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00:00:00.000Democrats search for answers after Roe vs. Wade is overturned, Generation Z reconsiders the life of promiscuity and hedonism to the media's consternation, and the Supreme Court upholds religious freedom.
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00:01:30.000Well, people are very upset about Roe vs. Wade and the entire news cycle is being eaten by Roe vs. Wade.
00:01:35.000It's easy to forget that there are other things happening in the world, and those things are actually far likelier to affect the 2022 election than the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, which, as I have said, is an issue that is likely to be relegated back to the states.
00:01:46.000It will become an issue in terms of state legislative elections all over the country, but in terms of federal congressional elections, probably not.
00:01:53.000There are other issues that are going to matter more to people.
00:01:55.000I'm just putting it out there right now because it is currently June 28th.
00:01:59.000So those issues are going to include things like the fact that we have a massive immigration crisis on the border that the media have largely been ignoring.
00:02:05.000We have record numbers of illegal immigrants who are arriving at our southern border, record numbers of people being turned away, and record numbers of people who are entering.
00:02:13.000They're being both monitored by Border Patrol and also escaping Border Patrol.
00:02:15.000They're being ushered into the country and released into the interior.
00:02:18.000And when you have an open border with no serious Efforts at creating an actual immigration policy, what you end up with is human rights atrocity.
00:02:26.000And that's exactly what happened in San Antonio last night.
00:02:29.000According to KSAT.com, 46 people, 46 people were found dead in a tractor trailer on the southwest side.
00:02:36.00016 have been transported to area hospitals, according to San Antonio police and fire officials.
00:02:41.000It's tragic, said San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg.
00:02:43.000They had families, were likely trying to find a better life.
00:02:45.000It's nothing short of a horrific human tragedy.
00:02:48.000Authorities said this is the largest mass casualty event they have seen in San Antonio.
00:02:53.000Apparently, this is an immigration issue.
00:02:55.000Officials would not immediately confirm if the victims were migrants or what country they were from.
00:03:00.000San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said officers received a call 10 minutes before 6 p.m.
00:03:04.000Monday to the 9600 block of Quintana Road when a person working nearby heard a cry for help.
00:03:08.000When the worker approached, he saw several bodies inside an 18-wheeler trailer with its doors partially open.
00:03:14.000Crews with the San Antonio Fire Department arrived at the scene and they found stacks of bodies in the trailer and many people too weak to let themselves out.
00:03:20.000According to the SAFD Chief Charles Hood, 46 people, men and women ranging from teens to young adults, were pronounced dead at the scene.
00:03:27.000He said they died from heat stroke and heat exhaustion because the trailer had no air conditioning and no water.
00:03:31.000Temperatures reached more than 100 degrees on Monday, which means people were basically cooked inside this truck.
00:03:36.000The Mexican Secretary of External Relations tweeted Monday night the 46 people died of asphyxiation.
00:03:40.000At least two of the people in the trailer were from Guatemala.
00:03:44.000The survivors were rushed to local hospitals with heat-related injuries.
00:03:48.000Apparently, again, this is the predictable result of a homeland security failure.
00:03:56.000The fact that we have no actual policy at the southern border, the fact that migrants are being trafficked across the southern border by some of the worst people on earth, and that the federal government not only does nothing about it, but seems to poo-poo the idea of doing anything about it, is going to be not only a blot on this administration, but is going to be a continuing issue in politics for the foreseeable future until the United States decides to lock down its border in a serious and real way and have some sort of predictable and administratable system by which we can
00:04:24.000bring in people who legitimately ought to be in the country and by which we can reject people who ought not.
00:04:29.000Otherwise, you're going to end up with more and more situations like this.
00:04:33.000This is a mass casualty event in the United States due to bad border policy by the federal government.
00:04:59.000The Federal Reserve's monetary policy tools to cure inflation are blunt.
00:05:02.000By raising interest rates, the Fed pushes the economy toward recession.
00:05:05.000It hopes to push just enough to offset the stimulus's fiscal boost.
00:05:08.000But monetary breaks and a floored fiscal gas pedal mistreat the economic engine.
00:05:12.000Raising interest rates can lower stock and bond prices and raise borrowing costs, cutting into home construction, car purchases, and corporate investment.
00:05:19.000The Fed can interrupt the flow of credit, but higher interest rates don't do much to discourage people from spending government stimulus checks.
00:05:30.000This is according to John Cochran, writing for the Wall Street Journal.
00:05:33.000Slowing the economy isn't guaranteed to reduce inflation durably anyway.
00:05:36.000Even in the 2008 recession, with employment above 8%, core inflation fell only from 2.4% in December to 0.6% in October 2010, and then bounced back to 2.3% in December 2011.
00:05:43.0002010 and then bounce back to 2.3% in December 2011. At this rate, even temporarily curing 6% May 2022 core inflation would take a dismal recession. So a lot of the Biden administration policy is not going to be solved by simply the idea that the Federal Reserve is going to raise those interest rates.
00:06:02.000Says Cochran, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
00:06:05.000Monetary policy alone can't cure or sustain inflation.
00:06:07.000The government will have to fix the underlying fiscal problem.
00:06:10.000Short-run deficit reduction, temporary measures, accounting gimmicks will not work.
00:06:14.000Neither will a bout of growth-killing, high-tax austerity.
00:06:17.000has to persuade people that over the long haul of several decades, it will return to its tradition of running small primary surpluses that gradually repay debts.
00:06:51.000He's just going to ignore reality on the ground.
00:06:54.000And this is particularly true with energy production.
00:06:56.000I mean, you may not have noticed, but gas is still well above $5 a gallon almost every place in the United States.
