Youtuber MONETIZES Abortion In INSANE Viral Story That MAY BE A HOAX
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Summary
This story has gone massively viral, shocking the conscience of so many conservatives. It's a story of a YouTube influencer who announced that after getting a special test done, they found out that their baby may have Down Syndrome. For this reason, he announced that they had aborted the baby. Now, conservatives are saying you chose to kill your child, not give them a chance, and then you're acting like you lost your child accidentally.
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This story has gone massively viral, shocking the conscience of so many conservatives.
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It's a story of a YouTube influencer who announced that after getting a special test done, they found out that their baby that they were expecting may have Down syndrome or more specifically ailments of and related to Trisomy 21, I believe it is called.
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For this reason, he announced that they had aborted the baby.
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They're saying you chose to kill your child, not give them a chance.
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And then you're acting like you lost your child accidentally.
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This guy, Jesse, has gone on to say that it's insane how he's getting attacked so mercilessly
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after having just lost a child, to which, once again, it fans the flames.
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And conservatives respond by saying you ended the life of your child.
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Now, certainly there are many questions to bring up in whether or not this is truly abhorrent or evil.
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And I will just say definitively outright, right off the bat, pure evil for a variety of reasons.
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Now, there's a lot more to the story that makes it evil in question.
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And I'm sure there are many people who are liberal minded who are saying, look, man.
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they agree with this family getting an abortion when the baby was showing signs or was tested
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testing positive for Down syndrome. I'm sure a lot of you agree with that. Okay. Well, I'm going
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to make a couple of other arguments. First, the monetization and contentization of something like
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this. How could you deny that it's evil? These are people, if on the surface, it's true that
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They had to abort their baby, or I shouldn't say they had to,
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but they chose to because of the Down syndrome diagnosis.
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They have made YouTube videos about this, made posts on social media,
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for which they had no reason to do at all, generating millions of views and controversy.
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And I would say outright, this is the sickness that plagues the modern era.
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This individual is being accused of hoaxing the whole thing.
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So you want to talk about evil, let's talk about the next degree of accusation.
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People are saying this guy is a long-form, deep-cover hoaxer.
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He makes videos over very long periods of time that turn out to be fake,
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We've got two tweets where they go through the history of the content this guy has created,
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but sure enough, it's getting him more attention than he's ever gotten.
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Liberals will line up behind him to agree with him on the surface claim.
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If you look at a country like Iceland, they brag about how they've eliminated people with
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But I just, guys, I'm not a staunch conservative.
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I'm not, I don't even consider myself pro-life.
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But if you're bragging, that's like, well, we killed them all.
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Okay, you got to understand why people think that's evil, don't you?
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Now, of course, this gets into the whole abortion debate, which we'll have to go through.
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Influencer couple end pregnancy over Down syndrome concerns.
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I actually lean towards this may be a hoax, but I don't know for sure.
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Influencer couple Jesse and Ashley Ridgway are opening up about a devastating family
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decision, revealing they terminated a pregnancy after learning their unborn child had Down
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Jesse, better known online as Mick Jugger Nuggets, shared the news on Wednesday in a
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series of emotional Instagram stories, telling their followers the couple recently ended
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the pregnancy after doctors diagnosed the baby with Trisomy 21, also known as Down syndrome.
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He made a post on social media saying 50% of babies with Down syndrome have heart defects, 70% will have hearing challenges, over 50% will have vision problems, impaired immune function, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, delayed physical development, poor muscle tone, structural issues with face, decreased lifespan, et cetera.
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I thought it would be I thought it'd be lower, given I hear so many say they kept or would keep
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the baby, because I believe that's because most terminations happen privately. It feels shameful.
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A lot of judgment is being cast. The way Jesse tells it, the decision came after extensive
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conversation with medical experts. He says he initially felt optimistic about raising a child
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with a condition, but later learned more about the potential health complications.
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So here's the initial post Jesse Ridgeway made for which he is getting massive, massive viewership
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It says, well, carrying a child with Down syndrome
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This week, my wife and I made the very difficult decision
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especially the unconditional support we received from fans
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I know some of you may be very disappointed to hear this news.
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This has been extremely traumatic for both of us,
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Trisomy 21, also known as Down syndrome, is caused by an extra chromosome.
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It is caused by an error in cell division, like a glitch.
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The odds of a baby having is about one in 1,000.
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When I first confronted the news, I was shocked but optimistic.
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If they're a little slow intellectually, then we'll make it work.
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I signed on to be a parent, come what may, but I just didn't fully understand what Down syndrome entailed.
