology to be on Mondays and news on Wednesdays.
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And I hate the conversations that you have. Okay, I'll listen to you. I'll pull the audience and
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we'll kind of see what's best. As you guys know, I listen to what you guys say. I want a show that
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week. A good balance of information and inspiration. My only fear is starting with the Monday news is
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that I'm going to get y'all riled up on Monday morning before work, and you're going to be mad
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about whatever news I talk about. So I'll try to always end on a positive note. That's what we're
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going to do today. Okay, we're going to talk about this thing called the privilege of ignorance,
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which is actually only a privilege afforded to particular people on the left. And to do that,
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we are going to analyze what happened with Ilhan Omar and this so-called anti-bigotry resolution
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the Democrats passed in Congress. And then we are also going to talk about the privilege of ignorance
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that AOC is able to have, but that is not afforded to other people. At the end, though,
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I'm going to give you a pregnancy update because that's a great positive way to end this episode so
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that you're not going into work thinking, oh my gosh, this country is going to hell in a hand
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basket. Plus, that's not true anyway, because God is in control. So we're going to go through all of
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that. I'll give you a pregnancy update at the end. Also, I just wanted to note, thank you guys.
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For those of you who reached out to Spotify about taking my podcast down, thank you so much.
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Honestly, I don't know why it happened. It's pretty easy to jump to the conclusion as a conservative,
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particularly as a conservative Christian, that Spotify censored my podcast and decided to take
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it down. Last Thursday, we talked about the United Methodist Church decision. We talked about biblical
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marriage, which is a controversial topic in and outside of Christian circles. And then it was taken
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down later Thursday afternoon. A lot of you guys alerted me about that. And we reached out to Blaze TV,
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reached out to Spotify. A bunch of you guys sent me messages that you reached out to Spotify as
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well, threatening to cancel. Some of you did cancel. A lot of people were talking about it
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on Twitter. And then the next day it was restored. So was it a glitch? Did something random just
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happened? It accidentally the entire show was taken down and then it was put back up? Or was it censored
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because of the content of my podcast? And then because of the complaints and the support of you guys
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that it was put back up? I don't really know. What we do know is that Spotify uses Southern
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Poverty Law Center, an absolute I don't even know how to describe it, an absolute crazy left
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leaning organization that calls anything center or to the right of center hate speech, literally
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everything. It calls Prager University this hateful organization, everything that takes any kind of
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Christian or conservative stance that SPLC says is hateful and hate speech. Spotify uses them to wade
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through their content and decide what's hateful and what's not. I would not be surprised if the SPLC
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hates the relatable podcast. So I don't know, though. I don't know. They wouldn't give comment
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to you guys. They said it might be a licensing issue, which we know for a fact is not true.
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And then when some of you guys push them on it, they said, oh, well, we can't comment anymore on that.
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But we'll we'll keep looking into this. I think it's a little bit fishy. Again, I don't really know.
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I'm not one of those conservatives who thinks every time I don't get enough likes on a picture,
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it's because I'm being shadow banned. You've got some people that do that. Sometimes that's not
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true. Sometimes like your content just isn't isn't popular right now where you're not getting a lot of
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retweets. It's not always some nefarious plot that's going on behind the scenes against you.
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Sometimes it is. We've seen that for sure, especially on YouTube. But sometimes it's not. I'm not the kind
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of person that you're going to hear complain about that a whole lot. I try to give them
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sometimes the benefit of the doubt, these tech giants. But sometimes things are just too suspicious
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and you got to ask why. So we did. And I appreciate your support on that. Outnumbered. I was on last
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week on Friday, and that was really fun. Thank you guys for watching. You guys sent me pictures of you
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guys watching it on your laptops. And I really appreciate that. I had a really good time doing
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that. I loved it. Fastest hour of my life. So anyway, thank you guys for all of that. I am going
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to move past the personal stuff and we're going to start talking about what we are actually discussing
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today. As I said last week, Democrats passed this anti bigotry resolution. And the reason that they
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passed it was because of freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from Minnesota. We talked about her last
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week. She is from Somalia. She is a refugee. She is also a Muslim, not necessarily
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pertinent to what we're about to talk about, but it kind of is because she because she's been
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criticized for anti-Semitism. He and she and some of her defenders have said it's because she's a
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Muslim and people are just Islamophobic. And of course, that's ridiculous and untrue. So the reason
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why this anti bigotry resolution was passed in the first place was because of her anti-Semitic
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comments. Some of those anti-Semitic comments date as far back as 2012, at least public comments,
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where she tweeted that she believes that Israel is hypnotizing the world and that people need to
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wake up to the evils of Israel. She also claimed on Twitter that people who support Israel, that it's
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all about the Benjamins. She also said that allegiance to AIPAC is making some Republicans and people in
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Congress loyal to Israel. AIPAC is a pro-Israel organization that does support some politicians,
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but certainly doesn't support politicians monetarily nearly as much as an organization like
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Planned Parenthood does. And AIPAC is not necessarily a right-leaning organization.
