A Supreme Court ruling that overturns Roe v. Wade, Democrats are betting big on abortion, but the polls suggest it isn t a smart strategy. Meanwhile, leftists try to intimidate Supreme Court justices by standing outside their homes. Ben Shapiro's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN, a VPN company that encrypts and anonymizes all of your online data. Use the promo code "ExpressVPN" to get 3 extra months for FREE! That's 3 months worth of ExpressVPN for you, the general public, for as little as $39.99. If you don't already have an ExpressVPN membership, you can get 3 months for free by becoming a patron patron of the company, and you'll get access to all of the features you need to know about ExpressVPN including the features, features, and privacy protections built into the service, like parental consent, before you even start using the service. Use my link at expressvpn.me/BenShapiroShow to receive 3 months of Express VPN for free! Use the discount code: PGPUNIVERSAL at checkout to get 15% off your first month, plus an additional 3 months free when you upgrade to $99.99, and a free year-long membership when you become a patron of ExpressVpn. The offer ends on Nov. 1st, 2020. To find out more about your ad choices, go to ExpressVPN. Use coupon code: "PODCASTLEPRODUCER" at checkout at checkout. Ben's Note: This episode contains a link to redeem for $5,000 and receive $5 off your ad discount when you sign up for the offer starts in the program. . You'll get 10% off of $99 or more than $99, plus a free month of VaynerSpeaker and $25,000 gets you an ad discount, plus I'll get an additional $10,000 when you enter the offer gets you a discount on the offer of $50,000 or more, and I'll receive $50 or more gets you get an ad that gets you 5, plus $75,000 is a maximum of $75 or $75 gets you re-evaluate your choice of a VIP discount. You can also get a VIP membership offer, plus you get $150,000 in VIP membership, and get a discount code, plus they'll get $5 or $50 gets you access to VIP access to the show.
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00:01:37.000Well, 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.
00:01:45.000Democrats are now trying to take advantage of the Supreme Court's presumed decision in order to make political hay.
00:01:52.000They 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.
00:02:00.000And the data just do not suggest that this is true.
00:02:03.000I 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.
00:02:11.000And these statistics, again, the evidence is just not there.
00:02:14.000So according to NBC News, this is the Democrats' strategy.
00:02:22.000They can't run on the future of the country.
00:02:24.000And 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.
00:02:40.000Here is Chuck Todd trying to sum this strategy up.
00:02:43.000Here's younger voters in a presidential year.
00:02:49.000But in midterm years, you can see here, young voters down to the 12-13%.
00:02:53.000Even in that good Democratic year of 18, younger voters didn't quite get out.
00:02:58.000Meanwhile, those 65-plus voters are far more likely to go to the polls, no matter the election.
00:03:04.000The question now is for the Supreme Court opinion that overturns a nearly 50-year precedent.
00:03:09.000Will Roe be enough to alter that picture and motivate a younger electorate?
00:03:15.000The answer is no, it will not be enough to do any of those things.
00:03:18.000Because again, those stats are extraordinarily consistent.
00:03:20.000Young people don't show up for midterms.
00:03:22.000They do show up for presidential elections.
00:03:23.000That 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.
00:03:32.000It 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.
00:03:41.000You're not talking about an era where none of this stuff is available.
00:03:44.000All of this stuff is available literally everywhere.
00:03:46.000Plus, younger people are having less sex.
00:03:49.000Younger people are less involved in relationships.
00:03:52.000Younger people, frankly, are largely addicted to pornography.
00:03:55.000And 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.
00:04:02.000The Democrats are doubling down on this.
00:04:04.000They're tripling down on this, quadrupling down on this.
00:04:06.000According to Politico, the Senate is now teeing up an abortion vote.
00:04:08.000Senate 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.
00:04:17.000The 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.
00:04:24.000That's what happened with similar proposal earlier this year.
00:04:27.000Democrats are being really stupid about this.
00:04:29.000According 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.
