The Ben Shapiro Show - Dems Bet Big On Abortion | Ep. 1490

00:00:00.000 Hoping to inflate their 2022 hopes, Democrats bet big on talking about abortion, but the polls suggest it isn't a smart strategy.

00:00:07.000 Meanwhile, leftists try to intimidate Supreme Court justices by standing outside their homes.

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00:01:37.000 Well, the controversy over the rejection of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court that is expected to come down sometime in the next couple of weeks, that continues.

00:01:45.000 Democrats are now trying to take advantage of the Supreme Court's presumed decision in order to make political hay.

00:01:52.000 They believe that if they just shout abortion from the rooftops, millions of Americans are going to show up in a swing election year, and they are going to show up for Democrats.

00:02:00.000 And the data just do not suggest that this is true.

00:02:03.000 I think the Democrats are so deep in their bubble that they really think that if they just shout about abortion, that a bunch of people are going to show up and vote Democrat.

00:02:11.000 And these statistics, again, the evidence is just not there.

00:02:14.000 So according to NBC News, this is the Democrats' strategy.

00:02:16.000 They can't run on inflation.

00:02:17.000 They can't really run on Ukraine, because frankly, that's not an issue that galvanizes voters.

00:02:21.000 They can't run on crime.

00:02:22.000 They can't run on the future of the country.

00:02:24.000 And so they're going to try to run on the idea that if Republicans win the Senate, And if they win the Congress, that they are going to immediately outlaw abortion across the country federally, and that Americans are going to be so upset about this possibility that they are then going to rush to the polls and reject Republicans en masse.

00:02:40.000 Here is Chuck Todd trying to sum this strategy up.

00:02:43.000 Here's younger voters in a presidential year.

00:02:45.000 They become almost 1 in 5 voters.

00:02:49.000 But in midterm years, you can see here, young voters down to the 12-13%.

00:02:53.000 Even in that good Democratic year of 18, younger voters didn't quite get out.

00:02:58.000 Meanwhile, those 65-plus voters are far more likely to go to the polls, no matter the election.

00:03:04.000 The question now is for the Supreme Court opinion that overturns a nearly 50-year precedent.

00:03:09.000 Will Roe be enough to alter that picture and motivate a younger electorate?

00:03:15.000 The answer is no, it will not be enough to do any of those things.

00:03:18.000 Because again, those stats are extraordinarily consistent.

00:03:20.000 Young people don't show up for midterms. 0.97

00:03:22.000 They do show up for presidential elections.

00:03:23.000 That is not going to change because young people are so desperate for abortion, particularly because the number of abortions is down in the United States pretty dramatically.

00:03:29.000 Contraceptives are widely available.

00:03:32.000 It is pretty incredible that the entire left is betting on the necessity of abortion in an era where contraceptives, ranging from condoms to the pill, are extraordinarily cheap and available and plentiful.

00:03:41.000 You're not talking about an era where none of this stuff is available.

00:03:44.000 All of this stuff is available literally everywhere.

00:03:46.000 Plus, younger people are having less sex.

00:03:49.000 Younger people are less involved in relationships. 0.99

00:03:52.000 Younger people, frankly, are largely addicted to pornography.

00:03:55.000 And so, the idea that this is, like, the galvanizing issue for a bunch of 20-year-olds Only for the very corporate group of people who are on Twitter, which is not representative.

00:04:02.000 The Democrats are doubling down on this.

00:04:04.000 They're tripling down on this, quadrupling down on this.

00:04:06.000 According to Politico, the Senate is now teeing up an abortion vote.

00:04:08.000 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is expected to file cloture today on a bill by Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut that would enshrine a statutory right to abortion nationwide.

00:04:17.000 The move will set up the upper chamber for a Wednesday vote, though the roll call will almost certainly fail to garner the 60 votes necessary to clear the filibuster.

00:04:24.000 That's what happened with similar proposal earlier this year. 0.99

00:04:27.000 Democrats are being really stupid about this. 0.98

00:04:29.000 According to Politico, there's a debate inside the party over whether the party is better off trying to go it alone on the legislation or to take a more bipartisan approach by calling up an alternative to the Blumenthal bill that's narrower in scope and backed by two Republican senators, Collins and Murkowski. 0.99

00:04:43.000 But Schumer is choosing the former approach.

00:04:44.000 He's trying to, again, get the base really, really revved up for the midterms by trying to pass a federal vote that would, on the federal level, legalize mandatory abortion law that would trump all state law up to point of birth.

00:04:57.000 This is not a position held by even close to a majority of Americans.

00:05:00.000 Some of the polling data that people are constantly citing about how Americans don't want Roe versus Wade overturned, and therefore they're going to support some bill at the federal level that enshrines Roe's trimester scheme, The data don't support that.

00:05:13.000 Again, they are just reading the top line of the polls.

00:05:15.000 They're not reading underneath the bottom line of the polls.

00:05:18.000 And one of the reasons that they're seizing on the top line of the polls is specifically because the bottom line of the polls don't represent what Democrats say they do.

00:05:25.000 So for example, Democrats keep saying over and over and over again that the public does not want Roe versus Wade overturn.

00:05:31.000 So Jen Psaki, for example, from the White House over the weekend, she had this to say.

00:05:36.000 You told reporters it's not a political issue because it's supported by a majority of the American public.

00:05:41.000 That's true.

00:05:42.000 You later amended that to say it's not a partisan issue.

00:05:44.000 Right, exactly.

00:05:45.000 But a portion of the public is passionately opposed to abortion, and it's a key political battle in every Supreme Court nomination fight.

00:05:52.000 So, how can you say it's not a partisan or political issue?

00:05:55.000 Well, according to a Fox News poll, nearly two-thirds of the public does not want Roe v. Wade to be overturned.

00:06:00.000 What about the others?

00:06:02.000 Well, two-thirds of the public means that is the vast majority of the public.

00:06:07.000 Okay, but here is the problem with this particular poll stat.

00:06:10.000 What the polls actually suggest, according to an abstract from SpringerLink, this is from Kristen Jaskowski, Brandon Crawford, Ronna Turner, and Wen Xiaolo at Sexuality Research and Social Policy as of 2020.

00:06:22.000 66% of the public thinks that if Roe is overturned, abortion immediately becomes illegal everywhere in the United States.

00:06:27.000 So when you hear The Democrats say that the vast majority of the public doesn't want Roe overturned.

00:06:31.000 What they mean is the vast majority of the public does not want abortion to be made illegal all the way across the country back to point of birth.

00:06:38.000 But again, when you look to the underlying stats with regard to abortion, what you find is that over and over again, the public sees that they don't want a lot of abortion restrictions in, say, the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.

00:06:50.000 But once you get past the first trimester of pregnancy, they want heavy abortion restrictions, most of which are illegal under Roe v. Wade.

00:06:57.000 So the public literally doesn't know what it's talking about.

00:06:59.000 And then the Democrats cite the public not knowing what it's talking about as a presumptive argument on behalf of their extreme abortion position.

00:07:07.000 So what the public actually feels, I'm talking about broad national public, which again, even to talk that way is really stupid because once abortion is a state level decision, the politics in Mississippi do not look like the politics in Illinois. 0.98

00:07:19.000 And so trying to aggregate those numbers and then say, well, there's a broad national consensus about this issue is really, really dumb. 0.94

00:07:25.000 People feel very strongly one way in Mississippi. 0.95

00:07:27.000 They feel very strongly the other way in Illinois.