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It supports left-leaning politicians quite frequently and Republicans. Some Republicans do
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have a problem with AIPAC. So she said that people who support Israel are controlled by AIPAC,
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controlled by the Benjamins, and also claimed that people in America who support Israel are guilty of
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having dual loyalty. So the reason why she is being accused of being anti-Semitic is not because
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she's criticizing Israel, because people, of course, are in their right to criticize Israel. People, of
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course, because of the First Amendment, are in their right to say anything they want to. But the reason
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why she is being accused of anti-Semitic, of being anti-Semitic because of these comments, isn't just
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because she said, you know what, I don't agree with some of the decisions that Israel has made.
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And so let's have a conversation about foreign policy. Let's have a conversation about our policy
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in relation to Israel. She hasn't actually expressed any coherent argument against Netanyahu,
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the leader of Israel, or against Israel's policies. She has simply said these anti-Semitic tropes.
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The reason why they are anti-Semitic tropes is because there is this grand conspiracy that has
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been used against the Jewish people for a very long time, saying that Jews are controlling the
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world with their money and people who support the Jewish people are secretly more pro-Israel than
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they are pro-America, that they are exercising this dual loyalty that she's talking about. There's this
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conspiracy that they own all the banks and that the Jews are in charge and we need to be against
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the Jews. And so she is perpetuating these tropes and she's being called out for it. And quite frankly,
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I think that Ilhan Omar is completely surprised that not everyone in Congress, not even every
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Democrat in Congress agrees with her. I think that this anti-Semitism and these stereotypes of the
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Jewish people are so embedded into her heart and mind that she really might not have realized that
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they're not mainstream ideas and that people do have very strong feelings about Israel. And it's not
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because of dual loyalty, but it's because they're an ally. They're the only democracy in the Middle East.
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They're the only country in the Middle East that recognizes the rights of its people, especially
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religious minorities. And so if she is going to take a stand against Israel, which has been such
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a faithful ally to the United States for so long, she simply needs to be able to articulate a logical
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position against them. That's not saying she shouldn't be a critic. That's not saying she shouldn't
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start conversations and have legitimate questions about our policy in relation to Israel or what Israel
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is doing in relation to Palestine. Sure, she can have questions about that. That's fine.
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But so far, she's been unable to do that. She has only criticized them in a way that perpetuates
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and uses anti-Semitic tropes. She has been called out by Democrats, which is originally why they were
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going to pass a resolution condemning anti-Semitism that mentioned Ilhan Omar by name. But through the
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course of a few days, a Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, decided that's not going to be the case
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anymore. They're not going to have a resolution specifically calling out anti-Semitism or even
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mentioning Ilhan Omar. Instead, they're going to have an overarching, a very generalized anti-bigotry
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resolution that calls out things like white supremacy, that calls out things like other forms
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of hatred, transphobia, homophobia, whatever. Oh, and anti-Semitism is also included in there. And
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oh, this has nothing to do with Ilhan Omar. And this is actually Nancy Pelosi saying that this has
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nothing to do with Ilhan Omar. The incident that happened was, I don't think our colleague is
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anti-Semitic. I think she has a different experience in the use of words, doesn't understand
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that some of them are fraught with meaning that she didn't realize, but nonetheless, that we had to
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address. Okay. I would really like to know, truly, I would like to know how Ilhan Omar feels
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about being patronized in this way. So you just heard Nancy Pelosi. Basically, she said,
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Ilhan Omar, she's just this, she's just a, she's got a different experience with words.
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And she's just this silly little foreign girl. This is what Nancy Pelosi is saying,
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who just doesn't understand words. She just doesn't understand concepts. So we need to go easy
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on her. If I were Ilhan Omar, I'd be like, girl, I know what I'm saying. Okay. I am a grown woman.
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I know what I'm saying. I'm an anti-Semite. Okay. Like if I were Ilhan Omar, like, I feel like I would
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just come out and say that. Like, I feel like I would just be like, you know what? I'm tired of
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being treated like I'm a five-year-old. I'm tired of being treated like I'm dumb. I'm an adult and I
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take responsibility for my words. But of course she's not saying that. And we've got other Democrats
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as well who are saying, you know, she just doesn't know. She just, she just doesn't know.
