Some Controversy From Allie Beth Stuckey and Ron DeSantis

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I am not the kind of guy that curates my content just so that I can maintain the best possible, the biggest possible audience and things like that.

I often will say things that I know full well is not gonna get a lot of play with any audience, but you guys still love me, and honestly,

I appreciate it, I really do. So let's wade into two more contentious subjects right away because I gotta be honest with you, this is the kind of thing that I like to do.

That being said, yesterday, Ron DeSantis, or as, I love the name

Meatball, Meatball Ron. It is just a really good name. You know, a lot of people get all hot under the collar about Trump's name calling.

Honestly, I think it's hilarious. A lot of people think it's hilarious, and I think it's a big part of what his whole strategy is, which is weird, but I think it works for the guy.

I don't know. But his first try with Ron DeSantis, who I like, I like Ron DeSantis.

I mean, I've got very few problems with him. I do have some problems with him, but I like Ron DeSantis. But his first try was

Ron DeSanctimonious, and that was awful. What an awful swing and a miss,

DeSanctimonious. It just doesn't roll off the tongue. It's just too much, it's just too much. And Sanctimonious, a lot of people don't even know what that means.

Like, that was, it was a good try, but it was very, very poor in terms of the name calling.

But Meatball Ron, I don't even know why I like that. I don't even know why he's called a meatball. I mean, I imagine it's because he kind of looks like a meatball.

But, it's but a weird name. Oh, Meatball Ron, it's very good.

It's a very good name. One of my kid's uncles actually started calling him

Meatball at one point, because he went through a phase where he was like really kind of built solid. He's much, he's thinned out now, but Meatball, there you go,

Meatball Ron. Anyway, he announced that he was running for president, which everyone kind of assumed he would.

And he did it on Twitter Spaces, and it didn't go well. Like, I guess there were some tech issues and things like that, very suspicious tech issues.

I don't know. I have no idea what's going on, but Trump jumped all over it. And I gotta be honest with you, this stuff is amazing.

Let's get the video, audio here. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Make sure that I'm paired here.

Yeah, I have to say that the DeSantis announcement was a big L, big

L. He posted a huge L on this one. All right, here we go. This is what Trump's response was. This is an

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I'm free ♪ He's a man to freedom, and he's willing to put his money where his mouth is. Upset the narrative he's imposed on us by our government.

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Have Governor DeSantis make this up. USA!

We're just trying to get it going. ♪ And I'm proud to be an

American ♪ All right, all right. Yeah, that was a big mistake, to do this like Zoom call type of a thing where there's really no even video anyway.

It's not even a Zoom call, it's worse than a Zoom call. And even a lot of his fans were saying, this is really boring.

He's announcing, he's going through these statistics, he's going through all this, but it's just like, there's no flash to it at all.

None at all. And the reality is that in American politics, the flash counts.

Of course we want substance too. If we could have someone that had the greatest substance to them as a leader and also the flash, that would be ideal, obviously.

But the thing is, in our system of government, you gotta appeal to a certain amount of people.

It's a popularity contest in many ways. The flash absolutely counts. And so, this kind of announcement where he's just kind of going through these statistics, so matter of factly, we gotta get this going, and it's not gonna work.

It's not going to work. And that doesn't mean, I posted something to that effect on Twitter that I said, flash counts.

And people started calling me all kinds of names. Oh, you're an idiot. You just want a popular guy. I want a good leader.

It's like, yeah, well, I want a good leader too. But the thing is, you've got to deal in reality. This isn't a piece of advice that I could offer all of you.

It's okay to have your ideals. It's okay to have your goals, your ideologies, your positions.

It's okay if you wanna be a libertarian. I suppose that's okay. If you wanna be a theonomist, that's definitely okay.

But make sure that you're not forgetting to deal in reality, the way things actually are. That's important.

Because the way things actually are, the DeSantis style, this kind of thing is going to fail.

