Ep. 1035 - The Libs Go Full Roe V. Wade Meltdown
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Roe v. Wade is overruled, and CNN's Anna Navarro thinks we should kill people with mental disabilities. She's not alone in her opinion, but it's one of the worst reactions to the Supreme Court's decision to overrule Roe v.
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It is now four days since the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade.
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You may recall that my show had already aired by the time the decision came down on Friday.
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I rushed to the studio right after I landed and gave my breakdown of the ruling.
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There has been a flurry of commentary around the decision.
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But in a matter of just a few days, I have found it.
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I have found the single worst reaction to the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs to overrule Roe v. Wade.
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I have not anybody to tell you what you need to do with your life or with your uterus.
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And because I have a family with a lot of special needs kids.
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I have a brother who's 57 and has the mental and motor skills of a one-year-old.
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And I know what that means financially, emotionally, physically for a family.
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And I have a step-granddaughter who was born with Down syndrome.
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It is very difficult in Florida to get services.
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And I've got another, another step-grandson who is very autistic, who has autism.
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And their mothers and people who are in that society, who are in that community,
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Because that's how difficult it is to get help.
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Because the care that they're able to give their other children suffers.
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The Supreme Court's ruling is bad, you see, according to Anna Navarro.
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Because now it won't be as easy to kill people with mental disabilities.
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She's saying, you know, I have this brother who's got mental disabilities.
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I have step-grandchildren with mental disabilities.
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If they were dead, our lives would be so much better.
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You managed to beat out Joe Biden and AOC and a whole host of other contenders,
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whose opinions were also ignorant and evil, but not quite so obviously so.
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Well, my favorite comment on Friday is from Ryu, who says, I hate to take a page out of the left's playbook.
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I'd love to take a page out of the left's playbook.
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Not on the substance of what they want, obviously.
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But in terms of procedure, those guys are pretty clever.
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You know, they've figured out political tactics pretty well.
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And they were extremely successful for, I don't know, the last 60 years or so.
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The Roe v. Wade decision, or rather the Dobbs decision to overrule Roe v. Wade, wonderful, excellent,
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really the most wonderful political event of my lifetime.
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It's one of the worst things I've ever heard in political commentary.
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Not just that we should kill certain people, but we should kill extremely vulnerable people.
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Not just that we should kill extremely vulnerable people,
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we should kill extremely vulnerable members of our own family
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because sometimes they might seem a little inconvenient to us.
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The left has been talking about this for years.
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They just usually have the sense to speak a little more euphemistically than Anna Navarro is.
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Fortunately, because she's not as intelligent as the rest of the left,
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But Iceland was bragging about this a few years ago.
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They didn't eradicate it in the sense of curing people who have it.
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They just now kill every single person, just about, who has Down syndrome in Iceland.
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So they can say it's eradicated because you're committing genocide.
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Not something exactly that you should be proud of.
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And you see it when you go into a doctor's office.
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When a woman becomes pregnant and you go see the obstetrician,
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you will be asked if you want to have certain genetic tests.
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And you say, well, why would we have these tests done?
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They say, well, look, the tests are done so that you can find out any abnormalities.
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If anything might be wrong, you're going to test for Down syndrome.
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Oh, you know, then we'll just kind of make a decision on how you,
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what decision you want to, oh, you're asking me
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if I want to kill my kid because he's retarded.
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You're saying, we're going to do a test and we're going to find out if the kid is retarded.
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And then we're going to suggest that you kill him.
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And you know, the craziest part is it's, it's more politically incorrect.
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It is more socially unacceptable to say the word retarded than it is to kill a retarded person.
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Killing a retarded person, totally fine, totally encouraged, promoted.
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They're whining on CNN because you're not allowed to do it.
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Don't you know, you have to watch your language while you're killing people.
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Joe Biden is saying practically the same thing,
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not with regard to people who have mental disabilities,
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He tweeted out, quote, the cruel truth is that overturning Roe
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Oh, you're saying it is cruel that now we won't be able to kill the poor.
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Poor women, women who don't have a lot of money,
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now will find it a little bit more difficult in certain states to kill their children.
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And this is really cruel and terrible because now we're going to have more poor people
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This is eat the Irish babies because we don't want them around kind of stuff.
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That's coming from the president of the United States.
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The takes on the Roe overruling have been, from the left, have been almost uniformly evil.
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But when they're not evil, they are extremely stupid.
