The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 979 - Roe Is Dead, Hallelujah

00:00:00.160 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Roe is no more.

00:00:03.100 In one of the greatest moments in American history, the Supreme Court decision,

00:00:05.960 which codified the right to murder babies, has been finally and officially overturned.

00:00:09.280 I'll have a lot to say about that today, as you can imagine.

00:00:11.680 Also, the left continues to panic over the other great Supreme Court decision decided yesterday,

00:00:15.600 this one affirming our right to carry firearms.

00:00:17.840 Many very bad arguments have been made against that decision.

00:00:20.540 We'll review some of them today.

00:00:21.600 Meanwhile, Eric Adams of New York says that he will ignore the Supreme Court's decision

00:00:24.980 and work to undo it.

00:00:26.640 Is this an insurrection we're dealing with?

00:00:28.240 Plus, Joe Biden accidentally shows off a note from his staff

00:00:31.320 that shows just how bad his dementia has gotten.

00:00:33.960 And Kamala Harris humiliates herself while trying to play basketball. 0.94

00:00:36.800 All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:46.820 Well, today is just a wonderful day, first of all.

00:00:49.980 And it's so good that I even, I dressed, I'm not dressed like a slob for the first time on the air. 1.00

00:00:54.580 That's how, that's how important today is.

00:00:56.220 It's been nearly 50 years since Roe v. Wade was decided.

00:01:00.740 For half a century, we've lived under its tyranny.

00:01:03.720 Those of us who were lucky enough to live at all, that is, actually, you know,

00:01:07.280 because 60 million of us did not live.

00:01:09.080 Over 60 million human children have been wiped off the face of the earth during that time,

00:01:14.120 executed one by one systematically for profit.

00:01:17.380 All because nine guys in robes pulled out their decoder rings from their crackerjack boxes

00:01:22.240 and found the right to abortion written in invisible ink somewhere in the document.

00:01:27.700 And that was enough justification to legalize the destruction of innocent human life

00:01:31.460 all across the country for almost half a century.

00:01:33.980 It's impossible to know what our society deprived itself of, what it sacrificed, aside from its soul.

00:01:42.140 Could one of the babies we killed have come up with a cure for cancer?

00:01:45.240 Could there have been great leaders and artists and thinkers and humanitarians somewhere in that pile of bodies?

00:01:51.440 Almost certainly there were.

00:01:53.180 How many inventors and pioneers were thrown into the mass grave

00:01:56.380 before they even had a chance to speak, to plead for themselves, to tell their side of the story?

00:02:01.380 We'll never know for sure because Roe robbed us of that,

00:02:04.680 just as it robbed 60 million children of their lives and of their potential.

00:02:10.160 Until today.

00:02:11.880 As expected for the last month and prayed for and fought for and worked towards

00:02:16.300 for the last five decades by pro-lifers,

00:02:19.120 Roe was officially overturned by the Supreme Court decision today.

00:02:23.100 A decision originally leaked a few weeks ago

00:02:25.300 in a desperate bid to intimidate at least one of the justices into changing their minds.

00:02:30.280 The gambit did not pay off.

00:02:32.060 Indeed, it probably backfired as Roberts joined,

00:02:35.240 Chief Justice Roberts joined the majority decision overturning Roe,

00:02:38.240 something he almost certainly was not planning to do until the decision leaked.

00:02:43.000 And so it stands.

00:02:43.760 It stands even stronger, arguably, than it did in its leaked form.

00:02:47.340 And the result is that Roe is no more.

00:02:50.340 Praise God.

00:02:51.120 This is truly, I mean, truly one of the greatest days in American history.

00:02:55.600 Future generations will look back on this day.

00:02:57.880 You are living in a day right now.

00:02:59.480 You are experiencing a day that will be in the history books

00:03:02.680 and that future generations will look back on.

00:03:05.100 And they will look back on it the way that we now look back on the abolition of slavery

00:03:09.000 or the defeat of the Germans in World War II,

00:03:11.600 the liberation of the concentration camps.

00:03:13.480 They will look back on it in the exact same way.

00:03:15.840 Because there's a lot of gray area in life.

00:03:17.940 There's many occasions where the good guys aren't very distinguishable from the bad guys.

00:03:21.800 But this, this belongs to the other category of events.

00:03:26.040 This is the category where the line between good and evil could not be more clear.

00:03:30.660 One side has fought to protect babies from extermination.

00:03:36.200 And they have fought this and fought for this for the sake of those babies, of those children.

00:03:42.960 You know, we pro-lifers, we stand to gain nothing personally from the end of Roe.

00:03:47.860 We don't profit off of it in any way at all.

00:03:52.280 There's nothing self-serving about it.

00:03:54.760 We fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. 0.99

00:03:57.380 And this is really hard for the left to understand because they never do this.

00:04:00.780 Everything they fight for, it's always for themselves.

00:04:03.540 Always.

00:04:04.380 If they cannot directly profit from it in some kind of way,

00:04:08.140 they do not fight for it and they do not care.

