Ep. 1277 - Hell No, We Will Not End The Bud Light Boycott
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A satanic altar has been set up inside the Iowa Statehouse. And a controversial abortion case in Texas has Ann Coulter siding with the left. What the hell's going on with that? We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Welch Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, there's a sudden push by some prominent voices on the right to end the Bud Light boycott and support the company again.
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I think this would be a massive mistake. I'll explain today why the Bud Light boycott needs to remain in place.
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Also, a satanic altar has been set up inside the Iowa Statehouse. What the hell's going on there?
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And a controversial abortion case in Texas has Ann Coulter siding with the left. What the hell's going on with that?
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Well, if you're on the right, then you know that the phrase, this is why we lose, has become something of a cliche these days.
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Anytime anyone on our side does anything we don't like, we're bound to declare, this is why we lose,
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as if that person is now a symbol for America's cultural decline.
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And in many cases, the this is why we lose charge can be off base or at least overwrought and overstated.
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And so today, we begin with an actual case of this is why we lose.
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So for the past few days, there has been, seemingly out of nowhere, a full court press by some on the right to rehabilitate Bud Light
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and to convince conservatives to drop the boycott of the company.
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Now, we know that some notable figures on this side of the aisle were never on board with the boycott in the first place.
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Famously, Donald Trump Jr. defended the beer maker from the very beginning, saying that Bud Light is on our side despite appearances
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and we shouldn't punish them for their brief foray into trans propaganda.
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But Trump Jr. and others in that orbit were alone originally in their pro-Bud Light stance, at least for many months, until just now.
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This week, both UFC President Dana White and Kid Rock have both appeared in interviews with Tucker Carlson
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to declare that they have renewed support for Bud Light.
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And some other prominent voices, like Tim Pool, have come out to defend that position.
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Now, in fairness to those guys, we're going to go through these clips one by one
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so that you can hear their arguments for yourself before I explain why they're totally wrong.
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If you consider yourself a patriot, right, you're a patriot, you should be drinking gallons of Bud Light.
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Wait, wait, wait. I should be boycotting Bud Light.
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You should have Bud Light drums stacked up in your garage and drinking it right out of the keg.
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They are way more aligned with you than most of these other beer companies are.
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Take it from somebody who's in the know, who does business with beer companies.
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You are way more aligned with Bud Light than you are with any other beer company.
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So I'm assuming, I mean, they didn't come into partnership with you by accident.
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And as I, you know, history has shown me with relationships that I've had with other beer companies.
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I, who lean more this way, I, who consider myself a patriot, I don't go crazy over the whole patriot thing, but I consider myself a proud American.
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And you are way more aligned with Anheuser-Busch than you are with other beer companies.
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Now, I'll have plenty to say about the thrust of Dana's arguments after we play all the clips, but I do want to point out one thing right away.
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Bud Light is a brand owned by a foreign conglomerate.
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So putting everything else aside, it's very hard to make the case that it's patriotic to support a foreign company.
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Now, I'm not saying that we can't support foreign-owned brands.
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I'm just saying that it's hard to cast your support for a Belgian multinational corporation as patriotic.
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But we'll get back to Dana's point in a moment.
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First, here's Kid Rock, also with Tucker a day later, agreeing with Dana and echoing a lot of the same sentiments.
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I think they got some work still to get, you know, some of that base that they lost.
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Like, you know, I've said a few times, I'd love to see them get triple fratty.
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Like, hit it head on, kind of make light of the situation, self-deprecation, you know.
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But, you know, at the end of the day, when you step back and look at it, like, yeah, they deserved a black eye and they got one.
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It was like a lot of people just pissed me off.
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I was, and I kept, you know, I keep a lot of beer on the property, a lot of light beer.
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So I was just doing a little marketing to my folks.
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You know, it was spot on for me, but also a fun excuse to get my machine gun out and have some fun.
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But also to make a statement like, hey, a lot of us aren't cool with this.
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You know, I believe a lot of people fought and died for people's right to be whoever they want.
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But when you're that type of brand, you know who you consumers are.
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They moved part of their corporate offices from St. Louis to New York City.