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AOC says that the Supreme Court sending the issue of abortion back to the states
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and the people and the people's representatives represents a crisis of democracy.
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What I believe that the president and the Democratic Party needs to come to terms with
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The Supreme Court has dramatically overreached its authority.
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We had two conservative senators in the United States Senate, Senator Manchin and Senator Collins,
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come out with a very explosive allegation that several Supreme Court justices misled them
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during their confirmation hearings and in the lead up to their confirmation.
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We have a Supreme Court justice whose wife participated in January 6th
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and who used his seat to vote against providing documents that potentially led to evidence of such
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This is a crisis of legitimacy and President Biden must address that.
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Absolute crisis of legitimacy, crisis of democracy.
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AOC at the end there, you hear she's going after Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginny,
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which the libs have been doing for decades because Ginny is a conservative political activist.
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And so they find, and they've been going after Clarence Thomas since before he was confirmed.
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The larger claim that they're making here is that the conservative justices misled people
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and this therefore creates a great crisis for our democracy.
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The Dobbs decision is very possibly the most pro-democracy decision that we have ever had
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The Dobbs decision represents one branch of government, the judiciary, giving away an issue,
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sending an issue back to where it had existed for all of American history until 1973,
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How is it a crisis of democracy when the people get more of a say on a political issue?
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But it just reminds you that when the libs talk about democracy, they don't really mean democracy.
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This is how it can be the case that when more people vote for Donald Trump than vote for Hillary
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Clinton in the states where it matters, where the electoral college plays a role also in this
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election, where the democratic process favors Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, that's a crisis of
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When more people in Hungary vote for the right-wing candidate, Viktor Orban,
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than vote for the left-wing candidate, that's a crisis of democracy.
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Well, it's the case because when they say democracy, they don't mean democracy.
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So whenever they do lose, it has to be a crisis of legitimacy.
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Because for the progressive left, progress is clear.
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The arc of history bends toward AOC or whatever.
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And so whenever anything interrupts that march toward utopia, that march inevitably toward progress,
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It has to be anything other than what it obviously is in this case and beyond,
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which is that the people don't exactly like what the libs are doing.
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AOC claims that the justices misled the Senate.
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If we allow Supreme Court nominees to lie under oath and secure lifetime appointments to the
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highest court of the land and then issue, issue without basis, if you read these opinions,
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issue without basis rulings that deeply undermine the human and civil rights of the majority of
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There must be consequences for such a deeply destabilizing action and hostile takeover of
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To allow that to stand is to allow it to happen.
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And what makes it particularly dangerous is that it sends a blaring signal to all future nominees
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that they can now lie to duly elected members of the United States Senate in order to secure
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Supreme Court confirmations and seats on the Supreme Court.
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There is so much that is funny in that babble that she just spewed out there.
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To allow that to stand is to allow that to happen.
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And if, and you can tell she's just ripped, if, if, if you read the decision and in the,
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and to say the things in the decision that frankly, without basis, no, she doesn't cite any examples,
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of course, because I highly doubt she has even read the decision because it's over 200 pages and
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there aren't pictures, you know, it's not a coloring book.
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So she hasn't, hasn't probably made it through.
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We went through the decision on Friday when I did my bonus show, because it's an extraordinarily
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You've got the opinion of the court, which is they're going to uphold the pro-life law
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and they're going to overrule Roe versus Wade and Casey.
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And they say that the constitution doesn't say anything about an abortion.
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You've got the Roberts concurring opinion, which says we're going to uphold the pro-life law,
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but we're not, I wish we weren't going to overrule Roe and Casey.
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You've got Kavanaugh who says we're going to uphold the pro-life law.
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We are not going to make any decisions about abortion.
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So Kavanaugh is agreeing entirely with the opinion of the court, but he's going even further
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She says that this represents a takeover of our democratic institutions.
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He says, no, no, no, we are expanding democracy here.
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We are giving away a power that the court illegitimately usurped in 1973 to make a decision on abortion.
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We are only sending this back to the people and the people's representatives.
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And then you had Justice Thomas's concurrence, which was the best part of the entire opinion,
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as far as I'm concerned, at least in terms of its legal logic, which pointed out that actually,
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although the court is trying to make a big point of how the reasoning in this case is not going to
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threaten cases like Griswold, cases like Lawrence v. Texas, cases like Obergefell, cases on condoms,
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on gay sex, on gay marriage, on all of these rights that were discovered somewhere in the
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Who knew there was a right to condoms in the Constitution?
