The Ben Shapiro Show - Democrats Prove They Don’t Give A Damn About ‘Democratic Norms’ | Ep. 1488

00:00:00.000 Not a single major Democrat will condemn the leak of a Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe.

00:00:04.000 Joe Biden says the Trump base is the most extreme political organization in American history, and the Federal Reserve boosts interest rates a full half point.

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00:01:42.000 The fallout from the late Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade continues.

00:01:47.000 Democrats are not really sure what to do about it.

00:01:49.000 Because on the one hand, they believe that the momentum is with them.

00:01:52.000 They believe that the vast majority of Americans are in favor of Roe being upheld.

00:01:56.000 And they look at the polls and what they see is that the vast majority of Americans are not in favor of abortion being completely banned.

00:02:01.000 The problem for them is that when you look below that top line number, what you see is that a huge number of Americans are in fact in favor of pretty significant restrictions on abortion, particularly in the last couple of trimesters.

00:02:12.000 And this runs directly counter to their entire agenda.

00:02:15.000 And so they just have to lie.

00:02:16.000 They have to suggest that abortion is going to be banned across the country like today, which, of course, As a pro-lifer, I wish, because if you consider abortion to be the mass killing of the pre-born, then you would hope for that sort of thing. 0.72

00:02:27.000 But realistically speaking, that is not what is on the table.

00:02:30.000 Abortion is going to be widely available and legal in every major blue state.

00:02:34.000 It's going to be partially legal and available in many of the purple states.

00:02:37.000 And in deep red states, it's going to be essentially banned.

00:02:40.000 That is the way that this is going to break down.

00:02:42.000 And that means that it is not really a federal electoral issue.

00:02:46.000 Because once it becomes just a question of states implementing what their voters suggest, you're not going to get people to vote for federal Congress or federal Senate or the presidency based on that sort of policy.

00:02:57.000 Because again, it is a state-by-state issue.

00:03:00.000 Which means that if you are really concerned with that issue, you're going to go to the state legislature.

00:03:03.000 You're going to vote for the governor based on it.

00:03:04.000 You're going to vote for all of the state-level local politicians.

00:03:07.000 You're not going to do that for the federal government.

00:03:09.000 Democrats right now are looking down the barrel of a 2022 election that's going to be awful and terrible for them.

00:03:14.000 And they are looking for an issue that is not inflation, that is not the economy, that is not crime.

00:03:18.000 They're looking for issues that are not illegal immigration or even Ukraine.

00:03:21.000 They're looking for something that is going to galvanize their base and get them out to the polls.

00:03:25.000 The problem is abortion ain't it. 1.00

00:03:26.000 As I mentioned yesterday, The argument that you should go out and vote for liberal politicians on the federal level because Roe versus Wade is going to be overturned is now predicated on a series of hypotheticals.

00:03:39.000 And people don't vote based on hypotheticals.

00:03:41.000 They don't vote based on contingencies.

00:03:43.000 They look at inflation is really bad.

00:03:45.000 Blame the president.

00:03:46.000 Blame Congress.

00:03:47.000 They look at crime is really bad.

00:03:49.000 Blame Congress.

00:03:50.000 They look at illegal immigration really bad.

00:03:52.000 Blame the administration in power.

00:03:54.000 In order to make the abortion, you need to vote Democrat on the abortion level, federal argument.

00:03:58.000 You have to solve a bunch of problems.

00:04:00.000 One, you have to suggest that if the Democrats do not step in, that you will need an abortion and not be able to get it.

00:04:06.000 Which, of course, is not the vast majority of Americans.

00:04:08.000 It's not even the vast majority of women who are going to need an abortion, like right now. 0.91

00:04:12.000 And by the way, this talk about how tons and tons of women have had an abortion.

00:04:15.000 Many women in America have had an abortion. 0.97

00:04:17.000 Many women have had many abortions. 1.00

00:04:19.000 But there are a huge number of women who have not in fact had abortions and do not plan on getting abortions and plan on getting married and plan on having children without ever getting an abortion. 0.57

00:04:26.000 And don't feel that this is actually top of the heap issue.

00:04:30.000 This is not their top issue.

00:04:31.000 There are a lot of women who are pro-life, as it turns out. 1.00

00:04:34.000 And there are a lot of men who are pro-choice for a variety of reasons we will not get into.

00:04:38.000 But the Democrats have to portray the current status of the law post-Roe as an extreme threat to women.

00:04:47.000 No, the problem is this.

00:04:48.000 If you look at the various pro-life positions in the states, the hardcore pro-life position, the position that I take, which is that you should not have an abortion, you should be barred by law from having an abortion post-conception, unless the mother's life's in danger.

00:05:02.000 That position is held by a certain number of Americans.

00:05:06.000 That position is also not going to be implemented in the vast majority of states.

00:05:10.000 It's going to be implemented in probably 13 to 15 states.

00:05:13.000 Then there's the Democratic federal position.

00:05:15.000 The Democratic federal position, which they wish imposed top-down federally, and they have no problem using the law to do it, and it is part of their platform, is extreme in the other direction.

00:05:26.000 And when I say it's extreme, I mean their position is openly, you should be able to abort a child up to point of birth.

00:05:31.000 That is the Democratic Party platform.

00:05:33.000 That is what Joe Biden says.

00:05:35.000 He does not believe in late-term abortion restrictions.

00:05:38.000 Now, if forced to choose between those two positions, abortion at any point up to birth and significant restrictions on abortion at point of conception, one of those arguments looks a lot more moral than the other argument.

00:05:50.000 And this is a serious problem for Democrats.

00:05:51.000 There is an actual moral imbalance here, arguing that a woman and her doctor should be able to plunge a knife into the head of a nine-month-old baby in the womb minutes before it enters the birth canal.

00:06:02.000 That turns out to be a really ugly moral argument, significantly uglier than the moral argument that every child deserves a chance to live and that human life with potential ought to be protected.

00:06:13.000 And those arguments do not have the same moral weight.

00:06:15.000 And so when Democrats claim that Republicans are extreme on abortion, This is not a winning argument for them specifically because their own positions on abortion are really, really, really extreme.

00:06:24.000 All right, in just one second, we'll get to Joe Biden, who actually argues that folks who supported Trump are the most extreme political organization in American history, which is, you know, he's old enough to remember most of American history, if he still had a functioning prefrontal cortex.

00:06:37.000 Unfortunately, he does not.

00:06:38.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

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00:07:28.000 So Joe Biden is trying to push this.

00:07:43.000 He's trying to say, you need to elect me because I'm a moderate.

00:07:45.000 He's back to the, I'm a moderate argument.

00:07:46.000 The problem is he is not a moderate.

00:07:48.000 So the argument he is making is that the, what he calls ultra-MAGA, right?

00:07:51.000 Because everything is about Trump still, even though Trump has not been president for a couple of years now.

00:07:55.000 Everything is about Trump.

00:07:56.000 He says that MAGA is the most extreme political organization in recent American history.

00:08:01.000 That's an insane statement. 0.99

00:08:03.000 If this doddering old fool, like this is a crazy statement here from Joe Biden, but this is what they have to run on. 0.99

00:08:08.000 Again, they have to run on Trump and January 6th. 1.00

00:08:10.000 And now the argument is that your abortions will go away.

00:08:14.000 Your abortions everywhere in New York, in Massachusetts, in Cal, they're going to go away. 0.99

00:08:17.000 Sure.

00:08:17.000 I mean, honestly, from their mouth to God ears, but no, it ain't going to happen.

00:08:21.000 Here's Joe Biden.

00:08:23.000 What are the next things that are going to be attacked?

00:08:26.000 Because this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that's existed in American history.

00:08:33.000 In recent American history.

00:08:35.000 All of American history.

00:08:36.000 And then he corrects himself.

00:08:37.000 Recent.

00:08:37.000 Then he just takes his, his, clutches his binder and walks away.

00:08:40.000 Okay, so just to renote American history.

