Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - BONUS: Casey DeSantis Breaks Down the Florida Amendments

Episode Date: November 5, 2024

In this special bonus episode, we sit down with first lady Casey DeSantis of Florida to discuss tomorrow's election and the proposed measures on Florida's state ballot. We talk about Florida Amendments 3 and 4, how disastrous they would be for the state of Florida and the well-being of our nation at large, and the amazing work the first lady and Governor DeSantis have been doing in informing their constituents about these measures. Buy Allie's new book, "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion": https://a.co/d/4COtBxy ---   Relevant Episodes: Ep 1089 | Kamala Harris Wants Trump Dead | Guest: Glenn Beck  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1089-kamala-harris-wants-trump-dead-guest-glenn-beck/id1359249098?i=100067434868 Ep 763 | Governor Ron DeSantis on Trans Kids, DEI, and Fatherhood https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-763-governor-ron-desantis-on-the-lgbtq-lobby-dei/id1359249098?i=1000602371574 ---   Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

First Lady Casey DeSantis is here to tell us the truth about amendments three and four in the state of Florida. If you are a voter in the state of Florida, you have to listen to or watch this. Or if you know someone who is, you've got to get the word out because these amendments could completely change the culture in Florida for the worst. And these are amendments. And so it is serious business. This stuff will be set in concrete. You've got to vote no on both of the. those and Casey DeSantis is here right now to tell us why.

First lady, thanks so much for taking the time to join us. You and Governor DeSantis have been traveling the state trying to get the word out about the truth about amendments three and four. There's so much propaganda out there about these. I want to start with Amendment 4 because that has to do with abortion. And obviously this is a huge issue that I talk about that my viewers care a lot about. Can you tell us what is really? in this amendment? Yeah, I can because you're right. There are a lot of paid interests out there

that are trying to push a narrative, and a lot of them come from Soros-backed groups. I think they're spending over $100 million to try to make people believe something that is not true. So when you actually look at the constitutional amendment, Ali Beth, it's just a couple of sentences, and it's very deceptive, very misleading. There are no definitions. And so it's open to interpretation, but what it really means, it boils down to three points, one of which it talks about allowing an abortion up until the moment of viability. Some would say that that's 26 weeks, but there's a loophole that comes in after it, as it says, or deemed necessary to protect a patient's health as determined by a health care provider. So what that means is it takes the doctor out of the

equation because provider is not a doctor. And so really, what does that word mean? Well, that's anybody who's working at a health care facility. So is that a tech? Is that a receptionist? And then here's the one that should really upset and make moms very afraid is that they take out the word parental consent and they use slippery language to say notification. So in the state of Florida, this would be the only medical procedure that a child could undergo without the consent of a parent. So this is very problematic. You are talking about abortions up until the moment of birth, taking the doctor out of the equation, not allowing parents to have consent. It would replace it with notification. And when you're talking about late-term abortions, I mean, you're talking about dismemberment when

a baby is capable of feeling pain. And the other thing that's important about this entire process, these are constitutional amendments. This is not something that's done through the legislature. So this is permanent. If this gets enacted in our law, it cannot be undefed. done. Wow. Can you tell us a little bit more about who is behind this? Well, so I think that there's Soros-backed left-leaning groups that try to torpedo in and they spend a lot of money. I think you have to go back and look, I know specifically where Amendment 3 is being funded. But with four, I mean, it's the same people that have brought you a lot of these other amendments. But thanks goodness that you have the governor who stood up and he has been traveling around the state and as myself and a lot

of people, you know, from the legislature to try to fight this thing and to say no. Yeah, it's really sick the misinformation, disinformation, I should say that I'm seeing specifically surrounding this amendment. You're seeing some people say, well, you know, it's not really about abortion. It's really just about miscarriage care or it's protecting women's health in case of some kind of emergency. But of course, that's not true because the pro-life law, the heartbeat bill that was signed by Governor DeSantis, of course, it protects miscarriage care. And of course, it protects women in case of emergency situation. So that's just a complete and total lie. Right. Right. No, you're 100% right. I think that's, well, and the truth is,

is they're trying to peddle a false narrative so that you don't understand what the current law is. And then they're being very squirly with the language that's in the constitutional amendment. So there are PSAs that are running right now on television all across the state of Florida talking about the truth of the heartbeat protections. And at the same time, there are ads out there talking about what it would mean if this constitutional amendment would pass. Let's talk about Amendment 3. Amendment 3 has to do with weed. And I've seen some people who are maybe like center, center, laughed, maybe conservative in some ways saying, no, this is just giving people the freedom to do what they want to do in their own homes. Is that really what Amendment 3 is, though?

