Ep. 979 - Roe Is Dead, Hallelujah
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Summary
Roe v. Wade has been overturned and is no longer legal. Plus, Joe Biden accidentally shows off a note from his staff that shows just how bad his dementia has gotten, and Kamala Harris humiliates herself while trying to play basketball.
Transcript
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In one of the greatest moments in American history, the Supreme Court decision,
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which codified the right to murder babies, has been finally and officially overturned.
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I'll have a lot to say about that today, as you can imagine.
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Also, the left continues to panic over the other great Supreme Court decision decided yesterday,
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this one affirming our right to carry firearms.
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Many very bad arguments have been made against that decision.
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Meanwhile, Eric Adams of New York says that he will ignore the Supreme Court's decision
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Plus, Joe Biden accidentally shows off a note from his staff
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that shows just how bad his dementia has gotten.
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And Kamala Harris humiliates herself while trying to play basketball.
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All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Well, today is just a wonderful day, first of all.
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And it's so good that I even, I dressed, I'm not dressed like a slob for the first time on the air.
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It's been nearly 50 years since Roe v. Wade was decided.
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For half a century, we've lived under its tyranny.
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Those of us who were lucky enough to live at all, that is, actually, you know,
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Over 60 million human children have been wiped off the face of the earth during that time,
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All because nine guys in robes pulled out their decoder rings from their crackerjack boxes
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and found the right to abortion written in invisible ink somewhere in the document.
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And that was enough justification to legalize the destruction of innocent human life
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all across the country for almost half a century.
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It's impossible to know what our society deprived itself of, what it sacrificed, aside from its soul.
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Could one of the babies we killed have come up with a cure for cancer?
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Could there have been great leaders and artists and thinkers and humanitarians somewhere in that pile of bodies?
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How many inventors and pioneers were thrown into the mass grave
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before they even had a chance to speak, to plead for themselves, to tell their side of the story?
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We'll never know for sure because Roe robbed us of that,
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just as it robbed 60 million children of their lives and of their potential.
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As expected for the last month and prayed for and fought for and worked towards
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Roe was officially overturned by the Supreme Court decision today.
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in a desperate bid to intimidate at least one of the justices into changing their minds.
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Indeed, it probably backfired as Roberts joined,
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Chief Justice Roberts joined the majority decision overturning Roe,
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something he almost certainly was not planning to do until the decision leaked.
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It stands even stronger, arguably, than it did in its leaked form.
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This is truly, I mean, truly one of the greatest days in American history.
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You are experiencing a day that will be in the history books
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And they will look back on it the way that we now look back on the abolition of slavery
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They will look back on it in the exact same way.
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There's many occasions where the good guys aren't very distinguishable from the bad guys.
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But this, this belongs to the other category of events.
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This is the category where the line between good and evil could not be more clear.
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One side has fought to protect babies from extermination.
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And they have fought this and fought for this for the sake of those babies, of those children.
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You know, we pro-lifers, we stand to gain nothing personally from the end of Roe.
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We fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.
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And this is really hard for the left to understand because they never do this.
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Everything they fight for, it's always for themselves.
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If they cannot directly profit from it in some kind of way,
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They're always looking for what's really going on here.
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The other side, they fight to destroy innocent life.
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And they fight for it for their own sake, for their own convenience,
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If you're on the left and today you're very upset and you're screaming and crying about it.
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That all of history will look back at you with scorn and mockery and derision.
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And look, they're going to explode in demonic rage.
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They will destroy and probably kill to satiate their bloodlust.
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Let these psychopaths burn every city to the ground.
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I don't think they're actually going to follow through on a lot of this stuff.
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I think that the pro-abortion militants are hoping and praying to Satan that we'll have the BLM riots of 2020 all over again.
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That we'll have months and months of chaos and rioting in the street.
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Because I don't think that there are enough people, and maybe I'll be proven wrong about this.
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I don't think there are enough people who care that much about killing babies to generate the kind of mass nationwide chaos that the left is hoping for here.
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Now, this does not end the scourge of abortion.
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It may come as a shock to many of the pro-abortion demons convulsing in the street and vomiting all over themselves like Linda Blair and the Exorcist.
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But in fact, abortion will remain legal in many U.S. states, including our most populous states.
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In fact, nearly every pro-abortion militant now promising a night of rage as revenge actually lives in a place where their so-called right to abortion, quote-unquote, will remain intact.
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Actually, I expect that the remaining abortion states will double and triple down, consoling themselves by making abortion even more accessible, even more legal, even more easy to obtain.
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I don't think this year will come to a close before at least one state officially legalizes infanticide, expanding abortion rights into the first several months of a child's life outside the womb.
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And yet, even so, this decision today will nonetheless directly save millions of lives.
