Ep. 835 - This Is What Demons Sound Like
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Today, the Supreme Court refused to block a Texas law that would have made abortion illegal in that state. This means that for the first time since 1973, there is a state in this country in which abortion is effectively illegal. This is wonderful, wonderful news.
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They say that no news is good news, and that is certainly true today. The Supreme Court was asked
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by abortion supporters to block a Texas pro-life law, and the court did nothing, which is the best
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thing it could have done, because that means that today, for the first time since 1973,
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there is a state in this country in which abortion is effectively illegal. This is wonderful,
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wonderful news. It could potentially, though don't get your hopes up, but it could potentially
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lead to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, in large part because of the clever way the law was written.
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Now, the libs are losing it. They're crying. They're screaming. They're fear-mongering. They're
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making really, really dumb arguments in favor of killing babies in the womb. Meanwhile, on the
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topic of dehumanization, prominent libs want to keep the unvaccinated out of hospitals. The American
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people, though, I think have had enough. If one poll is to be believed right now, most Americans
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even think Joe Biden should resign. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Jacqueline Twerd, who said,
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Classrooms shouldn't be like a teacher's home where they can hang whatever ridiculous
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stuff. I'll clean it up. Whatever ridiculous stuff they feel like. Whatever happened to the
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times tables in the alphabet? Thank you. Yes, these teachers who are hanging the pride progress flag
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or the Antifa flag even, they seem to think that the classroom is just their fiefdom in which they
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can do whatever they want. In part, this is because of a misguided understanding of what is called
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academic freedom that now even the right defends. The left kind of pushed it, but even the right
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defends it. It's just completely preposterous. The third grade classroom is not a free marketplace of
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ideas and it never has been and it should not be and it never will be. It's a place to teach kids
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This Texas law is magnificent. So the court decision was 5-4 because, of course, Chief
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Justice John Roberts sided with the libs. And the decision was not over the constitutionality
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of the law. The decision was whether or not to grant abortionists in Texas a special emergency
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halting of the new pro-life law. So thankfully, the five at least sort of conservative justices,
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Thomas. Thomas, certainly conservative. Alito, certainly conservative. Gorsuch, a little squishier.
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Kavanaugh, a lot squishier. And Amy Barrett, a lot squishier. But all five of them, to their great
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credit, voted in favor of allowing the Texas law to go into effect. This is a very, very important
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decision. And then you had the three libs, really the four libs, because Chief Justice John Roberts
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was there. And he voted to stop the law. One small point on John Roberts before we get into what this
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law actually does. John Roberts' whole purpose, I believe, is that he wants to maintain the
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institutional credibility of the court. Because he's the chief justice. So he has a responsibility
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not just to the decisions, but also to the institution itself. And so I think what John
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Roberts is trying to do here is seem that he's above politics, because he will often vote with
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the liberals. Ironically, though, what the effect of his machinations had been is to make the court seem
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much, much more party political, to make the court seem much less principled. He has ironically
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destroyed the institutional credibility of the court, because he's very clearly just picking his side
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based on the poll numbers, based on the politics, based on what he thinks will be able to placate
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the people, rather than upholding some kind of constitutional principle. But the principle
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upheld, at least in this decision, the Texas law, which was passed in May, bans all abortions in the
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state after around six weeks of pregnancy. The law is not based on some arbitrary timetable, you know,
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six weeks in one day, and it's a human being, but six weeks minus one day, you know, five weeks in
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six days, and it's actually not a human being. The law is based on when you can detect a heartbeat,
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and you can detect a heartbeat very early, because these are human beings. So because a lot of women
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don't even know they're pregnant at six weeks, the law effectively makes abortion illegal.
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Now, how does this law operate? There have been plenty of heartbeat bills, and they've been struck
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down by various courts. So what makes this law a little different? The law allows private citizens
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to sue abortionists and anyone else who helps a woman to obtain an abortion, including some sicko
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dude who gives the woman a ride to the clinic, or provides financial assistance for the abortion.
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The citizens can bring these suits, even if they don't have any connection to the people that they
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are suing beyond their relationship as citizens. If they win in the lawsuits, the law entitles them
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to a minimum of $10,000 in damages, plus attorney's fees. So this is really providing an incentive or a
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disincentive for the abortionists and for the various ghouls who help out in this process. We haven't seen
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laws like this before, and it makes it a little bit harder for the courts to strike it down. It's a
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brilliant, brilliant law, and I'm very glad that it's in effect. The White House is furious. They're
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really, really upset that babies will live. There will be babies today who are not murdered in the
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state of Texas. There will be babies today who will go on and have a long life, and in 10 and 20 years,
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you'll be able to talk to these babies who are alive because this law is in effect. And the White
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House is furious about it. They consider it an extreme threat.