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Once we made it public, it became clear that most people don't know what Down syndrome entails.
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I didn't realize just how rough it is for the child, let alone the family.
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More often than not, they would be fully dependent on others for the rest of their life.
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The miscarriage risk is also close to 50%, which made matters worse.
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They may never see the light of day, and it puts Ashley further at risk.
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We spoke to doctors, friends, family, and genetic counselors,
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and learned that 90% of women terminate their pregnancies after learning the baby has trisomy 21.
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I thought it would be lower given that I hear so many say they kept or would keep the baby.
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I believe that's because most terminations happen privately.
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It feels shameful, a lot of judgment being cast.
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You never think you'd be in this type of situation until it happens to you and then things change.
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To all of my fans who have weighed in on this topic, who have autism, Down syndrome, or any other conditions, we appreciate you.
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I commend you and your families for having the strength and courage to push forward.
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As for us, we made the difficult decision that we believe in the long run will be beneficial for our family.
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It will take a little time to move on, but we are excited to try again in the future and hopefully have a better outcome.
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Love you guys, and thank you for understanding.
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I've never seen such hate and vitriol for two people grieving the loss of their unborn child
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The last 24 hours have exposed a side of humanity that is deeply disturbing,
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being called murderous pieces of ish evil compared to Hitler and receiving nonstop death threats.
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Seeing my six-year-old dog with stage four kidney disease be used as a weapon,
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manipulating my words and intent in a tweet or saying we'll regret this decision forever
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If you ever wanted to marvel at the depravity of people in line,
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just check the replies on my latest tweet. It's an is show of epic proportions. This is reflective
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of the current world and landscape we are living in. What's more troubling is a lot of these people
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use God or Jesus as their justification for threatening us and wanting to cast us into
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hell. So many saying they would have kept the child, put it up for adoption, or are suddenly
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ready to adopt a downstream child. That's great. You can do all of those things. However, many of
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you throwing stones don't even have children, let alone one with a condition, and most likely will
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never do the things they say they're going to do. There's been some heinous ish said about my wife
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and I in some extremely large accounts. It baffles me that there are such trashy people
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who have significant followings. If you can't contribute anything meaningful to the conversation
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aside from insults, then just don't post. On the other hand, there's been tremendous stories of
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people who kept their Down syndrome baby, and that's awesome. Very courageous, and they do
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look very happy. That is your choice, and I support it. This was ours, and we can do that.
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It's very easy to accept the differences between us when it has no actual bearing on your life.
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What shocked me most of all was that this story has become mainstream news.
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A couple's abortion is suddenly newsworthy in 2026.
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There are over one million abortions every single day for a myriad of reasons.
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That's because you made a video about it on YouTube with 53,000 views on May 27th.
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OK, well, when you make a video about it for your 87000 subscribers, don't I'm so shocked this became news.
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I mean, we did a big tweet. We made we made content on multiple platforms talking about it, of which the purpose is to generate interest and viewership.
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And then it became a mainstream story. How strange. That's what I would say right off the bat is evil.
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is evil. Bro, let me just say it like this. I think abortion is wrong.
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Abortion is contraception. Abortion for legitimate medical reasons, pro-lifers don't
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consider to be abortion in the same sense. Let me clarify why this debate is so difficult.
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If you are a woman and your life is at risk, serious risk, and then I say like you're going
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to die, and then the baby will die. We must terminate this pregnancy. Liberals will call
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that an abortion. Pro-lifers typically do not. I say typically because it is a nuanced conversation.
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But I've had this conversation with numerous pro-life Christian conservatives, and they say
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in the event that a woman's life is being threatened and the only choice had is you have
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to end the life of the pregnancy. There's a preference towards do whatever you can to save
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the life of the child and the mother. But there is a challenge. And this is why I consider myself
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to be traditional pro-choice. I don't like saying pro-choice because it's used by progressives to
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advocate for abortion as contraception and to the point of birth, which is happening and is allowed
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in some states and is absolutely insane. And they tried to pass in Virginia. My argument is
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take responsibility for your choices. If you've a man and a woman, you want to get together.
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There are challenges over the issue of rape because a woman did not consent to provide
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her body, for which pro-lifers and I disagree. And that's the real disagreement.
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And there's questions of true medical issues and the difficulty in requiring
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like a judicial writ in order to get a medical procedure. Those are challenges that I see
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when it comes to this conversation. But I would agree with my conservative friends,
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women should not be getting abortion as contraception. Like I went out, partied,
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we banged. Oh, I'm pregnant. Better go get an abortion. That is wrong. But I believe Ron Paul
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said it best. And I agree with him largely. It shouldn't be illegal. It should be unthinkable.
