Ep. 347 - For The Left, Life Is An STD
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Alyssa Milano wants to go on a sex strike to protest anti-abortion laws in Georgia, and to protest the fact that a baby with a beating heart is not allowed to be born. Is this a new kind of sex strike?
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Alyssa Milano calls on all abortion-supporting women to go on a sex strike, thereby reducing
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the number of women who will get abortions in order to own the pro-lifers or something
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Meanwhile, pro-lifers hold a powerful 1,000-person rally in Philly.
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I went to it as child-stalking Pennsylvania state rep Brian Sims hides in his apartment
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because for the right, life is a precious gift.
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Whereas for the left, life is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease from which no one has
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Because of anti-abortion laws, specifically the one passed in Georgia, which says that
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if a baby has a beating heart, you're not allowed to kill it.
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The left, being led by Hollywood, Alyssa Milano, political activists are so upset that now in
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Georgia, you're not allowed to kill babies with beating hearts that they want to go on
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a sex strike. However, like most things that Hollywood celebrities and leftist activists
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say, they didn't think this one through. This doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Alyssa Milano
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wrote, quote, our reproductive rights are being erased until women have legal control over our
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own bodies. We just cannot risk pregnancy. Join me by not having sex until we get bodily
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autonomy back. I'm calling for a sex strike. Pass it on.
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There are no original ideas on earth. This is not original at all. This is the premise
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of an ancient Greek play called Lysistrata by Aristophanes. So now some people who are reading
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about the Alyssa Milano thing are calling it a Lysistrata. So the premise of that play is that all
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the men were fighting in ancient Greece and the women wanted them to stop going to war. So they all cut
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them off from sex until the men would stop going to war. This is a very ancient idea. This is actually
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a very conservative idea that the way that women can affect change in the world is by withholding
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sex from men. Alyssa Milano cited how this has been used in, in throughout the ages, either
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apocryphally, either just as a matter of telling stories or in actual history. She said that the
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Iroquois women refused to have sex in the 17th century as a way to stop unregulated warfare.
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So just the same as the ancient Greek version. And she said very recently, Liberian women used
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a sex strike in 2003 to demand an end to a long running civil war. I'm not sure I was not in
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Liberia in 2003, so I cannot verify that. However, I now may have to have surgery to remove my mind's
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eye because Bette Midler is joining in on the sex strike. So now that image is in my head and I'm
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very sorry that image is in your head as well. She tweeted out and said, I hope the women of Georgia
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stop having sex with men until these indignities are overturned. So if you were hoping to sleep
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with Bette Midler, you're out of luck, pal. Sorry to tell you that. So the thing I would like to point
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out about this sex strike, there's so many jokes to be made about it. The thing I would like to point
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out is that it doesn't make any sense. And it's not just that it doesn't make any sense in one way
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or in two ways. There are actually, as far as I can tell, seven ways in which the sex strike from
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Alyssa Milano does not make any sense. The first one is abortion supporting women are now practicing
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chastity, thereby reducing the number of overall abortions in order to stick it to the pro-lifers.
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Hold on a second there. So the social conservatives who have been saying for years that women should
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be chased and not be sleeping around with every guy they see. Now the pro-abortion women are practicing
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chastity. They're not going to have sex and therefore they're not going to have unwanted pregnancies
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and therefore they're going to end abortion. Cool. All right. That's fine. If we knew we could
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do it that easily, we would have not been campaigning in Georgia and around the country.
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We would have just called up Alyssa Milano and tricked her into doing this sex strike.
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The second way in which it doesn't make any sense is even let's say that these pro-abortion women
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were going to have sex and then get pregnant and then not have abortions, even if they don't have the
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abortion. Now the women who support abortion are going to stop having sex and therefore stop having
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children that they can teach to support abortion. A lot of people inherit their political views from
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their parents. We like to think that we're all totally free thinkers. We all completely come to
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our own political ideas on our own. In some cases that's certainly true, but for some people they just kind
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of go along with the political biases of their parents. In this case, the women are not going to,
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they're not going to have sex. They're not going to have children. They're not going to teach them
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to support abortion. So over time, abortion activism will die out. Okay. That works for me. Again, if we,
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we don't need the Georgia law. If we can end abortion another way, happy to do it. The next way in which
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this doesn't make any sense, and this is my favorite way, is just ask yourself if you're Alyssa Milano or
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somebody else. Who does this hurt? Not to tell any tales at a school. I don't want to be, you know,
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giving away rumors from the old purple mattress. This does not hurt me. This does not hurt conservative
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men who ostensibly are married to or dating or engaged or whatever to women who are not crazy
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followers of Alyssa Milano. So, so the conservative men still get to have all the sex they want.
