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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Ep 1117 | We’re Back! Trump’s Day 1 Moves & Where We Hold the Line
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Ali Stuckey
2025 is here. TRUMP is about to take office and that cannot come soon enough. We are here to tell you why as well as to discuss so much more on today's first episode of Relatable of the Year. It's brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to Good Ranchers.com use code ALI at checkout. That's GoodRanchers.com code ALLY hey guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend, a wonderful new year, a wonderful Christmas. It has been so long since we've been in the studio and y'all, I have really missed you. It was a great break. I feel rejuvenated. I feel refreshed. But I am ready to go. I am ready. There's so much to discuss, but one of my goals for Relatable this year is to keep every episode under an hour. So I am going to try as hard as I can to do that. That means I've got to pick and choose the things that I want to talk about and how much I'm going to talk about them each day. There are probably some of you, maybe a lot of you, who are new to Relatable. You had a friend share it with you. Or maybe you resolved this year that you were going to be plugged into what is going on in news, politics and you found relatable. So I want to give you a little introduction and maybe some of you have been listening for a but you have never really been introduced to what Relatable is like, what our mission statement is and who I am. So Relatable is a place where we discuss culture, news, politics, theology from a Christian conservative perspective. Our goal is to confront the chaos and the confusion of the world with as much clarity and as much courage as we can muster. And the reason it is called Relatable is not because I am sharing a bunch of personal content. It's because I am a Christian mom trying to navigate the craziness of the times. Just like many of you, I am trying to gain and apply as much biblical wisdom to this modern era as I can. And I am taking you along with me. Both related gals and related bros. We cover evergreen topics and current events and one to two times a week we interview a guest. We've had a lot of different guests. We've had President Trump, Trump. We've had Vice President Elect JB Vance. We've had Kat Von D, Candace Cameron Bure, John MacArthur, many, many, many others. We will add many more to the list this year. We love testimonies. We love stories of courage. We love experts that reveal new or previously unknown or misunderstood information. We love interesting, fresh perspectives from people of all different theological and political backgrounds. A little bit about yours truly, the host of Relatable. I am a Christian. I am of the Reformed Baptist persuasion. Wife to Chief Relate A bro, CR for short. I am a mom of three. I have known my whole life that I wanted to talk and write for a living. And God has very graciously made a way for me to do that. I am the author of two books, you're Not Enough and that's okay, that came out in 2020 and a new York Times bestseller, toxic How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion. Last year I hosted my first ever women's conference. It was called Share the Arrows. The name is in reference to a refrain that we use a lot on this show that describes what we as Christians do, what we should do when, when a fellow believer is being targeted for their faith, we stand up and we say, yeah, I believe that too. Whatever you adversary, throw their way, you can bring it my way too. I am standing with them. I am sharing their arrows. And it was an amazing event. Nearly 4,000 women from across North America, America, Canada, came to Dallas, Texas for the event. It was a supernaturally incredible day. I think anyone in attendance would tell you that. We had lots of speakers. We had Rosaria Butterfield, Elisa Childers, Candace Cameron Bure, Francesca Battistelli. We had Abby Halberstad. It was truly amazing. And very soon we will be announcing the date and location for share the Arrows 2025. So get excited, stay tuned. I'm super pumped about that. Um, one of the questions in light of all of that that I get the most is how do you prioritize being a wife and a mom while you have this show and everything else that I just listed. When I started relatable back in 2018, it was just me. I was recording, I was editing, I was posing, I was doing all of that. And then I got a producer. And now, thankfully I have a whole team of people who makes this show. They make my speaking engagements, my social media and everything else happen. We have producer Bri who often comes on the show. Bri, say hello to everyone.
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Bri
Hello everyone.