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And we have cultural problems exemplified by this. A guy who says, I'm going to blast out
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our abortion of the world for content. Heavens, I'm so shocked. People are mad at me.
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Now, I want to highlight Trisomy 21. It is not always guaranteed. And this is one of the big
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controversies around the issue. When you get diagnostic tests like amniocentesis or it's
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chorionic villicis sampling, these are the gold standard and they directly examine fetal cells.
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They're over 99% accurate, sometimes even more. A confirmed Trisomy 18 on paper diagnostic carry
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type is extremely reliable and considered definitive in the vast majority of cases.
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But I want to stress certain screening tests, they are not always correct.
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So they're saying they definitively, like 99.9.
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There have been many instances where individuals were told your baby will have Down syndrome.
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if this is what God wants. And not even all Christians, right? Some people just say,
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well, then so be it. And guess what? They give birth and the baby does not have Down syndrome.
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That is scary. I've heard stories from so many people where they were told by the doctor,
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you will die. Your baby will have a serious heart defect. You are condemning this child
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to a life of suffering. And then they give birth and the baby was fine. That is what is terrifying.
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Now, I suppose when a woman is told by a doctor, you're going to die, your body can't handle the pregnancy in instances where, you know, it's fascinating because, again, where I disagree with conservatives, you know, you see like Charlie Kirk challenged on this one.
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And this is, again, where I disagree with the pro-lifers.
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They say there's like a 12 or 13 year old girl who is raped, who is raped.
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Yeah, my answer is I'm sorry to the pro-lifers.
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um in many of these circumstances a 13 year old's body cannot handle that pregnancy properly now in
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some instances it can but i'm i'm sorry i think this is a product of a violation of of uh of
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nature in in my art in my in my view a man who rapes a child you know a 13 year old whose body
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is not ready to carry a child they're they're they're not even done growing that to me is just
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I'm sorry. I do. I draw the line at some, you know, 20 year old woman goes out clubbing and
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bangs a guy and then says like, ah, crap, got to get an abortion again. We all agree. That's
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horrifying. But liberals and progressives, they say, well, she can choose her choice. I'm like,
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yeah, she chose to have a baby. She chose to hook up with a guy. Contraception exists using
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abortion. That's messed up. But I think it's an unfortunate reality. And this is why I say I'm
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not pro-life, though. I think abortion is wrong when it's used as contraception.
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there are circumstances in the instance of rape. And, you know, incest is another interesting
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argument, which I think is disgusting. But I think the true pro-lifers are the ones who say
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no circumstance, rape, for instance, or otherwise. But so many traditional conservatives will say,
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they'll say, instance of rape and incest, we agree on these compromises. And I'm like,
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but the baby's, like, being killed, the baby didn't rape. There are conservatives, I think,
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the typical position is agreed. And that's why they don't agree that we should be able to get
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abortion. I'm not with you on that one. Sorry, guys. We have to disagree on this one. And I'll
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tell you, I believe that a woman has to consent in order to carry that baby and give her body
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to this baby that cannot be taken from her. It's a violation of autonomy. And I look at it more so
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on the rights and duties of human beings, be fruitful and multiply, being one of them.
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Stripping a woman of her agency and choosing when she has that child is horrifying. So in rape,
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I say yes. Incest is more interesting because it's like our birth defects really grounds for killing
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the baby. You know, long story short, there's no easy argument on there on abortion. There's
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no middle ground. You're either for it or you're against it. And the problem is the progressives
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have gone to the point of abortion, the point of birth when the baby is viable. And that's
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psychotic. My view on this case and Down syndrome is have the baby. It is have the baby. And I'll
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put it like this. If you are someone who says, I don't want to raise a down syndrome baby. Well,
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there's a lot of down syndrome people who are successful and they, they, they can intelligently
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articulate to you why that is sad, why it's sad. But if that's the case, adoption, and you know
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what? There are babies born every day with horrible defects and there are intersex babies and there
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challenges humans face. But life is precious. And there are instances where a baby is born in such
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a way that it can't survive at all. Like scarred, damaged heart that's not pumping properly and
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then separation of the umbilical cord, it dies. These are sad things. I would argue there's a
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chance that you could have that baby and that baby is going to be fine. There's a chance that
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you have that baby with Down syndrome. And from the moment you look at that baby, the love in your
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heart is insurmountable and you would do anything for them. Terminating, it's really insane to me.