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We just need to coddle her. We just need to treat her with these kid gloves because she just doesn't
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know. She's from, she's from a different country. And of course you have, uh, AOC and you've got
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Rashida Tlaib who are also taking up for her saying she's not, she's not anti-Semitic. This is really
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Republican's fault. And we need to stick up for her. We have Linda Sarsour coming to Congress,
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trying to, uh, convince members of Congress. She made a video about this. This is not just hearsay
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trying to convince members of Congress to make this a broad resolution rather than just condemning
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anti-Semitism. Of course, Linda Sarsour is the leader of the Women's March who is known. She is
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known. She is known for being an anti-Semite, but also, um, uh, what's her name? Tamika Mallory is
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also known for being an anti-Semite for calling, uh, uh, uh, Louis Farrakhan, the greatest of all
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time, who said that Jews are termites and are of the devil. So we've all, we've got this connected
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network of anti-Semites and sympathizers to anti-Semites like AOC that makes this all make
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sense because the, the bottom line is that Democrats don't really care about anti-Semitism.
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They just don't because to them, Jewish people, they just haven't been oppressed enough. They,
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they really, they just haven't been oppressed enough. They don't know the struggle, the way
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that someone like Ilhan Omar does. They don't know the struggle of a Muslim woman from Somalia.
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They don't have as many oppression points, um, as someone like Ilhan Omar does. And so
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we just kind of need to minimize it. We just kind of need to brush over anti-Semitism. We just kind
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of need to pretend like it's not really that big of a deal. Um, and we need to make sure that this is,
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uh, this is an all encompassing, very general, non-accusatory to little miss Ilhan Omar, who
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apparently is only five years old. And we just need to go soft on all of this because really,
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or do Jewish, do Jewish people really have it that hard? That's basically what Democrats are
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communicating right now. Um, Ilhan Omar has decided that she's not really going to apologize,
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but she told CNN, she told CNN that this is exciting, that all of this is exciting. She said,
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um, you know, it's not surprising. This is a quote that she gave to CNN. I think it is actually
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exciting because we are finally able to have conversations that we weren't really willing
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to. It is really important for us to get a different lens about what peace in that region
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could look like and the difficult kind of conversations we need to have about allies.
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Okay. I'm fine with that. Like I am fine with talking about the peace in that region and what
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that will look like. People have been talking about that for a long time, girl, and they have been
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doing it without, uh, invoking antisemitic tropes. You seem unable to do that. You have not talked
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about how we reach peace in that region. You haven't talked about the, the relationship that we have
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with our allies. You haven't talked about that. You've said the people that support Israel are
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controlled by money and are guilty of dual loyalty. You are an antisemite and Democrats are so unwilling
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and so unable to call that out because like I said, because of intersectionality, because of
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identity politics, because they say, you know, Jewish people, or they believe that Jewish people
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just aren't quite as oppressed, um, as everyone else, they're just not high enough on the
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intersectionality totem pole. Despite the fact that I think it was according to CBS, I think this was
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the source. I'm just remembering this, this quote that I read and took a screenshot of, uh, that even
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though Jewish people only make up a 2% of our population, 58.6, I think 58% around there,
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or was it 56.8? I'll have to go back and look at that. The majority of the hate crimes have been
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committed against Jewish people, even though they only make up 2% of the population. And you want to
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tell me that they don't deserve a resolution explicitly calling out antisemitism. The other
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reason why Democrats are so unable and unwilling to push back against someone like Ilhan Omar or AOC or
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Rashida Tlaib is because they know that these freshmen Congresswomen have millennials in their
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pocket. And because millennials are very radical because millennials are largely uneducated in history
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and in what's going on in the world, they are indoctrinated by postmodern professors and
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public schooling, quite frankly, for the most part, not all public schools, but a lot of public schools.
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Um, and they just don't know things. And so they're buying into this feelings-based socialism,
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this feelings-based idea that American is America is this imperialist aggressor. And they're buying
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into a lot of what AOC and Rashida Tlaib and, uh, Ilhan Omar are saying. And they know Nancy Pelosi knows
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that for the democratic party to survive, they've got to get that millennial vote. So they're not going to
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extoriate someone like Ilhan Omar. They're not going to, uh, hang someone like AOC out to dry.
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They're not going to separate themselves from them. They are trying to show, uh, Nancy Pelosi is trying
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to show, no, I'm not part of the democratic establishment. I'm, I'm on board, uh, with this new
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progressive, uh, wing of the democratic party. And so the extremists like Ilhan Omar, AOC, et cetera,
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are now carrying the party. AOC joked, or actually she didn't joke. She was actually saying this a
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couple of weeks ago. She said, I'm in charge. She was talking about the green new deal. And we all
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laughed at her and we said, you're not in charge of anything. Actually, she's right. She is right.