00:08:43.000 American history.

00:08:44.000 Extreme political organizations.

00:08:46.000 Let's see, there's the Ku Klux Klan.

00:08:48.000 There is the Confederacy, which literally attempted to split off from the Constitutional Union in the United States in order to preserve slavery.

00:08:56.000 There is the Weather Underground, which bombed federal buildings routinely throughout the 1960s and 70s.

00:09:02.000 I mean, I would say Black Lives Matter last year, creating billions of dollars in damage around the country based on a lie that America's police are systemically racist.

00:09:10.000 It's a pretty extreme political organization.

00:09:12.000 In fact, I could name you dozens of political organizations more extreme than the current day Republican Party, which again, its positions were considered just a mainstream center about 15 years ago.

00:09:24.000 I mean, if we're talking about extreme political organizations in the United States, you shouldn't be talking about the Republican Party, you should be talking about the Democratic Party, which is a very, very extreme political organization.

00:09:34.000 Again, this is a political organization that maintains abortion to point of birth as its platform.

00:09:39.000 This is an organization that now maintains that boys can be girls and girls can be boys, and that fifth-graders, that five-year-olds, six-year-olds should be taught this.

00:09:47.000 Which seems more extreme to you?

00:09:50.000 So Joe Biden, again, he's got a scare tactic this thing through, because this is all Democrats have at this point.

00:09:55.000 It's just scare tactics. 0.69

00:09:56.000 So the idea is that Republicans, if they had their way, would ban gay kids from the classroom. 0.96

00:10:01.000 I have a question.

00:10:02.000 In public schools, like, how?

00:10:03.000 Explain.

00:10:05.000 Really, explain this.

00:10:08.000 Here we go.

00:10:10.000 What happens if you have a state change the law saying that children who are LGBTQ can't be in classrooms with other children?

00:10:22.000 Is that legit under the way that the decision is written?

00:10:25.000 The, really? Jen Psaki was asked directly about this yesterday and she had no answer for it.

00:10:31.000 Because of course, nobody has actually proposed such a thing. Like that's, that's just, no one has proposed such a thing. Again, he's now going into hypotheticals based on hypotheticals based on nothing. My favorite thing about Joe Biden though, is that Joe Biden can't even make an argument pro-abortion argument without stumbling into making a pro-life argument.

00:10:49.000 So yesterday, he was talking about the right to abortion. 0.99

00:10:51.000 This is the most Orwellian nonsense to spill out of the face hole of this doddering fool in at least the last seven minutes. 0.99

00:10:58.000 Here is Joe Biden. 1.00

00:11:01.000 This is about a lot more than abortion. 0.72

00:11:03.000 I hadn't read the whole opinion at that time.

00:11:06.000 But this reminds me of the debate with Robert Bork.

00:11:10.000 Bork believed the only reason you had any inherent rights was because the government gave them to you.

00:11:16.000 If you go back and look at the opening comments of the Bork Biden, when I was questioning him as chairman, I said, I believe I have the rights that I have, not because the government gave them to me, which you believe, but because I'm just a child of God, I exist.

00:11:32.000 I delegated by joining this union here to delegate some obligations, some rights I have to the governments for social good.

00:11:43.000 So he has a right delegated to him by God as a child of God because he exists.

00:11:55.000 Why that sounds almost like a basic pro-life argument.

00:11:59.000 A child of God, you exist, therefore you have the right, like for example, not to be killed in the womb.

00:12:07.000 And he's arguing that as a child of God, because he exists, he has the right to kill another child of God that exists.

00:12:15.000 That's the argument Democrats are making. 0.96

00:12:17.000 And don't worry, it's the other guys who are extreme.

00:12:19.000 It's the other guys who are extreme.

00:12:21.000 Boy, is he bad at this.

00:12:22.000 I mean, really, really, really bad at this.

00:12:24.000 Like, he can't even make a pro-choice argument without ending up making a pro-life argument.

00:12:28.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:12:30.000 We'll get to the Biden administration doubling down on abortion up to point of birth in just one second. 0.80

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00:13:44.000 Meanwhile, the HHS secretary Xavier Becerra, he says the Biden administration is going to double down to protect abortion again.

00:13:50.000 If they want to run on this, really, please go for it.

00:13:53.000 Please explain why you are attempting to protect, for example, late-term abortion, which is wildly unpopular by every available poll.

00:14:02.000 Whenever you hear folks on the left say, this many people approve Roe, that's because people don't understand what Roe does.

00:14:06.000 They think that when Roe ends, all abortion across the country is automatically banned, which is not true.

00:14:10.000 That it doesn't go to the state level, it's just automatically banned federally.

00:14:13.000 Not true.

00:14:14.000 They'll say, the vast majority of people, they're in favor of freedom on abortion.

00:14:19.000 Well, it really, really, really depends on the stage and which area of the country you're in.

00:14:24.000 They never want you to look below the top line.

00:14:25.000 The problem is that no matter what they say about the polls, the polls are still the polls, and people still believe what they believe.

00:14:30.000 So if they believe that taking extreme positions in the pro-abortion direction are going to be a big political winner for them, and this is actually going to drive people to the polls in their favor, you know, go for it.

00:14:40.000 Own it.

00:14:41.000 The Department of Health and Human Services is not in the business of stripping Americans of access and protections to care.

00:14:48.000 So at HHS, we will double down on our authorities to protect every American's right and access to reproductive health care, including abortion.

00:14:58.000 And by the way, how crazy are Democrats on this particular issue?

00:15:02.000 There's an abortion bill that Chuck Schumer is about to bring up for a vote.

00:15:05.000 It creates a right to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy in all 50 states.

00:15:10.000 The bill's chief sponsor in the Senate acknowledges, according to National Review, the legislation does not distinguish between physical and mental health.

00:15:17.000 The text of the bill explicitly instructs the courts to liberally interpret the legislation.

00:15:21.000 There's no question that this would now amount to basically abortion across the board, guaranteed by the federal government for all nine months.

00:15:27.000 But don't worry, it's the right that's extreme. 0.78

00:15:29.000 By the way, the right is so extreme that the right actually condemned the leak of the decision.

00:15:33.000 The left does not condemn the leak of the decision.

00:15:36.000 It truly is an amazing thing.

00:15:38.000 It is possible to be a Democrat and say, I hate the decision.

00:15:41.000 The decision is wrong.

00:15:42.000 I think that it's wrongly decided.

00:15:43.000 But also, it is really bad for the institution of the Supreme Court to have lefties inside the Supreme Court leaking draft decisions.

00:15:51.000 By the way, it's extremely dangerous.

00:15:53.000 It really is very dangerous because imagine now that you are a pro-abortion fanatic committed to the possibility of violence.

00:15:59.000 It's a country of 330 million people.

00:16:01.000 You'll probably find somebody.

00:16:02.000 I mean, right now you have people who are smashing cop cars in L.A.

00:16:04.000 over this, so you'd imagine that there might be somebody who's very extreme and or crazy.

00:16:10.000 And imagine for a second that that person sees that there is a draft opinion that has five votes, not six, five votes on the Supreme Court to overrule Roe.

00:16:19.000 Don't you think that it might put a Supreme Court justice's life in danger to leak the opinion before the vote actually comes down?

00:16:25.000 Because the vote, again, is only official when the opinion comes down, because the vote is on the opinion.

00:16:32.000 So, God forbid, put aside the possibility of assassination, God forbid, but what would happen right now if one of the five justices who voted in favor of the Dobbs versus Mississippi draft opinion from Alito, one of them died, God forbid, what would happen?

00:16:46.000 Then, presumably, the court would be split 4-4, and you would not get an overruling of Roe.

00:16:51.000 So, that logic might go through the head of somebody out there who thinks, okay, if I do something violent and terrible, Then I can stop history where it stands.

00:17:01.000 I can actually stop this decision from going through.

00:17:03.000 It is actively dangerous to leak this sort of stuff.

