 So I'd like to talk about a video that stumbled across my feed today that kind of caught me off-guard because of how bizarre it is So it features Dan Crenshaw who is speaking at a really small event with lots of conservatives and a 10-year-old girl Asks him a question and as you're going to see what she says makes him very angry So she's kind of challenging him. I'll be a tepidly, but nonetheless She's kind of pressing him and he gets really mad at this child So it's it's weird and then the reaction from the conservatives at this event make the entire situation even that much weirder So the whole thing kind of feels like the Twilight Zone So we're gonna take a look now just keep in mind that the first couple of seconds of this video The person who was filming it filmed vertically and then they flipped it So it's gonna be hard to watch it first and then it normalizes, but either way Enjoy this train wreck of a video Jesus is a hero archetype superman is a hero archetype real characters to it too I could name a thousand Rosa Parks, Ronald Reagan and quote I can't wrap my head around this girl. I'll help you put a period out the word Jesus and don't question my faith Wow You guys can ask questions about all of these things and I will answer them but don't question my faith This is what you said Of course, he's the son of God Of course, he's the son of God On the podcast, no one would have understood it that way. I think you're twisting it that way It's not very Christian It's not I don't know what to say about that dude. She's ten. She's ten So, yes, it's it's apparent that she was trying to challenge you and maybe you know That caught you off guard and you didn't like that she was questioning your religion, but she's ten So just I don't know clarify answer the question move on She's ten. You shouldn't be that outraged at something that a child asks you Dan Crenshaw No, I don't know if she's ten, but the people in the room were saying she's ten you moron I mean, maybe she's ten either way. She's very young So for her to ask him this question and for him to get that angry is it's extremely irrational and bizarre to me I mean, this is a child who is concerned that your belief in God is Inauthentic. I mean, she's she's a child. She probably still believes in Santa Claus So just I don't know explain your position clarify what you meant and move on But you see to her and this took me a while to understand She was offended at the fact that Dan Crenshaw would place Jesus Christ in the same category as Superman as Ronald Reagan and Rosa Parks because he is omnipotent He is above all human beings. So for him to do that is very offensive to her But in response to you know Her trying to question me says I'll help you put a period after the word Jesus and don't question my faith That actually caught me off guard Because again, she's a small child. Why are you? mad at her and Then everything kind of just went haywire when they started to scream at him and then they started to press him asking Is he the son of God answer her down is she the son of God? Something like this would only happen in America literally These are the pressing questions that Conservatives have for their politicians like if I were ever in a room and I had the opportunity to challenge a politician I would be asking them about political Contributions their unwillingness to support a policy that is extremely popular and helpful to the American people but they had the opportunity to challenge Dan Crenshaw and They're asking him do you believe that Jesus is the son of God like who cares what the fuck I Get the little girl being concerned about his religious beliefs because of course a kid is going to be concerned with things that don't matter Like fairy tales and religion and Santa Claus and who gives a shit But your grown-ups and you're asking him this and of course, you know Dan Crenshaw had to play along And then he also snapped again by saying you know that that little girl was twisting his words it's not very question Christian and Then the crowd just randomly started chanting. Let's go Brandon. I Just there are so many questions I just want to have an interview with each individual person in that room including the girl including Dan Crenshaw Including the people shouting because I want to know the way that their brains function because I just I genuinely can't wrap my mind around it The whole thing is weird everyone there is guilty minus the child because she's a child But Dan Crenshaw handle that incredibly Stupidly and the crowd reacted in International way I get them defending the child but the chant Let's go Brandon and then press him on whether or not he believes Jesus as the son of God Who gives a shit none of this matters none of this matters asking about you know Whether or not his religious belief specifically meets your criteria does not matter in the grand scheme of things ask him about Tax policy asking him about fucking legislation that he's introduced. This doesn't matter Why are you asking him about dumb shit like this? It's just it's bizarre to me But I don't know why for some reason as I was thinking about this video It got me to think about an interaction that I had with an adult as it pertains to fairytales so when I was younger I Probably stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was like seven or eight years old You know, I busted my parents relatively early But I pretended as if I believed in Santa Claus