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Ali Stuckey
Hi. She will be on the show today at the end as we talk about some more light hearted things. But you will see her frequently. She is a favorite guest on the show. I come into the studio three times a week in the morning to record for about two hours. Then I go home. My husband and I work together full time. We operate kind of like small business owners. We bring our family along for the ride as much as we can, and we have a lot of fun doing it. And the Lord has blessed us immensely with the privilege of being able to do this together, and we're really grateful for that. My parents are also a big part of our lives, a big part of this show. My mom has shared her wisdom on the show a couple times in my My dad is a frequent guest. He's an audience favorite. Every time we go somewhere and he's there, he always has people coming up to him saying, oh my gosh, I love when you're unrelatable. And in fact, when we asked a lot of you what something you want to see more of or see again in 2025, unrelatable, a lot of you said more conversations with your dad. So he will be here on Thursday. We will be discussing the H1B debate much more. Trump's presidency all that we talk about very serious, very controversial hot button topics on this show in a way that is unique and sometimes can press buttons that we're not necessarily meaning to press. We only talk about things that we think need to be talked about. It's not about getting clicks. It's not about going viral. Either I want to talk about them or I feel that I need to talk about them. My goal is to not only equip and encourage Christians, but to persuade you and to inform you as much as I can. And we always try to bring it back to the character of God. In every story that we are discussing, there are several sayings that you'll hear me say a lot the longer you listen. Relatable has many, many isms and mantras and alliterations, and one reminder that we repeat often is that God's eternal plan of redemption is always going off without a hitch. Nothing throws him off or takes him aback. He is sovereign. As Job 42:2 says, Nothing can thwart his will. Romans 8:28 39 reminds us that God is working all things together for his glory and our good, even when we don't understand it. That passage that I just referenced in Romans 8 it ends this way. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Seasons change and presidents, administrations, they come and go. But the Jesus by whose birth we all count our years is still on his throne, and he will rule eternally. Hebrews 13:8 one of my favorite verses Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And it is against this backdrop of God's unchanging nature, his goodness, his love, his power, his sovereignty, that we talk about what is going on in the world. Jesus is coming back, but he is not here yet. So we occupy this physical space, this temporal world because a God who does nothing arbitrarily or accidentally placed us here. And because he has called us to love our neighbors, to make better this tiny spot of eternity, this small speck of earth on which he's placed us, we have to care about the issues at stake. Particularly these political issues and social and theological issues today have all become political. Politics matter because policy matters, because people matter. Politics affects policy. Policy affects people. People matter. They're made in the image of God, so they matter to him and they matter to us as Christians. So with that, let us get into what is happening in dc, what is about to happen with the Trump administration in 2025, why we should care, and the role that Christians play in all of this. But first let me pause Let me tell you about our first sponsor for the day. It awesome sponsor and that is seven Weeks Coffee. I am so grateful for my advertisers on this show. It is how you are able to listen to or watch this show for free. And I only partner with advertisers that are amazing. It's just one of the standards that I have. It's one of the qualifications and seven Weeks Coffee makes amazing high quality totally clean coffee. If you are looking for organic, mold free all the things and really great tasting coffee then you need to check out seven weeks coffee. But what's even better about it is that 10 of every sale of seven weeks coffee goes to a pro life organization or a pregnancy center that is daily working to save the lives of unborn children and minister to their moms. Seven Weeks Coffee has already raised over half a million dollars for these pregnancy centers across the country and they're called seven Weeks because at seven weeks gestation that little baby in the womb is the size of a coffee bean. So get your coffee from Weeks Coffee. Subscribe to their Heartbeat club. You save 15 when you do that and the coffee shows up at your front door every month. Plus when you use my code ALI you get an extra 10 off 7 weeks coffee.com code ALI alright, so we were going to just get right into what is going to happen post inauguration but right as we were about to record I saw the news that Justin Trudeau, the prime Minister of Canada and the lead leader of the Liberal Party there, has resigned. And I don't want to take up too much of our time because I am really going to try to meet my goal of having this episode be under an hour. But he basically resigned because he is extremely unpopular. There is a lot of opposition from the Conservative Party there, and it doesn't look like he is going to win the upcoming election or the Liberal Party is not looking like they are going to win the upcoming election, which of course we think is a very good thing. So here are some quotes from the Associated Press. Trudeau was facing pressure to call for an election before a scheduled one in October as Canadians reckoned with high inflation and President Elect Trump's tariff threat. The tariff threat would be bad for Canada's economy. That's something that Trump has threatened to do. And so this led to, it seems, the resignations of several cabinet members. There are a lot of internal conflicts, it looks like, within Canada's government and within the Liberal Party and Trump's election and some of his intimidation tactics, which of course I think are good and strategic and smart, they seem to, it seems to have shaken a lot of things up and scared a lot of people in the Canadian government. So it says this, it says Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico due to his concerns about the number of migrants and drugs coming into the US which triggered fears of inflation and a trade war. And after Trump met with Trudeau just a few weeks ago, Trudeau came to Mar a Lago, met with Trump. Canada then promised they're going to be fop border security in a very muscular way. So Trump is not even president yet and already the conversations and the deal making that he is doing is improving border security both in Canada and Mexico. Mexico responded in a very similar way when Trump talked about tariffs. So just to remind that the border disaster that we have, that we're going to talk about a little bit today, it is a choice. It's not some disaster that governments can't control. It is the result of a policy choice. And because now we have a president that believes in the strength of America and he is not afraid to flex America's muscles, countries are responding exactly how conservatives have said the countries respond when America is strong. But, but currently under Joe Biden, we have a very weak government the way that we also did under Barack Obama. AP goes on to explain. His resignation came as polls indicated that the Liberal Party was set to be trounced by the Opposition Conservative Party in the upcoming election, expected in or before October. Trudeau's decision to leave the post admit his government's deepening unpopularity is a far cry from the popularity he enjoyed when he became prime minister when polls showed he boasted approval ratings above 60%. This is via Axios, by the way. Trudeau noted that the Canadian Parliament will be prorogued, essentially suspended, until March 24 while a new leader is chosen. With Trudeau out as party leader, he will remain prime minister until a new leader is chosen. Once a party leader is selected, that person will become the next prime minister, per the New York Times. So we will see what goes on. They're very interesting development. I mean, the stories that I'm hearing from Canada, not just that their health care is an absolute shambles. You just can't get the care that you need. It's just so costly. And I'm not talking about the money that it costs, although of course it does cost tax dollars, but I'm talking about the lives that it costs and the time that it takes for people to get their very serious illnesses addressed. It's just a travesty. But also housing costs and the mass migration that has changed the demographics, changed the politics there, changed the economy there has been really devastating for Canadians. It seems like the average person can even afford to live there in a civilized way. So, of course, Justin Trudeau is deeply unpopular. And I hope the best for Canada. I hope that they do get new leadership that actually has the courage to make the changes needed. All right, so Trump is about to take office. I envy all of you who are going to the inauguration and all of the inaugural celebrations. That's going to be wonderful. Many of us, most of us will be celebrating from afar, and it just cannot come fast enough. So here's what we want to see from Trump. When people say that Trump has a mandate, that he was given a mandate because he won the popular vote, because he also obviously won the electoral vote, it was overwhelming. That's what people mean when they say that he was given a mandate. This is the American people's way. Voting for him is the American people's way of saying, look, we're giving you our votes, we're giving you power. We want things to change. How things are going right now are not good. So have the guts and the determination to do something about inflation, about the border, about the involvement in unnecessary wars. People want to see him gut and rebuild our security apparatus. The FBI and the doj, people want to see a change in America's health care system. Also how America and American medicine approaches health. This is from the Pew Research Center. The economy and immigration were top issues for Trump supporters. Even more important in 2024 than in 2020. Trump supporters were unified also on several cultural issues in polling conducted over the course of the year. So for example, 92% of Trump supporters believe. I don't even like to say believe, but know that sex is not changeable, that it is fixed, it's something that happens at conception and identity declaration cannot change that. 89% said gun owners more to increase than decrease safety. 83% view the criminal justice system as not tough enough on criminals. I guarantee you that spans the political spectrum that transcends race. People don't like to see the recidivism that we see. We don't like to see violent criminals let back out on the streets only to steal and to murder and to destroy. No one likes that. Only radical activists truly believe in defunding the police or the soft on crime policies that are implemented in the name of so called restorative justice. People want to see criminals behind bars for good. They want to be able to go downtown again. They want to be able to enjoy Seattle or New York City or Philadelphia. But unfortunately, again, policy decisions, deliberate policy decisions by liberals in charge have made that impossible. It's made it less safe because of soft on crime policies, but also because of the soft on drug policies that have exacerbated the homelessness issue and the poverty issue and the health issues in all of these cities. You can't go and enjoy downtown San Francisco. You can't enjoy downtown D.C. you feel like you have to not only watch your back, you really feel like you can't leave after dark in our own country. And this is not inevitable. It's the result of policy decisions. 