00:07:01.000And Joe Biden, whose plan seems to be that he is going to just go to the UAE and the Saudis and ask them to pump more without actually allowing for significant loosening of restrictions on investment in oil and natural gas in the United States.
00:07:14.000He was told by Emmanuel Macron at the G7 yesterday, it was caught on camera, Macron, telling Biden they don't have any more gas to pump.
00:07:21.000You need to start increasing our supply like forthwith.
00:07:23.000Your bad green policy, the same policy the French adopted and the Germans and the rest of the Europeans at the behest of a whiny 17 year old Swedish teenager, Those policies are a giant failure, according to Emmanuel Macron, French president.
00:07:38.000One, I'm at the maximum, what he claimed, and this is my commitment.
00:07:45.000Second, according to us, the Saudis can increase a little bit, but 150 or a little bit more, and they don't have huge capacities at this stage, before six months' time.
00:08:00.000The last one, the very last point is about...
00:08:23.000Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen openly admitted that she blew it when it came to inflation just last month.
00:08:28.000This person, she's supposed to be the authority on our nation's economic policy.
00:08:31.000She said in a statement to CNN, I was wrong about the path inflation would take.
00:08:34.000There have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy that have boosted energy and food prices and supply bottlenecks that have affected our economy badly, that at the time I didn't fully understand.
00:08:43.000So now we're supposed to believe that they do understand and they get it now and they're going to fix everything.
00:08:46.000Or alternatively, maybe you should not trust them.
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00:09:27.000While the media are consumed with the, I think, unbased position that abortion is going to decide the 2022 elections, I have serious reservations about whether that is the case.
00:09:35.000I do not think abortion is going to be the key issue in 2022.
00:09:37.000I don't think it's going to be the key issue on the election front in 2024, 2026, 2028, or beyond.
00:09:42.000The reason I say this is because I am almost certain that the Supreme Court of the United States, in delegating this issue back to the states the way that it was for literally all of American history, has basically now said that the Congress of the United States is not going to be the chief mechanism by which abortion policy is decided.
00:09:59.000And if this is going to be decided on a federal level, it will have to be done through constitutional amendment.
00:10:03.000And the reason I say this is because the same court that just overruled Roe v. Wade also happens to believe in the basic precepts of federalism.
00:10:10.000And there is no delegated power to the Congress of the United States to actually pass wide-scale pro-abortion or pro-life legislation via the powers that are delegated to it by the Constitution of the United States.
00:10:21.000You have to actually have a delegated power under the Constitution in order for Congress to do something.
00:10:28.000So, you will see, for example, the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.
00:10:31.000That passed in the 2000s, in the early 2000s.
00:10:34.000It was connected to any sort of partial birth abortion that affects interstate commerce.
00:10:38.000But as the Supreme Court of the United States becomes more originalist, the interstate commerce clause is not going to allow for the possibility of widespread regulation on a variety of issues.
00:10:51.000So I just don't think this is going to be a major federal election issue.
00:10:53.000I think that it's a media issue, but I also don't think it's going to be a major federal election issue.
00:10:57.000Now, the one way it will be a major federal election issue is that the culture wars matter and the image of the two parties matters an awful lot.
00:11:04.000So the left is trying to paint the right as abortion banning John Lithgow from Footloose.
00:11:09.000And the right is trying to paint the left as radical on social policy.
00:11:15.000Now, I think it's going to be a lot easier for the right to do this than the left.
00:11:18.000The reason I say this is because the left is actually doing all these things publicly.
00:11:21.000And the things that they are doing shock the conscience.
00:11:24.000The pro-life position is controversial, but it's not nearly as unpopular as the position that drag queens in schools are a good thing and that we need to trans the kids.
00:12:15.000Those are things we must, that is the next step in the civil rights battle.
00:12:18.000And the backlash is coming, and the backlash is here, and the backlash is strong.
00:12:22.000Because we are now seeing that for a long time, for most of my life, And certainly for generations before, there was a baseline assumption in the United States, correct or not, that everybody was aiming, generally speaking, really since the end of World War II, at the same final result.
00:12:36.000The same final result was a stronger America on the foreign policy front, with a stronger economy, with a more cordial relationship between Americans.
00:12:43.000We were all aiming at sort of the same thing, with a moral basis.
00:12:46.000And we just had different ways of getting there.
00:12:48.000This was the truism, the tautology that was put out there over and over and over, 80s, 90s, even 2000s.
00:12:55.000And now it's completely broken down because it appears that there really are two different countries culturally.
00:13:02.000Not in terms of the actual policy that gets done, although given how hard the Biden administration is pushing on the left-wing policy, it does matter.
00:13:09.000But just in terms of the image as to what Americans want their country to be.
00:13:14.000I point this out because The culture wars are one of the reasons why Donald Trump became president in 2016.
00:13:19.000It's one of the reasons why Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida is very popular with the Republican base right now.
00:13:23.000It's because they're not steering away from the culture wars.
00:13:25.000For all of the 2000s, Republicans were so shy about culture war issues, they were told, don't talk about culture.
00:13:32.000Whatever you do, don't talk abortion, don't talk same-sex marriage, don't talk about any of these things, because it's off-putting to people.
00:13:37.000You really want to just talk about the consensus issues, like lower taxes or crime.
00:13:40.000Just avoid the hot topic culture issues.
00:13:43.000The left has pushed so far here that of course they're going to lose.
00:14:56.000Well, now that the left has pushed so far beyond the point of reason, the right is pushing back and the right is winning a lot of people over.
00:15:03.000So, there are a lot of indicators of this.