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Probably not James Madison, probably not the founding fathers and the framers.
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He says, actually, we should revisit these questions, even if we want to have condoms and
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gay sex and redefine marriage, and you might want to do all of those things. That's neither here nor
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there. We just want to point out, it's not in the Constitution. It's not there. No one seriously
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believes that this radical definition of marriage that hasn't existed beyond five minutes ago,
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that that was present in the Constitution in the 1780s and 90s. We just know it's not there.
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Show me the invisible ink. I haven't been able to see it yet. So she makes that. It's a little bit
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of a digression. She makes all these points. If you read the liberal dissent, there's really no
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argument there. The liberal dissent, the nearest thing to a legal argument is that because of
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stare decisis, because of the principle that rulings and precedents should just persist even if
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they weren't argued all that convincingly, that was pretty much it. And the second part of the
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dissent is that if you get rid of Roe v. Wade, you're going to get rid of all these other things
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that liberals like. But they didn't really make arguments from the Constitution. They didn't
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really make any argument that Roe was rightly decided because no one thinks Roe was rightly
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decided. Frankly, Ruth Bader Ginsburg thought that the logic of the Roe v. Wade decision was
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ridiculous. She liked the outcome of the decision, but she didn't agree with the legal argument.
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So AOC babbling, babbling, babbling. And then there's the cherry on top, which is,
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she says that the justices lied. You're going to hear this so much from the left over the
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next few days. Barrett and Kavanaugh and Gorsuch and Alito, they lied before Congress, before
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the Senate when they were being confirmed. Why? Because they said that Roe was precedent,
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that Roe was settled law. Here is exactly what the justices said. Alito, Roe v. Wade
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is an important precedent of the Supreme Court. Gorsuch, that's the law of the land. I accept
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the law of the land. Kavanaugh, it's settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court. Barrett,
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Roe v. Wade clearly held that the Constitution protected a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy.
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AOC says those are lies because they voted to overrule it. Not a single word there is a lie.
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Okay. Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, they didn't say anything that wasn't true.
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Roe v. Wade was an important precedent met by the Supreme Court. Roe v. Wade was the law of the land.
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Roe v. Wade did clearly hold that a woman has a right to an abortion. That was all true then.
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That is not true now. And it's not true because now we've got a new precedent. And I cannot wait
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for the next, well, I can wait. I want to wait a long time for the next liberal Supreme Court justice.
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But once the next liberal Supreme Court justice is selected and goes through the confirmation process,
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I cannot wait for the Republicans to grill that justice. Say, all right, Justice so-and-so,
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Justice Ocasio-Cortez, all right, potential future judge Ocasio-Cortez, do you accept that
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization is the law of the land? And just wait to hear what
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they say. Because probably what the liberal judge is going to have to do is the exact sort of verbal
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tricks that the conservative justices did. It's not even really a trick. They're saying, yes,
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this is precedent. Everyone knows what that means. But now we've got a new precedent. Now we've got a new
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law of the land and it happens to be the correct one. So once AOC makes these claims, it's not just
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her, it's Biden. It's all these people are really, really furious over the Dobbs decision. The Democrats
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in Congress decided to take a break from investigating an insurrection. You know, January, January 6th,
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the worst insurrection ever in history. They decided to take a break from that to incite an insurrection.
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AOC comes out, she says, this is illegitimate and we need to get into the streets.
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Both of those phrases are calls to insurrection. She's saying illegitimate. She's saying the
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government is illegitimate. If that is not a pretext for an insurrection, I don't know what
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is. And then she says, into the streets. If you had scripted this and said, hey,
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what is the pithiest way to call for an insurrection, since we're all talking about
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insurrections, and that's what you would say. Say the government is illegitimate,
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take to the streets. Now, I know AOC was supposed to be investigating this insurrection, but
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she took a little break, not just her. Maxine Waters, who's always known for her extremely
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dangerous rhetoric, she comes out and she says, we need to defy the court.
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You see this turnout here? You ain't seen nothing yet. Women are going to control their bodies,
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no matter how they try and stop us. To hell with the Supreme Court. We will defy them.
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Women will be in control of their bodies. And if they think black women are intimidated
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or afraid, they got another thought coming. Black women will be out in droves. We will be out by the
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thousands. We will be out by the millions. We're going to make sure we fight for the right to
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control our own bodies. Thank you. To hell with the Supreme Court. We will defy them.
