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00:00:00.000Alyssa Milano leads a campaign against sex in order to fight Georgia's pro-life law, Harvard punishes an academic for defending Harvey Weinstein, and Democrats move closer to impeachment.
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00:01:23.000Okay, so the left has decided that the end of the world is nigh in Georgia, according to some of the world's best journalists.
00:01:30.000Apparently, Georgia's new heartbeat bill, which protects the lives of the unborn, you know, unborn children, human lives, that bill, barbaric, dark ages, terrible, not only barbaric and dark ages and terrible, according to some of these brilliant folks, but apparently leads to the possibility that women will be prosecuted if they have a miscarriage in Georgia.
00:01:49.000It will be the end of the world, cats and dogs sleeping together, all the rest of this crap.
00:01:56.000David French has a great piece over at National Review explaining the legality behind the Georgia law.
00:02:02.000He points out that the law not only bans abortion when the baby has a detectable human heartbeat, it declares the scientific, philosophical, and theological truth that an unborn child is a natural person under state law.
00:02:12.000In fact, the law even goes so far as to ensure that a guy who knocks up a woman has to provide child support for her pregnancy.
00:02:20.000French points out he says I expected activist resistance and protest against the bill.
00:02:23.000I expected radical voices to urge corporate boycotts of Georgia.
00:02:26.000I must confess I did not expect to see a series of stories with lurid headlines and fundamentally mistaken premises go viral and stay viral for days.
00:02:56.000The stories are viral because they rely, says French, on facially plausible reasoning.
00:03:01.000Since Georgia declared all unborn children to be natural persons, then Georgia's conventional murder statute must apply to women who self-terminate.
00:03:09.000The heartbeat bill did not repeal a number of Georgia criminal statutes, It is not the pro-life position, nor has it been as far as I'm aware ever, that women who self-terminate pregnancies ought to be prosecuted.
00:03:19.000that these statutes bar prosecution of a woman for terminating her own pregnancy.
00:03:22.000It is not the pro-life position, nor has it been, as far as I'm aware ever, that women who self-terminate pregnancies ought to be prosecuted.
00:03:29.000This is simply not a pro-life position.
00:03:31.000Donald Trump, you'll recall in 2016, made implications that he might want to prosecute women who did this, and the entire pro-life movement came down on his head.
00:03:39.000So when folks on the left, people on the social left, journalists who lie, say things like this bill is going to criminalize women who self-terminate or who have miscarriages, like accidental miscarriages, it is just not true.
00:03:53.000First, as French points out, there is a specific code section that applies to unlawful abortions.
00:03:57.000Georgia Code Section 162140 states, quote, A person commits the offense of criminal abortion when, in violation of Code Section 162141, he or she administers any medicine, drugs, or other substance, whatever, to any woman, or when he or she uses any instrument or other means, whatever, upon any woman with intent to produce a miscarriage or abortion.
00:04:16.000A person convicted of the offense of criminal abortion shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one, nor more than 10 years.
00:04:22.000Code Section 162141 is the exact section that was amended to include the heartbeat provision.
00:04:28.000If a person performs an abortion in violation of the heartbeat bill, then code section 16-12-140 applies.
00:04:33.000It does not impose life imprisonment on anybody.
00:04:36.000Georgia courts have held it does not apply to a woman who self-terminates only to third parties who perform an abortion, which again, is the traditional pro-life position, but people who don't know anything say differently because they are liars.
00:04:46.000In Hillman v. State, the Court of Appeals of Georgia rejected the prosecution's efforts to imprison a woman who shot herself in the stomach to kill her unborn child.
00:04:54.000Interpreting 1612-140, it said, quote, This statute is written in the third person, clearly indicating that at least two actors must be involved.
00:05:02.000Accordingly, it does not criminalize a pregnant woman's actions in securing an abortion regardless of the means utilized.
00:05:07.000Second, the Georgia Code section that criminalizes feticide, such as when a man attacks a woman for purpose of killing her unborn baby, specifically says, quote, Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to permit the prosecution of any woman with respect to her unborn child.
00:05:22.000Taken together, these statutes mean that a woman cannot be prosecuted If you're still skeptical about my argument, perhaps you'll believe a Planned Parenthood representative responding to a query from the Washington Post.
00:05:34.000The Post fact-checked claims that the Georgia bill criminalized women who terminated their own pregnancies and found those claims incorrect.
00:05:40.000This is a quote from The Washington Post.
00:05:42.000Quote, the news headlines and social media headlines that speculate about the bill's unintended consequences are, at the very least, not productive.
