A new report suggests that a Democratic operative was planted in Georgia to coordinate with the Biden White House on the prosecution of former Vice President Joe Biden's chief political rival, Nathan Wade, who is alleged to have stolen millions of dollars from his ex-wife, Fannie Willis.
00:06:57.020He led the Inquisition against Clarence Thomas when Thomas was up for the Supreme Court and presided over all sorts of hideous accusations against him, which Clarence Thomas called a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.
00:07:48.720The only reason he's saying this stuff or attempting to say this stuff is because he knows that his poll numbers are in the trash and he needs to be seen to moderate some way.
00:07:58.820He recognizes that the Democrat base has gone way too far to the left, and this is alienating independent voters, and it's alienating center leftists, and even the center right, which hates Donald Trump, that might end up voting for Biden.
00:08:13.900And he feels, I believe, genuinely scared, so he's got to run against his whole political career.
00:09:02.380And I know we've talked on this show and on Backstage and just more broadly in the culture about marriage and the key to a good marriage and how to make things work in this age where we don't even know what marriage is anymore.
00:09:17.940Marriage is not entirely, but in large part, about that activity, okay?
00:09:24.740Because marriage is ordered toward an end, and the end of marriage is the procreation and education of children as well as the good of the spouses.
00:09:34.540That is what, in principle, marriage is ordered toward.
00:09:37.760And so it's not just like any kind of other relationship.
00:10:22.480It turns out that when you sleep with someone for a long time and you enjoy this activity and you find it satisfying, that you end up feeling even closer to that person.
00:10:33.180Every human being who ever lived understood that for all of history until our modern scientific age when we have to rediscover everything that people had previously just sort of known as a matter of common sense.
00:12:24.900Now, speaking of sex stuff, Governor Greg Abbott down in Texas has become the latest Republican to engage in what I think is going to prove a long-term error.
00:12:39.720And that is to endorse in vitro fertilization and the surrogacy industry.
00:12:45.100Do you agree with the Alabama Supreme Court that embryos are human beings?
00:12:50.660Well, listen, obviously there's some uncertainty lingering from this.
00:12:54.100But candidly, let's go back to President Trump because President Trump put out a statement on this that I think a lot of people agree with.
00:13:00.600And that is a goal that we all kind of want to achieve.
00:13:05.620And that is we want to make it easier for people to be able to have babies, not make it harder.
00:13:11.780And the IVF process is a way of giving life to even more babies.
00:13:17.380And so what I think the goal is is to make sure that we can find a pathway to ensure that parents who otherwise may not have the opportunity to have a child will be able to have access to the IVF process and become parents and give life to babies.
00:13:35.700And because this is a relatively new issue, we're just going to find ways to navigate laws and fact situations that are very complicated.
00:13:53.920So when you have a relatively new situation with a brand new technology that touches on the very origin and destiny of human life with all sorts of bioethical concerns that you yourself are acknowledging,
00:14:05.320is the prudent response to that to go full steam ahead, let's go, baby, make a bunch of kids in test tubes and lock them up in a freezer forever?
00:14:13.900Or would the more prudent response be caution?
00:14:19.080And if you're going to proceed at all, proceed very cautiously or maybe take a moment here and sort out some of these bioethical issues because we're talking about the creation of human beings.
00:14:33.040Now, what Governor Abbott is trying to do here is he's trying to stay on the good side of President Trump because President Trump came out on this issue in response to the Alabama Supreme Court,
00:14:42.900faithfully interpreting the Alabama state constitution and saying, look, the Alabama state constitution protects life from the very beginning.
00:14:50.220The very beginning is the moment of conception.
00:14:51.640If we as pro-lifers really believe that life begins at conception, then that raises all sorts of problems for the IVF and surrogacy industry because the IVF and surrogacy industry, first of all, sells human life.
00:15:07.300It's the only product you could possibly be buying in the IVF and surrogacy industry.
00:15:10.780But two, treats human life in a way that we would not consider morally acceptable.
00:15:17.480For instance, locking people away in freezers forever or creating human beings.
00:15:22.000Sometimes where major accidents happen back in early 2023, there's a case, I think it's still being litigated down in Texas, where the scientists accidentally mixed up the test tubes.
