The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 160 - Republicans Fail To Defund Planned Parenthood

00:00:00.000 Today on the show, Brett Kavanaugh has sided with liberal justices to protect Planned Parenthood funding.

00:00:06.300 Meanwhile, Republicans never did defund Planned Parenthood like they said they would.

00:00:10.340 What should this tell us? What message is being sent to us?

00:00:13.260 Also, we'll take a look at the top 20 most dangerous jobs in America,

00:00:17.560 and we'll look at which gender tends to do those jobs. 1.00

00:00:21.260 Maybe it will tell us something about the wage gap.

00:00:23.500 All of that coming up on The Matt Walsh Show today.

00:00:25.300 Well, it's not a surprise. It's not a surprise, but it's no less outrageous,

00:00:33.820 no less of a bad omen of things to come that Kavanaugh joined the liberal justices on the Supreme Court yesterday

00:00:42.120 to block a case that could have given states the right to defund Planned Parenthood.

00:00:48.700 Kavanaugh, Roberts, and the liberals, but I guess I may be repeating myself there,

00:00:54.120 left in place two lower court opinions that said that states violate federal law

00:00:59.980 when they terminate Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood affiliates.

00:01:05.100 Now, only four justices are needed to grant a hearing on a case,

00:01:10.560 because that's all that was at stake here was just let's give them a hearing.

00:01:15.520 Let's look at this case.

00:01:18.160 So Kavanaugh could have been the decisive vote in that case.

00:01:22.460 It's not as though the game was already set because of Roberts.

00:01:27.060 So Kavanaugh just joined him for PR purposes.

00:01:30.540 I heard someone said that on Twitter.

00:01:31.940 They said, well, maybe it was just because Roberts was already doing that and it didn't matter.

00:01:35.800 No, you only need four.

00:01:37.120 You only need four to agree to give a hearing on something.

00:01:40.800 So his vote was decisive and he sided with the liberals.

00:01:44.820 Well, it's, it is now very hard to see Kavanaugh voting to overturn Roe.

00:01:54.600 It was already, and there were those of us who warned of this back when he was nominated,

00:02:00.780 that it was already far from a slam dunk that he would vote to overturn Roe.

00:02:06.420 But now at this point, um, it's, it's really hard to see it.

00:02:10.640 It's hard to see him even allowing a case like that to be heard in the first place,

00:02:14.040 because I think sometimes people forget that in order for, for Roe, in order for there to be a vote on Roe,

00:02:20.880 um, first you have to have a case challenging Roe that makes it all its way,

00:02:24.600 its way all the way up to the Supreme Court.

00:02:25.940 And then the Supreme Court justices have to agree to hear it in the first place.

00:02:30.020 We know that the liberal justices would never agree to it.

00:02:33.460 Um, and now I think we've got a pretty good idea of where Roberts and Kavanaugh would fall on that.

00:02:38.940 And this isn't even an abortion rights case, abortion rights.

00:02:42.500 I put scare quotes around that.

00:02:44.480 This is just a case about the rights of individuals to not have their tax money go to abortion conglomerates.

00:02:51.360 Um, theoretically a, a pro-abortion person, if they cared at all about liberty.

00:02:57.640 And I know that if you care about liberty, you're not going to be pro-abortion.

00:03:00.720 But if there was anyone who's pretends to be more libertarian minded,

00:03:05.000 but for some reason doesn't understand how that concept, how that principle should extend to the unborn,

00:03:09.580 they should still be in favor of allowing states to defund because that's what this is all about.

00:03:14.520 This isn't, this is about should Planned Parenthood, that, um, business that earns over a billion dollars

00:03:23.140 or that is, that's worth over a billion dollars, should it continue to receive funds from the state?

00:03:30.540 So we know where Kavanaugh stands on that.

00:03:32.560 Meanwhile, the, uh, the new Congress with the Democrat controlled house will be taking over in January.

00:03:40.460 I think their first, uh, I think there'll be in session on January 3rd, I believe.

00:03:45.860 And guess what hasn't gotten done?

00:03:49.840 Well, a lot of things haven't gotten done, actually.

00:03:52.040 The wall for one, there's no wall.

00:03:54.320 Um, Obamacare is still in place.

00:03:56.700 The budget isn't balanced.

00:03:58.740 Fiscal responsibility was not established.