until I was like 12 or 13 Because I knew that my parents were very poor So whenever I would ask them for something like a Nintendo 64 they'd always explain to me look Mike We just we can't afford that it's too much money, but then I'd hit back with up Yeah, but Santa Claus makes them the elves right now are manufacturing Nintendo 64 So it doesn't cost anything now They still wouldn't be able to purchase that for me, but perhaps in my mind as a kid I thought well, maybe they'll just work that much harder to get it I don't know do what you got to do it comes from Santa so don't crush my soul Don't make me believe that Santa couldn't deliver this So I think that at some point my mom and my dad they kind of caught on to this little scam that I was pulling where I Pretended to believe in Santa Claus so I would ask for really high dollar presents every Christmas And so one day my mom she sits me down and she says Michael I want to tell you something and this was a very serious conversation. She took it very seriously she says Santa Claus is not real and I did not know What to say because of course I knew that Santa Claus wasn't real I think I was like 11 or 12 at this point and so I started to question. Well, what about you know, the cookies? What about the snow that was on the carpet after Santa Claus visited and I knew that you know I was old enough to acknowledge that yes, that was baking so it wasn't real snow the snow would have melted I wasn't an idiot I was just pretending to believe in Santa Claus so I could ask for better presents and my mom explained that was all Fake and I didn't know what to do because I wanted to continue to perpetuate the scam of Asking for really good presents because I could use that excuse that it doesn't matter how poor we are Santa can do anything because he's magic And he makes the presents at the North Pole So trying to figure out a way to still keep up this facade of me believing in Santa Claus I hit my mom with the really powerful Uno reverse card and I tied that shit to religion So I told her mom so if you're telling me Santa Claus isn't real then of course It's also the case that God isn't real as well because if you're lying to me about Santa Claus Of course, you're lying to me about God So I guess that God isn't real too and my mom did not know what to do I think she probably knew that there was a level of disingenuity But she didn't want me to question my faith because my family was very religious at that time We were poor so religion was all that we had so she said no no of course It's the case that God is real But Santa is something that we made up. It's different things and I said how is it different though? If Santa is magic and Jesus is magic effectively then why am I not to believe that God also isn't real So my mom then decided to Reverse course. I got her the to backpedal and she said okay. I Was kidding Santa is real everything I said about eating the cookies and leaving the presents I made it up And I'm like, oh perfect and then I said well, why would you make that up? And she's like I was just pranking you so I At that point still got her to believe that I believed in Santa Claus or at least we kept up this facade I feel like she had to have known at that point when I was 13 years old or 12 years old However old I was that I was just bullshitting her and I ended the conversation by asking now I'm gonna make sure that Santa knows I Want to say a dreamcast So it's just it reminds me of that where you're a child and you're arguing with an adult about a fictional character But I think that had my mom handled That conversation the way that Dan Crenshaw handled the conversation. I would have deserved it So I mean even if that little girl she's innocent right as kids We don't we don't know any better, but if that little girl, you know Was let down gently about Dan Crenshaw. I don't know lying about his religious beliefs or whatever She was kind of talking about how he did not Or he wasn't necessarily this isn't her words. This is mine He was a little bit disingenuous about his religious beliefs because he says one thing publicly and then on a podcast I'll say something entirely different a lot of politicians do this right? They speak to certain crowds and they'll lie they'll twist their stories. So, you know this this little girl I think that she you know, she reminds me of myself when I was younger Except she was met with a lot of aggression and you know, had I been met with that Aggression from my mom when I confronted her about a fictional character. Maybe, you know, I would have I don't know I would have grown up differently. I'm not sure I Don't know what the takeaway from the story is but either way I just this story this video made my day to see a Conservative get heckled by fellow right-wingers and then they're literally trying to press him on whether or not he thinks that Jesus is the son of God is that what what they said? Yeah, is he the son of God? I just I Love it. This is America in 2020 to folks and you know There's not much we can do with regard to changing our government and saving the planet But at least we can laugh at the dumb fuckery and make memes about all of this dystopian bullshit that we are witnessing every single day. So yeah, no real point to But for whatever for whatever reason that little girl and her interaction with Dan Crenshaw, I'm gonna be think of that but either way I Don't know what to say. This is just an amazing video