Ep 1212 | The Left Cares About (Certain) Unborn Babies Now
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On today's episode of Relatable, Allie talks about birthright citizenship, transgenderism, and why we should all be thankful to God for His grace and grace alone. She also talks about a terrible story about a pregnant woman losing her baby when she was detained by ICE.
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David French has seemingly reversed his view on transgenderism, calling a man she in the New York
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Times. Also, there's some confusion about birthright citizenship and whether it's something
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we as conservatives, as Christians, should support. A terrible story about a pregnant woman losing her
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baby when she was being detained by ICE has been making the rounds. But as always, we've got to
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ask the question, is it true? We'll be talking about all of this and more on today's episode of
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Relatable. It's brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to goodranchers.com. Use code
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Allie at checkout. That's goodranchers.com, code Allie. Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy
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Monday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far. A couple housekeeping things. Remember,
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this is the week that we start three times a week. If you need my full announcement and explanation
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for why we are going down to three times a week, you can go back and listen to Thursday's episode
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or watch Thursday's episode. So Monday, Wednesday, Friday will be the new schedule. But this Friday,
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we won't have an episode because it will be July 4th. Yay! So excited. It's like one of my favorite
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days of the year. And I hope you guys have fun plans. This is the actual No Kings Day. You remember
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that super lame protest from a couple weeks ago? The same people that were begging the
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governments to force churches to close down and force us to mask our toddlers on airplanes are
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now pretending that they are against tyrants. You remember that silly demonstration? Actual No
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Kings Day is July 4th, where we celebrate our country and the values that she is supposed to
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represent, the freedom that our Constitution guarantees. No matter what politician is in office,
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we can be thankful to God for these things and do our best in every sphere of our lives
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to preserve these principles. Also, we've got amazing merch that's out, y'all. I'm so excited.
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We partnered with Carly Jean Los Angeles for this new stuff. We've got t-shirts, plant seeds that bloom
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you're seeing right now is not all of the color schemes that we have. You'll have to go to
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you a whole lot of warmth. They're just a nice light layer. And then we've got the other one,
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the other crew neck that says self love won't save you, but Jesus will. I think the picture does not
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do that crew neck justice. It looks a lot better in person. The front has the little embroidered R
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on both of those, the razor respectful ruckus, self love won't save you. The little embroidered R
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on the dad hat. That's what that style is called. And then the trucker hat or the rope hat has the
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little relatable megaphone printed on the front. We've got a tote with the plant seeds that bloom
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in eternity design. And again, we've got different colors of all these things. I love them so much.
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I will be wearing one of these. I haven't decided which I think on the show tomorrow. Good Allie.
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No, tomorrow I have to wear my 4th of July gear that I have, but I will be wearing these at some
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point because I love them so much. We haven't had merch in a while y'all. So go to allymerch.com
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allymerch.com. All right. It's Monday. So I'll just remind you that God's eternal plan of redemption
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is always going off without a hitch and all you are responsible for doing at any given moment,
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whether you are changing a diaper, washing dishes, sending an email, or you are doing some big,
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bold act of courage and obedience and evangelism is to do the next right thing in faith.
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with excellence and for the glory of God. In faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
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That's all you can ever have the capacity to do empowered by the Holy Spirit. It is a good
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life being a Christian because we get to trust God for all of our needs and to conform even the
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desires of our hearts into his desires. And he is going to take care of us. I read this line the other day
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in a devotional that said, trusting in God and his sovereignty means I am never the first one on the
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scene. And I just stopped as I read that. I'm never the first one on the scene. So no matter what room
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or space you enter, no matter what job you are about to do, whatever role you are about to fulfill,
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God has already been there. He is not restricted by linear time the way humans are. He is outside of time.
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He is sovereign over all of it. And he has arranged everything in your life to accomplish through and
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in you exactly what he wants to accomplish. That is a good life that Christians get to live. No matter
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what you are going through, he is going to complete your journey of sanctification
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because he is faithful to do that. All right. Today's a news episode. That's what format we're doing.
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It's News Monday, Theology Wednesday, Interview Friday. So we'll always have a little theology on Monday
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because we've got to. We've got to be reminded of who is in charge as we get into the craziness of
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what's going on in the world. And the craziness right now is in the pages of an outlet called
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The Dispatch. And it has to do with David French, whom we have spoken of many times. David French,
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if you don't know, a columnist for the New York Times, you might be thinking, well, yeah,
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David French is progressive then if he writes for the New York Times. And so, of course,
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you're going to have an issue with him. But you see, David French didn't always write for the New
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York Times. He wrote for National Review and he has billed himself as a true principled conservative,
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a conservative of all conservatives, the most conservative, the conservative-est,
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if you will, because he has stood against Donald Trump based on principle. And there have been
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times in my life when I've been pretty sympathetic to David French's position, when it seemed that he
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was critiquing Donald Trump from the right, when he was so conservative and so constitutional that he
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just couldn't get behind someone that he saw as an authoritarian, someone whose values didn't align
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with his biblical faith. But as time has gone on, he has gone the way of people like Russell Moore
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that because, maybe not because of, but alongside of his disdain for Donald Trump, he has also become
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more progressive. And so I take his arguments against Donald Trump much less seriously. It's a
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lot more convincing for a conservative like me when you have a conservative case against Donald Trump
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and the Republican Party or the policies that he's putting in place. But when your argument is
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actually mushy or when it's compromising or when it's unbiblical, when it's progressive, then you're
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just not really someone that I can take seriously as like this principled conservative. I'm just like,
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yeah, you don't like Donald Trump because you're more liberal than conservatives. And of course,
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you don't like his conservative policy because you're progressive. And David French has become
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more progressive. And the most recent sign that we have seen of this is that he is now calling a man
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who recently decided to identify as a woman, she, when previously David French would say, no, I'm not
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going to do that. In fact, in 2018, while writing for National Review, French refused to use the name
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Chelsea for former army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning. You remember so-called Chelsea Manning?