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Freshman Congresswomen are in charge of the democratic party. Nancy Pelosi has completely
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lost control. She knows that the only way, or she thinks anyway, the only way for the democratic
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party to survive is to hand over control to someone like Ilhan Omar. So she's not going to
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call out her antisemitism. No, but when it comes to Steve King, the Republican who said to the New
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York times, he says it was out of context, but the quote that we have is saying, you know,
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what's wrong with white supremacy? What's what's really wrong with this? And Republicans and Democrats
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said, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, that's not okay. And then they kind of went back and said, he's been saying
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some suggestive racist remarks for a long time. They stripped him of his committee assignments
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that has not happened to Ilhan Omar because there's a double standard. And we see that most
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especially in the media who has given cover to Democrats who shamefully brought in this resolution
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from antisemitism to bigotry, uh, in general, the headlines for some, some organizations, not all,
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but for some organizations is that 23 Republicans voted. No voted. No on this anti bigotry resolution.
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And then AOC says this, she says this on Twitter, where's the outrage over the 23 GOP members who
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voted no on a resolution condemning bigotry today. Oh, there's none. I love when people like space and
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indent their tweets to make it more dramatic. It's like the more classy, clappy hands. Oh, there's none.
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She says, did they get called out, raked over, ambushed in halls and relentlessly asked why not?
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No. Okay. Got it. All right. All right. I am done believing that she's just not smart.
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She's got to be the most deliberately dishonest person, the most deliberately dishonest person
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in Congress. I don't know. That's really, really difficult. She's up there with Maisie Hirono and Nancy
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Pelosi. She's up there though. This is so dishonest and so deceptive. It's unreal. So Democrats afraid
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to specifically call out antisemitism, afraid to specifically call out the source of this whole
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problem. The whole reason we're even having this conversation, Ilhan Omar expands it to an anti
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bigotry resolution that basically means nothing. And I think demeans Jewish people who truly are the
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victims of hate crime and antisemitism in this country. They're not the ones at fault, according
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to AOC. It's the Republicans who refuse to vote on it. The reasons Republicans, the reason Republicans
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refuse to vote on this isn't because they're pro bigotry. You lying girl. It is because they want to
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call out antisemitism, which was the reason why this resolution was drafted in the first place.
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It's because they want to have an honest conversation about the problem that is at hand,
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not because they're excited about bigotry. And she knows that she knows that these organizations and
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media outlets who are reporting all 23 Republicans, they must like bigotry and they're not afraid
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that voters know it. Are you kidding? Really? Really? That's the headline. It's not that Democrats
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couldn't even muster up a tiny bit of moral courage in order to call out something that is blatantly
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evil and wrong. And look, whatever. We don't have to oust Ilhan Omar from Congress. Sure. If you want
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to give her the benefit of the doubt yet again, which I think is stupid, by the way. But if you want to
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give her the benefit of the doubt yet again, all right. But at least have some honesty, at least have
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some wherewithal, at least have the bravery to come forward and say that this is wrong. You can't
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even do that. It's crazy, crazy, crazy, including I don't know why I just said that. Speaking of AOC,
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she was at South by Southwest over the weekend. She always has some interesting things to say. She
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teaches me things that I quite frankly didn't know. So here she is saying that Ronald Reagan was
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basically a racist. And one perfect example, I think a perfect example of how special interests
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and the powerful have pitted white working class Americans against brown and black working class
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Americans in order to just screw over all working class Americans is Reaganism in the 80s when he
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started talking about welfare queens. So you think about this image, welfare queens, and what he was
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really trying to talk about was this, he's painting this photo, he's painting this like really resentful
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vision of essentially black women who were doing nothing that were sucks on our country, right?
