The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 998 - Libs Are Livid After Losing Child Sacrifice Rights

00:00:00.000 The libs are absolutely losing it over the Supreme Court's apparent decision to overrule

00:00:08.720 Roe versus Wade. I'm not just talking about the crazy hair color people on TikTok. I'm also

00:00:15.040 talking about the crazy United States senators. Senator Liawatha had a full scale emotional

00:00:22.940 breakdown over the court's apparent willingness to maybe sort of kind of restrict her ability

00:00:30.620 to kill little babies. Senator, how are you feeling? I am angry. Angry and upset? Angry and upset and

00:00:38.360 determined. The United States Congress can keep Roe versus Wade, the law of the land. They just need

00:00:44.920 to do it. I've never seen you so angry. You seem to be- This is what the Republicans have been

00:00:51.020 working toward this day for decades. They have been out there plotting, carefully cultivating

00:00:58.160 these Supreme Court justices so they could have a majority on the bench who would accomplish

00:01:04.540 something that the majority of Americans do not want. Sixty-nine percent of people across

00:01:10.360 this country, across this country, red states and blue states, old people and young people

00:01:16.900 want Roe versus Wade to maintain as the law of the land. We need to do that. And we have

00:01:24.040 a right. This shrill lunatic is on the verge of angry tears because the Supreme Court might take 1.00

00:01:42.500 her tomahawk away. You can look into her eyes and see a kind of madness. This is no mere political

00:01:50.000 issue. You look into her eyes, you're seeing this sense that Quetzalcoatl is going to be deprived of

00:01:55.940 his human sacrifices. That's the kind of issue we're talking about here, okay? Because Roe versus

00:02:00.980 Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and this case, Dobbs versus Jackson, Women's Health Organization,

00:02:06.620 these are not ordinary political cases, okay? And I would expect more leaks and I would expect a whole

00:02:13.120 lot more than leaks because this is about much more than some esoteric debate about the nature of the law.

00:02:19.620 This, for the left, is religious. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.68

00:02:32.120 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Ryan Reinbow, who says,

00:02:37.760 Jesus says, this is my body which will be given up for you. The left says, this is your body which

00:02:43.180 will be given up for me. This is a very good point, actually. The philosopher Peter Kreeft put it

00:02:48.180 slightly differently, but the same sort of idea. He said that abortion is the antichrist's sacrament,

00:02:55.300 that abortion uses the very same phrase, actually, that you see in the mass, this is my body,

00:03:02.100 in a blasphemously inverted way. Because the women say, this is my body, this is my body, 1.00

00:03:08.320 my choice. That's the mantra of the pro-abortion movement. It's so perfectly inverted

00:03:14.900 as to send a chill down anybody's spine. I think, actually, regardless of your religious views

00:03:22.060 or the way you look at other kind of political issues, you can just tell there's something

00:03:27.500 that's a little bit different about this issue.

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00:04:09.000 delivered. The libs are absolutely losing it over this Dobbs decision, which isn't even official yet,

00:04:17.560 by the way. We covered it yesterday. There was this leak from the Supreme Court. Probably the

00:04:22.200 the predominant theory right now is that it was a law clerk for one of the more leftist justices,

00:04:29.920 and most people seem to think it would be a justice in Sonia Sotomayor's office.

00:04:34.200 Again, this is just speculation, but the reasoning here is that Sonia Sotomayor is by far the furthest

00:04:39.120 left and most partisan judge, and so it would seem likely that she would hire a very far left,

00:04:44.580 very partisan law clerks. There are something like 12 people that this could be. When you look at the

00:04:52.720 number of Supreme Court law clerks, there are period, and then you look at the number of Supreme

00:04:57.740 Court law clerks there are for the liberal justices. It would seem this was leaked by a liberal justice.

00:05:02.280 Then we're talking about maybe a dozen people that this could be. So they'll, they're investigating it

00:05:07.820 right now. The Chief Justice John Roberts has ordered an investigation, but the leak has already

00:05:11.940 achieved its purpose, which is to get the left wild, angry, outside, demonstrating, putting a lot

00:05:17.160 of political pressure on the court and trying to flip the votes. There hasn't been a firm vote on

00:05:21.040 this yet. Roe versus Wade has not yet officially been overruled. We hope it will be, but we don't

00:05:25.940 yet know, and the left is already going into overdrive about it. Eric Swalwell, former future president of

00:05:32.340 the United States, one of the first guys out of the 2020 Democrat presidential primaries. Eric Swalwell,

00:05:37.820 who then embarrassed himself on national television. Eric Swalwell, who was then found to be

00:05:43.700 bumping uglies with a Chinese spy. Eric Swalwell tweeted out, the Republicans won't stop with banning

00:05:50.840 abortion. They want to ban interracial marriage. Do you want to save that? Well, then you should 1.00

00:05:55.980 probably vote. What? So the first part, Republicans want to ban abortion. True. Republicans want to ban

00:06:03.900 interracial marriage. Not true. Not only not true, but not related in any way to the, it would be, 0.93

00:06:11.480 it would be like saying the Republicans won't stop with banning abortion. And they, they like to put

00:06:19.940 pineapple on pizza too. What do you, you, do you support pineapple on pizza? Vote for me. It's just