00:17:07.000 Like really, really dangerous, actually.

00:17:10.000 And yet you can't find a single Democrat anywhere to condemn it.

00:17:12.000 It's unbelievable.

00:17:13.000 It's amazing.

00:17:14.000 And again, you don't have to be pro the decision in order to condemn the leak.

00:17:19.000 You can say that this decision is terrible and awful and we hate it and we want to overturn it and we're going to use whatever we can do within legal means in order to stop it and fight back.

00:17:28.000 You can do all of that and still the Democrats cannot bring themselves to condemn the leak because the Democratic norms crowd, they don't give two...

00:17:34.000 That's an unbelievable thing.

00:17:35.000 They don't care about that stuff.

00:17:37.000 They don't care about nuking the filibuster or packing the court.

00:17:39.000 They don't care about leaks from the Supreme Court.

00:17:41.000 This is the first time in American history a full decision, draft decision from the Supreme Court has ever been leaked.

00:17:46.000 And you cannot find a Democrat anywhere in America to condemn it.

00:17:50.000 That's an unbelievable thing.

00:17:52.000 It really is.

00:17:53.000 So Jen Psaki yesterday was asked about condemning the leak.

00:17:55.000 She had nothing.

00:17:56.000 Does the White House condemn, explicitly condemn this leak?

00:18:01.000 Or has seeing this draft been seen as welcome by some here?

00:18:05.000 I don't think we have a particular view on that other than to say that we certainly note the unprecedented nature of it.

00:18:13.000 You have nothing to say about it?

00:18:14.000 Nothing?

00:18:15.000 You and your moderate, pro-norms crowd?

00:18:17.000 The other guys are the ones who are dangerous?

00:18:20.000 You and your norms.

00:18:22.000 Yes, I really, I think that you really care about norms, Jen Psaki.

00:18:26.000 I really do.

00:18:27.000 Then Jen Psaki was asked if Joe Biden would view the court decision as legitimate.

00:18:30.000 And here is her response.

00:18:32.000 Sounds like you're saying then that's a yes, he would consider this a legitimate decision.

00:18:36.000 Well, there is not even a decision yet.

00:18:38.000 We don't know the validity of the, we know that this is a leaked document.

00:18:42.000 It is not the final opinion.

00:18:43.000 So I just can't speak to that hypothetically.

00:18:46.000 She can't speak about hypothetically whether it would be considered a legitimate decision?

00:18:50.000 Like really?

00:18:51.000 I was told that unless you respect Supreme Court decisions and precedent, that this was a violation of norms.

00:18:56.000 So again, notice the moderate, the moderate crowd, you know, the Democrats, very moderate.

00:19:01.000 They're fine with leaks.

00:19:02.000 Won't openly say that they will respect a Supreme Court decision if it comes down.

00:19:07.000 And they're in favor of abortion up until the child is 17 years of age and can get a driver's license, basically.

00:19:15.000 This is your moderate crowd over here.

00:19:18.000 Speaking of which, again, it is amazing to me that this is what they want to run on.

00:19:22.000 They really think this is a winning issue for them.

00:19:23.000 Again, I encourage them to go for it.

00:19:25.000 I encourage them to run on their extreme pro-abortion position because it's not that they are arguing that there should be some restrictions, but not total restrictions on abortion.

00:19:34.000 They're not arguing that.

00:19:35.000 If they were arguing that, they could argue that in their home states.

00:19:37.000 Like, there's this weird irony where all of these bizarre blue state governors who are super, super liberal on abortion, who want abortion across all nine months, are ranting and raving.

00:19:48.000 Guys, you run states.

00:19:50.000 You're doing what you're doing.

00:19:52.000 Like, you're welcome to it.

00:19:54.000 Not on a moral level.

00:19:55.000 On a moral level, you're very not much not welcome to it.

00:19:56.000 But on a federalist level, you're definitely welcome to it because that's how federalism works.

00:20:01.000 So for example, Gavin Newsom is out there on the stump about this thing.

00:20:04.000 And I have questions.

00:20:06.000 I mean, I really do.

00:20:07.000 California has been very liberal on abortion.

00:20:10.000 It's gonna become an abortion tourist state. 1.00

00:20:12.000 So it's Disneyland and killing babies over in California. 0.97

00:20:14.000 That is their major draw.

00:20:16.000 Not being business friendly.

00:20:18.000 Disneyland, which is open sometimes, and also killing babies.

00:20:20.000 This is why you should visit California.

00:20:22.000 And also if you want heroin.

00:20:23.000 So those are the big three. 1.00

00:20:25.000 Disneyland, heroin, and killing babies. 1.00

00:20:27.000 California. 0.96

00:20:28.000 I can speak about it.

00:20:29.000 I was born there.

00:20:30.000 I spent 36 years of my life there.

00:20:33.000 So, yes.

00:20:34.000 Anyway, Gavin Newsom tweets out If men could get pregnant, this wouldn't even be a conversation.

00:20:40.000 This decision isn't about strengthening families.

00:20:42.000 It's about extremism.

00:20:43.000 It's about control.

00:20:44.000 We will fight for the right to choose.

00:20:46.000 And the Orwellian language here is unbelievable.

00:20:49.000 So it's not about strengthening families to save babies.

00:20:52.000 It's about control to save babies.

00:20:54.000 Also, got a note here.

00:20:56.000 Isn't it fun how we snapped right back to biological reality the moment abortion became an issue?

00:21:00.000 Isn't that fun?

00:21:01.000 You have Gavin Newsom now saying, if men could get pregnant, I have been reliably informed by no less an authority than you, Gavin Newsom, you Ken doll of a human.

00:21:10.000 I've been informed by you that men can get pregnant. 0.98

00:21:13.000 I've been informed by the Biden administration that we have to start transitioning five-year-olds because after all, we have to gender affirm them.

00:21:20.000 So which is it?

00:21:21.000 Can men get pregnant or can men not get pregnant? 1.00

00:21:24.000 And by the way, this entire argument, even on its root level, is so stupid. 1.00

00:21:28.000 If men could get pregnant, then that would totally change things. 1.00

00:21:30.000 Right, because men have no interest in children whatsoever. 1.00

00:21:33.000 None.

00:21:35.000 Men were once children, by the way.

00:21:37.000 All of us, as it turns out, were in our mother's wombs. 0.60

00:21:40.000 But this is the argument that they are making.

00:21:42.000 If men can get pregnant, all right, fine. 0.99

00:21:44.000 You want to play that game?

00:21:46.000 Tim Ryan in Ohio. 1.00

00:21:48.000 These people are so dumb. 1.00

00:21:49.000 So, Tim Ryan. 1.00

00:21:51.000 He was asked about his abortion policy.

00:21:54.000 Remember, he's running in Ohio, which is now a red state.

00:21:58.000 If you think they're going to be able to run on Roe and win, I give you Tim Ryan.

00:22:04.000 As senator, would you have any limits on abortion?

00:22:08.000 Look, I think what we had established in Roe is something that we can continue to work with, and I think those can be the parameters.

00:22:15.000 But then again, if you get rid of what was established law, which in many ways was conservative, to keep that, to appreciate stare decisis and make sure we appreciate The law, if we move away from that, you're going to get states like Ohio that have some of the most extreme laws in the whole country, where if you're a young girl and you've been raped or there's been incest, the state, the government, is going to force you to bring that baby to term.

00:22:45.000 And I just don't think that's a fundamental value.

00:22:48.000 My question was about any limits to abortion at any point.

00:22:52.000 You know, late term, anything?

00:22:56.000 Look, you gotta leave it up to the woman, because you and I sitting here are a bunch of... 0.97

00:23:02.000 Well, you and I sitting here can't account for all of the different scenarios that a woman dealing with the complexities of a pregnancy are going through.

00:23:11.000 So no restrictions on abortion.

00:23:13.000 Run on this.

00:23:14.000 Go for it, guys.

00:23:14.000 But don't worry, the Republicans are the extremists.