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It is not every day that something like this happens, that there's an event in history that happens and we live through it.
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And because of that event, millions of people will live who otherwise would have died.
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I mean, the course of history has been changed in ways that we cannot possibly tabulate or quantify.
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It's important also to note something else, that this decision made by the court is not just morally right, though it is, of course, morally right, manifestly and self-evidently so, it's also the right legal decision.
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Because even if somehow you have no moral qualms with the dismemberment of children, you must, if you're honest, and understand the way the law is supposed to work, you must agree that Roe was bad law, bad precedent, a bad decision built on a foundation so flimsy that to call it merely flimsy probably does it a favor.
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I want to read a little bit from the decision itself today.
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As to precedent, citing a broad array of cases, the court found support for a constitutional right of personal privacy.
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But Roe conflated the right to shield information from disclosure and the right to make and implement personal decisions without governmental interference.
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None of these decisions involved what is distinctive about abortion.
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When the court summarized the basis for the scheme it imposed on the country, it asserted that its rules were consistent with, among other things, the relative weight of the respective interests involved in the demands of the profound problems of the present day.
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These are precisely the sort of considerations that legislative bodies often take into account when they draw lines that accommodate competing interests.
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The scheme produced looked like legislation, and the court provided the sort of explanation that might be expected from a legislative body.
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Okay, now, the entire decision is very much worth reading, but that passage alone summarizes, I think, a central element of the majority's decision.
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Basically, to translate, the decision to affirm a constitutional right to abortion, quote, unquote, was not grounded in the text of the Constitution, because it's not in the text of the Constitution.
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It wasn't even grounded in precedent or historical tradition.
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It had no grounding at all, aside from the claims and preferences of the justices who decided it.
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What they came up with, then, was not a legal decision rigorously argued, but a kind of pseudo-legislation that looks and sounds and functions like something that a legislative committee might come up with.
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And that's reason enough to overturn it, no matter how you feel about abortion.
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And you can really see the contrast between Roe itself, that decision, and the decision abolishing it today.
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The latter, the decision abolishing it, is thorough, logical, deeply argued, while the former was, now we say, was shallow, often absurd, full of subjective assertions, and it danced around and avoided the fundamental question, which, of course, is what we always find on the left.
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Everything is just a game of beating around the bush.
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Because here is the most fundamental question that all pro-abortion people everywhere avoid.
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It's the question that the rioters in the street tonight, while they're looting and burning, will have no answer to and probably haven't even thought about, and that is this.
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We know they can't tell us what a woman is, which won't stop them from claiming that today represents a grave assault on women's rights.
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But that confusion is not surprising since they, long before, gave up on the definition of the word person.
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I mean, before they gave up on the definition of the word woman, they'd given up on the definition of the word person, which means that we had already become these kinds of sort of vague, hazy, ambiguous, undefinable, undefined lumps of matter.
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And of course, if that's the case, then any other label you put on the person also doesn't really make any sense because we don't know anything about the underlying person.
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For 50 years, they claimed that the question is irrelevant.
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They said, well, nobody knows what a person is.
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It's impossible to say, so let's just keep killing these babies just in case.
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But any morally sane person realizes that it should go the other way.
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If you can't tell me what a person is, then you can't say for certain that the child in the womb is not one, which means even by your own logic, you should refrain from killing him.
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If you point a gun at somebody, not knowing if it's loaded or not, and you pull the trigger, you're still legally liable if it turns out there was a bullet in the chamber after all.
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By the Pro Board's own telling, they exterminated 60 million human children who might have been people for all they know.
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That's not any better than exterminating 60 million human children who you know are people.
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Because in fact, everyone knows that babies are people.
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The child in the womb cannot be anything other than a member of the human species.
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Which means he cannot be anything other than a person.
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And they'll answer to God for what they've done.
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But I think it's very important to celebrate the victories when they come.
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This is one of the greatest victories for human rights in the history of the world.
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I think I would even say perhaps the greatest victory for human rights in the history of the world.
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And it's one that I thought I would never live to see.
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In summation, what a great way to end Pride Month.
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You know, the other, I mean, the other, I say the other great thing about this.
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But, you know, who do we have to thank for this today, for the results?
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Well, we thank the six members of the Supreme Court who decided correctly on this.
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Well, Roberts was kind of, you know, he tried to thread a needle from what I saw in his opinion on this.
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He tried to thread a needle where he would still, you know, preserve Roe while at the same time, you know, it's just this kind of compromise that makes no sense.
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The members of the Supreme Court who made this heroic decision.
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I mean, keep in mind, Brett Kavanaugh, and I don't like everything Brett Kavanaugh has done in all the decisions that he's made since he was confirmed and sworn into the Supreme Court.