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And this is a person who now thinks that he is a woman. He argued then in the pages of the National
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Review that using Manning's preferred name did not align with his Christian belief. So I will sometimes
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even use people's preferred name. I just won't say that a man is a she. And David French even went beyond
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that. Okay. When you go even like beyond where Ali Stuckey is typically when it comes to gender, I mean,
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that's like, that's very conservative. He said that he wouldn't even call Bradley Manning Chelsea in
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2018, but now he's totally changed his tune. Now French refers to Brian Riddell. I think that's how
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Rydell, I'm not sure how you pronounce his last name, um, who is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow who
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now, uh, it has just been announced rights for the dispatch where David French is a senior editor
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and his preferred name, Brian Riddell's new name is Jessica. And so it was announced that Jessica
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is writing for the dispatch and David French says, this is great news for the dispatch. Nobody is better
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on fiscal policy than Jessica. Jessica and I recently had a great conversation about the grim realities of
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the federal budget on the opinions podcast link in next tweet. Now I think that David French was
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being particular about not saying she in this post. I think that he said Jessica twice because he didn't
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want the discord in his replies. But if you look at an article that he wrote in the New York times
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in which he interviewed Brian Riddell, um, he says this, he says, Jessica might be one of the nation's
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foremost experts about the federal budget and about America's fiscal realities. And she has taught me an
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enormous amount about those issues. So I am delighted that Jessica is joining us for this
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conversation. Okay. So he is using those female pronouns. Now you could say the New York times would
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never allow him to use male pronouns for someone who identifies as a woman, but if you are so principled
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and you are so on the side of truth and reality, David French, would you really allow an editorial team
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at the New York times or anywhere to compel you to lie? Because that's what you have done in this
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particular article. So let's go back and read what David French said in 2018, why he was so adamant
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In 2018, when he was writing about Bradley slash Chelsea Manning, the article was titled The
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Transgender Debate, Conservatives Cannot Compromise Truth. This was published on May 19th, 2018. He
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argued that conservatives must hold firm to the biological reality of sex and resist compromising
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on truth in the transgender debate. He said, the transgender debate is not about tolerance. It's
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about truth. Conservatives cannot, must not compromise on the biological reality of sex,
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and they cannot pretend that surgically or chemically altering the body somehow changes
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that reality. He specifically addressed the case of Bradley Manning. He says, this is David French in
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2018, just seven short years ago. I won't call Chelsea Manning she. It's not a matter of disrespect.
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It's a matter of truth. To use female pronouns is to endorse fiction, and I won't do it. The push to
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mandate pronoun usage, David French says, is a direct assault on free speech and religious liberty.
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When the state or culture demands that we lie with our words, it's not just a social norm,
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it's tyranny. The irony is in all of this, David French has been arguing for years that evangelicals,
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that conservatives have accepted a tyrant in Trump because he has promised to give us some of the
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things that we want, that he would say we've abandoned the Bible, we've abandoned the Constitution,
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all in service of this god of MAGA, this cult-like association with Donald Trump. And yet here he is
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submitting to what he has called tyranny by calling a man she. He is now writing fiction in the New York
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Times, either because his conscience has changed on this, and if so, let's hear it. Let's hear the facts
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that have changed, that have made you change your mind on this. His faith has changed. He doesn't
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believe that biological, physical reality actually trumps this inner spiritual voice that tells a
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person that they're not actually their biology. He doesn't care about God's authority that God says
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in Genesis 127 that we are made male and female in his image. And he is simply and or he is simply
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submitting to the authoritarianism of the New York Times, which says, yeah, you have to lie. You have
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to affirm someone's stated identity, no matter what reality says. David French often talks about how
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evangelicals have lost our credibility because we've compromised for Trump. David French has
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compromised the integrity of Christianity and biblical truth by lying in this way far more than any Trump
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voting evangelical ever has. Because at least those of us who have voted for Trump and are conservative
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Christians, at least we are honest about some of the issues that we have with Trump, but the stakes
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in each election that we are considering and the why behind voting for a policy platform on the Republican
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side that is better than the policy platform on the left side without completely dismissing some of the
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moral issues that we have with Donald Trump personally. But we are still taking the Bible seriously.
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We just realized that no politician is going to be perfect. And we see the insanity, the debauchery,
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the depravity of left-wing policies, the disorder that is enshrined into left-wing policy platforms.