00:06:25.200 completely unrelated. And the claim they make is not true. And also it's very difficult for Democrats

00:06:29.560 to make the claim that the pro-life movement is racist. Democrats always revert to this line of

00:06:36.900 calling their opponents racist because it's all they've got. When a leftist calls you a racist,

00:06:40.760 you know, you've won the argument and they do it completely baselessly, but they only do it because

00:06:45.000 to be called a racist is to be called the worst possible thing you can be in modern America. So they

00:06:50.220 just do it without any basis, but it's especially preposterous with the issue of abortion because black 1.00

00:06:55.340 babies are disproportionately the victims of abortion. The pro-life movement disproportionately

00:07:00.520 is saving black babies. The abortion rate among black women is five times the abortion rate among

00:07:07.620 white women. That's not even a number according to a pro-life research center. That's according to the 1.00

00:07:13.080 Guttmacher Institute. That's according to the pro-abortion center. And they're admitting, yes,

00:07:17.520 abortion kills five times as many black babies as it kills white babies. In New York, more black babies 0.94

00:07:26.900 are aborted than born. In New York, the most dangerous place for a black person is in his 0.99

00:07:32.900 mother's womb. So the pro-life movement really doesn't have anything to do with race. The pro-life

00:07:39.740 movement is simply about saving babies from being killed. Race doesn't play a role in it. But if you're

00:07:45.340 going to insist on making race an issue here, then the pro-life movement is one of the most pro-black 0.92

00:07:51.440 movements in the entire, probably the single most pro-black movement in the entire country. But what

00:07:57.120 does Eric Swalwell know? Nothing. He's just desperate. So he's scraping the bottle of the

00:08:01.080 barrel here. That's what Democrats are trying to do. And frankly, Swalwell was more articulate than Joe

00:08:06.880 Biden, which is damning with faint praise. But Joe Biden was asked his thoughts about this leaked

00:08:11.580 decision. And he almost formed a coherent English sentence. The idea that we're going to make a

00:08:18.020 judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child based on

00:08:29.500 a decision by the Supreme Court, I think goes way overboard. And the decision that we're going to be,

00:08:36.660 and we're deciding, and no one decides we're going to have no abortion. Come on, man. Come on,

00:08:42.660 Jack. Come on here. Corn pop. That's just too much, man. Give me an ice cream cone. So it would

00:08:48.940 seem that the point he's trying to make is that the court should not overrule Roe versus Wade. And

00:08:54.520 then we know elsewhere, Biden has said Roe versus Wade is so central, so important to, in the words of

00:09:00.640 John Fetterman, who's the Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, now Democrat candidate for Senate,

00:09:04.480 abortion is sacred. They actually say abortion is sacred, just like every demon worshiping tribe in 0.98

00:09:11.700 the history of the world. It's sacred to sacrifice little babies. Because Biden and the Democrats have

00:09:18.440 taken up this line, they're saying that if the court does overrule Roe and does get rid of the

00:09:22.900 fictional national right to an abortion, that we need a national law passed by Congress to codify that

00:09:29.660 abortion protection, that license to abortion into law. The mistake that Joe makes here in his line

00:09:35.980 is he admits that abortion kills a baby. Because what the Democrats have been doing in recent years,

00:09:43.240 I say Democrats, or I say leftist, or I say the pro-abortion movement, there is some distinction

00:09:47.640 between the three, but not much. There used to be much more of a distinction, like back when Joe Biden

00:09:52.760 was voting to try to overturn Roe versus Wade in the states. Can you forget that? Do we all forget

00:09:58.200 that? I guess we do. The New York Times actually didn't forget this about three years ago.

00:10:02.380 The headline, when Joe Biden voted to let states overturn Roe versus Wade, the year was 1981.

00:10:08.600 There was an amendment that was being proposed by Senator Hatch, I guess it was. The amendment would

00:10:16.080 have overruled Roe versus Wade at the state level and said states can get rid of Roe if they want to,

00:10:22.480 because there's no constitutional right to an abortion. Joe Biden voted for that amendment. So he voted,

00:10:26.980 practically speaking, to overrule Roe. Now he's completely changed his views on this,

00:10:31.820 but he hasn't changed his rhetoric all that much. And so even in that clip of Biden defending

00:10:37.240 Roe versus Wade and saying we shouldn't overrule it, he says we need the right to abort a child.

00:10:42.560 A child? I thought it was a clump of cell, Joe. I thought it was just a zygote or a

00:10:48.300 blastula or whatever silly scientific term they use to describe a baby. And Joe didn't do that. He said,

00:10:54.540 no, you need to be able to abort a child. In the words of Naomi Wolf, the feminist who I thought 0.97

00:10:59.260 gave a very honest description of the left's view of abortion, she said now probably 25 years ago,

00:11:05.140 she said, we need to admit that the baby is a baby, the baby is alive, and women need the right 1.00

00:11:09.740 to kill that baby in all of its humanity if they want to be the same as men. Ghastly, it's a horrific

00:11:15.480 opinion, but at least she's being honest there. At least Joe Biden was accidentally being honest

00:11:22.480 there. Yeah, we're aborting a child, not even just a baby, a child, a mother killing her own 0.70

00:11:27.520 child. What a society in which mothers kill their own children will do anything. There's no limit to 1.00

