Ep. 1002 - The Pro-Choice Lynch Mob
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A leftist mob showed up to Justice Samuel Alito s house to intimidate his family and pressure him to change his vote on overruling Roe v. Wade. Is it illegal to protest in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such a judge, juror, witness, or court officer?
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As far as we can tell, the five conservative Supreme Court justices are standing firm for life
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in the face of leftist violence and intimidation. Senate Republicans are standing firm to oppose
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court packing, to oppose a law to permit abortion nationwide. This is the hottest and most
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consequential political issue of my lifetime. And Republican politicians in charge of law
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enforcement are completely dropping the ball. Last night, the leftist mob showed up to Justice
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Sam Alito's house to intimidate his family and pressure him to change his vote on overruling
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Roe v. Wade. Keep abortion. Safe and legal. No uterus. No say. Our bodies are alive. Our right to decide.
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Alito says post vote. We say they'll know. Alito is a coward.
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F*** you, Alito. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. keinion. Vaughn you, Alito. No. No. No. You 0. No. No. No. No. Yeah. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. I. No. No. Now. No. No. No.
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his opinion is illegal. According to 18 U.S. Code section 1507, it is illegal to protest
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in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court
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officer. This is not some authoritarian fantasy I'm having or some obscure provision of the law.
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This is a basic rule to protect the integrity of our courts. Even the libertarians are calling for
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its enforcement, okay? There's an article in Reason.com pointing out that it is illegal for
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this mob to be doing this and law enforcement should go in and enforce the law. Where's Glenn
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Youngkin? Where is the governor of Virginia? More importantly, where's federal law enforcement?
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Why aren't the psycho leftists who are threatening judges' kids in handcuffs right now? Whatever
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happened to Peace Through Strength? Whatever happened to the rule of law? We're not talking
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about ordinary protests here either. We're talking about what Chief Justice John Roberts called
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a singular and egregious leak and violation of trust on the Supreme Court, followed by the doxing of
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judges who are now visited by angry mobs as leftists bomb and vandalize pro-life centers around the
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country. This is not the time to go limp. Passions are high because we are talking about a matter of
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life and death. I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop at Norm's
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Music, who says, in Jamaica, abortions are illegal, considered a felony, and anti-abortion songs are
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common. One of the most popular dance hall songs, Murder, She Wrote, is about a woman with a bad
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character, and the murder is referring to abortion. This is a great point, and so many Americans don't
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know this, liberals and a lot of conservatives. America is the outlier when it comes to abortion.
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You're hearing a lot of people now say, America's regressing. We're one of the only countries to go
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backwards on abortion rights and make it more restrictive. America has some of the most insanely
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open abortion laws in the world. Our abortion laws are way more radical than the abortion laws in
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France, the abortion laws in Italy, the abortion laws in Germany, the abortion laws pretty much
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anywhere else around the world other than North Korea, China, and Canada, okay? But other than those
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countries, all fairly evil countries these days, but I'm not sure which one takes the cake, other than
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those countries, America has some of the most open laws. Maybe we should take a note from all the rest of
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the countries around the world which protect life, at least today, much more than the United States
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The good news, this is according to another leak. So, I guess the Supreme Court is now the leakiest
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institution in the country. But the good news, according to this leak, is that at least as
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recently as two weeks ago, the Supreme Court majority was still holding strong to overrule Roe v. Wade.
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Now, we don't know if this has changed since the leak of the opinion and the protests and the threats
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against the judges and against their families. But that leaked draft of the court opinion,
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that was from February. So, a lot could have changed since then. And yet, according to some Supreme
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Court clerks, three conservatives close to the court, the majority of five justices to strike
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down Roe remains intact. That's according to the Washington Post. So, again, take it with a grain
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of salt. The way that this breakdown is going to work, according to, well, one, the leak of the
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opinion, but then according to the Washington Post here, is that it's going to be 5-4 to overrule
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Roe v. Wade. That the court is actually going to vote 6-3 to uphold the pro-life law in Mississippi
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that is at the heart of the Dobbs decision, but that Chief Justice John Roberts is going to squish.
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He's going to try to split the baby, as it were. He's going to try to uphold the abortion law in
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Mississippi, the pro-life law, but he's going to try to also uphold Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood
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v. Casey, at least to a large degree. The five more conservative justices on the court said,
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sorry, Chief Justice, that's not going to work for us. And so, they're going to break away,
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according to this reporting, they're going to break away from the Chief Justice, and they are
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going to form a court majority to overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. They're
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going to form a court majority to get rid of the completely fictional right to abortion in the
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Constitution that a bunch of political activists discovered in 1973. They are going to restore some
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integrity to our judicial system, at least according to the reporting right now.