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And we say, yeah, I mean, Trump, even with his flaws, he's better. His platform is better. Okay,
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that's an honest position to take even if you disagree with it. What is not the more honest position?
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What is the dishonest position is to say that you are so principled, you are so moral, you are so
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much more righteous than everyone who voted for Donald Trump. You take your faith in the Bible so
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much more seriously. That's why you can't be pro-MAGA. And yet here you are compromising in a cowardly way
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that almost no Christian evangelical who voted for Trump would do. And that is lying for money,
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for power, or because you're a coward, or because you've compromised in a way that is completely
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unbiblical. And again, that is far more embarrassing for the faith that you proclaim David French than a
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Christian voting for Donald Trump. Okay? You have compromised your faith and abandoned what it
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means to be a Christian just as much as any January 6th that told them that God said that they should
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storm the Capitol. Yeah, hard pill to swallow. Let's learn a little bit more about Brian Riddell,
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this person who has been accepted in some right-wing circles, who is a grown man with two children and a
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wife who has declared after many years living as the man that he is, that he is a woman. So Riddell's
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previous roles include chief economist to Senator Rob Portman, lead research fellow on federal budget
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and spending policy at the Heritage Foundation. Okay, it's Riedel, Riedel. Okay, let me say that
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correctly. Brian Riedel at the Heritage Foundation for a decade and director of budget and spending policy
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for Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign. Those are some conservative bona fides right there.
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Heritage Foundation. In February of this year, he posted a coming out announcement on Substack
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titled, Yes, My Name Has Changed. So here's what he says. He says a variety of things. I won't read the
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entire article, but he says, I've unmistakably known I was transgender since the age of four. Medical scans
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and examinations performed as a volunteer in medical studies have since confirmed my predominantly
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female brain biology, along with other biological characteristics that have countered my outwardly male
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appearance. That is just hogwash. I'm sorry, it's just hogwash. And I say this truly sadly, this is not to be
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mean, but what you just saw, the picture, the juxtaposition right there, what has to be going
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through a man's brain to go from a handsome man, he was a handsome man, to someone, to a man who is
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trying to dress up as a woman. Okay, this person doesn't look like a woman, does not look feminine,
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does not look female in any sense, looks like a man who grew out his hair, is wearing some makeup and
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is like playing dress up as a woman. That's a really, really troubled person. And I do have
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sympathy for that because I have sympathy to a degree. Because in order to do that, you have to be
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under very heavy delusion, extremely heavy delusion and maybe some distress. But what I don't believe
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is that this person has a female brain. I don't even think that that is real. Yes, men and women's
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brains are different. We function differently. That is based on a lot of things. It's based on
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gametes. It's based on our hormones. This kind of differentiation starts in the womb. It gets
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more pronounced throughout our lives, especially after puberty. But this is someone who grew into a
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male, was a male, but grew into a man and went through regular puberty. And when you look
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at specifically this claim that you can have a brain scan that shows that you have a female
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brain, the studies that claim to prove this are just completely bunk. And in fact, a fellow
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Manhattan Institute fellow, Colin Wright, we've had him on this podcast, and Manhattan Institute
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writer, Christina Buttons, published an article in March saying that these transgender medical scans
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are totally flawed. They said fatally flawed. And of course, that's ironic, given that Brian is
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actually at the Manhattan Institute. So their article, Buttons and Wright, they argue this. They
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claim this in the article. The article states that the notion of a female brain in a male body or vice
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versa is not supported by current neuroscience. Studies claiming that transgender brains align more
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closely with their gender identity, so-called, often rely on small sample sizes, inconsistent
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methodologies, or binary classifiers that oversimplify complex brain data. The article, their article
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cites a 2022 study that found transgender women, so that's men who say that they're women, their brains
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were still closer to, quote unquote, cisgender men's than cisgender, quote unquote, women's, despite some
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shifts. And these findings are not conclusive proof of a female brain. Their article also points out
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that brain structure can be influenced by factors like cross-sex hormone therapy, which many studies
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fail to control for adequately. Of course, if you inject your brain with a bunch of estrogen or inject
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your body with a bunch of estrogen, that could have an effect on your brain. Still doesn't make you
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a woman. It doesn't make your body female. The article also highlights that these scan slash studies
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fail to control for a major confounding variable, supposed sexual orientation. That's also, I say
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supposed, because that's also kind of a misnomer. Many transgender, quote unquote, individuals in these
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studies identify as homosexual, and brain differences attributed to, quote unquote, gender identity may
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reflect these differences that are really associated with sexual orientation. And by the way, that's not me
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saying people are born with particular sexual propensity. They may or may not be. The Bible
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still remains clear that homosexuality is a sin. That's a different conversation that we're not
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having today. So this idea that brain scans can prove that you have a female brain, that's just not
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true. And it's not possible. Now, it could be possible that someone has true, true, true gender
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dysphoria. Maybe Brian truly does have gender dysphoria, where you have a persistent and insistent and
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consistent feeling that you were born in the wrong body. And that has to be such a distressing
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feeling. And we should have a lot of compassion for that. But the remedy for that is to help someone
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accept their biological reality, not to get them to reject their biological reality, to try to change
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their outward appearance and try to force everyone else to accept something that will never be true.