00:04:43.000But Schumer is choosing the former approach.
00:04:44.000He'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.
00:04:57.000This is not a position held by even close to a majority of Americans.
00:05:00.000Some 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.
00:05:13.000Again, they are just reading the top line of the polls.
00:05:15.000They're not reading underneath the bottom line of the polls.
00:05:18.000And 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.
00:05:25.000So for example, Democrats keep saying over and over and over again that the public does not want Roe versus Wade overturn.
00:05:31.000So Jen Psaki, for example, from the White House over the weekend, she had this to say.
00:05:36.000You told reporters it's not a political issue because it's supported by a majority of the American public.
00:06:02.000Well, two-thirds of the public means that is the vast majority of the public.
00:06:07.000Okay, but here is the problem with this particular poll stat.
00:06:10.000What 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.
00:06:22.00066% of the public thinks that if Roe is overturned, abortion immediately becomes illegal everywhere in the United States.
00:06:27.000So when you hear The Democrats say that the vast majority of the public doesn't want Roe overturned.
00:06:31.000What 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.
00:06:38.000But 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.
00:06:50.000But once you get past the first trimester of pregnancy, they want heavy abortion restrictions, most of which are illegal under Roe v. Wade.
00:06:57.000So the public literally doesn't know what it's talking about.
00:06:59.000And then the Democrats cite the public not knowing what it's talking about as a presumptive argument on behalf of their extreme abortion position.
00:07:07.000So 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.
00:07:19.000And so trying to aggregate those numbers and then say, well, there's a broad national consensus about this issue is really, really dumb.
00:07:25.000People feel very strongly one way in Mississippi.
00:07:27.000They feel very strongly the other way in Illinois.
00:07:29.000That does not mean you can aggregate the public and then say there's a broad national majority.
00:07:32.000That's really, that's not the way any of that stuff happens to work.
00:07:35.000And when you do that, what you end up doing is nationalizing policy that has a broad disagreement at the local level.
00:07:40.000But 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.
00:07:50.000And no one, I mean, literally almost no one, wants abortion to be legal for any reason up to point of birth.
00:07:56.000That is the Democratic Party position being pushed by Chuck Schumer, and he thinks that's a winner for them.
00:08:05.000That is a wild thing for Democrats to believe.
00:08:07.000Because again, the data don't back it.
00:08:09.000But 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.
00:08:19.000I'm looking right now at the RealClearPolitics polling average in the congressional generic ballot.
00:08:25.000No movement whatsoever since this news broke.
00:08:29.000So people are sending this Economist YouGov poll that shows Democrats up six points.
00:08:33.000Okay, but the Economist YouGov poll has been consistently pro-democratic all the way through this election cycle.
00:08:38.000Just a month ago, it had the Democrats up five, so nothing has changed.
00:08:41.000However, the CNN poll has Republicans up slightly in the generic congressional ballot, which again is consistent with the other CNN polls during this cycle.
00:08:53.000The latest CNN poll actually has Republicans up 49-42.
00:08:56.000That shows them up actually slightly more than it did just earlier this week when it had Republicans up one.
00:09:03.000The 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.
00:09:12.000In 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.
00:09:19.000And yet Democrats keep saying this sort of stuff because they truly believe that people think like they do.
00:09:24.000But Reuters has a piece this morning pointing out That suburban Phoenix is cautionary tale for Democrats hoping to galvanize voters on abortion.
00:09:32.000And 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.
00:09:39.000And what they found is that these women didn't care.
00:09:43.000So, 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.
00:09:52.000Senate after November's congressional elections.
00:09:54.000Wilson, 61, is pro-choice, voted for Joe Biden, knew all about the news last week, the U.S.
00:09:58.000Supreme Court is likely poised to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
00:10:01.000Yet 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.
00:10:07.000She said she was disappointed in Biden because of high inflation and too many homeless people on the streets.
00:10:12.000Wilson was one of 21 women interviewed by Reuters in the northern suburbs of Phoenix after news of the Supreme Court draft ruling broke.
