'What If'? - 7⧸2⧸18
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1 hour and 43 minutes
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161.37451
Summary
Glenn Beck explains why Chelsea Handler does not think about having a baby, and why the Supreme Court nominee will likely overturn Roe v. Wade. He also explains why the court will likely overrule Roe vs. Wade, and what that means for abortion, gay rights, and gun control.
Transcript
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The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, Glenn Beck.
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You'll be very happy to hear that Chelsea Handler does not think about having that baby.
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Chelsea Handler is not a mom and apparently is very excited about that fact.
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She had two abortions many years ago and she never thinks,
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Now you may be with me and the rest of America and thinking that you also are happy
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However, that's not where I want to take this today.
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I would rather go to the idea that, you know, we're in a world where
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there's a lot of important decisions about to be made.
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July 9th is the day, which is a week from today.
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You can't release big news like that on July 4th week.
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And it will be a big decision because we are looking at potentially the future of many huge cases.
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And I know that that has certainly been covered.
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With Chelsea Handler, I think you have a situation where she's saying,
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God, I never think, God, I wish I had that baby.
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You know, the sad thing there is, and she had two abortions in a year.
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And the sad thing is, you know, the baby doesn't really get a chance to decide that one for themselves.
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Wouldn't have minded them weighing in on that one.
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And it's sort of part of this left-wing fear-mongering about what's going to happen with this court going forward.
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Now, first of all, there's a lot of steps to go through before you get to a Roe vs. Wade being overturned.
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I mean, the reason why Roe vs. Wade wasn't overturned before is because Ronald Reagan picked a justice that didn't go the right way on it.
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Once you get Roe vs. Wade overturned, what happens?
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However, it will not be the majority of states, most likely.
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And it will still leave abortion legal in the majority of states, which, with a little travel, anyone can get one.
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We're getting massive fear-mongering, however, from the left.
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He writes that there will be massive problems here.
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It will overrule, if the court goes to the conservative direction here that we expect,
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it will overrule Roe vs. Wade, allowing states to ban abortions and to criminally prosecute any physicians and nurses who perform them.
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It will allow shopkeepers, restaurateurs, and hotel owners to refuse service to gay customers on religious grounds.
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It will guarantee that fewer African American and Latino students attend elite universities.
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Think of the way you have to spin these things to make them sound this way.
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I mean, yes, banning abortion could be an outcome in some states.
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It will still be legal in other states, unless we get some constitutional amendment.
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Not to mention, even if we got a constitutional amendment, it would be legal in many other places.
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It will allow shopkeepers, restaurateurs, and hotel owners to refuse service to gay customers on religious grounds.
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We all know what the Masterpiece Cake Shop case was about.
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And it was not about just saying no to gay customers because they walk in.
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It will guarantee that fewer African American and Latino students attend elite universities.
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Well, that's, you know, you're talking about affirmative action there.
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Which is a law to put people into college based on the color of their skin.
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Think of how indefensible it would be if you said,
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Oh, you know what, we're going to make laws that make more white students go,
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You may think that that's coming, but it's certainly not part of the law.
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Not to mention, ask Asian Americans how they feel about that particular concept.
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Because they have been, and this just came out, I think, last week,
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in which Asian students should be 43% of the student base at Harvard.
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It will also mean the Second Amendment will prohibit states from engaging in gun control.
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Including the regulation of machine guns and bump stocks.
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And I think we've lost sight as to what the world actually thinks about abortion.
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We get this idea from our media that everywhere else in the world,
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That women should be able to walk into any equivalent of 7-Eleven
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And that is not at all how the world looks at this.
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Now, in America, where they say that we are too restrictive on abortion,
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we have unlimited access to abortion pretty much at any time
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in Washington, New Jersey, New Mexico, Colorado, Vermont, New Hampshire, Alaska, and Washington, D.C.
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Now, the other 43 states restrict abortion after a certain point in pregnancy.
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Which, the left seems to think, is completely oppressive to women.
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Three states, Virginia, South Carolina, and Iowa, prohibit abortion after the 28th week.
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You've only got 7 months to figure out what to do?
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20 different states prohibit abortion at the point of viability,
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Six months does not seem long enough to figure out how to pull the trigger on that pregnancy
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11 states prohibit abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy.
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And as a blanket rule, abortions are legal in every single state
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But a lot of pro-choice people actually think that women in America
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are shackled with, you know, reproductive slavery.
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So let's look around the world for a second here.
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Because we're seeing, we're told that this is such a backwards hellhole
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Now, you can find your abortion paradise in a place like China,
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where abortion is not only legal at any point in the pregnancy,
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but is also encouraged and quite frequently required.
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A lot of times there's a little enforcing that one against your will.