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First of all, I just want to acknowledge like she has a hard time with words. We talked about how Nancy
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Pelosi said that Ilhan Omar has a different understanding of words. So does, so does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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I'm not trying to be, I'm not trying to issue like an ad hominem attack right now. She just doesn't,
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she does not articulate her thoughts very well. Even if in her mind she articulates them or is able to
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come up with cohesive thoughts well, which she may very well be able to, she doesn't communicate them
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very well. She just doesn't. Whoever decided that they were going to pick AOC to be the messenger for
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far left ideas, didn't do that great of a job in picking a good communicator. Now, obviously,
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obviously she is effective in some ways or else she wouldn't have the following that she did. It's
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actually said that out at South by Southwest, she had a bigger audience than some presidential
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candidates did. She's insanely popular. So I'm not saying she's doing everything wrong. Obviously,
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she's very relatable and she is reaching people that were previously unreached. But when it comes to
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actually articulating an argument, she just fumbles, which is probably why and smartly, I think she
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denies any kind of request for debate or difficult conversation. She's just, she fumbles when people
00:24:13.300
ask her difficult questions like, okay, you made a mistake in saying this thing, like Anderson Cooper
00:24:19.400
said in the interview. And she says, well, people are more concerned with being factually correct than
00:24:24.980
morally right. She just doesn't say things very well. So I'm very confused by her, by her argument
00:24:31.360
that Ronald Reagan was a racist. I'm not saying that the whole welfare queen thing didn't happen and
00:24:36.500
that that probably wasn't right. But her attempt at formulating something logical about Ronald Reagan
00:24:44.780
being a racist doesn't make any sense. I mean, I understand that when your historical knowledge dates
00:24:51.940
back to about 2018, you might not remember that Ronald Reagan was responsible for the amnesty
00:24:59.220
of the 1980s, the amnesty that quite frankly, I don't agree with and that a lot of conservatives
00:25:04.240
today do not agree with. It just didn't end up the way that he wanted it to. He kind of wanted
00:25:09.120
a clean slate. He thought, okay, I'm just going to give all of these people amnesty. We're going to
00:25:13.360
figure out the border situation. We're going to figure out illegal immigration. It just didn't work
00:25:17.220
that way. Maybe a good intent. It just didn't work that way. But for any Democrat on the left to say
00:25:22.840
that Ronald Reagan, the last time that illegal immigrants were given amnesty and the way that
00:25:28.580
it was given in the 1980s was under Ronald Reagan. And so for them to say that he was a racist,
00:25:33.300
I'm just confused as to what qualifies as a racist, because now we're saying that not giving
00:25:38.440
amnesty is racist. So what was he for authoring the amnesty in the 1980s? I just, I don't understand.
00:25:44.900
And also we're talking about pitting working-class white people against working-class black and
00:25:50.480
brown people. Have you met Barack Obama? That's all he did for the past eight years. All you have
00:25:55.540
to do is look at statistics to see Americans view on race between Republicans and Democrats in 2009
00:26:02.200
versus 2017 and how radical Democrats got in believing in systemic racism that they didn't
00:26:09.080
believe in in 2009. Do you honestly think systemic racism became more prevalent from 2009 to 2017?
00:26:17.440
Of course not. While we had the most progressive and the only black president in history, you really
00:26:22.840
think that systemic racism got more popular during that time? Of course it didn't. Of course it didn't.
00:26:27.220
And yet their views on race changed. And so if you want to talk about someone who pitted white people
00:26:33.880
against black and brown people during his presidency, look no further than Barack Obama. That's not to
00:26:39.880
say that all Republican presidents have been perfect, that all Republican presidents have
00:26:43.620
been racial reconcilers. Of course that's not true. Of course that's not true. But don't come for
00:26:48.080
Ronald Reagan. Okay? Just don't. I will go to the mat on that one. She also goes to say in the same
00:26:54.720
interview that she, we have to stop thinking about paying more or socialism, basically like her
00:27:00.820
socialists playing green new deal. We have to stop thinking of paying more as a loss, uh, for someone
00:27:06.620
else's game. We have to think of it as an investment in society. She says it's not a zero sum game. We
00:27:13.000
should not be having a zero sum mentality. She was actually answering a question by Bill Nye, the science
00:27:17.740
guy who said that people are fearful of giving their money to pay for someone else. And she says the way
00:27:22.580
to combat that fear is to realize that you're making an investment in someone else's life. And this is not a
00:27:28.340
loss. You are, everyone is gaming. Okay. What she doesn't seem to understand is that people are
00:27:36.280
losing money that they don't want to give. So it is a loss. People don't want to be, uh, forced to
00:27:42.840
invest in something that they don't want to invest in. People are fine to invest. Americans are insanely
00:27:48.580
generous, but people don't want to be forced by the government to pay for everyone else's health
00:27:53.560
care. So in, in, in that, that they'll their health care, the quality of their health care,
00:27:59.160
the choice of their health care is diminished, which is exactly what would happen in a Medicare
00:28:03.380
for all system. People don't want to pay for everyone else's college, knowing how much it's
00:28:07.980
going to cost us. Uh, the green new deal is apparently it's estimated by a center right group
00:28:14.220
to cost $93 trillion. People don't want to pay that because they don't believe that the return
00:28:21.560
on the investment is going to be good enough for them and their family. That's what, that's what
00:28:27.540
people aren't comfortable with. It's not that they're not willing to invest in the wellbeing of
00:28:32.220
other people. People do that freely all of the time, uh, getting really nothing in return, except
00:28:37.280
for the joy of being altruistic. People invest in, in something where they do get something in return,
00:28:43.500
but they are able to see or make a good bet on that return on investment. But with far left
00:28:49.460
progressive policies, we're really unable to estimate what that return would be and if it
00:28:54.420
would actually benefit us. And so she is saying, no, just believe me, believe the government because
00:29:00.900
the government has such a great reputation of taking care of our money and investing it well
00:29:04.980
and giving us a great return, right? She's saying, just believe me, just believe the government that
00:29:09.780
we are going to invest your money in a way that benefits everyone. People don't want to be forced
00:29:15.740
to do that. That's what she doesn't understand. It's not fear. It's practicality. And AOC does not
00:29:23.240
want to deal with the practicalities of socialism. That's exactly why whenever she gets asked
00:29:29.080
in interviews, how are you going to pay for this? She says, you just pay for it.