00:07:29.000 That does not mean you can aggregate the public and then say there's a broad national majority.

00:07:32.000 That's really, that's not the way any of that stuff happens to work.

00:07:35.000 And when you do that, what you end up doing is nationalizing policy that has a broad disagreement at the local level.

00:07:40.000 But beyond that, the simple fact is that where there is broad agreement in the United States is that most people don't want abortion banned outright all the way back to point of birth.

00:07:50.000 And no one, I mean, literally almost no one, wants abortion to be legal for any reason up to point of birth.

00:07:56.000 That is the Democratic Party position being pushed by Chuck Schumer, and he thinks that's a winner for them.

00:08:00.000 He thinks that's a winner.

00:08:01.000 I mean, really, that's wild.

00:08:05.000 That is a wild thing for Democrats to believe.

00:08:07.000 Because again, the data don't back it.

00:08:09.000 But they're going to push on the... When I say that the data don't back this, I mean every piece of data we have does not back the idea that this abortion move by the Supreme Court is going to be the big decider in the election.

00:08:19.000 I'm looking right now at the RealClearPolitics polling average in the congressional generic ballot.

00:08:24.000 And you know what it shows?

00:08:25.000 No movement whatsoever since this news broke.

00:08:29.000 So people are sending this Economist YouGov poll that shows Democrats up six points.

00:08:33.000 Okay, but the Economist YouGov poll has been consistently pro-democratic all the way through this election cycle.

00:08:38.000 Just a month ago, it had the Democrats up five, so nothing has changed.

00:08:41.000 However, the CNN poll has Republicans up slightly in the generic congressional ballot, which again is consistent with the other CNN polls during this cycle.

00:08:53.000 The latest CNN poll actually has Republicans up 49-42.

00:08:56.000 That shows them up actually slightly more than it did just earlier this week when it had Republicans up one.

00:09:03.000 The current generic congressional ballot Republican poll, or Fox News poll rather, from the end of April, beginning of May, that poll shows Republicans up seven.

00:09:12.000 In other words, the polling data do not support the idea that there's a vast shift in the minds of the American public about how they're going to vote in the upcoming election.

00:09:19.000 And yet Democrats keep saying this sort of stuff because they truly believe that people think like they do.

00:09:24.000 But Reuters has a piece this morning pointing out That suburban Phoenix is cautionary tale for Democrats hoping to galvanize voters on abortion.

00:09:32.000 And what they find is they talk to a dozen women in this suburban Phoenix area, thinking that the war on women rhetoric was going to work. 0.64

00:09:39.000 And what they found is that these women didn't care. 1.00

00:09:43.000 So, for example, quote, Laura Wilson is a mother of three who lives in the sprawling suburbs of North Phoenix, a hotly contested electoral area of Arizona, that could decide which party controls the U.S.

00:09:52.000 Senate after November's congressional elections.

00:09:54.000 Wilson, 61, is pro-choice, voted for Joe Biden, knew all about the news last week, the U.S.

00:09:58.000 Supreme Court is likely poised to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

00:10:01.000 Yet Wilson said she's undecided about who she will vote for this November, and abortion rights are not a priority for her, quote, it's the economy and jobs. 0.72

00:10:07.000 She said she was disappointed in Biden because of high inflation and too many homeless people on the streets.

00:10:12.000 Wilson was one of 21 women interviewed by Reuters in the northern suburbs of Phoenix after news of the Supreme Court draft ruling broke.

00:10:19.000 Most of the women said inflation, not abortion, was the galvanizing issue for them.

00:10:23.000 Significantly, the interviewees were from a key swing demographic group, suburban mothers, who are hotly sought after by both Democrats and Republicans in elections.

00:10:31.000 The interviews, while not a large sample, provide a sobering reminder for Democrats that inflation is still the most pressing issue for Americans while grappling with soaring food and fuel costs that have given Biden low marks in opinion polls for his economic policies.

00:10:43.000 Yet Democrats want to talk abortion because they think that it's going to distract from the inflation conversation.

00:10:46.000 It is not.

00:10:47.000 It is not going to work.

00:10:49.000 So they're still trotting out Kamala Harris, thinking that when she yells about abortion and killing the unborn, that somehow this is going to drive voters to the polls. 0.89

00:10:57.000 First of all, she's really bad at this.

00:10:57.000 It's not.

00:10:58.000 And second of all, this is not, I promise you, Democrats, if you run on this, you're not going to win.

00:11:02.000 It's just not going to work for you.

00:11:05.000 We are once again forced to defend fundamental principles that we hoped were long settled.

00:11:14.000 Principles like the freedom to vote, The rights of women to make decisions about their own bodies.

00:11:24.000 Even what constitutes the truth, especially in an era when anyone can post anything online and claim it is a fact.

00:11:36.000 These folks are Orwellian in their abuse of the English language.

00:11:40.000 In an era where people challenge the truth, she literally cannot define the word woman.

00:11:43.000 And yet she is talking on a stage about not being able to define the truth.

00:11:47.000 And then she's talking about abortion as a fundamental American right, which is an amazing, amazing statement.

00:11:52.000 If your notion of fundamental rights involves killing of your own pre-born child, I have to say your notion of fundamental rights is perverse.

00:12:00.000 This is not a winner for Democrats.

00:12:01.000 And they can keep doing this.

00:12:02.000 I mean, honestly, keep doing it, really.

00:12:04.000 Keep trotting out Ayanna Pressley to explain that it's the far-right extremism of the Supreme Court obstructing the will of the people. 0.96

00:12:09.000 This is one of my favorite Democratic arguments, is that when the Supreme Court says, we're going to now allow this to go back to the states for voting, this is somehow anti-Democratic.

00:12:09.000 I love this.

00:12:16.000 This is one of my favorites.

00:12:18.000 It is clear that this Supreme Court continues to obstruct the will of the people because a majority of Americans support Roe v. Wade, do not want it overturned.

00:12:29.000 And the far-right extremism of this Supreme Court has obstructed the will of the people when it comes to voting rights, when it comes to housing rights, and now when it comes to reproductive freedom, justice, and bodily autonomy.

00:12:42.000 So if you're not outraged, you are not paying attention.

00:12:46.000 So Democrats keep saying over and over and over the vast majority of Americans want to uphold Roe.

00:12:50.000 Well, that is mainly because Americans don't even know what Roe says.

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00:13:55.000 Okay, so again, this also relies, so much of this relies on people being ignorant about actual abortion policies.

00:14:04.000 So the whole Roe vs. Wade conversation has been skewed because the media have led people to believe the absolute falsehood that if Roe is overruled, that magically abortion is suddenly banned across the country.

00:14:13.000 I mean, honestly, I wish, but it's not going to happen.

00:14:17.000 They also, people on the left do not understand that America is an extreme outlier in terms of its wildly left abortion policy.

00:14:23.000 Bill Maher on his show over the weekend, he was like, yeah, then I looked up what European abortion policy is and I realized that America is way more permissive on abortion than any other European country.

00:14:32.000 And that is correct, according to the Wall Street Journal.

00:14:34.000 Europe is where abortion is legal in most countries, but usually with limits that are more strict than America's and generally as a result of democratic choice.