00:11:32.340 what they can do. And this is a big change, big change for Joe Biden, who once had, I think,

00:11:39.320 sincere opposition to abortion. At the very least, it was politically convenient for him. Now, 0.80

00:11:44.520 whatever sincerity that was and whatever convenience existed, that's totally gone. The guy is full

00:11:49.460 throatedly in support of ritual human sacrifice. That's not good. That's really bad for our political

00:11:58.240 situation. It's not good to have a president who is pushing that sort of thing. We're in a very tense

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00:13:19.400 the leak that showed up in Politico yesterday, is legit. There was some question yesterday when

00:13:25.120 we were talking about it on the show. We said, we don't know if it's real or not. It seems to be

00:13:28.100 real. It sounds like him. It looks like an opinion, but we don't know if it's real. John Roberts

00:13:32.560 confirmed that it is real. The chief justice said, to the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the

00:13:40.540 court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations. It will not succeed. The work of

00:13:44.160 the court will not be affected in any way. Court employees have an exemplary and important

00:13:50.740 tradition of respecting the confidentiality of the judicial process and upholding the trust of the

00:13:54.420 court. This was a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the court and

00:14:00.640 the community of public servants who work here. I have directed the marshal of the court to

00:14:04.660 investigate the source of the leak. This is legit. We don't know exactly what the opinion is going to

00:14:11.780 turn out to be. Right now, it's just a draft. It seems as though there is a 5-4 majority to overrule

00:14:18.700 Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, but we don't know. Judges change their votes all the time

00:14:23.860 until the decision is actually handed down. It's anybody's game. It also is even more complicated

00:14:30.840 because it looks like the vote was 6-3 to uphold the Mississippi pro-life law that triggered this

00:14:36.620 case in the first place. But then the vote was only 5-4 to overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood

00:14:43.300 v. Casey. So it looks like John Roberts, the chief justice, may have flipped or not even flipped,

00:14:48.560 just sided with the conservatives on the law, but sided with the liberals on upholding Roe v. Wade and

00:14:55.260 Planned Parenthood v. Casey. But we don't know. Is the political pressure going to work? Maybe.

00:14:59.360 Is this the end of the shenanigans here to try to undo this decision? I strongly doubt it.

00:15:05.820 Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

00:15:12.320 Roe is not an ordinary case. Some cases in the history of the Supreme Court exist chiefly as

00:15:22.120 instruments to debate esoteric legal questions. There's a case I'm reminded of called United States

00:15:28.500 versus 95 barrels alleged apple cider vinegar. This case comes from 1924, I believe. And the

00:15:38.080 case is over whether or not a packing company mislabeled its apple cider vinegar because it

00:15:45.720 said the vinegar was from selected apples. And in fact, the vinegar was from dried apples. And the

00:15:52.080 court debated this subtle distinction, what that meant for the law. And it's a very interesting case

00:15:59.040 to debate in law school. On the other hand, you've got a case like Roe v. Wade, which consigned 62 0.70

00:16:06.340 million babies and counting to ritual slaughter. Those are very different cases, okay? In one,

00:16:13.320 we can play by the Marquess of Queensbury rules. We can follow all the civilized customs and the norms

00:16:21.560 of the court. And we can have debates over the minutia of these legal details. The other sorts of

00:16:28.120 cases have much more urgent practical implications. And there is no case more urgent and more practical

00:16:34.440 than Roe v. Wade. It is truly a matter of life and death to the tune of almost a million human

00:16:39.620 beings per year. It doesn't get more tangible than that. Furthermore, this is a religious issue.

00:16:46.680 It's a religious issue for me. It's a religious issue for the pro-lifers who think that it is

00:16:51.060 extremely evil for a country to condone the slaughter of babies. But it's a religious issue

00:16:57.160 for the left too, which is calling this sacred, which is saying this is a sacred right, which is saying

00:17:03.340 that for women to be truly free, they must have the license to kill their babies. 1.00

00:17:11.340 Elizabeth Warren's crazy eyes and shrill voice, why I'm angry? I've never been this angry. Right.

00:17:16.220 You've never been this angry because you've been driven to a kind of religious mania because you're

00:17:20.700 worshiping demons. That's why. Because your political actions and the rituals that you are trying to

00:17:27.540 uphold are, whether you know it or not, actually demonic. Because all you're doing is the same 0.95

00:17:33.920 thing that those Aztecs were doing, the same thing that ancient Middle Eastern tribes were doing with

00:17:38.780 Moloch and Baal. You're just sacrificing babies. And you think it's really scientific and really 0.91

00:17:43.620 modern and enlightened because you're sacrificing babies on the altar of ideologized liberation and

00:17:51.100 on the altar of career and on the altar of money and on the altar of individual autonomy. But it's just

00:17:55.940 the same thing. It's just exactly the same thing that the ancient pagans of yore were doing with

00:18:02.040 named demons such as Moloch and Baal. You're just sacrificing your babies to what you perceive to

00:18:08.440 be a higher calling, which is in fact a much lower calling. Okay. The reason I bring all this up is not

00:18:14.480 just to get into a theological discourse over the implications of abortion, that we could be here

00:18:20.620 all day if we did that. But it's because we need to be honest about what this case represents.