00:04:10.700 Which is why they could never understand us.

00:04:12.900 They never understood us as pro-lifers.

00:04:14.760 They're always looking for what's really going on here.

00:04:16.760 What's going on below the surface?

00:04:18.020 What's the nefarious plan?

00:04:19.460 They're trying to control women's bodies. 1.00

00:04:21.220 They have a secret conspiracy.

00:04:22.900 It's none of that. 0.56

00:04:24.620 We just don't think you should kill babies.

00:04:27.380 Simple as that.

00:04:28.780 We care about those babies.

00:04:31.240 The other side, they fight to destroy innocent life.

00:04:34.000 And they fight for it for their own sake, for their own convenience,

00:04:38.080 for their own precious lifestyle and comfort.

00:04:41.680 They're the bad guys.

00:04:43.680 History will see them as the bad guys.

00:04:47.160 We'll see them that way.

00:04:48.420 We'll look back on them with scorn.

00:04:50.080 And you should know that also.

00:04:52.700 If you're on the left and today you're very upset and you're screaming and crying about it.

00:04:57.580 That all of history will look back at you with scorn and mockery and derision.

00:05:05.320 As well they should.

00:05:06.820 Because you lose.

00:05:07.640 You lose big today.

00:05:08.560 You lose historically.

00:05:10.880 And look, they're going to explode in demonic rage. 0.99

00:05:12.960 They're going to protest and riot. 0.99

00:05:14.320 They will destroy and probably kill to satiate their bloodlust. 0.75

00:05:19.320 But none of that will change anything.

00:05:21.540 And all of it will be worth it in the end. 1.00

00:05:23.900 Let these psychopaths burn every city to the ground. 0.99

00:05:26.640 I will still thank God that Roe is no more. 0.99

00:05:30.560 I don't think they're actually going to follow through on a lot of this stuff.

00:05:32.940 I think a lot of it is just big talk.

00:05:34.780 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.

00:05:46.840 That we'll have months and months of chaos and rioting in the street.

00:05:49.680 That's what they're hoping for.

00:05:50.460 That's what they're trying to organize.

00:05:51.460 I don't think it's actually going to happen.

00:05:54.440 Because I don't think that there are enough people, and maybe I'll be proven wrong about this.

00:05:59.940 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.

00:06:11.480 We'll see.

00:06:12.960 Now, this does not end the scourge of abortion.

00:06:15.580 We should note that.

00:06:17.020 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.

00:06:24.760 But in fact, abortion will remain legal in many U.S. states, including our most populous states.

00:06:29.380 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.

00:06:40.700 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.

00:06:52.360 I'm putting my marker down right here.

00:06:54.040 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.

00:07:04.760 That's on the way.

00:07:07.140 And yet, even so, this decision today will nonetheless directly save millions of lives.

00:07:12.100 There is no question about that.

00:07:14.200 It is not every day that something like this happens, that there's an event in history that happens and we live through it.

00:07:18.540 And because of that event, millions of people will live who otherwise would have died.

00:07:24.640 I mean, the course of history has been changed in ways that we cannot possibly tabulate or quantify.

00:07:32.620 We never will be able to.

00:07:33.560 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.

00:07:48.500 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.

00:08:08.400 I want to read a little bit from the decision itself today.

00:08:11.020 It says, quote,

00:08:41.020 As to precedent, citing a broad array of cases, the court found support for a constitutional right of personal privacy.

00:08:57.920 But Roe conflated the right to shield information from disclosure and the right to make and implement personal decisions without governmental interference.

00:09:05.720 None of these decisions involved what is distinctive about abortion.

00:09:08.900 Its effect on what Roe termed potential life.

00:09:13.020 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.

00:09:24.540 These are precisely the sort of considerations that legislative bodies often take into account when they draw lines that accommodate competing interests.

00:09:32.580 The scheme produced looked like legislation, and the court provided the sort of explanation that might be expected from a legislative body.

00:09:39.140 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.

00:09:49.500 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.

00:09:59.660 It wasn't even grounded in precedent or historical tradition.

00:10:02.920 It had no grounding at all, aside from the claims and preferences of the justices who decided it.

00:10:08.100 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.

00:10:19.700 And that's reason enough to overturn it, no matter how you feel about abortion.

00:10:24.920 And you can really see the contrast between Roe itself, that decision, and the decision abolishing it today.

00:10:29.840 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.

00:10:49.920 They can never take any issue head-on.

00:10:52.140 They can never talk about it directly.

00:10:54.440 Everything is covered in euphemism.

00:10:56.460 Everything is just a game of beating around the bush.

00:11:02.760 Because here is the most fundamental question that all pro-abortion people everywhere avoid.

00:11:08.420 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.

00:11:17.200 What is a person?

00:11:19.580 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.

00:11:25.460 But that confusion is not surprising since they, long before, gave up on the definition of the word person.

00:11:32.460 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.

00:11:52.900 You know, that's what a person is now.

00:11:54.940 It's like nothing at all.

00:11:55.860 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.

00:12:06.460 For 50 years, they claimed that the question is irrelevant.