00:05:49.000This is according to Planned Parenthood's Stacey Fox.
00:05:52.000HB 481 could not be used to successfully prosecute women, she argued.
00:05:57.000She says if a woman had a miscarriage, she could be pulled into an investigation looking at whether someone had performed an illegal abortion on her.
00:06:04.000But again, that is not for purposes of prosecuting the woman, nor is the suggestion that a woman could be jailed for a miscarriage.
00:06:09.000That's a bunch of crap put out by badly motivated people who are liars.
00:06:14.000That's a far, far cry from the headlines above, says David French, but the truth isn't stopping the falsehood from rocketing around social media.
00:06:20.000So, with that in mind, it is important to see how the left has responded to the lie, how they push the lie, how they exacerbate the lie, and then how they, on the back of this, use the woke lie in order to promote some of the dumbest boycott policy I have ever seen in my life.
00:06:38.000So first, you're seeing corporations saying that they're going to boycott Georgia.
00:06:42.000Well, I'm sure that that's going to change the lives of pro-lifers.
00:06:45.000I'm sure that all the pro-lifers in the state of Georgia will suddenly be okay with the killing of the unborn, so long as you guys don't bring your production of Hangover Part 4 to Georgia.
00:06:55.000It's going to change everything, guys.
00:06:58.000But according to NBC News, Hollywood, it just shows you where Hollywood is, that they really care deeply about abortion.
00:07:02.000Abortion is the Hollywood litmus test.
00:07:05.000There are two litmus tests for morality in Hollywood.
00:07:07.000One, are you okay with killing unborn children?
00:07:10.000And two, how do you feel about same-sex marriage?
00:07:12.000Now, it used to be that same-sex marriage was really the only test.
00:07:15.000You could be pro-life in Hollywood, sort of.
00:07:17.000But the fact is, you're not really allowed to be pro-life anymore.
00:07:20.000If you're pro-life in Hollywood, this is a symptom of you being a crazed religious fanatic.
00:07:25.000Or as Chris Cuomo, the very objective journalist on CNN has said, the only reason to be pro-life is faith and feelings, which is utter crap and garbage, obviously.
00:07:35.000Well, when it comes to Hollywood, I mean, I remember I did a book called Primetime Propaganda.
00:08:22.000They never told me this, but I've lost seven specific jobs due to being pro-life.
00:08:26.000One of the litmus tests in Hollywood is whether you're in favor of the quote-unquote right of a woman to kill an unborn child and have an abortion doctor do it, right?
00:08:35.000This is one of the moral questions of the day because morality in Hollywood is completely upside down.
00:08:40.000If you wish to raise your child religious, evil.
00:08:43.000If you wish to kill your child in the womb, good.
00:08:45.000That's the basic logical morality of Hollywood, unfortunately.
00:08:49.000So now, Hollywood is declaring that it's going to boycott Georgia.
00:08:52.000It's funny, I don't remember Hollywood boycotting Hollywood after Harvey Weinstein.
00:08:55.000I don't remember Hollywood boycotting Hollywood after Oscars So White.
00:09:01.000But I do remember Hollywood trying to boycott the state of Georgia.
00:09:04.000OK, so according to NBC News, multiple production companies have announced they will no longer film in Georgia after the state passed a restrictive abortion law.
00:09:12.000The law, signed by Governor Brian Kemp, a Republican, on Tuesday, bans abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can be as early as six weeks before some women even know they are pregnant.
00:09:21.000Georgia has quietly become a major production location for film and television, largely because of tax incentives the state offers.
00:09:27.000In 2016, according to the non-profit film LA, 17 of the year's top 100 films were produced in Georgia, more than in California, because it turns out that Democrats in California don't like the economic policies that they vote for.
00:09:37.000So they vote for these crap economic policies in my home state, and then they can't stand the heat, and so they get out of the kitchen and they go to Georgia.
00:09:44.000Kemp said this year the industry employs around 200,000 Georgians and brings in tens of billions of dollars of revenue to the state.
00:09:51.000David Simon, who's the creator of The Wire and a far leftist, said his production company will cease filming in the state.
00:09:56.000He tweeted, quote, our comparative assessments of locations for upcoming development will pull Georgia off the list until we can be assured the health options and civil liberties of our female colleagues are unimpaired.
00:10:05.000If you truly believe that Georgia is going to change its abortion policy because frickin David Simon ain't going to film there, I don't think you understand pro-life people.
00:10:28.000Mark Duplass, a delightful fellow who I personally know, tweeted, quote, don't give your business to Georgia and asked other producers to join him.