00:14:40.000 The most notable feature of abortion in Europe is that each country has tailored its laws to local mores after political debate.

00:14:46.000 Britain and the Netherlands are among the most permissive, allowing abortion under most circumstances up to 24 weeks of pregnancy at taxpayer expense in Britain's National Health Service.

00:14:53.000 Poland and a handful of small majority Catholic countries are at the other end of the spectrum.

00:14:57.000 Banning abortion under most circumstances, although women can avail of free movement within the EU to travel to another country.

00:15:03.000 Abortion in Sweden is available on demand up to 18 weeks.

00:15:05.000 After that, only with medical permission if the fetus isn't viable.

00:15:08.000 In Italy, it's only the first 90 days.

00:15:10.000 Many countries like Denmark, Germany, and Belgium allow abortion on demand to the 12th week.

00:15:14.000 France recently extended to 14.

00:15:15.000 In Portugal, it's 10.

00:15:18.000 People in the United States tend to think of Europeans as very progressive.

00:15:21.000 We are far more left-wing on abortion than anybody else.

00:15:23.000 And guess what?

00:15:24.000 Guess what?

00:15:25.000 This is not the most divisive issue in Europe.

00:15:27.000 All these countries get to tailor their policies.

00:15:30.000 So, Democrats keep pushing hard and fast on this issue, and it is a mistake.

00:15:34.000 And the more extreme they look, the more of a mistake it is.

00:15:37.000 So, you've seen the Democratic Party refuse to now condemn the leak of a majority opinion that has not yet been released by the Supreme Court.

00:15:44.000 You can't find a single major Democrat on the national level to condemn this thing.

00:15:47.000 The only person I've even heard who's remotely condemned this thing is Senator Mark Warner from Virginia, who said they didn't like the leak.

00:15:53.000 He's the only one.

00:15:54.000 Literally the only one.

00:15:56.000 Joe Biden wouldn't do it.

00:15:57.000 Jen Psaki wouldn't do it. 0.99

00:15:58.000 Chuck Schumer wouldn't do it.

00:15:59.000 Nancy Pelosi wouldn't do it. 0.94

00:16:00.000 Apparently all of them now think that leaks of majority opinions from the Supreme Court are totally fine.

00:16:05.000 Not only that, you couldn't get the White House to openly condemn people showing up at justices' houses to protest them, which is inherently threatening.

00:16:13.000 If you show up outside my home, that is a threat.

00:16:16.000 That's just the way this works.

00:16:17.000 If you show up outside my place of business, it's a place of business, I understand.

00:16:20.000 Places of businesses are not your home.

00:16:22.000 Where I live with my kids, you show up outside my home, quote-unquote protesting me with a mob, that is a threat.

00:16:28.000 That is an inherent threat.

00:16:30.000 And anybody who says differently is lying to you.

00:16:33.000 If people do this on the right, it's wrong.

00:16:35.000 If people do it on the left, it's wrong.

00:16:36.000 But it is people on the left who are doing it right now.

00:16:39.000 So Nancy Pelosi over the weekend, she continued to call for pressure on the justices. 1.00

00:16:43.000 First of all, no one should be calling for outside pressure on justices because that's not how the judicial system is supposed to work.

00:16:49.000 As I've mentioned 1,000 times, if in the criminal justice system, you had a bunch of protesters outside a courthouse saying, we need to hang this person.

00:16:57.000 And then the judge was like, well, I wasn't going to before, but now I am.

00:17:00.000 That would be the essence of a bad justice, a bad judge.

00:17:03.000 But this is what Democrats want.

00:17:04.000 So here's Nancy Pelosi saying that we need to pressure the justices.

00:17:09.000 The Chief Justice has said this is authentic, but it is not final.

00:17:14.000 I don't want to use the word authentic.

00:17:15.000 This is real, but not final.

00:17:17.000 So, again, Lincoln said public sentiment is everything.

00:17:21.000 With it, you can accomplish almost anything.

00:17:23.000 Without it, nothing.

00:17:24.000 And women just have to weigh in. 1.00

00:17:27.000 I don't think there's a good outcome here, but I think there's a better outcome than what we have seen in the first draft, which is radical.

00:17:37.000 So she thinks that if you just go outside these people's houses and you yell at them, that they're going to change the nature of the majority opinion.

00:17:44.000 Again, if that were the case, this would not be a judiciary worth listening to.

00:17:47.000 If the judiciary simply switched its opinion based on people yelling at them from outside the building, That is not a judiciary anybody should treat with any level of respect, because that is not how justice is supposed to work.

00:17:57.000 But this has to be tied into, it's amazing, the Democrats will talk about dangerous rhetoric, Trump's dangerous rhetoric, such dangerous rhetoric.

00:18:02.000 They can't get a single major Democrat to condemn people going to the homes of Supreme Court justices and inherently threatening them, because we have footage of that.

00:18:09.000 Over the weekend, outside multiple justices' homes, Justice Kavanaugh, they showed up outside Justice Roberts' home, which again, I don't even know why you're showing up outside Roberts' home.

00:18:16.000 He's not part of the majority.

00:18:17.000 They showed up outside Alito's home.

00:18:20.000 I mean, this is vile stuff.

00:18:22.000 It really is.

00:18:24.000 Here's some of the footage.

00:18:26.000 Codify Roe! 0.91

00:18:45.000 People die. Pro-life is a lie.

00:18:53.000 We don't care if people die.

00:18:54.000 These people have kids in their homes.

00:18:56.000 We will not go back!

00:18:58.000 We will not go back!

00:19:00.000 We will not go back.

00:19:02.000 Again, I have an idea for you.

00:19:03.000 If you do not wish to have an abortion, in 99.9% of cases, Don't. 0.65

00:19:09.000 Get.

00:19:10.000 Pregnant. 0.88

00:19:11.000 And when I say 99.9% of cases, I'm excluding rape and incest here.

00:19:14.000 There are arguments you can make about rape and incest.

00:19:16.000 The vast majority of pregnancies have to do with consensual sex that results in a pregnancy that you don't necessarily want.

00:19:24.000 In other words, there's a chain of decision making that leads to the pregnancy in which you are involved.

00:19:29.000 But put all that aside, these people who are showing up outside of Supreme Court justices' homes and shouting at them, and the Democrats who are incentivizing this sort of stuff, as I said before, I think it's an act of immorality that Justice Roberts won't just release the decision at this point.

00:19:42.000 Justice Alito is now in an undisclosed location.

00:19:44.000 I'm not kidding you.

00:19:45.000 If Supreme Court justices who are now living in hiding because of this, while the President of the United States says nothing, that's incredible, and it's vile, and that is not an electoral winner.

00:19:56.000 By the way, if you're talking about violence breaking out, again, you've heard about all this right-wing violence, so much right-wing violence.

00:20:03.000 I haven't heard a lot of national coverage of the fact that there was a Wisconsin pro-life groups headquarters vandalized in Madison, Wisconsin, including spray-printed graffiti that read, quote, if abortions aren't safe, then you aren't either.

00:20:18.000 That's the Wisconsin Family Action Center.

00:20:21.000 Their mission is to advance Judeo-Christian principles and values in Wisconsin by strengthening, preserving, promoting marriage, family, life, and liberty.

