Ep. 337 - Our Clinical Culture
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Summary
A woman is suing her Uber driver for refusing to take her to get an abortion. Meanwhile, leftists weep over a sack full of puppies in a dumpster. Then, 2020 Democrats continue to humiliate themselves and Cher, yes, Cher, marches further down the road to becoming a Republican.
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A woman is suing her Uber driver for refusing to take her to get an abortion.
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Meanwhile, leftists weep over a sack full of puppies in a dumpster.
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Then, 2020 Democrats continue to humiliate themselves and Cher, yes, Cher,
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marches further down the road to becoming a Republican.
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I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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This is the most important story in the news today and nobody's talking about it.
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A woman is trying to sue her Uber driver for not driving her to go get an abortion.
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A 20-year-old woman in upstate New York finds out that she's pregnant.
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She finds out she's pregnant, so she decides to go get an abortion.
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I think she's at college, so she doesn't keep a car on campus.
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She decides to call an Uber and take her to the abortion clinic.
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So her abortion appointment is 1130 in the morning.
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Her Uber shows up a couple minutes before 10 a.m.
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Now, according to her, the driver seemed uneasy.
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The driver asks her five minutes into the ride,
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Apparently, she's not going to Planned Parenthood.
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But there was the address of a clinic in the app.
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Now, presumably, this woman, maybe she looked pregnant.
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Somehow, this driver has a feeling she's not just going to get her annual checkup.
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So the driver asks, are we going to an abortion clinic?
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So then he says, I know it's none of my business, but, and he goes on to talk about his wife.
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His wife apparently was pregnant or is pregnant.
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He goes on to talk about how the abortion peddling industry does not give women all of the information about it,
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does not talk about the huge rates of regret that women feel afterwards.
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He tells her she's going to regret this decision for the rest of her life.
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Let's not forget Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade, the number one iconic abortion rights activist,
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became a major pro-life activist later in her life.
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Totally regretted everything she did with regard to abortion.
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Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the founder of NARAL, the founder of the abortion rights organization,
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He said they were lying throughout the pro-abortion movement.
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And what this Uber driver was saying is you are going to regret this decision.
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Countless scores of women who were going to get abortions,
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who advocated for abortion, who considered abortions, totally came to regret it.
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So many of them go and march now in the March for Life.
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So halfway to the clinic, I guess the clinic's about an hour, hour and a half away,
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he pulls over, he says, I'm sorry, I can't take you the rest of the way.
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He said, I can take you back to the city where you're from,
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or I can stay here and wait with you while you call another Uber.
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He said, if I drive you back to the city where you're from, you're not going to be able to get another Uber.
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But here, I will wait with you until you get another Uber,
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So she says, no, I don't want you to wait with me.
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Finally, he picks up and he says, oh, well, you've got to call the abortion clinic and say you're going to be a little late.
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I bet it was a really good decision to date him.
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He doesn't go with her, doesn't tell her not to get the abortion, not to kill the kid.
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He's back, doesn't even pick up her call when she calls.
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Then he says, oh, yeah, you're probably going to want to call the abortion clinic,
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After this, the woman contacts Uber and demands that the driver be fired.
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The driver who asked her at the very beginning, are we getting an, are we going to get an abortion right now?
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He says, look, I'll wait with you while you call another Uber or I will drive you back home.
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You can try to call an Uber there, but I personally cannot be complicit in killing a baby.
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There aren't a ton of jobs up there, depending on which town you're in.
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Not the most booming economies in upstate New York.
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Immediately, this guy loses his job for saying that he's not going to be complicit to an abortion.
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The woman now wants to sue the guy who are refusing to take her to go kill her child.
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The most important aspect, the most glaring aspect, is that we treat abortion as though it's calling an Uber.
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I mean, in this case, she's literally treating an abortion like it's getting an Uber.
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You hear politicians talk about abortion on demand, frivolous abortion, abortion as birth control.
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She is literally treating abortion as though she's calling an Uber.