00:10:19.000Most of the women said inflation, not abortion, was the galvanizing issue for them.
00:10:23.000Significantly, the interviewees were from a key swing demographic group, suburban mothers, who are hotly sought after by both Democrats and Republicans in elections.
00:10:31.000The 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.
00:10:43.000Yet Democrats want to talk abortion because they think that it's going to distract from the inflation conversation.
00:10:49.000So 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.
00:10:57.000First of all, she's really bad at this.
00:11:05.000We are once again forced to defend fundamental principles that we hoped were long settled.
00:11:14.000Principles like the freedom to vote, The rights of women to make decisions about their own bodies.
00:11:24.000Even what constitutes the truth, especially in an era when anyone can post anything online and claim it is a fact.
00:11:36.000These folks are Orwellian in their abuse of the English language.
00:11:40.000In an era where people challenge the truth, she literally cannot define the word woman.
00:11:43.000And yet she is talking on a stage about not being able to define the truth.
00:11:47.000And then she's talking about abortion as a fundamental American right, which is an amazing, amazing statement.
00:11:52.000If your notion of fundamental rights involves killing of your own pre-born child, I have to say your notion of fundamental rights is perverse.
00:12:04.000Keep trotting out Ayanna Pressley to explain that it's the far-right extremism of the Supreme Court obstructing the will of the people.
00:12:09.000This 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.
00:12:18.000It 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.
00:12:29.000And 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.
00:12:42.000So if you're not outraged, you are not paying attention.
00:12:46.000So Democrats keep saying over and over and over the vast majority of Americans want to uphold Roe.
00:12:50.000Well, that is mainly because Americans don't even know what Roe says.
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00:13:55.000Okay, so again, this also relies, so much of this relies on people being ignorant about actual abortion policies.
00:14:04.000So 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.
00:14:13.000I mean, honestly, I wish, but it's not going to happen.
00:14:17.000They also, people on the left do not understand that America is an extreme outlier in terms of its wildly left abortion policy.
00:14:23.000Bill 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.
00:14:32.000And that is correct, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:14:34.000Europe 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.
00:14:40.000The most notable feature of abortion in Europe is that each country has tailored its laws to local mores after political debate.
00:14:46.000Britain 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.
00:14:53.000Poland and a handful of small majority Catholic countries are at the other end of the spectrum.
00:14:57.000Banning abortion under most circumstances, although women can avail of free movement within the EU to travel to another country.
00:15:03.000Abortion in Sweden is available on demand up to 18 weeks.
00:15:05.000After that, only with medical permission if the fetus isn't viable.
00:15:08.000In Italy, it's only the first 90 days.
00:15:10.000Many countries like Denmark, Germany, and Belgium allow abortion on demand to the 12th week.
00:15:25.000This is not the most divisive issue in Europe.
00:15:27.000All these countries get to tailor their policies.
00:15:30.000So, Democrats keep pushing hard and fast on this issue, and it is a mistake.
00:15:34.000And the more extreme they look, the more of a mistake it is.
00:15:37.000So, 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.
00:15:44.000You can't find a single major Democrat on the national level to condemn this thing.
00:15:47.000The 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.
00:16:00.000Apparently all of them now think that leaks of majority opinions from the Supreme Court are totally fine.
00:16:05.000Not 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.
00:16:13.000If you show up outside my home, that is a threat.
00:16:30.000And anybody who says differently is lying to you.
00:16:33.000If people do this on the right, it's wrong.
00:16:35.000If people do it on the left, it's wrong.
00:16:36.000But it is people on the left who are doing it right now.
00:16:39.000So Nancy Pelosi over the weekend, she continued to call for pressure on the justices.
00:16:43.000First of all, no one should be calling for outside pressure on justices because that's not how the judicial system is supposed to work.
00:16:49.000As 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.
00:16:57.000And then the judge was like, well, I wasn't going to before, but now I am.