00:20:27.000 Apparently, they firebombed the place.

00:20:30.000 The suggestion is that a Molotov cocktail was thrown inside the office and failed to ignite.

00:20:35.000 A separate fire was started by some other method as well inside this Wisconsin pro-life office.

00:20:40.000 And of course, you have some Antifa symbolism there as well.

00:20:43.000 Some wonderful things happening around the country.

00:20:50.000 I'm amazed at the Democratic Party.

00:20:52.000 I'm not amazed that there are people who are evil enough that they wish to go vandalize pro-life headquarters for the great sin of standing up for the unborn.

00:20:59.000 That's not surprising to me.

00:21:00.000 There's a country of 335 million people.

00:21:02.000 That's a lot of people.

00:21:03.000 You're going to be able to find crazy people and evil people anywhere in that population.

00:21:07.000 I am amazed that a major political party in the United States refuses to condemn leaks of Supreme Court decisions and people protesting outside justices' houses, forcing them into hiding.

00:21:14.000 That's an amazing thing.

00:21:15.000 All righty, coming up.

00:21:16.000 The media, they keep talking about polarization, so much polarization.

00:21:19.000 Also, they're basically begging people to go outside justices' houses and shout at them and threaten them.

00:21:24.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

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00:22:33.000 And the media, of course, are cheering this sort of stuff on.

00:22:35.000 There's a full article in the Washington Post today by Ellie Silverman.

00:22:38.000 It is called, Outside Kavanaugh's Home, a Neighbor Rallies for Abortion Rights.

00:22:42.000 Well, isn't that nice?

00:22:43.000 Isn't that nice?

00:22:44.000 So, how would you feel if your neighbors showed up with a massive group of people to yell at you outside your house?

00:22:48.000 That seemed not threatening at all.

00:22:50.000 Lacey Woodinhole walked through Chevy Chase on Wednesday night, pausing to stick flyers on her fence, a tree, and utility boxes. 0.88

00:22:56.000 She was advertising an abortion rights protest here in her neighborhood, in front of the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

00:23:01.000 That I don't agree with, the man interjected.

00:23:07.000 I think you vote, you expand the court, you don't go to a guy's house. 0.96

00:23:10.000 She'd heard the arguments before and responded, quote, I organized peaceful candlelight vigils in front of his house.

00:23:14.000 We're about to get doomsday.

00:23:16.000 So I'm not going to be civil to that man at all.

00:23:18.000 What a lovely person.

00:23:20.000 It's just unusual.

00:23:21.000 It's not bad at all.

00:23:22.000 It's kind of unusual.

00:23:22.000 teaching assistant and aftercare staffer, mother of two and the youngest of five sisters, has taken the unusual step of protesting a neighbor. It's just unusual. It's not bad at all. It's kind of unusual, you know, like a weird thing that you do. Usually she's the only neighbor there. I remind her that with every march and chant, she's breaking an unspoken contract of civility. Neighbors tell her this kind of protest is disrespectful in a place they believe should be private, family-friendly, escape from bitter Washington politics.

00:23:45.000 Other people cheer, saying they wouldn't personally join but are encouraged to see someone speaking out.

00:23:50.000 Activists and D.C.

00:23:51.000 residents have shouted at political leaders in restaurants, even danced outside of lawmakers' homes in early morning wake-up calls, but they often have a sense of anonymity and togetherness.

00:23:58.000 Wooden Holloway has neither.

00:23:59.000 She's met Kavanaugh and once coached middle school basketball in the same gym but for different teams.

00:24:03.000 She's seen his wife, a town manager, at the grocery store.

00:24:06.000 Even if she and the Kavanaugh's don't know each other personally, she thinks it's important for him to hear that people in his own neighborhood vehemently disagree with him.

00:24:12.000 She's furious at the thought of a world without Roe.

00:24:18.000 This is not how you motivate voters, and it is also not how you are a good person. 0.91

00:24:21.000 This makes you a rather unpleasant human being.

00:24:25.000 And again, the Democratic Party, they just keep forwarding this sort of stuff.

00:24:28.000 And they keep ratcheting up the rhetoric.

00:24:30.000 They keep ratcheting it up in the hopes that the American people will be scared.

00:24:33.000 I'm sorry, all of us have already died enough times in the past five years from various causes.

00:24:39.000 Your threats of doomsday and death no longer have impact.

00:24:42.000 We were all dead of net neutrality years ago.

00:24:44.000 We all died because Trump was elected.

00:24:45.000 And then we all died because of global warming, like multiple times.

00:24:48.000 So your threats that we're all going to die because Roe versus Wade will be overturned, and because unfortunately women will still be allowed to have abortions up to a point of birth in states like New York and Illinois and California, your threats are falling on deaf ears.

00:25:03.000 Nancy Pelosi, one of the people really ratcheting this stuff up, she says this is a slap in the face to women. 1.00

00:25:09.000 Disrespectful.

00:25:10.000 Not to allow women to have abortions. 0.97

00:25:11.000 Disrespectful. 1.00

00:25:12.000 I notice that it's more disrespectful when you chop up a human in the womb and then suck it into a sink. 0.99

00:25:17.000 I feel like it's a sign of disrespect. 0.87

00:25:19.000 How about you?

00:25:19.000 If it happened to me, I'd feel pretty disrespected.

00:25:21.000 There's Nancy Pelosi talking about lack of respect. 0.93

00:25:24.000 This is about something so serious and so personal and so disrespectful of women.

00:25:32.000 Here we are on Mother's Day, a week where the court has slapped women in the face in terms of disrespect for their judgments about the size and timing of their families.

00:25:45.000 I don't want to hear people like her talk about Mother's Day ever again.

00:25:46.000 It's absurd.

00:25:47.000 I'm sorry.

00:25:48.000 It's an absurdity piled on top of an absurdity to hear people talk about the murder of the unborn on Mother's Day.

00:25:54.000 You're invoking Mother's Day to literally talk about why a mother should be able to kill her child in the womb. 0.99

00:25:59.000 That does not wash. 0.99

00:26:01.000 According to the Democratic Party, I tweeted this out yesterday because I've been tweeting it out consistently for years because this is the position of the Democratic Party now.

00:26:07.000 Mother's Day is person of unspecified caretaker of unspecified gender whose bills are paid for by the government and also could have killed the child in the womb for what would have been completely understandable purposes.

00:26:20.000 That's Mother's Day. 0.99

00:26:22.000 All a mother is is a person who is dumb enough to have the baby. 1.00

00:26:26.000 This is apparently the Democratic Party position. 0.99

00:26:30.000 There's nothing moral that attaches to motherhood when you conceive. 0.99

00:26:35.000 Pregnancy is a forced imposition by biology and evil Republicans. 1.00

00:26:39.000 You're not supposed to take care of your kids.

00:26:40.000 Everybody else is supposed to take care of your kids. 0.98

00:26:42.000 This party celebrating Mother's Day, they can't even tell you what a woman is. 1.00

00:26:46.000 And then they're telling you that on Mother's Day, how dare you oppose abortion on Mother's Day?

00:26:52.000 How dare you oppose abortion on Mother's Day? 0.98

00:26:54.000 Is how dare you oppose infanticide on Father's Day?

00:26:57.000 What in the world?

00:26:59.000 What?