00:23:16.000 The media are now attempting to wish-cast this into a talking point for Democrats, that the end of row is going to swing the polls behind Democrats.

00:23:23.000 No, it is not.

00:23:25.000 And it turns out all of your arguments are really bad.

00:23:27.000 Well, the left is now trying to bully corporations into doing what they want.

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00:24:46.000 So, you have pieces at places like the Washington Post by Michael Scherer.

00:24:49.000 In draft abortion ruling, Democrats see a court at odds with democracy.

00:24:53.000 Again, I love this.

00:24:53.000 I love this.

00:24:54.000 So, it is now at odds with democracy for the Supreme Court to say you get to vote on an issue.

00:25:00.000 This is logic so pretzel-y it makes Cirque du Soleil look like me doing yoga. 0.97

00:25:06.000 I mean, like, it's ridiculous. 0.99

00:25:08.000 That's ridiculous. 0.98

00:25:09.000 So, the Supreme Court says, you now get to vote on abortion. 0.91

00:25:13.000 And Democrats are like, that's anti-democratic.

00:25:16.000 According to the Washington Post, for nearly half a century, Republicans have railed against unelected judges making rulings they claim disenfranchise voters from deciding for themselves what laws should govern hot-button issues.

00:25:26.000 But since the release this week of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn the long-standing constitutional right to abortion, Demo— Okay, first of all, never was a constitutional right just made up.

00:25:36.000 Democrats have been the ones embracing that complaint, flipping the script as the party vents its frustration with elements of the U.S.

00:25:41.000 system that have empowered a minority of the country's voters to elect lawmakers who have successfully reshaped the high court.

00:25:46.000 So again, the complaint from Republicans is that judges are disenfranchising voters, and now that voters are re-enfranchised, Democrats are claiming that voters are being disenfranchised.

00:25:58.000 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer denounced the apparent conservative majority behind the draft opinion as in no way accountable to the American people.

00:26:06.000 Jamie Raskin described them as handpicked and gerrymandered by theocrats and autocrats.

00:26:10.000 Elizabeth Warren cast the document as the culmination of a conservative effort to gain a majority on the bench who had accomplished something that the majority of Americans do not want, as though the Supreme Court of the United States is now supposed to be a democratically elected body answerable to public opinion.

00:26:22.000 That is directly the opposite of what any judiciary is supposed to do.

00:26:26.000 You wouldn't do this with regard to a criminal court.

00:26:28.000 Criminal court makes a decision to, for example, not give the death penalty to somebody.

00:26:33.000 Would you want the braying mob outside making that decision?

00:26:35.000 The whole point is that a judiciary is independent of the people who are outside the courthouse.

00:26:41.000 With that majority likely to last for the foreseeable future, the critique from the left that the court's rulings are not only misguided, but also evidence of a deeper rot within American democracy has become a recurring theme.

00:26:50.000 Oh, Really?

00:26:53.000 Oh, really?

00:26:54.000 Okay, well, good luck with that.

00:26:55.000 Seriously.

00:26:57.000 We are going to get people to come out and vote so that people can't vote.

00:27:01.000 Makes perfect sense.

00:27:03.000 The Washington Post, also trying to gin up women.

00:27:06.000 Joanna Slater, Emily Wax Thibodeau, Sarah Fowler, and Karen Brulier have a piece at the Washington Post titled, For Women, Despair and Joy as Overturning of Roe Appears Imminent.

00:27:16.000 The news rippled across the country like a shockwave, passing through living rooms, bedrooms, dinner conversations, and university dorms, leaving American women in disbelief.

00:27:25.000 Lauren Book said when she heard the news, she sat her five-year-old daughter on her lap, held her close, and began to weep.

00:27:30.000 I thought to myself, oh my God, said Book 37, a Democratic state senator in Florida, this is a different world for her. 0.99

00:27:36.000 Okay, so first of all, don't invoke God when you're talking about killing babies.

00:27:39.000 Also, it's weird for you to hold your five-year-old daughter that you bore in your body and then pass into this world. 0.95

00:27:46.000 As you weep about why women should not be allowed to kill their babies. 0.99

00:27:52.000 Ma'am, that time when the Bible overturned the child sacrifice to Molech, that must have been really hard on the women who were very interested in the child sacrifice to Molech.

00:28:00.000 Must have been really difficult.

00:28:01.000 By contrast, Susan Abdallah, who works for a construction company in Michigan, says she was overcome with relief and a burst of energy.

00:28:06.000 It's been hard to live in a world where ending human lives is considered a good solution to women's problems. 0.99

00:28:11.000 Yeah, that seems more logical.

00:28:14.000 A majority of American women, 62%, believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted this week.

00:28:23.000 Okay, but, again, actually the vast majority of Americans believe there should be some fairly significant restrictions on abortions in the United States.

00:28:33.000 So, right now, for example, 36% of Americans support laws that would prevent Abortions, even in the first six weeks of pregnancy.

00:28:47.000 How many Americans believe that it should be like, okay, all the way up to birth?

00:28:52.000 Pretty much none.

00:28:54.000 Pretty much none.

00:28:54.000 I mean, the number of Americans who believe that you should be able to have an abortion all the way up to birth is really, really, really low.

00:28:59.000 The answer is most Americans are somewhere in between.

00:29:02.000 But that's why we get to vote on the issue.

00:29:04.000 So, the Democrats are trying to gin up the quote-unquote war on women rhetoric. 0.98

00:29:08.000 The problem is that nobody actually really believes that, except for a hardcore base of college-educated white liberal women. 0.99

00:29:15.000 That is the contingent that the Democratic Party is always catering to.

00:29:19.000 So, the media are going to start with the pressure tactics.

00:29:21.000 So, the pressure tactics are, of course, directed against corporate America.

00:29:25.000 So immediately, immediately upon this decision leaking, you start to see the media call up various corporations and attempt to cudgel those corporations into doing their dirty work for them.

00:29:36.000 This is what they have done on every single major political issue of the last 20 years.

00:29:41.000 We don't like a law in Florida about preventing the indoctrination of small children into gender ideology. 0.99

00:29:46.000 Let's get Disney on the phone and let's force them to do what we want them to do. 0.96

00:29:50.000 We don't like a voter ID law in Georgia.

00:29:51.000 Let's get MLB on the phone and let's force them to do what we want them to do. 1.00

00:29:55.000 And now you have the Washington Post and CNBC all printing articles about how are major corporations going to deal?

00:30:01.000 How are major corporations going to deal with any state law?

00:30:03.000 They're just going to hire where they want to hire.

00:30:05.000 And then if you want to get an abortion, you're going to go wherever you can get an abortion. 1.00

00:30:09.000 According to the Washington Post, after state abortion fights, corporate America braces for end of row.

00:30:13.000 Really?

00:30:14.000 Are they bracing for it?

00:30:15.000 Or are they just going to deal with it?

00:30:17.000 In recent months, Apple has offered to cover medical expenses for workers in Texas who have to travel out of state to seek abortions.

00:30:23.000 Salesforce has offered to relocate workers from the Lone Star State where a restrictive abortion law took effect this year.

00:30:27.000 On Monday, Amazon said it would cover $4,000 in travel costs for U.S.

00:30:30.000 workers seeking medical care, including elective abortion and transgender surgery.

00:30:35.000 The cautious first steps by companies in response to new state-level laws on abortion and LGBTQ issues highlight the unprecedented nationwide challenges businesses could now face.

00:30:44.000 Oh, like, are those unprecedented?

00:30:47.000 Really?

00:30:48.000 Like, you could just not offer those benefits, and then if people want to work for Apple in New York, they can.

00:30:52.000 I mean, these are nationwide companies.

00:30:55.000 If you don't want to live in Texas, you don't have to live in Texas.

00:30:57.000 Welcome to the real world.