00:17:00.000That would be the essence of a bad justice, a bad judge.
00:17:27.000I 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.
00:17:37.000So 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.
00:17:44.000Again, if that were the case, this would not be a judiciary worth listening to.
00:17:47.000If 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.
00:17:57.000But this has to be tied into, it's amazing, the Democrats will talk about dangerous rhetoric, Trump's dangerous rhetoric, such dangerous rhetoric.
00:18:02.000They 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.
00:18:09.000Over 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.
00:19:11.000And when I say 99.9% of cases, I'm excluding rape and incest here.
00:19:14.000There are arguments you can make about rape and incest.
00:19:16.000The vast majority of pregnancies have to do with consensual sex that results in a pregnancy that you don't necessarily want.
00:19:24.000In other words, there's a chain of decision making that leads to the pregnancy in which you are involved.
00:19:29.000But 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.
00:19:42.000Justice Alito is now in an undisclosed location.
00:19:45.000If 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.
00:19:56.000By 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.
00:20:03.000I 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.
00:20:18.000That's the Wisconsin Family Action Center.
00:20:21.000Their mission is to advance Judeo-Christian principles and values in Wisconsin by strengthening, preserving, promoting marriage, family, life, and liberty.
00:20:27.000Apparently, they firebombed the place.
00:20:30.000The suggestion is that a Molotov cocktail was thrown inside the office and failed to ignite.
00:20:35.000A separate fire was started by some other method as well inside this Wisconsin pro-life office.
00:20:40.000And of course, you have some Antifa symbolism there as well.
00:20:43.000Some wonderful things happening around the country.
00:20:52.000I'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.
00:21:03.000You're going to be able to find crazy people and evil people anywhere in that population.
00:21:07.000I 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.
00:21:25.000First of all, if you find all this disturbing, right, messing with your sleep quality, one of the reasons might be because you have a crappy mattress.
00:21:30.000You need a better mattress, one that is made just for you.
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00:23:22.000teaching 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.
00:23:45.000Other people cheer, saying they wouldn't personally join but are encouraged to see someone speaking out.
00:23:51.000residents 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.
00:23:59.000She's met Kavanaugh and once coached middle school basketball in the same gym but for different teams.
00:24:03.000She's seen his wife, a town manager, at the grocery store.
00:24:06.000Even 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.
00:24:12.000She's furious at the thought of a world without Roe.
00:24:18.000This is not how you motivate voters, and it is also not how you are a good person.
00:24:21.000This makes you a rather unpleasant human being.
00:24:25.000And again, the Democratic Party, they just keep forwarding this sort of stuff.
00:24:28.000And they keep ratcheting up the rhetoric.
00:24:30.000They keep ratcheting it up in the hopes that the American people will be scared.
00:24:33.000I'm sorry, all of us have already died enough times in the past five years from various causes.
00:24:39.000Your threats of doomsday and death no longer have impact.
00:24:42.000We were all dead of net neutrality years ago.
00:24:44.000We all died because Trump was elected.
00:24:45.000And then we all died because of global warming, like multiple times.
00:24:48.000So 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.
00:25:03.000Nancy Pelosi, one of the people really ratcheting this stuff up, she says this is a slap in the face to women.
00:25:19.000If it happened to me, I'd feel pretty disrespected.
00:25:21.000There's Nancy Pelosi talking about lack of respect.
00:25:24.000This is about something so serious and so personal and so disrespectful of women.
00:25:32.000Here 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.
00:25:45.000I don't want to hear people like her talk about Mother's Day ever again.
00:26:01.000According 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.
00:26:07.000Mother'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.
00:27:00.000The 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.
00:27:10.000The 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.
00:27:20.000As 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.
00:27:30.000That is the moral position of people who are now citing Mother's Day.
00:28:52.000We'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.
00:29:11.000That is extreme, it's radical, it's dangerous, and it must be stopped.
00:30:09.000So 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.
00:30:17.000The 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.