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The men who are supporting this bill in, in Georgia and other heartbeat bills throughout the country,
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they're still having all the sex that they want. In this case, it's just leftist women depriving their
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leftist boyfriends of sex in order to stick it to the conservatives. Great, great man. This, you know,
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I, I often point out that feminist men are the creepiest people that have ever walked the face
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of the earth. They're all just walking Beto O'Rourke's and they're, you, you would never let your,
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your daughter go near a feminist man. Feminist men are the kind of guys who, when you go out of town,
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they're there to comfort your girlfriend, you know, that's kind of feminist men.
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So these guys who have, they've basically made a deal with the devil. They've said,
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we're going to surrender our manliness. We're going to surrender our masculinity. We're going to,
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we're going to not be, not be toxic. We're going to be totally feminist men in order to
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ingratiate themselves to women. They're going to be like really sensitive, you know, and like,
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so those guys have, have made that deal because they think it's going to help them sleep with a
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lot more women. And now those are the only guys who are not having sex because of this stupid ban.
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Okay. Works for me. Another way in which this doesn't make sense. Number four, women. So the
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idea is the only way that women can change this abortion law in Georgia, the only way they can
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affect political change is by not having sex with men and therefore compelling men to change the law
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because only men can change the law, except that women make up the majority of the country.
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And women have a major voting advantage over men. Women vote over men with a 15 point margin.
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So not only the majority of the country, the majority of the electorate,
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if women want to affect political change, they can. Now the premise here of course is ridiculous.
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Alyssa Milano's premise is that all women want to have abortion on demand all the time.
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That isn't true. Half of women support pro-life. Half of women oppose abortion.
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But if women did all support abortion, you would have, you could change any abortion law in the
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country. It isn't, it's so, it's so ridiculous to say that women are totally subservient in our
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body politic. Women have the vote. Women have had the vote for a hundred years.
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They don't need to rely on men. They don't need to compel men. They don't need to trick men into
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giving them what they want to have. Now the fifth way in which this doesn't make any sense is in order
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to stop men from controlling women's bodies, Alyssa Milano is going to control women's bodies.
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So in order to, the whole premise here is that women don't have any autonomy over their bodies.
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Therefore, you can't have sex women. And this actually, this leads to my favorite irony of the
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whole thing, which is that sexually liberated women are now admitting that men like sex more than women.
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The Alyssa Milano's of the world, the people who support the sexual revolution, abortion, all those
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sorts of things. They are now admitting that really men prefer sex. And women, maybe they like sex, but
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they don't like it as much as men. Sex, they say, is primarily about men's pleasure. That's the thesis
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of the sexual revolution types. They don't, they wouldn't admit that in those words because traditionally
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sex is primarily about making babies. I mean, a euphemism for sex is, hey, you two going to go
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over there and make some babies? That's traditionally. But now what, what the abortion
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activists are saying is, no, no, no, sex is not primarily about making babies. We can totally stop
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making babies. And if you accidentally do make a baby, we'll kill the baby. But if it's not primarily
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about making babies, then what is it? Is it primarily about women's pleasure? No. If sex were primarily
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about women's pleasure, then Alyssa Milano wouldn't propose a sex strike to compel men to change the
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law. The only reason the sex strike should work is because men really, really like sex and women
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don't like sex that much. So now you've got the left, the sexual revolution types admitting that sex
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is primarily about men's pleasure. Which by the way, in this day and age is obviously the case. And if you
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talk to any guy after he's had a couple drinks, no matter if he's a liberal guy, a so-called feminist
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guy or a regular normal guy, they will all point this out. This is the greatest trick that feminism
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has ever played on women is convincing women to give men limitless sexual gratification with absolutely
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no accountability, no responsibility whatsoever, and then convincing themselves that they're the ones
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benefiting. So women go, they'll say, okay, I'm going to, I've actually heard this before. So I'm
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going to go out and I'm going to pick up a guy tonight and we're just going to have casual sex
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and it's not going to mean anything. You see every guy in the country just, oh my gosh, no. Am I dreaming?
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Wake up. I'm pinching myself. I can't. But the women have convinced themselves of this because
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feminists want to convince women that women react to sex in exactly the same way men do.
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And I think a lot of the reason why some left-wing women are upset with Alyssa Milano right now is
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she's giving away the game. She's admitting, no, men want sex more than women do. Men like sex
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physically more than women do. That's why this idea of a sex strike has existed since the earliest days
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of our history. It's why the classic example of this is a play from ancient Greece and it has persisted
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over time. Now, what we're seeing on the left is a neo-puritanism.
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It's just a bunch of rules. It's like a new Victorian era. The left told us that we had to
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get rid of all our old rules concerning sex, right? They said, no, you can have sex before you're
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married. You can have sex outside of marriage. You can have sex with men, women, animals. I don't,
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I don't know what they're saying now. You can have threesomes and foursomes and polyamory and gender
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non-binary and 56 genders and no rules concerning sex. That was the pitch in the 1960s and 70s.