00:10:36.000He says, will you pledge with me not to film anything in Georgia until they reverse this backwards legislation?
00:10:41.000Well, I pledge that I won't watch any of your overrated films, Mark Duplass.
00:10:46.000Mark Duplass, by the way, is a truly cowardly individual.
00:12:06.000All these folks in Hollywood who think that they are punishing the state of Georgia by not relocating in Georgia for their filming, You think the people who work on their films in Georgia are, by and large, the people who voted for Brian Kemp?
00:12:16.000They're punishing the very people who are allied with their political allies.
00:12:21.000They're punishing their own political allies in Georgia.
00:12:23.000But again, political cowardice is the nature of the folks in California.
00:12:27.000They won't stay in California and pay their fair share.
00:12:30.000Instead, they hijack it, they hightail it to Georgia to take advantage of the tax benefits.
00:12:35.000And then, when Georgia doesn't act like California with regard to pro-life laws, Then all of a sudden, we're not going to go there.
00:12:44.000And not only are they cowards, they're vicious cowards.
00:12:46.000I haven't seen a lot of conservatives say we're not doing business in New York or California thanks to their immoral abortion laws.
00:12:52.000They continue to recognize that we live in a republic and that it is good to do business with people with whom you disagree because we still have to share this republic.
00:12:59.000Folks on the left are basically creating Okay, so here's the Mark Duplass story, which I think tells you what you need to know about the moral backbone of Hollywood.
00:13:07.000So, Mark Duplass happens to be a fairly talented guy.
00:13:09.000or whether they are boycotting Georgia in its attempts to save the lives of the unborn.
00:13:25.000And Mark Duplass came to our office here at Daily Wire because he wanted to spend some time with me.
00:13:31.000He reached out to me, because he was doing a film on the Second Amendment, and he wanted to make sure that it wasn't biased too far in one direction or the other, so he wanted to know the pro-gun arguments, which is great.
00:13:41.000So he came in, I gave him about an hour and a half of my time, and as he left I warned him, dude, do not tweet that you have been here, because if you tweet that you have been here, your own side will stab you in the back, like the Night's Watch to John, like that's how this will go.
00:13:53.000And he did not believe me, About three weeks later, for no real reason, he tweets out that I am a well-intentioned fellow, which is a statement of which I happen to agree.
00:14:04.000I have conversations with folks all the time on the left so long as they're not badly motivated.
00:14:09.000I have lots of conversations with people on the left on a regular basis.
00:14:13.000And Duplass tweets out that I'm a nice guy who is well-motivated.
00:14:16.000And Duplass then gets hit with a wave, a raft of leftists saying, no, he's the worst person who ever lived.
00:14:23.000Duplass not only pulls down the tweet saying that I'm a decent person, he then puts up a new tweet saying that he opposes all forms of racism, sexism, bigotry, and homophobia.
00:14:31.000So when it comes to woke scolding, Duplass is definitely at the top of the list.
00:14:36.000And the cowardice of people who won't have conversations, the cowardice of people who simply decide that because they oppose George's abortion law, they're now boycotting the state, is pretty astonishing.
00:14:45.000Now, this goes to some pretty insane lengths.
00:14:49.000And the most insane lengths, of course, come courtesy of Alyssa Milano.
00:14:52.000So Alyssa Milano, is a pretty untalented actress who used to be uncharmed, and she decided that she was going to initiate a recap of Lysistrata.
00:15:04.000She was saying that women, feminists, should not have sex with their boyfriends until Georgia repeals its law.
00:15:12.000So she tweeted out, quote, this is with hashtag sex strike, if our choices are denied, so are yours, quote, our reproductive rights are being erased.
00:15:22.000So, a few things about this, because it's pretty frickin' great.
00:16:40.000And then, my favorite here is that she says, so you can continue to have sex, just not with a cis man.
00:16:48.000So you can have sex with a transgender man, I guess.
00:16:51.000So a woman, a bodily woman, who says she is a man, You can have sex with or with another woman.
00:16:57.000But I was informed by the woke left that sexual orientation is completely non-malleable.
00:17:02.000I was informed by the left that if you are a straight woman, just as if you are a gay woman, you can't just switch and start having sex with people whom your biology does not attract you to.
00:17:11.000I mean, so which is it, Alyssa Milano?
00:17:14.000There's so many woke problems with this tweet.
00:17:16.000Also, it says, protect your vaginas, ladies.
00:18:30.000So, as a virgin until marriage, a person who believes that it is moral to be abstinent until you are having sex with a person with whom you would not mind having a baby, welcome to my world, Alyssa Milano.