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Then they start hiring these Ivy League progressive, you know, people to work for them who don't know about working class people or middle America and this country.
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They're riding high and mighty as number one and a fox gets in.
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So do I want to hold their head underwater and drown them because they made a mistake?
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But, you know, at the end of the day, I don't think the punishment that they've been getting at this point fits the crime.
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It's like I would like to see people get us back on board and become bigger because that's the America I want to live in.
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Now, many people, myself certainly included, have found that Kid Rock's reasoning here is less than compelling.
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But Tim Poole thinks that we're all missing the point.
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Do we lament Kid Rock and Dana White in their support for Bud Light?
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I mean, Kid Rock coming out and saying this, he's effectively ending the boycott, at least as it pertains to him, not to you.
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And my position, we talked about this a great deal yesterday, is that we should take a PR victory, declare victory, and that's it.
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But there are many people who are calling for the destruction of Bud Light as a brand.
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Others say I will drink a Bud Light, but only when they apologize.
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Now, my argument, I would say, is substantially more tactful and less emotionally satisfying.
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But I agree with Kid Rock and I agree with Dana White.
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But more importantly, I agree with Sean Strickland.
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The big move came when Dana White accepted a massive sponsorship deal from Bud Light to the tune of $105 million.
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We said, why are you accepting money from this company that got woke, went broke, and continues to sponsor Pride events?
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Well, of course, Dana White said, you know, we're going to take the money.
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Sean Strickland, MMA champion, said, Bud Light is now sponsoring everything I say.
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And then he went off to say a whole bunch of anti-woke things.
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But then I listened to what Sean had to say, and I realized he flipped the script.
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OK, now, before I explain why this is all horribly wrong, let me begin by stipulating that I like all these guys.
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I'm obviously a huge fan and supporter of Tucker Carlson.
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I think he's one of the most important voices in the country right now.
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Bud Light, the foreign-owned brand, tried to push trans ideology.
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And for once in our lives, for once ever in modern American history,
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conservatives fought back in an organized, competent, effective way.
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We actually made the woke company feel the pain.
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We imposed our will in a way that conservatives have never been able to do ever.
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The Bud Light boycott is by far, and it's not close, the most effective conservative boycott of a major company ever, of all time.
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In fact, I think it's fair to say that it's not just the most effective, but actually the only successful boycott we have ever staged.
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So we'd have to have a very compelling strategic reason to end this one single successful boycott campaign ever.
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We would have to have extracted some kind of major concession.
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Are we going to end the Bud Light boycott and start giving them our money because we like their new marketing plan?
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That would not be us ending a boycott victoriously.
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It would be the very definition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Something that the right does very often, but never as egregiously empathetic as this.
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And by the way, if they gave $100 million to like some kind of de-trans fund, that would be one thing.
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But why would giving $100 million to Dana White, why would we consider that to be sufficient?
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Oh, you push trans ideology and we're mad at you for that.
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But you gave $100 million to the guy who owns the UFC.
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If you give $100 million to the actual victims of this insidious, insane, depraved ideology that you were pushing, give them $100 million, then I would say, yeah, okay, that's an apology.
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Why would we find that to be an acceptable substitute?
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Now, I do agree that any boycott campaign, you know, with any boycott campaign, you need to give companies an out.
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You have to give them a way to get back into your good graces.
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The whole point of a boycott is that you're withholding support in order to extract some kind of concession.
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So at least in theory, there should be like something that they can do that would make you not mad anymore.
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And if you don't get the concession, and the company is just destroyed, then you win that way too.
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And so at this point, the entire company is basically in shambles.
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Well, they would need to apologize for pushing transgenderism.
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They would need to apologize specifically and explicitly.
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They would need to grovel at our feet in humiliating fashion and disavow gender ideology entirely.
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They would need to say, we are sorry for pushing trans ideology.
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Instead, they're hoping that they can simply change the subject.
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If you're boycotting a company and demanding some kind of concession, and you don't get the concession, and then you back down anyway, you lose.
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You have taken your victory and traded it in in exchange for a defeat.
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That's what it would be to start supporting Bud Light now.
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Oh, but I feel so bad for that poor multinational foreign conglomerate.