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But if you are married, if you've got young kids, and you've got an angry, violent mob,
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you've got an angry mob outside of your home, and you've got violent pro-abortion activists
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firebombing pro-life centers around the country, that could influence your voting. I hope it does
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not. I think that if the conservatives on the court change their votes now, it will so destroy the
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integrity of that institution. It will just be an open license to the violent mob, to whenever they
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get the inkling that the court's not going to rule their way, to just go and throw a Molotov cocktail,
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and then everything will be hunky-dory as far as they're concerned. So it would be disastrous. I think
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if anything, what I'm hoping is that the mobs have hardened the conservatives' opinions on this,
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but they're not giving up. The left truly believes that threats and intimidation and violence
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are going to win the day for them. Over the weekend on Sunday, a number of pro-abortion lunatics
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were disrupting masses were going to Catholic churches around the country. One group of these
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lunatics put on some handmaid's tale outfits and showed up in a Catholic mass at the cathedral in
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Without this basic right, women can't be free. Abortion on the man and without apology.
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Without this basic right, women can't be free. Abortion on the man and without apology.
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The symbolism here is actually perfect because these wackos have showed up during communion. So
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this is the holiest moment of the mass when the priest is consecrating the host and he's saying,
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repeating the words of Christ, this is my body which will be given up for you. And Catholics believe
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that at that moment, the bread, the bread and the wine is transformed through transubstantiation
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into the literal body and blood of Christ so that God is in a very tangible way with you in the room.
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This is my body which will be given up for you. And the pro-abortion activists bust in there
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at this extraordinarily sacred moment of the mass and they, ironically, invert the message. They say,
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no, this is my body and you're going to, your body, little baby, it's actually my body and your body
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is going to be given up for me. This is my body. Peter Kreeft, the philosopher, made this point. He
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said, the way that you know that abortion is the sacrament of the Antichrist is that even the
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sloganeering for it is the same, it's the same wording of the Eucharist itself, but with a blasphemously
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inverted meaning. This is my body. That's the chant that you're hearing all over the place.
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But instead of a man giving up his life for his friends, one man dying so that all may live,
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you have the opposite. You have people sacrificing their own children just for their own desires,
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just for their own, what they think will be for their own benefit actually will not be for their
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own benefit, but they don't understand that. So they're willing to do, the pro-abortion activists
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are willing to do just about anything. Nothing is too sacred for them to disrupt. No norm,
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no standard is to be held so highly in esteem that they're not going to violate it. Of course,
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that's what I said when the Supreme Court opinion leaked. I said, of course they leaked the opinion.
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These are people who kill babies. Of course, they're going to leak. They don't care about a
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Supreme Court norm or standard. If you're willing to kill your child, you're willing to do just about
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anything. So what do we do about this? The reaction so far, generally speaking, from law enforcement
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has been hands-off, just like outside of Sam Alito's house. Oh, well, yeah, it's against the
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law to show up and intimidate judges and try to change their opinion. But hey, let's all just,
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let's just be cool, right? We're not going to arrest anybody. Well, that's what they're doing
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here at this mass. But what those protesters did is illegal. It is illegal to do that. It's ironic
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because there's actually, it's a provision of a pro-abortion law that actually protects churches
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from these lunatics. It's the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994, prohibits the use
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or threat of force or physical obstruction that injures, intimidates, or interferes with a person
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seeking to obtain or provide an abortion. That same law also, to appease the pro-lifers when this
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was being passed, also prohibits people from doing all those things to exercise the First Amendment
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right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship. So what those wackos are doing is
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illegal. And do you know what we should do? There's two opinions on this. The squishes and
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the nice guys, they say, hey, let's just let it go. Let's just let them, well, do their thing and
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it's silly and then we'll just kind of ask them politely to leave. No, arrest them. Arrest them.
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This has gone on way too long. We have let this go way too far. If you want to stop a perverse and
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disordered behavior, you need to punish that behavior, okay? And this is really bad for our civil society.
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It's really bad for our system of law. You need to arrest these people and throw them in jail
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and teach them a lesson. Naughty, naughty, no showing up and screaming and disrupting mass.
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Naughty, naughty, no terrorizing Brett Kavanaugh's children or Sam Alito's family or any,
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naughty, naughty, you're not going to do that anymore. And if you do, we're going to arrest you.
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And if you do it again, we're going to throw you in jail for longer.
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You've got to get tough, folks. It's tough love, okay? But there's no compassion or loving,
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nothing loving about letting these people terrorize ordinary law-abiding American citizens.
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We've got to stand firm. This is the issue. It's why you got to check out 40 Days for Life.
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Right now, go to 40daysforlife.com, okay? We are on the cusp of overruling Roe versus Wade.
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You may think that means the fight is coming to an end. No. That means abortion legislation very
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likely will return to the states or even the federal government. There's no group in America
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better positioned than 40 Days for Life to help fight this battle. 40 Days for Life has one million
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volunteers throughout the country holding peaceful vigils outside of abortion facilities. You may be
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surprised to hear that their largest presence is actually in the country's blue states. California
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is their biggest state. The vigils have closed many abortion facilities in America. Nearly half of
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those facilities were in liberal states where abortion will remain legal after Roe. From San
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Francisco to Chicago to Seattle, not extremely pro-life areas, volunteers have guided abortion
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workers to have a change of heart and quit their jobs. So as this issue gets out of D.C.,
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finally, 40 Days for Life is effectively changing hearts and minds in the grassroots of the
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pro-abortion movement. Check out their locations, podcast, and their new book, What to Say When,
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the complete guide to discussing abortion at 40daysforlife.com. This issue of the protests
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around the Dobbs decision, the overruling of Roe versus Wade, it's not just about speech that I don't
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like. It's not just about the free marketplace of ideas. Well, you can protest for life and you can
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protest for abortion. We are seeing actual violence taking place right now. And it's not being reported
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very often in the establishment media because they want to completely cover this up because
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it's inconvenient for their narrative. But there are acts of violence taking place right now.
