It's Another Attempt to Prevent Conservatives from Participating at Life

As the Left attempts to rebrand itself, there are still voices making it tough for them. 

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I want to talk today about It's been one of
those things that happen and it has been and bounced
around on some of the news channels, things that they
want to talk about, popped in some feeds, saw it
in a few places. I'll be honest with you, I
don't know who this person is, would never have ever

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once spoken this person's name, don't know the last time
I talked in any capacity about Bravo. But as this
woman Jennifer Welch, who was on a podcast. Now is
this her podcast or is it someone else's show, I
don't know, but she talked about Trump and Trump supporters.

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And this is a thing that is currently happening, really
as Democrats are trying to reinvent themselves. It wasn't long
ago that Republicans found themselves in this place where they
were facing this similar type of crisis, if you will,

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where it seemed like Democrats were owning a lot of
the marketable terms, like they had ownership of things that
seemed to matter to Middle America, mainstream America, whatever you want.

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To call it.

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And I don't think it's completely the same situation, but
it is very similar in a lot of ways. And
I have done a couple of shows where I talked
about the things that Democrats used to sort of have
some sort of say in control over, and they attacked
Republicans for doing certain things. And now it's really flipped

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a lot, because now you have Democrats doing many of
the things that Republicans used to be labeled for doing.
An example of that is when you would refer to
the right or conservatives or Republicans, you would often Republicans

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are very proud of their religious faiths and their desires
for certain outcomes based on their religious faith. Now the
left has its version of that. And I'm not labeling
everyone on the left as non religious. That's not what

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I mean with what I'm saying. It's just many on
the left have ingrained their politics into their religion and
their churches. And it's not to say that it hasn't
happened on the right. It certainly did for a long time.
And this is one of those flips that I'm talking about.
But when you go into a church and you basically say,

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we understand this is what the Bible says, but this
doesn't feel right to us. We want to make the
church more palatable to people. So we're going to change
the way the church views this particular thing so that
we can bring more people in. And then ultimately we're
not going to tell them that it's wrong. We're just
going to basically incorporate it into the way the church functions. Now,

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this big split that happened in the Methodist churches where
you had this idea that you know, well, we need
to have gay ministers. We've got to be able to
do that, and that caused quite a bit of a rift.
It's happened in a number of denominations in churches over
the years, and this is certainly not going to be

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the last time something like this happens. But that's just
an example of what we're talking about. There's a number
of things. The very fact that we have churches that
will not speak against abortion at the very least late
term abortion, like because of politics. This is a political thing,

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and this is why there's this fear of alienating people
by not wanting to come across as against whatever the
political wave was. And now the political wave is going
in the other direction, which makes this all really interesting.
The other component of this, as far as religion goes,

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is a lot of science has become religion for a
lot of people on the left, and a sort of
extreme or just extremism in general. Climate change is a
religion to many on the left, and it's and I've
said this before, and I can't help but reinforce sometimes

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when you hear people screaming that the world is coming
to an end because of climate change, We're all going
to die. You know, is going to boil, there'll be
no ice, it'll be too hot for us to live.
We have twelve years, fourteen years. It's always ten to fourteen.
Twelve is the number of the sweet spot. I think

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in the middle. That's not really different. If you go
back to the late eighties and early nineties, you know
the world's about to end, you'd hear from religious groups,
more extreme religious groups, but you'd still hear it. I
remember it was on nineteen eighty eight. That's it, it's
the end of the world. It's going to happen. And

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we heard those things, we heard them a lot. And
meanwhile the left just sort of laughed at those extremist
Christians over there on the right that are saying the
world's going to end. And now it's the other way.
It's ah, the world's going to end in twelve years.
And we have to get climate control. We have to

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figure out how we're going to reverse all of the
things that we've done for so long that you know,
China's doing at an even more rapid rate now than ever,
and nothing that we do could undo it anyway, if
it's even something that could be undone or needs to
be undone, and all those questions, but that's not This

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isn't about that. This is just about the fact that
there's been this significant flip in a lot of ways,
and Democrats are trying to figure out how to rebrand themselves.
They're trying to find whatever that term is, or terms
or things that they can own. From a marketing standpoint,
there's just certain things in marketing that you want to own.
You want to own ideas like best or first, any

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of those things. There's just certain things in a marketing standpoint.
You want to own a word that describes your product,
that you can say, there's others that are like it,
but we want to own this idea so that people
will think of us first. Democrats are trying to find
what that is for them. They don't know what it

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is right now. They're in a lot of trouble and
anytime that it seems like a small group of them
are starting to circle the wagons, and maybe they are,
but trying to figure out what are we going to
do next, you get these extreme cases that pop out
and you have people that are really embarrassing themselves. This

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latest version of this comes from whoever this Jennifer Welch
is And I'm sorry, I don't know, and I didn't
even look it up. I don't care. It's irrelevant to me.
This is a person who is labeled in every story
as bravostar, former Bravo star, all right, And she basically

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did this rant on this podcast where she basically said
that Trump and Trump supporters should stay out of Mexican restaurants,
out of Asian restaurants, Chinese restaurants because the people there
shouldn't be allowing them to come in, shouldn't be they

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shouldn't feel welcome there because of immigration things, and that
she basically said that Trump supporters should get their fat
butts over to cracker barrel instead. So this has happened,
and it's caused some more conversation about where things are,

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and I feel like it's important to bring it up,
not because of how ridiculous is and it is ridiculous,
but because this is something that is a continuation of
something that's been going on for a while, this idea
that if you don't think the way that they do,
or you don't vote the way that they do, or
you don't hate Trump as much as they do, you