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That's what Maxine Waters is saying. On January 6th, the worst day in history,
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there were activists who said, they didn't even say the hell with Congress, we will defy them.
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They said, we are going to challenge the electoral count because of the weird way in which this
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election was conducted. And then, you know, and then obviously some people got excited and they
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went into the Capitol and some of them broke in and some of them were let in by the police and some
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were just followed in and it was, it was a strange situation. Maxine Waters is going further than
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those people did. Maxine Waters is saying, we will defy a co-equal branch of government
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to hell with the co-equal branch of government. It's not legitimate. We're going to go,
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we're going to defy them. We're going to take to the streets. Sounds sort of like an insurrection
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The takes on the Dobbs decision have been mostly terrible. Certainly from the left,
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they've been terrible. From the right, they've been generally good. A little bit of a mixed bag,
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though. A little bit of a mixed bag. Depending on how you define right and left, it's not just the far
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left liberals who are, who are rending their garments and gnashing their teeth.
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Barstool Sports, the Stool Presidente, Dave Portnoy, after the decision came down,
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he took to social media to lambast the judges for overruling Roe v. Wade.
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Okay, emergency press conference. Roe v. Wade just got overturned. Let me start by saying this is a
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Dave Portnoy press conference. This doesn't reflect Barstool, all right? Barstool has 300
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whatever people. They all may think certain ways. This is just me, how I feel. I feel like I have to
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speak on this issue. I already talked about it a little bit. To me, this is just pure insanity.
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Pure insanity. We are going backwards in time. We are literally going backwards in time. It makes no
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sense how anybody thinks it's their right to tell a woman what to do with her body. I just don't get it.
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To take away the ability to make informed decisions on how they want to live their lives
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is bananas. I honestly believe 95% of the people in the country think like me. They're socially
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liberal and they're financially conservative. They like 90% of what Republicans, they don't like the
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woke culture, all this craziness. But then you look at what they're doing and it's like you're
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taking away basic rights. What's next? Same sex marriage? What is next? It's insane.
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So obviously, Dave Portnoy has absolutely no idea what he's talking about here. I don't mean to
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dunk on the guy or totally own him with facts and logic or anything like that. But he is just
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completely wrong on the facts. He's even wrong on his political factor. He said, I believe that 95%
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of the country thinks like me. They're fiscally conservative and socially liberal. That's just
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not true. Nate Silver at 538, the pollster, took a poll at the country, tried to figure out how large
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the fiscally conservative socially liberal demo is. It's about 15%. It's not 95%, it's 15%. It's one of
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the smallest electoral groups in the country. And a lot of people who are in fancy institutions and
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live in big cities and hang around and hobnob with rich fancy people, they would call themselves
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fiscally conservative socially liberal because they want to do whatever they want in their personal
00:27:44.220
lives, but they don't want to pay a lot of taxes. They're just sort of like greedy Democrats.
00:27:48.380
And I'm not even saying that to be really mean to them or anything, but the perception of how large
00:27:54.100
that demo is, is so skewed when you run in these circles. It's a very, very small group. It's an
00:28:00.420
important group because they can swing elections. 15% is not nothing, but it's not the dominant group
00:28:06.220
in the country, far from it. So Dave Portnoy says, look, I'm fiscally conservative, socially liberal,
00:28:12.120
and I can't believe that the Supreme Court would make this kind of ruling. He later tweeted out, he said,
00:28:19.460
come on, this is crazy. The Constitution's so old. Don't you think it's kind of outdated? Do you think the
00:28:23.580
founding fathers and the framers would really want us to still be operating under this old dusty
00:28:28.380
Constitution? That's crazy. Now, Dave's wrong about that because he doesn't appear to understand the meaning
00:28:36.180
of the word constitution. The constitution is not just some law. It's not just some statute or
00:28:42.540
something. It is the constitution. It's the fundamental framework of the country. Yes, the
00:28:50.000
framers believed that the constitution would last. You had one line from Thomas Jefferson in one of his
00:28:57.580
extreme radical flights of fancy, where he said, we need a revolution every 15 years or something to
00:29:02.600
that effect. But beyond that one little pithy quote that people sometimes bring up, no, of course,
00:29:08.860
the framers of the constitution, the founding fathers, believed that this would endure. And you
00:29:13.820
could amend it, and you could pass laws, and the country obviously can change, but the constitution
00:29:19.340
has to endure. That's why it's the constitution. And from the perspective of the constitution,
00:29:24.360
there is no question, the Dobbs ruling was the constitutional ruling. Even the honest liberals
00:29:34.040
will admit it, even though they really like abortion. So then you send it back to the people, and you
00:29:38.220
send it back to the states, and they can make their own decisions. The Portnoy video is important
00:29:45.260
because it reminds us that barstool conservatism is not conservatism. It's important. I also don't
00:29:55.580
want to just write it off and say these guys should go vote for the left. They probably will go vote for
00:30:01.520
the left. Portnoy in that video says, I'm going to have to vote for Democrats now. And okay, that's too
00:30:05.620
bad. I hope he doesn't vote for Democrats. But if we're going to lose him on an issue like this,
00:30:10.340
then we're going to lose him. No, I'm not willing to kill a million babies a year to win Dave Portnoy's
00:30:15.600
vote. And I'm not willing to kill a million babies a year to win 15% of the electorate. And no, I'm not
00:30:22.340
willing to, beyond the issue of life, I'm not willing to completely subvert the constitution and the
00:30:28.480
judiciary and our system of government to mollify a group of sort of young, decadent people who want
00:30:36.580
to go out and have fun, but not fund the welfare state. That's not, that's not going to happen.