00:04:02.000 But on top of that list, on top of that extensive list of failures,

00:04:07.220 I think at the very top of that list is going to be the fact that Planned Parenthood was never defunded.

00:04:14.900 And it's actually, it's not enough to say that Planned Parenthood was never defunded.

00:04:19.200 It's, it's actually a lot worse than that.

00:04:21.940 Um, the truth is, the truth is that Planned Parenthood was actively funded.

00:04:27.260 It wasn't just not defunded.

00:04:29.140 It was funded.

00:04:30.340 The choice was made by this Republican Congress to, it was made again and again and again to actively fund Planned Parenthood.

00:04:42.860 And that choice was also signed off by the president.

00:04:46.720 So it really seems like Planned Parenthood will never be defunded.

00:04:50.160 This institution that kills 330,000 humans a year will continue to be funded by the government.

00:04:57.640 And do you know why?

00:04:59.120 I think you must know why.

00:05:00.520 Because there is no pro-life party.

00:05:03.860 There, there isn't, there isn't even a pro-liberty party.

00:05:07.780 Because you only need to be in favor of liberty.

00:05:09.840 Like I said, you could be lukewarm on life.

00:05:12.120 You could say, eh, take it or leave it.

00:05:13.940 Life, I don't know.

00:05:14.560 But if you care about freedom, if you care about economic freedom, let's say, because if you care about freedom in general, then obviously you're going to care about life because you can't have freedom without life.

00:05:25.180 But let's say you're, you're, uh, one of those socially liberal types, but you, you, you claim to care about economic freedom.

00:05:32.640 Well, in that case, you would say, or you should say, if you really are economic, if you care about economic freedom, you would say it's obviously tyrannical to force people to fund this, this company, this company that half of the country detests and loathes and wants nothing to do with.

00:05:51.980 So we don't have a party that cares about any of that.

00:05:53.760 We don't have a party that cares about, that cares about pro-life.

00:05:56.280 If we don't have a party that cares about economic freedom, um, which is why we gave it control of the entire government and it couldn't even get this job done.

00:06:07.800 Instead, we get Planned Parenthood funding and we get a Supreme Court justice who won't even let us hear a case that might defund it.

00:06:15.540 I think we need to understand something else if we, if we don't already understand this.

00:06:18.540 Because for most Republicans, okay, abortion and Planned Parenthood and all of the issues attached to it, abortion and all that means, it is a great issue for them.

00:06:33.020 Issue, okay, for Republicans.

00:06:35.840 It's not a problem that they want to get rid of.

00:06:39.240 It's not an evil to them.

00:06:41.700 It is an issue.

00:06:43.420 And it's great because it can be used to convince people to vote for them.

00:06:47.300 But if abortion ever goes away or Planned Parenthood funding ever goes away, then they no longer have that issue anymore.

00:06:57.280 Now, in a, in a sense they do, because they could argue that, well, the other guys want to re reinstate these things.

00:07:03.140 So you got to put us in to stop them.

00:07:05.000 But that are, that's never as strong as being able to say, there's this terrible thing happening.

00:07:09.940 We need to get rid of it.

00:07:11.400 And we're the only ones who will do that.

00:07:13.180 So they have, they want this, they have this issue.

00:07:18.200 They want it.

00:07:19.400 It is, it is advantageous to them.

00:07:22.200 They could care less about the content of the issue.

00:07:26.140 They could care less about solving any problem.

00:07:28.840 They don't, they could care less about stopping it.

00:07:31.920 Worse than that, they don't want to stop it.

00:07:34.220 They want the issue.

00:07:36.120 And if that much isn't clear to you by now, I don't know what will ever make it clear.

00:07:41.000 There are some exceptions to this rule.

00:07:43.140 You know, this is, this is not true of, of, um,

00:07:46.180 of every Republican necessarily, but it is true of most of them.

00:07:50.860 They don't care about this.

00:07:53.300 And, um,

00:07:54.840 that's why I don't see any changes in the, in the near future.

00:07:59.960 I don't see any way that any of this changes in the near future.

00:08:04.920 And if we can't get, you know, if we, if we can't get Planned Parenthood defunding

00:08:09.360 with a Republican Senate and Republican house and, uh, and a Republican president

00:08:17.840 and two Republican, two recent Republican appointees, supposedly, um, five conservative

00:08:27.680 Supreme Supreme court justices, supposedly if we, if we can't get it done that way, we

00:08:32.760 can't get it done through the judiciary.