00:18:42.000Where it turns out that if you don't want to, you know, produce a baby that you're gonna kill in the womb, then maybe you shouldn't have sex with that person.
00:19:21.000Second, if women are encouraged not to have sex until they are in a place where they are going to be comfortable with having a baby, net societal win in a massive way.
00:19:31.000So I'm fully on board with hashtag sex strike.
00:19:38.000So sign me up for Alyssa Milano's mission to get feminists to stop having sex with men unless they are willing to get married to them and have a baby.
00:19:45.000You know who else is on board with that?
00:20:40.000Okay, so, on Mother's Day, The left, which is simultaneously promoting abortion, is tweeting out these very sweet photos of their own children.
00:20:49.000So Alyssa Milano, who's promoting, I'm not going to have sex until abortion is allowed.
00:20:53.000And also says that women should have sex apparently not with men, not with cis men, but with other women or transgender men or transgender women, I guess.
00:21:03.000She's tweeting out this very traditional photo.
00:21:38.000Stealing data from unsuspecting people on public Wi-Fi?
00:21:40.000It's one of the simplest and cheapest ways for hackers to make money.
00:21:43.000When you leave your internet connection unencrypted, you may as well be writing your passwords and credit card numbers on a huge billboard for the rest of the world to see.
00:22:38.000No reason to expose your personal info.
00:22:40.000To the mothers who have yet to be reunited with their children after being separated at the border.
00:22:44.000Mothers whose children were taken by gun violence or illness.
00:22:47.000Mothers who have lost a child or children who have lost their mothers.
00:22:51.000So Kristen Gillibrand tweeted out, quote, to the mothers who have yet to be reunited with their children after being separated at the border, mothers whose children were taken by gun violence or illness, mothers who have lost a child or children who have lost their mothers, I'm holding you in my heart today and always.
00:23:04.000Which is nice, except for the Kristen Gillibrand is totally fine with late-term abortion.
00:23:09.000So, apparently, I do love people who celebrate motherhood and also celebrate abortion.
00:23:16.000And it's not... Leanna Nguyen, the head of Planned Parenthood, did this routine.
00:23:19.000So, she runs an organization that kills 300,000 unborn children a year.
00:23:24.000And she tweeted out a picture of herself with her kid and her husband.
00:23:27.000Says as the mother of my beautiful 20 month old son, I am proud to march for moms so that all our children grow up in a society that ensures health care is a fundamental right for all, not a privilege reserved only for some.
00:23:45.000But according to you, if we reverse the clock 21 months, because that's a 20-month-old son, you reverse the clock 21 months, totally kill that thing.
00:24:42.000Because she is worried about abortion.
00:24:43.000Quote, Palmer also publishes an accompanying book, which is part memoir and part liner notes.
00:24:49.000It includes lyrics, stream-of-consciousness essays, and lush photos of the 43-year-old artist, sometimes nude and styled like a renaissance-era goddess.
00:24:56.000It is already sold out on Palmer's website.
00:24:58.000A substantial part of her new show involves Palmer's three abortions, two in her 30s, and one at age 17.
00:25:03.000Okay, don't tell me that you don't know how to use birth control.
00:25:07.000You're in your 30s and you had two abortions.
00:25:10.000If you are using abortion as a form of birth control, You are doing something deeply morally wrong.
00:25:16.000There's a deep evil to knowing better and producing a human life and then snuffing it out because you were too irresponsible to use birth control.
00:25:24.000She says there was no part of me that woke up one morning and said, I know what would be great.
00:25:28.000I'll go out and sit on stage and talk graphically about my abortions.
00:25:31.000But the state of the union seems to insist upon it.
00:25:33.000Palmer is referring to the scary six-week abortion bans signed into law this year in states including Ohio, Mississippi, and Georgia.
00:25:39.000She's offering abortion providers free tickets to her shows nationwide as an attempt to show support and normalize access to reproductive health care.
00:25:49.000Normalizing access to reproductive health care?
00:25:51.000That means that she's going to champion abortion.
00:25:53.000She says the truth is really liberating.
00:25:55.000It's one thing to read it on the internet.
00:25:57.000It's another thing to sit in a room with someone and say, listen, this is how I felt when this happened.
00:26:01.000You're not alone and you're not crazy.
00:26:04.000Palmer says the political climate gave her the push she needed to make There Will Be No Intermission, for which she began to entertain the idea about two years ago.
00:26:12.000It was a nerve-wracking proposition for the one-time frontwoman for the cabaret punk group Dresden Dolls.