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Unless we decide to bail them out because we don't have the stomach to fight the culture war like wars need to be fought.
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You know, this is part of the pitch from guys like Dana White and Kid Rock.
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Seems to be a call for some sort of weird sort of mercy.
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And I've even seen some on the right arguing that we're called as Christians to forgive Bud Light for their transgressions.
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And yes, that's an actual argument I've seen from more than one person.
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But fighting back against culture rot, fighting back against the people who are deliberately injecting perversion and moral insanity into our culture, fighting against the corporate overlords behind all of this.
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These are not homeless, starving people on the street who need a helping hand.
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They are mega billion dollar corporations who are selling degeneracy for profit.
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And if you manage to get your foot on one of their necks, you keep it there.
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You have no mercy until they grovel and beg and do exactly what you demand that they do.
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That's how the left responds in situations like this.
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And again, if we are not willing to do that, if we are not willing to be ruthless,
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if we will allow ourselves to be paid off, then there's no hope.
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Keep in mind that the significance of the Bud Light boycott and the whole strategy behind it
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is that we have made this company into a cautionary tale.
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You know, the whole point was to put its head on a spike on the edge of town as a warning to others.
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We want to show corporate America that this is what we will do.
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This is what we are capable of doing and willing to do if you spit in our face the way that Bud Light did.
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But if we just put a dent in their sales for a couple of quarters, get no apology or concession at all,
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then go back to supporting them, we'll have taken their head off of the spike and put our own on it instead.
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Because we will have sent a very different kind of message to corporate America.
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We will have shown them that we're not willing to go for the kill shot.
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That ultimately, we'll always come crawling back pathetically with our tails between our legs.
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That ultimately, all we care about is, more than anything, is being consumers.
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And we'll always be loyal, you know, trained puppies as consumers.
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But, you know, what's happening now is even worse.
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Because this is not just an effort to end the Bud Light boycott.
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This is an effort to actively rehabilitate their brand for them.
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Because the truth is that, you know, the boycott, this is not really even a boycott anymore.
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So the brand itself now is seen as lame, effeminate, embarrassing.
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Even people who don't care about the boycott or are only dimly aware of it,
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even they avoid drinking Bud Light just because they don't want to get made fun of by their friends.
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That's why Bud Light is in such a dire situation.
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So even if we officially ended the boycott, it wouldn't necessarily matter because the brand is lame now.
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Which means that to really end the boycott, we would have to revitalize and repair Bud Light's brand for them.
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Which is what the Dana Whites and Kid Rocks of the world seem to be trying to do.
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So this is like declaring victory in a war, accepting your enemy's surrender,
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and then proceeding to give them back all the land you gained.
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You're helping them repair the damage they caused themselves.
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All the conservatives I see online, and there's plenty of them,
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who are saying, oh no, they gave $100 million to UFC.
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The people that are pushing this insanity onto a culture that our children have to live in.
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Does that become better now because UFC got some money?
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It has to be said, like, Bud Light sucks anyway.
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It tastes like stale rainwater scooped out of a murky puddle on the pavement.
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This is not just the most effective conservative boycott in history.
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Because nobody with functioning taste buds has any desire to drink that sludge anyway.
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We can do what is effective, what is right, and also what is, at the very same time, easy,
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which is to not drink this ****, or we can go out of our way to kneecap ourselves and turn
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The Satanic Temple has set up a display of a sparkling demonic ram's head in the Iowa Statehouse
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Alongside more traditional menorahs and Christmas trees,
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the group has erected an altar topped with candles, a large banner, and a ram figure with
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skull covered in mirrors, a red cloak, and a wreath.
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The temple reportedly went through all the correct administrative channels for the display
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and only had their original request to use a real goat's skull denied.
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So there was no attempt to turn them down or anything like that or to fight over this.
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They were just given exactly what they wanted, aside from putting, you know,
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the carcass of an actual animal in the statehouse, but everything else they got.
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Founder of the Satanic Temple, Lucian Graves, told KCCI,
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we're going to really relish the opportunity to be represented in a public forum.
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This display will be up for 14 days and is protected under the First Amendment, supposedly.