00:18:26.400 I mentioned yesterday that everyone was surprised. They were so surprised that this unprecedented

00:18:31.740 singular action in the history of the court to leak this document, it destroys the trust of the court.

00:18:36.640 How could someone do this? How could someone do this? They kill babies. What do you mean,

00:18:39.720 how could they do this? They do things that are a whole lot worse. I'm reminded of

00:18:43.160 Norm Macdonald was talking to, the late great Norm Macdonald was talking to Patton Oswalt,

00:18:48.120 his fellow comedian. And Patton Oswalt said, you know, this Bill Cosby issue, the Bill Cosby sex

00:18:56.040 crimes, I think the worst part of it is the hypocrisy. And Norm Macdonald responded to him

00:19:01.920 and said, I don't think so. I think the worst part is the raping. In my experience, most rapists are

00:19:07.920 hypocrites. Very few are open and bragging about their raping. And they say, oh yeah, I'm raping,

00:19:14.060 but I'm not going to hide it. Okay. I know it's not politically correct, but you know, I'm right.

00:19:18.540 And they say, well, at least he's not a hypocrite because that's, that would be the worst thing,

00:19:21.260 right? That was Norm's funny way of pointing out that people who commit enormous sins will more

00:19:28.960 easily commit lesser sins. People who kill little babies, it's about the most enormous sin I can think

00:19:36.660 of. People who defend the mass ritual slaughter of little babies. I think they're going to be able to

00:19:41.940 upend some norms and traditions at the court. I think they're going to probably be capable of

00:19:47.500 violating the trust of the clerks. Okay. Cause that's a much lesser sin than the issue at hand.

00:19:53.760 And, and the pro-life movement has done a great job. I am not criticizing the pro-life movement. Okay.

00:19:59.400 But I fear that some of us in the pro-life movement have believed our own press releases

00:20:05.000 for the better part of 50 years. Now pro-lifers have focused on the technical unconstitutionality

00:20:12.460 of Roe and Casey. They focused on this one line in particular, which they say almost reflexively,

00:20:17.740 they say, you know, if Roe versus Wade is overturned, that actually won't make abortion

00:20:21.200 illegal. That will just return the issue of abortion to the States. And whether you support

00:20:25.140 abortion or oppose abortion, I think we can all agree that it belongs in the States and specifically

00:20:29.500 with the people through their legislatures, that's where it belongs. So we can decide the issue

00:20:33.160 however we want for ourselves. That's the official line. The line has worked. Apparently it gave us

00:20:41.520 this Alito opinion. It could severely restrict abortion. It's not the whole story. There are

00:20:47.460 some conservative legal scholars. I'm thinking of John Finnis and Robbie George who have gone further

00:20:52.160 to argue, no, actually the Supreme court should decide the issue of abortion. No, actually the court has

00:20:57.300 every right and responsibility to decide the issue of abortion because the 14th amendment

00:21:02.720 provides equal protection and the little babies should be protected by the 14th amendment.

00:21:08.380 So actually they make an argument that contradicts the main conservative argument for it,

00:21:13.780 that we should return it to the States and give it into the hands of the people. They say, no,

00:21:16.880 actually there is a constitutional protection against abortion, but okay, that argument didn't win.

00:21:21.080 The argument that appears to have won at the Supreme court is over the technical matter,

00:21:25.860 not so much of what Roe versus Wade represents, but who has the right to decide the question

00:21:32.700 of abortion? Okay, fine. Whatever works. Any even semi-plausible argument that works,

00:21:39.940 any moral way to restrict abortion is fine by me, but that will not be sufficient for us to understand

00:21:48.000 why the left is losing their minds over this. If this were merely just a sort of technical,

00:21:52.580 interesting, scholarly debate over who gets to decide certain things in the constitution,

00:21:56.220 you wouldn't see Liz Warren having steam come out of her ears and fire in her eyes. Okay. 1.00

00:22:00.080 You wouldn't have unprecedented singular violations of the trust of the court. The reason this is

00:22:04.980 happening is because Roe v. Wade is not about federalism and Roe v. Wade is not about the

00:22:10.300 separation of powers. Roe v. Wade is about killing babies. Okay. And the stakes are extraordinarily high

00:22:16.540 here. And, and we need to be honest about what this case represents if we want to understand what is

00:22:23.500 going to occur into the future. Because this leak, that, that is not the end of the shenanigans around

00:22:30.620 this case. That is the beginning of the shenanigans around this case. Prepare for attempts at court

00:22:37.480 packing, prepare for attempts at passing a national right to abortion, prepare for attempts to get rid 0.99

00:22:43.440 of the filibuster to get through the national right to abortion because Biden doesn't have the votes

00:22:47.500 to do it. Prepare for mostly peaceful riots in the streets, prepare for lots of shrieking,

00:22:54.560 prepare for the left to be basically ready to burn down the constitution.

00:22:59.840 They've all already said that they're going to do all of these things, by the way. They've,

00:23:03.400 they've even mocked the court. You've seen prominent left-wing accounts on Twitter and on social media

00:23:07.780 that have said, why are we listening to these judges? We can completely ignore them. Who cares?