00:27:00.000 The entire purpose of Mother's Day is to celebrate people who give birth and who have children that grow inside them the greatest miracle that exists on planet Earth.

00:27:10.000 The entire Democratic Party has now centralized apparently around the philosophical position that you should possibly see your own child as a bodily invader akin to some sort of cancerous polyp.

00:27:20.000 As a moral opponent that you can decide completely subjectively is either the greatest gift ever given to you or a cancerous polyp you should carve up and flush down the toilet.

00:27:30.000 That is the moral position of people who are now citing Mother's Day.

00:27:35.000 Amazing stuff.

00:27:36.000 See, some of us don't have trouble celebrating Mother's Day.

00:27:38.000 Like, I celebrated Mother's Day with my wife yesterday, with our three kids, all of whom knew that mommy loved them, because guess what?

00:27:46.000 They are our children, and they are her children, and they're the greatest gift in the world.

00:27:52.000 We celebrated with my mother, and my mother-in-law, and we celebrate...

00:27:56.000 I thought that Mother's Day was supposed to celebrate the magical gift that is motherhood.

00:28:01.000 And yet the Democratic Party is like, on Mother's Day, stand up for abortion. 0.55

00:28:05.000 This is the most counterintuitive pitch for Mother's Day I have ever heard.

00:28:09.000 It's like on St.

00:28:09.000 It's bizarre.

00:28:11.000 Patrick's Day, stand up for the Irish potato famine.

00:28:16.000 Alright.

00:28:17.000 Fine.

00:28:18.000 Is this the argument you want to make?

00:28:20.000 By the way, this is the position of the Democratic Party.

00:28:23.000 Hakeem Jeffries, the... I keep citing Orwell, but it really is Orwellian language.

00:28:28.000 Hakeem Jeffries, the entire Democratic Party is now using the language, government-mandated pregnancy.

00:28:33.000 No, it's government-mandated not killing the unborn.

00:28:36.000 You know what mandated the pregnancy?

00:28:38.000 The process of biology.

00:28:39.000 That's what mandated the pregnancy. 1.00

00:28:40.000 It's like saying government-mandated digestion.

00:28:44.000 Like, if you eat the food, it's going to be digested.

00:28:47.000 This is... Alright, here we go.

00:28:51.000 The stakes are really high.

00:28:52.000 We're talking about a struggle between liberty and tyranny, a struggle between a woman's freedom to make her own health care decisions and government-mandated pregnancies, even in the case of rape or incest. 0.57

00:29:11.000 That is extreme, it's radical, it's dangerous, and it must be stopped.

00:29:16.000 Government-mandated pregnancies.

00:29:18.000 Government-mandated pregnancies.

00:29:19.000 They make it sound as though Republicans are strapping women down, forcibly impregnating them, and then forcing them to have the baby.

00:29:27.000 That's what happens in the Handmaid's Tale, by the way. 0.98

00:29:29.000 It's mass rape of women, who are then forced to carry to term after being essentially mass raped. 0.99

00:29:36.000 That is not what is happening in the United States of America, and anybody who tells you that it is, is lying to you.

00:29:40.000 They're just lying.

00:29:42.000 You know the reason the Democrats keep saying rape and incest?

00:29:44.000 Because those are the only arguments that are even emotionally or intellectually mildly cogent.

00:29:49.000 So what they do is they use edge cases to argue for the 99.9% of cases that are not rape or incest.

00:29:55.000 That are just people getting pregnant and not wanting the baby and wanting to do away with the baby.

00:29:59.000 That's it.

00:30:01.000 For whatever reason.

00:30:02.000 Okay, so.

00:30:04.000 Relegated to these bad arguments, Democrats have to come up with some alternatives.

00:30:08.000 So they've come up with a few.

00:30:09.000 So the alternatives that they have come up with Before I even get to that, I just want to point out how prominent this thinking is.

00:30:17.000 The prominent thinking on the left is, again, that pregnancy is some sort of weird biological imposition by an alien, and it's not a predictable result of sexual activity in any way, even though that has been how every mammalian species propagates for all of time.

00:30:32.000 SNL, I thought, SNL's arguments here are the worst part of this.

00:30:36.000 I mean, it's really, it's amazing.

00:30:38.000 The fact that they think that these are cogent arguments demonstrates how insane the backwards logic of the left is when it comes to abortion.

00:30:45.000 So, SNL, here is Kate McKinnon and Colin Jost, who, again, between them have done, I don't know, two funny things over the past five years, maybe?

00:30:53.000 They're like a Bob Uecker-like batting average here.

00:30:56.000 So, she plays Amy Coney Barrett, and they're talking about abortion.

00:30:59.000 Listen to the logic that they're using in favor of abortion here.

00:31:03.000 You were asking about safe haven laws where you can legally leave a baby at a fire station, no questions asked.

00:31:08.000 That's right, Colin.

00:31:09.000 I just, like, I don't understand why you need abortion. 0.96

00:31:12.000 Because you can leave a baby anywhere in the United States.

00:31:15.000 So, like, what's the big deal?

00:31:18.000 Just plop it.

00:31:21.000 Just do the nine and plop.

00:31:24.000 Just do the what?

00:31:25.000 Yes, just do your nine, you know?

00:31:27.000 Do your nine, leave it on the sidewalk, wrap it up in a little, like a little Moses, put it in a little basket, send it down the creek. 0.96

00:31:34.000 Just do your nine, you know?

00:31:36.000 It's simple.

00:31:36.000 Look, if you are a murderer, if you have an abortion, but you're not a murderer, if you put a baby in a bag in a mailbox and that tracks, then it's good to me.

00:31:47.000 These people are so crazy. 0.99

00:31:49.000 So we are now comparing laws that allow you to put a baby essentially up for anonymous adoption to killing the baby. 0.99

00:32:00.000 Very solid stuff.

00:32:01.000 Ashley Judd, by the way, has a piece along the same lines over at USA Today talking about how her mom, who just died, needs to be valued because of abortion or something.

00:32:17.000 What motherhood should be? 1.00

00:32:18.000 Motherhood should always be a choice. 1.00

00:32:19.000 Does that sound radical to you?

00:32:21.000 Does that sound like I wish my sister and I hadn't been born?

00:32:23.000 If that's what you think, I will gladly direct my incandescent rage at you.

00:32:26.000 How much could we as a society possibly value motherhood when it is assumed to be an inevitability?

00:32:31.000 Well, I mean, if you have sex, that is definitely a possibility.

00:32:35.000 Again, that has been mammalian biology for all of time.

00:32:38.000 When we accept as normal that women and girls will drop out of school and the workforce because they are expected to take on the unpaid labor of childcare. 0.93

00:32:44.000 What do you mean, expected?

00:32:46.000 You mean like, when you have a baby, you're supposed to take care of it?

00:32:49.000 When did these things become the not natural state of things?

00:32:52.000 I'm just wondering.

00:32:53.000 When did we determine as a society that sex does not lead to pregnancy, which does not lead to childbirth, and also you have no responsibility to the child you bear? 0.64

00:33:02.000 When did we decide this as a society?

00:33:04.000 And if we did, that makes us a pretty egregiously gruesome society, does it not?

00:33:09.000 But this is the this is the pitch.

00:33:10.000 This is the pitch.

00:33:11.000 So coming up, the Democrats don't have any good arguments here.