75% of Trump supporters, according to Pew Research, did not think the legacy of slavery affects the position of black people in American society today much or at all. And that really needs to be higher than that. 2020 really did a number on people in a good way and a bad way. I mean, a lot of people just got really confused in 2020 because of all of the social justice nonsense. But it was also clarifying for a lot of people who were previously confused. The vast majority of people, it seems from the conversations I have started listening to this show in 2020, there just weren't that many Christians in the evangelical space saying, yeah, I'm not going to post a black square. And actually riots are not the voice of the unheard and actually, I'm not sure about some of these claims about systemic racism and pervasive white supremacy and white privilege. I'm not so sure that social justice is justice according to the God of the Bible. I don't think this is going to end up well. And we received those of us saying those things received a lot of flackers, like more than ever, just the hateful, angry messages that I received from professing Christians during that time. But I would say that we have been at this point vindicated because we've seen the really dark and ugly underbelly of the real ideology of critical race theory and social justice ideology and Black Lives Matter. It was really all just a money grab. And people laughed when we called it Marxist or communist. But of course, that's exactly what it was. And like all left wing collectivist movements, it lends itself to destruction and confusion and chaos because they are all Satanic and Satan is the author of chaos and confusion. And so I actually think part of that, part of that chaos of 2020 actually helped Trump win in 2024. It helped him lose in 2020. But as people saw the light took them and the craziness of COVID and the corruption that was all exposed there, I actually think that helped Trump a lot win in 2024. And because of that, we have a broad coalition. We talked a lot about this at the end of last year. We have new people that we have brought into the fold on the conservative side, on the Republican side that were not there previously who don't share all of our values. We've got a lot of people in the Make America Healthy Again movement that I really appreciate and whose boldness is an example to us all. I have lear learned from them. I am so thankful that these people have been given positions of influence and authority, not just in the Trump campaign, but also potentially the Trump administration. But a lot of these people are pro choice. A lot of these people aren't bold when it comes to the reality of gender. A lot of these people don't know where they stand on things like immigration. So that means conservatives, and in particular conservative Christians, that we have our role to play in holding the line. Line. I'm not saying we should excise the moderates out of our party. I'm not saying that there is no room for the RFK types, the people who would have never voted for Trump a few years ago, but have seen the light on a few issues but aren't conservative on other issues. I'm not saying we shouldn't partner with them and link arms with them. They were necessary to winning the election. So I'm thankful for them. But that doesn't mean that we as Christians abandon our priorities. We also have our place at the table and we cannot give in just because we are afraid that truly advocating for Christian values and our conservative positions on a variety of issues is going to cost us future elections. We have to be an anchor over here on the right and to pull those people who are now newly in the fold over in our direction through the power of persuasion. So we'll get into a couple of those issues that we really have to hold the line on over the next four years that we really have to work hard at making our case to convincing those who are in the middle, center right, center left to come over to us. But before we get to that, let me pause. Let me tell you about our next sponsor for the day, and that is Life or Death Con. So this is a conference that will be right before the March for Life in Washington, D.C. on January 23rd. I'm so excited about it. I am going to be speaking. This is hosted by Seth Gruber, one of your favorite guests. He sat right here and told us about the dark hidden history of the pro abortion and eugenics movement and who Planned Parenthood really is, who Margaret Sanger really is. Nazi Ties. Fascinating episode if you haven't listened to it already. But he's Hosting Life or DeathCon. I'm speaking. Eric Metaxas is speaking. This is really a rallying cry for the pro life movement to start off not just the year, but the four years of the Trump presidency. I mean, talk about holding the line. This is where you are going to be inspired to hold the line and to be told how to do it. So sign up. Join me at life or deathcon. It's going to be super encouraging. Go to lifeordeathcon.com use code ALI10. You'll get 10% off your ticket when you do life or deathcon.com code ALI10 speaking of life or death, one of the biggest things that we are going to have to hold the line on as Christians in the Trump administration. Not that we are in the Trump administration, but when it comes to the Trump administration and the policies that they will be putting forth is abortion. You will remember during the campaign, Trump was very wishy washy on abortion and some of us raised respectful ruckus and said, oh, I don't like what he's saying about Amendment 4, that he doesn't know how he's going to vote for an Amendment 4. You'll remember in Florida where Trump has a residence where he was voting, that would have allowed abortion through all nine months in the state of Florida, whereas previously they had and they do still have. Because Amendment 4 didn't pass a heartbeat bill that says, sorry, once you detect a heartbeat, you're not going to be killing this baby. And Trump originally said, oh, well, I don't know. That's, I think heartbeat bill, that's too soon. I don't know how I'm going to vote vote. But a lot of people said, whoa, whoa, whoa. Really? That's your stance, President Trump? And thankfully he backed down and he said, yeah, I'm going to vote no on Amendment 4. That goes to show Christians do have influence in his administration, had influence over his campaign. And of course, that wouldn't have been the case with Kamala Harris. So even though Trump wasn't as isn't as pro life as I am, as I would like him to be, I know where pro lifers can have influence and it wasn't going to be in a Kamala Harris presidency. The most pro abortion candidate we had ever had. Just as a reminder, here is Trump on abortion. So one, will you restrict the availability of abortion pills when you're in office?
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C
Probably. I'll probably stay with exactly what I've been saying for the last two years. And the answer is no.
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Ali Stuckey
You commit to that?
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C
Well, I commit. I mean, are things, do things change? I think they change.