00:23:11.720 We can push them off a bridge. No one would care. Why are we letting them tell us how we need to live

00:23:16.100 our lives? Why are we letting them interpret the law for us? Burn it down. That's the kind of

00:23:20.740 language that they are using because this issue cuts to the very heart of the left's, not just

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00:25:35.040 to preserve the real American way of life today. We will be right back with a lot more.

00:25:39.820 Woke corporations are getting in on the freak out over the potential of overruling Roe v. Wade.

00:25:57.980 Amazon announced on Monday that it would pay up to $4,000 in travel expenses for employees who want

00:26:06.360 to go out of state to get an abortion. This was at a staff meeting on Monday. It includes a bunch of

00:26:14.260 medically related travel expenses. They will reimburse that travel for you and pay for you to

00:26:18.520 go get medical care. And they will pay for you to go kill your baby. This is according to Reuters.

00:26:25.020 If an employee cannot get an abortion within 100 miles of home, abortion will cover up to $4,000.

00:26:31.880 Of course, Amazon is doing this. And we on the right, by the way, need to be brutally honest

00:26:42.220 about why Amazon is doing this. Amazon is doing this in part because it's a generally leftist

00:26:48.340 corporation. Sure. Yeah, that's true. Amazon is doing this in part maybe because the leadership of

00:26:55.820 Amazon supports abortion. Yeah, that's probably true. But it's not just leftism. It's not just

00:27:02.420 cultural Marxism, okay? It's also capitalism that is impelling Amazon to do this. It is better for

00:27:10.000 Amazon if its employees kill their babies. It is more expensive for Amazon and worse for Amazon's

00:27:18.400 production and distribution schedule if its employees do have babies. Having babies really gums up the 0.93

00:27:25.620 works when you've got female employees because you've got to give them probably a little bit of 1.00

00:27:30.960 time off before the baby comes, certainly right around the delivery. Then you've got to give them

00:27:35.500 maternity leave. You've got to pay for them not to work. Then they're not going to be as focused on 1.00

00:27:40.380 their jobs. Let's just be honest about it, okay? They're going to have to take a day off here and

00:27:44.840 there if the kid gets sick, if they can't get childcare. I mean, ideally, the corporations think

00:27:49.240 that the parents can just ship the kid off to daycare from day three. But maybe it's not going to work

00:27:55.140 out some days and so the employees are not going to be quite as reliable as the kids get a little

00:27:59.540 bit older and they need a little bit more from mommy, maybe around the community driving them

00:28:04.700 here or there. Maybe mommy is going to have to only work a few days a week. It's not good for the 1.00

00:28:09.020 companies to have to deal with this labor issue. And so it is entirely in Amazon's economic interest

00:28:17.620 to subsidize abortion for its employees. The kids are only going to cause problems for Amazon's bottom 1.00

00:28:24.920 line. That's not Marxism. That's capitalism. And it's why I'm all for it. I love private property.

00:28:33.240 I love flourishing and free markets. I love a good free economy as opposed to a communist sort of

00:28:40.420 economy. But this is why I don't worship at the altar of the free market the way that

00:28:45.720 some people on the right do. This is why, though I love the market, I find the market to be an

00:28:51.780 instrument to human flourishing. Private property is an essential instrument toward human flourishing,

00:28:59.140 but it is an instrument pointed toward the good of the whole political community.

00:29:03.900 If capitalism and private property and private enterprise are being disordered and perverted

00:29:10.380 and abused to justify and incentivize the killing of children, then we've got to stop that. We have

00:29:16.200 a responsibility in the political community to go in and say, no, Amazon, you don't get to subsidize

00:29:22.920 your employees killing their kids. No, we're going to get together in our political community. We're

00:29:27.780 going to pass a law against that. We are going to restrict your free actions in the free market.

00:29:32.660 We're going to put onerous regulations on private business and capitalism so that you don't

00:29:38.820 pay to kill kids because we know it's in your economic interest. We know you have an incentive

00:29:44.880 to do that. So we're going to change that incentive. Every marketplace, we talk about

00:29:50.820 the free marketplace in the economy. We talk about the free marketplace of ideas and usually the way

00:29:55.820 we refer to it as this kind of rollicking, open, anarchistic space almost where there are no rules,

00:30:01.600 but that's not how marketplaces are. There are rules to marketplaces. That's what defines a

00:30:05.700 marketplace. Marketplaces are within a certain geographical area. There are certain rules of

00:30:10.660 etiquette and behavior that you have to observe. There are zoning restrictions that you have to

00:30:13.840 observe. The same is true politically and morally. Amazon does not have any right, any fundamental

00:30:23.740 sacred right to pay for its employees' abortions. And what we should do, once the Republicans retake the

00:30:30.860 House and Congress, they should pass a law and ban it and outlaw it and say, no, it's not just you,

00:30:35.720 Amazon. You're not allowed to pay for your employees' abortions. There's no right to an abortion and 1.00

00:30:42.340 there's no right even for private industry to do that either. It's simply wrong. It's egregiously

00:30:47.120 wrong and we're going to stop it. We have to be honest about some of the potential pitfalls

00:30:55.860 of capitalism or of our own economic policies if we don't want to lose our economic vision.