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Iowa resident Shelly Flockhart is extremely concerned, organized a group prayer near the
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She told KCCI, I hope that people realize spiritual warfare is real, that there are evil
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satanic forces that are trying to infiltrate our state.
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She said Christians must spiritually fight against it and added it's a very dark evil force,
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and I truly hope people know how to battle that.
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Iowa's Governor Kim Reynolds is not happy about this, and she's spoken out about it.
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Governor Kim Reynolds is denouncing a satanic holiday display at the statehouse.
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The Iowa Atheist and Free Thinkers Group and the Satanic Temple set up the display.
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It says that all religions should be represented in a public forum.
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But Reynolds said in a statement this morning, she finds this display objectionable.
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She says the best way to respond is to pray over the Capitol and to recognize the nativity
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Yesterday, in sort of an interesting detail here, during a town hall, Ron DeSantis was asked
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about this, and he said that some of this traces back to the Trump administration.
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I heard this, and then I was like, well, how did it get there?
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And lo and behold, the Trump administration gave them approval to be under the IRS as a
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So that gave them the legal ability to potentially do it.
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So I don't know what the legislature, what they have, they analyzed it, but it very well
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may be, because of that ruling under Donald Trump, that they may have had a legal leg
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My view would be that's not a religion that the founding fathers were trying to create.
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But I do think that IRS ruling, I was really surprised to see that they did that.
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Just, I mean, obviously, it should not be allowed.
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You simply don't allow Satanists to set up a satanic altar inside your state capitol.
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Building, I mean, that's the kind of thing that shouldn't need to be said.
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And I don't give a damn what argument you make.
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I don't care about whatever right you're trying to supposedly claim.
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When they go through the administrative channels and say, we have a right to do this.
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You don't just do it without putting up a fight.
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The only fight was, OK, you can't put an actual goat skull.
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First, it should go without saying what Ron DeSantis said there is correct.
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Obviously, the founding fathers would have never tolerated this.
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They obviously never intended to give Satanists the right to set up satanic temples inside government buildings.
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And anyone who tells you otherwise is a moron or a liar or both.
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Not only would they not have tolerated this, but they would have arrested anyone who even attempted to do something like this.
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OK, so they were not the live and let live hippies that they're made out to be, for the most part.
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Second, Satanism is not a valid religion in the theological sense of the term.
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I mean, it's designed to be the opposite of a religion.
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And for most of these self-professed Satanists, it's meant to be nothing more than a troll of religion.
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Like, they don't even consider themselves to be worshipping Satan, really.
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They are worshipping Satan, even though they don't consciously think they are.
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But they'll be the first to tell you that that's not what they're actually doing, they don't think.
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The whole thing, all of it is set up to be, not just of religion, by the way, but of Christianity specifically.
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The whole thing is set up to be kind of the inverse of Christianity.
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OK, so Satanism is not like some other world religion.
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Satanism is a mockery of Christianity specifically.
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And third, it's interesting that atheists are behind this.
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You know, atheist groups are the ones who have pushed this.
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And atheists are on extremely shaky ground here, really non-existent ground.
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Because they're claiming that Satanists have the right to set up, you know, the satanic altar in the Capitol.
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And I'm always harping on this point because it's an important point.
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It's a question that's never answered in these conversations.
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But if somebody is saying, oh, I have the right to do that, says who?
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And what if the government just said, what if Iowa had just said, no, you can't.
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Because, you know, there are only two possibilities.
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Either rights are things that are invented arbitrarily by people, you know, or they are, as the founders believed, endowed by a higher power, by the creator, by God.
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But if rights are endowed by God, then we have to ask whether God endowed us also with the right to practice Satanism in government buildings.
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Does anybody want to step up and say we have a God-given, endowed right to practice Satanism, you know, inside the state capitol?
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That's going to be a very difficult case to make.
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But that, of course, is not even the case that atheists would make.
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So they would say that rights are human inventions, that they're arbitrary human constructs.
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There's no fundamental innate reality of a human right.
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Well, if that's the case, then you wouldn't be able to complain if Iowa had simply said, no, you don't have the right to set that up here.
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Because if government decides your rights, and then if the government says you don't have that particular right, it's incoherent to insist that you do.