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The Press on abortion. We've seen in a number of states, Republican-led states, an effort on voting
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rights, for instance, to pass similar legislation throughout the country on voting rights. What's
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the level of concern at the White House that the decision on Texas specifically will lead to a
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similar raft of laws across the country? And what is the recourse for the White House at a federal
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Ms. Well, the step that can be taken is the codification of Roe, something the
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president and the vice president have called for and would require Congress to act on.
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I will note that certainly we've seen, this is not the first threat to Roe we've seen in a state
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across the country. It's an extreme threat. And again, I would just note, this is offering up to
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$10,000 to individuals who report someone who is going to get an abortion. I mean, that is what
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we're talking about here. So, and beyond that, as I've already outlined.
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Based. To use the lingo of the kids, based. Awesome. Great. Love it.
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This is a great, great way. By the way, you're going to hear that this law is punishing women.
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It's going to throw women in jail. It's not. It's not. You're not, you don't get to sue the women.
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You sue the abortionists and you sue the little minions of the abortionist and you sue all the
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people and the CADs and the degenerate men paying for the abortions. You get to sue all of them.
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Those are the people who are targeted here. And it is an extreme threat to Roe versus Wade.
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What Jen Psaki is admitting here, by the way, is that Roe versus Wade is a ridiculous decision.
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That's her admission. When she is asked by this leftist activist reporter, he's like,
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how do we stop it? How do we stop it? He's like, she says, well, what we have to do is codify Roe
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versus Wade into law. Why do we have to codify Roe versus Wade into law? Because it's a weak decision.
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There is no constitutional right to an abortion. Even if you're the strongest abortion supporter in the
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world, it just isn't there. It just doesn't exist. And, and even the intellectual and the
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intellectually honest leftists who support abortion and look at Roe versus Wade, they will tell you the
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case does not have very much constitutional merit. And so now they're saying we need to codify it into
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law. You have to codify it into law because it's a ridiculous decision. And if there is justice,
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even a little bit of justice in this world, it ought to be overturned. CNN freaking out about this.
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They've brought on their chief legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin. Jeffrey Toobin has a lot of
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personal expertise on creepy sex questions. As you will recall, he lost one of his jobs some months
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ago because he was caught having sex with someone he loves on camera on a zoom meeting with his
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colleagues. So Jeffrey Toobin, but, and that, that event involved one person other than the spectators.
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So Jeffrey Toobin is back on CNN and Jeffrey Toobin, often like I do on this show, we don't do that.
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We don't have that in common. But one thing we do have in common is that occasionally on air,
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we will say, I told you so. And Jeffrey Toobin did tell you so when it came to Roe versus Wade.
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Donald Trump ran for president saying, I will appoint justices to the Supreme Court who will
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vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. He has three appointees on the court. There are three other appointees on the
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court, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and John Roberts, who have spoken out against Roe v. Wade
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before, although Roberts has later said he supports the precedent. But there are five justices, it
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appears, the three Trump appointees, plus, there they are on the screen, plus Thomas and Alito,
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who seem like solid votes to overturn Roe v. Wade. You know, we've been accused, those of us who have
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been saying that Roe is about to be overturned as being chicken little, the sky is falling, the sky is
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falling. We'll see, because it certainly looks like the sky is falling now. The sky is falling
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because fewer babies will be killed in Texas. Don't forget, you're going to be told that women have a
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right. They have a sacred constitutional natural right to kill their children. They don't. They
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don't. They don't have that right. But you're going to be told, only focus on this. Only focus on the
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poor abortionist who's just trying to scrape by and feed his family by committing infanticide at
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Planned Parenthood. Just think about him. Don't forget, this involves a baby. And that's not just an
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abstract. It's not just a hypothetical. There will be babies who are permitted to live because of this
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law. And you will have to look them in the eye, at least on camera. They'll look at you and you'll
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see them. And you will have to explain, at least to yourself, why you think that it would be better
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if they were killed. Why you think that it's wrong that they were permitted to live. Jeffrey Toobin's
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going to have to do that. But Jeffrey Toobin is an abortion supporter, not just in theory. He tried
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to pay off his mistress to kill his child and his mistress wouldn't do it. Now he's got the child
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and he's going to have to look that kid in the eye someday if he has a relationship with that kid
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and explain why he tried to kill that baby and why he still supports the right, quote unquote,
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analyst Jeffrey Toobin is really upset about the new Texas pro-life law because he supports the
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abstract right to abortion and also because he has tried to pay to procure abortions himself.
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According to this law, if he did what he has done in Texas, he could be sued for at least $10,000
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plus attorney fees. So he's got a real personal interest here in making sure that these babies
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don't get to live. And now he's going after the court. He's trying to dissuade the court. And so he
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goes on television and he says, look, the institutional reputation of the court is at stake here.
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Here we are on September 1st, the first day since 1973, when a state has been able to ban abortion.