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Because keep in mind, Brett Kavanaugh, there was a nutcase at his house with a gun and, like, zip ties ready to kidnap and murder him.
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And he knows they're not going to stop after this.
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And no matter what else happens, and I'm sure in the future there will be plenty of other decisions where I disagree with where some of these people fall.
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I don't think I've ever disagreed with any decision he's made.
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But some of the other ones, but because of this moment right here, they are heroes forever.
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They have secured that for themselves for all time.
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We have Donald Trump to thank for nominating these justices, these three justices in the first place.
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If Donald Trump had not won in 2016, if Hillary Clinton had won, then Roe v. Wade would be affirmed, obviously.
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Also Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans, who, for one thing, held the line, refused to confirm Merrick Garland.
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And even though I don't like Mitch McConnell and he did just sell us out on the gun control issue, still, you have them to thank as well.
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But even before that, most of all, the pro-lifers who have been in the trenches on this thing, fighting for this for decades, I mean, have given their lives to this.
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And I have had the pleasure of knowing many pro-lifers like that, having been in the movement myself.
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And I can tell you there are people that have just, for the last 50 years, there are people that were around when this happened, when this decision was made.
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And they said to themselves then, I am giving my life to this fight.
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And they primarily are the ones who achieved this victory.
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But then also, I think we also have to give an honorable mention, maybe even better, more than an honorable mention, to Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself, RBG.
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If it was not for RBG's hubris, her narcissistic decision to not retire, I mean, clinging on to her, to the honorific, clinging on to the position and the power for as long as she could until she passed away.
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If she hadn't done that, you know, if she had been a little bit less narcissistic, a little bit, had less hubris, less arrogance, then she would have retired and her replacement would have been appointed by a Democrat.
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And so, really, we have, in many ways, she's one of the people who we can thank for this.
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Now we move on to some of the reaction from the left.
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And there's going to be a lot more over the weekend.
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And as I said, they're promising their night of rage and their rioting and looting.
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We'll start with Nancy Pelosi, who, mere minutes after this decision came down, she was in front of the press.
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And let's go through and just watch some of these clips.
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There's no point in saying good morning because it certainly is not one.
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This morning, the radical Supreme Court is eviscerating Americans' rights and endangering their health and safety.
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But the Congress will continue to act to overcome this extremism and protect the American people.
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Today, the Republican-controlled Supreme Court has achieved their dark, extreme goal of ripping away a woman's right to make their own reproductive health decisions.
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Because of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party, their supermajority in the Supreme Court, American women today have less freedom than their mothers.
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She says that Americans have, or girls have less freedoms than their mothers.
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Well, that's, you know, here's a freedom that many Americans have, which they did not have before this morning.
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And that is the freedom to be born, to live in the first place, because your so-called reproductive rights, you cannot enjoy those if you don't live in the first place.
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Your reproductive freedom and your reproductive rights are still intact.
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And as I've said many times, I am, when it comes to protecting reproductive rights, I am right there with you.
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I mean, I absolutely believe that people should be free to reproduce when and how they so they choose.
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You know, there's 330 million people in America with this 300 million people, 330 million people who agree.
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The issue, as I'm constantly having to remind the left, is that when a baby is aborted, that's not a matter of preventing reproduction because the reproduction has already happened.
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If the baby had not been produced, then there would be no need for an abortion.
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Once conception occurs, that is reproduction right there.
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A distinct separate entity, a distinct separate being with its own DNA, with its own identity, has come into formation in that moment.
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So, the right to your reproductive rights, that really comes down to you deciding when and how you will, and with whom, you will engage in the reproductive act.
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The reproductive act being not giving birth, that's not the reproductive act.
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So, Nancy Pelosi is very, very distraught and upset.
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This is an old woman near the end of her days, more than likely, statistically.
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And here she is, practically weeping over the thought that more babies will be allowed to live.
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And I can never get over that, especially with these old, crusty, feminists.
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Like, every grandmother I've ever known, they love babies.
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The idea of a grandmother, my own grandmother, weeping because babies will not be killed, it's difficult to make sense of that.
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From there, Pelosi starts talking about the sinister and dastardly Republican agenda.
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The Republicans are plotting a nationwide abortion ban.
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They cannot be allowed to have a majority in the Congress to do that.
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And if you read, and again, we're all studying all this, but if you read what is very clear,
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It's about contraception, in vitro fertilization, family planning.
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That is all what will spring from their decision that they made today.
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Did her glass eye just fall out of her head at the end of that?
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She's just, Nancy Pelosi is physically falling apart.
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Someone should throw some water on her and she would just melt right there on stage.
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And she's, oh, now they're going to come over after.