00:15:07.000One of the indicators is that the pop culture world is completely out of touch.
00:15:11.000So, the lead singer of Green Day has now announced that he's going to renounce his citizenship over the abortion ruling.
00:15:17.000Billy Joe Armstrong telling fans at a London concert he no longer wants to be a US citizen.
00:15:22.000And I think most Americans are going to look at this and they're going to say, well, bye.
00:15:27.000I mean, I know, America's greatest artist, one of the great products, a hundred years from now, when we fire music into space for the aliens to find, the greatest of world culture, I'm sure that Green Day's Billy Joe Armstrong will be on that record.
00:15:44.000But the entire celebrity class has revolved around these social issues.
00:15:48.000And when the celebrity class is greenlighting your social policy as it is for the Democratic Party, That is not going to be something that redounds to the benefit of the Republican Party.
00:15:57.000Now the media, because they follow the lead of Green Day lead singers and Lorde and Lily Allen, because they have the same exact policy positions as these people, the same social beliefs as these people, they are in a bubble of their own making where they think that this sort of stuff is really popular.
00:17:02.000Add it all together, and I don't know who's left in future generations to be drawn to this party.
00:17:09.000If you look back at 2016, I think people voted for Trump for a wide array of reasons.
00:17:13.000Some of them garbage, but some of them legitimately economic or even foreign policy.
00:17:19.000I think the people voting for more Trump, more MAGA, now are really motivated by very few reasons, and so there are fewer of them.
00:17:28.000And when you imagine that, I think for the first time, maybe we should ask Jeff Toobin, a generation will be able to say, my parents had a right that I don't have today.
00:17:39.000For the first time, a right was taken back.
00:17:43.000I can't imagine how Republicans message to new voters and don't just keep shrinking and condensing.
00:17:51.000OK, first of all, just to point out here, the Democratic agenda on this has the anti-democracy.
00:17:55.000They've been saying that the Supreme Court of the United States should basically be thrown out into the garbage.
00:18:20.000How are Republicans ever going to win again?
00:18:22.000Associated Press, today, a political shift is beginning to take hold across the United States as tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party's gains in recent years are becoming Republicans.
00:18:33.000Sad trombone from the Price is Right for SE Cup.
00:18:35.000More than 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party over the last year, according to voter registration data analyzed by the Associated Press.
00:18:43.000The previously unreported number reflects a phenomenon that is playing out in virtually every region of the country.
00:18:49.000Democratic and Republican states, along with cities and small towns, in the period since President Joe Biden replaced former President Trump.
00:18:55.000Nowhere is the shift more pronounced than in the suburbs.
00:18:58.000This was supposed to be the place where Democrats were going to win broad swaths of Americans with their liberal social policy, where well-educated swing voters who turned against Trump's Republican Party in recent years appear to be swinging back.
00:19:08.000Over the last year, far more people are switching to the GOP across suburban counties from Denver to Atlanta and Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
00:19:15.000Republicans also gained ground in counties across medium-sized cities like Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Raleigh, North Carolina, Augusta, Georgia, and Des Moines, Iowa.
00:19:23.000The AP examined nearly 1.7 million voters who had likely switched affiliations across 42 states, for which there is data.
00:19:29.000over the last 12 months, according to L2, a political data firm.
00:19:32.000L2 uses a combination of state voter records and statistical modeling to determine party affiliation, meaning that the switchers include both those who have formally changed their registration and those who L2 estimates have shifted toward the GOP.
00:19:43.000The data shows a definite reversal from the period when Trump was in office, when Democrats enjoyed a slight edge in the number of party switchers nationwide.
00:19:49.000Over the last year, roughly two-thirds of the 1.7 million voters who changed their party affiliation shifted Republican.
00:19:56.000In all, more than a million people became Republicans compared to about 630,000 who became Democrats.
00:20:01.000The broad migration of more than 1 million voters, a small portion of the overall U.S.
00:20:04.000electorate, doesn't ensure widespread Republican success in November.
00:20:07.000Still, the details about the party switchers present a dire warning for Democrats.
00:20:11.000Well, maybe it's because they've decided to embrace the most radical policies.
00:20:15.000By the way, states like Florida are now moving closer to pure red.
00:20:18.000Florida, for my entire lifetime, was a closely divided purple state in 2018.
00:20:24.000The current governor of the state of Florida, Ron DeSantis, beat Andrew Gillum, a man who was caught in a hotel room with a gay hooker and meth, like five minutes after he was governor, and now is under federal indictment for corruption.
00:20:37.000He beat that guy by like 30,000 votes.
00:20:39.000This time around, Ron DeSantis is going to win in a walk.
00:20:41.000The Democratic Governors Association isn't even spending money.
00:21:29.000Their biggest problem is not, you know, the safe, legal and rare argument by Democrats in the 90s was effective specifically because that argument acknowledged the moral evil that abortion is.
00:21:39.000It then made a bunch of arguments to sort of paper that over in order to get to the policy preferences that most Americans have, which is a sort of squishy, somewhere in the middle position on abortion.
00:22:38.000So for example, the senior editor at Scholastic Press, which is a book publisher for children, she just released a statement three days ago, quote, I'll mention now, my colleagues and I absolutely do want your young adult books with or about abortions.
00:22:58.000Hey, it's that sort of stuff that is going to shift votes.
00:23:00.000I know that people in the political world, you know, we who spend our time analyzing legislation and reading court decisions and who look at the details of how Senate bills move and how reconciliation committees put together the actual law.
00:23:14.000We are obsessed with that kind of stuff.
00:23:55.000The Democratic Party has decided that their utopian vision involves all of us just celebrating, celebrating sin and bad behavior and engaging in it.