No, it is nothing to do about freedom. This is a, about one corporation, a mega weed cartel, that's spending over $140 million to basically hijack our constitutional system to give themselves revenue in perpetuity. If it were really about freedom, then why, when they wrote this constitutional amendment, did they say, you can smoke weed recreationally, but you can only use our product? You can't grow it in your home. That's illegal. And by the way, and this is pretty egregious, they gave themselves blankets, civil,

and criminal liability in any part of the process. So if you're smoking their product or consuming their product, or let's say you get hit by one of the mega weed corporate cartels trucks, you can't sue them. You have zero recourse. And so if it were about freedom, they, of course, would say, well, you can grow it in your home. This is nothing to do. This is backed by one megawed company that is traded on the Canadian Stock Exchange that invested over $140 million. Why? They have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders holders to get a return on their investment. So for them, it's not about the well-being of the people of this state. It's not about the best interests of families or the quality of life because there's no restrictions on public use.

This is about them and an investment and trying to get money for themselves with constitutionally backed revenue stream in perpetuity. It's like a monopoly. Tell me if this is correct. the amendment allows for a person to carry up to three ounces of marijuana, which is equivalent to over 100 joints on their person at a time. This means street level drug dealing would effectively be legalized. Pot would be everywhere. And there would be no way for concerned parents to be able to shield their children from exposure to marijuana, the smell of marijuana, the effects of marijuana. Is that true? Yeah, 100%. So first of all, when you talk about the amount that you can carry on your person,

That's three times the amount that you can carry on your person in California. And look how well it's worked out for California in some of these other states. Then you talk about not being able to escape the smell, right? It's inevitable of any of these states where it has been legalized recreationally, where they flee California and New York. You can't even walk down a New York City block without smelling marijuana. Again, there are no limitations on public usage. So again, a church, a library, a park, going to your...

kids little league game waiting in line for Universal Studios because this is a constitutional right, the legislature could not undo it and law enforcement wouldn't be able to undo it. And then you see the other ramifications of what happens in other states where this has been enacted. And you see fatalities on the roads go up. You see children consuming things like gummies. I mean, I don't understand why they put high levels of THC into gummies and lollipops. But it happens that these kids.

kids get a hold of it. In California, you saw a 445% increase into the poison control hotline for marijuana-related incidents involving kids under the age of five. So anywhere this has been tried, it's been failed. And then for the people who say, okay, it's freedom. Well, listen, we currently in the state of Florida have a regulated medical marijuana market where we have, or we, the state has issued more than, I think, 900,000 medical marijuana cards. I haven't heard a lot of people complaining about not being able to get one of those cards, but it's regulated. It is available in the state of Florida. You can drive down a street. You can see a lot of these storefronts. But to do this, it has been tried and it has failed

in so many other states would be detrimental to the well-being of the people of the state going forward. And again, it cannot be undone by the legislature. This is a right. And we don't have time to get into all of this, but there's also just so much disinformation about marijuana out there. A lot of people think it is like the harmless drug and it's really not. I mean, you mentioned, you know, traffic fatalities because people are under the influence of weed, but also it can increase mental health issues, especially in young people. And as you said, when it becomes this ubiquitous, it becomes more accessible to children, to teens. And this has a real lifelong detrimental effect on their well-being, on their mental health. And so I just, as a mom, first of all, I hate smelling

weed. I would hate walking to the park and having to smell weed, have to see a weed shop on every block for it to be completely unregulated. And then, yeah, I worry about its availability and accessibility to young people and how that affects my safety. And as you said, I just want everyone to understand this. If this passes, it's not like, oh, it would just change in the next, you know, in the next legislative session. No, this would be an amendment. And so it would be basically sat in stone, right? A hundred percent. And it's really kind of sick the way that they did this, because if they wanted to go through the proper legislative process, they would go through the House and the Senate. They'd come to a consensus committee hearings, whatever. But they didn't want to do that.