00:33:14.000 And so they've just started to lie about what Republicans are going to do.

00:33:16.000 They're going to ban condoms. 0.85

00:33:17.000 They're going to ban contraceptives. 0.92

00:33:19.000 Oh, my God.

00:33:19.000 We'll find a Republican who says something we don't like and we'll make it the national issue.

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00:37:16.000 So Democrats not having a particularly compelling argument here, they just have to lie about what is about to happen across the country or what is currently happening or what people are talking about.

00:37:29.000 They just have to lie about all of these things because they have decided on a bizarre presumption about the nature of the universe.

00:37:37.000 Okay?

00:37:38.000 Being an adult is about taking care of kids.

00:37:40.000 That is what being an adult is.

00:37:41.000 Being an adult is about you have babies and you rear babies and you take care of your babies.

00:37:45.000 Those are the things.

00:37:46.000 Those are the things that make you an adult and a good human being.

00:37:49.000 And we as a society apparently have reversed that presumption.

00:37:51.000 So if you get pregnant, you're not supposed to have the baby or at least it's really up to you. 0.99

00:37:54.000 And then if you do carry the baby all the way to term, then it's really up to society to take care of the baby.

00:37:59.000 It's not up to you.

00:38:00.000 And we can't expect anything of you.

00:38:03.000 Our society has now become entirely about treating adults as children and children as disposable.

00:38:08.000 That is apparently the presumption of the left.

00:38:10.000 Adults are kids with no sense of responsibility, no need for them to take responsibility for their actions, no need to preserve the impact on the lives of other human beings who they've created.

00:38:21.000 And no responsibility for those people that they've created.

00:38:23.000 Like, I'm a parent.

00:38:24.000 I can't even imagine.

00:38:26.000 Forget about abortion itself. 0.56

00:38:28.000 The possibility that the left suggests, which is that I don't have a responsibility to take care of my kids, you have a responsibility to take care of my kids, is the most insipid and disgusting thing.

00:38:36.000 It truly is.

00:38:37.000 This is the argument that you constantly hear from the left.

00:38:39.000 Well, if you're not in favor of universal pre-K, how can you oppose abortion?

00:38:42.000 Well, I don't think you should kill the baby, and also I think you should take care of your baby.

00:38:45.000 I don't know when any of this stuff became controversial.

00:38:48.000 If those propositions don't murder your kid, take care of your kid. 0.86

00:38:53.000 If these are controversial propositions to you, I'm just wondering how you sleep at night.

00:38:58.000 Truly.

00:38:59.000 I don't know.

00:39:00.000 I mean, I think the answer is cognitive dissonance.

00:39:03.000 You just lie to yourself.

00:39:04.000 You're standing up for a fundamental right.

00:39:06.000 You're standing up for a broader liberty.

00:39:08.000 A liberty that doesn't require you to, you know, not kill the unborn child or take care of it.

00:39:11.000 But that liberty is super important to justify your personal sense of entitlement and your personal sense of fulfillment that comes from whatever sexual authenticity you are seeking.

00:39:23.000 Okay, so what they have to do now is they have to lie.

00:39:26.000 Okay, because the reality is the way this is going to break down is that states like Illinois are going to become abortion havens and states like Mississippi are not.

00:39:34.000 That's just the way this is going to work.

00:39:36.000 And until the point at which there's a broad national consensus, the broad national consensus on abortion is not going to change, which means there's going to be different state consensuses on the issue.

00:39:44.000 So, for example, in Illinois, J.B.

00:39:45.000 Pritzker, he says Illinois is basically going to be a giant abortion mill.

00:39:51.000 If they're going to restrict or ban abortion, we're prepared here. 1.00

00:39:54.000 We're making sure, again, that we're going to stand up for a woman's right to choose in the state of Illinois.

00:39:59.000 We may be an island, but we're a protective island for anybody that comes here.

00:40:04.000 Protective Island, by the way, California is doing the same thing.

00:40:06.000 They say that they want their taxpayers to sponsor abortions.

00:40:08.000 They're sponsoring homelessness, heroin use, and abortion in California.

00:40:12.000 Come on in!

00:40:13.000 Sounds great.

00:40:13.000 Can't imagine why people are running away.

00:40:15.000 Meanwhile, over in Mississippi, as Tate Reeves says, they're now going to speak on behalf of unborn children.

00:40:20.000 Right, so you're going to get different takes from different states on this particular issue.

00:40:25.000 Abortion involves not only the mother and that particular life, but it also involves the life of an unborn American child.

00:40:32.000 An unborn American child that doesn't have the ability to speak for themselves. 1.00

00:40:37.000 And that's why it's important for folks like me to take this opportunity to stand up and speak on their behalf.

00:40:42.000 So that's a very important differentiating factor.

00:40:47.000 So you are going to get different states doing different things.

00:40:49.000 The media are going to now suggest that now we go on the big quest, the big quest by the media.

00:40:55.000 We find a Republican who says something that we think is mildly edgy, and then we just willfully misinterpret it.

00:41:02.000 So you feel threatened on ancillary issues.

00:41:04.000 Is what they do every time this issue comes up.

00:41:06.000 We're going to go find Todd Akin, a Senate candidate you've never heard of. 1.00

00:41:09.000 And he said something stupid about rape and abortion. 1.00

00:41:12.000 And then we are going to blast it all over the media and make every Republican defend it. 1.00

00:41:15.000 Meanwhile, you got the entire Democratic Party like, we will stab this baby in the head right before it enters the birth canal. 0.98

00:41:20.000 No one has to answer for that. 0.93

00:41:21.000 But there's this basic no-name somewhere who said a thing about abortion we don't like.

00:41:26.000 So everyone has to answer for that.

00:41:27.000 So this is the quest of the media now.

00:41:29.000 And so they're just going to lie about it.

00:41:31.000 And they're going to lie about, so multiple times over the weekend we've seen this.

00:41:34.000 So one, we saw over the weekend, Democrats suggesting that Mitch McConnell was going to kill the filibuster if Republicans take the Senate in order to push pro-life legislation.

00:41:42.000 He actively said the opposite.

00:41:44.000 He actively said the opposite, Mitch McConnell.

00:41:46.000 He said, maybe if we had 60 votes in the Senate, we could push hardcore pro-life legislation.

00:41:51.000 We don't, and we're not killing the filibuster for literally any reason.

00:41:55.000 He said if the leaked opinion overturning rule became the final opinion, legislative bodies, not only at the state level, but at the federal level, could certainly legislate in that area.

00:42:04.000 But he said, he also said, we are not going to overturn the filibuster.

00:42:09.000 But here is what Politico reported.

00:42:11.000 The comments have lit a fire under Democrats, who've been panicked about their midterm prospects until now.

00:42:16.000 And where last week enabled them to change the conversation from inflation to the likelihood of Roe being overturned, McConnell's comments all but ensure another week of abortion-related headlines Republicans may not like.

00:42:25.000 And give Democrats a potent response to one of the arguments we've heard from conservatives since the release of the draft opinion.

00:42:31.000 McConnell's words suggest Republicans actually support nationwide restrictions.

00:42:35.000 I mean, we do.

00:42:37.000 We support nationwide.

00:42:38.000 Also, we don't have the votes for it.