00:30:59.000 I didn't want to live in California, so I moved my entire company out of California. 0.99

00:31:03.000 Because California's a garbage heap. 0.66

00:31:05.000 The news this week caught corporate America off guard, resulting in a barrage of worried emails and phone calls trailing into the night as corporate officials grappled with the realization that the slew of state abortion laws were simply dress rehearsals for a bigger nationwide policy shift. 0.96

00:31:18.000 The communication with corporate parties has been non-stops at Jen Stark, senior director at Terra Health Foundation, an investment firm focused on gender and racial equality.

00:31:26.000 Companies that were gearing up for impact in June are feeling the reality set in now.

00:31:31.000 Well, I mean, here again is the reality.

00:31:33.000 The entire cultural infrastructure of the United States, from the federal government under Joe Biden, to state governments in major blue areas, to the media, to institutional investors, all of them have been pushing forward with a left-wing agenda and trying to cudgel shareholders and corporations that represent those shareholders into repeating the nostrum of the far left.

00:31:53.000 This has been a common pattern we've talked about.

00:31:55.000 This is how you get woke ink.

00:31:57.000 This is woke capitalism.

00:31:59.000 Okay, well, if these woke corporations wish to interfere in state law, then they will presumably have to be involved in the political process.

00:32:06.000 And it turns out there are consequences to that now.

00:32:08.000 I mean, it's kind of fascinating.

00:32:10.000 Article from CNBC, major companies, including Disney and Walmart, keep largely silent as leaked Supreme Court abortion draft sparks outrage.

00:32:17.000 This is, by the way, again, just the bully tactic.

00:32:18.000 The bully tactic is we're going to yell at corporations that have nothing to do with the state legislative policies at issue here.

00:32:24.000 We're going to yell at them.

00:32:26.000 According to CNBC, As protesters gathered and politicians scrambled to speak out, the country's largest corporations remained largely silent Tuesday after a leaked draft of a Supreme Court decision indicated conservative justices are poised to overturn Roe.

00:32:38.000 Dozens of companies, including Walmart, American Airlines, and Disney, have yet to issue statements or respond to CNBC requests for comment.

00:32:44.000 The Business Roundtable, a trade group made of top CEOs, said in a statement it does not have a position on this issue, which is the appropriate response.

00:32:50.000 Of course, corporations should not have a statement on specific state abortion laws.

00:32:54.000 Do they have a statement on New York's abortion laws that allow you to kill a baby until the baby's 97 years old?

00:33:00.000 Microsoft, JP Morgan, and the U.S.

00:33:01.000 Chamber of Commerce all declined to comment.

00:33:03.000 As they should.

00:33:04.000 This does not impact their business.

00:33:06.000 This has nothing to do with their core business.

00:33:09.000 You can see the media trying to cudgel all these people into place.

00:33:11.000 This, by the way, is the salutary effect of Ron DeSantis saying to Disney, if you stick your head up, and if you decide that you're going to become a tool of the left, we will treat you as such.

00:33:19.000 We'll treat you as a political actor in the political space, and if you have special magical tax benefits the state of Florida has granted you, you can play by the same rules as everybody else.

00:33:28.000 This is why corporations are getting shy, because here's the reality.

00:33:30.000 You think all these CEOs of these corporations want to speak out on these issues?

00:33:33.000 They don't.

00:33:34.000 You didn't get involved at Disney because you want to be a social activist.

00:33:37.000 You got involved at Disney because you like the fact they create magical, innocent product for kids.

00:33:41.000 That's why.

00:33:42.000 And then you were cuddled by the left into doing their work.

00:33:44.000 And now you are being told by the right, if you do that, you will be cuddled by the right.

00:33:49.000 And then you will go back to neutral.

00:33:50.000 And that's what's happening with these businesses.

00:33:52.000 And that is very good.

00:33:53.000 So this bully tactic from the left, I don't think that's going to work either.

00:33:56.000 I think they're going to have to make their case in the court of public opinion, and they're only going to be successful in blue states.

00:34:01.000 And that is not going to help them on the federal level.

00:34:05.000 The media are trying to gin up alternative arguments.

00:34:08.000 And again, these are very bizarre alternative arguments.

00:34:12.000 My personal favorite argument you hear from the left on the pro-abortion side is that unless the GOP supports nationalized health care, cradle-to-grave welfare programs, a vast bevy of government spending programs, we get to kill all the babies. 0.53

00:34:23.000 That's the argument.

00:34:24.000 There's a very, very popular argument on the left.

00:34:27.000 And it makes no sense, of course.

00:34:28.000 It's absurd.

00:34:29.000 It's like saying that unless you offer homeless shelters, we have to create government-sponsored beds for every homeless person in America. 0.98

00:34:38.000 And if we don't, we get to kill the homeless.

00:34:41.000 Like, that is the equivalent of the argument here. 0.99

00:34:44.000 Because here is the argument that they actually make.

00:34:46.000 Hey, there's a woman named Leila Cohen, a TV and film writer for Bridgerton, which means that she is a political genius. 0.94

00:34:54.000 And this human, her tweet has 416,000 likes.

00:34:58.000 Okay, here's how it goes.

00:35:00.000 If it was about babies, we'd have excellent and free universal maternal care.

00:35:03.000 You wouldn't be charged a cent to give birth, no matter how complicated your delivery was.

00:35:07.000 If it was about babies, we'd have months and months of parental leave for everyone.

00:35:10.000 If it was about babies, we'd have free lactation consultants, free diapers, free formula.

00:35:13.000 If it was about babies, we'd have free and excellent childcare from newborns on.

00:35:16.000 If it was about babies, we'd have universal preschool and pre-K and guaranteed after-school placements.

00:35:21.000 Um, well, I mean, there are arguments pro and con each of those policies, but it seems to me that you're arguing that unless you get all of those policies in place, you get to kill the baby, which is a weird argument. 0.99

00:35:35.000 Unless I have universal pre-K, and you pay for all my birth expenses, and you pay for all of my bills, and you take care of my baby, and you adopt my baby, and you bring it into your home, I get to stab it in the face. 0.99

00:35:45.000 Like, is that your argument? 0.99

00:35:46.000 That's a really crappy argument.

00:35:49.000 And that, like, you can argue for or against any of these policies.

00:35:52.000 I think universal pre-K is a complete waste of money.

00:35:55.000 I also happen to think that parents should be incentivized to take care of their own children because children do best when cared for by their parents.

00:36:02.000 And parents should make responsible decisions about when to get pregnant. 1.00

00:36:05.000 And parents should also earn on behalf of their children.

00:36:08.000 I know these are all very risqué positions that, one, you shouldn't kill babies, and two, it is generally your job to raise your own baby and pay for it.

00:36:15.000 I know this is really difficult for people on the left to handle.

00:36:18.000 And number one, don't kill your kid.

00:36:19.000 And two, take care of your kid.

00:36:21.000 I know.

00:36:21.000 And it's not my job to take care of your kid.

00:36:23.000 On a baseline level, it is your job to take care of your kid.

00:36:26.000 I'm happy to help out if you're having trouble, but at a root level, you are a parent.

00:36:30.000 Your role in life is to take care of your kid.

00:36:32.000 I'm amazed by the left-wing argument that unless, here's the deal, you're paying for my kid or I'm shooting him.

00:36:37.000 That's the way this is working.

00:36:39.000 Like, that's your argument?

00:36:40.000 Really?

00:36:40.000 And you've got that argument from the Washington Post today.

00:36:44.000 The Washington Post has an entire piece titled, With Roe at Risk, GOP Faces Pressure to Support Families After Birth.

00:36:53.000 What is the correlation there?

00:36:54.000 Seriously, you can make the argument in favor of longer Longer maternity or paternity leave. 0.90

00:37:01.000 You can make the argument in favor of greater spending on adoption agencies.

00:37:05.000 I'm in favor of some of those arguments.

00:37:06.000 But that has nothing to do with whether you get to kill the person.

00:37:09.000 This is like saying that unless you expand social security benefits and really take care of the elderly, we get to euthanize them. 0.65

00:37:17.000 That is not an argument.