00:30:32.000SNL, I thought, SNL's arguments here are the worst part of this.
00:30:38.000The fact that they think that these are cogent arguments demonstrates how insane the backwards logic of the left is when it comes to abortion.
00:30:45.000So, 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?
00:30:53.000They're like a Bob Uecker-like batting average here.
00:30:56.000So, she plays Amy Coney Barrett, and they're talking about abortion.
00:30:59.000Listen to the logic that they're using in favor of abortion here.
00:31:03.000You were asking about safe haven laws where you can legally leave a baby at a fire station, no questions asked.
00:31:36.000Look, 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.
00:32:01.000Ashley 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.
00:32:21.000Does that sound like I wish my sister and I hadn't been born?
00:32:23.000If that's what you think, I will gladly direct my incandescent rage at you.
00:32:26.000How much could we as a society possibly value motherhood when it is assumed to be an inevitability?
00:32:31.000Well, I mean, if you have sex, that is definitely a possibility.
00:32:35.000Again, that has been mammalian biology for all of time.
00:32:38.000When 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.
00:32:53.000When 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?
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00:37:16.000So 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.
00:37:29.000They just have to lie about all of these things because they have decided on a bizarre presumption about the nature of the universe.
00:38:03.000Our society has now become entirely about treating adults as children and children as disposable.
00:38:08.000That is apparently the presumption of the left.
00:38:10.000Adults 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.
00:38:21.000And no responsibility for those people that they've created.
00:38:28.000The 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.
00:39:04.000You're standing up for a fundamental right.
00:39:06.000You're standing up for a broader liberty.
00:39:08.000A liberty that doesn't require you to, you know, not kill the unborn child or take care of it.
00:39:11.000But 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.
00:39:23.000Okay, so what they have to do now is they have to lie.
00:39:26.000Okay, 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.
00:39:34.000That's just the way this is going to work.
00:39:36.000And 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.
00:41:27.000So this is the quest of the media now.
00:41:29.000And so they're just going to lie about it.
00:41:31.000And they're going to lie about, so multiple times over the weekend we've seen this.
00:41:34.000So 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.
00:41:44.000He actively said the opposite, Mitch McConnell.
00:41:46.000He said, maybe if we had 60 votes in the Senate, we could push hardcore pro-life legislation.
00:41:51.000We don't, and we're not killing the filibuster for literally any reason.
00:41:55.000He 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.
00:42:04.000But he said, he also said, we are not going to overturn the filibuster.
00:42:11.000The comments have lit a fire under Democrats, who've been panicked about their midterm prospects until now.
00:42:16.000And 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.
00:42:25.000And give Democrats a potent response to one of the arguments we've heard from conservatives since the release of the draft opinion.
00:42:31.000McConnell's words suggest Republicans actually support nationwide restrictions.
00:43:16.000And she tweeted, Tennessee just banned Plan B and made it a crime punishable by a $50,000 fine to order it.
00:43:24.000Tennessee 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.
00:43:36.000Or for example, there's an Arizona Senate candidate, Blake Masters, okay?
00:43:41.000And he said on his website that he thinks that Griswold v. Connecticut is wrongly decided.
00:43:46.000Griswold v. Connecticut is wrongly decided, okay?
00:43:50.000Griswold 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.
00:45:05.000To watch the media lie about all of this.
00:45:07.000They just try to find a candidate and then they try to lie about what the candidate says.
00:45:11.000Someone texted me a tweet from somebody suggesting that Marsha Blackburn wanted to ban abortion in cases where the mother's life is in danger.
00:45:50.000And you can pick and choose, like, attack points.
00:45:52.000In 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.
00:45:59.000So instead, they're like, oh, Republicans, they did away with Roe, now they're going to do away with condoms.
00:46:04.000They're going to do away with the pill.
00:46:07.000Probably, they're probably going to overturn same-sex marriage.
00:46:24.000There'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.
00:46:34.000I wrote about this, I think, 2012, 2013.
00:46:37.000Explicitly 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.