00:29:34.440
She doesn't want to deal with the practicalities of it. It's not about fear. It's not about selfishness.
00:29:40.420
It's about people saying, OK, I'm about to make this huge investment and I'm about to change my
00:29:45.680
life. Like with the Green New Deal, everyone's lives would be changed. Everyone's lives would
00:29:49.600
be affected by this on a daily basis. People are practically asking, OK, I've got a family to feed.
00:29:56.000
I've got goals that I want to reach. I've got things that I want to do. How is this investment
00:30:00.460
going to affect my life? How is it going to affect the well-being of my family? She doesn't want
00:30:07.940
to deal with those practical questions. She doesn't want to deal with that. She wants us to
00:30:13.600
have the same idealistic view of socialism that she does. She doesn't want us to worry about the
00:30:18.580
nitty gritty. She doesn't want us to worry about the dollar signs. She doesn't want us to worry about
00:30:23.100
how it's going to affect our lives. We're supposed to buy into this green new dream without thinking
00:30:27.780
about it. And quite frankly, people just aren't willing to do that. I think people are smarter than
00:30:32.720
that. Millennials might not be smarter than that because they've a lot of them have never invested
00:30:36.620
in anything. But most people are smarter than that. And she doesn't want she doesn't want to
00:30:42.960
believe that because this is just the right thing to do. She also said that while capitalism puts
00:30:48.680
capital first, democratic socialism puts people first. And I understand where she's getting that
00:30:54.000
idea in her mind. But when you where you see socialism implemented, you don't actually see people
00:31:00.420
being put first. And I know the classic conservative example is Venezuela or North Korea or any other
00:31:06.540
totalitarian regime. But it's true. They separate socialism from statism, but it can't actually be
00:31:13.400
separated. Always when you give them give the government more money and more power, the people
00:31:18.600
are not put first. It's just a different person in power. It's just a different entity in power.
00:31:24.100
And she believes, as all democratic socialists do, that the government is trustworthy to take care of
00:31:29.980
your money and to meet all of your needs. And we know that it's not. We see throughout history that
00:31:35.200
it's not. We see in Venezuela that it's not. We see in North Korea that it's not. That power corrupts
00:31:39.700
and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It doesn't matter whether or not it's democratic socialism or
00:31:45.280
socialism. Democratic socialism is just concentrated power that you chose, which makes you dumb.
00:31:52.000
So I don't believe that a socialist society puts people first. Now, she could point to Scandinavia
00:31:58.160
and the Scandinavian countries, but they're not truly socialist countries. They have a welfare state.
00:32:03.640
They have a flat tax system. Most of the countries do. And they do have things like extensive paternal
00:32:09.500
leave or parental leave. And they do have the government does provide a lot for the people
00:32:18.220
through their tax money. But they also have a free market. They also have low corporate tax rates.
00:32:23.900
They also have a lot of competition. And they also have extremely small countries that are almost
00:32:28.920
all homogenous. And so it's a completely different story. And that's not socialism. If that's what she
00:32:34.300
wants, that's a welfare state. That's not socialism. It's different. So I would like her to point to a true
00:32:40.500
socialistic economy, a true socialist country, a true socialist country that puts the people first.
00:32:47.860
It just doesn't happen because the reality is capitalism is the most compassionate economic system.
00:32:54.100
If a system can be compassionate, the most compassionate economic system that has ever
00:32:58.760
existed. It is the greatest economic catalyst for social progress because we, the people,
00:33:05.180
we get to decide where we want to shop, the people that we want to do business with. You don't want to
00:33:10.560
do business with a bigot. Don't do business with a bigot. Don't buy his products. There will be someone
00:33:15.620
down the street who opens up shop that you can buy from that you're comfortable with buying from.