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Pro-life pregnancy centers are under attack. Daily Wire's got some great reporting on this.
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Okay, we've got Kaiser, Oregon. The Oregon Right to Life announced on Monday evening that its offices in
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Kaiser had been attacked. Late Sunday, they said in a statement, an individual used incendiary devices,
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one of which exploded and caught the building on fire. That's the latest in the mostly peaceful
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protests that we've been seeing from the left in recent years. So that was over in Oregon,
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Madison, Wisconsin. A pro-life nonprofit was set on fire in a, quote, suspicious fire. Molotov cocktail
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thrown into the pro-life organization's building. One wall was burnt. We reported on this message
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yesterday. If abortions aren't safe, then you aren't either. You can see the pictures here are really
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disturbing. Anarchist symbols all over the place. That's in medicines with Wisconsin. Frederick
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Maryland. On Wednesday, May 4th, the staff arrived at a pro-life center in Frederick, Maryland to this
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disturbing scene of lies and propaganda spray painted on the building. This is Care Net, and that's
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according to the Care Net executive director, Linda King. She says, unfortunately, this is not the
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first time our center has been vandalized. We were previously vandalized twice in 2014 in the same
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manner. You've got all sorts of hideous graffiti all over the walls. This is not legal stuff. This
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is not any kind of protected protest, all right? They've been going on all over the country. If we
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do not enforce the law, if we do not arrest these criminals and help to solve our massive under
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incarceration problem in this country and give people a little bit of justice, then you're going
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to see more of it. And that's what they want. This is, by the way, this is why the law is not being
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enforced, is because the Republicans are too cowardly and because the Democrats want to see
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more of this. They want more pro-life centers to be attacked. They want the justices' families to be
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threatened and intimidated. The White House, for goodness sakes, the White House was asked, hey,
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you really, you think that angry mobs should show up to judges' private homes? And what did Jen Psaki
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say? She said, we don't have an official government position on where people protest.
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First, F around and find out. That was the translation of what she was saying.
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Yeah, sorry. I guess that's, it's a nice house you got there. It's a nice family you got there,
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Brett Kavanaugh. Sure would be a shame if something happened to it. Maybe, yeah,
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maybe you should reconsider your vote. Really, really disgusting stuff.
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We are winning on this issue, and we're on the cusp of a major pro-life victory.
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We've got to keep up the strength. You can't just let these people do this and run roughshod
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over our country. You can't just let these criminals and terrorists try to pull this victory
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away from Americans who support it. Now, believe it or not, I know Mitch McConnell gets a lot of
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criticism, but Mr. Cocaine himself has come out here. He has been one of, if not the most important
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leader on this issue. Cocaine Mitch was just asked if, assuming Roe v. Wade is overruled and assuming
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that this issue goes back to the legislatures, back to the states maybe, but even possibly the
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federal legislature, could there be a law outlawing abortion nationwide? And Cocaine Mitch was asked this
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by USA Today, and he said, if the leaked opinion became the, I'm kind of doing a Rand Paul. That's
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not, that's not quite, that's, I got to work on my Cocaine Mitch. If the leaked opinion became the final
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opinion, legislative bodies, not only at the state level, but at the federal level, certainly could
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legislate in that area. And if this were the final decision, that was the point and that, that it should
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be resolved one way or another in the legislative process. So yeah, it's possible. Mitch McConnell does
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not get a ton of credit for his rock solid conservative principles. I don't know if Mitch
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McConnell has rock solid conservative principles. I suspect he does not. However, if Roe v. Wade is
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overruled, and especially if there's a national abortion ban, could you imagine? Cocaine Mitch deserves
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the lion's share of the credit. This is the guy who, who held up the replacement of Antonin Scalia.
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This is the guy who rammed through those conservative judges. This is the guy, he said his lasting legacy
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is the judges. And the judges may very soon overrule Roe v. Wade. This is the guy who did it.
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Just like people say, well, Donald Trump's an imperfect vessel for some very good ideas and
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very good things in the country. You'd have to say the same thing about Mitch McConnell.