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1973 is the year of Roe v. Wade. And the Supreme Court has said nothing. They have allowed the second
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most famous opinion of the last hundred years after Brown v. Board of Education to essentially be
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violated, be overrun, but they haven't even said a word about it, which strikes me as a real blow
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against the Supreme Court's institutional reputation, aside from the issue of whether
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this law is right or wrong. A real blow against the Supreme Court's reputation, regardless of whether
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the law is right or wrong. I don't think that's true. You know what I think was a blow against the
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Supreme Court's reputation? Roe v. Wade. I think Roe v. Wade was a huge blow against the court's
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reputation because it showed that the court was nothing more than a partisan political lawmaking
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body rather than a judiciary. I think that aside from the issue of whether you think abortion is
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right or wrong, I think we all should be able to admit Roe v. Wade was the attack on the court's
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reputation. And they can either make that right now or they can persist in error and humiliation
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and degradation of the court. There's a woman, some Brooklyn chick, who's apparently a medical
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doctor. Her name is Dara Cass. And she, I think she shows you some of the hysteria you're going to
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see from the left media on this issue. She tweeted out, get on birth control now. Any form that is
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reliable, oral contraceptives, NuvaRing, Norplant, IUD, something now, now, hurry.
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Okay. So what she's admitting here is that the left uses abortion as birth control, as contraception,
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but it's obviously not contraception because the baby is conceived and then they just kill it.
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What she's admitting is there are a lot of leftists who are so cavalier about abortion,
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about killing babies, that they don't even, they won't even put on a condom.
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They won't even, they won't, that's all right, we'll just deal with it later with abortion.
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And the left tells us they don't do that, but then she's just admitted they do.
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Beyond that point, beyond that point. Get on birth control now. Anything, oral cut,
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NuvaRing, IUD, do something. I've got, I've got another idea. How about you just have babies
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like they do in normal civilizations that are not dying? How about you just do that? I know this
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is a crazy radical idea. How about you just like be open to life and have babies and actually fully
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give of your love to another person and then make your life better by having a baby. A lot of people
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can't have babies. It's a hard, there are a lot of people who struggle with infertility, okay?
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Who would, who would give their limbs, who would cut off an arm at least to have a baby. And this
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cavalier woman, you know, we are a dying civilization. I mean that in a very technical way. We, we are not
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having enough children to continue as a civilization. And this has been true for decades now,
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and it seems to be getting worse and worse each year. And other civilizations are having babies
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because they're lively and we're dying and we're decayed. And something's gone really rotten within
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us, which is how you get creepy statements like this. This woman goes on. She goes, if you find out
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you're pregnant and do not want to be, you have very little time to do it. Do not shut down. This will
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be hard, but you can't delay. Call me. We will figure this out together. What a psycho. This woman is
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saying, call me and I will kill your child. This is what demons sound like. Okay. This is,
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if you want to know, you read the Bible or you, you read accounts of demons throughout history and
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in stories and myths and in history and real stories. So what does a demon sound like? A demon
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sounds like that lady. Call me, call me now. Don't let it, don't let them stop you from killing.
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I'll help you. I'll kill your baby. Give me your baby. Ah, good grief lady. What? This is scary
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stuff. And I mentioned it. I mean, it's so obvious with her, but you're going to hear this kind of
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stuff from a lot of people. And I don't forget who the prince of this world is. Okay. Don't forget.
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This is a fallen world. There's a lot of bad stuff here, but you're going to hear these same kinds of
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things from people in the media, from politicians, maybe from people, you know, when you hear it,
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one, don't be seduced to maybe try to change their mind. Three, flee from that. That is,
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you were playing with some bad juju, my friends. Now, before we move on from the topic of abortion
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and get to much more serious topics, like the woo flu, I, I do need to address something because
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I've, I've seen it a lot in the popular discourse and you're going to hear it a lot more in the coming
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days as this law is debated. You're going to hear really dumb abortion arguments. Okay. You're
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going to hear really dumb pro-choice arguments. Here's one of them. Here's one you're going to
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hear. Hey, pro-lifer, you don't want to kill babies in the womb, right? So I guess you're
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probably against the death penalty then, right? You have to be. No, no, you don't because those are,
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those are different issues that involve different moral questions. You, yet you can oppose killing
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innocent little babies in the womb and still have a more nuanced or complex or opposite view of what
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ought to be done for convicted criminals. They're different questions. Oh yeah. Huh? Yeah. They're
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different questions. Huh? Mr. Pro-lifer. Well, so if you're pro-life, uh, you probably support COVID
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vaccine mandates, don't you? If you're, if you're going to be consistent, if you're going to be, uh,
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no, again, I think I, I thought I just made this clear. Those are different issues involving
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different moral questions. So one can oppose the killing of innocent little babies in the womb
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and still have some questions and some resistance to taking an experimental drug for a cough that for
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most people is not that bad. You, you actually can, I know it's hard to think. I was once,
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I was on a panel at Politicon and some lib guy, he made these arguments. He was, and I couldn't hear
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him that well. I were in, it was a very, uh, echoey gigantic space. So I couldn't hear all he was
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saying, but you could hear it later on the microphone. And he made these arguments. He
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was saying, uh, you know, well, if you, then you have to oppose the death penalty. No, you don't
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buddy. Well, but if you're pro-life, if you're pro-life, then you have to support all of these
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other unassociated issues. You don't, you don't. Pro-life is a slogan. And like all political slogans,
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it represents an idea, but it cannot convey the fullness of that idea. Just like you might say
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you're pro-choice, but you do not support the choice of Texans to pass this law to ban abortion
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because the phrase pro-choice is just, is referring to your support for a specific issue, namely
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killing babies in the womb through abortion. There are many other stupid arguments that you're
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going to hear with abortion, but don't, one, don't get suckered into them because they're almost not
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worth your time refuting, but they are easily refuted because we're talking about a specific issue.