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That a man can become a woman or a woman can become a man. It's not possible to be born in the wrong
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body. All of us have different kinds of things wrong with our brain or wrong with our thinking or
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ways in which our thinking is incongruent with reality. But we don't try to bend reality to try
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to fit what our brain wrongly thinks. And yet this is a way in which people are trying to bend reality,
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not only to how their brain thinks, or that's not only what they're trying to do,
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but they're trying to change law, try to change language, trying to change how we see the reality
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of human beings. And I'm going to fight against that. As much as we should fight against this idea
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that two plus two can equal five, I will always fight against and adamantly reject in every single
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way the idea that a man can become a woman, even if it is uncomfortable, even if it sounds impolite.
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Because based on that lie, doctors for profit are butchering people's bodies, including minors.
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The pain and the suffering, physical, emotional, spiritual, that these people have gone through,
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that have sat on this couch, detransitioners have gone through, because of this lie that a man can be
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she is so immense. And if we believe in God, and we believe in his authority, and we believe that he
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is love, and we believe that his way is better, and we believe that telling the truth about people
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is the best thing that we can do for them, because God is love and caring and compassionate,
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and we know that he made the male and female, then the worst and cruelest thing that we can do to
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someone like Brian is lie to them. I won't do it. I simply won't do it. David French, by calling him
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she, is David French saying that he's nicer than God, that he knows better than God. And you don't,
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David. You don't. His article says, Brian's article says, to be clear, my wife and kids have known the
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side of me from the beginning, are 100% supportive, and encourage me to take this step. This is news to
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the economic policy world, not to them. Nothing has changed at home. I don't believe you. I don't
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believe you. Your poor children, I think two daughters, I'm not sure. There are pictures
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circulating, you know, online of his family, which of course we won't post, but you have two young
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children, and you think that they accept this. They miss their dad. And this is sowing confusion in
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their lives. And you are sacrificing their stability on the altar of your desire. And that is the height
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of selfishness. And David French knows that. And yet he's playing along with it. This is a tragic
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story. Conservatives watch out. This kind of pernicious lie, destructive ideology is infiltrating
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your circles too. And you have to be willing to stand up and say, two plus two is four. There is only
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male. There is only female. And go back, listen to, watch the episodes with Genevieve Glock to know
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what is really underneath this trend of grown men starting to identify as women and girls. Read that
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chapter of Toxic Empathy. Have compassion for the true victims of gender ideology. The girls and
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women whose spaces and teams are being infiltrated by men and boys. The minors whose bodies are being
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castrated and chopped up for profit because they are confused and deceived about their gender. The
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children whose parents are going this way and they will have trauma and confusion for the rest of their
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lives because of this. Those are the victims to gender ideology. Allow your compassion to be directed
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All right. Let's talk about birthright citizenship because I've seen this going around,
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and even in conservative circles and some of the comments that I've received when I talked about
00:30:24.960
the Supreme Court wins that were announced on Friday, some of the decisions, Mahmoud v. Taylor,
00:30:31.320
that was a Supreme Court case that said, yes, parents do have the First Amendment right to opt out of
00:30:37.020
things like LGBTQ curriculum in schools. That was a huge win. But another win was about birthright
00:30:44.000
citizenship. But it really wasn't about birthright citizenship, this particular case. It was really
00:30:49.080
about these nationwide injunctions that are being put in place by judges that are stopping Trump's
00:30:54.820
executive orders. And this executive order that was in the center of this case happened to be about
00:30:59.480
birthright citizenship. But the comments that I've received from conservatives saying, oh, I don't know
00:31:04.540
about this one, have been focused on birthright citizenship. So we'll talk about that. So the Supreme Court
00:31:10.460
decided, as I said, on June 27th, in a case called Trump v. Casa, that federal judges cannot issue
00:31:17.800
nationwide injunctions, multiple of which had previously blocked President Trump's executive order,
00:31:22.980
which aims to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal or temporary immigrants. The 6-3
00:31:29.040
decision written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett allows Trump's executive order to potentially take effect
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in states not currently involved in lawsuits challenging the EO as injunctions now apply
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only to parties directly suing. In Amy Coney Barrett's opinion, there was a quote that was circulating that
00:31:51.140
was going viral because it was so sharp. So she is contending against Justice Jackson. You'll remember she
00:32:00.620