00:31:02.780 Because if our vision for politics and the economy gets perverted and leads to really bad outcomes,

00:31:07.860 then it's going to be overthrown and we're going to lose the whole damn thing and we're going to end 0.63

00:31:11.020 up living under a bunch of commies. Okay, another issue that we've got to be careful with here when

00:31:16.580 we talk about capitalism and individualism is what it does to the family. Story here about a

00:31:23.840 fictosexual. Have you heard of fictosexuals? I had not. Now I have. Fictosexual man who married a 16-year-old 0.98

00:31:33.180 hologram can't communicate with her after software support was eliminated. Star-crossed digital lovers

00:31:42.460 here. This is a man, a 38-year-old Japanese man who wed a holographic image of a 16-year-old blue-haired

00:31:51.160 anime character. So it's not that the technology is 16 years old, but that the character depicted is

00:31:57.420 16 years old. The character's name is Hatsune Miku and he fell in love with this character.

00:32:06.680 He apparently had a difficult social life. He was bullied at work. He was ostracized.

00:32:11.660 And so he is now pretending to be married to this digital character. But it's really,

00:32:18.520 they're star-crossed lovers because the company stopped updating the software. So now he can no

00:32:23.640 longer even pretend to interact with the hologram. Obviously, this guy's got a lot of problems.

00:32:28.260 He should receive some help and his co-workers who were bullying him should be nicer to him

00:32:33.520 and he should be brought into real community. This sort of thing should not be encouraged or even

00:32:43.420 really permitted. The extremes of individualism, the extremes of do whatever you want as long as

00:32:52.880 it doesn't hurt me, that has no place in a conservative political philosophy. It has no place

00:32:59.500 in Japan or our country for that matter. We live in a society. We have a responsibility toward one

00:33:06.320 another. This fictosexual story is not just some weird tabloid quirk. It's where society is headed. 0.97

00:33:13.620 Because what lies at the bottom of this is that reality doesn't really matter anymore. That's the

00:33:21.600 basis of this. Reality doesn't really matter. Physical reality, spiritual reality. We can now move

00:33:26.340 into digital reality, virtual reality, the metaverse. We can go and deny the realities of sex. We can

00:33:34.840 pretend to be the opposite sex if we want. And if we're living in the metaverse, it doesn't matter 0.65

00:33:38.680 because our bodies don't really play a role in virtual reality. We can deny our community. We can

00:33:45.740 just fall in love with a computer and end up in a solipsistic hell. We can fall in love with a

00:33:53.560 computer and just end up in our own delusions and our own fantasies. And this is encouraged

00:33:58.080 by technology and by an extremely individualist society and economy and politics. And that's not

00:34:04.460 good. That's not going to make anybody happy. The fictosexual is not happy. I bet he's very lonely 1.00

00:34:10.440 and very sad. And he thinks that pretending to be married to a computer is making him happier and is

00:34:16.300 providing a sort of band-aid over the pain, but it's not making anything better. It's actually only

00:34:20.660 making the condition worse. We've got to speak honestly about that. That's what a lot of this

00:34:27.740 abortion debate is over. Even the kind of basic conservative legal argument, hey, look,

00:34:34.360 if we overrule Roe v. Wade, you can still get abortions in New York. You can still get abortions

00:34:39.780 in California. That's fine. That's fine by me, but it's not fine. It's not fine. Okay. Certain things are

00:34:46.060 just true and other, and certain things are false. Certain things are good and certain things are bad

00:34:50.320 and certain things shouldn't be tolerated anywhere. And we actually do have the right to make that

00:34:54.680 claim. We have the right to tell our fellow Americans to some degree how to live. That's not

00:35:02.980 authoritarian. That's not fascistic. It's not totalitarian. It's called living in a society.

00:35:08.440 It's called being a citizen. That's, that's what that is. And Americans once understood that

00:35:13.520 and we have become alienated from that, not only because of the radical left, not only because of

00:35:19.620 Marxism, but also because of the disorders and perversions of a kind of capitalism too. And if

00:35:25.920 we want to preserve our traditional system of free enterprise and private property and the American

00:35:30.820 way of life, we need to be honest about that. And we need to correct that sort of thing.

00:35:34.920 Speaking of romance, speaking of virtual digital romance, Skeet Davidson, Mr. Pete Skeet Davidson,

00:35:46.340 that guy from Saturday Night Live who is destroying Kanye West's marriage to Kim Kardashian,

00:35:54.900 Pete Davidson has, has taken his predations to a new level. He has gotten the initials of Kanye West's

00:36:03.480 children tattooed on his neck. This is extremely creepy and weird behavior.

00:36:11.960 He was texting Kanye. He said, hey man, I want us all to get along. I just want to be friends with

00:36:16.000 your kids. And Kanye said, you're never going near my kids. Absolutely under no circumstances, weirdo.

00:36:21.660 Get out of here. And you can tell a major difference between the left and the right

00:36:27.380 based on where they fall in the Kanye story. I think a lot of people are just going to ignore the

00:36:32.280 Kanye story because the Kardashians are an absolute plague on American culture. But the Kardashians

00:36:39.100 are very popular. Kanye West is probably the most popular entertainer in the world. Even Skeet Davidson

00:36:43.900 is fairly popular. And so these people have our attention. The conservatives tend to be Team Kanye

00:36:50.840 and the libs tend to be Team Skeet and Kim Kardashian. This is not only because Kanye West put on the

00:36:59.260 MAGA hat and like Donald Trump. I think it actually has nothing to do with it. The reason is because

00:37:04.080 Kanye West very publicly wants to save his marriage and keep his family together and raise his children.