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Ali Stuckey
So he didn't want to commit to saying that. And we'll see what happens. But the abortion pill is responsible for a huge percentage of killing image bearers of God every year. And that's where, you know, Catholic J.D. vance, pro life Catholic J.D. vance staked his position too, when he was campaigning. Of course he wasn't going to disagree with Donald Trump, but said, yeah, you know, we support the legality of the abortion pill. And if we truly believe that these babies are made in the image of God, if we believe that they are just as much human as you and I are, and they are scientifically, then of course we don't believe in legally being able to poison them and kill them with the abortion pill. And you are going to hear a lot over the next few years. You thought this propaganda was done. It's not done. You're going to be hearing a lot over the next few years, next few years from the pro abortion lobby that any restriction on abortion is going to restrict miscarriage care. We don't have time today to go into all of the facts and the data and the debunking of that. We have done so many episodes on that topic. All you have to do is type in a topic, type in a guest that you want to hear about, unrelatable, type in the guest or the topic name and relatable in the search bar of wherever you listen or watch and something will probably come up. We've got a ton of episodes on that topic. We've talked about abortion maybe more than any other subject. But you just need to be aware that that toxic empathy propaganda is going to come down the pipeline. I'm restricting the purposeful intentional killing of unborn children does not legally restrict miscarriage care. So just understand that. Read Toxic Empathy if you haven't already. If you just want to read the abortion chapter, you can listen on audible. You will be fully prepar for all of those arguments. So when we're looking at any indicators of what the Trump administration will do or will be like when it comes to abortion, we can look at some of his appointees or some of his nominees. We've got RFK Jr. Who of course we like in a lot of ways. He will oversee the Health and Human Services Department. He says that he supports abortion access until viability. So that is about 24 weeks. But the fact that that's always debated. Is it 24 weeks? Is it 21 weeks? Is it 26 weeks? Shows that that's a very arbitrary standard for when it's okay to murder someone. He has also argued for a national ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy. He walked back that stance. So again, very wishy washy. You'll remember he's a lifelong Democrat. He is pro choice at heart. I don't think that he is gleeful about abortion the way Kamala Harris is, but he's pro choice, as is President Trump. And just a reminder, the head of the HH oversees Title X, Title 10 funding for a host of family planning services, has sweeping authority over agencies that directly affect abortion access, including the FDA and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. And so he's going to have a lot to say about abortion policy and what our tax dollars can do when it comes to abortion. So it's very important that he has a pro life, a truly pro life, holistically pro life. I don't typically like that phrase, but if that's what can persuade him to hold the line on the pro life causes, the head of the hhs, and then I'm willing to say that because I know he believes in the abundance of a healthy life outside of the womb. And so it's up to those who do have influence over him to show him that abortion doesn't fit into that healthy worldview, to that compassionate worldview. The compassion that he has for children should extend to the children injected with poison and dismembered inside the womb. Is he an upgrade from Xavier Becerra, who is our current hhs, who was the Attorney General of California and who has been rabidly pro abortion raking of money from Planned Parenthood for decades? He absolutely is. We can trust that he believes that a man is a man, a woman is a woman. That's another thing. He's going to have to hold the line on the guidance that has been released by the HHS saying that, and we'll get into this in just a second, but saying that boys can become girls and vice versa. We hope that that will end. Under RFK, we've got Dr. Marty McCary. He is Trump's pick to lead the FDA. He has been on this podcast before. He has sat on this couch talking about the corruption in the healthcare system. He has spoken in the past about his, what I think is a pro life perspective. He has talked about the reality of babies being able to feel pain inside the womb. The FDA plays a critical role in access to medication, abortion and contraception. We've got Pam Bondi, Trump's Attorney General pick. She was AG of Florida in the past. She has defended abortion restrictions, including a 24 hour waiting period. So after a woman goes to the abortion clinic, says that I want an abortion implementing some kind of restriction that says, okay, you gotta wait 24 hours before you can actually have the procedure. I mean that 24 hours can really make or break it for that baby inside the womb. Um, her nomination is being celebrated by abortion opponents. Uh, it's being denounced by the demonic pro abortion lobby. So I would say that that is a good sign because right now under our current ag, we have people who are being prosecuted under the Obscure Face Act. So people who are blocking entrances to these murder mills, these abortion clinics, like 74 year old Joan Bell, they are going to prison for a long time, but not the people inside the clinics that are actually doing the violent murdering of the babies. That is called calling evil good and good evil. That is the definition of injustice. So we can trust that that is going to come to an end. And we are hoping and praying for a pardon for all of those who have been prosecuted and imprisoned under the Face Act. We've had at least one of those who have been, who was in prison on this show, Herb Garrity. And so we are hoping for all of their releases. We've got Dr. David Weldon Trump, Trump's pick to head the CDC. He's got a strong record of supporting the rights of the unborn, religious conscience rights. The CDC collects and monitors abortion data across the country. And so this is also an important role when it comes to abortion. So I think we've got some, we've got reason to believe that things are going to head in a pro life direction. Now what Congress is going to do and Trump, Trump, what Trump will actually sign when it comes to federal legislation. I, I'm not totally sure, but I am feeling much better about the direction of this country when it comes to, when it comes to these federal agencies