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She's saying, if you, Uber driver, don't drive me to the abortion, you are denying my rights.
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You're denying my constitutional right to an abortion.
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I don't know where in the Constitution that right exactly exists, but she's saying that he's denying her rights.
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The other aspect is that we treat people as inconveniences rather than as human beings.
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We treat people as though the only value that they have is value as it relates to us.
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Only because it's inconvenient that she become a mother now.
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She's spoken to the media and said, I'm 20 years old.
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It's not all about your ability to care for a child.
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A lot of people in this country want to adopt babies.
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This guy, she calls on him, asks him to perform a service.
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How about this dirtbag boyfriend who knocks up his girlfriend,
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He says, oh, well, you got to let them know you'll be late.
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You, you better make sure that they don't cancel your abortion appointment.
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This, this woman is treating this guy, not as a boyfriend, not as a husband,
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She's, she's buying into the feminist lie that our sexual relations between each other
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I know he knocked me up, but he has no responsibility for the baby.
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And then we're treating people as bigots for not indulging our fantasies and our desires.
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We're treating this Uber driver as though he's somehow bigoted because he won't indulge this
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woman's fantasy that her baby isn't really a baby, that the baby that she's explicitly
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going to kill somehow isn't alive or that the offspring that she has begotten somehow isn't
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And then she's calling him a bigot because he won't indulge in that fantasy or that desire.
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What, I mean, when we talk about the questions of religious liberty, if this is not the religious
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It's a man saying, I politely would like to refrain from helping to kill a baby.
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And this woman is using the force of corporate America and is trying to use the force of the
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state to compel him to participate in killing a baby.
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Corporate America has already totally destroyed his religious liberty, totally gone over his
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Now she's trying to go to the government and say, I want damages.
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I want him to pay me because he wouldn't help me kill my baby.
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This, you notice, not just on the question of abortion, you see it all throughout the
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We are so vindictive to people who don't affirm the fantasies that we hold, who don't affirm
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If you, I was on campus yesterday at Cal State LA, talking to all of the students, apparently
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at that school, they get a diversity manual about this thick, diversity, which just means
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They describe all the various sexual orientations.
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One of them apparently is, is BDSM, sadomasochism.
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And if you object to something like BDSM, you're a bigot and you will be punished because
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If you don't affirm any little thing that the left wants you to affirm, not only will
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you be smeared as a bigot, you will be destroyed.
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And the overarching theme I see from this whole story is how clinical we treat each other.
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Now, when we, people talk about their boyfriends or their girlfriends, among my left-wing friends,
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They say, hello, Michael, I'd like you to meet my partner.
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Even if it's a straight couple, gay couple, they say, hey, this is my partner.
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Partner, what do you, you have like an accounting business together?
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Partner, you're, you've invested in some stock together.
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How pathetic is it that we have now somehow made sex boring?
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He said, Cole Porter didn't sing, let's do it, let's be in a relationship.
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Even if an affair, at least there's some sauce to it.
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At least you're participating in it as a human.
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There's nothing human about how clinical all of this is.
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You, you have a child, you beget a child and you go to some sterile room with fluorescent lighting
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You, I don't know, maybe you have a couple drinks and a wink with some guy down the street
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and you beget a child and you say, I'm going to kill that child.
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And the guy just hangs around, stays around his apartment.
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Then you try to call him because you've come into some trouble.
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He says, I don't know, I guess you better call the abortion clinic.
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Let him know you're going to be a little late, huh?
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How clinical, how, you treat your child like you're calling an Uber.
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And then you get the Uber driver to come and you treat him like he's some robot.
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His beliefs don't matter because he's inconveniencing you.
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Not the baby, not the boyfriend, not the moral law, certainly not that Uber driver.
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He's just some grunt who only exists to please you and to acquiesce to any of your whims,
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Compare the reaction that this story is getting
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with the reaction to a story from Coachella over the weekend.
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And this story at Coachella has become now a four-day news story, five-day news story.