00:37:20.000 I used the word satanic yesterday.

00:37:21.000 This is a rather satanic argument.

00:37:23.000 Give us the government benefits we want and pay for all of our expenses. 0.96

00:37:25.000 Otherwise, we get to kill the kids is a really bad argument.

00:37:29.000 But unfortunately, these are the arguments that the left is trotting out right now. 0.94

00:37:32.000 Like a lot.

00:37:33.000 A lot.

00:37:34.000 Alright, coming up, the left really doesn't have a moral argument to make about abortion, so it always comes down to rage and edge cases.

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00:39:32.000 In the end, for the left, it just comes down to unbridled rage.

00:39:34.000 It just comes down to screaming at the sky because they don't really have any great moral arguments in favor of abortion.

00:39:39.000 The arguments in favor of abortion are really, really scanty.

00:39:42.000 This is why the best arguments that the left makes are all about fringe cases.

00:39:45.000 They'll say, well, what about the kid with Tay-Sachs? 1.00

00:39:48.000 What about the mother who was raped or was the victim of incest?

00:39:51.000 And if you said to people on the left, OK, fine, you know what?

00:39:55.000 I may disagree, but we'll make a deal.

00:39:57.000 The deal is, all of those edge cases, you get to consider abortion, we won't make it illegal.

00:40:01.000 All the rest of them.

00:40:03.000 We're gonna make those illegal. 0.99

00:40:04.000 You think the left really would go for that?

00:40:05.000 The answer, of course, is no.

00:40:07.000 They're arguing at the fringe because they can't argue at the center.

00:40:10.000 They can't argue that elective abortion ought to be morally legal throughout all nine months of pregnancy.

00:40:14.000 There's no way to argue that in any sort of moral way.

00:40:17.000 And so what it comes down to is just rage.

00:40:19.000 And again, the reason that it comes down to rage, I said this yesterday and I repeat it today, the reason it comes down to rage, this argument, is because it goes to the center of the left-wing worldview.

00:40:27.000 The center of the left-wing worldview Is that there should be no relationship between actions and consequences.

00:40:34.000 That you should have no duty.

00:40:35.000 That life is an unfair imposition on you.

00:40:38.000 As Barack Obama put it, that my daughter shouldn't be settled with a baby. 0.69

00:40:42.000 Settled!

00:40:43.000 Right?

00:40:43.000 That there should be no impact of the actions that you take in real life.

00:40:48.000 That biology is an imposition.

00:40:49.000 That reality is an imposition.

00:40:51.000 And that you should be able to dispense with all consequences as you see fit, if they affect your life in a way that you don't like.

00:40:57.000 This is at root what the left wants.

00:40:59.000 Because according to the left, all things in the world that affect me badly are injustices and need to be rooted out by the system.

00:41:05.000 And so the system has to allow for me to damage, yes, unborn, like the most innocent people on planet Earth, babies that have not yet been born.

00:41:13.000 You need me to be able to damage that so we can establish full equality between men and women.

00:41:16.000 Because after all, men don't get pregnant, but women do get pregnant. 0.99

00:41:18.000 Except when sometimes men get pregnant and sometimes women don't get pregnant.

00:41:21.000 But other than that, We need full equality of the sexes, even though men and women are different in many different ways.

00:41:28.000 When we say equality, we don't mean equal rights.

00:41:30.000 When we say equality, we mean that men and women ought to be exactly the same.

00:41:34.000 And pregnancy prevents that because it's a biological reality.

00:41:38.000 When we say that parents ought to have a duty to their kids, that is an imposition.

00:41:41.000 That is a societal role imposition that infringes upon your sense of authenticity.

00:41:45.000 And so we must do away with that.

00:41:47.000 You don't have any parental responsibility. 0.99

00:41:48.000 In fact, if you're not willing to pay for my baby, I get to kill it. 0.95

00:41:51.000 You want to know why the left is so passionate about this issue? 0.99

00:41:54.000 Because it really is.

00:41:55.000 There's been a really ugly and hideous move over the past 30 years in Democratic rhetoric with regard to this issue.

00:42:01.000 It went from safe, legal and rare, because after all, there's there rare situations in which people really, really need an abortion.

00:42:08.000 It went from that to shout your abortion. 1.00

00:42:10.000 It's an act of good.

00:42:11.000 And you know what?

00:42:12.000 Now they're more honest because the left wing worldview does believe There should be no restrictions on your ability to define the world around you, including by redefining away human life within your own womb.

00:42:23.000 It's an amazing, this is why they're so angry.

00:42:26.000 You have Dr. Roxane Gay with a piece today titled, It's Time to Rage.

00:42:29.000 Well, I mean, at least they're just saying it now.

00:42:32.000 And then she talks about a case of pregnancy by incest.

00:42:38.000 And again, the reason that they talk about rape and pregnancy by incest is because they cannot talk about the core of the issue.

00:42:46.000 She talks about the fact, Roxanne Gay, that she was sexually assaulted by several young men when she was 12, and she was worried that she was pregnant.

00:42:53.000 She said, If I had been pregnant, I don't know what I would have done.

00:42:55.000 I was Catholic.

00:42:56.000 But a 12-year-old is not equipped for childbirth or parenthood.

00:42:56.000 Abortion was a sin.

00:42:59.000 The trauma I endured would have only been compounded by a forced pregnancy, and the trajectory of my life, too, would have been further altered.

00:43:05.000 In a stunning draft of a Supreme Court ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the Justice's plan to overturn Roe The fact that it was leaked is telling.

00:43:13.000 Whoever leaked it wanted people to understand the fate awaiting us.

00:43:16.000 And this, this is what I am telling myself.

00:43:18.000 And thank God somebody did so we know, so we can prepare, so we can rage.

00:43:24.000 The left's conflation of all quote-unquote bodily autonomy issues with rape and incest demonstrates that they are not good faith discussion actors in this particular area.

00:43:36.000 Which is the possibility of so many civil rights being rolled back is terrifying.

00:43:40.000 Millions of Americans now wonder which of our rights could be stripped from us, our friends and family, our communities.

00:43:44.000 The sky is falling.

00:43:45.000 A great many of us are desperately trying to hold it up.

00:43:49.000 And then Roxane Gay, who is, in fact, a lesbian, she talks about how she's very afraid that the Supreme Court might overrule Obergefell.

00:43:55.000 Now, I said on the show yesterday, and people got very angry at me, that a Supreme Court worth its salt would overrule Obergefell.

00:44:00.000 Which, by the way, would return the issue to the states, where gay marriage would still be legal in a vast majority of states.

00:44:05.000 Public opinion has been moving in favor of same-sex marriage in pretty much every state across the nation over the course of the last few years.

00:44:11.000 Now, the Supreme Court is not going to overrule Obergefell.

00:44:13.000 In fact, Justice Alito goes out of his way, I believe no less than three times in the opinion, to basically say they're not overruling Obergefell.

00:44:19.000 And again, Neil Gorsuch, who literally wrote transgenderism into the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ain't voting to overrule Obergefell.

00:44:26.000 But the point here is that even when gay marriage was not federally constitutionally protected, which is like all of human history, it turns out that gay people were living together in the United States for decades before that, and had marital privileges via civil unions in a huge number of states, and were able to be same-sex married in a variety of states in this country before Oberg fell.

00:44:49.000 So again, this sort of alarmism is completely unjustified, and this is why they have to conflate it.

00:44:52.000 They have to say, well, this abortion decision, it's really about rape.

00:44:56.000 It's really about incest. 0.98

00:44:57.000 It's really about gay marriage. 0.53

00:44:58.000 It's really about your liberties at large. 0.80

00:45:00.000 No, what it's really about is that you wish to preserve the widespread ability to kill the unborn up to point of birth.

00:45:05.000 That is an extreme, extreme position.

00:45:08.000 And pretending that the other side is extreme on this issue is really not gonna fly.