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That was the pitch until very recently. But now, once they've ripped out all the old rules,
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they're the ones making up a bunch of new rules. They're the ones who on college campuses around
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the country are talking about a sexual assault epidemic. Title IX on campus, they're calling for
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consent forms to have sex, consent apps to have sex, redefining the term sexual assault,
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redefining all these various forms of sexual assault, saying you can only do this and this,
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and you can only do this at this time. And now Alyssa Milano saying women shouldn't have sex at all
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until a certain law is repealed. How did this happen? How did it go from the conservatives making
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all the rules about sex and enforcing them to the left enforcing all the rules about sex?
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It's because nature abhors a vacuum. So I guess the idea for the 1960s radicals was when you get rid of
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traditional sexual mores, then that's it. You'll be fine. You just get rid of them and then we're
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going to have an age of Aquarius and we're all going to have a bunch of hippy dippy sex and it's
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going to be a lot of fun, right? That was the idea of 1968 and 1969. But inevitably, after that sunny,
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sexy time in the 1960s, you get the 1970s. You get the consequences of that. You get the decay and
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the degradation and you go from the high of the drugs in the 60s to the hangover and the addiction
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of the 1970s. When you get rid of traditional sexual mores, inevitably you have to invent new
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ones. Why? Why do we need the rules? Because the traditional rules arose for a reason. Did you
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just think, I mean, I guess the left thought this. Did you think that for thousands of years of human
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history, we've had fairly similar rules governing sex? I mean, some changes over time. We've always had
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a lot of rules concerning sex. Did you think that we had all of those rules just because? Just by
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accident? Because a bunch of old people weren't as enlightened as you and now you're so enlightened
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so you realize we don't need any rules about sex? It was just an accident thousands of years of human
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history? No. The rules arose because you need rules about sex because sex poses serious questions.
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And sex poses serious problems that you have to seriously confront. So fine, in the 1960s,
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you want to get rid of all the old rules concerning sex. Sex before marriage, prophylactics,
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condoms, the pill, things like that. Abortion. You have the major abortion debates in the 60s,
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ultimately leading to Roe v. Wade in the 70s. You totally changed the rules, even down to that
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essential rule that you shouldn't kill a baby. Abortion was such a shame, such a disgrace as
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late as the 1950s, 60s, 70s. Now all of a sudden you have shout your abortion. You have people proud
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of their abortions. They're not really proud, but they're pretending to be proud of their abortions.
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You totally changed the rules. Okay. There's no more rules, no bars. Everything's okay. Nothing is
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wrong. If it feels good, do it. And then what happens if someone gets sexually assaulted?
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Oh, hey, we're just having fun. There's no more rules. If there's no rules, can you force someone
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to have sex against her will? No, obviously. Okay. So you need a rule there. Well, how do you know that
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she's consenting? What if she's had a few drinks? You're the one encouraging everyone to go out and
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get blackout drunk and go to bars and parties all the time. So what if she does that? What if she's
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not blackout drunk, but she just has casual sex and she regrets it the next day because the guy just
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walks out and leaves her? Is that, there's no rules. There's no accountability. There's no
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traditional sexual more. Is that okay? No, that's kind of wrong too, isn't it? What if now you go out,
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you have sex, you produce a baby and the baby's growing and you want to kill it?
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Are you allowed to kill that baby? That seems a bridge too far. What is that? That is what we're
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litigating right now. The rules will reinstate themselves. Nature abhors a vacuum. The big
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difference here is the worldview. For the left, life is a sexually transmitted disease. It is fatal
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and no one has ever survived it. This is why they call abortion reproductive health. They use this
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euphemism, reproductive health, and it's ironic because abortion is not about reproduction. It's
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about the opposite of reproduction. It's about stopping reproduction. But they call it reproductive
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health because for the left, to ban abortion is the same thing as banning a treatment for chlamydia.
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To ban abortion is the same thing as banning a treatment for gonorrhea or herpes. It's a sexually
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transmitted disease. It's a bad consequence of sex is pregnancy, according to the left.
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It's an STD to treat rather than have the right views it, which is that it's a sexually generated
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gift. And what this argument comes down to is what is life? Not this stupid argument that some
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people have in abortion debates where they say, well, when does life begin? How can you prove that
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life begins at conception? The word conception, that's how I can prove it. Life begins at conception
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by definition. In conception, you have a sperm cell, has 23 chromosomes. It's a sperm cell. It'll just,
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if you leave it be, it'll just be a sperm cell and eventually it'll die. Then you have an egg also
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has 23 chromosomes. And if you leave it be, it'll just be an egg and then it'll die. And then when
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you combine them, when the sperm fertilizes the egg at the moment of conception, it becomes a human
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being with 46 chromosomes. Usually, sometimes the little differences, but 46 chromosomes, a new
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individual human being with individual human DNA that is developing in a perfectly continuous path
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into a little tiny baby and then a bigger baby and then a toddler and then a child and then a preteen
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and then a teenager, then an adult, then a senior citizen, and then they die. It's the spoiler of
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that story. But that is a total path of life, undisturbed, continuous from the very beginning.