00:26:16.000She'd vowed to stay away from the shackles of the idiotic album cycle, but now she felt the necessity to do something.
00:26:23.000She said she figured that no one would pay attention to her and her political messaging about reproductive rights unless she played by the music industry's rules and released a full-length album.
00:26:31.000I knew I'd only be able to get on the phone with someone from the LA Times if I put a record out.
00:26:37.000The tracks on the resulting album are so dark that a mother's confession, a 10-minute-plus song about Ash falling from a shelf Palmer placed him on as a baby, almost sounds comedic by comparison, because she has a baby and put the baby on a shelf and the baby fell.
00:26:50.000And she says, at least the baby didn't die.
00:27:15.000These are the people who should dictate which human life gets protected.
00:27:18.000These are the people we should respect when they give false stories about what exactly the abortion law does.
00:27:22.000And also the people we should respect when they pull their funding from the state of Georgia.
00:27:27.000I really think that people like Amanda Palmer, those are the people who I should trust when it comes to the protection of the unborn, when it comes to the protection of human life.
00:27:37.000Well, the woke scolds had themselves quite a weekend.
00:27:40.000Twitter has now apparently blocked, and then I guess unblocked after some pressure, they blocked an expert PhD psychologist who helped write the official psychological position on transgender identity.
00:27:52.000On Saturday, Ray Blanchard, the PhD psychologist and adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, who served on the Working Group for Gender Dysphoria, which is the psychological condition, the mental disorder, as named by the DSM-5, in the lexicon, Of mental disorders, gender dysphoria appears.
00:28:21.000This is an uncontroversial scientific position.
00:28:24.000But it is so controversial now, and the left is so woke on this, that they banned the guy who wrote the rules for the DSM-5, Ray Blanchard.
00:28:31.000He tweeted out his clinically informed opinion on transgender identity.
00:28:35.000He still believes that sex change surgery is the best treatment for carefully screened adult patients whose gender dysphoria has proven resistant to other forms of treatment, but he opposed treating children who may change their minds.
00:28:49.000He said sex change surgery should not be considered for any patients until that patient has reached the age of 21 years and has lived for at least two years in the desired gender role.
00:28:58.000This is controversial because there are so many people on the woke left who without any data to support them want to give puberty blockers to children.
00:29:37.000Jesse Singel, a contributing writer who happens to be honest at New York Magazine, I disagree with Jesse a lot, but at least he's an honest guy.
00:29:43.000He expressed his fear that as a journalist who often writes about science, he worries he will not be able to continue using Twitter.
00:29:47.000He says gender dysphoria is in the DSM-5.
00:29:50.000Despite endless rumor mongering and misinformation to the contrary, it is considered a mental disorder.
00:29:56.000Perhaps it shouldn't be, but it's beyond insane to suspend someone for expressing an opinion which lines up with the DSM.
00:30:02.000It is also true that the reason that it was relabeled gender dysphoria had nothing to do with science and everything to do with politics.
00:30:11.000He says we are approaching a Soviet fundamentalist take-your-pick level of science denialism.
00:31:50.000Because these black faculty deans are doing the defense lawyering for Harvey Weinstein.
00:31:54.000So according to the New York Times, Harvard said on Saturday, a law professor representing Harvey Weinstein would not continue as faculty dean of an undergraduate house after his term ends on June 30th.
00:32:04.000The professor, Ronald Sullivan, Jr., and his wife, Stephanie Robinson, who's a lecturer at the law school, have been the faculty deans of Winthrop House, one of Harvard's residential houses for undergrad students since 2009.
00:32:15.000They were the first black faculty deans in Harvard's history.
00:32:18.000But when Sullivan joined the defense team of Mr. Weinstein, the Hollywood producer, in January, many students expressed dismay, saying that his decision to represent a person accused of abusing women disqualified Mr. Sullivan from serving in a role of support and mentorship to students.
00:32:31.000Weinstein is scheduled to go on trial in September in Manhattan on rape and related charges.
00:32:37.000As the protests continued, with graffiti aimed at Mr. Sullivan appearing on a university building, Harvard administrators said they would conduct what they called a climate review of Winthrop House.
00:32:45.000In recent weeks, tensions have escalated, with a student sit-in and a lawsuit sparked by a clash between one of the protest leaders and two Winthrop House staff members who are seen as supporting Mr. Sullivan.
00:32:55.000So, these so-called snowflakes at Harvard were complaining because a lawyer was defending a client.