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Now what she's, what she's referring to is, and I haven't read the entire thing myself,
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but a concurrent decision or opinion by Clarence Thomas, where he talks about some of the Supreme
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Court decisions related to contraception and gay marriage and how we have to take a look
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And that's, and if, if, if they are decided, if they, if those were decided on a faulty basis,
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then yeah, that's something that the court should rectify.
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Um, but what we're talking about today is very, very fundamentally just the right to life.
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Next, I want to play just one more clip from her.
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She says that, um, she starts talking about something, a point that she can't make anymore,
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She says that this is a, this is an insult and an attack on women.
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It's a slap in the face to women about using their own judgment to make their own decisions
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I always have said the termination of a pregnancy is just their opening act.
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But because, but behind it, behind it, and for years, I have seen in this Congress opposition
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to any family planning, domestic or global, when we have had those discussions and those debates
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and those votes on the floor of the House, this is deadly serious.
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A woman's right to choose reproductive freedom is on the ballot in November.
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Now, obviously that that's a point you can't make because you don't know what a woman is
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So how can you say that it's insulting a group of people that you cannot define,
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but also, um, I can talk about, see, that's the advantage that I have.
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And that people on the pro-life side, that's the advantage that we have is that, um, we
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know what women are so we can actually talk about them.
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And so what I can say is that it's an insult to women to say that it's an insult to women.
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Um, that when we, when we simply protect the lives of children and say that you can't kill
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children, like the, the idea that, um, it's crucial to a woman's life.
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It's crucial to her existence, to her success and happiness, that she'd be able
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I can't think of anything more insulting and degrading to women than that idea.
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And we're going to hear a lot of this too, by the way, we're going to hear a lot about
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the, uh, how women, you know, they're not going to be able to be successful anymore.
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They're, it's going to, they're not going to have the happiness and fulfillment in life
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anymore because that's how the left views women.
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That's how many women on the left view themselves.
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As sick as that is, that a woman's, the way they see it, that a woman's happiness and
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fulfillment, uh, and very existence hinges on destruction.
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It hinges on the right to destroy and not just destroy anybody, but destroy her own children.
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Now we as pro-lifers know that it's the exact opposite is the case.
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That, um, that happiness and fulfillment can be found for a woman in that relationship with
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This is a, this is a fulfilling relationship just as it is for a man with his child.
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Um, Stacey Abrams also had a little bit of something to say here.
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I haven't, I haven't watched this video yet, but she's of course chiming in right away and
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And for some reason we care what Stacey Abrams has to say.
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Today, the United States Supreme Court, the seat of justice charged with protecting our
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In 1973, the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade safeguarded the right to choose for
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millions of women across Georgia and around our nation.
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Rather than uphold the wisdom of nearly 50 years, women today lost the right to make our
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own healthcare decisions and the right to shape our own futures.
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No, you can absolutely make your own, that's, that's the great thing is that you can absolutely
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Not that these people actually care about being able to make your own healthcare decisions
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or they just, they just decided that they cared about that again right now.
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But for the last two years, of course, they've been, they've been demanding that whether you
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want to or not, um, here's a needle injected into your body, object this, this, uh, you
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know, here's, here's a substance you need to object and inject into your body.
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And, uh, then come back and do it again and again and again, but you don't have a right
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So there's a healthcare decision that, uh, that's, that's not about you.
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You just have to do it because we're telling you to do it.
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But the great thing is that this has nothing to do with the healthcare decisions by women
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because an abortion is not a healthcare decision.
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It's got nothing to do with health and it's certainly got nothing to do with care.
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Abortion is the intention, the intentional direct destruction of human life, which is,
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Meanwhile, AOC, she, uh, made her way to the out, right outside the Supreme court and is
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Uh, she's outside with some protesters chanting that this Roe v.
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Wade decision is illegitimate and she's calling for people to go into the streets.
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And we've, we've seen this also on the left today that, um, there, there's people now calling
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for the Supreme court to be, I think it was Keith Olbermann yesterday, I believe, uh, or
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someone just as stupid as him calling for the Supreme court to be abolished.
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And now she's saying that the, that the decision is illegitimate.
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So she's calling into question this decision made by the Supreme court, uh, which to me seems
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She is, um, eroding intentionally trying to erode the faith that people have in our system
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I know you disagree with it, but in order for it to be illegitimate, there would have to
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be something, you know, it would have been illegitimate.
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What would have been illegitimate is if the person who leaked the decision had gotten their
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way and their, in their plan had worked and through intimidation, through violent intimidation
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and harassment had convinced some of the justices not to, um, sign on to this, uh, to this majority
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opinion, after all, that would be illegitimate.
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But when you have justices who are looking at the case and making a decision based on what
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seems right to them, according to how they interpret the constitution, that's a legitimate
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Um, but on the left, something is illegitimate if they don't like it and institutions are
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The moment the institution fails to do the bidding of the left, that's what they mean
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when it, when they say that, that something is broken.