00:08:34.140 We can't get it done through, um, through Congress, then how's it going to happen?

00:08:40.480 I don't see it happening at a certain point.

00:08:43.580 We need to figure out as pro-lifers how, and when, and if we are ever going to hold these

00:08:51.340 people accountable, you know, when, when are we ever going to hold them accountable?

00:08:56.360 Because they never do what they say they're going to do.

00:08:59.380 And then, um, and then we say, Oh, we're going to hold you accountable for this come election

00:09:03.840 time, but then they say, no, you can't hold us accountable because if you do that, then

00:09:07.120 the other guys might get in there and they're definitely not going to do what you want them

00:09:11.160 to do.

00:09:12.640 So you might as well roll the dice on us.

00:09:15.500 We're your best chance.

00:09:18.920 Well, I don't even think they're that anymore.

00:09:21.360 You know, the problem with the problem with, uh, conservatives and, and pro-lifers especially,

00:09:25.980 but conservatives in general is that we are, we are crumb eaters.

00:09:30.180 We eat the crumbs that are thrown to us.

00:09:33.220 We we're satisfied with whatever little crumbs are thrown to us by the people that we elect

00:09:37.900 and put in power and that we support with our votes.

00:09:41.160 We, we are satisfied with, so even now, everything that I'm saying right now, I know there are

00:09:45.920 people that are going to say, well, well, yeah, but we got tax cuts.

00:09:49.640 Yeah.

00:09:50.060 You know, we, we didn't defund plan paranoid.

00:09:51.600 We didn't get rid of Obamacare.

00:09:52.880 Uh, we don't have the wall.

00:09:54.140 Uh, you know, there's no fiscal responsibility.

00:09:56.080 We still got the, uh, massive deficits, but, but we got, we got tax cuts, right?

00:10:01.940 And we, um, you know, reduced regulations here and there.

00:10:05.740 Okay.

00:10:06.280 Great.

00:10:07.700 Fantastic.

00:10:08.260 That's, that's awesome.

00:10:09.260 I'm, I'm very happy about that.

00:10:11.400 We got, we got tax cuts and reduced regulations.

00:10:14.080 I'm not saying that stuff isn't important, but that's easy.

00:10:17.060 Any Republican will do that.

00:10:18.440 That's, that's, that's nothing.

00:10:19.700 Um, for considering all of the power that Republicans had for, for two years, they controlled the

00:10:27.280 entire government and this is what we get a tax cut bill and reduce a few regulations and

00:10:33.740 people are happy with that.

00:10:35.420 You're satisfied with that.

00:10:37.840 All of the, the major, um, important, significant things that we put them in there to do, they

00:10:49.040 are not, did not have not done repeal Obamacare didn't happen.

00:10:56.500 Get the wall done.

00:10:57.660 Didn't have, it's not even beginning to happen.

00:11:00.060 Um, uh, defund Planned Parenthood not happening.

00:11:03.340 Um, and oh yeah, get us concert, get us Supreme court justices that are actual constitutionalists

00:11:11.720 and actual conservatives give you that too.

00:11:14.500 And apparently it's looking like that didn't happen either.

00:11:19.940 So it is a huge failure on all of these fronts, but we're supposed to be happy because of tax

00:11:26.560 cuts.

00:11:26.980 And it, and what boggles my mind is that some conservatives apparently are happy with that.

00:11:36.820 That's nothing.

00:11:38.220 That is nothing.

00:11:42.880 We need to start demanding a lot more and expecting a lot more and holding people accountable when

00:11:50.300 it doesn't happen.

00:11:51.080 Um, all right, um, here's something interesting.

00:11:56.740 Mark Perry, an economics professor shared, uh, shared something on his Twitter yesterday.

00:12:01.720 It's from the Bureau of labor statistics and it lists the top 20 most dangerous jobs based

00:12:08.640 on fatal injury per 100,000 workers.

00:12:10.940 I want to read, um, hold on, I got to pull this up.

00:12:14.020 I'm going to read some of these to you.

00:12:15.900 Uh, these are the most dangerous jobs in America.