00:30:41.620
That's not a good, it's not the right thing to do. And it's politically a losing, it's a losing move.
00:30:48.540
We need a big coalition. The traditionalists, the real conservatives, the socially conservative,
00:30:55.020
that's not large enough to win every single election in every single place. So we need coalitions,
00:31:01.060
but the lines have to be clear here, folks. At a certain point, if you have a tent that's too big,
00:31:07.520
you're going to blur all of your lines. You're not going to have a political movement at all. So we
00:31:11.220
need highly precise, tactical coalitions of political convenience. But let's not pretend that
00:31:19.120
we all think the same thing here. We don't. And let's also, by the way, not give away all of our
00:31:25.980
leverage to mollify an extremely small group of voters. We cannot allow our, this is something
00:31:31.420
the conservative movement did for decades, and it was a huge mistake and we lost as a result of it.
00:31:35.980
We cannot allow the minority party of the political coalition to call all of the shots,
00:31:42.600
which is what happened with the fiscal conservative social liberal people for decades.
00:31:47.620
Because when you've got a coalition of socially conservative, fiscally conservative people,
00:31:51.840
and fiscally conservative, socially liberal people, whatever, you know, the kind of guys who
00:31:56.340
want to just go out and party and not pay a lot of taxes. When you come together in a political
00:32:01.380
coalition, very often all that means is you just do whatever the social liberals want to do.
00:32:07.480
Public liberalism, private conservatism, which is to say you concede your conservative beliefs.
00:32:12.720
We can't do that. Look, we have a common enemy, the wokeness, the craziness, the radical left.
00:32:19.100
Yes, that's true. Let's work together. Let's fight that common foe.
00:32:23.660
But let's not pretend we're all the same thing here. We got to fight that foe, take down that foe.
00:32:30.260
But no, we're not going to give up life. We're not going to give up the constitution. We're not
00:32:34.320
going to give up the judiciary because a very small group of people wants to have promiscuous sex all
00:32:40.160
the time. It's not going to happen. It's not worth it, okay? Speaking of polls, USA Today has a really
00:32:46.360
great poll out here. And it's a poll actually that backs up what the social conservatives and
00:32:52.860
the constitutionalists are saying. And it undercuts the argument that Dave and some of the more socially
00:32:59.540
liberal types are making. Dave's argument is, gosh, there are all these voters who want to vote
00:33:04.360
for Republicans, but then you go out and you defend life and you defend the constitution. And all of a
00:33:08.860
sudden people get really, really angry about it and they're going to vote for Dems. That's not what
00:33:13.600
the polls show. According to the polls, abortion is not the top issue for almost anybody. USA Today's
00:33:23.460
Suffolk University poll came out on Friday, on Dobbs Day, showed that just under 15%, there's that number
00:33:30.160
again, just under 15% of likely voters viewed abortion as the most important election issue
00:33:37.240
heading into the midterms. Now, the majority of respondents say that abortion is an important
00:33:44.240
issue. Sure, we think about abortion, but it's not the top issue. It's only 15%. Do you know what the
00:33:52.080
top issue is for people? The economy. Only 23% of voters say that abortion is more important than the
00:34:01.840
economy. That's 23%. That includes the pro-lifers. So it's between the pro-lifers and the radical
00:34:08.000
abortion activists. Still, only 23% of the electorate thinks that abortion is more important than the
00:34:14.240
economy. 66% said that the economy is the most important issue for their vote. The economy is in
00:34:21.960
the doldrums and it's all Joe Biden's fault. And everyone knows that it's Joe Biden's fault. And he's
00:34:27.080
trying to blame it on Putin. And he's trying to blame it on global warming. And he's trying to blame
00:34:31.320
it on whatever. And it's not, that's not persuasive. Some, there are some squishes who
00:34:38.520