joined the Supreme Court under Biden. She wouldn't say what the definition of a woman is. A lot of
00:32:06.700
people said that she was just very objectively unqualified and that she was chosen because of
00:32:12.180
her race and because of her gender. This is Amy Coney Barrett basically saying, like, how in the world did
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this person get on the Supreme Court because of her lack of understanding of the Constitution? She says,
00:32:22.780
we will not dwell on Justice Jackson's argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries worth of
00:32:27.660
precedent. Two centuries, okay? Not two years, not two decades, two centuries, not to mention the
00:32:33.100
Constitution itself. We observe only this. Justice Jackson decries an imperial executive while embracing
00:32:41.580
an imperial judiciary. She goes all the way back, Amy Coney Barrett does, to Marbury v. Madison,
00:32:51.540
1803, okay? She's like, this principle that I'm talking about, it literally goes back to one of
00:32:59.140
the first Supreme Court cases, one of the most famous Supreme Court cases on which we base a lot of our
00:33:06.740
cases today. It set a lot of precedent. You remember that from law school? Like, how did you even pass the
00:33:11.920
bar? Of course, she doesn't say that, but this is like as sharp as it gets in Supreme Court justices
00:33:19.400
going after another. And I just appreciated that because that's the thing, of course, about these
00:33:25.560
left-wing justices. They actually don't care about the Constitution. Like, they really don't. They care
00:33:31.500
about their particular ideology. They are activists. They are going to follow along whatever Democrats say
00:33:36.880
that they want. And Amy Coney Barrett is like, okay, did you even read the Constitution? Do you even know
00:33:43.340
what we're talking about? So let's talk about what birthright citizenship actually is, since there's
00:33:50.020
a debate about this even on the right. Birthright citizenship is the principle that a person
00:33:54.480
automatically acquires citizenship of the country in which they are born. It grants citizenship to
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individuals based solely on their place of birth. And in the U.S., it's justified through the 14th
00:34:05.200
Amendment. So the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is one of the Reconstruction
00:34:10.480
Amendments passed after the Civil War. It addresses things like citizenship, equal protection. It was
00:34:17.540
enacted to overturn the Supreme Court's 1857, a Dred Scott v. Sanford decision, another one of those
00:34:24.620
very prominent Supreme Court cases that you probably learned about in high school or in college.
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Text from the 14th Amendment says, all persons born are naturalized in the United States and subject to
00:34:34.140
the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they
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reside. However, in a January 20th executive order, Trump aimed to restrict birthright citizenship by
00:34:48.520
returning to the original meaning and purpose of the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause. So his
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executive order says this, the privilege of the United States citizenship is a priceless and profound
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gift. And then they go into what the 14th Amendment actually says. And the executive order says the
00:35:07.280
provision rightly repudiated the Supreme Court of the United States' shameful decision and dread Scott
00:35:12.420
v. Sanford. But the 14th Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to
00:35:18.800
everyone born within the United States. The executive order asserts that children born in the U.S. to
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parents who are either unlawfully present or legally present on temporary visas are not subject to the
00:35:30.660
jurisdiction of the U.S. and thus not entitled to automatic citizenship and directs federal agencies to
00:35:37.220
stop issuing citizenship documents to such individuals. The Supreme Court ruling did not
00:35:44.660
address the constitutionality of this executive order, just the nationwide injunctions that were put in
00:35:51.020
place by judges to stop this and other executive orders. The decision empowers the Trump administration to
00:35:57.520
move forward with administrative actions to implement the policy, this policy, other policies, at least
00:36:02.580
temporarily in parts of the country. All right. So why is this a problem? First, we have to talk about
00:36:10.920
birth tourism. There's so much that we could talk about the problems of birthright citizenship, the
00:36:15.940
realities of it. We don't have time to get into all of that. But let's talk about birth tourism and chain
00:36:21.200
migration. So birth tourism motivates people to enter into the U.S. illegally or temporarily to
00:36:27.420
have children who have children who then gain citizenship. And then that can then lead to
00:36:32.420
family sponsorship. That's chain migration. So that child becomes a citizen just by being born there.
00:36:39.940
It is then easier for the rest of their family to take priority in becoming legal citizens. It is
00:36:46.460
totally gaming the system. There was a Senate committee finding on a Senate committee on Homeland Security
00:36:54.840
finding that came out a few years ago in 2022. I believe it was authored by Senator Rob Portman,
00:37:04.000
in which they found that certain policies that were implemented, particularly under Barack Obama,
00:37:12.400
actually exacerbated, made more accessible this birth tourism. So here's some of what they found.
00:37:19.040
We'll link it in the description so you can read it for yourself. It's very long.
00:37:23.040
So they found this is findings of fact changes to State Department policies governing the issuance
00:37:28.840
of B visas in 2015 made birth tourism more accessible. They instructed consular officers not
00:37:37.140
to deny visa applicants solely because they plan to travel to the U.S. to obtain citizenship for their
00:37:42.100
child. So basically someone could come in for the express reason of doing what we just described
00:37:47.840
and people in charge were not allowed to say no based on that after 2015.
00:37:54.320
This report also found after the committee began its investigation in 2020. So this committee started
00:37:59.600
investigating this issue after Trump was president. The State Department amended its policies governing
00:38:04.080
the issuance of B visas to prohibit travel to travel to the U.S. solely for birth tourism.
00:38:09.580
The State Department's 2020 policy change prohibiting birth tourism was a primary reason for
00:38:14.560
one company called Miami Mamas to discontinue their operations. Birth tourists often make substantial
00:38:23.420
cash declarations upon entry to the U.S., make return trips to secure citizenship for numerous
00:38:28.760
children, and receive significant adjustments for total hospital costs incurred. So this is like a really
00:38:36.520
good deal for the people who can afford it to come over here and to have their children.