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Don't let them distract you because I think if you talk about that issue in particular,
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if you focus on what is actually at stake, they don't, they don't have a leg to stand on.
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Now, speaking of this dehumanizing talk, it's really deep. The way that the libs talk about
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abortion is really, it's literally dehumanizing. They're taking a human and pretending he's not a
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human, but the libs do this generally. Don Lemon just did this on CNN. He said that if you are skeptical
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of the vaccine, you don't want to get the new experimental drug for the Wu flu, you should
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not go to the hospital when you get sick. If you're not going to get vaccinated, you don't
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want to social distance, you don't want to wear a mask, then maybe you don't want to go to the
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hospital when you get sick. I know that sounds harsh, but you're taking up the space for people
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who are doing things the right way. If you're not going to lose a few pounds, chubby, then maybe you
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don't want to go to the hospital when you get a heart attack. Okay. All right. Look, I know that sounds
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harsh. I know that, Hey, look, if you're not going to stop having homosexual sex, then maybe you're
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not going to want to go to the hospital when you get AIDS. Okay. I know that sounds harsh, but I,
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Hey, I know that, but look, but, but, but that's what he's saying. That's the argument he's making.
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And it's dehumanizing. And so we can point that out, but I think once you get it, you get it. Okay.
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Once you get it, you get it. And you realize this whole thing is dehumanizing. The whole leftist idea
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is dehumanizing. It tells you to varying degrees that you don't have any particular dignity. You
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don't, you're not entitled to any particular choice. You do not have really any rights whatsoever
00:22:50.900
that we don't give you, that we, the ruling elite, don't provide you. That is, that is a very
00:22:58.800
dehumanizing idea. You, you hear it from, from various sections of the left in different ways.
00:23:07.580
Sometimes it's materialist. Sometimes it's Gnostic. Sometimes it's liberal. Sometimes it's
00:23:12.700
socialist. Sometimes it's this, but it's always, it's always dehumanizing. Okay. And on the,
00:23:18.800
on the substantive point, by the way, they're also wrong. It's not even just that they're wrong in
00:23:24.060
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00:23:28.140
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Joe Rogan got COVID. Joe Rogan, that anti-vax, misinformer, idiot stooge Rogan. Serves him right.
00:25:07.120
He got COVID. When are we going to his funeral? Oh, he's fine. He's completely fine. Here he is.
00:25:11.720
I got up in the morning, got tested and turns out I got COVID. So we immediately threw the
00:25:17.600
kitchen sink at all kinds of meds, monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, Z-Pak, prednisone,
00:25:27.920
everything. And I also got an NAD drip and a vitamin drip. And I did that three days in a row.
00:25:35.400
And so here we are on Wednesday and I feel great. I really only had one bad day. Sunday sucked,
00:25:43.840
but Monday was better. Tuesday felt better than Monday. And today I feel good. I actually feel
00:25:49.580
pretty good. Uh, that's the good news. The bad news is we have to move Friday, the Friday show in
00:25:58.360
Nashville. That's too bad. That's, I actually didn't realize he was in Nashville. Otherwise I might've
00:26:03.360
tried to go see him, but so that's too bad. He can't, he can't play in Nashville, but, uh, he's,
00:26:07.380
he's fine. And I, I saw people tweeting about this yesterday and they said, Joe Rogan, yeah,
00:26:14.300
serves him right. The, that anti-vax, yeah, that'll show you, Joe, that'll teach you. What'll it teach
00:26:20.100
you? I, Joe, it, I, all it taught me was that Joe was right. Joe Rogan came, by the way, he's not any
00:26:25.640
of those things people called him. He came out and he said, look, I'm not anti-vax, but if you're a
00:26:30.700
young, healthy person, I just, as a prudential matter, I don't see why you should go get this
00:26:34.100
vaccine. I just think, you know, it's an experimental drug for a thing that doesn't pose a great threat.