00:24:03.000And this is the true measure of human happiness.
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00:25:38.000I understand that Kamala Harris can't string together more than two sentences without having to circle back around and repeat herself.
00:25:45.000I understand that she's a very bad example of a person who thinks before she talks because she really doesn't.
00:25:49.000She starts off a sentence not knowing where the sentence is going to end.
00:25:52.000But the statement that she made in the CNN exclusive about why abortion is necessary carries such an ugly underlying moral message that is worthy of comment because this is the belief of a huge swath of Democratic Party.
00:26:05.000Everyone has something at risk on this.
00:26:08.000First of all, if you are a parent of sons, do think about what this means for the life of your son, and what that will mean in terms of the choices he will have.
00:26:20.000Do think about it in the context of the fact that they wrote this decision, including concurring opinions, that suggest that other rights, such as the freedom to make decisions about when you were going to start a family, The freedom and the right to make decisions about contraception, IUDs, what this is going to mean in terms of in vitro fertilization.
00:26:45.000Okay, that statement, think about what it means in the life of your son.
00:26:48.000This goes to the underlying sexual ethos of the Democratic Party, which is pure, complete promiscuity and hedonism.
00:26:54.000That is the underlying ethos, that that is an active good, that anything that impedes your ability to lead the sexually self-fulfilling life that you want, including responsibility to children or to your sexual partner, that these things are active bads and any imposition on that, including to save the life of a child.
00:27:12.000I mean, this falls directly in line with something that then Senator Obama said when he was talking about abortion.
00:27:19.000And he said about his own kids at the time, said, I'm going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
00:27:26.000This is the language of the Democratic Party.
00:27:30.000It's about being punished with a baby.
00:27:31.000I mean, what Kamala Harris is saying there is think about your sons.
00:27:37.000Your sons want to have as much sex with as many people as humanly possible.
00:27:41.000Now they're going to have to think about things like maybe they shouldn't have as much sex with as many people as humanly possible because they might have a baby.
00:27:47.000And you wouldn't want them to have to take care of a baby now, would you?
00:27:49.000You wouldn't want them to have to take responsibility for their sexual decision making, would you?
00:27:53.000To the consequences of their sexual decision making?
00:27:56.000The Democratic Party has spent the last several decades trying to enmesh in the idea of sex, the idea that it is completely disconnected from procreation, breaking every rule of mammalian biology for hundreds of thousands of years.
00:28:10.000The idea is that sex is a completely separate thing, that thanks to birth control, thanks to contraception, and thanks to abortion, we now have a completely sexually fluid population where the main concern is genital pleasure.
00:29:06.000And now he's the great defender of women, according to the left, because we're all supposed to treat everybody as pieces of meat all the time.
00:29:13.000So Howard Stern yesterday, repeating the same sort of arguments you're getting from the Vice President of the United States.
00:29:18.000The Democratic Party didn't used to be on board with Howard Stern's version of morality.
00:29:45.000Again, this guy is mostly famous for having women in his studio and asking them to make out with each other.
00:29:52.000Here's Howard Stern, great moral exemplar.
00:29:56.000We, as a country, voted for Hillary Clinton by 3 million votes.
00:30:02.000We voted for Biden because it was repugnant, all this horseshit.
00:30:07.000But now for life, now listen, the other thing is if I do run for president, and I'm not f***ing around, I'm really thinking about it, because the only other thing I'm going to do is appoint five more Supreme Court justices.
00:30:21.000Well, I mean, that is exactly what the Democrats would like to do.
00:30:25.000That is the moral world that they're pushing.
00:30:27.000And it's embedded in so much of the media.
00:30:31.000They just take for granted the idea that we all want this moral world where everything boils down to your subjective sense of sexual pleasure and that everybody should celebrate you for that subjective sense of sexual pleasure.
00:30:42.000It's why the left, they literally cannot comprehend Why there are so many people who, for example, are not on board with gay pride flags flying at Target when you take your kids to shop.
00:31:34.000Madeline V might be done with men altogether.
00:31:36.000The 24-year-old marketing assistant who identifies as bisexual, Madeline, who asked that Insider use only her first name, has decided that sticking to female partners may be the safest sexual route these days.
00:31:46.000That's an interesting way to make your sexual decisions.
00:31:48.000I want to be as promiscuous as I want, so I need to find a partner who is incapable of creating children naturally with me.
00:31:55.000It's not fear of men exactly that has inspired this young woman to consider swearing off an entire gender.
00:32:00.000It's the heightened fear of an unwanted pregnancy and a subsequent lack of options that has forced Madeline to proceed with sexual caution in the wake of Friday's Supreme Court decision gutting federal abortion rights protections.
00:32:10.000Adeline T., a 17-year-old high school student in Houston, Texas area, told Insider she was genuinely terrified when she found out Roe might be overturned.
00:32:18.000Adeline, whose identity is known by the Insider, asked that her name not be used.
00:32:21.000Her conservative home state certainly plays a role in that fear.
00:32:25.000Surprisingly enough, I've actually had dreams where I'm pregnant, and I can't find a way to take care of myself, Adeline said, later correcting herself, saying the visions were more akin to nightmares.
00:32:32.000The bad dreams are new, only taking hold in her mind since the decision was leaked.
00:32:36.000These nightmares could be a reality, Adeline said.
00:32:39.000Catherine Dee, a 19-year-old college student whose identity is known by Insider, said she was initially shocked when she learned about the leaked opinion.
00:32:45.000When she stepped back and thought about it objectively, the decision became less surprising as she considered the Supreme Court's Supreme Court's Gender, Race, and Age Makeup.