00:33:20.640
You want to operate your story with Christian values, even though some people don't like it.
00:33:25.180
Okay. Those people don't have to buy from you, but there's going to be a corner of the market that
00:33:28.680
wants to. In a capitalistic society, we, the people, get to determine what is valuable and what is not.
00:33:36.500
We have options. Therefore, we have competition. And because we have competition, we have quality.
00:33:42.460
Free markets, free trade, property rights, entrepreneurship,
00:33:45.560
these Western capitalistic ideas have done more to slash the global poverty rate and therefore slash
00:33:52.660
suffering than any other economic force. Foreign aid, we've even seen, does not help in the long run
00:34:00.920
countries that are poor because it's a, it's a problem of power. It's a problem of corruption.
00:34:06.340
Foreign aid does not work, but supply and demand does. Trade does.
00:34:10.980
AOC, um, sorry, just got something in my throat. She also says, uh, she goes on to say that CEOs are
00:34:20.560
not creating wealth. The people are okay. Kind of that's not to, uh, of course the people who are,
00:34:27.880
the, the people who are working are booing these companies. And of course their work is important
00:34:34.000
from the, the least paid employee on up to middle management. Of course, these employees are very
00:34:41.740
important, but this is classic Marxism, classic classism where we, we demean the people in power
00:34:49.700
as not really working hard. And it's just greedy. Are some CEOs greedy? Absolutely. Do some CEOs not
00:34:56.340
take care of their employees very well? Absolutely. But this idea that CEOs, which this is perpetuated
00:35:03.600
on Twitter by leftist blue check marks all the time. The idea that CEOs haven't built anything
00:35:08.720
that they haven't created anything is absolutely crazy. It's crazy. We already know that Howard
00:35:14.480
Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, former CEO of Starbucks, uh, came from nothing. He built the company from
00:35:19.760
basically nothing, or I think he actually bought the company and then he built it from that,
00:35:24.360
that CEOs don't contribute to our economy, that they're not the ones building the company.
00:35:29.680
Of course they are. There's a reason why they make so much money. They have a lot more responsibility
00:35:34.400
than the person dies, uh, than the person does at the bottom. That's not to say that the person at
00:35:39.000
the bottom doesn't have a really important job, but the CEO has a lot more to think about than that
00:35:43.660
person does. That person has one task that they have to finish. And the CEO has about a million and he
00:35:49.360
is responsible to a lot more people than the person at the bottom of the totem pole does.
00:35:55.880
And so I agree with AOC. She also says how it's important that workers have rights. Yes,
00:36:02.520
of course. I believe that workers should have rights. Do I believe that workers should be treated
00:36:06.140
fairly? Do I, uh, think that employees should, if the company can afford it, have good benefits?
00:36:13.420
Of course. I think all of these things are great. We probably agree on that, but I think that we
00:36:18.520
disagree on how we get there and the means that we have to take, uh, in order to accomplish workers'
00:36:25.880
rights. We probably have a very different idea of what that means, but she has the privilege of
00:36:32.520
ignorance as does Ilhan Omar, as does Rashida Tlaib. You remember, she said at the very beginning,
00:36:37.820
we're going to impeach this in effort talking about Donald Trump. They have the privilege of
00:36:43.720
ignorance because they are, uh, they are young. They are fresh. They are new. They are women of
00:36:51.220
color and that they are just shaking things up. Apparently that's the most important thing. Now,
00:36:56.240
all you have to do is say crazy things, especially if you're someone on the left to be seen as some
00:37:01.200
kind of trailblazer. You don't actually have to accomplish anything or articulate any good arguments
00:37:05.120
or ideas. You just have to shake things up and be bold and be brave and maybe even say some
00:37:11.540
anti-Semitic things. And, uh, you'll apparently be lauded as heroes of the democratic party. And
00:37:19.360
Nancy Pelosi sure as heck isn't going to say anything because like I said, these people are
00:37:24.380
leading the democratic party. Okay. That's all I have to say about the privilege of ignorance. Now I want
00:37:30.160
to, like I said, end on a positive note, because I also just want to remind you, I know we get into all
00:37:35.000
of these things. It's so easy to get riled up in that and say, how could anyone think the way that
00:37:38.520
they do? And is our country going down the tubes because of all of this? And the answer is no,
00:37:45.100
uh, number one, because God is in control and he knows exactly what he's doing. And we are supposed
00:37:50.080
to pray for all of our leaders, all of our elected officials, that God would give them wisdom,
00:37:54.600
that God would give them grace. He is always in control. He is not surprised by anything.