00:12:10.180 They said, well, nobody knows what a person is. 0.99

00:12:12.380 It's impossible to say, so let's just keep killing these babies just in case. 1.00

00:12:15.280 But any morally sane person realizes that it should go the other way. 0.65

00:12:21.780 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.

00:12:30.840 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.

00:12:41.060 Unless your name is Alec Baldwin, of course.

00:12:43.220 The same goes for abortion. 0.57

00:12:45.680 By the Pro Board's own telling, they exterminated 60 million human children who might have been people for all they know.

00:12:54.300 That's not any better than exterminating 60 million human children who you know are people. 0.97

00:12:58.240 Especially in this case.

00:13:01.620 Because in fact, everyone knows that babies are people.

00:13:06.200 Even if they pretend to be confused about it.

00:13:09.280 Everyone knows it.

00:13:11.000 A person is a human being.

00:13:13.840 The child in the womb cannot be anything other than a member of the human species.

00:13:18.480 Which means he cannot be anything other than a person.

00:13:22.700 These are people.

00:13:24.600 They have been killing people.

00:13:27.060 Millions of them.

00:13:28.240 And they know it.

00:13:30.480 And they'll answer to God for what they've done.

00:13:34.340 But today, we celebrate their defeat.

00:13:37.420 There's a lot of work yet to be done.

00:13:38.720 The battle is just beginning in many ways.

00:13:42.380 But I think it's very important to celebrate the victories when they come.

00:13:45.300 And this is a victory.

00:13:47.560 I mean, this is a major one.

00:13:48.980 This is one of the greatest victories for human rights in the history of the world.

00:13:53.820 I think I would even say perhaps the greatest victory for human rights in the history of the world.

00:13:59.380 And it's one that I thought I would never live to see.

00:14:05.420 In summation, what a great way to end Pride Month. 0.88

00:14:08.320 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:14:16.740 You know, the other, I mean, the other, I say the other great thing about this.

00:14:19.880 There are so many great things.

00:14:21.180 I'm just elated by it.

00:14:22.440 But, you know, who do we have to thank for this today, for the results?

00:14:29.840 Well, we thank the six members of the Supreme Court who decided correctly on this.

00:14:35.840 Well, Roberts was kind of, you know, he tried to thread a needle from what I saw in his opinion on this.

00:14:45.360 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.

00:14:57.980 But who do we have to thank?

00:15:01.720 The members of the Supreme Court who made this heroic decision.

00:15:04.880 It truly is heroic.

00:15:05.660 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.

00:15:17.960 But this is an act of real courage. 0.57

00:15:21.500 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.

00:15:31.520 And he knows they're not going to stop after this.

00:15:33.740 So they have put their lives on the line.

00:15:36.620 These are real heroes.

00:15:39.280 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.

00:15:47.760 Clarence Thomas, probably not.

00:15:49.020 I don't think I've ever disagreed with any decision he's made.

00:15:51.120 But some of the other ones, but because of this moment right here, they are heroes forever.

00:15:55.460 They have secured that for themselves for all time.

00:15:59.760 So we have them to thank.

00:16:00.860 We have Donald Trump to thank for nominating these justices, these three justices in the first place.

00:16:11.720 Now, that's the fact of the matter.

00:16:13.040 If Donald Trump had not won in 2016, if Hillary Clinton had won, then Roe v. Wade would be affirmed, obviously.

00:16:22.380 The Second Amendment would be gone.

00:16:24.680 It would just be gone by now and so much else.

00:16:27.740 So we have anything.

00:16:28.520 Not just Donald Trump, by the way.

00:16:30.120 Also Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans, who, for one thing, held the line, refused to confirm Merrick Garland.

00:16:38.780 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.

00:16:46.960 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.

00:16:57.900 And I have had the pleasure of knowing many pro-lifers like that, having been in the movement myself.

00:17:07.540 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.

00:17:14.460 And they said to themselves then, I am giving my life to this fight.

00:17:17.540 This is my life.

00:17:18.760 And they gave their life to it.

00:17:20.180 And they primarily are the ones who achieved this victory.

00:17:23.020 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.

00:17:32.500 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.

00:17:48.960 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. 0.99

00:18:00.780 But she didn't.

00:18:01.820 And so, really, we have, in many ways, she's one of the people who we can thank for this.

00:18:06.580 Thank you, RBG.

00:18:09.020 All right.

00:18:10.300 Now we move on to some of the reaction from the left.

00:18:13.220 And there's going to be a lot more over the weekend.

00:18:15.320 And as I said, they're promising their night of rage and their rioting and looting.

00:18:19.320 We'll see how much of that they actually get.

00:18:22.120 We'll see how it goes.

00:18:24.360 We'll start with Nancy Pelosi, who, mere minutes after this decision came down, she was in front of the press.

00:18:31.120 And she is very, very upset about this.

00:18:33.120 And let's go through and just watch some of these clips.

00:18:36.320 Go ahead.

00:18:37.620 There's no point in saying good morning because it certainly is not one.