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I don't know what Mitch McConnell personally thinks about abortion, but if this goes through,
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if the, if the Roe v. Wade is overruled, he deserves a whole lot of credit. And then as he's saying now,
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if there, if there were a national abortion law, the guy would be one of the great heroes of
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pre-born babies in the history of the world. This guy would be one of the, truly one of the greatest
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statesmen in history. And it could happen. Another reason why this is important too for Republicans to
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get behind this kind of talk is it will allow, in a very cynical way, it will allow Republicans to
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continue to raise money off of all of us pro-lifers. One of the issues with the pro-life movement for the
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past 50 years with regard to the Republican party is that the Republicans relied on pro-lifers to
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give them a lot of money to get rid of abortion. But the problem there of course is if Roe v. Wade
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is overruled, the Republicans feared that they would lose the money from the pro-lifers because
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the problem would have gone away. And so there was a kind of a perverse incentive there for the
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Republicans not to really fight that hard against abortion because they were making so much money
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from the pro-lifers. But as we have said on this show many times, Roe v. Wade is not the end of
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the story. You overrule Roe v. Wade. That's not the end of the fight. That's really just the
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beginning of the fight. Because the fight here is not just for some procedural aspect of our
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judiciary or some interesting reading of the text of the Constitution and some long lecture about
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federalism. The point is to protect babies. And so I don't want there to be abortion in
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California. I don't want there to be abortion in New York. I do not respect the right so-called of
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New Yorkers or Californians to have abortion. I think it's wrong all the time everywhere. It's
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just wrong to kill babies. And so the pro-life fight is going to have to continue there, whether
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that's by fighting for laws in the states or whether that's fighting for a federal law. So
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this will allow Republicans to continue to raise money off of all of us pro-lifers. And it's going
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to give us another place to look after Roe v. Wade becomes history. Why is Cocaine Mitch going after
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this as well? One, I think it's the right thing to do. I'll give him credit for it. Two, I think
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it's obviously the next step in this movement. But three, it's a political winner. It's a big
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political winner. It's not just some niche issue for extremely far-right conservatives. Pro-life is
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a winning message for Americans, period, full stop. Bill Maher just proved my point. I've been on this
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hobby horse for a very long time, and I've been shouting it from the rooftops. Bill Maher just proved my
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point. When on his show, he said he didn't want to talk about abortion, but this is the big topic
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this week, and so he was going to talk about it. And he said, you know, by golly, I had no idea.
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A lot of the things I thought I knew about abortion, turns out they were just totally false.
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You know, it's interesting because until this memo was leaked and we found out that now,
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unless something very unforeseen happens, the Supreme Court is going to undo Roe v. Wade after 49 years,
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we haven't really been focusing on it, or maybe I'm projecting. I guess I haven't been enough because
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I learned things this week, because this put it on the front page, that are pretty basic things that
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I did not know about abortion. Like in Europe, the modern countries of Europe, way more restrictive
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than we are, or what they're even proposing. If you are pro-choice, you would like it a lot less in
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Germany and Italy and France and Spain and Switzerland. Did you know that? I didn't know
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that. I didn't know that. That's right. Okay. I learned most people who are pro-life are women.
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Did not know that. Did you know that? Yes, you probably did. If you're listening to this show,
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you probably pay a little more attention to politics than most people do. And you probably
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know a little bit more of the arguments and you probably know a little bit more of the facts.
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I suspect most Americans are like Bill Maher though. I suspect most Americans don't pay
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extraordinarily close attention. And so they don't realize, most pro-lifers are women. They don't
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realize what the abortion laws are in France and Germany and Italy and pretty much everywhere else
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around the world. More restrictive than they are in the United States. They just don't know.
00:24:03.700
And it's not their fault even that they don't know. They have been inundated with propaganda,
00:24:08.400
lies from Hollywood, from the press, from the educational institutions.
00:24:16.460
And so it's not even that they're ignorant, as Ronald Reagan said. It's just that they know so
00:24:20.900
many things that are not so. Now that we're beginning to crack that monopoly on information,
00:24:26.380
now that we're beginning to just get the reality of abortion out there, it's a huge political winner.
00:24:33.360
People see the reality of what abortion is and they just don't like it. Speaking of opening up
00:24:39.560
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00:24:45.080
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I've been a little disappointed looking at the Republican Senate race in Pennsylvania. This
00:27:15.680
is going to be a big year, according to all the indicators for Republicans. This should be a massive
00:27:20.600
Republican wave. The conservatives are winning on every single issue. Joe Biden is underwater on
00:27:26.280
every single issue. The guy can barely say his own name. This is it. This is our moment, conservatives.
00:27:31.960
And at the moment, it looks as though conservatives are going to nominate a liberal television talk
00:27:38.460
show host to be their candidate. This would be Dr. Oz. Dr. Oz, there are lots of tapes of him
00:27:45.980
whining about pro-life laws around the country very, very recently. There's not much evidence that Dr.
00:27:52.140
Oz has any conservative inclinations in his entire body. This is nothing
00:27:56.120
against him. I don't know Dr. Oz, nothing against him personally, but the guy just doesn't seem like
00:28:00.720
a conservative. He can prove me wrong, but I just don't see it. And unfortunately, Dr. Oz has received
00:28:06.120
Donald Trump's endorsement. So he was the candidate. A lot of Trump supporters, myself included,
00:28:13.620
were puzzled. We were scratching our heads over this endorsement of Dr. Oz. Why Dr. Oz?
00:28:18.000
But then the other candidate in the race is David McCormick. Again, don't know much about David
00:28:23.920
McCormick. He also doesn't seem like he's got the strongest, toughest conservative bona fides either.
00:28:29.580
David McCormick is a self-funder. Dr. Oz has a lot of money too. So these are the two top candidates.