00:32:52.000They're not personally affected by it.
00:32:54.000Earlier this month, Insider published several social media callouts requesting reactions, responses, and replies from members of Gen Z regarding their thoughts on hookup culture and sex in a possible post-rule world.
00:33:04.000Dozens of people shared their insights.
00:33:06.000Some bemoaned a constant fear of getting pregnant.
00:33:09.000Others described shattered views of child rearing in a world plagued by climate change, COVID-19, and attacks on women's reproductive rights.
00:33:16.000It's immoral to have a kid because of COVID-19 and climate change.
00:33:20.000Also, it's really, really moral for me to bang around with whoever I want and treat people as just pure sexual objects for pleasure.
00:33:28.000Respondees offered a list of colorful words to describe their emotions around the draft decision.
00:33:33.000Angry, upset, disgust, and dredge, you've among them.
00:33:36.000The majority of young people who participated in the discussion said they were pro-choice and expressed anger at the possibility the highest court in the land could soon overturn a person's right to choose, anecdotally confirming national statistics on the topic.
00:33:48.000Gen Z is sexually and racially and ethnically diverse.
00:33:53.000They are more likely than previous generations to support the protection of LGBT rights.
00:33:57.000And they are the queerest generation on record, one in six American Gen Z members identifying as LGBT.
00:34:01.000All of these factors have inevitably affected the attitudes towards sex of the members of Gen Z Insider spoke to.
00:34:06.000Members of the generation told Insider they and their peers approach sexual relationships and intimacy in an entirely different way than previous generations.
00:34:13.000Gen Z is one of the most open about sex and hookup culture, Adeline said.
00:34:17.000She told Insider that among her friends, most women are entirely supportive of other women's sexual decisions, whether they are sexually active or celibate.
00:34:25.000Many of the people Insider spoke to said they've noticed their generational peers becoming more politically active in recent years, but Gen Z's progressive attitudes and go-get-em advocacy can sometimes feel like an unfair expectation on the youngest generation.
00:34:36.000While Gen Z's feelings about abortion are fairly analogous, per our polling, the responses Insider received in regards to living post-Roe are decidedly more individual.
00:34:45.000Ever since the draft decision was leaked, Adeline said she's been having to rethink whether or not she wants to start having sex.
00:34:51.000Telling insiders she's terrified to make a choice that could leave her with an unwanted child.
00:35:01.000Catherine D. was already participating in hookup culture before the Supreme Court decision dropped.
00:35:06.000Being on birth control is not an option due to the way it negatively affects her physical and mental health, Catherine said, so she's been left to re-evaluate the consequences of casual sex that have suddenly become very real.
00:35:15.000As much as I want to have fun in my 20s, what happens to me when the fun stops?
00:35:18.000What happens to me when I might be in need of an abortion and can't access that?
00:35:22.000The unknowns have left her feeling like a more reserved version of herself as she contemplates the risks now tied to her body.
00:35:28.000Again, for the left, biology is an obstacle to true human freedom and equality, and the only solution to that is abortion.
00:35:34.000The only solution to that is the death of the unborn.
00:35:37.000This is the culture, this is the cheer your abortion, celebrate your abortion culture the left is pushing.
00:35:42.000Again, this is not about the specific policy with regard to abortion.
00:35:44.000This is about the general perception that people are going to have of the political sides of the aisle.
00:35:50.000The argument that the left is making Is that abortion is an... The lack of abortion is a radical imposition on the sexual choices of women.
00:36:03.000And most Americans, I think, see that sex is something that should be done in the context of a committed relationship where you might raise a child with somebody because historically, sex has led to childbearing.
00:36:16.000The overthrow of biology, the overthrow of the connection between sex and childbearing, That has not led to a happier world.
00:36:22.000It has led to a more mentally unstable world.
00:36:24.000It has led to fluidity of relationships that are very bad for people.
00:36:28.000The left got what it wanted in terms of its sexual utopia, and it turns out it's a pretty crappy place.
00:36:33.000Look at the mental illness rates among kids.
00:36:35.000Look at the mental illness rates among teenagers.
00:36:37.000Look at the lack of marriage, the lack of childbearing.
00:36:39.000Look at the demographic decline of the West.
00:36:45.000Now, it's a free society, you get to make your own sexual decisions.
00:36:48.000But the idea that abortion in and of itself is an inherent good, again, not something that is bad or evil and occasionally has to be done.
00:36:55.000See, the argument that's made by the more popular sort of pro-abortion arguments that are broadly popular are the ones about rape and incest and life of the mother.
00:37:03.000You know, stuff that's actually controversial on a moral level.
00:37:06.000But when it comes to the mainstream abortion, which is 99% of abortions, the woman who gets pregnant, doesn't want to be pregnant, gets rid of the baby.
00:37:13.000When it comes to that, the shift in the language of the left from this is a thing that is tragic, but sometimes needs to be used, to it's an act of good and we should celebrate it, runs directly in kind with the argument that the true human fulfillment lies in genital pleasure.
00:37:28.000The Freudian notion that true human happiness lies in genital pleasure beyond all else.
00:37:34.000And this is why you have the Planned Parenthood CEO saying that this is like imposing slavery.
00:37:38.000Because in her view, saying to people that you should be responsible about your sexual decisions and keep in mind that you might produce a child for which you will be responsible, this is like slavery.
00:37:47.000Being subject to the laws of biology, in which you get pregnant after sex, which is the way, again, of all mammalian species, that this is a form of slavery.
00:37:57.000We have seen such extreme laws being introduced in states like Missouri and Louisiana, criminalizing not just telemedicine abortion, but also things like contraception, IUDs, perhaps IVF, and that idea that you couldn't travel across your own state boundary.