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But no one's going to hold China up as an example.
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But there is no time limit if there is substantial risk to the women's life
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between the initial consultation and the abortion.
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That means England and the Netherlands are more restrictive than 10 states in America.
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Socialist Sweden allows abortions until the 18th week of pregnancy
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In the four-week gray period, a woman can get an abortion
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only if it's approved by the National Board of Health and Welfare.
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Can you imagine demanding women go to a National Board of Health and Welfare
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In Spain, abortion is legal in the first 14 weeks of a woman's pregnancy,
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but allows abortion up to 22 weeks in cases of fetal deformities.
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In Denmark, abortion is available on demand up to 12 weeks of pregnancy.
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Afterward, exceptions are made for cases of rape,
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threats to the woman's physical or mental health,
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and cases where the woman can demonstrate a lack of financial resources
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Can you imagine, in America, asking a woman to say,
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oh, prove that you're too poor for this kid to the government?
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Can you imagine how the left would react to that?
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In Germany, abortions after the 12th week are completely banned
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except in cases of serious threat to the mother's physical or mental health.
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That's the thing that Roe v. Wade guaranteed you'd have access to.
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They are subject to a mandatory three-day waiting period
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is more restrictive than almost all of the United States,
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Abortion in Belgium is legal until 12 weeks after conception
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and is required for women to have six days of counseling
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In Finland, abortion is available up to 12 weeks of pregnancy
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Like, ah, you can't really deal with a fifth one.
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In Italy, a woman has 90 days from the date of conception
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Under the law, the termination must be due to health,
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In Switzerland, abortion is legal up to 12 weeks.
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If, if, if, if a woman files a written request stating that she is in a situation of distress,
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then the doctor has to give her a comprehensive information about the procedure,
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then the doctor has to discuss the decision with her in detail,
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then the doctor has to give her an information sheet with the addresses of counseling services,
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where she can get moral and material help and be informed about adoption.
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In Portugal, a woman can only get an abortion up to the 10th week after a mandated three-day waiting period.
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Abortion is illegal in Poland, except for cases of rape, fetal malformation,
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Andorra allows abortion only in cases where it is necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman.
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And, uh, abortion is entirely prohibited in Malta.
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How many states in America have banned abortion entirely?
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If I remember correctly, the answer to that is zero.
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We act as if the rest of the world has embraced this,
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The most abortion-friendly countries in Europe are more strict than almost all of America.
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The most restrictive countries in Europe are tougher on abortion than all, all of America.
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And Europe is supposed to be more enlightened than the United States.
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And maybe the truth is, for this particular topic, they actually are.
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It's Stu in for Glenn Beck, who's on vacation, I mean, on the day where Dunkin' Donuts has talked about releasing donut fries.
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So, I mean, he's always out when the big stories happen.
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But hopefully he'll be back next week and he can taste test them for you.
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And if you think Roe vs. Wade is getting overturned and a justice is going to skate through,
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Collins and Murkowski are two pro-choice Republicans.
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And that word, if you couldn't hear it through the radio, had massive air quotes all over it.
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About 65 pairs of air quotes around the term Republican when I talked about Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.
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However, she was on CNN to talk about whether she will vote for a Supreme Court justice that may overturn Roe vs. Wade.
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There's a big difference between overturning some precedents, such as Plessy v. Ferguson, which was overturned in the school desegregation case of Brown v.
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versus the Board of Education, versus overturning a ruling that has been settled law for 46 years, 45 years.
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And it involves a constitutional right and has been reaffirmed by the court 26 years ago.
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Indeed, Justice Roberts has made very clear that he considers Roe v. Wade to be settled law.
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I would not support a nominee who demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade because that would mean to me that their judicial philosophy did not include a respect for established decisions, established law.
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I mean, their job is to go in there and examine the laws as it relates to the Constitution.
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Of course you should overturn laws that are unconstitutional.
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You know, I mean, there is this bizarre argument that Roe v. Wade has some sort of immunity against, as opposed to every other case.
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Every liberal in the world will tell you, you've got to overturn Citizens United, which is the case that allowed people to spend money on their, with their own, you know, with their own political opinions.
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The exact thing the First Amendment was designed to protect.
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There's this argument that goes back and forth between the left and the right, where the left says, yeah, there's a living Constitution.
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I want to look at what was there in the documents.
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And sometimes there are arguments that are passionate on both sides.
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But one is right, and the other one's really dumb.
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That's where we find ourselves with the Supreme Court.
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One side is saying, hey, you know how it's our job to protect the Constitution and make sure the things that go on in this country are constitutional?
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I say we do that by looking at the document and doing the things it says inside of it.
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Read the words and have that inform what we do.
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And the other side saying, you know, I don't like that law all that much.