00:28:34.680
There were other people running, but they just didn't have any money. And so it looked like it was
00:28:38.640
going to be one of these two guys. And it was a little dispiriting for the conservative base.
00:28:42.220
And then out of nowhere, well, not out of nowhere actually, but suddenly up comes Kathy Barnett.
00:28:52.020
Kathy Barnett is a conservative political commentator. She's a veteran. She's a former
00:28:58.860
adjunct professor of corporate finance. She's a wife. She's a mother. She homeschooled her kids.
00:29:04.560
She's a real conservative. She checks out. When you look down the list, she checks all the boxes
00:29:10.880
of a real conservative. But she didn't have any money. There was just no way she was going to
00:29:15.940
win this race. And then out of nowhere, there's a poll of more than 1,000 likely Republican primary
00:29:22.840
voters by the Trafalgar group. And according to this poll, out of nowhere, Kathy Barnett is now in
00:29:30.120
a statistical tie with Dr. Oz and David McCormick. Dr. Oz currently leads the race, but he's only got
00:29:37.640
24.5%. Kathy Barnett is 23.2%. So she's about a point away. And then this hedge fund manager and
00:29:48.080
treasury official, David McCormick, comes in at 21.6%. So McCormick, despite all of his money,
00:29:54.160
is actually behind Kathy Barnett at the moment. And by the way, the margin of error is 3%. So the
00:29:59.280
candidates are in a statistical tie. And the craziest part of all is, do you know why
00:30:03.380
Kathy Barnett is surging, I think? Because Kathy Barnett is the pro-life candidate. Not only is
00:30:10.720
Kathy Barnett pro-life in her policies, Kathy Barnett is the product of rape. Kathy Barnett,
00:30:18.720
according to the liberals, should have been killed in the womb through abortion because of the tragic
00:30:23.580
way that she was conceived. And Kathy Barnett is out there and she says, hey, guys, look, I know this
00:30:29.640
is the extreme end of arguing on the abortion debate, but if you want to go there, if you want
00:30:35.940
to justify abortion, then you're saying that I should have been killed as a baby. I am the byproduct
00:30:42.580
of a rape. My mother was 11 years old when I was conceived. My father was 21. I was not just a lump
00:30:50.460
of cells. As you can see, I'm still not just a lump of cells. My life has value.
00:30:56.380
My life has value. That's a very powerful message. And I don't think this woman is surging in the
00:31:03.840
polls despite that message. What the establishment conservative consensus says is, look, just run on
00:31:09.260
tax cuts, just run on deregulation, run on, let people do whatever they want, just keep cutting my
00:31:14.960
taxes. And look, if you need to talk about pro-life or whatever, it's fine. Like maybe you can still win
00:31:20.860
in spite of that, but don't emphasize it. And certainly, oh my gosh, don't talk about the
00:31:26.920
extreme edges of abortion. Just talk about late-term abortion or whatever. Well, what about, how do you
00:31:33.200
explain Kathy Barnett? How do you explain this woman? Surging past, sort of surging up to candidates who
00:31:42.360
have way more money, way more backing. The endorsement of Donald Trump, the leader of the Republican
00:31:48.540
Party. And this woman is jumping, not in spite of her pro-life views, but because of them.
00:31:55.520
Because she is the embodiment. Because you look at her and you say, oh yeah, you shouldn't have been
00:31:59.140
killed. Look that woman in the eye and say, you should have been killed as a baby. Do it. Does
00:32:03.940
anyone, only the most hardened psychopath would be able to look that woman in the face and say,
00:32:10.140
the world would be better had you been killed as a baby. People should have the right to kill you.
00:32:15.320
You know, I generally don't do primary endorsements. And I'm not going to do a primary endorsement
00:32:22.440
here. But I am greatly encouraged by the fact that this woman is surging, that the conservatives
00:32:27.840
are looking and saying, no, we want something a little deeper here. Okay, this is a moment where
00:32:33.700
it's not just about getting another R in the Senate. We'd like to get more R's in the Senate,
00:32:39.420
but we want to do something. We want people with moral clarity and vision once they get to the
00:32:44.320
Senate. Speaking of polls, the polls are really good for the R's right now. According to a civics
00:32:50.760
poll of 200,000 respondents almost across 50 states, only 36% of registered voters approve of the job
00:32:59.720
Joe Biden is doing. 54% disapprove. That net approve disapprove is an absolute disaster for Biden.
00:33:08.780
Even crazier, Biden only has net approval in four states. 56. I sound like Barack Obama. All 57 states,
00:33:19.180
46 states in this country disapprove of Joe Biden. Those are shocking numbers. You haven't seen that kind of
00:33:28.700
political agreement, that kind of political unity in America since the 80s. You haven't seen that
00:33:34.000
since Reagan 84, when Ronald Reagan took 49 states, took the vast majority of states in 82.
00:33:41.700
Nixon did too, actually. The Republicans have historically actually done a pretty good job
00:33:46.900
at unifying the country. Not in recent years, but now I guess we're back at it. Joe Biden promised
00:33:52.280
that he was going to unify America, and he did, accidentally. He did unify America. Other than
00:33:57.360
Vermont, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Hawaii, every other state disapproves of Joe Biden right now.