than I would be if Kamala Harris was president, of course. But we have to do everything we can with the influence that we have to make it very clear to the Republican Party that if you want to win elections, you have to move in a pro life direction. We've got a little bit more on this when it comes to LGBTQ issues, immigration. Let me pause and tell you about our next sponsor and that is Adele Natural Cosmetics. I absolutely love Adele. I use their skin care every day. I think my favorite, I always change what my favorite product is. But my go to product that I just, I can't go anywhere without this. I always have to travel with it. And that is the essential oil based cleanser. I was like you and I used the, you know, sudsing harsh soap, chemical laden face washes thinking that that's the only way for my face to get clean. I was really skeptical if I could use an oil based cleanser and all my makeup, especially my studio makeup would actually come off. Would my skin be actually cleaner? Would I start breaking out because my skin would be too oily? That was never a problem. My skin is really clean and I think it's better moisturized and more even than ever. All of their products are completely holistic, totally natural. This is a family owned, unapologetically Christian company. They also make really clean cosmetics. I really like their highlighter, their glow sticks. I use their lipstick all the time. They have lots of different shades. And again, this is all natural. Go to Adele Natural Cosmetics.com use code ALI and when you do, you get 25% off your first time purchase. Adele Natural Cosmetics.com code ALI one of the most imminent changes, one of the most important and one of the quickest changes that we are going to see is on the trans issue. Trump is with us on that, at least when it comes to women's sports. Now, of course, he's going to be pals with people like Caitlyn slash Bruce Jenner. I don't know that he's going to go so far as to say it's always wrong. But he's with us when it comes to children. And of course, that is what we are most concerned about, because children are always the unconsenting subjects of progressive social experiments. Now, saying that anyone can change genders or change sexes is assenting to a demonic lie. It is saying that two plus two equals five. And if you're willing to say that two plus two equals five because someone tells you that it is, you're willing to say and believe anything. And if, as a Christian, you are willing to deny Genesis 1:27 what is clear as day in the first chapter of the first book of the Bible, that God made them in his image, male and female, then it is hard to believe that you will defend the much more controversial truth that we see in John 14:6, that Jesus is the only way, truth and the life, life. No one comes to the Father except through him. That is much more offensive that you are a sinner in need of a savior bound for hell without Jesus Christ, the Messiah, than the biologically observable reality that we read in Genesis 1, that we are created male and female. So I just want to be clear on my stance on that. I am not someone who is like, oh yeah, adults can do what they want to do, but let's just focus on the kids. Kids, sure, adults can do what they want to do. Should they do what they want to do? Always? No. And should we change society in any way to accommodate the absolute dangerous, both personally and to others, both individually and societally, the this delusion that you can change your gender or you can declare your gender to be something that is separate from your sex. No, I'm not going to go along with that in any way. I will not use pronouns that do not correspond with your biological reality, because I will not participate in a lie. And sometimes that is the only thing that we can do to make a difference. I don't think Trump is there with us, but he is against the chemical castration of the stopping the natural puberty of the butchering the bodies of children who have been convinced that they were born in the wrong body. He spoke at America Fast in December. So did I. No big deal. I was the speaker before him. Now I wish I could say I was warming up the crowd for Trump, but I wasn't. It was like a whole 12 hours before Trump actually talked. But I was the speaker the night before Donald Trump at America Fest. And he did say in his speech that he was going to end the transgender lunacy, that he was going to sign an executive order to end child sexual mutilation, which is exactly what it is, by the way. Here's with a stroke of my pen.
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C
On day one, we're going to stop the transgender lunacy, and I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high schools.
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Ali Stuckey
Of course, people are enthusiastically, uproariously applauding to that, because, yes, it is crazy that we are even here, that we need a president to even say something like that. It is insane. It is, is. It's the true pandemic. It is the virus of the mind that has not only infected people's thoughts and feelings, but has mutilated their bodies. It is satanic to the core. And if we as Christians love those around us, we will not play a part in it, and we will do everything we can to fight against it, no matter what they call us. And so just understand that, yes, this is popular when it comes to one niche of transgender ideology, but we have to continue to use the power of persuasion to show that you can't ascend ascent to any part of the lie. You can't play a part in any of it. And I just, I long for the day that Christian women are absolutely, unapologetically strong on this and on the definition of marriage. Now, I don't think there's going to be any change to the legal definition of marriage in the United States. That doesn't mean that you and I need to compromise on it, though. Trans women are women is the same nonsense math as love is love. And again, it goes back to Genesis 1:27. And if you can't be convinced of Genesis 1:27, I don't think that you're going to be convinced of the rest of it either. So those are the things that we need to hold the line on when it comes to immigration. Most people are with us, at least when it comes to the top priority, which is deporting as fast as possible the most violent criminals and securing the border so they can't come back in. And the punishment needs to be brutal. If we are talking about people who have no right to be here and they are committing additional crimes in addition to being here illegally. The punishment needs to be brutal and they need to be deported immediately. And thankfully we've got borders are Tom. Tom Homan, who I think will do everything that he can to execute on that. Here's three.