00:18:43.220 This morning, the radical Supreme Court is eviscerating Americans' rights and endangering their health and safety.

00:18:51.020 But the Congress will continue to act to overcome this extremism and protect the American people.

00:18:58.860 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. 0.96

00:19:13.220 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. 0.98

00:19:24.360 Well, I mean, where do you even begin there?

00:19:29.860 She says that Americans have, or girls have less freedoms than their mothers. 0.65

00:19:35.120 Well, that's, you know, here's a freedom that many Americans have, which they did not have before this morning.

00:19:43.480 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.

00:19:57.160 And here's the good news, Nancy Pelosi.

00:19:59.660 Your reproductive freedom and your reproductive rights are still intact.

00:20:03.180 You still have those absolutely 100%.

00:20:06.160 And as I've said many times, I am, when it comes to protecting reproductive rights, I am right there with you.

00:20:14.960 I mean, I absolutely believe that people should be free to reproduce when and how they so they choose.

00:20:23.980 Okay?

00:20:24.480 Nobody should be forced to reproduce.

00:20:27.200 Absolutely.

00:20:28.580 The good thing is that we all agree on that.

00:20:31.600 You know, there's 330 million people in America with this 300 million people, 330 million people who agree.

00:20:38.820 Unanimous agreement.

00:20:40.060 Supreme Court agrees.

00:20:41.700 Nobody should be forced to reproduce.

00:20:44.140 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.

00:20:56.760 Okay?

00:20:57.320 The baby has been produced.

00:20:59.460 If the baby had not been produced, then there would be no need for an abortion. 0.93

00:21:04.880 Okay?

00:21:05.040 Once conception occurs, that is reproduction right there.

00:21:08.220 That is the reproductive act. 0.99

00:21:09.480 That is reproduction right there.

00:21:10.760 A distinct separate entity, a distinct separate being with its own DNA, with its own identity, has come into formation in that moment.

00:21:22.120 And that's when reproduction happens.

00:21:25.800 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.

00:21:38.460 And as far as that goes, we all agree.

00:21:41.300 The reproductive act being not giving birth, that's not the reproductive act.

00:21:45.780 The reproductive act is the sexual act. 0.98

00:21:48.020 It's having sex. 0.91

00:21:48.740 That's the reproductive act. 1.00

00:21:49.920 So, Nancy Pelosi is very, very distraught and upset. 0.97

00:21:56.340 This is an old woman near the end of her days, more than likely, statistically. 0.91

00:22:03.900 She's in her 80s.

00:22:04.820 And here she is, practically weeping over the thought that more babies will be allowed to live. 0.71

00:22:13.360 And I can never get over that, especially with these old, crusty, feminists. 1.00

00:22:20.200 Grandmother-aged. 0.92

00:22:22.040 Like, every grandmother I've ever known, they love babies.

00:22:25.060 The idea of a grandmother, my own grandmother, weeping because babies will not be killed, it's difficult to make sense of that.

00:22:36.640 It's hard to make it all compute.

00:22:39.360 But this is what we're dealing with.

00:22:41.500 From there, Pelosi starts talking about the sinister and dastardly Republican agenda.

00:22:47.020 Let's listen to that.

00:22:48.800 In the Congress, be aware of this.

00:22:53.080 The Republicans are plotting a nationwide abortion ban.

00:22:57.940 They cannot be allowed to have a majority in the Congress to do that.

00:23:03.340 But that's their goal.

00:23:05.500 And if you read, and again, we're all studying all this, but if you read what is very clear,

00:23:14.860 one of the justices had his own statement.

00:23:18.820 It's about contraception, in vitro fertilization, family planning.

00:23:29.320 That is all what will spring from their decision that they made today.

00:23:34.540 Did her glass eye just fall out of her head at the end of that? 1.00

00:23:39.720 I don't know what that was.

00:23:40.860 That was an unexpected treat at the end there.

00:23:43.080 Oh, that was her earring that fell out.

00:23:44.200 Okay.

00:23:44.440 We'll just go with glass eye.

00:23:45.400 I think that was her glass eye.

00:23:46.440 She's just, Nancy Pelosi is physically falling apart. 0.96

00:23:49.480 It's like the wicked witch, right?

00:23:50.940 She's, she's, she's melt. 0.84

00:23:52.160 Someone should throw some water on her and she would just melt right there on stage. 1.00

00:23:55.860 This old, disgusting witch. 1.00

00:23:59.500 And she's, oh, now they're going to come over after. 0.99

00:24:01.420 Now what she's, what she's referring to is, and I haven't read the entire thing myself,

00:24:05.200 but a concurrent decision or opinion by Clarence Thomas, where he talks about some of the Supreme

00:24:14.740 Court decisions related to contraception and gay marriage and how we have to take a look

00:24:20.780 at the basis of those decisions.

00:24:24.580 And that's, and if, if, if they are decided, if they, if those were decided on a faulty basis,

00:24:31.340 then yeah, that's something that the court should rectify.