00:42:40.000 Also, they're not going to kill the filibuster to do it.

00:42:43.000 This will end up being a state issue.

00:42:45.000 So they're willfully misinterpreting McConnell in order to achieve a democratic threat level DEF CON 1.

00:42:52.000 And then they're going around the country and they're trolling for stories that they just lie about, by the way.

00:42:57.000 So for example, we saw a there's a tweet that had something like 14,000 retweets.

00:43:06.000 Okay, from Pam Keith Esquire in Florida, the CEO of the Center for Employment Justice and a candidate for Congress in 2020.

00:43:14.000 Who lost?

00:43:16.000 And she tweeted, Tennessee just banned Plan B and made it a crime punishable by a $50,000 fine to order it.

00:43:24.000 Tennessee did not ban Plan B. They banned prescribing the abortion pill via telemedicine, which was only approved by the FDA last year due to the pandemic.

00:43:24.000 Here's the reality.

00:43:32.000 Okay, so they just lie about things.

00:43:36.000 Or for example, there's an Arizona Senate candidate, Blake Masters, okay?

00:43:41.000 And he said on his website that he thinks that Griswold v. Connecticut is wrongly decided.

00:43:46.000 Griswold v. Connecticut is wrongly decided, okay?

00:43:50.000 Griswold v. Connecticut was a case about whether there's an inherent right to contraception in the Constitution of the United States for people who are not married.

00:43:58.000 Now, two things can be true.

00:43:59.000 One, the Constitution does not cover this issue, and there is no constitutional right to this stuff.

00:44:03.000 And two, I'm perfectly fine with anybody getting contraception in the United States.

00:44:08.000 This happens to be Blake Master's position.

00:44:10.000 The media just lie about it. 1.00

00:44:11.000 So they say that because he opposes Griswold, which is a horribly stupid case. 0.94

00:44:15.000 In which the Supreme Court decided there was a generalized right to privacy discernible in the Constitution from emanations and penumbras. 1.00

00:44:21.000 This, by the way, that phrase gets mocked in every law school class ever because it's stupid and idiotic. 0.99

00:44:26.000 If you say that the case is wrongly decided, it means that you're in favor of banning contraception. 1.00

00:44:30.000 The entire media ran with this line.

00:44:32.000 Arizona Republican Senate candidate wants to ban contraception. 1.00

00:44:34.000 No, Blake Masters does not, you idiots. 1.00

00:44:37.000 This is like saying that if you want the First Amendment upheld, it's because you want Americans to say the N-word. 1.00

00:44:42.000 No, I want the First Amendment upheld and also Americans not to say the N-word.

00:44:47.000 I don't... Griswold is a terrible case. 1.00

00:44:49.000 It's a stupid case. 1.00

00:44:50.000 It's a badly decided case. 1.00

00:44:51.000 And also, I'm not interested in legislation banning the use of contraception.

00:44:56.000 That's Blake Masterson, so the media have to lie about it.

00:44:58.000 And they just keep lying about this stuff.

00:45:01.000 And it's over and over and over, they're lying about this stuff.

00:45:03.000 It really is an incredible thing.

00:45:05.000 To watch the media lie about all of this.

00:45:07.000 They just try to find a candidate and then they try to lie about what the candidate says.

00:45:11.000 Someone texted me a tweet from somebody suggesting that Marsha Blackburn wanted to ban abortion in cases where the mother's life is in danger.

00:45:19.000 That is not true.

00:45:20.000 There's not a pro-lifer anywhere in America who wants to do that.

00:45:22.000 This is not a pro-life position.

00:45:23.000 No one holds that position.

00:45:25.000 They have to now make up right-wing positions.

00:45:27.000 You know why?

00:45:27.000 Because if you actually look at their position, their position is so extreme.

00:45:30.000 You don't have to make it up.

00:45:31.000 Their position is abortion all nine months until birth, any reason. 0.99

00:45:35.000 This is the actual Democratic Party platform.

00:45:37.000 You don't have to make up the Republican platform.

00:45:40.000 Like, if you want to argue against the Republican platform, argue against it.

00:45:44.000 The Republican platform is, life ought to be protected from conception.

00:45:48.000 That is the Republican platform.

00:45:50.000 And you can pick and choose, like, attack points.

00:45:52.000 In the end, Democrats, they have to expand the scope of what they're talking about because they actually argue on the abortion issue they lose.

00:45:59.000 So instead, they're like, oh, Republicans, they did away with Roe, now they're going to do away with condoms.

00:46:04.000 They're going to do away with the pill.

00:46:07.000 Probably, they're probably going to overturn same-sex marriage. 0.64

00:46:07.000 You know what they're going to do? 0.64

00:46:10.000 Okay, so, listen.

00:46:12.000 Again, Obergefell, horribly decided case.

00:46:14.000 Terrible Supreme Court precedent based on nothing. 1.00

00:46:17.000 It is complete garbage, that opinion. 0.99

00:46:18.000 Also, there is no nationwide state or local movement to get rid of gay marriage. 1.00

00:46:23.000 There isn't.

00:46:24.000 There's so little of a movement on that basis that before Obergefell, I was libertarian on this issue at the state level and suggested that states should get out of the business of marriage entirely because I saw what was coming down the pike.

00:46:34.000 I wrote about this, I think, 2012, 2013.

00:46:37.000 Explicitly saying that states should get out of the business of marriage because otherwise what would happen is the left would grab a hold of gay marriage and cram it down on religious communities all over the United States.

00:46:47.000 That is it.

00:46:49.000 But this is it.

00:46:50.000 But the argument that the left has to make the argument again, they're trying to scare people here.

00:46:54.000 About things that do not typically scare a lot of people.

00:46:57.000 Abortion is not an issue that scares tons of Americans.

00:47:00.000 It is not.

00:47:01.000 The reason being.

00:47:03.000 The vast majority of Americans make choices about their reproductive lives that do not involve abortion.

00:47:09.000 And if you really, really want to live in a pro-abortion state, there are plenty of them. 0.71

00:47:14.000 But instead, what they're going to do is they're going to say everything is at risk.

00:47:16.000 All your liberties are at risk.

00:47:17.000 All of them.

00:47:17.000 So you have Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, for example, who says everything is at risk now.

00:47:20.000 Everything.

00:47:22.000 Every other right under a right to privacy could be at risk, whether it's LGBTQ equality, whether it's marriage equality, whether it's literally any right that has been decided over the past 50 years.

00:47:34.000 Four justices in the last hearings that I've witnessed This is what the Democrats are arguing now.

00:47:40.000 So they're arguing.

00:47:41.000 I'm not kidding you.

00:47:41.000 of our legal system.

00:47:43.000 And so if they just feel they can just upend this precedent because they don't like it today, well, that's inconsistent with what they promised the judges, excuse me, they promised the senators who voted for them.

00:47:54.000 This is what the Democrats are arguing now.

00:47:57.000 So they're arguing, I'm not kidding you, Bakari Sellers said on CNN yesterday that Democrats believe, and the New York Times editorial page says this too.

00:48:05.000 They say the Supreme Court might now overturn interracial marriage in the Constitution.

00:48:13.000 Yes, I'm sure that's going to happen, guys.

00:48:14.000 You're right.

00:48:15.000 In the year 2022, the Supreme Court is not only going to overturn Loving v. Virginia, states everywhere are going to ban interracial marriage.