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C
Day one will be ICE offices across the country will be out on the streets. The right out of the gate president has made it clear and I made it clear. Their priority right out of the gate is public safety threats and national security threats. And there's plenty of to find.
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Ali Stuckey
Yeah, I think that most of us can agree on that. Even Democrats. It's hard to find a Democrat, I think. I mean maybe they won't talk about it out loud, but if you were to sit down with them over coffee and say so like, do you think the illegal immigrant terrorists should stay or go? I think most of them are going to say go. So I actually think this is, this could be something to unite the country. Probably a lot of Democrats and liberals won't like the deportations. If you've actually got ICE officers out there rounding people up and deporting them, you will have some crazy people like defending the terrorist or the would be terrorists. The national security threat. But, but most people, even if it's just secretly are gonna say yeah, I'm, I'm really glad for that. But then you're looking at all of the people who are here legally who should all go home. Because America is not just an idea, it's not just an experiment. It is a sovereign nation. It is a place. It is a homeland for people. And we have a right to decide who comes in legally or illegally. There should be no illegal immigration, whether it's visa overstays or whether it's people crossing the border to the north or to the south. That should absolutely never happen. The border should be so secure that it. They are so disincentivized from trying to make that dangerous check because they know that they are most likely going to be unsuccessful. But we should also have a say in who comes in legally. That is the right of any sovereign nation, not just America. That's the right of England. That's the right of Germany. That's the right of South Korea. That's the right of Zimbabwe. That's the right of India. Without that right, you are not a sovereign nation. If you're not a sovereign nation, you don't have true citizenship. If you don't have true citizenship, then you don't have any enforceable or protectable rights. And that puts everyone at risk, especially the most vulnerable. Our immigration system Mostly because of illegal immigration, but also because of abuses like of the H1B system is completely in chaos and America wants Trump to fix that. There was a huge debate over H1BS on X over the holidays and we won't get into all of that today. I will have my dad on and we will talk about it a little bit more. Elon Musk versus those of us who I would say are more conservative on immigration than Elon Musk. Trump saying, we need these H1B visas to get more workers over here from India. Vivek Rima Swami saying, yeah, it's awesome. American culture sucks. Indian culture is great. What? And those of us over here saying actually H1Bs are mostly used to hire cheap labor because you don't want to pay Americans more. So. So we'll get into that debate, but rest assured, like that is part of the mandate that conservatives have given Donald Trump not also get rid, not only, I mean get rid of illegal immigration, but also put a cap on legal immigration. Because we have seen the shift that legal immigration has caused in places like Canada, has caused in places like Londonistan, like it is no longer what it used to be. And they are dealing with a huge negative cultural, ideological change in those places. Thanks to legal mass migration. You are allowed to care about the culture of your country. Don't let anyone tell you that it is racist for saying so. So we'll get into more of that not only with my dad on Thursday, but also tomorrow. We are talking to a reporter from GB News that is going to talk to us about the Rotherham scandal and that is the Pakistani Muslim gangs that have been for decades grooming, and I hate to be so graphic, but gang raping young British girls and the massive cover up by the British government. Why is everyone talking about it right now? How does this tie into the immigration debate? We will be talking about that tomorrow with a journalist. But this is a huge issue for those who voted for Donald Trump. They want to see positive change on that issue on day one. All right, just a couple other things to discuss as we close out this episode. But let me tell you about our last sponsor for the day and that is Every Life. I love Every Life. They are the diapers that we use in our home. Totally clean ingredients made from premium materials, 12 hour leak protection. And I will tell you that has never been a problem. They work really, really well, even overnight. This is a pro life diaper company. All of their money, all of their efforts go towards helping moms who are pregnant and ensuring that everyone even within their company who is either adopting or having a baby that they are well taken care of. You can buy through their website when you're buying your diapers. A buy for a cause bundle that will will send much needed resources to pregnant moms who are in need via pro life organizations and pregnancy centers. 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Bri
Golden Globes.
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Ali Stuckey
Golden Globes. But we don't have those today. We don't have time for that. Did you watch the Golden Globes, though?