00:45:11.000 That dog ain't gonna hunt. 1.00

00:45:14.000 It's... By the way, go ahead and riot.

00:45:18.000 I mean, pro-choice rioters were arrested over the course of the last couple of days.

00:45:21.000 Officers were escorting hundreds of protesters from the federal courthouse at Broadway and First to Pershing Square, protecting their right to protest.

00:45:28.000 Many gathered in an intersection blocking traffic.

00:45:31.000 When asked to disperse, some started throwing bottles and rocks at officers.

00:45:34.000 At least one officer was injured at that point.

00:45:37.000 Also, protesters reportedly hit the hoods of police cars.

00:45:40.000 Officers then struck them with batons and an unlawful assembly was declared.

00:45:46.000 Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert, of course, the greatest and wisest of our comedic voices, he was very upset about this also, because after all, the rule is, by the way, you're not allowed to speak about this if you're a man.

00:45:54.000 Unless you're a man who repeats the lies of the left, in which case you're totally allowed to speak about it.

00:45:58.000 So here's Stephen Colbert, who technically is a man.

00:46:01.000 If these folks believe that Roe v. Wade was so egregiously decided, why didn't they tell the senators that during their confirmation hearings?

00:46:09.000 Well, because American voters support abortion in all or most cases at 80%.

00:46:15.000 They knew that if they were honest, they wouldn't get the job, so they lied, which I think is perjury.

00:46:21.000 But what do I know?

00:46:23.000 I'm no Supreme Court justice.

00:46:24.000 I'm not a good enough liar. 0.99

00:46:26.000 You're not a good enough liar. 0.93

00:46:27.000 Okay, first of all, this argument has also been trotted out, is that the Supreme Court justices said that Roe was precedent, or quote-unquote, super precedent.

00:46:34.000 It was stare decisis.

00:46:36.000 Every justice says that what is on the books currently is stare decisis, because it is, until it ain't.

00:46:42.000 And the left loves precedent until they don't.

00:46:44.000 And Obergefell is a perfect case of this.

00:46:45.000 Obergefell is their favorite case.

00:46:47.000 It overruled literally all of common law for all centuries, forever.

00:46:52.000 And that is a pretty wide overhurning of stare decisis.

00:46:55.000 They don't care about that.

00:46:56.000 So yeah, by the way, Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that D.C.

00:47:00.000 versus Heller was stare decisis, and then she immediately voted to overthrow D.C.

00:47:04.000 versus Heller.

00:47:04.000 This is, yes, I'm sure that you're very upset about the so-called dishonesty.

00:47:07.000 The reason that people have had to say that they respect Roe is because the Supreme Court process becomes so politicized.

00:47:13.000 Okay, meanwhile, in other major news, there's what the left thinks people are going to vote on, and then there's what the left, then there's what people are actually going to vote on.

00:47:21.000 So the left thinks people are going to vote on abortion come November.

00:47:26.000 You may get a couple of stray congressional candidates on the right who make ill-timed or ill-prepared remarks on abortion and then end up losing seats.

00:47:26.000 Nope.

00:47:35.000 But this is not going to be a wave election for Democrats because of Roe.

00:47:40.000 It just is not going to happen.

00:47:41.000 I present to you as evidence the fact that essentially abortion has been illegal in the state of Texas for the last eight months and no one cares.

00:47:48.000 Like really, there's been no wave election in Texas.

00:47:50.000 There's been no Democratic upsurge in Texas.

00:47:52.000 Beto O'Rourke is going to lose by one million points in his gubernatorial race.

00:47:55.000 So, no. 0.99

00:47:57.000 What they're really going to vote on is the fact that the economy is garbage. 0.98

00:47:59.000 And the reason the economy is garbage is because the Biden administration is really, really bad at this. 0.98

00:48:06.000 Joe Manchin gets this. 0.96

00:48:07.000 So the senator from West Virginia, he says, listen, you guys keep talking about abortion.

00:48:10.000 Let me just explain to you, my voters care about inflation.

00:48:13.000 Joe Manchin is an opponent of abortion rights.

00:48:15.000 He was asked about it today and he said, that's not the number one issue back home.

00:48:18.000 This is.

00:48:20.000 Inflation is the number one driving factor, I believe, in my state.

00:48:24.000 Right now, it's hurting everybody.

00:48:26.000 Not just at the pump, but at the grocery store, at the drug store, at the pharmaceutical, everything they do.

00:48:34.000 That is correct.

00:48:35.000 That is correct.

00:48:36.000 Meanwhile, there's a reason why Tim Ryan, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Ohio, when he's not preaching abortion all the way up to his birth, which he literally says in Ohio, when he's not saying that, he won't actually answer whether he wants Joe Biden to campaign with him.

00:48:52.000 This is what people are going to vote for in 2022.

00:48:56.000 You welcome everybody, Congressman, but I heard you in an interview today really not answer if you want President Biden on the campaign trail in Ohio, the sitting president of the United States.

00:49:05.000 I didn't hear an answer to that.

00:49:06.000 Do you or do you not?

00:49:09.000 My answer was I want to be the face of this campaign and I don't want any distractions and I want to be the face and the voice of this campaign and I don't want any distractions.

00:49:19.000 I don't need anybody to prop me up like J.D.

00:49:21.000 Van Steen to drag him over the finish line.

00:49:22.000 Even from the sitting president of the United States of your party, right?

00:49:26.000 I'm sorry?

00:49:27.000 Even from the sitting president of the United States of your party, who you voted with 100% of the time.

00:49:34.000 We'll make that decision as the campaign continues.

00:49:38.000 Oh, will you?

00:49:39.000 And what he's really saying is we don't want any part of Joe Biden.

00:49:41.000 We need to stay far, far away from Joe Biden.

00:49:43.000 There's a reason for that.

00:49:45.000 Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve seems to be kind of postponing the pain, which is a very strange move.

00:49:51.000 So yesterday, the Federal Reserve approved a half percentage point increase rate in the 50 basis point increase in the Fed funds rate.

00:50:00.000 This is the largest single rate increase since the year 2000.

00:50:02.000 They also announced plans to shrink their $9 trillion asset portfolio starting next month in a double-barreled effort to reduce inflation running at a four-decade high, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:50:11.000 The moves were announced after a two-day policy meeting on Wednesday that will raise the central bank's benchmark federal funds rate to a target range between 0.75% and 1%, which is still very low historically.

00:50:21.000 Together, the steps marked most aggressive at Fed tightening a monetary policy at one meeting in decades, aimed at rapidly reducing the economic stimulus that has contributed to major rising price pressures.

00:50:31.000 The Fed usually raises interest rates in quarter percentage point increments, last raised rates by a half point in 2000.

00:50:37.000 Now Jerome Powell, they seem to want to split the baby here, which is really, I think, a problem in terms of their economic policy.

00:50:46.000 The fact is when you have inflation running this hot, minor little moves like increasing point five points, that ain't gonna do it.

00:50:53.000 And they are talking about slowly selling off a lot of these assets, slowly selling off this $9 trillion portfolio of assets to try and take money out of the economy.

00:50:53.000 It really is not.

00:51:02.000 That's not going to do it either.

00:51:04.000 They're doing half measures because they're deeply afraid that they're going to tip the economy into recession.

00:51:07.000 Instead, they're just going to keep letting inflation run hot.

00:51:10.000 So they're just doing this too slowly.

00:51:12.000 Jerome Powell, for his part, he's happy talking this thing.

00:51:15.000 So the Federal Reserve Chairman, who presided over the biggest inflationary spike in four decades and is still at the helm, which is kind of insane, Jerome Powell yesterday, he said the economy is still doing fairly well.

00:51:25.000 Don't worry, there's no risk of recession.

00:51:27.000 Mm-hmm.

00:51:28.000 If you have, yeah, really, like a year ago, he was saying that inflation was temporary, so there's that.

00:51:33.000 The economy is doing fairly well.