00:37:10.580 And Kim Kardashian does an interview in Vogue magazine and says, my 40s are just going to be

00:37:14.760 about me. Enough of other people. Enough of living my life for other people. Like, you know,

00:37:19.640 my kids and my family and my responsibilities toward my community and my God. No, no. I'm just going to do

00:37:25.220 it for me. Me, me, me. And I'm going to date this meth head looking Saturday Night Live comedian who

00:37:30.280 gets my kids' names tattooed on his necks like a total creep. That's what I'm going to do. Me,

00:37:35.500 me, me. And the same thing with Skeet, who's going in and taking another man's wife, which is just wrong.

00:37:41.200 And what the libs argue is, well, Kim Kardashian wasn't happy in her marriage. And look, there's no

00:37:47.400 evidence that Kanye West was abusive in any way, that he was some kind of ogre. But you know,

00:37:52.260 he's a weird guy. He's eccentric. I think everyone knew that going in. And so Kim should just be able

00:37:56.880 to leave whenever she wants because the left has absolutely no respect for marriage and has been

00:38:00.820 trying to destroy it for a long time. Because getting back to our earlier discussion about

00:38:05.260 hyper-individualism, the left and some portions of the right actually agree on a fundamental political

00:38:12.680 issue. They think that the basic unit of society is the individual. The left says it's just the

00:38:17.260 individual and we have to collect them all together into the collective. And the misguided part of the

00:38:22.060 right says the fundamental unit of society is the individual and we got to keep them individuals.

00:38:26.140 Those are two sides of the same coin. That's why both of those ideologies as they advance seem to

00:38:32.000 go in the same direction. Whereas the actual alternative is that the basic unit of society

00:38:35.780 is not the individual to be collectivized or otherwise. The basic unit of society is the family.

00:38:42.640 And the family provides a real bulwark against the predations of the radicals who want to upend

00:38:48.560 our entire culture. The family is sacred. You want to talk about something that's actually sacred?

00:38:55.700 It's the family. The left says it's sacred to destroy the family, whether through legislation

00:39:00.580 or through baby sacrifice or anything else. The right says, no, to preserve the family is sacred.

00:39:06.780 So what do we do about this? What do we do about a culture in which kids are,

00:39:12.780 are, why, across the country are the victims of things like divorce, of mommy bringing creepy

00:39:19.860 boyfriends like Skeet Davidson around, of, of tumultuous sorts of relationships and upbringing?

00:39:26.020 The answer is, make it a little harder to get divorced. I'm not even saying make it illegal to

00:39:32.100 get divorced, but make it a little harder to get divorced. Until about half a century ago,

00:39:36.740 you had to provide a reason to get divorced. When you enter into a marriage, you're signing a contract

00:39:43.020 and it's not just any kind of contract. It's not like you're just putting together an accounting

00:39:46.240 firm. You're getting together and saying, I am making a vow to create a fundamental political

00:39:52.600 unit here with babies, with responsibilities. So it's going to be hard to get out of it.

00:39:57.740 Now, for the last half century, we've had something called no-fault divorce. That's been a disaster

00:40:02.740 for everyone, for kids, for husbands, for wives, for everyone. After a wife gets a few wrinkles 1.00

00:40:09.640 around her eyes, the husband can just leave her now without having to really do anything at all.

00:40:14.660 Without having to prove cause, he can go and shtup his secretary. Or in this case, the wife, 0.57

00:40:20.820 when she gets sick of her husband's eccentricities, can just leave and take the kids and expose the kids 0.96

00:40:25.120 to some creep like Pete Davidson. Kanye has nothing that he can do about it. That's not good.

00:40:29.420 It's not good for anybody. And it gives us a society in which the Skeet Davidsons of the world

00:40:35.360 can go in and screw up all of our families. Don't do it. Don't let that weirdo do it, man.

00:40:40.680 An earlier American cult, an earlier and saner American culture would not have let Skeet Davidson

00:40:46.400 around its kids. Now, that requires a change in our politics and that requires a change in our law,

00:40:52.600 a reversion to the traditional American way of life. And we might be getting a change in our law

00:40:57.500 because we've got one of the most vocally pro-family candidates right now who just won a big primary

00:41:01.840 in Ohio. The Ohio GOP Senate primary has been one of the weather vanes to see which way the GOP is

00:41:13.320 moving and which way the country is moving. This was the race between J.D. Vance. He's the author of

00:41:19.900 Hillbilly Elegy. He's been running a campaign as the kind of boy from Appalachia who's not going to 0.98

00:41:26.280 shill for megacorporations, who's much more of a Trumpy kind of candidate, who says we need pro-family

00:41:31.240 policies. Forget all these kind of crazy intellectual abstractions. We need to support families. We need

00:41:36.320 to support workers. We need to support the traditional American way of life. We've got to

00:41:39.840 watch out about trade. We've got to seriously diminish immigration. We've got to protect America. 1.00

00:41:46.220 That was J.D. Vance's campaign. He was running against Josh Mandel. Josh Mandel was one of the,

00:41:53.440 he was actually moving much more in that direction as well, but he was widely perceived as being a

00:41:58.800 little bit more of the older kind of conservative movement type. So still, you know, hardcore and

00:42:05.280 right wing, but maybe a little bit more in the, of the Tea Party-ish variety. I don't know if that's

00:42:12.500 exactly fair. That, that was the perception though. And then you had Matt Dolan. He was another,

00:42:19.020 he was an older Republican who was also running for this seat. And J.D. Vance won.