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shouldn't be allowed to participate in society. We went through
this in the last few election cycles, where it was basically,
you know, we're gonna get in your faces. We're gonna
remember Maxine Waters, We're gonna get in your faces at
the gasoline stations. We were seeing it at restaurants as

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people were going in and harassing people known to be
conservative and trying to run them out of restaurants, in
some cases successfully running them out of restaurants, using fear
tactics to say we're going to terrorize you until you submit.
You don't deserve to participate in society. You shouldn't be
out there. You shouldn't be enjoying life, you shouldn't be

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doing things. You should be at home, ashamed of yourself
because of what you've done. And apparently in this case,
you should be at cracker barrel. So other examples that
we've had with this, and this isn't even I mean,
I could give the example of you know, hey, I
don't want to cater this wedding. I don't want to

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be forced to participate in certain language when it comes
to people and genders and things. I don't want to
be obligated in being a part of something that I
don't agree with or believe in, or something that I
believe to be mental illness or something that I believe
to be wrong. And people then were told, you don't

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deserve to have a house. We're going to sue you
until you lose your house and your business and your
family suffers, and that's what you deserve. That's not even
the one I was going to talk about. I'm not
even really going to spend a lot of time talking
about this idea that if you're the CEO of a
healthcare company, you deserve to die, because even if your

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health care company didn't deny the claims of a crazy person,
that crazy person still has a right to murder you
in the street and take you away from your family
and them never see you again, because some of these
healthcare presidents and CEOs or bad people, being a bad

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person automatically means or having done bad things means that
you deserve to die in cold blood in the street.
Not even talking about that, and the fact that people
still defend it, still defending it. It is still something
that people are defending. And I'm not even talking about that.
I'm talking about the specific cases of people saying, good

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luck if you want to be entertained, you conservatives, because
when you go to the movies, you're watching all the
movies that our side makes. When you're watching TV, you're
watching the shows and programming that we're responsible for. You're
watching the things that we are getting pushed out there.

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When you watch a kid show and you see something
in it that's promoting LGBTQ plus lifestyles, then haha, we've
got producers behind the scenes doing that. So your kids
are watching it and they're being influenced. And this was
you know, haha, this came out during COVID, and yes,
that was the idea. We're getting this stuff in there

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and your kids are seeing it. By the way, if
you got kids still watching that stuff, you need to
be keeping an eye on what they're watching. That's all.
I don't know if these people still work it, Disney,
but you got to be aware of it. There's a
motivation behind it. You don't have a right to go
to restaurants or go to movies or watch TV unless

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you think and act and vote the way that they
want you to. That's part of the thinking, that's part
of the mindset that is there, and it's still there
even if it's not now mainstream being talked about. It
pops up in these situations with somebody who, let's be honest,
is just trying to stir the pot. This is someone

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trying to say something controversial to get attention. Successful. There's
people talking about this person that would not have been
including me. So that was a success. That was a
win to some degree. By the way, another quick note
when it comes to movies, if a movie comes out

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and it just happens to have a message in it
about a family that has a baby and they're trying
to protect the baby from the meat monster, that doesn't
automatically make it a pro life movie. I did over
the weekend for just a few minutes have my TV on,
and I heard someone on the Fox network encouraging people

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to go watch Fantastic Four First Steps because it's a
pro life movie and Hollywood is finally made a pro
life movie. Look, you could take some pro life themes
out of that if you want to, that's not really
what they were going for. Don't kid yourself. I'm not
discouraging you from seeing the movie. I saw the movie.

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I enjoyed it. I had a good time watching it.
I like the Marvel movies. But encouraging people to go
see it to support a pro life movie. That's not
what it was, and that's not how it's gonna be understood.
And just because by the way they use the word
alien multiple times in the Superman movie doesn't automatically make

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it a pro illegal immigrant movie. I didn't get that
message of either of those from either of those movies.
That's not what I pulled from them. I went, Hey,
it's a movie about Superman. This is a good time,
this is fun. Hey, this is a movie about the
Fantastic Four. Finally we're getting a more realistic MCU Marvel

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Universe version of the Fantastic Four. That's great, dare I
say fantastic us. See, it doesn't automatically, And all you're
doing by telling people to go watch it is encouraging
people to go spend more money with Disney so Disney
can make whatever they're making that your kids are watching.

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And it's not that I'm telling you to boycott it,
because that's not what I'm doing at all. I enjoyed it.
I watched the movie. I saw it. I saw both
of those movies. But it doesn't automatically make it a
pro life movie. All Right, there's themes in these movies,
and I've told you before, you can't. I mentioned that
I went back and rewatched the dark Night rises it had,

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and now that you watch it, you can't help but go, man,
there's a little bit of a Trump thing to this.
There's a little bit of a feel of that somewhere
in the layers of this story. But this movie was
made long before that. Was it predicting it? No, it's
just an interesting take on it that you could go
back and watch it and go wow. This could have
been made with those themes intentionally now, but it wasn't

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made with those themes in mind. I didn't have anything
to do with Trump. It was a Batman movie and
I like that one too. I didn't come out of
it thinking, man, oh man, this is a movie about
blank issues. It's a movie. There are some issues to it. Sure.
I didn't come out of it thinking I need to
support or hate this movie because of whatever issues. So

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as Democrats are struggling to figure out whatever their messaging
is going to be, whatever thing they're going to own
moving forward, is they still have some of these loudmouth
voices out there. They still have the voices saying you
don't deserve to participate in society and the more they
say it, the more a lot of Middle America is

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