00:24:36.340 Um, but what we're talking about today is very, very fundamentally just the right to life.

00:24:46.480 And that's all that this decision affects.

00:24:49.240 It doesn't go beyond that.

00:24:51.740 Next, I want to play just one more clip from her.

00:24:53.160 She says that, um, she starts talking about something, a point that she can't make anymore,

00:24:57.660 but, but these people keep making it anyway.

00:24:59.380 She says that this is a, this is an insult and an attack on women. 0.89

00:25:02.560 Go ahead.

00:25:04.180 What this means to women is such an insult.

00:25:07.700 It's a slap in the face to women about using their own judgment to make their own decisions 1.00

00:25:14.880 about their reproductive freedom.

00:25:18.180 And again, it goes well.

00:25:20.440 I always have said the termination of a pregnancy is just their opening act.

00:25:25.040 It's just their front game.

00:25:26.320 But because, but behind it, behind it, and for years, I have seen in this Congress opposition

00:25:32.560 to any family planning, domestic or global, when we have had those discussions and those debates

00:25:40.540 and those votes on the floor of the House, this is deadly serious.

00:25:46.420 But we are not going to let this pass.

00:25:50.040 A woman's right to choose reproductive freedom is on the ballot in November.

00:25:58.920 Okay.

00:25:59.460 At least you got her eyeball back in her head. 1.00

00:26:02.040 That's a, it's an insult to women. 1.00

00:26:03.880 Now, obviously that that's a point you can't make because you don't know what a woman is

00:26:07.400 in the first place.

00:26:08.680 So how can you say that it's insulting a group of people that you cannot define,

00:26:12.340 but also, um, I can talk about, see, that's the advantage that I have.

00:26:15.880 And that people on the pro-life side, that's the advantage that we have is that, um, we

00:26:20.080 know what women are so we can actually talk about them. 0.63

00:26:22.480 And so what I can say is that it's an insult to women to say that it's an insult to women. 0.98

00:26:28.100 Um, that when we, when we simply protect the lives of children and say that you can't kill

00:26:33.400 children, like the, the idea that, um, it's crucial to a woman's life.

00:26:40.240 It's crucial to her existence, to her success and happiness, that she'd be able 0.99

00:26:45.760 to kill her children. 0.99

00:26:47.700 I can't think of anything more insulting and degrading to women than that idea. 1.00

00:26:55.020 That is what insults women. 1.00

00:26:57.980 And we're going to hear a lot of this too, by the way, we're going to hear a lot about

00:27:00.560 the, uh, how women, you know, they're not going to be able to be successful anymore. 1.00

00:27:04.400 They're, it's going to, they're not going to have the happiness and fulfillment in life

00:27:07.700 anymore because that's how the left views women. 1.00

00:27:12.660 That's how many women on the left view themselves. 1.00

00:27:15.760 As sick as that is, that a woman's, the way they see it, that a woman's happiness and 1.00

00:27:22.200 fulfillment, uh, and very existence hinges on destruction. 0.82

00:27:27.480 It hinges on the right to destroy and not just destroy anybody, but destroy her own children. 0.87

00:27:35.600 Now we as pro-lifers know that it's the exact opposite is the case.

00:27:38.640 That, um, that happiness and fulfillment can be found for a woman in that relationship with 0.90

00:27:51.240 her child.

00:27:51.820 This is a, this is a fulfilling relationship just as it is for a man with his child.

00:27:57.960 Um, Stacey Abrams also had a little bit of something to say here.

00:28:03.780 I haven't, I haven't watched this video yet, but she's of course chiming in right away and

00:28:06.900 it's quite upset about all this.

00:28:08.560 And for some reason we care what Stacey Abrams has to say.

00:28:10.820 So let's play a little bit of this.

00:28:11.700 Today, the United States Supreme Court, the seat of justice charged with protecting our

00:28:18.820 liberties, struck down reproductive rights.

00:28:22.260 In 1973, the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade safeguarded the right to choose for

00:28:27.640 millions of women across Georgia and around our nation. 0.99

00:28:31.400 Rather than uphold the wisdom of nearly 50 years, women today lost the right to make our 1.00

00:28:36.440 own healthcare decisions and the right to shape our own futures.

00:28:39.740 As a woman, I am appalled.

00:28:42.320 Stacey.

00:28:43.620 No, you can absolutely make your own, that's, that's the great thing is that you can absolutely

00:28:47.020 make your own healthcare decisions.

00:28:48.280 Not that these people actually care about being able to make your own healthcare decisions

00:28:51.000 or they just, they just decided that they cared about that again right now.

00:28:54.820 But for the last two years, of course, they've been, they've been demanding that whether you

00:28:58.280 want to or not, um, here's a needle injected into your body, object this, this, uh, you

00:29:02.700 know, here's, here's a substance you need to object and inject into your body.

00:29:05.860 And, uh, then come back and do it again and again and again, but you don't have a right

00:29:11.300 there.

00:29:12.060 So there's a healthcare decision that, uh, that's, that's not about you.

00:29:15.000 You just have to do it because we're telling you to do it.