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We're not asking the question, when does life begin? That's obvious. At the moment of conception,
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you've got something that is living. It meets all of the scientific characteristics of life.
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Scientists have described the characteristics of life over the years. The unborn baby meets all of those.
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It's obviously human. It's not a giraffe. It's not a zebra. It's not a little dog. It's a human
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being. It's genetically human. It is human. It is essentially human. It's independent. It's not part
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of the mother. It is distinct from the mother. We're not arguing about when that life begins. We're
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arguing about what life is, how life should be treated. Is life a burden? Is life awful? Is life
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terrible? Sometimes today you hear environmentalists say, we can't bring more
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children into the world. It's bad for the earth. If you bring in more children, it will, it will
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increase the effects of global warming. Sometimes you hear people make the same argument for the
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opposite reason. They say, we can't bring more children into the world because the world is so bad
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and it's too bad for children. Hold on. I thought the children were too bad for the world. No,
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the world is too bad for children. According to some people, there's so much crime. There's so
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much suffering. Life essentially is evil. According to these people, life is a bad thing and it's got to
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be cured. And the cure that they've come up with on the pro-abortion left, the Alyssa Milano left,
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the Democratic Party left, is to kill it in the womb. Very different from what we saw in Philadelphia.
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I was in Philly last Friday over with my pal, Matt Walsh, because Matt decided to throw a pro-life
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demonstration outside of that Planned Parenthood where Brian Sims, that state representative,
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was bullying elderly women, bullying underage girls, trying to dox them. Matt said on a Tuesday,
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said, we should have a rally here. Then Lila Rose, live action came out. They said, we're going to get a
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permit. We're going to do the rally. Three days later, there's a major rally in Philly, over a
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thousand people, according to CBS News. That's according to a left-wing news source. They're
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saying it was over a thousand people. I couldn't tell how many people there were because there were
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just so many as far as the eye could see. We got some video. We talked to some people on the street.
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There were a handful of pro-abortion demonstrators. We talked to them. We talked to a lot of the pro-life
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people. We will discuss this major difference in worldview. And then we'll talk about AOC because
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AOC just admitted that one of her major arguments for the Green New Deal is a total joke. Then if we
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have time, we'll talk about our latest presidential candidate nickname, Alfred E. Newman, for Mr. Pete
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right back. This pro-life demonstration in Philly outside of that Planned Parenthood is one of the
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most powerful events I've ever attended. I had never been to a major pro-life rally like this. I'd never
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been to a Planned Parenthood. I'm sure I've walked by them. I've just haven't noticed it.
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Planned Parenthood is ghoulish, man. It is a chilling place to walk by. It is chilling to the
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bone. It is chilling to look at those activists. It's chilling to look at the building and to know
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what happens in there. Before this rally even started, I got there an hour early and I was
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hanging around with Matt and Lila and some of the other people who were putting the event
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together. Before it started, there were hundreds of people there. Some of them were political
00:25:58.940
activists. Some of them were politicians. Some of them were just there praying. This is what really
00:26:06.480
struck me. As you look at sort of concentric circles from the main event stage and you see
00:26:11.640
people giving impassioned speeches about the science of it. I talked to a biology teacher there
00:26:15.660
who was there just talking about the biology of abortion. And you see some politicians, political
00:26:20.960
activists, political candidates. Then you see just religious people, priests, nuns, just quietly
00:26:28.480
saying the rosary to themselves. I could have cried. I really almost cried on the spot because you realize
00:26:36.140
it's all real. Sometimes when you talk about these political issues, things that become hotly debated in
00:26:45.320
politics, they become abstract to you. Abortion rights, 36 weeks, 26 weeks, six weeks, heartbeat bill.
00:26:56.140
They become abstractions. And then you look in that building and you know that there are real people
00:27:02.880
in there killing real babies. And then you look at the faces of people who are just praying quietly
00:27:09.260
and you realize they're really praying for real babies and real mothers. Planned Parenthood has
00:27:17.900
staffers and they have volunteers who are called patient escorts. And the theory here, the line that
00:27:24.560
they want you to believe is they have patient escorts because of those awful and intimidating pro-life
00:27:30.360
activists yelling awful things at the women. Does not happen. Does not happen at all. I was there,
00:27:38.260
there were a thousand pro-life advocates there. There was a sign that said, pray for Brian Sims.