00:33:10.000Not only were there no protests at Harvard Law for years, ever, I was at an event where Alan Dershowitz personally auctioned off a signed exercise bicycle from O.J.
00:34:00.000But a lawyer defending him, that's not a reason to de-platform somebody at Harvard and go graffiti Winthrop House.
00:34:07.000The fact that Harvard caves to this is despicable.
00:34:09.000On Saturday, the dean of Harvard College, Rakesh Khurana, sent an email to students and staff members at Winthrop House informing them he would not renew the appointments of Mr. Sullivan and Ms.
00:34:18.000Robinson as faculty deans after their terms end on June 30th.
00:34:21.000Mr. Khurana said in an email that his decision was informed by a number of considerations.
00:34:25.000Over the past few weeks, students and staff have continued to communicate concerns about the climate in Winthrop House to the college, he wrote.
00:34:31.000The concerns expressed have been serious and numerous.
00:34:34.000The actions that have been taken to improve the climate have been ineffective.
00:34:37.000The noticeable lack of faculty dean presence during critical moments has further deteriorated the climate in the house.
00:34:42.000I have concluded that the situation in the house is untenable.
00:35:02.000Sullivan and Robinson said, quote, we are surprised and dismayed by the action Harvard announced today.
00:35:06.000We believe the discussions we are having with a high-level university representative are progressing in a positive manner, but Harvard unilaterally ended those talks.
00:35:13.000He says, we will now take some time to process Harvard's actions and consider our options.
00:35:17.000We are sorry that Harvard's actions and the controversy surrounding us has contributed to the stress on Winthrop students at this already stressful time.
00:35:25.000The controversy highlighted a conflict between the legal principle that every accused person demands a vigorous defense This is mob rule.
00:35:41.000We have a legal process for determining guilt and innocence in the country.
00:35:45.000A lawyer providing defense to a client is not an excuse for suggesting that, I mean, this is basically a lynch mob mentality, that you are going to go after the lawyer of a person that you want to see punished, And I want to see punished, and we all want to see punished.
00:36:02.000Does not mean that the lawyer himself is doing something evil or wrong.
00:36:07.000I mean, to cave to these sort of woke scolds is so bad for Harvard and so bad for typical liberals.
00:36:12.000You don't have to be a conservative to believe this.
00:36:14.000I am sure that both Sullivan and his wife, Robinson, I'm sure that both of them oppose me on politics thoroughly.
00:36:25.000The basic principle, which is that you don't get rid of people because they are acting as lawyers for somebody that you oppose, this is an astonishing thing.
00:36:32.00052 professors at the law school signed a letter supporting Sullivan, saying his commitment to representing unpopular clients was fully consistent with his roles as law professor and faculty dean.
00:36:41.000At the same time, the dispute took on a racial element, with some saying that Sullivan was being treated unfairly.
00:36:47.000The Harvard Black Law Students Association criticized the decision.
00:36:51.000Sullivan himself said that it may have been a racial thing.
00:36:55.000My guess is that it is just a left thing.
00:36:58.000But the fact that this is even a controversy is pretty amazing.
00:37:01.000OK, now we're going to get to the woke scolds in Congress.
00:37:04.000So again, it is amazing what the Democratic Party is willing to allow in Congress.
00:37:08.000The radicalization of the Democratic Party continues apace.
00:37:12.000So we have been told over and over and over again that Mike Pence is an evil religious bigot, that his wife is an evil religious bigot for teaching at a traditional Christian school.
00:37:21.000We have been told that Catholics are bigots, that Orthodox Jews are bigots.
00:37:25.000We have been told that virtually everybody who happens to be traditional in their religious practices is a bigot, except if you are a radical Muslim.
00:37:35.000If you're a radical Muslim, then you are a minority that ought to be given all benefit of the doubt and not questioned at all about your convictions, which is how you end up with Imam Omar Suleiman, the Akin Institute for Islamic Research head, giving the invocation in Congress.
00:37:50.000I'm going to tell you something about this imam in one second.
00:37:53.000This imam endorsed by the Democrats gave the invocation the other day.
00:38:07.000And we commit ourselves to not betraying our prayers with actions that contradict them.
00:38:12.000Let us not be deterred by the hatred that has claimed the lives of innocent worshippers across the world, but emboldened by the love that gathered them together to remember you, And gathered us together to remember them.
00:39:28.000If there were a genocide taking place against the Palestinians, it is the least successful genocide in the history of the world, considering the radical increase in the number of Palestinians who are living in these territories.
00:39:38.000Suleiman, of course, has been a defender of Representative Ilhan Omar.