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Coachella woman caught in an utterly despicable act.
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Maybe it was this act of this woman in upstate New York, right?
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Woman caught in an utterly despicable act against puppies.
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Do your thing to help the cops find the culprit.
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A woman in Coachella was caught on video throwing a bag of three-day-old puppies in a dumpster.
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The Riverside County Animal Services released security footage showing a woman pulling up
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in a white Jeep Wrangler at a local business earlier this week and tossing a bag filled with
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About an hour later, someone rummaging through the trash bin discovered the puppies.
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Fortunately, the puppies survived the ordeal and are being cared for at an Orange County
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The Riverside County Animal Services say cops are investigating for animal cruelty but need
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This became widespread outrage throughout the country.
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I don't think we should throw puppies in a dumpster.
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The baby that that woman in upstate New York killed and then got her Uber driver fired for
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not killing and helping to kill and then is suing her Uber driver for not helping to kill.
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That baby is infinitely more valuable than all of the puppies in the world combined.
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Some babies cry too much and some puppies are really cute.
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The worst baby in the worst baby in the world is infinitely more valuable than the cutest little puppy that's ever existed.
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It's not just that it gets it a little bit wrong.
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What sets out this perverse ideology is it's not even just perverse, it's inverse.
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We weep for puppies and we are totally neutral, clinical when it comes to the killing of babies.
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I know, I know all of the arguments for abortion.
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I've heard every argument for abortion that has ever been made.
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They're not terribly compelling arguments, but I've heard them all out.
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Now, explain to me how you could get yourself so worked up over a puppy being thrown in the trash,
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but you could have no reaction to a million babies a year.
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Because we're not just talking about abortion at the stage at which the baby doesn't quite look like a baby.
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Where you can convince yourself, oh, it's not really a baby.
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No, there's because we respond to physical resemblance.
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There's a stage of human growth where you can convince yourself, oh, it doesn't really quite look like a baby.
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Are we now to judge whether people should live or die based on how they look?
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But there is that stage where people feel that way.
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That's not what we're talking about these days in our abortion debates.
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The abortion law that was just passed in New York isn't about a baby who's a week old.
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The abortion law that was just passed in New York allows babies who are being born to be killed.
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The abortion laws that are being debated in Virginia go further than that.
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The governor of Virginia said a baby who has been born can be killed.
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Listen to how clinical he sounds when he describes killing a baby that's already been born.
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There are, you know, when we talk about third trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of, obviously, the mother,
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with the consent of the physicians, more than one physician, by the way.
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And it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities.
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So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.
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The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired.
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And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.
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And then a discussion would ensue between the mother and the physicians as to whether or not to kill the baby that's already been born
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And the Uber driver would be compelled by the force of corporate America and by the state to participate in any number of abortions we would like.
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And then the Uber driver would drop her off at her apartment.
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And then maybe her boyfriend would answer the phone a little bit later in the night if he wants to.
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Why are you all looking at me like I'm some sort of sociopath who just described killing a little baby that was born and is crying on the table?
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Are you accusing me of being somebody who would ever tolerate throwing a puppy in a dumpster?
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I'm just talking about killing babies who have already been born.
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And lest you think that we're just pointing to Andrew Cuomo in New York, the governor, or Ralph Northam, governor of Virginia, as outlier, egregious examples of this.
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Don't forget the entire cabal of Senate Democrats voted for these sorts of laws.
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The entire cabal of Senate Democrats voted to deny medical care to babies who survive abortion.
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All of those Senate Democrats voted to let living babies who have been delivered die on the table while they cry for their mothers.
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The Democrats who are running for the presidential nomination in 2020.
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Pete Buttigieg tries to play himself off as Howdy Doody, just as American as apple pie.
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He's asked by Morning Joe whether or not he thinks that the abortion laws now being debated in New York, the past in New York, in Virginia, among Senate Democrats, whether he thinks they're too extreme.