00:38:41.400
Okay, let's talk about Miami Mama. This is one example. There are so many examples of this
00:38:47.320
happening. Miami Mama LLC was raided by federal authorities in 2017 because of what they were up
00:38:55.260
to. So again, under the Trump administration, this is according to NBC Miami. This is an example
00:39:01.340
of what we're talking about. The company's website says they have been operating. This is according
00:39:06.340
to NBC. The company's website says they have been operating in Miami since 2009 and are the first
00:39:12.860
in Miami for Russian women who want to give birth to their child in the best climate with the best
00:39:18.120
quality of health care. The company offers packages ranging from just under $20,000 to over $53,000
00:39:24.560
that include all the medicines and procedures that come along with childbirth. They charge more for
00:39:30.940
those who get C-sections while assisting in finding housing, opening U.S. bank accounts, and obtaining
00:39:36.260
documents such as social security cards, birth certificates, and other documents needed for the
00:39:41.060
child. The website says, okay, this is very lucrative for a lot of people. This has become
00:39:46.620
very lucrative industry. This is an article that was published at the beginning of this year by CNN.
00:39:53.480
Birth tourism organizer jailed over scheme to bring pregnant Chinese women to the U.S.
00:39:59.020
CNN says a California woman was sentenced Monday to more than three years in prison in a long-running
00:40:04.040
case over a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the U.S. to deliver babies who
00:40:09.080
automatically became American citizens. This woman, Phoebe Dong, was given a 41-month sentence and
00:40:16.700
she was ordered immediately. She was taken into custody. Dong and her husband were convicted in
00:40:26.760
September of conspiracy and money laundering through their company, USA Happy Baby. Federal prosecutors
00:40:34.960
sought more than a five-year sentence for Dong and argued that she and her husband helped more than
00:40:39.920
100 pregnant Chinese women travel to the U.S. They worked with others to coach women on how to trick
00:40:48.500
customs officials by flying into airports believed to be more lax while wearing loose-fitting clothing to
00:40:56.240
hide their pregnancies. Okay? For tens of thousands of dollars, each defendant's, the defendant's helped
00:41:04.560
her new, okay, the defendant, sorry, this typo in this article, defendant helped her numerous customers
00:41:11.360
deceive U.S. authorities and buy U.S. citizenship for their children. The U.S. Happy Baby case was part of a
00:41:19.680
broader probe into businesses that helped Chinese women travel to give birth in California. The operator of
00:41:25.860
another business is believed to have fled to China while another was sentenced in 2019 to 10 months
00:41:32.640
in prison. Okay, so this is already sketchy. Parts of this is already illegal, the birth tourism part.
00:41:40.280
However, it hasn't mattered until the Trump administration is saying that it mattered when
00:41:45.600
it comes to citizenship for the kids. Even if it was illegal, even if they were risking all of this,
00:41:51.320
like their baby still gets the citizenship. They still may get the benefits of chain migration.
00:41:59.100
So that's a huge issue that people are gaming the system, people are making money off of this,
00:42:05.400
and they are getting all the benefits of citizenship when other people have been waiting in line for a
00:42:11.060
very long time to get citizenship and do it the right way. There are many countries that do not
00:42:18.640
have birthright citizenship. Most countries don't have the birthright citizenship that the United
00:42:23.900
States has. And people are acting like, progressives are acting like, oh my gosh, this is so fascist.
00:42:29.120
This is so horrible. This is so bigoted that we wouldn't have birthright citizenship. Okay,
00:42:33.320
most countries don't. I see some people saying, oh, this is so sad and bigoted and progressives are just
00:42:39.680
so angry at this. This is fascist. Okay, most countries don't have this. Most countries don't have this.
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Okay. Countries with restricted birthright citizenship. I'll list them. But first, let me say
00:44:01.440
the U.S. and Canada are the only first world countries that have unrestricted birthright
00:44:06.320
citizenship. So there are other countries, I think 33 other countries that also have unconditional
00:44:12.440
birthright citizenship. So if you are born there, you become a citizen automatically. They are mostly
00:44:18.660
like in South America. And there are some other ones in different parts of the world too. But U.S.,
00:44:27.200
Canada, only other Western civilization countries that allow this unconditional birthright citizenship.
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I can't even read you all of the countries that have highly restricted birthright citizenship or
00:44:41.200
no real birthright citizenship at all because it's most countries. But I will list you some of them.