00:38:15.000It's just such a bizarre construct, right?
00:38:18.000It just obviously harkens back to slavery.
00:38:21.000So we are incredibly concerned about what might happen and to have the White House and the administration thinking about all of the ways to get care to people is so important.
00:38:31.000And again, this is part and parcel of the argument.
00:39:58.000Sexual fluidity and promiscuity is an act of good.
00:40:00.000Sexual responsibility is an act of bad.
00:40:02.000You think that argument is going to play in mainstream America?
00:40:05.000The Democratic Party has decided to embrace this as the core of their definition of the mystery of human life, as Justice Kennedy might say, in Planned Parenthood versus Casey.
00:40:16.000The goal of the Democratic Party is to take any sort of call for sexual morality, for responsibility for the next generation, for natural human biology, and to make that effectively illegal in the public sphere.
00:40:29.000It's not just that the left is in love with abortion as a sacramental object.
00:40:33.000It is that they really despise religion.
00:40:35.000This is part of the utopian vision for how we individually seek our complete sexual selves.
00:40:40.000All of this is really, really counterproductive.
00:40:42.000You know what else is counterproductive?
00:40:44.000Not getting your mortgage refinanced if you have a better mortgage option available.
00:40:47.000The cost of everything is rising right now.
00:40:48.000I mean everything, especially if there's an interest rate tied to it.
00:40:51.000Have you seen some of the numbers lately?
00:40:52.000Debt is about to get a lot more expensive really, really soon.
00:40:55.000So it's time to sneak in under the wire right now.
00:40:58.000Give our friends at American Financing a call right now.
00:42:40.000I'm so thrilled to see this happening.
00:42:42.000If they say to half of the country, you can't, that half of the country needs to say, screw you, we will!
00:42:49.000And if you thought last year was good, wait until you see this year's.
00:42:51.000We have so much good stuff for you, like surprises galore.
00:42:54.000Tune into the live stream tomorrow, 8 p.m.
00:42:56.000Eastern, dailywire.com slash Ryman, to join me, Matt Walsh, Michael Mowles, Andrew Klavan, co-CEO, God King, Jeremy Boring, as we dig into the political and cultural issues of the day.
00:43:05.000We've done a lot of stuff this year, and you've enjoyed all of it.
00:44:08.000I know the left doesn't know the definition of these words anymore.
00:44:10.000The left's definition of full-scale human happiness is that, and that means any obstacle, biology, religion, these are all very bad.
00:44:18.000Okay, so yesterday, there was a case that came down from the Supreme Court, and again, this is a culture war issue where the right is going to win, because most people are not on the side of the left's attempt to bar all religion from public expression in life.
00:44:31.000So, this decision was a case about a person named Joe Kennedy.
00:44:37.000He was a coach in Washington State, I believe.
00:44:40.000At the Bremerton School District, and he made the unfortunate error of after football games, he would go to the 50 yard line and he would pray.
00:44:54.000Like, while all the other coaches were on the sidelines texting their friends or tweeting or whatever, he would go out to the 50-yard line and he would say a personal prayer.
00:45:00.000And it turns out, a bunch of students like this.
00:45:02.000And many of the students would go and they would gather with him and they would pray.
00:45:20.000The court decided 6-3 it is a violation of religious freedom principles to say that you can be fired for the great crime of uttering a personal prayer in which others join.
00:45:29.000The opinion by Justice Gorsuch suggests that the direction that Gorsuch is moving, because remember, Gorsuch is the same justice who wrote the ridiculous decision in Bostock that suggested that the Civil Rights Act of 1965 somehow covers transgenderism in Title IX.
00:45:43.000He suggested that discrimination against women is equivalent to discrimination against transgender women or transgender men, or whatever it may be.
00:45:50.000It's a really, really bad decision, Bostock.
00:45:53.000What he's attempting to do, you can see now, is set up the Utah Compromise.
00:45:55.000The Utah Compromise is the state of legislation in Utah whereby they have a very, very highly rigid anti-discrimination law that includes things like sexual orientation and gender identity, but huge carve-outs for religious freedom.
00:46:07.000That seems to be what Gorsuch is setting up here.
00:46:10.000But here's what Gorsuch writes about the expression of religion in public.
00:46:14.000He said, both the free exercise and the free speech clauses of the First Amendment protect expressions like Mr. Kennedy's.
00:46:19.000Nor does a proper understanding of the Amendment's Establishment Clause, right, that's the clause saying you can't establish a religion, require the government to single out private religious speech for special disfavor.
00:46:27.000The Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression for religious and non-religious views alike.
00:46:33.000What the left likes to do with the First Amendment and the freedom of religion is they like to read it in direct opposition to the Establishment Clause.
00:46:39.000Okay, so what the First Amendment to the United States Constitution says about religion is that you can't establish a religion and also you can't prohibit the free exercise thereof.
00:46:50.000The idea was that if you establish, say, Catholicism as the official religion of a state, what you are doing is prohibiting the free exercise of other people's religion.
00:46:57.000The Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause are not read in opposition.
00:47:01.000It's not that the government can't establish a religion and also has to guarantee free exercise.
00:47:05.000It's that by preventing the establishment, you are guaranteeing free exercise.
00:47:12.000So what the left has said is, this means that free exercise really doesn't matter and the only thing that matters is that the government is not allowed to allow you to do things that are religious in public spaces.
00:47:38.000Antonio Sotomayor writes for the liberals.
00:47:39.000And what she says is that any public expression of religion on public grounds could be a violation of the Establishment Clause and therefore ought to be barred by the government and might get you fired.