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So the Supreme court is broken now because it failed to do exactly what they want it to
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And now she's calling for them to go into the street, knowing what that means, right?
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I mean, knowing that we've got pro-abortion militant groups that have openly, very clearly
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been, uh, not just threatening, but promising to commit violent acts against churches and
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Which by the way, I mean, how, how much of a demon do you have to be to attack pregnancy
00:32:43.340
You might as well go after orphanages next, which maybe they will.
00:32:48.160
A pregnancy center, all they do is they, they help women who are, who have, who need help,
00:32:59.420
And we've got pro-abortion militants, uh, threatening to, and have already attempted to, in many
00:33:08.100
And, uh, now AOC is saying, uh, go into the street.
00:33:10.820
So she knows that she's encouraging that and she's doing it quite intentionally.
00:33:15.000
Before we move on here, I want to, there was a, there's another great Supreme court decision
00:33:18.860
This has just been, this has been a fantastic week.
00:33:20.740
This has been a great, this has been my favorite pride month by far.
00:33:24.160
Uh, it's just, this is one that's going to live forever in my, in my heart, personally,
00:33:29.960
So yesterday the Supreme court upheld the second amendment and thus overturned a law in New
00:33:35.560
York requiring that law abiding citizens get special permission to conceal, carry a firearm.
00:33:40.240
And of course the left has already been panicking over that.
00:33:42.700
Now we're going to add this into the mix and it's just going to be a whole explosion, but
00:33:45.780
I want to play, um, a couple of the reactions, especially from Democrat leaders of the state.
00:33:50.400
So we'll start with, um, Kathy Hokule who says that, you know, this isn't, this is, uh,
00:33:56.200
the second amendment really just refers to muskets and that's all it refers to.
00:34:03.040
They were supposed to go back to what was in place since 1788 when the constitution of
00:34:12.300
And I would like to point out to the Supreme court justices that the only weapons at the
00:34:24.280
And so obviously when our founding fathers said that the right to keep and bear arms should
00:34:29.360
not be infringed, they only meant the arms, the type of firearms that existed in that moment
00:34:35.340
in time, because they didn't know that technology changes and that they weren't aware of that.
00:34:41.040
And so they figured that, um, the type of firearms that existed back then, that that's all there
00:34:49.360
And if only they had known that technology would continue to improve and advance, then
00:34:54.300
they would have said, forget this whole second amendment deal.
00:34:58.080
Yeah, you're right, Kathy, that the founders didn't have modern guns.
00:35:15.920
So, I mean, none of those rights exist either, according to you.
00:35:20.160
Meanwhile, Eric Adams, for his part, is pledging to, I'm not even sure exactly what this means
00:35:24.840
or if he knows what it means, but he's pledging to, as mayor of the city, undo the ruling.
00:35:31.820
The opinion claims to be based on nation historical past, but does not account for the reality
00:35:41.920
It ignores the presence and it endangers our future.
00:35:46.040
While nothing changes today, and we want to be clear on that, nothing changes today.
00:35:53.880
We have been preparing for this decision and will continue to do everything possible to work
00:36:00.000
with our federal, state, and local partners to protect our city.
00:36:04.920
We will collaborate with other mayors, municipality leaders, and governors, and will leave no unturned
00:36:14.540
stone as we seek to undo and mitigate the damage that we are witnessing today.
00:36:22.760
Undo and mitigate the damage, and by that he means the Supreme Court ruling, so he wants
00:36:27.520
He's openly saying that he's not going to abide by it.
00:36:30.760
He's not going to abide by it, and he's going to try to undo it.
00:36:34.660
This is actual insurrection being carried out by the mayor of New York City.
00:36:41.880
This is, as usual, a smart take from Jill Falopovich, who's a writer, feminist writer, and we're
00:36:50.560
She says, the kind of people who desperately want to carry concealed weapons in public based
00:36:54.480
on a generalized interest in self-defense are precisely the kind of paranoid, insecure,
00:36:59.600
violence-fetishizing people who should not be able to carry concealed weapons in public
00:37:05.880
Now, the great thing about this claim from her is that it could not be more wrong.
00:37:12.460
Concealed carry permit holders commit almost none of the violent crime.
00:37:17.780
A very, very small percentage of the violence committed in this country every day is done
00:37:24.880
at the hands of concealed carry permit holders.
00:37:27.940
And it's so small that on the left, when they try to tabulate the statistics to tell us
00:37:34.520
how much violence, gun violence, is actually committed by people who have legal concealed
00:37:42.660
Oftentimes, they're going to throw things like suicide into the mix there, which is tragic
00:37:49.400
But that's not exactly what you usually have in mind when you talk about gun violence.