It's going to fail. He won't win the nomination. And even if he does win the nomination, he won't win the election. Flash counts.

You need to, this video that Trump released minutes after this

DeSantis announcement completely overshadowed it. It just, and there's no substance to this, but this resonates with people.

Because it's like, yeah, you're like, and I understand this. And this is another thing too. I understand people were like dogging

Americans for just wanting the show. They don't care about the substance. They just want the show. It's supposed to make it seem like Americans are idiots.

And look, if it was me, I would choose substance over style. I mean, I'm not gonna deny that.

That's my personality, that kind of thing. But that being said, I understand why people sometimes choose style over substance.

Because in 2023, we've been so beaten down and depressed and dominated for so long.

I can understand preferring someone that is gonna destroy your enemies with style.

That's going to mock your enemies to the ground. That's going to show no respect for the things that are the ruling powers of the day.

I can understand wanting that, wanting someone that will demoralize your enemies more so than you want someone that can statistically tell you all his successes and stuff like that.

So I can understand that. It's not my personality, but I can understand that personality. And I don't look down upon it and I get it.

I totally get it. Here's DeSantis' problem. He's got to match, in my opinion, he's got to match, maybe not

Trump's humor. He does kind of have to match his humor, in my opinion, but he's got to match his showmanship,

I think. He really does. He just has to in order to have a chance here. So if you like DeSantis, you should be encouraging him and hoping that he can match some of this showmanship.

But the problem that he has is that if he tries to match his showmanship, he's also, he's got to do a good job and he's also simultaneously has to have to look like he's not copying

Trump. Because if he's copying Trump, it's going to be very hard to pull off. It really is.

DeSantis is in a very tough spot, in my opinion. I'm not sure that he's capable of winning this one.

That being said, and I'm not like a Trump loyalist. Like I know some of my friends are like Trump. They love Trump. And I could see voting for Trump again.

I really could. I don't know who I'm going to vote for. I don't know, but I could see voting for Trump again. He was a disaster during COVID.

There's no question about that. A complete disaster during COVID. And I got to be honest, like it's hard to forgive him for some of his actions after January 6th.

I don't care about January. He didn't do anything on January 6th. But then to not pardon those guys and also to like doing nothing to sort of secure the elections.

Like it just, that stuff, it's very hard to forgive him for that kind of stuff. And COVID, COVID especially. For me, the big thing is the

COVID stuff and the vaccine stuff. It's very hard to forgive Trump for that kind of stuff. That being said, I could see voting for him. I could.

I could. So there's the first topic. I know that's going to split the audience right down the middle.

I haven't really, see, this is the thing, like with something like that. I haven't said I support Trump, but a lot of people are going to hear this as me supporting

Trump. But the bottom line is yesterday was a huge L for Ron DeSantis. Even if you like what he had to say, which even some

DeSantis fans didn't really care for what he had to say. He thought it was boring and it was boring. There's no question about it.

But I don't think there's any way to look at it as not an L. It was a huge L. He lost. He posted a loss on his announcement for running.

Like that should be the time when you're like most energized. You're like most excited. Yes, we're going for it.

We're going to do it. And he came out with a Twitter space that didn't even work.

It's like, oh man, like that, you have to be honest with yourself. If you love

DeSantis, that's okay. I don't have a problem with you if you love DeSantis. I like DeSantis. But you have to deal in reality.

Yesterday was not good for DeSantis. It was bad for DeSantis. It really was.

He could have almost done anything else and it would have been better. All right, so there's the first thing. The second thing,

Allie Beth Stuckey. You know, I had no idea that Allie Beth Stuckey was such a sacred cow. And I don't mean that she's a cow, so don't get all crazy on me.

I just mean like how normal people would use the word sacred cow. Like if you criticize her, people come out of the woodwork to how dare you to death.

Now, here's the thing about Allie Beth Stuckey. I've never watched her show, not even a minute of her show. I've heard really good things from people that I trust.