00:47:50.000And so what she says, this is a direct quote, she says, while the court reaffirms that the establishment clause prohibits the government from coercing participation in religious exercise, it applies a nearly toothless version of the coercion analysis, failing to acknowledge the unique pressures faced by students when participating in school sponsored activities.
00:48:05.000This decision does a disservice to schools and the young students they serve, as well as to our nation's longstanding commitment to the separation of church and state.
00:48:12.000So what she is saying is that if a person prays in a public context, this is a form of coercion.
00:48:16.000Just like biology is a form of coercion, it turns out that me practicing my religion without forcing you to do anything is a form of coercion.
00:48:22.000Because the left has a belief system, and that belief system is that the systems of power that are embedded in the world all around us define us.
00:48:29.000And if we got rid of all those things, we would be perfectly free to do what we want.
00:48:33.000And that means we must forcibly disestablish religion.
00:48:37.000Not prevent the establishment of, forcibly disestablish it.
00:48:40.000You must never encounter religion in your daily life.
00:48:42.000You might then run up against the reality of an idea you don't like, and that would inhibit you in deep and abiding ways.
00:48:50.000And that would be a real net negative.
00:48:53.000Again, this is a major issue inside the feminist movement.
00:48:57.000It's been a major issue inside the feminist movement for years.
00:49:00.000One of the big ideas of the feminist movement, in fact, is the idea that the reason that women act the way they do is because of cultural indoctrination.
00:49:08.000Right, so this is why Simone de Boivier was writing in The Second Sex in 1949.
00:49:12.000Everything helps to confirm this hierarchy in the eyes of the little girl.
00:49:14.000The historical and literary culture to which she belongs, the songs and legends with which she is lulled to sleep, are one long exaltation of man.
00:49:20.000Children's books, mythology stories, tales, all reflect the myths born of the pride and desires of men.
00:49:25.000Thus, it is that through the eyes of men, the little girl discovers the world and reads therein her destiny.
00:49:32.000So the argument of the left is always that all of the institutions are biased in favor of things like, for example, marriage or child rearing.
00:49:38.000And if we just blow up the institutions, then we can all truly be free to be who we want.
00:49:42.000And that will be the new magic utopia.
00:49:45.000That's the vision of the left, and it's being spelled out fully by Sonia Sotomayor in that dissent, in the religious freedom case.
00:49:52.000Contrasting vision number one, we have a system in which sexual responsibility is taught and forwarded.
00:49:58.000We have a system in which marriage is seen as an actual good.
00:50:00.000We have a system in which we try to protect the lives of the unborn because that, in fact, is our future.
00:50:04.000We have a system in which we don't establish religion, but public practice of religion is a good thing, and treated as a good thing.
00:50:10.000And then on the other side, we have an idea that your private sexual activity is made public.
00:50:14.000Everyone is forced to celebrate that private sexual activity.
00:50:17.000We are supposed to treat the killing of the unborn as a fundamental right that guarantees you the ability to lead your sexually fluid lifestyle as far as you wish.
00:50:25.000And we're going to indoctrinate your children in these principles.
00:50:28.000Which one of those directions do you think the United States is likely to take?
00:50:32.000Which direction do you think the United States is likely to take?
00:50:35.000And you're starting to see this come out in the actual policy that's being pursued by the Democratic Party.
00:50:39.000Now, the Democratic Party does not have a lot of options when it comes to actual abortion policy at this point, because again, the federal government is no longer in the abortion business.
00:50:48.000The Supreme Court of the United States effectively just delegated this thing back to the states.
00:50:52.000But Democrats have to say something to their constituents about why if you elect more Democratic senators, then magically they'll be able to put Roe back in place.
00:50:59.000And so they've been struggling to come up with some sort of solution.
00:51:03.000And they're not really coming up with much.
00:51:05.000Joe Biden apparently, so here are his sort of minor solutions.
00:51:08.000One, He's going to allow federal employees to use sick leave to get abortion now.
00:51:14.000According to LifeNews.com, without actually mentioning the word abortion, the Biden administration swiftly created a new pro-abortion benefit for federal employees.
00:51:22.000Office of Personnel Management published a document on Monday stating that federal employees now may use sick days if they or one of their family members needs to travel for quote-unquote medical care.
00:51:31.000The document does not mention abortion, but the Biden administration believes killing unborn babies and abortion is medical care.
00:51:37.000The document states that federal employees who find it necessary to travel longer distances, including out of state to obtain medical care, are allowed to use sick days.
00:51:44.000If the leave is less than three days, the employee doesn't need to give a reason to their supervisor.
00:51:47.000If it's longer, the doctor's excuse, quote, need not contain details regarding the medical examination or treatment.
00:51:53.000So obviously, this is the federal government now in the business of effectively using your taxpayer dollars to subsidize abortions.
00:52:00.000I mean, that seems like a basic violation of the Hyde Amendment.
00:52:03.000Because if you're paying for somebody's sick day and the sick day is being used to do an abortion, that would be subsidization of abortion.
00:52:10.000The federal government using your taxpayer dollars to pay somebody to go get an abortion.
00:52:21.000She now wants to use federal dollars, not just to subsidize abortions, but it'll be like you drive into Yellowstone, and there's a Planned Parenthood to kill your baby.
00:52:27.000So drop your kids off at daycare, and then the one that's still in your uterus, just leave it at Yellowstone.
00:52:33.000She says, they could put up tents, have trained personnel, and be there to help people who need it.
00:52:38.000It's time to declare a medical emergency.
00:52:42.000Their solution is tents in national parks for abortion.