00:15:34.560And so they created a human being with the wrong sperm and the wrong egg.
00:15:38.240They created a human being with a mother and father who had never met each other, who were married to other people.
00:15:45.240I guess the couples sue and maybe there's a civil payout or something like that.
00:15:49.220Well, now you've got a human being who has been created, deprived of a mother and a father, who's left in no man's land.
00:15:55.820This is just one example of the myriad examples of hazards that come along with establishing the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of human life.
00:16:07.120I understand why, as a political matter, President Trump doesn't want to run in 2024 on shutting down IVF, which many, many people, I think mistakenly, but with good intentions, are supportive of.
00:16:22.360I'm not saying he has to make it a plank of his campaign.
00:16:24.420But if I were advising President Trump, whom I love, who's the most pro-life president of my lifetime, if I were advising Governor Abbott here, if I were advising Carrie Lake, who also came out in favor of this, I would just say, hey, guys, proceed with caution.
00:16:39.560Maybe downplay this thing a little bit.
00:16:41.300Maybe don't come out in defense of a morally dubious, and in the case of Alabama, illegal and unconstitutional activity.
00:16:51.940Because what they're saying, what Governor Abbott has said here is, look, we love it because IVF is a way to make more human life, and we want more human life.
00:17:29.580Pro-lifers will be the first to tell you we support the right to life of everyone.
00:17:32.960And just because someone is created in an unfortunate or sinful or unjust circumstance doesn't mean that you have the right to go kill that person.
00:17:40.860For goodness sakes, I've interviewed people who are the product of rape, who are great gifts to the country and great gifts to their mothers and great gifts to the world.
00:17:52.020But that doesn't justify the immoral means.
00:17:54.300And if we're going to grant, we all grant this, we pro-lifers, in principle, that there are moral ways to create people and immoral ways and the ends don't justify the means, then I think we all have to acknowledge there are some bioethical issues here with in vitro fertilization.
00:18:11.120It may be the wise thing to do, not to come out as defenders of an industry that sells people.
00:18:17.720Now, the CNN host here recognizes this problem.
00:18:22.300They recognize this problem that if pro-lifers have been arguing until we're blue in the face for decades now that life really begins at conception.
00:18:27.860Well, then, if we all of a sudden start defending an industry that not only creates people in test tubes but then locks them away in a freezer, destroys those embryos if they are not used, reduces them if too many take hold, you know, just all sorts of abuses of human dignity and the natural law.
00:18:49.560Well, then, don't we look like hypocrites?
00:18:52.760Are you saying that families in Texas who are using IVF have extra embryos that are frozen, do not need to worry?
00:19:00.000Well, so you raise questions that are complex that I simply don't know the answer to.
00:19:04.820Let me give you a couple of examples, and that is I have no idea mathematically the number of frozen embryos.
00:19:12.500Is it one, ten, a hundred, a thousand?
00:19:16.420What I don't know is families who may have frozen embryos, what happens if they were done so that a mother could have a pregnancy, but after those embryos were frozen, the mother passes away.
00:19:32.460What happens if, after the embryos are frozen, the mother and the husband, they get a divorce?
00:19:39.260Here's my point in telling you that, Dana, and that is these are very complex issues where I'm not sure everybody has really thought about it.
00:19:47.040What all the potential problems are, and as a result, no one really knows what the potential answers are.
00:19:54.580Yeah, I'm not sure you have either, Governor Abbott.
00:19:56.840You're, you're, I can't tell if, he's a smart man, so I can't tell if, if this is just a cynical political play here, or if he genuinely doesn't hear the words that are coming out of his mouth.
00:20:07.420That, that whole little monologue there at the end, he goes, oh, there's all sorts of moral questions, all sorts of really just practical questions that's raised.
00:32:43.200Lieutenant Governor Virginia Winsome Sears just got into a fiery exchange with a state representative who identifies as trans, a dude who thinks he's a chick.
00:33:52.200I am here to do the job that the people of Virginia have called me to do.
00:33:58.320And that is to treat everyone with respect and dignity.
00:34:02.620I myself have at times not been afforded that same respect and dignity.
00:34:10.940But in this body, and as long as I am president of the Senate, and by the grace of God, I will be treated with respect and dignity.