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Or I wish the law said this, so let's put it in there.
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Let's show some empathy and change the thing around.
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Or, you know, if I were to design a society, it would be more like this country or that country.
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That is not the way the Supreme Court is supposed to react.
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There's a split here between people who say, look, she voted for Gorsuch.
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She's just, she's giving lip service here to the idea that she would oppose a Trump nominee because of her Roe versus Wade stance.
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And when it comes down to it, she's going to be fine.
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So, someone like Susan Collins can probably go a long way in stopping this.
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There's going to be a lot of pressure on red state Democrats to vote for this nominee.
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But I would not be surprised if none of them come along.
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The Democrats tend to be able to keep their flock in one straight line.
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The other thought here is she's saying, you know, maybe she's just saying, I'm not going to vote for someone who comes in here and outwardly opposes abortion.
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I mean, there's really not a lot of examples of this.
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There's a couple justices on the list that have spoken outwardly about how they would rule on that case or have, you know, given opinions on this.
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You know, one of the speculations is Mike Lee might be off the board because Lee has obviously spoken.
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He did so on the other on the show the other day about what a poor legal decision Roe versus Wade was.
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Will she vote for someone who has been that outspoken about their opposition to Roe versus Wade?
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The other thought is she's going to oppose anyone because she does not want Roe versus Wade to be overturned.
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So unless she really believes it's not going to be overturned, she's going to vote against them and it's going to make it almost impossible to get somebody through.
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That being said, the map sets up very nicely for Republicans in the Senate in November.
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It's Stu in for Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck Program.
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It's Stu in for Glenn Beck here on the Glenn Beck Program.
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We have Pat and Stu reunion tour coming up tomorrow as well as Thursday.
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If you think the Supreme Court isn't that big of a deal, you may remember the horrible decision made by Chief Justice John Roberts on not well,
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and really not once, but twice on Obamacare, leaving Obamacare in place.
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And we're getting updates now on how that's going for everybody, which is really good.
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If you're going to, if you're one of these people who was skeptical on Obama, maybe you thought you weren't going to keep your doctor.
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In 2009, the Obama administration authorized $30 billion in financial incentives to encourage the adoption of electronic health records and everything from large teaching hospitals to solo practices.
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Due to the administrative requirements, 40% of the providers who participated were penalized in 2016 for failing to hit the meaningful use targets.
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The administrative requirements were such a nightmare.
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Electronic data security has turned out to be another lie.
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A 2017 Accenture survey estimated that 26% of all Americans had their personal medical data stolen from electronic medical record systems.
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Half of those people, half of those people, ended up as victims of medical identity theft.
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On average, victims suffered a $2,500 loss in each incident.
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Now, I do remember the Obama administration telling us that we were going to save $2,500 when Obamacare was passed.
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Is it possible they just wanted to save us from the burden of having to spend that $2,500?
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I think we should at least entertain the possibility.
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But I mean, $2,500 per incident and half of the people, that's what, 13% of Americans?
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In 2015, more than 100 million patient records were stolen.
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If you thought, I mean, those are mistakes, right?
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You have a new program, you want everyone to participate in it, and 40% blow it and you have to pass an escape hatch.
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Sure, 26% of all Americans had their medical information stolen, and half of those had identity theft issues that suffered an average of $2,500 per incident.
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Here's the design of Obamacare, and this is where it gets really good.
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When the Obama administration restructured private individual insurance, it created bloated policies that people were not voluntarily purchasing.
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So you're forcing people to buy these things they don't want.
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For some reason, John Roberts disagreeing with that one.
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Not counting the money spent on state and federal exchanges,
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the federal government spent $341 billion from 2014 through 2016 on subsidizing individual coverage so that people would buy it.
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So again, you create this really crappy product that people don't want to buy.
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Of course, they don't want to pay that price, or they can't afford that price.
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So, you take money from evil rich people, and you give it to the insurance companies to subsidize the cost of these insurance policies.
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The cost, again, $341 billion from 2014 to 2016.
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All of this spending managed to increase private coverage by 1.7 million people,
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slightly less than half of the natural increase in the civilian labor force.
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So again, half of the natural increase was the amount of people that we actually increased coverage for in the private market.
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We insured people at a rate of $200,000 per person.
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The feds could have saved money by closing the exchanges and giving people who qualified for subsidies a check for $50,000 for each of the three years.
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Those people could have then spent $20,000 for their own unsubsidized policy and use the rest to either cover out-of-pocket costs or buy a nice used car.
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And this is the case over and over and over again with these bloated government policies.
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And, you know, look, the point where the Supreme Court shouldn't step in and say,
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There's plenty of them in America where we waste a bunch of taxpayer money inefficiently on programs.