00:29:19.520 But the great thing is that this has nothing to do with the healthcare decisions by women 0.78

00:29:23.320 because an abortion is not a healthcare decision.

00:29:25.600 It's got nothing to do with health and it's certainly got nothing to do with care.

00:29:31.840 Abortion is the intention, the intentional direct destruction of human life, which is,

00:29:37.200 that's not just not healthcare.

00:29:40.200 That's the opposite of healthcare.

00:29:44.080 Meanwhile, AOC, she, uh, made her way to the out, right outside the Supreme court and is

00:29:48.920 now looking to stage her own insurrection. 0.98

00:29:52.200 So here she is, we'll play this.

00:29:53.500 Uh, she's outside with some protesters chanting that this Roe v.

00:29:57.760 Wade decision is illegitimate and she's calling for people to go into the streets. 0.97

00:30:02.120 So let's play that.

00:30:03.020 Uh, so the decision is illegitimate.

00:30:11.640 Uh, so the decision is illegitimate.

00:30:25.320 So this is what you notice.

00:30:26.180 And we've, we've seen this also on the left today that, um, there, there's people now calling

00:30:30.060 for the Supreme court to be, I think it was Keith Olbermann yesterday, I believe, uh, or 0.99

00:30:33.980 someone just as stupid as him calling for the Supreme court to be abolished. 0.99

00:30:37.340 They want to get rid of it entirely. 1.00

00:30:39.160 And now she's saying that the, that the decision is illegitimate.

00:30:42.000 So she's calling into question this decision made by the Supreme court, uh, which to me seems

00:30:51.380 an awful lot like an insurrection.

00:30:53.920 She's calling it into question.

00:30:55.380 She is, um, eroding intentionally trying to erode the faith that people have in our system 0.99

00:31:03.060 by saying that, how is it illegitimate?

00:31:07.500 I know you don't like the decision.

00:31:09.200 I know you disagree with it, but in order for it to be illegitimate, there would have to

00:31:14.960 be something, you know, it would have been illegitimate.

00:31:18.960 What would have been illegitimate is if the person who leaked the decision had gotten their

00:31:22.620 way and their, in their plan had worked and through intimidation, through violent intimidation

00:31:27.980 and harassment had convinced some of the justices not to, um, sign on to this, uh, to this majority

00:31:34.160 opinion, after all, that would be illegitimate.

00:31:38.220 But when you have justices who are looking at the case and making a decision based on what

00:31:44.260 seems right to them, according to how they interpret the constitution, that's a legitimate

00:31:48.300 decision.

00:31:48.800 You might not like it.

00:31:49.440 It's legitimate.

00:31:52.520 Um, but on the left, something is illegitimate if they don't like it and institutions are

00:32:00.400 broken.

00:32:01.400 The moment the institution fails to do the bidding of the left, that's what they mean

00:32:06.540 when it, when they say that, that something is broken.

00:32:08.540 So the Supreme court is broken now because it failed to do exactly what they want it to

00:32:12.760 do.

00:32:12.980 And now she's calling for them to go into the street, knowing what that means, right?

00:32:18.140 I mean, knowing that we've got pro-abortion militant groups that have openly, very clearly

00:32:22.720 been, uh, not just threatening, but promising to commit violent acts against churches and

00:32:29.140 pregnancy centers.

00:32:33.020 Which by the way, I mean, how, how much of a demon do you have to be to attack pregnancy

00:32:37.140 centers in the first place?

00:32:39.360 Churches and pregnancy centers? 0.85

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,

00:32:53.000 who are pregnant and need help.

00:32:54.420 That's what they do.

00:32:55.140 That's their, that's their sinister plot.

00:32:59.420 And we've got pro-abortion militants, uh, threatening to, and have already attempted to, in many

00:33:05.240 cases, burn these facilities to the ground.

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.

00:33:13.860 All right.

00:33:15.000 Before we move on here, I want to, there was a, there's another great Supreme court decision

00:33:18.460 yesterday.

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,

00:33:28.300 pride month of 2022.

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.

00:34:00.280 And that's what she claims here. 0.98

00:34:01.480 Listen.

00:34:03.040 They were supposed to go back to what was in place since 1788 when the constitution of

00:34:11.000 United States of America was ratified.

00:34:12.300 And I would like to point out to the Supreme court justices that the only weapons at the

00:34:17.480 time were muskets. 0.82

00:34:19.420 I'm prepared to go back to muskets. 1.00

00:34:21.620 Oh yeah.

00:34:22.380 The only weapons were muskets at the time.

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

00:34:47.880 would ever be.

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. 0.88

00:34:56.020 I mean, that's what she's claiming.

00:34:58.080 Yeah, you're right, Kathy, that the founders didn't have modern guns.

00:35:02.240 You know what else they didn't have?

00:35:04.140 Um, abortion clinics.

00:35:06.500 Those didn't exist.

00:35:08.820 Um, they didn't have gay marriage. 0.56

00:35:12.040 They didn't have transgenderism. 0.96

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.