00:52:58.000Like, under what rubric could we even... When Kamala Harris is saying no to things, you know it's pretty radical.
00:53:03.000Can the administration expand abortion access or abortion services on federal land?
00:53:11.000Meaning, provide the access on federal land that might be in and around states that ban abortion?
00:53:20.000I think that what is most important right now is that we ensure that the restrictions that the states are trying to put up that would prohibit a woman from exercising what we still maintain is her right, that we do everything we can to empower women to Not only seek, but to receive the care where it is available.
00:53:46.000They're discussing the possibility of sending travel vouchers to women who want an abortion.
00:53:49.000So again, the Hyde Amendment says that the federal government will not spend taxpayer dollars to subsidize abortion.
00:53:54.000This has been a longstanding part of bipartisan American policy going back to the 90s.
00:53:58.000And now she's basically talking about just trashing it.
00:54:00.000She says, we're going to send travel vouchers for abortion.
00:54:02.000So you can go to Abortion Disneyland over in California.
00:54:05.000Women who have access to resources will probably be far less Impacted by this decision than women who don't have resources.
00:54:13.000So this is something that we are looking at because we know, for example, in terms of how this is going to actually impact real people, over half of women who receive abortions in America are moms.
00:54:25.000It means that they may have to put up money for a train or a bus or a plane, much less a hotel.
00:54:31.000And so we want to make sure that there does not result extreme disparities or any disparities based on who can receive So you, the American taxpayer, you know, you paid for your family, you're paying for public education, you're paying for welfare, you're paying for everything else.
00:54:47.000You're not going to pay for some woman who got pregnant to travel out of state to get an abortion.
00:54:52.000I hope that in a time of recession that you're up for this challenge.
00:54:56.000The HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, who again has no record in health, and it's amazing.
00:55:01.000I mean, they literally just took a guy who was like the AG of California doing a crap job.
00:55:05.000What if we just made him HHS Secretary?
00:55:07.000Xavier Becerra, he says the same thing.
00:55:08.000He says we're going to actually use federal taxpayer dollars and pay people to go out of state for abortions.
00:55:13.000We are looking into everything including assisting in transportation, something that HHS doesn't typically do.
00:55:59.000She went on Drag Queen's show with RuPaul.
00:56:03.000And said that that's what America is all about.
00:56:04.000So if that's the party that you wish to vote for, really go for it.
00:56:07.000Nancy Pelosi says we should kill the filibuster in order to get all of these things done.
00:56:10.000So remember, the party that is very much in favor of democratic institutions and historic institutions, and they're very angry at Donald Trump because he attacked institutions.
00:56:17.000They want to tear down the Supreme Court, abolish the Senate, get rid of the filibuster, and, you know, maybe just take over all policy at the regulatory level.
00:56:26.000So she said that she wants to kill the filibuster.
00:56:29.000She listed bullet points outlining the goals of legislation she will introduce, including having personal data stored in reproductive health apps, clarifying that Americans have a constitutional right to travel freely across the country.
00:56:39.000I mean, first of all, that const- I mean, Justice Kavanaugh says that.
00:56:48.000And then she wants to pass the Women's Health Protection Act, which would enshrine Roe vs. Wade into the law of the land.
00:56:52.000You don't actually have the power to do that.
00:56:54.000Women's Health Protection Act is wildly unconstitutional.
00:56:56.000There's no basis for enshrining Roe at the congressional level.
00:57:00.000And then she said that we should get rid of the filibuster in order to make all of this stuff happening.
00:57:05.000She said, quote, we need to eliminate the filibuster so that we can restore women's fundamental rights and freedom for every American.
00:57:12.000These are fans of the institutions, folks.
00:57:14.000These are the people that you ought to trust with the institutions.
00:57:17.000I mean, honestly, I'm not too surprised by Nancy Pelosi, considering that when she's not in favor of killing unborn children, she's also just elbowing them out of the way.
00:57:24.000She was present at the swearing in of Maya Flores, who is the new congresswoman, first Mexican-American congresswoman from Texas, Republican.
00:58:19.000The basic premise that the media are now pushing is that what people care most about is the level of legislation in a given state with regard to abortion or at the federal level with regard to abortion.
00:58:32.000The way that people vote is they have a generalized perception of the people whom they are voting for or against.
00:58:37.000If they had voted based on policy in 2020, Joe Biden would not be president right now.
00:58:41.000They voted for Joe Biden because they didn't like Donald Trump's personality and they had a certain perception of how he was running the government.
00:58:47.000The same thing is going to happen in 2022.
00:58:51.000It's a completely anti- Life Party in the sense that there's, I think there may be one congressperson in the entire Democratic Party and in the House of Representatives who counts himself pro-life.
00:59:24.000That's alienating to the suburban women.
00:59:27.000Well, now that the Democrats have decided that they can fly their flag with regard to what they believe the good life looks like, it turns out not a lot of people are on that particular side of the aisle.
00:59:39.000So they can push this as hard as they want.
00:59:41.000But notice that the language that they are using is not with regard to rational and reasonable abortion legislation.
00:59:53.000They're talking about the kind of life that people should lead and the kind of life they think people should lead.
00:59:57.000is promiscuous people who redefine their gender at every available turn living by themselves with a small dog in an apartment in New York City.
01:00:05.000That is what the happy life looks like.
01:00:08.000Well, good luck to you if that's what you believe that most Americans believe.
01:00:14.000Democrats ought to move away from this as fast as humanly possible if they wish to retain any shred of credibility with the vast majority of Americans who don't think that that is what utopia looks like, particularly.
01:00:22.000All right, we'll be back here later today with more content.
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