00:27:43.260
There were people quietly praying. There were signs that said, have courage, mom. Nobody yelling,
00:27:50.720
no hatred, no none of that. That's a total lie from Planned Parenthood. The reason that Planned
00:28:00.200
Parenthood has patient escorts out there is not to protect women who are going to have a
00:28:08.180
abortions from the awful evil slurs of pro-lifers. It's to protect women from their own conscience.
00:28:15.180
It's to protect women from getting information about adoption. How in the United States there are
00:28:18.960
36 couples waiting to adopt every one baby that is born and put up for adoption. It's Planned
00:28:25.400
Parenthood trying to protect their customer base because they know that if women are allowed to have
00:28:29.500
this information, if women are allowed to see the earnest faces of people praying, they're never going to
00:28:34.840
go into that awful place and let those awful people kill her child. So they have to protect their
00:28:41.200
customer base or their money is going to run out. Their customers are going to run, their industry is
00:28:45.780
going to run out. They're not going to be able to sell the dismembered babies for a profit, which we
00:28:53.280
know that they do. We caught them on video joking about it, laughing about it. Total exposure was a total
00:29:00.760
exposure here. The way you can look at it. There was a woman who walked into Planned Parenthood
00:29:06.280
just before our rally started. And the look on her face was, she was distraught.
00:29:16.580
So I don't think she was going in to get a breast exam. I don't think she was going in to get a pack
00:29:23.240
of condoms. She looked distraught. Nobody from the pro-life rally was yelling at her. Nobody was saying
00:29:29.740
anything to her. They were praying for her. They weren't. And you had that, you had that awful
00:29:36.820
Planned Parenthood patient escort pushing her in. Come on, lady, get in there, get in there and make
00:29:41.940
sure we kill that baby. And you had this woman looking distraught. Nobody ever looks happy going
00:29:46.760
into a Planned Parenthood. Nobody's ever skipping along joyfully as they walk into a Planned Parenthood.
00:29:53.520
God tells you everything. The left is so insistent. Go do it. This is hard, but go do it. You have to
00:30:01.720
do it. You don't have to do it. There is no reason to get an abortion, to kill your child.
00:30:09.680
Nobody looks happy walking in there. The Planned Parenthood staffers and volunteers don't look happy.
00:30:14.760
You know who looked happy and joyful? The pro-lifers praying and demonstrating in front of it,
00:30:20.440
singing songs, singing God bless America, giving speeches about basic science, praying.
00:30:28.680
There was one couple I talked to out there. There were only maybe half a dozen pro-abortion
00:30:33.480
protesters. Virtually none of them would talk to me. One couple did. They had a sign that said,
00:30:38.900
I voted for Brian Sims. And so I asked the guy, I said, you have a sign that says, I vote for Brian Sims.
00:30:45.520
What's that about? Do you regret that? Here's what he said.
00:30:48.180
So I see your sign says, I vote for Brian Sims. Yeah, I live in his district and we've voted for
00:30:52.600
him for years. Did you see that? The Trump people have been taking away our liberties for two years
00:30:57.840
now. We're trying to get them back. And unfortunately, we've gotten into this very,
00:31:02.100
very dark time where we believe that women's rights outweigh the right of the body growing
00:31:07.840
inside of them. We need more rights, not less. We need freedom. We need health care.
00:31:12.720
We don't need our health care taken away. And part of that is abortion rights.
00:31:17.500
You would agree abortion's not health care for the baby who's killed.
00:31:33.400
I don't need a biology lesson. I don't think I'm the one who needs a biology lesson. Even the language
00:31:40.020
he uses gives away the whole story. He says, the baby is not a baby.
00:31:47.280
Well, then why'd you call it a baby? A thing can't be, can't not be the thing that it is.
00:31:53.340
If it's not a baby, what is it? He can't answer. Of course he can't answer. There's no argument.
00:32:02.180
It's that. So they have no argument. They have a lot of emotion. They have a lot of slogans. And
00:32:07.940
then you ask them the subtlest, any question about their slogans, they collapse. It is that simple.
00:32:15.380
Matt, who organized this whole thing, he put it beautifully. Here's just a little clip
00:32:20.800
of his speech. I'm sure he'll talk about it more on his show today. But here's just a great little
00:32:24.820
clip from his major speech at the rally. Now, there are two fundamental messages that we want
00:32:30.520
to get across today, I think. Secondarily, we are sending a message to bullies like Brian Sims.
00:32:36.760
And that message is very simple, that we will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced.