They wanted to find an end run around the legislature to cement it in the Constitution. That's why they're spending so much money, but you bring up a really good point as a mom. And the ramifications and adverse effects of marijuana are undeniable. You might not see it everywhere. You might have special interests out there spending a lot of money to be able to shovel a narrative about how great it is. But I was out with our Surgeon General, and he said, absolutely, you get addicted to this stuff. I mean, it's 25 to 30 times more potent than what we saw in the 1960s.

in the 1970s. Certainly, we see kids who are coming in and exhibiting schizophrenia and psychosis. And I mean, you see it. I don't know about you, Allie Beth, but I mean, when I was in high school, I remember kids who were like on the football team. I mean, they were doing great in school. They were gregaria. I mean, just, and then they went down the path of marijuana. And that was it. Yeah. They came in. They were just dirty. Their grades went to heck. I mean, they weren't doing athletics anymore. And so when you look at it, can anybody really make the argument that this is great for our kids that importing this at mass, unregulated, essentially across the state is going to be good for the well-being of our children. I don't

think you can. And when I was at a school in Northeast Florida, I remember walking into one of the offices and on the wall, they had all of these pamphlets talking about tobacco and harms of tobacco and why you need to stop. I mean, at what point in time are we going to start seeing the warnings? Marijuana. Here's all of the problems. problems that are associated with it because they're there they might not be out in society the way that we know they are but i mean this the evidence and the data it's there we just have to educate our kids and to say that this is now recreational what is that message send to our children so it's problematic on so many levels yes but if people really understood the truth and and understand too

when you go in in florida to vote on this stuff you're going to see a summary the summary to is not due justice what the actual constitutional amendment says. It doesn't even get into the liability protections that I talked to you about. Ultimately, wherever this has been tried, it always leads to a black market, which is scary for our kids because when you have a product, you regulate it, you tax it.

The black market comes in and undercuts that price, right? Well, the black market doesn't care if this stuff is clean. It's gonna be laced with fentanyl. And so people are like, why would these companies give themselves liability protections? And police told me, they said, well, you know, we can't different,

when we're looking at it, what's, you know, regulated through these cartels and what's on the black market, people are going to die as a result of this. And children, too, because that includes, you talked about the gummies and the, and the suckers, those can also be laced with fentanyl. Yes. Yes, 100 percent. All of this stuff. It's just, you know, it's so scary. It's really egregious what they're trying to do. And, you know, again, this would open the door. And I think it's the last thing, and I'll let you go. I know you're busy. But this would really open the door to, like, you know, big pharma on steroids.

How would you ever be able to stop a corporation if they think that they can usurp the legislature to spend, you know, $150 million to peddle false narratives to be able to get whatever product they want in perpetuity? I mean, the precedent that this sets is really bad, too. Yes. Well, thank you so much for the work that y'all are doing to inform voters about this. I have seen it. You all have done an excellent job.

And so, well, I do want to ask, like, what is the, what is it looking like? Which direction do you think these amendments will go? Well, you know, I'm going to say I'm cautiously optimistic, right? Because I guess a lot of people, when they look at the election, they just, you know, you don't really know until you know. The good thing about Florida is that, you know, we'll have our ballots cast and we'll have all of the votes counted at a decent hour, like seven or eight o'clock, and like a lot of other states.

But I were cautiously optimistic that they're both. is going to fail, but you don't know. And so that's why you got to really push until the very end. I think they're going to be close, but 60% in Florida is a big threshold to overcome. And when people, I mean, the commercials are running on four really well done because they just, it's two sentences. They go into the language and people are like, wait a minute. That's, that's extreme. So we're going to keep working through the finish line. So any air cover you can help give us would be awesome. Absolutely. Well, thank you so much. I really appreciate that. I really appreciate that. Everyone who is listening who can vote in the state of Florida, vote no on

Amendment 3 and Amendment 4. Thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you, Allie Beth. God bless.