00:37:58.420
And he's not surprised by this move towards socialism. He's not surprised by any of this craziness.
00:38:04.320
And it's our responsibility to trust him, to keep sharing the gospel, to love our neighbor and to
00:38:09.000
speak truth where we are called to speak truth. So everything is okay. Everything is ultimately
00:38:15.060
okay. That's our hope for a Christian. Now that doesn't mean that we shouldn't be passionate.
00:38:18.760
That doesn't mean that we shouldn't speak out about politics. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't
00:38:22.260
be involved in the system and in the process it does. But, but, uh, that also means that we
00:38:29.920
shouldn't despair and that we shouldn't let our minds be consumed by all of this. Um, also,
00:38:36.360
I do think that there are a lot of people like you and me that care about this and that are put
00:38:40.820
off by the radicalism that we're seeing on the left, even some moderates. I've gotten a lot of
00:38:45.240
messages, uh, for example, about abortion, just how far left the, the left has gone on abortion has
00:38:51.140
pushed a lot of people who were maybe in the middle or who were pro-choice saying,
00:38:54.780
Oh, this is no longer the party of pro-choice. This is the party of infanticide. This is no longer
00:38:59.460
the party of welfare. This is the party of socialism. This is no longer the party of sensible,
00:39:04.580
uh, border policy. This is the party of open borders. You got a lot of people that just aren't
00:39:09.340
that radical. And so they're moving over, they're asking questions. And so I do think that there's
00:39:13.800
hope and there's an opportunity and a challenge for us to keep, to keep speaking truth. Um, okay.
00:39:19.620
So that's what I want to say about that. And then I want to end on a positive note,
00:39:22.520
giving you a pregnancy update. So I am now 24 weeks and a couple of days. And so she's officially
00:39:29.180
viable. And if you don't know, viable means there is a good chance that she would survive outside of
00:39:35.360
the womb. If I were to give birth really early, I don't know about you, but before I was pregnant,
00:39:40.460
I didn't know. I just didn't know a lot, honestly, about gestation and about pregnancy. So if you don't
00:39:47.800
know how far 24 weeks is, that's about, that's totally fine. It's about six months and, um,
00:39:55.260
and it's 40 weeks total. I forgot what I was going to say. It's 40 weeks total. And so I'm much past
00:40:01.060
halfway. Of course you can give birth anywhere in between. Like it's usually 38 and 40, 41 weeks.
00:40:07.820
They don't let you go too much past 40 weeks anymore. And so I'm much past halfway. It's going
00:40:13.360
by really quickly. We haven't done anything by the way, we've gotten a rocker. I'm about to order
00:40:19.920
a stroller. Haven't ordered a crib yet. We haven't done anything to the nursery at all. It has to be
00:40:25.920
like a nursery slash guest room. Haven't done anything. I've told myself, okay, it's going to
00:40:31.140
be April. That's what I'm going to take care of all that because I'm writing my book and I really want
00:40:35.720
to focus on that. And I can't, I can't worry. I cannot worry about, um, anything else right now.
00:40:41.940
So I'm hoping that she comes on or around her due date so I can get all the stuff done that I need
00:40:46.720
to get done. Got about 16 more weeks until that. So I'm really excited. Everything's going well.
00:40:51.520
We went to the doctor on Wednesday, uh, last Wednesday. And as far as we can tell, she is
00:40:57.220
healthy and doing great. All of the tests have gone back nor have come back normal. So praise God for
00:41:02.000
that. Thank you guys for, uh, praying for me and praying for the pregnancy. And for those of you
00:41:07.740
who are pregnant as well, who have told me that you're pregnant, congratulations for those of you
00:41:12.760
who are single, who don't care about this, you can totally turn it off. As I've promised you,
00:41:16.860
this is not going to become a pregnancy podcast or pregnancy Instagram page. And for those of you
00:41:22.080
who haven't been able to get pregnant or who suffered a miscarriage, know that my heart is with
00:41:26.320
you. And then I understand, I can't understand from personal experience, but I understand how painful
00:41:33.000
of a time this must be. And for you to still listen to this podcast and celebrate with me,
00:41:37.480
it means a lot to me. And I know that's difficult. I know it's difficult to be on Instagram during that
00:41:42.260
time. So I never want you to think that I've forgotten about you or that I don't think about
00:41:45.960
you every time I post something about pregnancy, because I do and know that God is with you and
00:41:50.400
that he's in control of all of it. Okay. That's all I have to say today, kind of all over the place,
00:41:54.660
but I hope you guys enjoyed this first Monday podcast, Wednesday, talking theology, uh, already,
00:42:01.100
already know exactly what I'm going to talk about. So get ready for that and I will see you then.