00:39:42.000He said, I'm not feeling the I know she said some hurtful stuff messages.
00:39:45.000She never accused American Jews of double loyalty or used anti anti and any anti-Semitic words, of course, which is a lie.
00:39:50.000And Omar, of course, retweeted Suleyman's invocation.
00:39:55.000The radicalism of the Democratic Party extends, of course, to Rashida Tlaib, who made a statement on a podcast the other day that is so astonishing in its radical dishonesty that is worth talking about.
00:40:07.000So she said this, quote, Okay, well that's always an interesting beginning to a sentence.
00:40:15.000A calming feeling, I tell folks, when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways, have been wiped out, and some people's passports, and just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews post the Holocaust, post the tragedy, the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at the time.
00:40:36.000I love the fact it was my ancestors that provided that right in many ways, but they did it in a way that took their human dignity away and it was forced on them.
00:40:54.000The Jewish presence in the land of Israel has been consistent for about 3,000 years.
00:40:59.000Also, the idea that Israel was created in the wake of the Holocaust because of the Holocaust is, again, simple nonsense.
00:41:06.000The Balfour Declaration in 1917, three decades preceding the Holocaust, The British government supported the establishment of a Jewish state in the area.
00:41:45.000He specifically asked if Adolf Hitler would make the final solution applicable in the Middle East.
00:41:50.000He routinely incited violence against the Jews.
00:41:53.000He was one of the leaders of the Arab war against the Jews in 1948 at the establishment of the state of Israel.
00:41:59.000The official proclamation of the group led by Husseini said, quote, we appeal in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months to the Arab inhabitants of the state of Israel to preserve peace.
00:42:09.000This is when the official proclamation of the state of Israel, rather, they said that they were asking for peace.
00:42:14.000They said they were asking for the Arab citizens to stay.
00:42:16.000They asked people not to flee their homes, not to take up arms.
00:42:19.000So every element of what Rashida Tlaib says here is just a lie.
00:42:23.000The notion that the Arabs provided a safe haven for Jews, they were bombing British targets and trying to murder Jews in an attempt to keep the Jews out.
00:42:31.000One of the reasons that the British would not allow more Jews into Israel in the midst of the Holocaust was to please the Arabs who were living in the area at the time and were lobbying against it.
00:43:00.000I agree the truth will always win, which is why people are quoting you, Rashida Tlaib.
00:43:04.000I mean, she's going to like she can't explain any of that.
00:43:08.000The Democratic Party, of course, will ignore all of this.
00:43:11.000The good news is that she's not the only woke member of Congress.
00:43:13.000My favorite woke member of Congress over the weekend actually was AOC as always.
00:43:18.000So the the estimable AOC intellectual heavyweight.
00:43:21.000She tweeted out over the weekend that we should tax the rich and then said, quote, So in other words, she means, when we say taxing the rich, people I don't like.
00:44:12.000Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to read a new book that is pretty fresh, I think it's out in the last month and a half or so, by Tyler Cohen.
00:44:21.000The book is called Big Business, A Love Letter to an American Antihero, and the book is really great.
00:44:25.000The book basically Pushes the idea that big business is not in fact bad for America and many of the lies told by critics of big business are just that.
00:44:39.000It goes through a lot of myths told about big business, including the idea that they are monopolizing American industry, including the idea that CEOs are paid wildly too much, including the idea that big business is somehow worse qualitatively than small business, or that workers are treated worse by big business than small business.
00:44:55.000There are a lot of myths that get busted here.
00:44:57.000I don't agree with Tyler Cohen about everything, but there's a lot of stuff that I do agree with.
00:45:00.000The book is called Big Business, A Love Letter to an American Antihero.
00:45:02.000Worth reading at a time when big business is seriously under attack.
00:45:08.000Okay, time for a bevy of things that I hate.
00:45:14.000Alrighty, so apparently parents are naming their kids after Game of Thrones characters.
00:47:00.000If you have not watched the last episode of Game of Thrones, because it's the last season and it's a cultural phenomenon, I've basically been reviewing every episode.
00:47:06.000My reviews tend to cut against the grain.
00:47:08.000So, I was not a big fan of the battle at Winterfell.
00:47:10.000It was shot through a potato, I couldn't see anything.
00:48:28.000Okay, the fact that he goes along with Dany frying Varys is pretty telling of Jon and the fact that he knows what Dany is after having seen that.
00:48:39.000So, Jon is not going to end up on the Iron Throne.
00:48:42.000The mistakes that he's made are too grave.