00:34:04.060
Do not let the libs intimidate us. When they show up to Sam Alito's house and Brett Kavanaugh's house,
00:34:09.460
when they firebomb pro-life centers, when they show up to your church and disrupt everything,
00:34:14.000
they are doing it because they are desperate. We've got to deal with it. We've got to punish them.
00:34:18.560
We've got to enforce the law. But do not be discouraged. Really, you should be encouraged.
00:34:26.420
Those are the tactics of very weak, very desperate people. Right now, the law is on our side.
00:34:34.660
The moral order is on our side. And the people are on our side. You know, our democracy that the
00:34:39.940
libs always love talking about, except when they lose. Our democracy right now is firmly on the side
00:34:44.680
of conservatives. And not just on the weak, squishy issues, on the really important, essential issues
00:34:49.540
to all the way down to the issue of life. Why are people so fed up with Democrats? It's the economy,
00:34:56.060
of course. The economy is in the doldrums. It's the inflation, the record high inflation,
00:35:00.800
the record high gas prices. The fact that there's a baby food shortage, for goodness sakes.
00:35:04.660
The baby formula shortage. The fact that there are issues in the food supply just generally
00:35:09.760
throughout the economy. The fact that now we've got the first major war in Europe since World War II.
00:35:14.420
That's not good. Yes, there are all of these problems. The fact that immigration has never
00:35:19.960
been worse. The fact that we've got two million illegal aliens came into the country last year,
00:35:25.320
and it's going to be more than that this year, on top of one million legal immigrants. But do you
00:35:29.540
know what else it is? It's all the weird, creepy sex stuff. It bothers people. Target right now is
00:35:36.840
selling weird transgender stuff for Pride Month, including to kids. Target is teaming up with
00:35:43.840
Tomboy X. The Tomboy X collection includes, this is at Target, a major retailer. Chest binders.
00:35:53.380
Chest binders is when women put on very restrictive bras, I guess, to make it look like they don't have
00:36:00.020
breasts. Packing underwear. I don't know exactly what that is, but I think I have a feeling, and yuck.
00:36:05.740
Bras, boy shorts in sizes small through 4X is every size that there is. They've got swimsuit styles.
00:36:14.240
Bustle reported, binders and gender-affirming swimsuits, which means gender-denying swimsuits,
00:36:21.000
are notoriously difficult to find, particularly in extended sizes. This accessible drop will make
00:36:26.440
shopping for everyday garments easier. Yes, this is the top issue in our country right now, right?
00:36:29.900
So we need to make sure that morbidly obese sexual deviants can put on clothing that makes them play
00:36:38.360
dress up and pretend to be the opposite sex. That's what Americans care about. That's a real
00:36:42.580
dinner table issue, wouldn't you say? No, it's not. It's not, and it's weird. And not only is it weird
00:36:47.640
and kind of unusual, and so therefore people are resistant to it, but it's actually wrong.
00:36:53.500
They're pumping this kind of propaganda into our kids as well. Kids items in the Target Pride
00:36:59.420
collection include toddler teas that proclaim trans rights are human rights, and shirts emblazoned
00:37:06.460
with pronouns, with rainbow merchandise, toddler books that include Bye Bye Binary and the pronoun
00:37:13.120
book. This is just disgusting. This is just awful, and we should pass laws against it to stop Target
00:37:19.500
from doing it, okay? The slogans of the last 10 years of a kind of feckless, squishy conservatism would
00:37:27.320
have said, well, you know, Target's a private company, and if you don't want mega international
00:37:32.620
corporations transgendering your children, well, then build your own Target. You have absolutely
00:37:37.140
no right to tell Target that they can't transgender your kids. Yes, we do. We do have that right.
00:37:42.080
Target doesn't have some kind of constitutional right to trans the kids. We, the people, do have the
00:37:47.540
rights as a political community to stop pervert corporations from transgendering our kids. We do have
00:37:53.320
that right. We can say no. No. Weird transgender stuff for kids is illegal. Boom. Done. Pass me that
00:38:00.220
law. Where can I, where can I find that law? You know, we did, we did the Dr. Fauci public health
00:38:05.080
protection pledge. I just floated this idea on my show that I said I won't vote for a federal candidate
00:38:10.120
in 2022 who doesn't promise to get rid of Dr. Fauci to zero out his, his salary, and then it spread
00:38:15.480
like wildfire, and a ton of candidates and a ton of sitting members of the Congress signed on to it,
00:38:21.640
and then all of a sudden Dr. Fauci went away. Kind of interesting timing. Not saying it was
00:38:26.300
directly responsible, but I'm not saying it wasn't either. Well, okay, let's bring up the next bill.