00:34:22.820And I will treat everyone else with respect and dignity.
00:34:27.320So, in case you were trying to keep score on the identity politics, I know it's a little confusing.
00:34:34.240White people are not allowed in any way, even accidentally, to offend black people.
00:34:41.960Because white is bad and black is good.
00:34:45.280Men are not allowed, even accidentally, ever to offend or upset.
00:34:50.140But women, because women are good and men are bad.
00:34:55.100Unless we're talking about a white man who has a very particular sexual fetish and confusion and thinks that he's a woman.
00:35:03.820In which case, the white man is allowed and encouraged and actually applauded for offending a black woman, namely Winsome Sears, who's presiding over this proceeding.
00:36:25.520But I liked her speech there at the end.
00:36:27.780She said, I'm here to do the job that the people sent me to do.
00:36:30.720And that is to treat everyone with respect.
00:36:32.500My only slight suggestion here to Winsome Sears is that that's not the job that the people sent her to do.
00:36:39.460The job that the people sent Winsome Sears and all of the elected officials in Virginia to do is to govern well.
00:36:48.000The job that they sent them to do is the basic job of statecraft, which is to pursue good and to avoid evil.
00:36:56.840To help to encourage the conditions for everyone in the Commonwealth of Virginia to thrive, to have a flourishing life.
00:37:05.600And in this case, the people who are advocating the total destruction of the family, of public distinctions between men and women, of that dichotomy in human nature.
00:37:21.600Those people are not helping Virginia to flourish, all right?
00:37:26.340And so in that case, it is not only acceptable, it is very good to dismiss, to mock, to undermine the transgender ideology, which is either true or it isn't.
00:37:41.380As I got in trouble at CPAC for saying, but I think most people agree with me, it's either true or it isn't.
00:37:46.660If it's true, then it can be true for anyone, and then we ought to trans the kids.
00:37:50.540If it's false, then it's false for everyone, and we shouldn't allow adult men to go use the little girl's changing room at the public pool.
00:38:03.660So for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to that delusion, transgenderism ought to be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole ideology at every level.
00:38:14.480Do you understand that, sir, sir or madam?
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00:39:15.760Many people have asked me over the years how to smoke a cigar.
00:39:19.340It's the sort of thing where it seems like you should know how to do it, but it's actually a little complicated.
00:39:23.020If you haven't done it before, cigars are, they've really come back in style recently, especially among men and especially among conservative men.
00:39:31.000There are a lot of liberal men who smoke cigars, too.
00:39:32.680But a lot of people don't know how to do it.
00:39:34.660They don't know how much of the cap to cut off.
00:39:36.200They don't know how to light the cigar.
00:40:31.680Because, as a friend of mine who's intimately aware of presidential campaigns, once told me, all presidential campaigns end for the exact same reason, when they run out of money.
00:40:44.280The Koch network, which was the big backer for Nikki Haley's bid, they have just pulled out.
00:40:50.540The Americans for Prosperity Action, huge conservative group.
00:40:54.120They have just announced they will no longer spend money to help her following the South Carolina laws.
00:40:59.320She lost her home state by a fair bit.
00:41:47.080She'll take it as far as she can before the money runs out.
00:41:49.580And then she will be able to say, I was the number two candidate in 2024 when the 2028 comes around.
00:41:55.780And the nice thing for her about 2028 is that Nikki Haley, either way, will be able to run because Trump only has one term left that he is constitutionally permitted to serve.
00:42:07.120Now, in the meantime, other people are going to try to get Nikki Haley to run for president this cycle.
00:42:12.060If not as the Republican nominee, then as some other kind of nominee.
00:42:15.240There's a group called No Labels, which is just a centrist group, and they try to blur the distinctions between Democrats and Republicans, something that I think is not a good idea.
00:42:24.040I think we need actually clearer distinctions between the two parties.
00:42:27.400We need, in the words of the great conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, a choice, not just an echo.
00:42:32.520But No Labels thinks, no, we just need centrists to blur the distinction.
00:42:35.600And the head of No Labels has suggested one candidate could be pretty, pretty helpful to that effort.
00:42:42.300This has been a project to essentially give Americans another choice if they're unhappy with the presumptive nominees, which, you know, it appears is going to be Trump versus Biden right now.