00:37:54.260
But when you look at it more honestly, what you find is that, again, a very, very small
00:38:00.180
percentage, less than 1%, it's something like 0.7% of gun violence is carried out by people
00:38:09.680
And that doesn't even take into account all the lives that they save.
00:38:20.800
The statistics show you that you are, the more people who are legally carrying firearms
00:38:26.180
in your town where you live, the safer you are.
00:38:36.900
Here's one thing, on a little bit of a lighter note.
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First of all, Biden had a meeting with union and private sector leaders at the White House
00:38:47.300
Maybe you've seen this, but I have to mention it anyway.
00:38:50.420
He inadvertently flashed a card to the camera showing very specific instructions that the
00:38:58.780
And you can kind of see when you zoom in, you can see what the instructions are.
00:39:01.280
So they say, you enter the Roosevelt Room and say hello to participants.
00:39:15.340
Don't like take another person's seat and throw it out the window.
00:39:21.760
You give brief comments, minutes, as opposed to hours.
00:39:27.580
You ask Liz Schuller, AFL-CIO president, a question.
00:39:39.440
Apparently, you should have also said, you don't show this card to the camera.
00:39:43.920
Maybe they should have added that note in there too.
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I have an assistant, and she makes itineraries for me.
00:39:56.720
Because an itinerary is like, okay, you go to this place at this time.
00:40:02.340
And you're giving a speech for X amount of minutes or whatever.
00:40:04.860
But my itinerary never says, you put one foot in front of the other, propelling yourself
00:40:14.000
You breathe in and out repeatedly so as not to be rendered unconscious.
00:40:18.220
These are the kind of instructions that Biden gets because he's senile.
00:40:21.220
I just wish, here's the tragedy as far as I can tell.
00:40:25.800
I wish that they had given him one of these cheat sheets when he was in Rome.
00:40:32.800
Something that might have said, you don't shit your pants in front of the Pope.
00:40:38.060
I think he really needed that on a sheet of paper, and it wasn't there.
00:40:40.480
So that's really on his, it's his aide's fault for not keeping in mind, not keeping
00:40:46.280
All right, let's get now to the comment section.
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Daily cancellations are the law and order of the day.
00:40:57.980
Well, with Roe v. Wade coming to an end, finally, you may think that this means the
00:41:03.380
fight is also coming to an end for abortion against abortion.
00:41:06.480
But abortion legislation returning to the states means that the real battle is only just
00:41:11.040
beginning, and there is no group in America better positioned than 40 Days for Life to
00:41:15.900
40 Days for Life has one million volunteers throughout the country holding peaceful vigils
00:41:20.900
You may be surprised to hear that their largest presence is actually in the country's bluest
00:41:24.700
states, with California being their biggest state.
00:41:26.680
And that's where they're going to be needed the most now, with Roe v. Wade gone.
00:41:29.760
Their vigils have closed many abortion facilities in America, and nearly half of those facilities
00:41:33.220
were in liberal states where abortion will continue to remain legal after the fall of
00:41:37.480
From San Francisco to Chicago to Seattle, hardly pro-life areas, of course, volunteers have
00:41:41.100
guided abortion workers to have a change of heart and quit their jobs also.
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00:41:50.120
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All right, a little bit something different for the comment section.
00:42:02.320
Instead of comments left by the Sweet Baby Gang, we're going to do a little bit of a
00:42:05.980
Roe v. Wade-themed comment section, because I'm not quite done gloating and celebrating,
00:42:15.900
None of these people left comments under my YouTube video, as much as I would love it
00:42:19.160
We're going to go through some tweets from prominent Democrats reacting to the Roe v.
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Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated
00:42:32.220
the most intensely personal decisions someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues
00:42:37.160
attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.
00:42:42.180
And as always, when they talk about the essential freedoms of millions of Americans, they are not
00:42:46.740
talking, they are excluding all the Americans in the womb.
00:42:50.140
And you would think, when you want to talk about essential freedom, in the dictionary definition
00:42:54.480
sense of the term essential, the most essential freedom is the freedom to live.
00:42:58.440
But Barack Obama has no problem with throwing that out the window.
00:43:04.420
She says, most Americans believe the decision to have a child is one of the most sacred decisions
00:43:08.360
there is, and that such decisions should remain between patients and their doctors.
00:43:12.860
Today's Supreme Court opinion will live in infamy as a step backwards for women's rights
00:43:17.880
No, actually, the decision to have a child is not really one that you have with a doctor,
00:43:26.200
unless you're having sex with your doctor and conceiving a child with him.
00:43:31.980
But usually, by the time you go to the doctor, the child already exists once again.
00:43:42.160
So the decision to have a child, that's already out the window.
00:43:47.080
That window has closed by the time the child exists.