00:38:30.860
The Stop Pervert Corporations from Transgendering Our Kids Bill. It's not a violation of the First
00:38:36.680
Amendment. It's not a violation of the emanations or the penumbras or anything else. We have the right
00:38:40.980
to standards in this country, and we have a right to stop these sick predators from perving on our kids
00:38:48.100
and selling all sorts of deviant stuff in our major retailer stores. It's just, this is not an
00:38:54.320
extreme view of mine, okay? This is a view that would have been shared by 100% of the population
00:39:00.720
five years ago, three years ago, and it's a view that the majority of Americans continue to support
00:39:07.480
today, okay? This is how you explain the parents' movement in Virginia. That's how Glenn Youngkin got
00:39:13.160
elected is because parents didn't want weirdos transing their kids and filling their heads with racial
00:39:17.040
ideologies. This is how you explain the parents' movement in Florida, okay? This is how you explain
00:39:22.940
the vast, the extreme popularity of this kind of an issue. What is it? Explain to me why it's so wrong
00:39:33.360
to trans the kids. Explain to me why it's so wrong to have this kind of public religious worship of
00:39:39.040
weird sexual ideologies. I could explain to you why that is. I think a lot of you out there could
00:39:45.520
articulate in words why this stuff is so wrong, but you actually don't need to. And I think for the
00:39:51.780
majority of parents and the majority of Americans who oppose this stuff, maybe they can't articulate
00:39:57.480
exactly why it's so wrong to sell chest binders and, what is it, boxer packing underwear and bye-bye
00:40:08.820
binary books to toddlers. They might not be able to articulate exactly why it's wrong in precise
00:40:13.680
philosophical terms, but they just know it's wrong. It's called the wisdom of repugnance and
00:40:18.040
they're right. The late conservative philosopher Roger Scruton, he said, the job of the conservative
00:40:22.100
intellectual is to articulate the sorts of things that ordinary people know intuitively,
00:40:27.880
okay? And ordinary, regular, old, run-of-the-mill people who are going about their lives and their
00:40:33.480
families and their business and don't have time to focus on all the creepy predations of political
00:40:37.200
activists all day long. They just know it's wrong. We should run on. It's just like abortion. Well,
00:40:43.260
it's different than abortion. There are separate issues in the substance, but the political effect
00:40:48.080
is the same. The squishes and the establishmentarians believe that we shouldn't touch the trans. Don't touch
00:40:55.220
LGBTQ, transing the toddlers. Don't touch it. It's a culture war issue. Just run on the economy.
00:41:01.540
No stupid. We care about the economy. We care about tax rates. We even sort of care about marginal tax
00:41:07.440
rates, but nowhere near as much as we care about these creeps transing our kids. Run on that. Don't
00:41:13.240
run away from pro-life. Run on pro-life. It's a winning message. Don't run away from this insane
00:41:18.740
sexual revolution stuff. Run on it. This is a winning message. People care about their culture. They care
00:41:24.840
about their standards. We have a right to a public culture that is sane and that does not encourage
00:41:34.920
this kind of bizarre behavior that is extremely destructive to everyone that it touches. It is
00:41:40.960
time for Republicans to pounce. This is what happens. Every time the libs do something wrong and then
00:41:49.700
conservatives criticize them for it, what is the headline in the newspaper? The headline is Republicans
00:41:54.620
Pounce. Liberals Hold Ritual Human Sacrifice. That's not the headline. The headline is Republicans
00:42:03.400
Pounce on Liberal Religious Display. They're always pouncing. Those Republicans, they just pounce
00:42:10.300
everywhere. I don't know. It's something about our knees. I don't know. We're so good at pouncing.
00:42:12.660
Well, guess what? Now is the time to pounce in the political arena on issues that are big winners
00:42:18.860
for all of us. The Ohio House of Representatives, a house committee in Ohio, passed legislation
00:42:26.400
that would prohibit social media companies from censoring users. This bill is HB441.
00:42:35.200
This would block companies like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube from censoring content
00:42:39.920
based on ideas or personal viewpoints. This bill would not apply to speech that is illegal
00:42:47.280
under federal law. So there is some speech that is just illegal according to federal law.
00:42:52.020
Direct threats. Obscenity, though that's probably actually not going to be enforced very much.
00:42:58.700
Fraud. So certain speech is illegal already. But other than that, what this Ohio House committee
00:43:05.060
says is, other than that, social media can't censor people. This is good. This is a good first step.
00:43:13.620
And it's a sign that Republicans are beginning to think much more seriously about the issue of free
00:43:19.060
speech. Because by the way, the issue isn't even that all censorship is bad. I wrote a whole book about
00:43:26.200
this, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available in paperback next month.
00:43:28.820
But the issue is not that all censorship is bad. The issue is that this kind of censorship is really,
00:43:36.700
really bad. And it's especially bad the way that they're doing it. Every society has standards and
00:43:41.540
taboos and says certain things are off limits. That's always been true throughout the entire
00:43:44.580
history of the United States and every other state too. But if we are going to censor certain
00:43:50.040
things, if we're going to say that certain things are off limits, it's actually much better to do it
00:43:54.320
through the government than through private corporate, quote unquote, private corporations.
00:43:58.820
I know that sounds unconventional. I know that sounds counterintuitive given what we have all
00:44:05.020
thought of on the right for the past 10 or 15 years or so. But it's much better to do that if
00:44:11.060
there is inevitably going to be some kind of censorship of some, at least some narrow topics.