00:32:43.820
So Brian, maybe now you understand something, but if you try to shut us up, we're only going to get
00:32:49.140
louder. And if you, if you try to shame us, we're only going to stand taller. And if you try to scare
00:32:58.920
us, we're only going to get bolder. That's the way this works. And I'll tell you the reason for that
00:33:03.960
is because we know that our cause is just. We know that we are right. We are firm in that truth.
00:33:10.940
We have truth on our side and we will wield it like a sword to defend the unborn.
00:33:15.560
Now, Brian, I know why you use scare tactics. I know why you bully, why you try to intimidate,
00:33:22.980
because that's all you have. You have no arguments to present. You have no case to make. You have only
00:33:28.280
chest thumping and schoolyard taunts. Well, they're not going to work. It's not good enough.
00:33:33.440
That's it. That's exactly it. They have no argument. I went there. I flew from Missouri
00:33:41.220
up to Philly because Brian Sims said he wanted to talk to pro-lifers. He was going out on the street
00:33:46.920
harassing little girls and elderly women. And I thought, okay, Brian Sims can pick on somebody
00:33:51.060
his own size if he wants to talk to pro-life advocates. Guess where he was? Hiding.
00:33:56.700
There's no way he was showing up. We were right there in his neighborhood, right on his block.
00:34:01.060
He wouldn't come out. Now he's blocked his Twitter page. He's locked his Twitter account so that I can't
00:34:07.020
see it. Other people can't see his page. That's it. And it's a great message for pro-lifers,
00:34:12.500
great message for conservatives generally. It seems sometimes like challenges are insurmountable.
00:34:21.540
When I was a kid, if you told me that we would be on the verge of limiting abortion,
00:34:27.580
pushing abortion all the way back to the fringes, if not overturning Roe v. Wade entirely,
00:34:32.100
I would have laughed at you. I said, what are you talking about?
00:34:34.780
The Supreme Court ruled on it twice, more than that. A whole culture is for abortion. There's
00:34:41.720
no way that could possibly happen. And now look where we are. The left does this. The left always
00:34:49.480
inflates their numbers. They do it because they have the mainstream media. They do it because they
00:34:54.160
have the universities and they do it because they censor anybody who has an alternative point of view.
00:34:58.720
But once you get past that facade, once you get past that smoke and mirrors, you realize they're
00:35:05.100
nothing. It's like the Wizard of Oz. You see the big scary guy on the screen and you see it's a little
00:35:09.420
guy standing behind the curtain. When you, when you confront them, when you show up to that Planned
00:35:15.300
Parenthood, when you show up to Brian Sims' neighborhood, they all disappear. Those Planned
00:35:19.940
Parenthood activists are not allowed to speak to pro-lifers, lest they hear some truth, lest they
00:35:29.660
dialogue with people who do have an argument. You, you, when you finally confront these bullies,
00:35:35.040
when you finally confront these people, you find out they're nothing. They fold like a house of cards.
00:35:39.560
Speaking of having no argument, before we go, we got to turn our attention to Washington DC
00:35:44.140
because one of the major arguments that the left has used to dominate our discourse over the last
00:35:50.440
two months, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking about the Green New Deal. She said that the world was
00:35:57.320
going to end in 12 years because of global warming. She just came out and said it was just a joke.
00:36:04.220
She came out, she, remember this is her big argument. The world's over in 10 years. Some
00:36:07.960
presidential candidates, Beto O'Rourke said it's going to end in 10 years.
00:36:10.700
They're trying to out left-wing one another. Now she came out and said, oh, ha ha ha, I was only
00:36:15.460
kidding. She tweeted out, quote, this is a technique of the GOP to take dry humor and sarcasm literally
00:36:21.180
and fact check it. Like the world ending in 12 years thing. You'd have to have the social
00:36:26.820
intelligence of a sea sponge to think it's literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from the office,
00:36:31.960
so who knows? Ha ha ha. First of all, if AOC is really going to bring up fact-checking,
00:36:39.420
obvious humor as an example of some stupidity, let's not forget that Snopes fact-check, all these
00:36:46.220
things are constantly fact-checking the Babylon Bee. They're fact-checking obvious satirical websites
00:36:53.320
as though they were true. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, but let's take AOC at her word.
00:36:59.540
AOC is saying, guys, guys, I was totally just kidding about the Green New Deal and about the world
00:37:06.180
ending in 12 years from global warming. Why on earth could you possibly take me seriously?
00:37:11.520
Well, here's how she said it. Let me know if you think this is a joke.
00:37:15.240
I think that the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people and, you know,
00:37:22.620
Gen Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we're like, the world is going to
00:37:29.280
end in 12 years if we don't address climate change. And your biggest issue is, your biggest issue is
00:37:38.620
how are we going to pay for it? And like, this is the war, this is our World War II.