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Maybe we shouldn't kill babies as they're being born and after they're being born.
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Do you support the late term abortion legislation that was passed in the New York state legislature as well as in Virginia?
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I don't think we need more restrictions right now.
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I don't think we need more restrictions right now.
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Do you think that we should restrict the laws that have been passed in New York and Virginia?
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Ask any of the other candidates running for the Democrat nomination for president what they think about abortion as babies are being delivered.
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Either as survivors of abortions or lying on that table in Virginia.
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And they'll give that answer because they are trapped in a clinical lie.
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They're trapped in the lie that love is an illusion.
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We have no bonds of love or kinship to anybody else.
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And ultimately, all that matters is not our love for the creator who made us.
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Is not our loyalty and allegiance to our parents and our families and our children.
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But stand in my way and I'll rip you to shreds.
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The human reality of people like John Franklin Stevens.
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Who every single one of those Democrats in the Senate and running New York and Virginia
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and running for president right now think it's perfectly acceptable to kill.
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They can't face people like this man, Frank Stevens, who simply want to be recognized as a human.
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I need to be loved, valued, educated, and sometimes helped.
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Allow me to use my life as one of, as one example of what's possible now.
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Every one of those Democrats, Pete Buttigieg, the Senate Democrats, Andrew Cuomo, Virginia
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Governor Ralph Northam would kill that man, would kill him just as soon as look at him.
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And if he survived their attempt to kill him in the womb, they would let him die on the table.
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And then they'll cry over puppies in a dumpster.
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That's the politics of 2019 that we're dealing with.
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We're not, we're not allowed to protect little babies in the womb.
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And according to the left, it is immoral to put children on a diet.
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This is a crazy news story, unless you understand the totally inverted logic of the left.
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First, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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You get me, you get the Andrew Klavan show, you get the Ben Shapiro show, you get the Matt
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Walsh show, you get to ask questions in the mailbag coming up tomorrow.
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The Q&A session got pretty rowdy, to say the least.
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There were professors at this university who came up to me, looked me in the face, and
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Who said, Michael, look up the definition of violence.
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Frankly, the professors were far more extreme and far more ignorant than the students.
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I assume we'll put that online today if it's not already online.
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You're going to need the leftist tears tumbler to watch it, though.
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You can't look at it directly or you'll blind yourself.
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You have to look at it through a certain instrument.
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You can't watch the video at Cal State LA directly.
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You have to look through it with an instrument called the leftist tears tumbler.
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According to the left, we can kill our children, kill our children after they've been born,
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This is the title that she goes by, the fat sex therapist, Sonali Rachatoir.
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She is non-binary, she says, so I guess I'm not even allowed to use the pronoun she.
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I don't know what the correct non-binary pronoun is.
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She was giving a lecture at the University of Texas on the, quote, business of medical
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fat phobia, and here is what she has to say about the morality of putting children on a
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And I truly believe that a child cannot consent to being on a diet the way a child cannot
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That is why I identify what I experience as a child as non-consensual diets.
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This statement got me in a little bit of hot water because folks are, folks feel like
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we can't call things sexual violence if they don't include an experience of assault.
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But I experience diet culture as a form of assault because it impacts the way that I experience
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You cannot, after leaving this room, continue to call yourself progressive or leftist or
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radical or a Marxist or a communist or a socialist or an anarchist and still hold on to fat phobic
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Fat phobia is tied into capitalism, into this understanding that a system is telling us
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that there is an inherent rank and hierarchy of body worthiness.
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Fat phobia is tied in with capitalism in so much as because of capitalism, all of us are
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extremely rich and people are getting very fat because there's a lot of abundance.
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In so much as fat phobia is tied to being fat, being fat definitely is tied to capitalism.
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If you want to get rid of fat phobia, you've got to get rid of people who are fat.
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And if you want to get rid of people who are fat, I highly recommend socialism.
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Socialism does an incredible job of thinning people down.
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You can look anywhere socialism has ever been tried.