So I go into this with the assumption that she's got fantastic theology, that she's got great social takes, that she understands a lot of things that a lot of people don't understand.

I've heard her presentation style is excellent. It's organized, it's intelligent. I've got a high opinion of Allie Beth Stuckey, even having never watched a single moment of her show.

I believe I have watched one thing involving her, and it was like a skit. So it wasn't even like part of her show.

I think it was part of somebody else's show. And she was like, it was like a sketch or something like that.

So it wasn't even like a serious thing. And I thought it was funny. I thought she did a pretty good job in it. So I've got a very high opinion of Allie Beth Stuckey.

I guess at least as high of an opinion as you can have of someone having never heard them. So there you go.

So there you go. But she's wrong here. This is not correct. And I gotta be honest with you.

What she said here has egalitarian assumptions in it. It's just that simple.

It is just that simple. So let me, she quote tweets Eric Kahn here, and Eric is 100 % right about this, 100 % right.

And so Allie Beth Stuckey said, she's right to say that women can't be pastors.

And that's very good. And I commend people for that because in 2023, that actually takes a little bit of courage to say.

Like most people are caving to that, the basic stuff. And you gotta hand it to her. She's at least submitting herself to scripture.

It's very clear in scripture that women are not to teach or exercise authority over a man. It's very, very clear in scripture that women are not to be pastors and all of that.

But here's the problem though. So she's admitting God said this, but she's taking away like the logic of it, like the reason for it.

Like it's almost presented as if it's an arbitrary rule. Because here's what she says.

I don't believe women can be pastors. That's very good. And she says, but I have the capability of preaching.

I could deliver a more biblically sound, persuasive and dynamic sermon than most men in the pulpit today.

And so could many, many other women. That's what she says. Now, I completely disagree.

She's wrong about that. She can't deliver a better sermon than most male pastors because she's not capable of delivering a sermon.

It's just that simple. Now that does not mean she can't say words. Of course she can say words, right?

Of course. That does not mean that she doesn't have better theology. Cause I saw, cause somebody responded to me and she said, well, you know, what about like Stephen Furtick and Joel Osteen, right?

Like, can she deliver a better sermon than those guys? And my answer is no, she can't because she can't deliver a sermon.

God did not create her in a way to deliver a sermon that would be biblical, that would be sound, that would be a dynamic, you know, powerful.

Dynamic means powerful. It would have power behind it, right? So she can't do that.

That does not mean though that she has worse theology than Stephen Furtick or Joel Osteen, right?

Like, I'm not saying that. I am, listen, I don't know her, but I'm assuming from what

I've heard that she probably has 10 times as good theology as Stephen Furtick and Joel Osteen, 10 times, maybe more.

She probably has really good theology, much better than those two. That's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying that she doesn't have as good theology as him or doesn't have a better understanding of the

Bible. I'm sure Allie Beth Stuckey has a better understanding of the Bible than those two.

I'm not denying that. I'm sure, like if I had the opportunity, like my kids are in kindergarten and they were gonna be in a

Sunday school class, would I prefer them to be in Allie Beth Stuckey's Sunday school's class than Joel Osteen?

Yeah, I think I might. I think I might. You know, if I had to choose one or the other, I don't have to do that, by the way.

That's not the choice. But if, you know, I'm not saying that that's the case, but like, but here's the thing though.

Being a woman, God created a woman to do certain things and not to do other things.

And so there's a logic behind the prohibition, right? God's not just prohibiting women from being pastors willy nilly arbitrary.

Like, it's not like it doesn't make sense. It makes perfect sense when you consider the law of nature, natural law, and you consider how a woman is wired and you consider what a woman is like, because women are wired very differently than men.

Women are wired very differently and the way they operate day to day, they're very different.

And so because of those things, God has given us this clear prohibition because of the way he created women.

And so it's not correct that she has the capability of preaching a dynamic sermon. It's not correct.