00:44:16.140
Then you've got to do it through the government because at least there's some accountability.
00:44:19.960
There's the political community. We can at least go vote on that. I can't go vote at Facebook.
00:44:24.400
I can't go vote at Twitter. Maybe Elon Musk will let me when he takes over. But I can't go vote
00:44:28.980
at Google, okay? If there were a thriving free marketplace of ideas where there were 200 social
00:44:37.240
media companies and they were all competing with one another, then you would not have as much of a
00:44:41.560
need for government action because then there would be some competition and I could go over and I could
00:44:46.040
go on the conservative social media platform and that'll just be fine. But that's not how it actually
00:44:50.420
works. These are monopolies. They might even be natural monopolies, but they certainly are
00:44:54.400
monopolies. They have gathered critical mass through exploiting legal loopholes and through
00:44:59.880
fraud in some cases. You're not going to build your own Google. You're not going to build your
00:45:04.580
own Twitter. The best you can do is buy your own Twitter, by the way, and even that's going to be
00:45:07.380
very difficult to do. So the situation you've got right now is that the libs are using the handful
00:45:16.380
of big tech companies as a proxy for them to censor us. It's just the libs who would prefer
00:45:24.720
to censor us through the government, but they realize it's actually easier to just use the big
00:45:28.040
tech companies to do it. And so what we need to do is assert our political rights, the few that we
00:45:32.420
still have left, and go in there and say, no, we're not going to do it. We're actually going to fight the
00:45:36.400
libs in government through the proxy of the social media companies and say, no, you're not going to
00:45:41.680
censor conservatives. We've got to pounce. We've got to use this power now while we've got it.
00:45:48.080
Ron DeSantis gets it. Ron DeSantis just issued a mandate. I know conservatives used to hate
00:45:54.080
mandates. They were reflexively would recoil from them. But sometimes it's good to use mandates.
00:46:01.060
And Ron DeSantis just issued a mandate that public high schools in Florida have to observe
00:46:06.340
victims of communism day. I love this so much. Ron DeSantis did this after the Miami Young
00:46:15.500
Republicans suggested this bill. I actually was talking to the president of the Miami Young
00:46:20.940
Republicans, Armando Ibarra, when I was down there doing an event some months ago. And he mentioned
00:46:26.140
this idea. And it's just really impressive that this Miami Young Republicans group has gone and
00:46:31.440
actually gotten this pushed through the legislature and up to the governor's desk.
00:46:35.520
This is a great law. In school, you are always going to have some kind of moral and ethical and
00:46:46.960
yes, even religious instruction. That's always going to happen. America always knew this. And so
00:46:53.640
the instruction was Christian with some carve outs of people who were not Christian. And then in the
00:46:58.460
1950s, 60s, middle of the 20th century, a bunch of political radicals went in and said, no, no
00:47:05.760
Christianity whatsoever. We got to kick it out of the schools. No Bible, no prayer, no nothing.
00:47:10.300
But there wasn't no nothing. All they did was replace public Christianity with public liberalism.
00:47:15.020
We still have feast days and liturgical calendars and all that kind of stuff in the public schools
00:47:19.500
that are celebrated. It's just all for liberalism, not for Christianity.
00:47:22.460
There are pride month festivities all in virtually every public school in America now.
00:47:28.620
There are special holidays. There's Earth Day. Earth Day is very frequently celebrated
00:47:32.260
in public schools now. There are secular saints that are celebrated in all sorts of sexual moral
00:47:37.020
maxims. Well, okay, if we're always going to have something that's sacred, something that's
00:47:43.060
celebrated, something that's commemorated, we should commemorate the victims of communism.
00:47:46.440
You know a lot of public schools are commemorating the victims of January 6th, of which there were
00:47:53.200
none. There were none. No one was murdered on January 6th, despite headlines to the contrary.
00:47:59.560
But there are all sorts of days. A day of quiet, a day of not showing up to class, a moment of silence
00:48:04.980
after Donald Trump won the election. Okay, well, let's have a moment of silence for victims of leftism,
00:48:09.860
for victims of communism, for victims of Marxism. That's a great idea. That is a great use
00:48:15.720
of public power. We were just talking about the target story, how for pride month, they've got,
00:48:21.020
they're selling all of these things. Pride month is a liturgical event. It's a religious event.
00:48:25.560
By the way, I thought pride month was June. What day? It's May 10th. Why are we already in pride
00:48:30.540
month? That means that now the LGBT activists get June and May and October. By the way, they get
00:48:38.380
October. October is LGBT history month. That's a quarter of the year that they've got so far.
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Three out of 12 months. That is religious. Okay, and that's extreme. And that's radical.
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And that's very unpopular. Why is Ron DeSantis doing this in Florida? Because there's a ton of
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Cubans in Florida. One, he's doing it because it's the right thing to do, I hope. But two,
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there's a ton of Cubans who hate communism. It's good politics too. Sometimes the right thing
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and the politically popular thing, sometimes those coincide. Conservatives are in one of those
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moments right now. On life, on culture, on the rule of law, and we should run with it as far as
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we can. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
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