00:12:18.560 Um, the, the most recent tally anyway, of the most dangerous jobs in America.

00:12:23.160 So we have, um, number one logging workers that is 95% male.

00:12:33.180 So I want you to, as I, as I read these jobs, um, I want you to notice if there's anything

00:12:38.820 that, you know, that they all have in common.

00:12:41.040 So number one, logging workers, the most, the most dangerous, the most fatal job in

00:12:46.200 a, in America, 95% male fishing workers, 99.9% male number three, aircraft pilots, 94.8%

00:12:56.160 male.

00:12:57.020 And as someone with a fear of flying, the fact that aircraft pilot is the third most dangerous

00:13:01.780 job in America, it makes me extremely uncomfortable.

00:13:04.220 Uh, number four roofers, 91.4% male, um, refuse collectors, uh, 98% male truck drivers, 94%

00:13:16.680 male, iron and steel workers, um, 98% male farmers and ranchers, 75% male agricultural workers,

00:13:25.780 79% male.

00:13:26.900 And then it goes on and then the, the, the 20th most dangerous job is mining and that

00:13:32.540 is 99.9% male.

00:13:36.520 So I bring this up just so that this is something that you can keep in mind when people complain

00:13:43.260 about the supposed, uh, the supposed wage gap, a wage gap that all but disappears.

00:13:49.960 Of course, when you look at comparable jobs and comparable levels of skill and education,

00:13:55.220 et cetera, um, the way they get that wage gap figure, the 75, 75 cents on the dollar that

00:14:01.800 women make or whatever it is, the way they get it is to broadly compare all men in the

00:14:06.960 workforce to all women without at all accounting for the actual jobs being done. 0.56

00:14:11.760 So the 75 cents on a dollar figure is of course, meaningless, but if you were wondering where

00:14:17.140 it comes from, this should give you an idea.

00:14:20.840 Uh, if you were wondering, you know, okay, fine, we're not, we're not taking into account

00:14:24.140 the jobs that they're doing, the skill level training, any of that, uh, hours work that

00:14:28.800 doesn't take into account, but still there is this difference when you lump everything

00:14:32.480 together.

00:14:33.040 So why do we have that difference?

00:14:35.040 It's because men do the more dangerous, the more physically demanding jobs and they are

00:14:40.120 rewarded accordingly.

00:14:42.720 For comparison's sake, there are some jobs that are dominated by women. 1.00

00:14:47.600 So according to USA Today, here are some of the jobs that are dominated by women, um, public 1.00

00:14:53.960 relations specialist, um, social and community service manager, production planning and expediting

00:15:01.620 clerks, parking enforcement workers, technical writers, um, non-farm animal caretakers, fabric

00:15:12.000 and apparel pattern makers, writers and authors, opticians, uh, bakers, graders and sorters, public

00:15:22.300 relations managers, pharmacists, natural science managers, and veterinarians.

00:15:27.160 That is the number one, uh, female dominated field. 1.00

00:15:30.860 So those are all jobs that require skill.

00:15:33.520 Those are, uh, most of them important jobs, but none of them are dangerous.

00:15:39.080 Um, none of them are anywhere near as physically demanding.

00:15:44.340 And so this tells us why this difference exists on top of other reasons too.

00:15:50.420 Men tend to work more hours as well. 0.77

00:15:53.180 Um, men are more willing to work overtime.

00:15:56.240 Men are more willing to work on weekends.

00:15:58.640 I think I also read that men are more willing to travel, uh, you know, further for a job.

00:16:03.940 And that goes down to, it's just, it's just a matter of priorities.

00:16:07.140 You know, women tend to prioritize other things like their families and their relationship. 1.00

00:16:12.940 And that's good.

00:16:14.160 That's a positive thing.

00:16:15.480 It's good that women, um, value those. 0.65

00:16:18.140 I think men, as men, we should value those things more than a lot of us apparently do.

00:16:24.100 But, uh, not to say that people who, who work a lot of hours don't value their families,

00:16:30.500 but I'm saying, you know, it, it, it, you speaking generally, men tend to put more of

00:16:36.600 a value on sort of career ambition and succeeding in the job.

00:16:40.880 And women tend to put more value on the family. 1.00

00:16:43.400 And the thing is the family is the more important thing.

00:16:46.200 So they've got that one, right.