00:48:22.000 Nailed it.

00:48:23.000 Nailed it, guys. 0.97

00:48:23.000 Or this is all scare tactic crap from you. 0.97

00:48:26.000 The New York Times has an entire piece on this today, trying to scare people into this. 0.72

00:48:30.000 When the Supreme Court heard arguments in December over the fate of the constitutional right to abortion, it was already clear that other rights, notably including same-sex marriage, could be at risk if the court overruled Roe v. Wade.

00:48:40.000 The logic of that legal argument, just as Sonia Sotomayor predicted, would produce a jurisprudential tsunami that could sweep away other precedents, too.

00:48:47.000 Again, I love the idea that Democrats are now pro-precedent.

00:48:50.000 There was no precedent for Obergefell before Obergefell.

00:48:53.000 There wasn't.

00:48:53.000 There was no precedent for the Obamacare case before the Obamacare case.

00:48:56.000 They don't give a crap about precedent.

00:48:58.000 There's an entire party dedicated to uprooting millennia-old traditions on behalf of untried, bad progressive ideas. 0.96

00:49:04.000 And they're like, oh, well, precedent matters here, guys.

00:49:06.000 They found the one precedent they like.

00:49:09.000 The Justice's questions on the broader consequences of a decision eliminating the right to abortion were probing but abstract and conditional.

00:49:14.000 The disclosure last Friday of a draft opinion that would overturn Roe, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion, has made those questions urgent and concrete.

00:49:23.000 The opinion by Justice Samuel Alito provided conflicting signals about its sweep and consequences.

00:49:28.000 On the one hand, he asserted, in a sort of disclaimer that struck a defensive tone, other rights would remain secure.

00:49:33.000 He wrote, quote, To ensure that our decision is not misunderstood or mischaracterized, we emphasize our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right.

00:49:41.000 Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.

00:49:45.000 On the other hand, the logic of the opinion left plenty of room for debate.

00:49:48.000 So in other words, yeah, we understand that you explicitly said that you're not going to overrule Loving, and we understand that you explicitly said that you're not going to overrule Obergefell.

00:49:57.000 But you might, mightn't you?

00:50:01.000 They're lying to you, they're lying to you, and they're trying to scare you, and this is the schtick now.

00:50:05.000 The schtick is that they're coming after everything you care about.

00:50:09.000 They're overcoming everything.

00:50:11.000 By the way, they're doing the same thing with regard to Tate Reeves in Mississippi.

00:50:16.000 The suggestion being that he's going to come along and he's going to ban contraceptives.

00:50:19.000 So according to the left, what comes next is not that states have different policies on abortion, which involves the taking of an unborn human life.

00:50:27.000 The argument from the left is now they're going to come after gays and they're going to come after interracial marriage.

00:50:34.000 And the reason they're making these arguments is because their arguments on abortion are really, really lacking and they have to find some other way of freaking you out.

00:50:42.000 That's what they have to do.

00:50:44.000 So if they think that that argument is somehow going to work for them in 2022, I think that they have another thing coming.

00:50:50.000 By the way, it's because their arguments are so bad that they really do in the end just have to rely on silencing people.

00:50:55.000 This is why you have a new Ministry of Truth over at the Biden administration.

00:51:01.000 There's new audio that has now emerged of Nina Jankiewicz, who is the head of the Department of Disinformation at the Department of Homeland Security, this Bureau of Disinformation.

00:51:10.000 She's going to be policing disinformation and misinformation. 0.85

00:51:13.000 Notice what Democrats characterize as misinformation and disinformation that must be silenced.

00:51:17.000 It is not misinformation and disinformation to lie about Republican Contraceptive policy.

00:51:23.000 That's not misinformation or disinformation.

00:51:25.000 What's misinformation or disinformation is anything they don't like.

00:51:28.000 So here, for example, is Nina Jankowicz, who we were assured by Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of Department of Homeland Security, is an objective for us here.

00:51:35.000 Nina Jankowicz says misinformation is stuff that, you know, includes like gender disinformation.

00:51:41.000 We've got gendered abuse, which is the typical sort of stuff that you see that any woman in public life has experienced before, picking apart your appearance, using gendered slurs against you. 1.00

00:51:53.000 Then a subset of that is gendered disinformation.

00:51:56.000 So that's false or misleading information that uses gendered tropes.

00:52:01.000 So it might be, for instance, this is a big one that we tracked in the report, Kamala Harris slept her way to the top.

00:52:07.000 Or it might be that Jacinda Ardern, another one that we found, is actually a man.

00:52:14.000 That she couldn't be in the position of power that she's in, she is a trans man.

00:52:19.000 And that's why she is where she is.

00:52:24.000 So, equating those two bits of argument, that's kind of weird.

00:52:28.000 So you don't have to make the argument that you can say both arguments are wrong, that there is no evidence that Jacinda Ardern is a man.

00:52:35.000 Kamala Harris did have an affair with Willie Brown, who is the mayor of San Francisco, and then was elevated into positions of power with the help of Willie Brown. 0.99

00:52:42.000 That's not Russian disinformation.

00:52:46.000 She also later cites as gender disinformation that has to be policed, Ilhan Omar marrying her brother, which there's some evidence that there were some legal doings with regard to her brother's immigration status and her marital status that are quite questionable.

00:53:02.000 But according to the new Ministry of Truth, we're supposed to just believe whatever they have to say.

00:53:08.000 It is disturbing.

00:53:10.000 All of this is deeply disturbing and it should be disturbing to you.

00:53:13.000 It's also deeply disturbing, I think, to most Americans.

00:53:15.000 Most Americans don't trust the people who are jabbering at them about the far-left wing on abortion.

00:53:20.000 They don't trust them on that.

00:53:22.000 What Americans are going to come down to in 2022 is the stuff that they can see right in front of their face, not what people speculate about what's going to happen in the future.

00:53:28.000 Not what they speculate about contraceptive care or same-sex marriage or interracial marriage or any of this stuff.

00:53:33.000 They're not going to vote based on that.

00:53:34.000 They are going to be staring directly in the face of their own economic circumstances and this is what is going to drive them to the polls in 2022.

00:53:39.000 They're going to be looking directly at the question of whether there's more crime in their city.

00:53:43.000 Because that's not speculative.

00:53:45.000 All the rest of this is speculative and it means that you have to trust the Democrats and their assessment of reality in order to vote that way.

00:53:51.000 Those sorts of arguments do not win elections.

00:53:54.000 The kinds of arguments that win elections are, who's in charge?

00:53:56.000 Are they doing a good job?

00:53:57.000 And is it making my life better?

00:53:58.000 If the answer is no, Democrats are going to get caught.

00:54:01.000 Unfortunately for Democrats, the answer right now is no.

00:54:04.000 And they can try to crack down on informational dissemination as much as they wish.

00:54:07.000 They can lie as much as they want.

00:54:09.000 They can protest outside justices' homes.

00:54:11.000 They can talk about abortion until they are blue in the face.

00:54:14.000 That ain't going to move the votes.

00:54:16.000 So keep on lying, keep on trying it, double down, and see how it works out for you.

00:54:21.000 All right, we'll be back here later today for an additional hour of content coming up soon.

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Dems Bet Big On Abortion | Ep. 1490

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