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Because insisting that you do is to appeal to a power higher than the government.
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But on the atheist view, there is no power higher than the government.
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And so if they say you don't have that right, then you don't.
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So then your argument would be, you know, then if the government is saying you don't have a certain right, it's totally incoherent for you to say, oh, but I really do have that right.
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Instead, what you would be saying is I should have that right.
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I don't have that right because rights are arbitrary human constructs invented by the government on my worldview because I'm an atheist.
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You know, that's a right that we should invent for me.
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But that's not what the Satanists and the atheists are arguing.
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Because they recognize that that's a pretty, that's a much weaker argument.
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I mean, you say, yeah, I don't have it, but I should.
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Because then everyone could say, no, you shouldn't.
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I mean, or maybe you think you should, but we don't care.
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And finally, to return to a theme from yesterday and really from every other day on the show.
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You know, as conservatives, we do not have to tolerate everything.
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In fact, our whole thing is supposed to be that we don't.
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The right to turn state houses into satanic temples?
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We're conserving truth, sanity, common sense, tradition.
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And this flies in the face of all of that, you know, which is why we should say no.
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You know, conservatives have to get finally past this juvenile, like, adolescent, libertarian thing.
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You know, just do, you do your thing and I do my thing.
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That childish, half-baked way of viewing the world.
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And that means that in situations like this, you can do what you know is the right thing.
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Like, anyone who looks at a satanic temple being set up in a state, like, anyone who looks at that and is like, that doesn't seem right.
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Okay, that just doesn't seem, that does not seem, it doesn't seem like that should be happening.
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But conservatives for so long have convinced themselves that they have to defy their own moral intuition for the sake of liberty or whatever.
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But that is based on a very mistaken, very, as I said, juvenile sort of childish idea of what liberty is.
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And the juvenile childish idea of liberty is that liberty means everyone can just do what they want.
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Which is like what your teenager might think freedom is.
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Some of the founding fathers thought freedom is.
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Speaking of things you shouldn't be free to do, I want to move to this story.
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And here's another case where I'm going to be disagreeing with someone that I otherwise appreciate and like and agree with.
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And before we get to what she said, let's set this story up.
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A woman who denied an abortion, who was denied an abortion in Texas for her unborn baby with a fetal anomaly, has left the state to obtain an abortion elsewhere, her attorney said on Monday.
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The Texas Supreme Court on Monday ruled against Kate Cox, 31, saying that a lower court was wrong to rule that she was entitled to a medical exception for abortion.
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After a week of legal whiplash and threats of persecution from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Kate Cox has been forced to leave Texas to get health care outside of the state, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing Cox.
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Cox's legal team had argued that the baby has a fatal condition and that continuing the pregnancy threatens Cox's future fertility.
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Cox, who has two other children, was more than 20 weeks pregnant with a baby who had a condition called trisomy 18, which involves having an extra chromosome 18 and can cause abnormalities like heart defects.
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About 95% of these pregnancies result in a miscarriage.
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However, some babies do survive past birth and can live into their toddler years, teen years, or even longer.
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A woman believed to be one of the oldest people with the condition lived to 40.
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And Texas denied this request for this exemption, and then she went to another state.
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Here's what Ann Coulter said about this, and she was trending yesterday for saying this.
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She tweeted in response to this story yesterday, quote,
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The pro-life movement has gone from compassion for the child to cruelty to the mother and child.
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Trisomy 18 is not a condition that is compatible with life.
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Okay, so Ann is very wrong here on a few levels.
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And first of all, she should know that pro-lifers are never motivated by cruelty to mothers, okay?
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Even if you disagree with some of our conclusions on these issues, obviously we aren't looking to be cruel to mothers.
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It's the abortion industry that exploits mothers, charges them hundreds of dollars to kill their children, consigns them to a lifetime of regret and guilt.
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That's one thing you notice about the pro-life movement that, yeah, there are a few people that are in the pro-life movement sort of professionally.
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And in any movement, you have people that this is their calling.
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Being a pro-lifer, there's not money to be made in being a pro-lifer.
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The abortion industry is a billion-dollar industry.