00:26:38.780
So you do in a cost benefit. I don't think it's a, it's a huge deal. And then he, so he, that's how
00:26:45.220
he lived. Then he got the virus and then he took ordinary medicine. And he, he had said a lot,
00:26:52.320
for a lot of the time that it's kind of like a mild cold. It's not a big deal. They, everyone said it
00:26:55.800
was awful misinformation. Then he gets it, he takes some medicine. It feels like a mild cold and then
00:26:59.380
he's fine. A couple of days later, it seems like Joe was right. Seems like Joe. And did you hear
00:27:05.800
what, what he took? Oh, that idiot, that Rube, he took. Can you believe he took? Oh, I can't even
00:27:13.760
say it. Ivermectin. Why that's, that's a horse dewormer. Don't you know? This is another meme going
00:27:22.280
around the libs right now. They're saying Ivermectin, you'd have to be an idiot to take Ivermectin.
00:27:27.640
And Ivermectin is not for humans. It's for horses. That idiot. He took an, he took a horse
00:27:32.840
dewormer. Ivermectin is, is not for horses. Horses can take it just like horses can take
00:27:42.940
aspirin, but you wouldn't say aspirin is for horses. There's horse aspirin. Okay. So I guess
00:27:47.680
you would don't want to take horse aspirin and there's horse Ivermectin, but Ivermectin is an FDA
00:27:53.540
approved antiviral that has been prescribed to humans for many, many years. The person who
00:27:59.460
discovered Ivermectin won a Nobel prize. Okay. This is a, this is a real thing. Not only that,
00:28:05.860
I've got, let's see how long before we get taken off the internet for this one. Ivermectin
00:28:10.200
has been shown in at least some studies to have an effect in suppressing coronavirus.
00:28:17.360
I'm not saying that it's the best way to treat your coronavirus. There are also studies that are a
00:28:21.700
little confused on this that say, well, maybe it actually won't in the levels that you can take
00:28:25.800
it, but here we go. Mayo Clinic, Ivermectin. This is how humans should take it. Here's the
00:28:31.060
proper use. It doesn't say proper use, put it in your horses. It says proper use, take it a single
00:28:35.440
dose with a full glass of water, right? It's obviously used by humans for, for a number of
00:28:39.320
conditions. And then here we have from the NIH, that, that vaunted institution, the National Institutes
00:28:44.980
of Health, Ivermectin, an award-winning drug with expected antiviral activity against COVID-19.
00:28:49.560
And this was published October 7th, 2020. Not, not all that long ago. Now, sure, perhaps some data
00:28:55.440
say, well, actually, sure, it can be effective in theory, but in the doses that you'd have to take
00:29:00.020
it, it may be, it won't be. So I'm not sure it's the best thing to do, but don't, don't call Joe
00:29:05.760
Rogan an idiot because he's taking a drug that has been very effective at fighting off things in humans.
00:29:12.260
And that has been shown at least in some experiments to have antiviral properties specifically
00:29:17.240
against this COVID-19. It's just, you are, as you try to, I'm speaking to you libs,
00:29:25.140
you hypothetical lib out there, as you try to preen and, and prattle and, and seem so much smarter than
00:29:33.840
everybody else, you are revealing your own ignorance. The same thing on these, these abortion
00:29:40.120
arguments. When someone comes up and says, well, you're pro-life, you probably, you probably oppose the
00:29:46.420
death penalty then, right? You know, what, what they are revealing is that they haven't given two
00:29:51.040
seconds thought to this issue. They are, what, what they're revealing with those glib sorts of
00:29:56.500
statements is how shallow their thinking is. And the same thing is, you're taking ivermectin. What
00:30:01.220
are you, a horse? Oh, you, you haven't even Googled this drug. Okay. You haven't even given this,
00:30:06.540
you're just repeating some clip of John Oliver or something that you've seen. These people are not to
00:30:14.020
be taken seriously. Speaking of taking care of animals though, how's this for a segue? Speaking
00:30:19.640
of taking care of animals, the Taliban are apparently taking care of those dogs that were left
00:30:26.200
by the United States upon the evacuation from Afghanistan. So you remember this is, the United
00:30:30.840
States left well over a hundred Americans, probably many more than that. The United States left Afghan
00:30:36.620
allies. I've actually spoken to friends of mine who are either in the armed forces or have been in the
00:30:43.380
armed forces who have, have been getting calls from Americans who are stuck or from friends of
00:30:50.540
Americans who are stuck in Afghanistan. So this is a real problem of Christians who are stuck,
00:30:56.780
chaplains and priests of lots of people who are there. So this is a real problem. But then what
00:31:02.560
everyone freaked out about was that they left the dogs. The service, the poor dogs are in Afghanistan.
00:31:06.840
So okay, it's not a good look. The Taliban though, these PR geniuses, they are, they're PR geniuses.
00:31:13.520
Are taking to the Western press to let you know, don't worry, we're taking care of your dogs.
00:31:18.500
The Americans left the dogs to get out from their specific places, but our teams and our
00:31:24.140
officials called, they're in charge of those dogs. And today they came to port and they are trying to
00:31:30.980
collect the dogs and they are trying to facilitate for them and what they need to give them.