00:37:44.620
Does it look like she's joking there to you? She's at an event called MLK Now, and she's talking to
00:37:53.140
Ta-Nehisi Coates, one of the most self-serious left-wing writers. And she says, the world is
00:38:00.820
going to end in 12 years if we don't stop global warming. And then that whole audience there,
00:38:05.880
you'll notice they didn't laugh, right? What did they do? They applauded and cheered,
00:38:09.480
but they didn't laugh because it wasn't a joke. She didn't laugh as she was saying it. You cut,
00:38:14.780
you see the image of Ta-Nehisi Coates. He's not laughing. Sure doesn't sound like a joke,
00:38:19.540
but maybe it, I don't know, maybe it is. Here's another video. This one's a little more casual
00:38:23.740
of AOC talking about the world ending imminently.
00:38:27.460
We're screwed. I'm climate. Like, I'm sorry to break it to you. If we do nothing,
00:38:34.680
there is no hope. Period. When it comes to climate in particular, we're actually screwed.
00:38:44.740
There is a global threat to the planet. A global threat. And at this point, we don't even have to
00:38:54.720
prove it. Just walk outside in winter in a lot of places, and it's either way worse than you're used
00:39:00.780
to or way warmer than you're used to. Hurricanes, storms, wildfires. We are dying now. There's
00:39:08.820
scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult. And it does lead,
00:39:15.320
I think, young people to have a legitimate question. You know, should, is it okay to still
00:39:23.840
There it is. There is that thing that we talked about at the top of the show.
00:39:31.280
AOC was the first one to call for a sex strike, I guess. There's that thing that the left does.
00:39:36.320
They say, don't have children because it's bad for the environment. Or don't have children because
00:39:40.020
the environment's bad for the children. Or don't have children because children are bad in and of
00:39:43.700
themselves. They just don't want you to have children. So she calls for that. She says,
00:39:48.260
maybe we shouldn't have any more kids. Then, look, if the only evidence of her talking about how the
00:39:56.220
world is about to end because of global warming were this video, I would say maybe she was kidding
00:40:00.040
because it's actually a hilarious video. But I think it's unintentionally hilarious. I don't think
00:40:06.100
she's trying to be funny. I think she just kind of is funny. We're laughing at her, not laughing with
00:40:10.620
her. She says that this is a global threat to the planet. Not just a regular threat, but a global
00:40:16.300
threat to the planet. Which we might want to point out to her, most threats to the planet
00:40:22.340
are global. There are very few threats to the planet that are not global because the planet
00:40:29.600
is a globe. But she says, we can see it happening now. We don't even need to show evidence. You just
00:40:36.280
see. If it's hot outside, that's evidence of global warming. And by the way, if it's cold outside,
00:40:41.400
that is also evidence of global warming. See, there's evidence everywhere. Anything that happens
00:40:45.680
is evidence to prove my theory. And this one does seem ridiculous. But if you think that
00:40:52.900
she's joking because of how ridiculous she looks, just watch what she goes on to say. Just listen to
00:40:59.360
this. How many years until the world ends again? We have 12 years left to cut emissions by at least
00:41:08.160
50%, if not more. And for everyone who wants to make a joke about that, you may laugh, but your grandkids
00:41:19.540
will not. So she, I think she, she kind of forgets. She actually says later in the video,
00:41:26.140
she says, the internet is forever and history is going to judge you. Yeah, right. AOC, the internet
00:41:31.880
is forever. So now that you're saying that the 12 years line was a joke, we can go back to, I don't
00:41:38.360
know, a month or two ago when you said that if anybody says the 12 years line is a joke, they're
00:41:43.860
awful people and their grandchildren are going to judge them and hate them for it. She explicitly said,
00:41:49.740
not two months ago, that if you question the world ending in 12 years because of global warming
00:41:56.300
and you call it a joke, you're a terrible person. And then what did she do today? She said that the
00:42:03.460
12 years line, that the world is going to end in 12 years because of global warming is a joke.
00:42:09.340
There is a joke in all of this. There is a joke. The joke has about three letters in her name,
00:42:16.800
three letters in her initial, probably like a million letters in her name, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:42:21.220
That is the joke. Speaking of politician jokes, I can't leave without addressing one of the funniest
00:42:27.500
lines of the presidential race so far. President Trump was asked about the candidacy of South Bend,
00:42:36.400
Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg. And his response was, quote, Alfred E. Newman cannot be the president
00:42:45.480
of the United States. And when I read that, I burst out laughing because the reference is to Alfred
00:42:53.860
E. Newman, who is the goofy face on the cover of Mad Magazine. And I love Mad Magazine. I read it a ton
00:43:00.140
when I was a kid. I subscribed for years. So I thought it was hilarious. However, Pete Buttigieg
00:43:06.100
had a really good response to this that I think he responded in about the best way he could have.