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And so it is always logical to say that at least a big part of their motivation is that they make a lot of money on this.
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So anytime, that's why it never makes any sense when people are looking for, like, sinister motivations behind the pro-life movement.
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Even people, yeah, I mean, you've got crisis pregnancy centers, pregnancy resource centers.
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But do you think that the people that work there are raking in the dough?
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Do you think they're making millions of dollars, you know, living in seven-bedroom houses and stuff?
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No, these are people that, like, they rely on fundraising banquets once a year to even keep the lights on.
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So the pro-life movement, it is motivated entirely by love for the mother and child and by a moral sense of what is right and wrong.
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There is no, like, other cynical, what even would be the sort of cynical grift here?
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Because no one is benefiting from it, you know, from a material perspective.
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Second, this condition, as mentioned in the article, is not always incompatible with life.
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They can live for months, years, even decades in some cases.
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And the prospects of a long life are tragically small but not nonexistent.
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So if you abort a child with this condition, you are killing him.
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You're directly killing him on the assumption that he's going to die anyway.
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It also, when you look at it another way, is incoherent.
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Because when you look at it another way, the assumption is self-evidently always correct.
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And I don't say that to be dismissive of the severity of this disorder.
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You know, all of our children, it's a tragic fact of reality that life is fleeting.
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And your children will experience the pain and suffering of death.
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So if you start justifying murder based on the fact that someone is going to supposedly die anyway,
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you've opened up Pandora's box and you've set a precedent that justifies really any murder of anyone.
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And that's not some far-flung, slippery slope hypothetical.
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When you start saying, okay, we can directly kill people if we know they're going to die anyway.
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We see this on the other end of the spectrum with euthanasia.
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And it starts with like the really hard, terrible cases, people terminally ill,
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people that are going to die within the week or in the next few months anyway.
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And you've always, and you've got, always have some people that are like,
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yeah, I don't really feel good about this, but, you know, they're going to die anyway.
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And then, because pretty soon it goes from there to, well, this person might not die in the next few months,
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but they might have an illness that might kill them in five years.
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Then you go from there and you say, well, they may not die in the next five years,
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but this is, they're dealing with something that makes, where they're suffering greatly.
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And they're very, and they're very uncomfortable and they're, you know,
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And then you go from there to say, well, they may not be suffering physically,
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but they're suffering emotionally and mentally.
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And so they should be eligible to be killed and put down like dogs.
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And then once you're there, you're at the point where, okay, so that's just everybody.
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So, so the floodgates are open entirely at that point.
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The only way to get around any of this, really, when it comes to this issue,
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is by arguing that the child in the womb is not a human person.
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Like, that'd be the one way to get around it, is to say,
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yeah, killing a person because they're going to die anyway is obviously wrong,
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But if you're pro-life at all, then you know that that's not true.
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And, and if you believe that children in the womb are people,
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Like, there are born infant children and toddlers
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that are probably going to kill them pretty soon.
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You know, that happens every day in this country.
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within the next couple of years because of leukemia.
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Like, I'm going to assume that most people would say
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And yes, this, this child's tragically going to die anyway.
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Your whole position is that they're both people.
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They're just in different stages of development.
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again, even if you don't agree with it somehow,
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And then if you think about it a little bit longer,
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you realize it's the only logical and sensible position.
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Well, we spent a while on both of those topics.
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that's sure to make you the hero of the season.
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Now we all know the holidays can be a bit hectic,
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not sure about the banning of digitized pornographic images.
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As usual, I'm looking for the principles at work here.
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What if the images are licentious but not nude?
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again, this is something conservatives often do as well,
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where, not just conservatives, people in general,
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that I think you know is pretty self-evidently correct
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how all of these gray area, difficult kind of cases
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you can't quite work out what to do about all those.
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Like, we cross those bridges when we come to them.
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This is something that's like probably my favorite
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Sometimes, when I'm saying we're going to do this,
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any time I declare anything that we're going to do,
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You know, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
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Okay, let's just, let's put one foot in front of the other.
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Like there are websites and apps that exist right now
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obviously that's, you cannot have that company.
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what if the images are like sexually suggestive,