00:47:22.000Every 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.
00:47:34.000Four justices in the last hearings that I've witnessed This is what the Democrats are arguing now.
00:47:43.000And 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.
00:47:54.000This is what the Democrats are arguing now.
00:47:57.000So 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.
00:48:05.000They say the Supreme Court might now overturn interracial marriage in the Constitution.
00:48:13.000Yes, I'm sure that's going to happen, guys.
00:48:15.000In the year 2022, the Supreme Court is not only going to overturn Loving v. Virginia, states everywhere are going to ban interracial marriage.
00:48:23.000Or this is all scare tactic crap from you.
00:48:26.000The New York Times has an entire piece on this today, trying to scare people into this.
00:48:30.000When 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.
00:48:40.000The logic of that legal argument, just as Sonia Sotomayor predicted, would produce a jurisprudential tsunami that could sweep away other precedents, too.
00:48:47.000Again, I love the idea that Democrats are now pro-precedent.
00:48:50.000There was no precedent for Obergefell before Obergefell.
00:49:06.000They found the one precedent they like.
00:49:09.000The Justice's questions on the broader consequences of a decision eliminating the right to abortion were probing but abstract and conditional.
00:49:14.000The 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.
00:49:23.000The opinion by Justice Samuel Alito provided conflicting signals about its sweep and consequences.
00:49:28.000On the one hand, he asserted, in a sort of disclaimer that struck a defensive tone, other rights would remain secure.
00:49:33.000He 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.
00:49:41.000Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.
00:49:45.000On the other hand, the logic of the opinion left plenty of room for debate.
00:49:48.000So 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.
00:50:11.000By the way, they're doing the same thing with regard to Tate Reeves in Mississippi.
00:50:16.000The suggestion being that he's going to come along and he's going to ban contraceptives.
00:50:19.000So 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.
00:50:27.000The argument from the left is now they're going to come after gays and they're going to come after interracial marriage.
00:50:34.000And 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.
00:50:44.000So if they think that that argument is somehow going to work for them in 2022, I think that they have another thing coming.
00:50:50.000By the way, it's because their arguments are so bad that they really do in the end just have to rely on silencing people.
00:50:55.000This is why you have a new Ministry of Truth over at the Biden administration.
00:51:01.000There'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.
00:51:10.000She's going to be policing disinformation and misinformation.
00:51:13.000Notice what Democrats characterize as misinformation and disinformation that must be silenced.
00:51:17.000It is not misinformation and disinformation to lie about Republican Contraceptive policy.
00:51:23.000That's not misinformation or disinformation.
00:51:25.000What's misinformation or disinformation is anything they don't like.
00:51:28.000So 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.
00:51:35.000Nina Jankowicz says misinformation is stuff that, you know, includes like gender disinformation.
00:51:41.000We'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.
00:51:53.000Then a subset of that is gendered disinformation.
00:51:56.000So that's false or misleading information that uses gendered tropes.
00:52:01.000So it might be, for instance, this is a big one that we tracked in the report, Kamala Harris slept her way to the top.
00:52:07.000Or it might be that Jacinda Ardern, another one that we found, is actually a man.
00:52:14.000That she couldn't be in the position of power that she's in, she is a trans man.
00:52:24.000So, equating those two bits of argument, that's kind of weird.
00:52:28.000So 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.
00:52:35.000Kamala 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.
00:52:46.000She 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.
00:53:02.000But according to the new Ministry of Truth, we're supposed to just believe whatever they have to say.
00:53:22.000What 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.
00:53:28.000Not what they speculate about contraceptive care or same-sex marriage or interracial marriage or any of this stuff.
00:53:33.000They're not going to vote based on that.
00:53:34.000They 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.
00:53:39.000They're going to be looking directly at the question of whether there's more crime in their city.
00:53:45.000All 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.
00:53:51.000Those sorts of arguments do not win elections.
00:53:54.000The kinds of arguments that win elections are, who's in charge?