00:43:51.720
You already have the child in a very literal sense, like the woman has the child, in every
00:43:59.280
sense of the term, has the child inside her, in her body, which is a miraculous and beautiful
00:44:07.580
Nancy Pelosi once again says, today the Republican-controlled Supreme Court has achieved the GOP's
00:44:11.940
dark and extreme goal of ripping away women's rights to make their own reproductive health
00:44:24.360
He says, extreme right-wing judges on the Supreme Court just issued a death warrant to women
00:44:32.180
They've decided that a piece of metal designed to end life is more valuable than the health
00:44:39.420
If this doesn't motivate you to vote, nothing will.
00:44:47.180
How do we get from Roe v. Wade's overturned, which means that the decision about making abortion
00:44:55.920
So that's step one, step two, and then step three, I'm not sure, it's left blank.
00:45:05.800
And by the way, if you read the decision, and I read a little bit of it to you, but I
00:45:14.540
would really recommend that you go and read it.
00:45:17.360
And if you read it with an honest mind, there is nothing remotely extreme happening in the
00:45:33.340
And once again, the decision does not mean that abortion is now illegal across the entire
00:45:41.920
And that's the other thing for pro-lifers is that, and I know, I don't think I have to
00:45:45.940
tell pro-lifers this because they've been in this fight for 50 years, but the fight's
00:45:50.400
And in fact, we cannot be, we should celebrate this and be happy for this great humanitarian
00:45:55.700
victory, this great victory for human rights, but we should not be satisfied.
00:45:59.200
Like, celebrate today, pop the champagne, but then tomorrow it's back to work.
00:46:05.700
Because although abortion now falls to the states, it's still going to be legal in many
00:46:10.640
And the babies who are still going to die in California and Oregon and Vermont and, you
00:46:15.180
know, Maryland and New York, those babies' lives matter.
00:46:20.540
And the ultimate goal, yes, is to make abortion illegal across the entire country.
00:46:26.740
A federal ban on abortion, a personhood amendment to the Bill of Rights, that's the ultimate
00:46:34.620
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Well, this daily cancellation ends up working out pretty well because given the news of the
00:48:19.260
day, it's all about babies and why babies are good and why you should have them.
00:48:23.820
But it begins with, not with Roe v. Wade, but with a writer for The Atlantic.
00:48:27.880
As we know, writers for The Atlantic are not the most perceptive or insightful bunch as
00:48:31.860
a rule, and that rule seems to hold true for Atlantic writer Olga Kazan, who tweeted
00:48:36.680
recently, quote, I'm still curious how women are supposed to have kids before they're 35
00:48:40.960
if they make $40,000 a year before they're 35 and childcare is $40,000.
00:48:47.380
Now the tweet has resonated enough to earn nearly 80,000 likes, with lots of people in the comments
00:48:52.100
chiming in to agree that it's essentially impossible for a woman to have kids under the age of 35
00:48:56.720
unless she earns substantially more than the average income for that age bracket.
00:49:01.040
And yet, shockingly, it turns out that many women have done exactly this.
00:49:05.880
In fact, through history, literally billions of women have.
00:49:09.580
This is one of the curious features of modern American life, that people are constantly proclaiming
00:49:15.520
it impossible to do the things which billions of other people have already done and are currently
00:49:21.260
So we can look around and see billions of people doing something and then say, bah, it's
00:49:27.720
No one can do it, except for these 10 billion people.
00:49:31.060
This is because most of the time when we say that we cannot do something, the sentence is
00:49:40.820
What we meant to say is that we cannot do said thing while still maintaining the comfort
00:49:47.120
and luxury that we've come to expect and demand.
00:49:55.220
We cannot do it while staying true to our undying principle that we should never have
00:50:02.060
We cannot do it without getting off the couch, etc.
00:50:05.160
One of these caveats, or similar to it, usually silently accompanies our declarations about
00:50:15.620
Far from it, as people put off having children more and more, putting it off so long that
00:50:19.220
eventually it becomes a physical impossibility in reality to have kids, at least without
00:50:22.960
the help of a petri dish in a science lab, the reason often given by people who put it
00:50:27.600
off is that it's not financially feasible to have kids.
00:50:30.680
And this fear is encouraged by random fake statistics pulled out of thin air, like the statistic
00:50:38.900
Putting your kid in childcare, in daycare, says Olga, is as expensive as a really expensive
00:50:49.760
In fact, the most expensive, the most expensive state for daycare is Massachusetts, on average.
00:50:54.240
And there it costs an average of $20,000 a year to get daycare, which is absurdly high,
00:51:02.760
But if you live in most other states, you're paying under $15,000.
00:51:05.780
In many states, the average is under $10,000 a year.