00:35:30.820 Listen.

00:35:31.820 The opinion claims to be based on nation historical past, but does not account for the reality

00:35:39.740 of today.

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

00:36:26.320 to undo and mitigate.

00:36:27.520 He's openly saying that he's not going to abide by it.

00:36:30.140 This is the law.

00:36:30.760 He's not going to abide by it, and he's going to try to undo it.

00:36:33.200 So, another example of this.

00:36:34.660 This is actual insurrection being carried out by the mayor of New York City.

00:36:39.620 One other thing on guns.

00:36:41.880 This is, as usual, a smart take from Jill Falopovich, who's a writer, feminist writer, and we're

00:36:48.840 seeing a lot of this kind of thing.

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

00:37:04.080 in the first place.

00:37:05.880 Now, the great thing about this claim from her is that it could not be more wrong.

00:37:09.260 Once again, it's the opposite of the truth.

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

00:37:41.160 carry firearms.

00:37:42.660 Oftentimes, they're going to throw things like suicide into the mix there, which is tragic

00:37:48.660 and terrible.

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

00:38:06.460 with legal concealed carry firearms.

00:38:09.680 And that doesn't even take into account all the lives that they save.

00:38:17.700 So this is just totally false.

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.

00:38:29.600 That's what the statistics clearly show us.

00:38:31.700 All right, we got to move on.

00:38:33.140 I'm just having so much fun with all this.

00:38:34.740 This is, I don't know, it's just a great day.

00:38:36.900 Here's one thing, on a little bit of a lighter note.

00:38:39.300 So we go back to the Biden administration.

00:38:41.940 First of all, Biden had a meeting with union and private sector leaders at the White House

00:38:46.800 yesterday.

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

00:38:56.900 staff had given him.

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.

00:39:05.720 You take your seat.

00:39:08.120 And I love how it's capitalized, you and your.

00:39:11.140 So like take your seat, not anybody else's.

00:39:13.760 Don't take somebody else's seat. 0.53

00:39:15.340 Don't like take another person's seat and throw it out the window.

00:39:17.340 Just take your seat.

00:39:19.920 Press enters.

00:39:21.760 You give brief comments, minutes, as opposed to hours.

00:39:26.860 Press departs.

00:39:27.580 You ask Liz Schuller, AFL-CIO president, a question.

00:39:32.820 Note, Liz is joining virtually.

00:39:34.680 You thank participants.

00:39:36.700 You depart.

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.

00:39:46.380 Here's the thing.

00:39:46.800 I have an assistant, and she makes itineraries for me.

00:39:50.800 And they can be pretty specific sometimes.

00:39:53.680 So I know a little bit about this.

00:39:55.020 But they're not this specific.

00:39:56.720 Because an itinerary is like, okay, you go to this place at this time.

00:40:00.960 Then you go to this place.

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

00:40:11.500 across the floor in a manner known as walking.

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. 0.99

00:40:32.800 Something that might have said, you don't shit your pants in front of the Pope. 0.72

00:40:38.060 I think he really needed that on a sheet of paper, and it wasn't there. 0.89

00:40:40.480 So that's really on his, it's his aide's fault for not keeping in mind, not keeping

00:40:44.600 that in mind and not mentioning it.

00:40:46.280 All right, let's get now to the comment section.

00:40:48.140 Daily cancellations are the law and order of the day.

00:40:53.620 We're the sweet baby gang.

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

00:41:14.880 help fight this battle.

00:41:15.900 40 Days for Life has one million volunteers throughout the country holding peaceful vigils

00:41:19.060 outside abortion facilities.

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

00:41:36.880 Roe.

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.

00:41:44.780 So as this issue gets out of D.C., finally, 40 Days for Life is effectively changing hearts

00:41:50.120 and minds in the grassroots of the pro-abortion movement.

00:41:52.820 Check out their locations, podcasts, and new book, What to Say When, the complete new guide

00:41:56.300 to discussing abortion at 40daysforlife.com.

00:42:00.060 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,

00:42:12.540 as we all should be.

00:42:13.380 So here are some tweets, not comments.

00:42:15.900 None of these people left comments under my YouTube video, as much as I would love it

00:42:18.400 if they did.

00:42:19.160 We're going to go through some tweets from prominent Democrats reacting to the Roe v.

00:42:23.260 Wade news.

00:42:24.140 We'll just cycle through them.

00:42:25.200 I haven't even seen these yet.

00:42:26.460 But here's Barack Obama says,

00:42:28.000 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. 0.69

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.

00:43:03.160 Hillary Clinton is very upset.

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

00:43:16.940 and human rights.

00:43:17.880 No, actually, the decision to have a child is not really one that you have with a doctor, 0.82

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.

00:43:39.700 The child is already there.

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 1.00

00:43:59.280 sense of the term, has the child inside her, in her body, which is a miraculous and beautiful

00:44:04.780 thing, unless you're on the left.

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 0.83

00:44:16.500 decisions.

00:44:16.960 Okay, we've already heard from Nancy Pelosi.

