I was scrolling through Instagram reels (as I do…also, I should probably stop, but that’s a topic for a different day). I came across a clip from a podcast that I had never heard of before. It’s called Macrodosing (from Barstool Sports). I don’t quite know what kind of show it actually is because this is the only clip I’ve ever seen or heard.
Regardless, in the April 9th episode, the host (who seems to go by Big T (or Big Tennessee) is speaking with Tim Miller (of The Bulwark) about politics and voting. Uh oh.
Yeah, uh oh.
Let me first set the scene with a screen cap. This is from the YouTube episode, so I’m not exaggerating anything.
Yes, over his left shoulder is a big University of Tennessee flag on the wall. To his right is a John Rocker Braves jersey. Yes, that John Rocker.
This is what we’re dealing with.
Back to Instagram clips. Like most clips, it starts with a spicy hot take. This one, from Big T:
Now the Dems could never get me, Tim. No matter what happens, they’ll never get me…lots of other speaking that doesn’t amount to much…I don’t feel there is any common ground anymore between myself and anyone running on a Democratic platform.
Ok, I have no issue with that, actually. People have different beliefs. Different viewpoints. Different outlooks. Cool.
After that nugget, though, Miller attempts to ask him “why?” He wants Big T to articulate why he believes he could never vote for a Democrat (seemingly over a Republican, if not Trump himself). After endless hemming and hawing, he finally drops the old familiar line:
But as an evangelical Christian, I find the current state of the Democratic Party just totally opposed to everything I believe.
Really? Is that right, Big T? The big, bad Democrats and their heathen ways. No self-respecting God-fearing boy would ever vote for no godless Democrat, right?
I just want someone, ANYONE, to follow-up a statement like that with the following:
“And what about the current Republican Party gives you those good vibes about being an evangelical Christian? Is it that bastion of Christian ethics and stewardship, Donald Trump? What teachings of Jesus, who you so longingly cling to as the right way, does a the current Republican Party adhere to? Please, give us some examples. I’ll wait.”
Why can’t anyone ask these people those (seemingly) simple follow-up questions?
It’s just angers me to no end.