00:31:39.240
Um, particularly, I cannot give you a specific number, but they are alive. And, uh, from the
00:31:45.520
beginning, when we come to the front line, the front door of airport, we were in, we were in touch
00:31:52.280
with the, uh, in charge of the dog and they are working and they are, uh, feeding the dogs. And I
00:31:59.100
And there's no problem. This is good news, right? This is, I, I hate that I have, the, the, the Taliban
00:32:05.220
have been very good about this from the beginning. They've been very good at their propaganda
00:32:11.300
and the West has not been. So they held that press conference when they took over the presidential
00:32:17.580
palace in Kabul. Joe Biden wouldn't hold a press conference. So you're seeing here, you're saying,
00:32:24.200
oh my gosh, the Taliban is giving greater transparency to the press and the people than
00:32:27.360
the White House is. Then the Taliban is asked about freedom of speech. They say, you know,
00:32:32.440
you in the West like to talk about freedom of speech. What about Facebook? Facebook censoring
00:32:36.000
lots and lots of your people, including the duly elected president, for goodness sakes,
00:32:39.820
on January 7th. Ooh, yeah, you can't really talk about that. And now the West, we can't even take
00:32:44.820
care of our own service dogs. Don't worry, the Taliban's taking care of it. So if you point this
00:32:51.200
out, if you point out any criticisms of the West, any of the Western occupation of Afghanistan,
00:32:58.100
of the Afghan national army, quote unquote, that did not last as an army for very long, that had a lot
00:33:03.200
of problems of its own, including widespread sexual abuse, including ghost troops, ghost soldiers who
00:33:08.420
didn't even exist at all. They were just, it was just a scam to be paid by the West and pass it out
00:33:13.560
to various tribal leaders and warlords and corrupt officials. If you point out any of this, the theft,
00:33:20.560
the fragging, all of that, now apparently you're a white supremacist. According to CNN, according to CNN,
00:33:31.200
quote, white supremacist praise of the Taliban takeover concerns U.S. officials. Okay. Now,
00:33:39.320
there's the absurdity on its face that white supremacists are exactly the cheerleaders of the
00:33:47.040
Taliban, right? I don't know many white supremacists who are supportive of Middle Eastern,
00:33:55.860
non-white caliphates. Okay. So I think probably the issue is a little more complicated than that.
00:34:01.800
But even, let's just take it right at face value. What they're saying is that white supremacists are
00:34:07.600
totally a real thing. It's totally a real big problem in America, the white supremacy. Okay.
00:34:13.040
And the white supremacists are cheering on the Taliban who took over Afghanistan. And that's
00:34:19.820
concerning U.S. officials who gave the country to the Taliban. So the White House officials,
00:34:30.280
not just to this administration, but the previous one as well, they come to terms with the Taliban and
00:34:38.020
say, okay, you're going to run Afghanistan from now on. The Taliban is now our ally. Don't forget
00:34:41.920
that we're fighting with the Taliban against ISIS. And the White House officials are now very concerned
00:34:49.440
that the white supremacists are supportive of the White House's policy. Does that make the White
00:34:55.780
House white supremacists? Does that make the white supremacists White House supremacists? What is it?
00:35:00.140
Who is it? Who started the Taliban? We did. We did. We funded the people who created the Taliban. I'm not
00:35:06.060
saying that that was a horrible decision. I'm not saying that foreign policy doesn't change. I'm not
00:35:10.600
saying it wasn't justified in the eighties against the Soviet Union, but we funded the people who
00:35:15.240
started the Taliban through the Afghan Mujahideen freedom fighters. We did it through Pakistan's
00:35:19.500
inter-services intelligence agency. Also one of our great allies, which created the Taliban,
00:35:27.280
which Harvard, Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, another kind of sort of loose ally in the
00:35:34.460
fight against the Soviet Union. And then the ISI, our great allies were harboring bin Laden for years,
00:35:39.640
but then they also kind of gave it up. So please, please spare me. I mentioned this earlier
00:35:43.720
on the show a few days ago. Spare me the sanctimony over the allies and the enemies. And
00:35:50.660
this is, if you're, if you support the Taliban, you're a white supremacist. Joe Biden supports the
00:35:56.320
Taliban. So is he a white supremacist? No, this is just a way of coming after anybody that in any way
00:36:06.300
creates a problem for the increasingly incoherent narrative of the ruling class. It also is being
00:36:13.820
used to make a political enemy and dissident out of anyone who supports the end of the Afghan war.
00:36:20.440
You're not allowed to do that. The media do not want you to do that. Meanwhile, we still have these
00:36:27.460
people that were supposed to get out of Afghanistan, right? We've already gotten a lot of Afghans out,
00:36:31.860
but we still have some Americans and some special Afghan allies who, who make a good case for why we
00:36:37.340
should get them out, including an interpreter. So there was an interpreter who actually rescued
00:36:41.020
Joe Biden and John Kerry and Chuck Hagel some years ago. Their helicopter went down and then this guy
00:36:47.880
helped get them out. And now he's been left behind. And he said, please save me. I'm going to be killed.