00:51:09.980
Now, there are, of course, many other fictional horror stories about the cost of having children,
00:51:14.980
many of them coming from alleged authority figures, more prominent than Olga on Twitter.
00:51:19.340
The USDA, for example, put out a report last year claiming that the average child costs
00:51:25.840
And this means that a family of three, if you do the math, is forking over $45,000 a year
00:51:32.020
I'm supposedly spending $60,000 a year just on my kids.
00:51:35.280
That works out to about $270,000 per child to get them from age zero to age 18.
00:51:43.660
And if you have four kids, four or five of them, you know, like I do, then you're in
00:51:50.560
I mean, you got to be a millionaire to have kids.
00:51:53.240
Now, admittedly, with Biden's inflation, it's starting to actually feel like you need
00:51:57.080
to be a millionaire to afford groceries and gasoline, even just for yourself.
00:51:59.980
But on average, assuming that hopefully the current trends don't hold for the next 18
00:52:07.300
It is certainly possible, possible to spend $15,000 in a year on one child.
00:52:16.780
Yet there's no law of nature requiring that kind of financial investment.
00:52:21.460
If there was, then billions of people who have kids now and who've had them in the past
00:52:29.420
So the consequence of this way of thinking, believing that you need to have massive amounts
00:52:34.080
of money in the bank just to afford even one kid, is that, as mentioned, people put off
00:52:40.920
You know, we think that we should get through young adulthood, establish ourselves, build
00:52:44.040
a life of some sort, and then finally begin the process of finding spouses and becoming
00:52:49.060
parents once we're safely ensconced in the protective cocoon of middle age.
00:52:54.720
Speaking of finding a spouse, notice how Olga never accounts for marriage at all.
00:53:00.420
It would cost a woman $40,000 a year for child care, she says.
00:53:04.080
But if you're doing it right, the cost, which definitely will not be $40,000, is shared by
00:53:09.140
a woman and a man together in the bond of marriage.
00:53:12.960
We've been conditioned to see these things on an individualized basis.
00:53:16.580
We think that, you know, a man should make a life for himself all alone and then inject
00:53:22.840
a wife and kids into this thing that's already been constructed without them.
00:53:26.540
Like, set it all up and then introduce the family.
00:53:30.260
And this strategy leads to a lot of its own problems.
00:53:34.000
The man will often begin to resent his family because they're intruding.
00:53:39.820
He can't look to his wife and kids and say, well, they were here with me when I had nothing.
00:53:47.840
Rather, he looks at them and says, I built this on my own.
00:53:54.900
They don't know anything about it, the freeloaders.
00:53:57.560
I think this is probably one of the reasons why people who get married in their 30s have
00:54:02.480
Because they've already established their own things and get very possessive of their own
00:54:06.460
thing, their own life that they've made for themselves.
00:54:08.360
Walking the bumpiest parts of the road together, struggling, sacrificing, suffering, going
00:54:19.680
That's why, as I've always said, I think it's better to see marriage and family as the
00:54:24.500
cornerstone of adult life rather than the capstone.
00:54:27.640
In modern times, we tend to favor the capstone model.
00:54:30.220
We say that a young adult should live through young adulthood by himself, save money, get all
00:54:35.880
of his affairs in order, and then as the culmination, at the conclusion of this process, as he enters
00:54:41.680
middle age, then he should commence with getting married and having kids.
00:54:45.080
That way, he'll be able to, quote unquote, afford it.
00:54:48.440
But the cornerstone approach, on the other hand, says that it's better to start your family at the
00:54:55.220
Build your adult life with your spouse and children.
00:54:59.600
Bring them in on the ground floor, so to speak.
00:55:01.360
This is how nearly every culture in the world has approached this issue, until ours.
00:55:07.240
We've flipped this well-worn, battle-tested model on its head and tried it the reverse way,
00:55:14.220
The result has been higher divorce rates, lower marriage rates, people are less satisfied in
00:55:23.100
And to top it all off, the people who hold off on having families for financial reasons
00:55:27.160
very often discover, as mentioned, that they never reach a point where they feel financially
00:55:35.040
They sit around waiting for the dollars and cents to add up while their biological clocks
00:55:39.600
tick away, until finally it'll cost them like $20,000 in an IVF clinic simply to conceive
00:55:45.060
a child, when they could have done it for free.
00:55:47.660
And in a way that's a lot more fun, by the way, just a few years before that.
00:55:51.280
This is supposed to be the financially conscious approach, which really doesn't make a lot
00:55:59.140
And that's why Olga at the Atlantic is today canceled.
00:56:02.800
But even more than Olga at the Atlantic, as you might have already heard, Roe is canceled
00:56:08.040
As the Supreme Court, I think, has issued the greatest daily cancellation of all time.
00:56:21.280
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