00:44:48.540
The countries that many progressives hail as so forward-thinking and so much more compassionate
00:44:53.340
than the United States. Y'all, when it comes to immigration, there is not a country more compassionate,
00:44:57.800
if you want to call it that, more open than the U.S. Okay? So I don't want to hear the complaints
00:45:02.300
about how we are finally enforcing immigration law. Every country has a right and a responsibility
00:45:07.740
to do that. I'm not saying we should be cruel, but it's also not always going to look nice and easy
00:45:13.160
either. And that's how other countries do it as well. I mean, Mexico has way stricter
00:45:19.560
immigration policies than we do. You don't have the same rights as an immigrant in Mexico as the
00:45:26.420
native-born people have. It is so different than the United States. Okay. Here are the countries
00:45:31.360
that have extremely conditional and restricted birthright citizenship. It's conditional. I can't
00:45:36.600
even call it birthright citizenship because it is conditional, your citizenship, if you're born in
00:45:41.040
these countries, on your parent status, on their permanent residency, whether they have citizenship in
00:45:46.760
other countries. So France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, China,
00:45:55.080
India, Iran, Israel, Japan, so many others, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand,
00:46:04.100
extremely conditional. Lots of conditions, lots of qualifications, lots of restrictions. America,
00:46:10.380
because of what I think is a wrong interpretation of the 14th Amendment, is completely liberal and open
00:46:16.260
when it comes to birthright citizenship. Other countries are a lot more strict and a lot stricter
00:46:23.180
and a lot more sane, a lot saner when it comes to their immigration policies, especially with birthright
00:46:30.340
citizenship. So let's not act like this is extremist. This is normal. It's the same thing that progressives
00:46:35.060
do when it comes to abortion. Like some people will say, oh, yeah, I just maybe don't think abortion
00:46:40.580
should be legal after 16 weeks, like when we know they can feel pain, maybe. And you'll get the
00:46:46.760
progressives in the Planned Parenthood lobby all dressed in their red robes saying, this is the
00:46:50.900
Handmaid's Tale. We're going back to the 1950s. This is so radical and extreme. And it's like, well,
00:46:57.600
16 weeks is still later than most of Europe. France, I'm pretty sure, has a 12-week limit
00:47:04.080
on abortion. Guys, if we're more liberal than France or Germany on anything, we're going in
00:47:12.680
the wrong direction. Here's also an ironic point in all of this. Democrats suddenly care for unborn
00:47:19.700
babies when it comes to birthright citizenship. Within hours of the published decision from the
00:47:25.880
Supreme Court, the plaintiffs, CASA of Maryland, it's an immigration advocacy organization, along with
00:47:32.960
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project and the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, filed to
00:47:39.540
convert the case into a class action lawsuit. So they asked Judge Deborah Boardman to ask the U.S.
00:47:45.200
District Court in Maryland to officially recognize a class of children born or to be born to immigrant
00:47:51.620
parents who could be denied citizenship under the executive order. Under this lawsuit, even children
00:47:58.380
in the womb would be included. So suddenly, when it comes to accomplishing their immigration goals,
00:48:05.040
because remember, Democrats are thinking long game. If they can change the demographics of the
00:48:10.140
country, if they can make, they think, America less conservative evangelical white, then they will
00:48:16.420
secure progressive victory forevermore. So this is very important to them. So when it comes to achieving
00:48:21.240
their political ends, suddenly babies inside the womb are not just human beings, but they also have
00:48:26.600
full rights. They have full rights, constitutional rights. And it's so interesting that they're using
00:48:31.740
the 14th Amendment to try to say that babies inside the womb are afforded the same rights as everyone
00:48:38.920
else. That's the argument that we make. That's the argument that conservative pro-lifers make, that the
00:48:45.080
equal protection clause actually does extend to babies inside the womb, and therefore they should be
00:48:50.820
granted the same constitutional rights that you and I have, that they should be given the foremost right,
00:48:58.640
which is the right to life, the right not to be murdered. That is a proper interpretation of the
00:49:04.760
14th Amendment, though. An improper interpretation of the 14th Amendment is to say that this grants
00:49:10.340
unconditional citizenship to everyone who was born here. I'm not arguing with their position that babies
00:49:17.500
inside the womb should be afforded all rights, including rights in the 14th Amendment. I'm saying the right
00:49:22.440
to unconditional citizenship because of where you were born is not in the 14th Amendment. So the hypocrisy there
00:49:30.180
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Okay, so here's the story that you've probably seen. A Guatemalan illegal alien named Iris Diana
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Monterosolimus came into the spotlight when the outlet Nashville Banner painted her as a victim of
00:51:26.020
ice mistreatment in a story published on May 27th. She was detained while pregnant. She lost her baby.
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According to the banner, due to allegedly being denied medical care, the Department of Homeland
00:51:38.100
Security, though, claims that this is a lie. Here's what the Nashville Banner said.
00:51:42.620
After she was arrested by ICE, she ended up at the Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana,
00:51:47.720
where she asked for medical help for days, and she lost her midterm pregnancy. She said,
00:51:56.420
they didn't give me medical attention nowhere. Not in Louisiana, not in Alabama. I was in Alabama,
00:52:01.040
too, sleeping on the floor. She said she was given 12 pills to take daily, though the banner was unable
00:52:07.520
to independently verify this. She took them for two days before stopping, convinced something was wrong.