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My brain doesn't go there. I just, I don't understand. And there are challenges on who to
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trust. If the doctor told you that the baby had a busted up heart that wasn't developing properly
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and was not going to survive, then I understand. And therein lies the challenge with the blanket
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pro-life. That's the argument that I have. In the event the doctors screen and say, listen,
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the heart is not developing the baby will survive a you know in utero will survive
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with the umbilical cord supplying oxygen and blood but once that baby is born it's instantly dead
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i i i i feel like there are circumstances where you're just like that then the pregnancy is to
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be terminated you know but i think we agree on the moral worth of life i believe life begins
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at conception i believe it's silly to argue otherwise and i think this is largely just
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that people don't want to accept responsibility. When it comes to having a kid, there are challenges.
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All that being said, you want to debate abortion, we can. But there's something else here. And it's
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this. Black Dumpling tweeted, Ridgeway abortion hoax. The reality is that Jesse Ridgeway and wife
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may have staged the abortion as a click driving storyline. That's right. They may have faked
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killing a Down syndrome kid for clicks. Not as bad as actually killing the kid, but still
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unbelievably sick. She says, this is a post. This is just like Google. Let me just look it up,
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see if I can get the same Google results, because Google didn't tell me. Ridgeway, let's see,
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psycho series, huh? Let's see if Google gives me the AI-generated response. Yep, indeed.
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Jesse Ridgeway content. Let me just pull it up straight on Google.
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Jesse Ridgeway, better known as Mr., as Mick Jugger Nuggets, is an American YouTuber,
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actor, and filmmaker celebrated for his highly immersive web series, dramatic vlogs,
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and meta storytelling. He built a following exceeding 4.3 million subscribers by blurring
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the lines between scripted fiction and reality. His breakout project, the 600-episode saga,
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documented a chaotic escalating through his hyper-strict on-camera father, Psycho Dad,
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over his gaming and career choices. Following the Psycho series, Ridgeway expanded into
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complex, multiverse-style stories like The Devil Inside, My Virtual Escape, The Spirit of Ursula.
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In late 25, Ridgway wrote, directed, and starred in a full-length feature drama titled Don't Dream
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About Me. In 2026, his content largely features updates on his personal life alongside occasional
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returns to his psycho universe for special updates or role reversals. Recently, he and his wife
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announced they had made the difficult decision to terminate their pregnancy. And there it is,
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famous for making meta-scripted content. Check this out. Publius says, for those who are unaware,
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Jesse Ridgway is a deep-cover, long-form actor who does years-long projects as if they're real.
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I will say as a content creator myself, well done.
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But as someone familiar with your content, you've lost your touch.
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Suddenly, you're looking at it as a movie and not an experience.
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You want to really immerse yourself in the story, and if it's fake, then...
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How's this show any different than just, say, Survivor?
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Especially with Jesse that was straining out on the island.
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I mean, how could it be when they're talking to the camera?
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But it's still, I say, scripted to a certain extent.
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I guarantee they say, here's where we want you to go with this.
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This is the character drama we need for this episode.
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This is the character drama we need for this episode.
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It's one thing to create a reality TV show where you create a persona that's hated.
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You know, you're a Spencer Pratt, for instance.
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It's another thing when you don't tell people that it's a reality show.
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You create a series that intends to seem real and people believe it and smart.
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You know, I've talked about it quite a bit with, you know, on Tim Castile and other shows.
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What they're doing is they'll take a video of me.
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They'll take a video of some liberal personality.
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We never, like, they'll take a clip from this show where I'll say something.
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They'll take a clip from Cenk Uygur from a different show.
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put it on the screen as if we're debating, and then use loops and editing. So I'll be going like
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this, and then it'll be like a loop. And then Cenk will say something like, I can't believe
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people actually think that, you know, with the war going on in Iran. And then it'll cut to me
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going like, oh, just stop. Like, it looks like we're debating. But they were monologue videos
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speaking generally. This is what people do online. So I don't believe this guy for a second
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that his latest series about, look at this, he's got a new channel or whatever. He's got 87,000
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subs and it's all, I'm having a baby. Will the Psycho series ever return? Stuck in a blizzard.
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We need to get away. Oh no, the results came in. Indeed. It looks like, I'm going to say it like
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this. It looks like his latest campaign was, I'm going to do a lifestyle vlog and then we're going
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to slowly ramp it up and it works. Listen, man, maybe it's not a hoax. Maybe he's actually coming
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out genuinely saying like, guys, this is a thing that happened. But this is a dude who knows that
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the game is played and he's got 20.2 million views. So how are you going to prove it? That
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it's real. So this is what I say, my friends. The current sickness, the disease affecting the minds
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of so many people, the content world. When I pull up Instagram and I'm swiping through,
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They're standing in front of a bunch of oranges, a bunch of oranges, and she's got a bag full
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And the man grabs an orange, and he shows it to the wife, and she looks at it, and then
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she puts it back, and then she starts grabbing other oranges.