are saying, oh, why did this ruling have to come out? Sure, it's going to save hundreds of thousands
00:34:42.380
of babies a year. Sure, it restores integrity to our judicial system. But now we might lose the
00:34:47.300
midterms. There is no evidence that this will hurt us in the midterms. Even if it won, actually there
00:34:54.220
was a poll that came out some months ago that showed that the abortion issue did increase motivation
00:34:59.080
among Democrats. But it increased motivation among Republicans even more. So as a net,
00:35:06.720
the Republicans win on the pro-life issue. But then it doesn't even matter so much because
00:35:11.680
abortion isn't the top issue. This is uniformly a win. This is uniformly a win. It's the greatest
00:35:20.400
political event of my lifetime. Why did it happen? I've been, I have been scratching my head a little
00:35:26.200
bit. Why now? That Roe v. Wade comes down in 1973. Then in 1992, the court has the chance to overrule
00:35:33.100
it. Everyone knew that the decision was nonsense. Actually, the case that ended up upholding the
00:35:40.080
quote unquote right to an abortion even admitted that the Roe decision was silly, that the opinion in Roe
00:35:46.680
was poorly argued. That was Planned Parenthood v. Casey. But in 92, you had these squish conservative
00:35:53.080
quote unquote judges who voted to uphold the quote unquote right to an abortion, which never existed
00:35:59.740
in the Constitution. And now the court acknowledges that it does not exist there. So why now? What
00:36:06.000
changed? I think part of it is that the Democrats changed their rhetoric. They went from safe, legal,
00:36:12.700
and rare to shout your abortion, abortion on demand without apology. People might be able to get behind
00:36:18.860
safe, legal, and rare. I suspect Dave Portnoy and the rest of people who are just kind of,
00:36:24.240
you know, they don't pay a ton of attention to politics. They, they're, they're a swing vote.
00:36:30.340
They're kind of swayed more easily between one side or the other. I bet they could get behind safe,
00:36:35.100
legal, and rare. Moderate Republicans can get behind safe, legal, and rare very often.
00:36:40.280
Shout your abortion on demand for that apology. Even some center leftists don't like that.
00:36:45.780
Anna Navarro going on TV saying, listen, we need legal abortion because I have a retarded brother
00:36:52.080
and we should have killed him. And I've got these two step, step grandchildren and man,
00:36:57.160
they should be dead. I'm really sad that they're alive. It's annoying. They're, they're expensive
00:37:00.800
and annoying because they're retarded. That's what she's saying. Or they have some other mental
00:37:05.080
disability or they have, or they're just, or I don't know, they just bugged me when they came over
00:37:09.440
to the house on Saturday. We should kill them. I think ordinary people are looking at that and they're
00:37:13.400
saying, oh my, what you monster, you psycho. What? No, whatever, man, whatever you're, whatever
00:37:20.780
side you're on, I'm on the other side of that. So I think that turned people off. But, but why did the
00:37:26.780
libs even change their rhetoric? If safe, legal, and rare was working, why did they change it to
00:37:31.380
shout your abortion on demand without apology? They did it because I think of the logic of,
00:37:38.580
of abortion. If, if abortion is murder, then it shouldn't be legal. If abortion is not murder,
00:37:48.500
if it's just like getting your appendix taken out, then there's no reason it should be rare.
00:37:52.620
Safe, legal, and rare never made any sense. And it collapsed under the weight of its own
00:37:56.480
incoherence. Same with the issue in, in the womb. Same with the physical manifestation of the issue.
00:38:04.100
As sonograms advance, you can just see it's a baby. It's a baby. It's human. It's living. It's a baby.
00:38:11.240
And I think people see that, that, that has really helped the pro-life issue. You might say it's an
00:38:15.820
idea whose time has come. Finally, took a long time, but it's, it's come. And for those of you
00:38:22.700
who look out at the world and see symbolism, I meant to get to this on Friday and I didn't get to.