00:36:53.200
I'm in hiding with my family. Joe Biden, please get me out of the country. The U.S. still hasn't done
00:36:57.920
it. Jen Psaki comes out and says, don't worry, we will not leave you behind.
00:37:01.640
An interpreter who helped rescue then Senator Joe Biden when he was stranded 13 years ago in
00:37:06.800
Afghanistan is now in hiding. He told the Wall Street Journal, hello, Mr. President, save me and my
00:37:12.680
family. Don't forget me. What's your response to him? And why is he and other Afghan allies like him
00:37:18.860
still in the country if the president believes, as he said today, that the mission was an extraordinary
00:37:23.740
success? Well, I would say first, our message to him is thank you for fighting by our side for the
00:37:29.800
last 20 years. Thank you for the role you played in helping a number of my favorite people out of a
00:37:36.100
snowstorm and for all of the work you did. And our commitment is enduring, not just to American
00:37:41.760
citizens, but to our Afghan partners who have fought by our side. And our efforts and our focus
00:37:47.220
right now is, as you heard General McKenzie say and others say over the last 24 hours, is to the
00:37:52.800
diplomatic phase. We will get you out. We will honor your service. And we're committed to doing exactly
00:37:58.680
that. I'm sure this is a great comfort to this guy who's stuck in Afghanistan, right? This is a great
00:38:05.140
comfort because Jen Psaki, because the White House is saying they will get you out. Just like they said
00:38:12.700
they would not leave any Americans in Afghanistan before the final withdrawal, except they actually
00:38:17.060
did that. Just like they said Afghanistan would not fall to the Taliban anytime soon, even though it
00:38:22.840
did within a matter of days. Just like they said, just like they said, just like they said,
00:38:26.980
a promise from Joe Biden's White House and a buck 50 would get you a cup of coffee if Joe Biden's
00:38:37.320
inflation did not raise the price of a cup of coffee. Now it's going to be his word plus probably
00:38:42.160
three or four dollars to get you a cup of coffee. It's worth nothing. There is a consequence to
00:38:48.020
incompetence. There is a consequence to not fulfilling your promises. And the consequence is that if I were
00:38:52.500
that guy in Afghanistan, I'd stay in hiding. I'd figure out a plan B because I wouldn't rely on the
00:38:59.060
Biden administration. Most Americans believe Joe Biden should resign. That is a shocking,
00:39:09.380
that is a shocking number. It comes from Rasmussen, which is a right-leaning poll firm, but they've got
00:39:13.540
pretty good numbers. They've got a pretty good record. Rasmussen is saying 52% of Americans want Joe Biden to
00:39:21.380
resign. Only 39% are opposed to him resigning. A full 60% want him impeached. 37% do not want him impeached.
00:39:32.100
Furthermore, so that's really bad in and of itself, but then it gets even worse. A full 58% do not believe
00:39:40.660
that Kamala Harris is qualified to be president. And 47% of Americans haven't been paying attention.
00:39:47.180
Now 40%, oh no, it's, it's even crazier. 47% believe that she's not at all qualified to be
00:39:55.040
president. So I'm sorry, I've got to correct myself. Only 38% have not been paying attention.
00:40:00.100
They think she is qualified. And now this is the best news for Joe Biden because the majority of
00:40:07.800
Americans want him gone and an even greater majority of Americans want him impeached.
00:40:11.940
But Americans are so terrified of Kamala Harris that it probably wouldn't happen.
00:40:19.160
That's really big. As I mentioned earlier, I don't think Joe Biden should be impeached. I don't think
00:40:23.240
he's committed an impeachable offense. I know that these days you can be impeached for, you know,
00:40:28.520
how you take your coffee in the morning. I know that these days the constitutional legal requirements
00:40:32.520
for impeachment have been thrown by the wayside in favor of political considerations. But I'm still
00:40:37.260
standing by the constitution and I still think that there is a legal aspect to impeachment. And so I
00:40:42.920
don't think he's committed a crime as far as I can tell. The one crime he might be committing now
00:40:47.560
is coming out of the incoherence of American foreign policy because we helped to start a terrorist group
00:40:56.840
called the Haqqani Network. It was one of the largest recipients of, of CIA funding during our fight
00:41:02.960
in Afghanistan against the Soviets. The Haqqani Network is a terrorist organization and the United
00:41:08.280
States considers it officially a terrorist organization. And the Haqqani Network, the US
00:41:14.060
official headline is that the Haqqani Network and the Taliban are different. But in reality,
00:41:18.100
they're not. The Haqqani Network has been folded into the Taliban. They're the same thing now.
00:41:22.360
So the United States is allies with the Taliban, but we still consider the Haqqani Network a terrorist
00:41:27.220
organization. And we were just hearing yesterday from the White House and the State Department
00:41:31.680
that they very likely will fund the Taliban. They will send foreign aid to the Taliban,
00:41:37.080
which means they'll be funding a terrorist organization, which is a crime. So I get in
00:41:40.980
that way, he may have committed a crime, but otherwise it's just, it's just incompetence.