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She then grabs one, puts it in the bag, and goes to the right.
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The guy looks at the camera, reaches in the bag, and pulls out the orange she just put
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She then grabs another orange, puts it in the bag.
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He pulls it right back out and shows it to her.
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The point being, every orange she gives her, she says, no, it's bad.
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So when he shows her the exact same orange, she goes, no, it's bad proving she's only
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Everybody says, I'm going to do the ice bucket challenge.
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They put a teaspoon of cinnamon in their mouth.
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Those were challenges, and we liked watching each other do it.
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But when you're just stealing the same content over and over again, and they do.
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I have seen probably 300 different pizza restaurants doing the same jokes.
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There's one that's really funny where a guy walks in and goes, yeah, what kind of pizza
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And the guy goes, what do you mean what kind of pizza I got?
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There's a bunch of these things where the guy, he'll be like, if you can beat me, if
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you can name the right answer. I'll give you a free pizza. There's a trick question. There's a
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funny one where he's like, I'm going to, I'm going to put a glass of, I'm going to drink this glass
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of water. He puts a hat over it. And he says, if I can drink this glass of water without lifting
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that hat, you get, you got to, you got to pay double for the pizza. Otherwise it's free. And
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the guy goes, okay, you're on. Then the pizza shop guy looks at the hat and he goes, done.
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Then the pizza shop owner grabs the glass and drinks it and puts it back down and says,
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And there are a million of these identical trash videos.
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You scroll through Instagram and TikTok, and then you see the same video over and over
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So in that regard, maybe this guy's doing something special.
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People's brains have turned to jello, jello, because of this.
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It is like the drive and the desperation to make content.
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There have been days, if you look at my YouTube history, I will only make a couple of videos.
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I used to every day do six videos on this channel.
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I do one on this channel at 4 p.m. and five on TimCast News.
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Some days, as of recent, I'd just be like, I'm not.
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I'm not going to make a video for the sake of making a video.
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It used to be that there was a lot of stuff being written about,
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but news organizations have been falling apart.
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The place people consume and share information, it's changing.
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In 2018, I'd pull up a news article, our website,
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and I'd see all these interesting videos and stories.
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I remember there was one from the Daily Mail where it was like,
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the story was literally just man punches to him in the face in front of a bar. Not a particularly
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grandiose national story. And then I grabbed it, reacted to it, and I got like 500,000 views or
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something. I can't remember. Here's the thing. That video is just viral in and of itself on
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Instagram and TikTok. It's not interesting. We saw it right when it happened. Times, they are
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changing. So I don't really got anything to react to. I'm like, listen, I've already seen 70
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Instagram people react to it. We all know it happened. There's nothing for me to add to the
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story, I'm not going to talk about it. Maybe that means I'll make less money or whatever, but
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that's the way it is. This stuff, this social media drive, we can put it one of two ways.
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Jesse Ridgeway got an abortion with his wife and turned it into content. They could have just not
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done that. They could have just said that they lost the baby. Instead, they decided to turn it
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into content. And that's disgusting. In the inverse, you can look at another way. Perhaps
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it's true this guy is just one big hoaxer who faked the whole thing, in which case, man, people
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have become sick. You know, I guess I can just say it this way. Whether he is actually just turning
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his abortion into content or faking the whole thing, there is an illness affecting the minds
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of so many people. Now, listen, it wasn't invented by these people. Reality TV was also bad. And
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don't get me started on mystery box shows. I can't stand mystery box shows. Hey, let's make
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a show where literally nothing happens and then you never find out what happens. And then the
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show ends and you're like, well, that sucked. Thank you. Lost and from reality TV is also bad
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for a variety of reasons. It's not reality. Certainly there are things in reality that
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are entertaining. I see it on a day to day basis, but it's one thing to have a show where you put
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weird people in a room together to watch drama. And that kind of is real. It's another thing to
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make the fake stuff online that purports to be real where you're monetizing your abortions.
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Guys, when we get to that point, it's just we're off the cliff. It's one thing for Colorado to
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say abortion to the point of birth. It's another thing to say I should be allowed to monetize it
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after the fact. This is like we you think you think the future is going to be like Wally or
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Terminator. No, it's going to be much, much worse. I'm going to wrap it up there. Smash the like
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