00:51:37.000 If you look at the labor market, For people who are out of work and looking, there are lots of job opportunities.

00:51:44.000 Wages are moving up at rates that haven't been seen in quite a long time.

00:51:47.000 So it's a good time to be a worker looking to either change jobs or get a wage increase in your current job.

00:51:57.000 So it's a strong economy.

00:51:59.000 It's a strong economy.

00:51:59.000 Everything is doing fine.

00:52:00.000 So we're only going to raise the interest rates like a little bit and then we are going to take it real slow because you don't want to tip the economy into recession.

00:52:06.000 Things are going great.

00:52:08.000 And then, Powell admits inflation is much too high, but raising the rate 50 basis points ain't going to lower inflation to the extent necessary.

00:52:16.000 And when inflation was running really high during the Carter administration, Paul Volcker had to bring the interest rates in the United States up to like 20%.

00:52:23.000 Right now, we are talking about whether we raise it to 0.75 or 1.

00:52:28.000 That ain't going to do it.

00:52:29.000 It's not going to tamp down the inflation.

00:52:30.000 It's just going to continue inflationary monetary policy.

00:52:33.000 I mean, right now, The simple fact is, it is still unbelievably cheap to access credit.

00:52:39.000 And even if the Fed overnight rate is .75 or 1, given the inflation rate, that's still a negative interest rate.

00:52:46.000 Because, after all, if you don't take out the money, the inflation rate is just eating away at your savings.

00:52:51.000 So you should be borrowing to spend, right?

00:52:53.000 Again, none of this is going to cool down the overheated economy.

00:52:56.000 Here is Jerome Powell acknowledging inflation is much too high.

00:53:01.000 Inflation is much too high, and we understand the hardship it is causing.

00:53:06.000 And we're moving expeditiously to bring it back down.

00:53:09.000 Against this backdrop, today the FOMC raised its policy interest rate by a half percentage point, and anticipates that ongoing increases in the target rate for the federal funds rate will be appropriate.

00:53:20.000 Okay, so again, they keep saying they're going to do this slowly, and I don't know that slowly is going to get the job done, which is why inflation is going to continue to run hot all the way through the election.

00:53:27.000 Meanwhile, Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, she actually says that the Biden inflationary crisis is evidence of huge success.

00:53:34.000 This is the Wall Street Journal CEO counsel saying this is actually evidence of how great our economy is that we have this really high inflation.

00:53:41.000 When you look at the labor market now, and you see the state that it's in, this is really a measure of huge success.

00:53:52.000 Households are in good financial shape.

00:53:56.000 We avoided a lot of scarring.

00:53:59.000 The labor market is very strong.

00:54:02.000 These are successes from the policy.

00:54:05.000 The policies that were put in place, problems that we might well have had and don't have because of the policies that were undertaken.

00:54:15.000 Everything is great.

00:54:15.000 We don't have any labor market problems because we've injected so much money into the economy.

00:54:19.000 Actually, the inflation is good evidence that everything is going absolutely well.

00:54:23.000 And by the way, don't worry, no other currency is going to supplant us.

00:54:26.000 Now, she may be right that no other currency is going to supplant us, but that ain't because we're doing a great job with the currency.

00:54:32.000 We want to know why people have fled generally more and more into places like Bitcoin. 0.74

00:54:36.000 The reason is because people are looking for some sort of hedge against your garbage monetary policy. 0.99

00:54:40.000 The best guarantor of the American dollar right now is the fact that all other countries are taking their idiotic economic lead from us. 0.94

00:54:47.000 If there are countries smart enough to actually not devalue its own currency and spend government money out the wazoo, if there's actually a country smart enough to lower its own income tax rates and corporate tax rates and governmental regulations down to close to nil, they would eat everybody's lunch right now.

00:55:03.000 So she's counting on the kindness of strangers. 1.00

00:55:05.000 And maybe the rest of the world will continue to be incredibly stupid. 1.00

00:55:08.000 But I wouldn't bet on that in the long term. 1.00

00:55:10.000 Here's Janet Yellen betting on it in the long term. 0.97

00:55:13.000 There are very good fundamental reasons based on The strength of the U.S.

00:55:18.000 economy, the stability of economic management, the liquidity of our markets, the safety of the dollar, our rule of law and institutions that make the dollar an important reserve currency.

00:55:39.000 I don't see any other currency at this point that could begin to rival that.

00:55:44.000 I mean, she is correct, again, and that is because countries like China have pursued really bad economic policy.

00:55:50.000 However, that doesn't mean that if you continue to pursue bad economic policy, there won't come a point where, in fact, the reserve currency shifts.

00:55:57.000 It used to be the British pound was sort of the guarantor of everything.

00:55:59.000 Then that stopped. 0.98

00:56:00.000 So this notion that because things have been a certain way, they will forever be that way is a pretty dumb idea. 0.96

00:56:06.000 It's particularly dumb because, again, Janet Yellen is basically counting right here on the rest of the world wrecking its own economy so that we can continue to wreck ours. 1.00

00:56:13.000 So she says that what we really have to stop is countries improving their business climate. 0.94

00:56:17.000 That's a race to the bottom.

00:56:19.000 Here we go.

00:56:20.000 What we've seen over decades is a race to the bottom in terms of corporate tax rates.

00:56:27.000 One country lowering tax rates to attract businesses and others responding.

00:56:36.000 And I think putting an end to that unhealthy competition so that All countries have some ability to raise revenues, but raise the revenue that we need to invest in our economy, in infrastructure, in investment, in people, to make our economy productive.

00:56:59.000 This is a very healthy shift.

00:57:02.000 So what she's talking about right here is the fact that the Biden administration has attempted to cudgel every other country into imposing a bottom-line 15% corporate tax rate, because we want to raise our own taxes.

00:57:10.000 So what we have to do is now essentially collude with other countries in preventing there from being a friendly business climate.

00:57:16.000 If there were one country, honestly, one major country on earth that radically lowered its corporate tax rate, and that instead of trying to suck money out of the system, actually said to companies, come here and locate here, they would.

00:57:28.000 Why do you think so many companies right now are locating in Singapore?

00:57:30.000 This would be one of the reasons.

00:57:32.000 This is what crumbling empires look like.

00:57:35.000 Crumbling empires think that everybody else is going to operate according to their economic status quo.

00:57:38.000 And that is not the way this is going to work.

00:57:40.000 Sooner or later, somebody is going to get competitive. 1.00

00:57:42.000 And when they get competitive, they're going to stop being stupid. 1.00

00:57:44.000 When they stop being stupid, they're going to make the regulations less burdensome. 1.00

00:57:48.000 They're going to make the tax regime less burdensome. 1.00

00:57:50.000 And then they're going to eat our lunch.

00:57:51.000 It is the job of the United States government to get the hell out of the way of the business.

00:57:55.000 And when she says, we need the ability to raise revenues that we can invest in infrastructure and in our things.

00:58:02.000 It's that sort of investment that has created inflation.

00:58:04.000 It's created a stagnating economy.

00:58:08.000 And again, eventually somebody is going to get wise to this.

00:58:11.000 So she is counting on the idea that no one will ever get wise to this and that we will just continue to blow out the spending because everybody else will do.

00:58:17.000 That is a hell of a gamble.

00:58:19.000 So, prediction.

00:58:21.000 By the time that the election comes around, inflation is still going to be a problem.

00:58:25.000 In the next two and a half years, there will be a recession in this country.

00:58:29.000 At some point in the next 10 years, there will be a country worth its salt that realizes that there is a world of business activity available to it if they just don't go along with the collusive stupidity of the Euro-American compromise policy that suggests high corporate tax rates are a way to improve your economy.

00:58:47.000 And when that happens, the dollar will be in trouble. 1.00

00:58:50.000 You're playing with fire when you just assume everyone else is going to be an idiot forever. 0.99

00:58:53.000 And that seems to be the current policy of this administration and many of our quote-unquote economic experts. 0.99

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