That's not true. She has the ability to say words. Nobody's denying that because I saw some people saying, well, this is just ridiculous to deny this.

Of course she can say words and theological things. Well, no, of course she can do that, but that's not what she's saying here.

She's saying she's capable of preaching and God's just denying her that for some reason.

I mean, this is the thing, guys, like I don't think that this is a slippery slope for Allie, like based on her track record that people have said,

I mean, again, I haven't watched her show, but based on what she's doing and the way that she operates from what

I've heard, it doesn't sound like she's in danger of falling into the slippery slope here because there is a slippery slope here because the reality is if God just said something arbitrary, but you have no reasons why, it's just there and it's not because of how

I made, that can't really stand forever. It really can't.

That eventually will lead to egalitarianism because that is egalitarianism because I'm just as capable as a man.

It's just that God says no. Well, the thing is that's egalitarianism. If you're saying you're just as capable as a man of doing this thing that God says you cannot do, that's an egalitarian assumption.

And so she's not correct here. She's not correct here. It's just the bottom line. She isn't correct.

She can't deliver a more dynamic sermon than most men in the pulpit today. That's not true. It's just not true.

So I think it's, and I've seen a lot of people, like even Gabe Hughes from when we understand the text, who

I love, and I feel a need to say that I love the guy because I feel like sometimes people think if you criticize someone, that must mean you think they're illegitimate.

It's stupid that I have to say that. I thought that was obvious, but I have to say it. I like Gabe Hughes. But he was asking like, why do this in an episode where she said that women can't preach?

Why go after her? And I think this is the perfect time to go after this. Look, right now there's so much progress being made striking at the root of liberalism, the root of egalitarianism.

And this is exactly on message for so many of us. This is egalitarian assumptions.

God bless her for not letting that take over and override what the Bible clearly says.

She's obviously submitted to the scriptures in that way. She's like, look, God says it, I don't understand it because I'm just as capable as any man.

I don't understand it, but so I'm gonna submit. Look, that's a big deal. When someone doesn't understand what God says and why he says it, but they submit anyway, that's a good posture to take.

I'm not taking anything away from that. I'm very grateful for that. Because there's been times in my life where I don't understand something

God says, but I submit to it. I don't know, you're God, not me. But the reality here is that fundamentally she's got an egalitarian assumption that she's just as capable as these men.

In fact, more capable than a lot of men to do something that God designed her not to do.

That's just not correct. She's wrong about that. And I think it's totally appropriate to point that out, especially at this time when so many liberal idols are falling.

Of course, she doesn't think this is liberal. She thinks this is conservative because compared to most people, it is conservative.

And so I'm grateful for that. But the problem is that I think this is an area where the

Overton window needs to shift. Like this is an area, like God's rules and his prohibitions, they make sense given how he's created the world.

And if you wanna go to Eric Kahn's Twitter feed, lots of people responded to him and you'll see some interesting pushback and some responses.

And you'll also see a lot of people kind of rewording what Eric said and why it's an issue. I honestly,

I think it's good stuff, guys. I think it's good stuff. These are the kinds of things that we need to think about for going forward because what we don't wanna do is just rewind the clock.

Like what we don't wanna do is do the James Lindsay thing where we just rewind the clock like 30 years and that's like the ideal situation.

No, no, we gotta cut liberalism off at the root. We gotta dig up those roots, throw them in the fire and plant something different because these egalitarian assumptions, which they most definitively are,

Allie Beth Stuckey is showing you egalitarian assumptions here. Luckily, she's not an egalitarian.

She understands that she's gotta submit to the Bible even if she doesn't get it. But the assumptions are there and I think a lot of people who believe these assumptions will end up full -fledged egalitarians.

There's really only two options. It's either egalitarian or patriarchy, that's it. Complementarianism is pretty much a joke.

All right then, those are the two controversial things I wanted to talk about today. Hopefully, we can still be friends.

I think we can, I think we can survive this. God bless you, I hope you found this video helpful. God bless.