00:16:48.000 And men are simply more willing to work these jobs.

00:16:50.500 If you look at how dominated these fields are by men, logging, uh, fishing, mining, mining

00:16:57.340 is a 99.9% male job.

00:17:00.720 But also, you know, it, it pays pretty well most of the time, but why is it 99.9% male?

00:17:08.180 Is it 99.9% male?

00:17:09.300 Because women are excluded because women are getting, you know, you've got a whole bunch 1.00

00:17:12.860 of women that just really want to work in the mines, but they aren't, um, they aren't, 1.00

00:17:17.900 they aren't allowed to long haul truck drivers.

00:17:22.460 That's a, uh, a 94% male occupation.

00:17:26.860 Is it because all these women are clamoring to be long haul truck drivers, but they aren't 1.00

00:17:30.440 allowed to, or is it just that women for the most part have no interest at all in doing 1.00

00:17:36.820 those jobs?

00:17:37.480 I think that's the reason.

00:17:39.280 And so that's why they aren't paid the same.

00:17:42.360 All right.

00:17:42.600 Last but not least, um, some sad news.

00:17:47.820 One of the great power couples, um, in the world today is splitting up.

00:17:53.700 And I hate to have to tell you this.

00:17:55.280 According to the Irish post, an Irish woman who married the ghost of a 300 year old pirate

00:18:01.560 claims that the couple has now split up.

00:18:04.240 Amanda Teague, um, married a Haitian pirate named Jack earlier this year.

00:18:10.000 I don't know if you remember hearing that story.

00:18:11.620 It was a great, it was.

00:18:12.360 At the time anyway, it was a great, uh, romantic story.

00:18:15.360 The wedding took place on board a boat in international waters off the Irish coast.

00:18:19.700 And, um, everything seemed to be going well at first, but now, and it hasn't even been

00:18:26.440 what?

00:18:26.640 It hasn't even been a year.

00:18:27.420 And now apparently they're breaking up, which is, which is really the second bad break for

00:18:32.880 Jack because he was executed, um, on the high seas in the 1700s.

00:18:37.560 So he's executed.

00:18:38.560 He's dead. 0.97

00:18:38.960 He's a ghost.

00:18:39.700 He finally finds love.

00:18:41.420 And now that has even fallen apart.

00:18:44.580 Um, pretty sad.

00:18:46.620 In fact, I, I heard that they split up after a bad argument.

00:18:50.080 I, I guess they just weren't soul mateys, but you know, I hear, I hear he's, he's hooking

00:18:58.820 up with someone else now.

00:18:59.700 Um, and the fact is that relationship has been on the last leg for a while.

00:19:04.400 So they tried to patch it up, but it just didn't work.

00:19:10.560 Suppose the, the, the romance was dead in their relationship.

00:19:13.160 It was hard too, because she wanted him to talk more, but he wouldn't say boo.

00:19:19.500 Plus, I mean, he could never set foot in their living room, which was hard, but I'm sure he'll

00:19:24.820 do fine on the dating scene because, um, you know, he's, he's a, he's a good looking ghost.

00:19:28.520 And as I say, if you got it haunted, um, ghouls just want to have fun.

00:19:33.280 If you know what I mean?

00:19:35.960 And the thing is they would get into fights because the pirates parrot, his ghost parrot

00:19:40.860 would poop all over the place and his wife would say, why is the parrot doing that?

00:19:45.480 And the pirate would say, well, Hey, look, it's totally parrot normal.

00:19:51.600 That was a stretch.

00:19:52.560 I, I was trying to go for paranormal, but parrot and just, it didn't work.

00:19:58.840 All right.

00:19:59.400 Um, I gotta just, I gotta leave it there.

00:20:03.340 I could go on for another five minutes with the pun.

00:20:04.980 By the way, soul matey was, that's a, that is a double pun because you got the matey for

00:20:09.800 the, for the pirate soul, S O U L soul, because he's dead.

00:20:13.460 So you see that it's a double pun.

00:20:16.220 And, uh, all right.

00:20:17.660 I'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:20:18.480 Have a great day.

00:20:19.640 Godspeed.

00:20:26.840 I'm Michael Knowles of the Michael Knowles show today.

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 11, 2018

Ep. 160 - Republicans Fail To Defund Planned Parenthood

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