00:41:44.920
It's just maladministration, which is very bad, but I don't think it's impeachable.
00:41:49.080
And should he resign? I don't, I don't know. I don't want him to. I'm with the people who fear
00:41:55.920
Harris more than Biden. Biden seems to me mostly incompetent. And so when he's handling a withdrawal
00:42:03.960
from Afghanistan, which in principle, I think still many, most Americans support, even if he
00:42:09.440
bungles it tremendously, I just, I mean, that's, that's really awful. But I'm, I'm not convinced
00:42:15.380
we'd be in a better spot with Kamala Harris. This is really, really bad news for the White House.
00:42:19.620
When you're best shot at holding onto political power is that people hate your deputy even more,
00:42:26.120
you're not, you're not in a, in a terrific position. Meanwhile, the left's PR,
00:42:32.060
generally speaking, is not that great. The Taliban's got great PR. The Democratic Party
00:42:36.840
has pretty bad PR. And actually getting back to our first topic today, pro-life and pro-abortion,
00:42:42.560
a guest on MSNBC who was on Al Sharpton's show thought that it would be clever to compare
00:42:49.600
American pro-lifers to suicide bombers. This is a matter of civil rights. Having the right to an
00:42:57.380
abortion is a constitutional right. It's grounded in the rights of privacy that is within the
00:43:02.080
constitution. And I find it really interesting that part of this argument is an argument about,
00:43:08.780
you know, the rights and abortion is not explicitly listed in the constitution, but you know what,
00:43:13.360
neither is the right to bear arms. That the way that we interpret that law is the interpretation
00:43:18.940
of a constitutional provision, the second amendment. In this, we are interpreting another, we're
00:43:24.660
interpreting another constitutional provision, yet that's, we're not applying that same logic to
00:43:30.380
this situation. I'm not sure where this lady went to law school, but I think she might be
00:43:35.320
misinterpreting the constitution here because she's saying, yes, no, I mean, maybe the right to an
00:43:40.460
abortion. Yeah, sure. You can't find it in the constitution, but you can't find the right to bear,
00:43:43.760
keep and bear arms either. Except you can, it's in the second amendment and it's spelled out in
00:43:51.320
exactly those words. She, I don't even know what she's trying to say, but the constitution is quite
00:43:58.840
clear that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Meanwhile, as she
00:44:06.240
acknowledges, there is no right to an abortion. She's saying that the right to an abortion is implied
00:44:11.580
by the general right to privacy that also doesn't exist in the constitution. Show me the general
00:44:17.160
right to privacy. Where's that? Where's that? Good luck interpreting that in the, interpreting
00:44:22.380
that in the constitution. You're not going to find it. Then she goes on to make her final point.
00:44:28.200
We're all like suicide bombers. What it reminds me of quite honestly is a suicide bomber. Someone who
00:44:35.960
feels like they have the right and the moral duty to mess up somebody else's life for the greater good.
00:44:42.320
So the pro-lifers were like suicide bombers because you know what a suicide bomber does?
00:44:47.760
He has a suicide bomber believes that he has the right and the duty to mess up someone else's life
00:44:55.660
for what they perceive to be the greater good. Like an abortionist? Like you're saying to be like a
00:45:05.880
suicide bomber, you have to think that you have the right to mess up someone's life. So what is
00:45:09.440
messing up someone's life? Is messing up someone's life, I guess, preventing someone from killing
00:45:13.860
someone else if that person wants to kill someone else? I guess, you know, in a way you could call
00:45:19.100
that messing up someone's life, but I'm going to give you two scenarios. One is you prevent someone
00:45:23.820
from killing another person and that is inconvenient for that other person. So what is a greater example
00:45:30.900
of messing up someone's life? That or killing someone, which, which messes up someone's life
00:45:38.000
more? I think the latter probably does. So this woman, not the brightest bulb in the pack
00:45:46.580
on MSNBC with Al Sharpton, also not the sharpest tool in the shed.
00:45:52.360
He doesn't get any respect. No R-E-S-P-I-C-T, Al Sharpton.
00:46:02.240
Nor should this woman, because the argument she is making
00:46:04.920
is actually undercutting the point that she, she is trying and failing to make.
00:46:13.740
We've got so much more to get to, but we've got to pause it there. We're going to pause it there
00:46:19.500
on this good news that today, for the first time in a very long time,
00:46:27.040
the law got a little bit more just and babies are going to be able to live and they're going
00:46:32.340
to have a life. And this is good stuff. Enjoy the victories while we get them. They are few
00:46:36.240
and far between. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
00:46:38.800
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Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, a holy war breaks out after Texas bans abortion after detection of
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fetal heartbeat. The Biden administration continues to declare its own heroism while telling Americans
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that the Taliban might be our friends now. And Don Lemon says if you're unvaccinated,
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don't go to the hospital if you get sick. That's today on The Ben Shapiro Show. Give it a listen.