00:48:44.000He cannot end up on the Iron Throne at this point, and that's great.
00:48:47.000Tyrion, exposed as the total fool that he has been for several seasons now, Varys tells him what to do.
00:48:52.000Tyrion not only doesn't go along with it, he then rats on Varys to Daenerys, knowing what Daenerys is about to do, and knowing that Jon has a better claim to the throne.
00:49:01.000And this is the episode after he made a specific appeal to Cersei's morality, which made no sense at all.
00:49:08.000So Tyrion is exposed as being a fool and he deserves exactly what is coming to him because that foolishness has consequences for the million people plus living in King's Landing.
00:49:17.000So that was the best part of the show.
00:49:19.000By the way, the person who is now the favorite to take the Iron Throne has got to be Sansa, right?
00:49:24.000She's the only person who has not committed some sort of grave moral sin here, and also has been smart enough to understand what Dani was.
00:49:51.000Her decision to nuke the city doesn't make any sense.
00:49:54.000It doesn't make any sense because she's never seen the populations of the city in which she lives.
00:49:59.000as enemies and she's seen the slavers at enemies in marine she has seen the she even when the people basically turn on her she doesn't loose the dragons to murder all the people that's not something that she does the fact that she turns on the people of king's landing is is not only a shock it's an unnecessary shock like she could have turned in a different way like for example let's say that last night after the bells start to ring she the surrender has been had
00:50:27.000she goes to the red keep and she nukes the red keep right she takes care of of cersei she kills cersei and and And then, and she does so in such a brutal fashion that Arya and Jon decide they have to take her out.
00:50:45.000The fact that she nukes the entire city is never properly explained.
00:50:48.000You can see that Benioff and Weiss really don't have a great explanation for it.
00:50:51.000In the post-show talk about why she did that, they're like, well, in that moment, she sees that here's the place where her ancestors, that her ancestors built, and she's so mad and she's so alone that she decides to what, kill a bunch of children?
00:51:03.000He's never been in Dany's character, so you could have had her snap in a way that makes a little bit more sense.
00:51:09.000Like, it makes even Cersei's blowing up of the temple small by comparison.
00:51:16.000So Dany doing this and becoming the most evil character in the entire series, which that is.
00:51:20.000I mean, no one else nukes the entire city.
00:51:23.000That is a turn that was unnecessary in order for her to be enough of a threat that she had to be gotten rid of, for example.
00:51:31.000So now we've gotten to the stuff I don't like.
00:51:33.000The move to have Jaime basically become what he was at the beginning of season one, and then the battle with Euron Greyjoy is completely worthless.
00:51:42.000There is no reason that Euron has to fight Jaime.
00:52:12.000And I understand they wanted to do the unexpected, but it's so abrupt that you end up with this giant buildup and then effectively a giant letdown.
00:52:20.000You'd expect Cersei to put up some sort of resistance.
00:52:22.000So that was, so in any case, back to the Euron-Jamie thing.
00:54:13.000Tyrion has to pay some price for being a terrible advisor.
00:54:18.000And so I think that the most likely scenario at this point is Sansa.
00:54:20.000So Sansa coming riding in on the outside.
00:54:22.000And that makes sense, because the entire sensibility of the show is Sansa's sensibility, which is moving from this fantasy world where everything works out great to being the cynical leader necessary to do all of this.
00:54:32.000By the way, I thought that Dany's turn was played well, specifically until she nuked the city, because she had turned from this aspirational leader into a hardcore leader.
00:54:41.000Like, it makes sense from her perspective.
00:54:42.000Nuking Varys makes perfect sense from her perspective.
00:54:45.000Her saying to Tyrion, listen, I'm not going to lose the city.
00:54:47.000Just to lose the city just for the sake of humanity.
00:54:50.000That makes sense from her perspective.
00:54:51.000It's evil, but it makes sense from her perspective, obviously.
00:54:54.000So, all of it makes sense except for nuking the city, which is a step too far.
00:54:59.000Alrighty, so, I think with that review of Game of Thrones, we can end the show.
00:55:02.000We'll be back here later today for two more hours, or we'll see you here tomorrow.
00:55:33.000Hey everyone, I'm Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
00:55:36.000Alyssa Milano is staging a sex strike to protest anti-abortion bills.
00:55:41.000But of course, if you're on a sex strike, you're not going to need an abortion, so the problem is solved.
00:55:45.000You know, when it comes to abortion, when it comes to the Constitution, when it comes to free speech, conservatives are talking about principle, but all the left wants is power.
00:55:54.000We will talk about it on The Andrew Klavan Show.