00:52:13.360
I told them to just send me back to Guatemala because I was pregnant and I wasn't getting the
00:52:17.260
medical attention I needed. I called ICE. I called and sent texts, but still nothing. They told me I had
00:52:23.240
to wait for my flight. Can you imagine? We've got Representative Jaya Powell. She is a Democrat
00:52:30.180
representative from Washington. She said, a pregnant woman lost her baby after ICE refused to give her
00:52:35.320
prenatal care. She begged for help and was denied. She was fed food full of cockroaches. She was forced
00:52:40.860
to sleep on the floor. This is absolutely disgusting, and we should all be outraged. Now, I will say,
00:52:46.120
if that is true, it is disgusting, and we should be outraged. I would have absolutely no problem
00:52:51.920
saying that just because I support, in general, deportations, the sovereignty of our country,
00:52:57.800
the enforcement of immigration law, which does include deportations. That's the only way that
00:53:03.140
we make sure that citizenship actually means something and counts. That doesn't mean that I
00:53:09.220
am going to agree with every individual treatment of every single person, and because human beings are
00:53:15.200
flawed, systems can be flawed as well, and they can be simple, and they can do wrong things.
00:53:21.300
So I would have no problem saying, this is horrifying. I'm so sorry that this happened,
00:53:26.120
and we need to investigate to make sure that nothing like this happens again. We've got all
00:53:30.820
kinds of posts saying this. This is Santa Anna updates. This has a ton of engagement on social
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media. A pregnant woman in ICE custody loses baby. We've got different Christian influencers who are
00:53:44.640
talking about this, of course, questioning the validity, the integrity of the pro-life movement,
00:53:51.840
because we support deportations and don't have any problem with this. And of course, I think some
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people on the right will even see this as an opportunity to say, yeah, see, I have a problem
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with this, just to try to maintain some kind of middle-of-the-road position. But whenever I see
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something from the left, I'm going to stop before I say anything, even if initially it does seem
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horrifying, I'm going to wait for more facts to come out. And there has been a counter-narrative.
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I don't know for sure if what the DHS is saying is true, but here's what the Department of Homeland
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Security, Trisha McLaughlin, what she has to say. She says, absolutely false. She, this woman,
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had full medical prenatal care. We have documentation to show it. Iris, 37, is a citizen of Guatemala who has
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been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide. So
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this is what the DHS has to say. They rebutted this on their government website. They say she
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received prenatal care, including an ultrasound, an OBGYN visit, dental care, and medication. She was
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also admitted to a hospital and saw multiple nurses. They said she received prenatal care, including a
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fetal Doppler ultrasound. As soon as she identified the distress on April 29th, ICE provided immediate
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medical assistance. DHS says ICE sent her to a hospital immediately to receive medical care.
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They say she was not required to sleep on the floor. She had a bed in her cell. They also say
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all ICE New Orleans detainees are provided appropriate dietician-cleared menus daily per ICE
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performance-based national detention standards. We have no record of a grievance filed by a detainee
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because she said that she was mistreated and mocked by the guards. They say that she was arrested
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twice for child abuse and neglect with the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office. I don't understand why she's
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not in prison then, but she also has an active warrant for homicide in Guatemala. Yikes.
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Okay, so this is what the DHS is saying. This is why she was being detained. This is why she was
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being deported because she is a dangerous woman, according to the DHS. Now, you can say, well,
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I don't believe the DHS. It's just propaganda. We haven't seen the documentation that has been
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talked about, and maybe they can't because of privacy reasons. But I would just say, I would warn you,
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before you latch on to a story that is meant to grab onto your heart and pull your empathy in the
00:56:26.180
direction of progressive policy to ask yourself, but is this true? And typically, it's wise just to
00:56:31.460
wait just to see, okay, is this story actually right? Or is there something that they're not telling us
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here? And it seems to me like there are at least some countervailing set of facts here. I don't know
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what's true. I do believe that all people, no matter their immigrant status, should be treated
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with dignity, should be treated with care, especially unborn children, that all these people are made in
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the image of God, and they should be treated with respect. But that doesn't mean that they shouldn't
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be detained, and they shouldn't be deported, because if they are here illegally, they should. And I am for
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any dignified and kinder way that we can do that. If the left would like to give me some policy
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suggestions, then I am totally willing to hear them out. But if the suggestion is we shouldn't be
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detaining and deporting people at all, then I just can't get on board with that. I can't get on board
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with that, and we're not going to be able to have a good conversation about it. Okay, final thing. I just
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want to play you one thing. BBC presenter Martine Croxall, she went viral after she was brave enough
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to do this on air. It's not one. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has released research
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which says that nearly 600 heat-related deaths are expected in the UK. Malcolm Mistry, who was involved
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in the research, says that the aged pregnant people, women, and those with pre-existing health conditions
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need to take precautions. So she kind of rolled her eyes there. She said, women. And this was
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published by Pink News, which is a pro-LGBTQ outlet. And all of the comments were so mad at her. I'm sure
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she has received a lot of heat for that. She posted a huge thank you to everyone who has chosen to follow
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me. And so far, I don't think that she's been punished for that. But just be praying for her. Give her a high
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five on social media if you can. It's Maxine Croxall. Or sorry, I said Maxine. It's Martine.
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Martine BBC is her handle on X. And just that small act of not lying, of refusing to tell a lie and
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insisting on telling the truth, that means a lot. That gives a lot of people courage. So high five to
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you, Martine. Keep going. That brings it full circle. If there's nothing else that you can do today
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to advance the truth, which there's always something, but one of the bravest things you can
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do is refuse to lie. All right. That's all we've got time for today. We'll be back here on Wednesday.