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Socialism does a very good job of eradicating fat phobia by eradicating fat people, really by
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This woman, Sonali Rachetuar, says that children cannot consent to being on a diet any more than
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Let's follow that argument to its logical conclusion.
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What does Sonali Rachetuar think about children who say that they are transgender?
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What does Sonali Rachetuar think of the treatment of children who say they're transgender and
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then their parents stop them from going through puberty?
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They inject them from a ton of hormones, with a ton of hormones, and they castrate them.
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Can children consent to being shot up with a bunch of hormones?
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Can children be consenting to not going through puberty?
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If children can't consent to going on a diet, can children consent to being killed in the womb?
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Because I don't think you ask the baby's permission when you try to kill it in the womb.
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And actually, we have lots of evidence that babies fight back, that they don't want to be killed,
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They certainly, from all, everything that we can tell, the babies are not consenting to being killed in the womb.
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Even if they were, even if they said, yeah, bring it on, we're all for it, yeah.
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By your logic, babies are too young to consent to being killed in the womb.
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Surely being killed in the womb is far more egregious than being put on a diet,
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or more egregious than being shot full of hormones,
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even more egregious than being assaulted, because you're being killed.
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Why does that logic hold up to fat kids being allowed to remain fat kids
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but it doesn't hold up to the transgender argument or to killing them in the womb?
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Something tells me this is all about subjective preference.
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This is all about desires and making everybody acquiesce to your desires.
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The woman calls herself the fat sex therapist, so I'll take her at her word.
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If you can't see the video, she's very, very large.
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Nobody thinks that this woman is in good physical shape.
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When you're not healthy, when you're morbidly obese, that has very difficult health consequences.
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Under socialist health care systems, we all have to pay for your medical care.
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It doesn't mean you're a terrible person if you're morbidly obese.
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This woman is not standing while she's giving her lecture.
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I assume that's part of the point she's trying to make.
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Which is, how dare you tell me that I should lose some weight?
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Lent is the period of a penitential season before Easter where you're supposed to deny yourself.
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A lot of people eat less food during this time.
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It's good to make sacrifices for something that is outside yourself.
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But by these sorts of arguments, fatphobia just being the new word that we're using,
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It's just a way to rationalize prioritizing our subjective preferences over objective reality.
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It seems to me this woman doesn't want to lose weight.
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And her justification for why she doesn't want to lose weight and become healthier is it doesn't make her feel good.
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That's the beginning and the end of her argument.
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And then she's trying to extrapolate her subjective feeling to children.
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So say if there's some fat kid who's being fed a diet of 5,000 calories a day and he's really fat,
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Because if you can tell him to lose weight, you can tell me to lose weight and I don't want to lose weight.
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Well, let's take her argument just on its face.
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If it's immoral to tell fat kids to go on a diet, isn't it also immoral to feed fat kids a really highly caloric diet?
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The fat kid can't consent to go on a diet any more than the fat kid can consent to eat what the food that you prepare for him.
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Or if their parents don't make them lunch by the school or by the government.
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Why is it wrong to put the kid on a healthy diet, but it's not wrong to put the kid on an unhealthy diet?
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Well, maybe the kid wants to eat chocolate all day.
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The argument of consent can't work in the instances that are convenient for you,
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but not in the instances that are inconvenient for you.
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You have to follow objective reality, not subjective nonsense.
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Now, I think some people are waking up to this.
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Because obviously, you look at that video and you say, this is so crazy.
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I was at Cal State LA yesterday, and there was a girl who held up a sign.
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I said, no, violence is when you harm somebody physically.
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Nobody in this room has been harmed physically.
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Your speech is harming racial minority students.
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Virtually the entire audience was made up of various racial minorities.
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I'm not, I can't see, there is no physical difference between how you look now
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and how you looked when you walked into the room.
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And there was a young black girl who called out.
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She said, well, have you asked any of us if we've been injured?
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I said, no, I don't need to ask you if you've been injured because I can see with my own eyes.