00:44:17.980 We got anybody else chiming in?

00:44:21.600 Eric Swalwell.

00:44:22.320 Okay, good.

00:44:22.760 We have to include him here.

00:44:24.360 He says, extreme right-wing judges on the Supreme Court just issued a death warrant to women

00:44:30.520 in America.

00:44:32.180 They've decided that a piece of metal designed to end life is more valuable than the health

00:44:37.940 and safety of women in America.

00:44:39.420 If this doesn't motivate you to vote, nothing will.

00:44:42.880 A death warrant?

00:44:44.680 How so?

00:44:47.180 How do we get from Roe v. Wade's overturned, which means that the decision about making abortion

00:44:54.040 legal or illegal falls to the states?

00:44:55.920 So that's step one, step two, and then step three, I'm not sure, it's left blank. 0.98

00:45:02.500 Step four, women die. 1.00

00:45:05.060 Death warrant. 0.96

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

00:45:23.400 decision.

00:45:25.000 It is very logical.

00:45:26.620 It goes, it explains itself point by point.

00:45:33.340 And once again, the decision does not mean that abortion is now illegal across the entire

00:45:37.720 country.

00:45:38.380 Although, that has to be the next step.

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

00:45:49.940 not over.

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

00:46:09.620 of those states.

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. 1.00

00:46:19.200 So we're still fighting for them.

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 0.88

00:46:32.840 goal.

00:46:33.360 That's what we're fighting for.

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00:48:09.540 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:48:15.280 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 0.90

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. 0.94

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

00:49:20.940 doing.

00:49:21.260 So we can look around and see billions of people doing something and then say, bah, it's

00:49:25.740 not possible.

00:49:26.420 I can't.

00:49:27.160 That's impossible.

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

00:49:37.320 incomplete.

00:49:38.720 We haven't really finished the thought.

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.

00:49:50.700 We cannot do it easily.

00:49:53.220 We cannot do it without effort.

00:49:55.220 We cannot do it while staying true to our undying principle that we should never have

00:49:59.640 to make any personal sacrifices of any kind.

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

00:50:10.460 what we cannot do.

00:50:11.960 And that's certainly the case here.

00:50:14.200 But Olga is not alone.

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

00:50:34.780 that childcare costs 40 grand a year.

00:50:38.900 Putting your kid in childcare, in daycare, says Olga, is as expensive as a really expensive

00:50:44.760 private school.

00:50:46.600 Now, fortunately, this is not remotely true.

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,

00:50:59.740 but it's half of Olga's estimate.

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.

00:51:08.360 In a state like Mississippi, it's half that.

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

00:51:23.560 $15,000 a year.

00:51:25.840 And this means that a family of three, if you do the math, is forking over $45,000 a year

00:51:30.060 just to keep their kids alive.

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

00:51:48.080 the hole for a million plus.

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

00:52:03.980 years, these figures are nonsense.

00:52:07.300 It is certainly possible, possible to spend $15,000 in a year on one child.

00:52:12.680 I mean, you could do that.

00:52:13.820 You could spend triple that if you wanted to.

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

00:52:25.940 would not have been able to survive.

00:52:27.720 And yet they did, and they do.

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

00:52:38.440 starting families later and later.

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.

00:52:53.840 That's what we think.

00:52:54.720 Speaking of finding a spouse, notice how Olga never accounts for marriage at all. 1.00

00:53:00.420 It would cost a woman $40,000 a year for child care, she says. 0.95

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 1.00

00:53:22.840 a wife and kids into this thing that's already been constructed without them. 0.98

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.

00:53:38.000 This is not their life, it's his. 0.98

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.

00:53:44.900 We were together from the beginning.

00:53:46.120 We climbed to this point together.

00:53:47.840 Rather, he looks at them and says, I built this on my own.

00:53:50.280 I did all this by myself.

00:53:52.080 I climbed without them.

00:53:53.080 This is mine.

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

00:54:00.620 higher divorce rates.

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

00:54:14.980 without together.

00:54:16.820 This is what brings a family together.

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

00:54:52.500 beginning of the process, not at the end.

00:54:55.220 Build your adult life with your spouse and children.

00:54:57.900 Have them there at the foundation of it all.

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,

00:55:12.340 and it really doesn't seem to be working.

00:55:14.220 The result has been higher divorce rates, lower marriage rates, people are less satisfied in

00:55:18.360 life, not as happy, populations are declining.

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

00:55:31.780 ready, not at 25, not at 30, not at 35.

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 0.99

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

00:55:56.720 of sense when you think about it.

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

00:56:06.860 today too.

00:56:08.040 As the Supreme Court, I think, has issued the greatest daily cancellation of all time.

00:56:13.280 And we thank God for that.

00:56:15.540 Enjoy your weekend.

00:56:16.320 Enjoy the celebration.

00:56:17.260 We'll leave it there for today.

00:56:18.200 Talk to you on Monday.

00:56:19.220 Stay safe.

00:56:20.420 Godspeed.

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Ep. 979 - Roe Is Dead, Hallelujah

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