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That was different than Obamacare because Obamacare was written incorrectly.
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You go back and find out how they subsidize the states.
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And John Roberts basically went in and was like, you know what?
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But the idea that these programs are a good idea in the first place, over and over again, we see the same scenario play out.
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You could just throw money at people, throw it at them, and save money.
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You could save a lot of cash and a lot of taxpayer dollars and a lot of heartbreak.
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They've lost access to the treatment they were receiving.
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I don't know who's going to be in there to overturn it.
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I don't know if you had a new justice come in that was really conservative.
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Would they have any chance at overturning parts of Obamacare?
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He's the wall that we want on the border around Obamacare for some reason.
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A lot of people online are tossing around the name Ben Shapiro for Supreme Court justice, which I kind of like.
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He's a little outspoken, potentially, for Susan Collins' taste, I think.
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And I'm not sure the administration loves him all that much.
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He went on Bill Maher this weekend to talk about civility because we're here in the era of Trump.
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And as we know, everything bad that happens in the realm of incivility is Trump's fault,
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including a long-term local newspaper disagreement that occurred when Donald Trump was hosting The Apprentice.
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These things are really getting out of control.
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Shapiro went on with Bill Maher to talk about it.
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Can we just say incivility is bad across the board?
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Why is it that we're only opposed when you're a Democrat?
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You're only opposed to incivility when it's Donald Trump.
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Because, Ben, you can't walk into a room and see an elephant and a mouse and not know which one is bigger.
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I needed 600 officers to protect me at Berkeley.
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Joe Biden in 2012 says to Mitt Romney that he's going to put y'all back in chains about black people.
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But that didn't come from the president at Berkeley.
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It came from the vice president when he was saying that Mitt Romney, the cleanest person ever,
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was a guy who was going to put y'all back in chains.
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To pretend incivility started with Donald Trump.
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I'm talking about the level to which it's at, where you're threatening.
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Do you really think Donald Trump respects the rule of law?
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No, but I think the Constitution itself is a pretty damn durable document, thank God.
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In fact, it's the most durable Constitution in the world by quite a long stretch.
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This is an amazing weekend for this all to be happening, by the way.
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And he's been protested, but even worse, you know, 600 officers to protect him at a speech.
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It's tons of conservative speakers that go and get attacked at...
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I mean, Charles Murray was attacked at a speech, you know, not what, last year?
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Every conservative speaker that goes and gets hit with pies and gets screamed at until they have to leave the campus,
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Like, I don't like the stuff that Donald Trump does when it comes down...
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I didn't like what he said to, you know, people in crowds and go after them and, you know...
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And the elephant in the elephant is a much more apt description.
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In fact, this weekend, as this is all going on on Bill Maher,
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And someone tweets to him, says, you know, I guess saying because Ben Shapiro is Jewish,
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I guess that's the way that's supposed to work.
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I don't know if maybe anyone who happens to be Jewish can explain to me,
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Ben Shapiro is the Jew who helps other Jews onto the train,
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He then deleted the tweet, which tends to happen
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when you accuse people of being Nazi collaborators.
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However, he says he did not delete it because he's apologizing.
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He says he deletes it because a mob of right-wing babies were flooding his mentions.
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that you accused Ben Shapiro of being a Nazi sympathizer.
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Again, I, you know, I never think anybody should be fired for a tweet.
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I think there's, you know, some good stuff that comes out of there as well.
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But, you gotta think it's limited after seeing stuff like this.
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I mean, in the middle of, we're talking about incivility, right?
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has been arrested on charges of trying to kill the family of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.
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Now, there are a lot of reasons to threaten to murder someone.
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There's a thou shalt not that appears in front of the word murder over and over again in certain contexts.
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However, if you're going to threaten someone with death,
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is net neutrality really the thing that's gonna put you over the edge?
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The fact that you think in the future, in theory,
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is a reason to threaten a public official with death?
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But I think you may have lost perspective here.
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It's Stu in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
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Hope you're gonna have some good stuff planned.
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really respect this holiday like we do some of the other big ones.
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throw as big a celebration as one might expect.
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Of course, I'm talking about Bobby Bonilla Day.
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Uh, my, potentially my favorite American holiday,
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If you don't know Bobby Bonilla and Bobby Bonilla Day,
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but Bobby Bonilla played, he was a good, pretty good player,
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Played for the Mets and the Pirates, among other teams.
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Uh, but his departure from the Mets is now stuff of legend.
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He was fighting with the manager, wanted to leave the team.
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They don't want to pay him $5.9 million, though.
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they, they, uh, negotiate a deferred compensation plan.
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God, I want this deferred compensation plan so badly.
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like, why the hell would the Mets want to do this?
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is because they had these incredible investments.