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Bri
I only saw clips on X and I saw some outfits.
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Ali Stuckey
Okay.
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Bri
There was a man in a beard in a dress. I know that for sure.
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Ali Stuckey
Typical. I didn't see that.
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Bri
Yeah, that happened.
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Ali Stuckey
I saw the roast at the beginning. Nikki Glaser.
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Bri
Glaser. Yeah.
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Ali Stuckey
I had seen one of her roasts in the past. I mean, it's explicit, so I'm not recommending it. But for the style and for the art form that it is, I think that she did a good job.
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Bri
She's pretty good. I've seen some good. Yeah, she's clever. I know people make fun of female comedians. She. I think she's a good one.
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Ali Stuckey
No, I mean, she's funny. If you like that kind of humor. Now, was she as good as Ricky Gervais from a couple of years ago? But no one can be. No one can be.
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Bri
And he went down in flames, too. Or he went out in flames.
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Ali Stuckey
Yeah. I don't even care if you never book me again. Yeah, I saw some of the outfits. I don't know if there's anything to write home about. I don't even know what the Golden Globes are. Is it for tv? Is it for movies?
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Bri
It's for both.
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Ali Stuckey
Okay. For both.
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Bri
But they're pretty well known for, like, being bought. Like, Emily in Paris won Golden Globe. I'm pretty sure. And people were like, oh, okay, so they bought that. So I don't think it's anything serious.
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Ali Stuckey
People love Emily In Paris.
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Bri
Yeah. J.D. vance loves it.
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Ali Stuckey
Vance loves Emily in Paris.
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Bri
Yeah.
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Ali Stuckey
Okay. Do you have any resolutions for 2025?
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Bri
I don't know about resolutions. I mean, I'm trying To, like, make things from scratch more.
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Ali Stuckey
Okay. Okay.
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Bri
That's one big one.
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Ali Stuckey
Are you meal prepping or every day you're making, like, a from scratch recipe?
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Bri
No, I don't have the capacity for that. I'd love to do that, but no. Yeah, I'm just gonna try to make. Make stuff in bulk.
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Ali Stuckey
And do you have, like, a cookbook that you're following or just you find things online?
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Bri
Yeah, just find things. Find things that look good. Like I said, I'm making sourdough.
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Ali Stuckey
Yeah.
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Bri
And I made butter for the first time.
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Ali Stuckey
How was that? I heard that. That's really easy. I've never done it.
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Bri
If you have, like a food chopper or even just like a mixer, all you have to do is put heavy cream in and it just becomes butter. Oh, it's amazing.
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Ali Stuckey
Wow. I don't. I don't even. I don't know. I just think that when you think of colonial people making butter, it seemed like it was really difficult.
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Bri
A lot of wood. They didn't have mixers.
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Ali Stuckey
Yeah. They didn't have a KitchenAid. That's probably why.
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Bri
Do you have resolutions?
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Ali Stuckey
I have goals. I have goals. I have some fitness goals. I have some reading goals. I have some, like, hosting goals. Yes. Like, I'm trying to be more. Not that I'm. I don't want to say, like, I'm not. Not hospitable. I just am not a natural, like, oh, host people over for dinner. And I have a very perfectionist mentality when it comes with that. That puts a lot of pressure on me. I end up just not hosting as much as I could because I want my house and everything to be perfectly perfect before I do. But when I go over to people's houses, their homes aren't necessarily perfect, and I don't care. And no one cares because it's really just about the conversation and the fellowship. And so I'm trying to have that. And I was convicted after our relatable at home episode with Abby where she emphasized that. And so I want to do that more this year. I've got relatable goals, I've got share the arrows goals, I've got parenting goals, all different kinds of things, but I wouldn't say necessarily, like, a particular resolution I'm really trying to focus on. I mean, I. I think I. I am someone who enjoys things like, enjoys life, and I don't have a hard time being happy, but it's very easy for me to be looking forward to the next. Next thing, to be looking forward to the next event. Working towards that, thinking about that, anticipating that, or thinking, well, when that happens or when I get in that season of life or when I get in that stage, then I won't be as stressed or I can finally do that. Or focus on that. And I want to get out of that mentality.
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Bri
Yeah.
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Ali Stuckey
And just focus on being in the moment. As cliche as it might sound.
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Bri
No. Love that.
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Ali Stuckey
In my graduation speech at college, I quoted Jim Elliott and I think about this quote often, and he said, wherever you are, be all there. So that's what I'm going to try to do in 2025.
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Bri
Good mantra.
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Ali Stuckey
Let's go. We've got a lot coming down the relatable pipeline this year that we're super excited about. And so buckle up. We'll be back here tomorrow. See you then.