00:38:30.020
There were some weird coincidences on Friday, on the day the Dobbs decision came out.
00:38:36.740
For those of you who are Catholic in the audience, you will know that, that Friday was the solemnity
00:38:42.800
of the sacred heart of Jesus. This is a very, very high, it's the highest level feast you can have
00:38:49.060
in the year. And it was the, the solemnity of Jesus's sacred heart. It also coincidentally
00:38:57.140
was the feast of the nativity of St. John the Baptist. And you will recall that at the visitation,
00:39:04.620
the, one of the biblical arguments against abortion and for the sanctity of life is that
00:39:09.040
when Mary goes to visit Elizabeth, Mary is pregnant with Jesus and Elizabeth is pregnant
00:39:13.580
with John the Baptist. When Mary approaches with Jesus inside of her, John the Baptist leaps in,
00:39:19.440
in Elizabeth's womb, sensing the arrival of his Lord and Savior, Jesus. So that symbolism was quite
00:39:29.080
a lot for me. And then I was reading CNN. Why? I don't know. And I see this headline. This is,
00:39:34.720
this is from June 23rd, the night before the road decision, 7, 748 PM Eastern Standard Time.
00:39:40.660
Five planets take center stage as they align in the night sky. Bear with me here. First line,
00:39:49.100
a rare five planet alignment will peak on June 24th on Dobbs Day, allowing a spectacular viewing of
00:39:56.520
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn as they line up in planetary order. I'm just pointing,
00:40:02.380
I don't want to sound hippy dippy here, folks, but there is such a thing as providence. It's an evil
00:40:07.640
generation that seeks for signs and wonders. But to quote my friend and priest, Father George Rutler,
00:40:12.060
it's a stupid generation that ignores signs and wonders. And as far as I can tell the signs of the
00:40:18.280
times, the protection of life, the beginning of the protection of life, the, the overruling of the
00:40:26.440
worst Supreme Court decision in our history is an idea whose time has come. Now, the, the road decision
00:40:35.820
was always illogical. Speaking of illogic, I have to turn to our vice president who was recently
00:40:43.120
babbling incoherently about the strength of our nation. The strength of our nation has always been
00:40:50.540
that despite the odds and the obstacles, we push to move forward, that we are guided by what we see
00:41:01.560
that can be unburdened by what has been. And we can see, man, we can see that I am me and you are you and
00:41:15.100
we too can come together and do and do for our nation what would cause a celebration. Okay. Yeah. Are you with
00:41:30.380
me? Kamala Harris is the, you want to talk about ideas whose times have come. You want to talk about
00:41:36.440
the, the logic of certain ideas. Kamala Harris is the consequence of 40 years of liberal, liberal
00:41:42.600
bourgeois women reading self-help books because what, what she was trying to do was sound inspiring.
00:41:50.480
And she, she did that by just reciting empty platitudes. I think she was trying to do an Obama
00:41:56.080
impression, but Obama was a somewhat skilled rhetorician. And so he would say meaningless
00:42:01.340
statements as well, but they sounded a little better when he, he was a little more adept at it.
00:42:05.440
She is not very adept at it. And so it just sounds like nothing. It's just totally hollow.
00:42:11.720
And, and it, it ties back into Dobbs. It ties back into Dobbs. If you read the, the court's opinion in
00:42:18.160
Dobbs, the logic is crystal clear. Anyone could read it. It's a very learned opinion with many,
00:42:25.180
many pages of citations and it, it's a very high level legal document. But, uh, I bet you a 10 year
00:42:31.540
old could read that document because the logic is so crystal clear. The argument is so crystal clear.
00:42:39.180
And then you read the dissent and then you listen to AOC and then you listen to Biden and then you
00:42:44.360
listen to Maxine Waters and then you listen to all of these people and you can't really follow it.
00:42:49.240
And it's all contradictory. A woman has certain rights and we actually don't even know what women
00:42:53.860
are. And, uh, and abortion is, uh, just a matter. It's a personal decision for a woman.