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I can see that my words haven't leapt out of my mouth and grown big fists
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and marched over to you and punched you in the face.
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Now, what she was trying to say, that young girl is, you can never know if you've harmed me.
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You can't perceive reality, especially as a white man, or in my case, a slightly off-white man.
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But the fat sex therapist says that her opinions are true because she feels them
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When I was leaving the University of Missouri, Kansas City a week or two ago,
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all those crazy screaming students were walking out.
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You're here in the most prosperous country in the history of the world.
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You're in the most just, equitable country in the history of the world.
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You're at a university getting a college education.
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And they looked at me dead serious with those crazy eyes and said, we are oppressed.
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You want to be oppressed because being oppressed carries with it social advantage, social privileges.
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And so the only way that you, any American, could say, I am oppressed is to say, only my subjective feeling defines reality.
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And that is a bridge too far, even for some really out there people.
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I am loving this, watching the progression of Cher.
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You know, Sonny and Cher, the singer, crazy leftist, becoming slowly a Republican.
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When, you know, Bill Kristol went from being a conservative to being, I guess, a liberal now or something.
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Woke Cher just tweeted out after that town hall we were talking about yesterday where Bernie Sanders and all the other candidates said that terrorists and the Boston Marathon bomber should be able to get the right to vote.
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Bernie Sanders said that the Boston Marathon bomber should get the right to vote in prison.
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Cher tweeted out, does Bernie Sanders really believe people in prison who are murderers, there's crazy capitalizations and strange spellings, so bear with me, who are rapists, who are child molesters, then all caps, Boston bombers still deserve the right to vote.
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Well, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon asked all the other candidates, he said, you don't agree with Bernie Sanders that the Boston Marathon bomber should have the right to vote, right?
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Do you think that terrorists and rapists should have the right to vote?
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And Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo, both Democrats, both left-wingers, looking at him like, are you kidding me?
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This is an extreme and people are waking up to this.
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People are waking up to this, the phobia language.
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It's the irrational fear of being in bad health.
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People are waking up to all of this subjective, crazy language, which has led us to these extreme policy positions
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where now you have the leading Democrat candidates for president advocating, giving terrorists
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who have murdered Americans the right to vote, the right to select the president while they are in prison.
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I understand helping struggling immigrants, but my city, Los Angeles, isn't taking care of its own.
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What about the 50,000 plus citizens who live on the streets, people who live below poverty, people who are hungry?
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If my state can't take care of its own, many are veterans.
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You're telling me that we're going to let in 3,000 foreign nationals a day come into our country
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and on average use more welfare programs over generations than native-born Americans
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and on average commit more federal crimes than native-born Americans?
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And we're going to, wait, wait, hold on, hold on.
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So Cher, Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, they might all share the premises of this radical left.
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They just haven't followed them to their logical conclusions.
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And as those arguments reach their logical conclusions, I think we're going to see a lot of people wake up,
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say, gosh, that's not what I meant to do at all.
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When you're going down a road, when you're going in the wrong direction,
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the guy to stop and turn around, go in the other direction, is the real progressive.
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You might think you're both marching down the road to progress.
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If you're going in the wrong direction, the guy who turns around, he's the progressive.
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I think we're going to get a lot more woke people in addition to Cher as this 2020 race goes on.
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I'm going to be sitting in for Ben on the radio show today, so be sure to tune in for that.
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In the meantime, get your mailbag questions in.
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Hey, guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, an Uber driver has been fired for refusing to take a woman to get an abortion.
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I believe the driver is heroic in what he did, but should he have been fired as he was?
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And does the woman have a legal case now against the driver as she prepares to sue him?
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Also, Charlize Theron says that her three-year-old son discovered magically that he's really a girl.
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And following up on a conversation from yesterday, I have been told that I lack sympathy for college graduates because I don't want their student loans forgiven.
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And what actually is the sympathetic and compassionate position to take on this subject?
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We'll discuss that today on The Matt Wall Show.