00:43:12.640
Donald Trump today in an interview compared you to the Mad Magazine mascot, said Alfred E. Newman
00:43:17.900
can never be president. What's your response to it? So I'll be honest, I had to Google that. I guess
00:43:21.740
it's a generational thing. I didn't get the reference. It's kind of funny, I guess. But he's also the
00:43:27.400
president of the United States. And I'm surprised he's not spending more time trying to salvage this
00:43:32.000
China deal. A very strong response from Buttigieg because he's right. It is a dated reference. I
00:43:38.700
know that Mad Magazine is still in print. I really like Mad Magazine. It is a dated reference. I bet if
00:43:43.740
you asked most millennials who Alfred E. Newman is, they probably wouldn't know. And so what Buttigieg
00:43:51.380
does is he says, ha ha, see Trump is old and I'm young and he's the past and I'm the future. So you
00:43:57.460
should vote for me. Okay, fair enough. Trump is a pop culture guy. So if he's only making dated
00:44:03.780
references, that's probably not too great, right? Except that Trump is the president of the United
00:44:09.740
States. Anything he says automatically becomes basically the biggest news story in the world.
00:44:16.240
We're talking about it. Everybody's talking about it. This dominated the news cycles on the left and
00:44:20.500
the right for a few days after he said it, which means that now everybody gets the reference.
00:44:27.500
So you've got, okay, you've got a dated reference that is hilarious because Pete Buttigieg does look
00:44:33.240
like Alfred E. Newman. Maybe some people didn't get it before, but now that Trump said it, everybody
00:44:38.540
gets it, which is why it's a good attack, which is why I think it's going to stick because it's also
00:44:44.800
so specific. So comedy really thrives in specificity. Vague things aren't that funny, but when you
00:44:52.380
really, really drill down to, to hardcore specifics, if Trump had said, yeah, Pete Buttigieg isn't going
00:44:58.820
to win because he looks like a cartoon character. That's kind of a lame joke. That's not that funny.
00:45:04.220
Yeah, Pete Buttigieg isn't going to win because he looks kind of goofy. That's not a great joke. He says,
00:45:10.540
yeah, Buttigieg can't win because Alfred E. Newman will never be the president of the United
00:45:14.460
States. That is a funny line because it's very specific. It recalls a highly visual image and a
00:45:21.460
longstanding image. And it's true. That's the other thing about comedy is it has to be true.
00:45:26.920
So he, he nailed it. He made the comparison. I hadn't seen anybody make it before. Although
00:45:32.040
Seb Gorka pointed out to me that he had actually made this comparison a few weeks ago. So it clearly
00:45:36.940
Seb has excellent insight here, but I think it sticks. I think it's a good line. And, uh, the way that
00:45:43.360
Trump will try to spin Buttigieg's response is that he's this arrogant kid who doesn't know much about
00:45:48.960
history. And, and I think the way he'll try to spin it is the way Reagan spun attacks on his age in the
00:45:56.060
1984 campaign. There was that famous clip where his opponent brought up, uh, where Mondale brought up
00:46:03.400
that Reagan was so old and this should cause us to question his ability to be president. And Reagan
00:46:10.940
famously said, I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I will not exploit for political
00:46:17.480
purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. And it was a fabulous response. And Mondale said that
00:46:24.500
was the moment when he knew that Reagan had won the election. And so I think Trump will probably spin
00:46:28.760
it that way. I think in terms of the hits on the age, it's probably going to be a draw. And now as always
00:46:33.980
happens with the King of Marketing, you've got this brutal image. When you think Buttigieg, you now think
00:46:40.640
the goofy guy from the cover of Mad Magazine. You Google Buttigieg, Alfred E. Newman comes up. You Google
00:46:45.760
Alfred E. Newman, Buttigieg comes up. I think in the end, Trump landed the punch and it's going to hurt him.
00:46:51.240
Not that Buttigieg is, I think, a really serious presidential candidate, but he might be a serious VP
00:46:56.320
candidate. And Trump landed the blow. All right. We'll talk more tomorrow about the guy that
00:47:01.780
Buttigieg is totally replacing, Beto O'Rourke. Remember him? I don't, I don't really remember
00:47:05.940
him either. We'll get to that tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael
00:47:09.440
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00:47:31.120
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00:47:41.360
Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, feminists have apparently discovered the value of abstinence.
00:47:47.060
You never thought it would happen, but it did. They're going on a sex strike to protest
00:47:51.100
some of the pro-life laws that have been passed across the country. Personally,
00:47:55.760
I think it's a great idea. I support it 100% and I'll talk about why. Also, a Democratic congresswoman
00:48:02.180
has landed in some hot water because she yet again said something horrific and totally bizarre. But yet
00:48:09.820
again, she is of course the victim because people are quoting her verbatim. That's the pattern here.
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