00:43:00.540
And unless she wants the baby, in which case then the baby is a baby, but the baby's not a baby. And
00:43:05.980
it's, it's in the constitution somewhere, uh, but we haven't seen exactly where. And so that the logic
00:43:13.820
was just totally non-existent. It just wasn't there. And so at a certain point, I, I, I do think people
00:43:24.920
wake up to that kind of thing at a certain, no matter how thick the rhetoric, how, uh, how intense
00:43:32.120
the emotional manipulation can be. I think that's what comes out. We've just gotten an update,
00:43:36.820
another update from the Supreme court. This is the greatest man. This is the greatest pride month
00:43:41.420
ever. I, I actually want pride month to continue. I thought I wanted pride month to end,
00:43:46.660
but I, I know I wanted to continue to keep getting these rulings. So we've, we've just gotten
00:43:50.860
rulings, uh, within the last few weeks, defending the second amendment, defending the right to keep
00:43:56.340
and bear arms in New York. We've gotten rulings in favor of religious liberty, the religious liberty
00:44:01.340
of, of parents to send their kids to Christian schools, not to have those schools discriminated
00:44:05.600
against. We obviously had the Dobbs decision, which is the most important decision in,
00:44:10.440
in the history of the Supreme court. Now, now we've just gotten word. I haven't read anything
00:44:15.120
about it. I just got a few words typed in to my screen up there that the Supreme court has ruled
00:44:19.840
in favor of coach Kennedy. This was a Supreme court case about the right of a high school football coach
00:44:27.060
to have a private prayer after the game. So this is a football coach who after his football games,
00:44:34.460
whether he won or lost, he would get down on his knees on the field and just have a little prayer
00:44:38.960
by himself. He wasn't making other people pray with him. And he, he was fired for this.
00:44:45.400
He was, he was threatened. He was intimidated. He was bullied. And so he, he brings this case
00:44:51.020
to court, goes all the way up to the Supreme court. There was an irony of, from the very beginning of
00:44:56.220
it, which is that for the last seven years or so, the left in this country has celebrated
00:45:02.680
kneeling at football games, but they only want you to kneel if you're kneeling to protest the
00:45:07.480
American flag. But if you have the temerity to kneel, to give thanks to God, that's not allowed.
00:45:13.620
So they, they brought this case and the Supreme court, I don't have the numbers. I don't have the
00:45:17.540
vote. I don't have the opinion, but we do know that the Supreme court has ruled in favor of,
00:45:23.140
of coach Kennedy. This is the man. This is the greatest Supreme court term. This is such a,
00:45:29.680
this is such a white pill to talk like a kid on the internet. You know, this is, it's so easy to
00:45:36.840
feel that it's all lost and it's hopeless, especially after two years of, of COVID and the
00:45:42.820
lockdowns and the Fauci's of the world and the international institutions and the bureaucracies
00:45:48.440
just taking away all of our political rights and taking away not just our rights and our liberties,
00:45:53.260
but our traditional way of life. And it just seems like everything is slipping away and we don't,
00:45:57.300
we're not even allowed to wave the American flag anymore. We're going to replace all the
00:46:00.620
American flags with rainbows and we're going to protest the American flag where we see it.
00:46:04.380
We're going to knock down our statues and we're going to lose our guns and we're going to lose
00:46:07.240
our free speech. And we're going to just, we're just, we're going to lose our representative
00:46:10.040
democracy and we're just going to lose everything. And then, and then it's even for me, I'm a pretty
00:46:16.440
chipper guy. I was, I was losing hope politically and, and now I'm not, now I'm not.
00:46:24.800
So they're, they're just giving me the numbers here. Gorsuch wrote the opinion. It was a six,
00:46:30.200
three decision. Here's what, here's what Gorsuch's, Gorsuch's majority opinion says,
00:46:36.400
Coach Kennedy's private religious exercise did not come close to crossing any line one might imagine
00:46:43.720
separating protected private expression from impermissible government coercion. Of course.
00:46:49.580
And of course we all knew it. We all, if you knew anything about this case, if you had even heard
00:46:55.000
the top line description, you would know, of course, it's not illegal, illegal to have a private
00:47:01.040
prayer and thank God after a football game. But we just, it seemed like the country was so far gone.
00:47:07.400
We were so past that. The only book you can't teach in schools is the Bible, all right?
00:47:11.760
You can teach gay porn in elementary schools. You can trans the kids, but you can't read a passage of
00:47:17.700
the Bible out to your class. We just thought we were so far gone, especially on these issues
00:47:21.780
of religious liberty. And then you just get that hope, which my friends, it's not just a nice happy
00:47:28.740
feeling, but it's a fact. It's a theological virtue and it's a fact. And this is a very,
00:47:33.820
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