00:42:27.180 And the breakdown is really interesting here because Trump endorsed J.D. Vance.

00:42:31.820 Ted Cruz endorsed Josh Mandel. I don't know who endorsed Matt Dolan, but the race then came down to

00:42:38.620 Vance and Mandel. And Vance pulled it out.

00:42:43.780 Now, there were a lot of questions about these candidates because J.D. Vance had been much more

00:42:51.100 liberal at earlier parts of his life. He had said lots of mean and nasty things about Donald Trump

00:42:56.860 and Trump endorsed him anyway. And so there were questions, all these questions as there always

00:43:00.660 are about candidates of, is he sincere? Does he really mean it? Is he really conservative?

00:43:03.860 Same kinds of accusations against Josh Mandel, though they were more focused on J.D. Vance.

00:43:08.640 It, it, that doesn't really matter. That's not really what I'm not, I'm not talking about what

00:43:12.960 will these politicians actually do? I'm talking about what do they stand for? What do they represent?

00:43:20.000 What's going to matter? This is a huge win, a huge win for J.D. Vance. It's a huge win for Donald

00:43:25.280 Trump. And it is a huge win for the new right. Whatever the new right means, pro-family,

00:43:35.820 anti-mega-corporation, pro-America first, anti-globalization, anti-immigration, pro-life,

00:43:51.320 pro-raising a family on a single income, that kind of political agenda, that won. That got a big

00:43:58.020 boost. The other candidate who is really pushing those kinds of things is Blake Masters, who's

00:44:04.860 running for Senate in Arizona. We'll see how that, how that goes. Depending on how these primaries

00:44:08.880 shake out, and then depending on whether these guys can make it into the Senate, you could see

00:44:12.080 a major shift in the GOP and in American politics. And it's not just about the technical issues of,

00:44:20.620 well, according to the Constitution, actually, we have no right to impose certain tariffs on,

00:44:23.760 no, it's not that. It's about pretty basic stuff. Stop killing babies, defend the American way of life,

00:44:28.460 keep these weirdos away from our kids, whether we're talking about in school or whether

00:44:31.200 talking about skeet in the Kardashian household. Like, really basic, tangible stuff.

00:44:38.780 So get ready for the Nazi comparisons. MSNBC's Mehdi Hassan is making the claim now that not just

00:44:46.320 J.D. Vance and not just Donald Trump, but pretty much all of the Republicans are Nazis.

00:44:51.460 I mean, it's easy in American discourse to talk simplistically about the far left and the far

00:44:57.780 right as two equally dangerous fringe blocks. Elon Musk has done it plenty of times just in the past

00:45:02.740 week. But here's the difference. America's far left wants to give us free health care and free

00:45:07.180 child care. America's far right wants to give us white supremacy and no democracy. And this 0.99

00:45:12.880 asymmetrical polarization of U.S. politics would be laughable if it weren't so horrifying. We are living

00:45:19.040 through an unspeakably dangerous moment. The pro-QAnon, pro-neo-Nazi faction of the Republican

00:45:24.740 Party is poised to expand dramatically come the midterms. We're just two years away from Donald

00:45:30.440 Trump, very possibly re-seizing executive power. If that happens, we may look back on this past week

00:45:36.760 as a pivotal moment when a petulant and not so bright billionaire casually bought one of the world's

00:45:42.980 most influential messaging machines and just handed it to the far right.

00:45:47.100 There it is. Did you hear that? He brought it back to Elon. This is all about Elon. Elon,

00:45:51.920 who is a liberal guy who voted for Obama twice, who is a tech billionaire, but thinks that maybe,

00:45:58.100 huh, I suppose some conservatives should be able to speak a little bit more freely on one of the big

00:46:03.440 tech platforms. That is enough to elicit the shrieks of neo-Nazism and racism in the end of democracy

00:46:11.380 because the conservatives get to have their voice heard. It is ironic, of course. I mean,

00:46:20.820 on this question of abortion, which is causing the libs to lose their minds right now,

00:46:24.940 the conservative argument that seems to be winning the day is we need more democracy on this issue.

00:46:31.120 The constitution does not definitively answer this question of abortion, so you've got to leave the

00:46:35.240 political issue to the people. Pro-democracy. The libs are saying, no, we don't want that kind

00:46:40.100 of democracy. No, no, no. We need some radical leftist lawyers to decide this question on the 0.96

00:46:45.760 Supreme Court. Much as they seem to hate the Supreme Court, they sure do love it when the Supreme Court

00:46:51.460 enshrines their radical and minority vision into the constitution. Just writes it in there with 0.92

00:46:58.320 invisible ink between the emanations and the penumbres. They now say that the Supreme Court

00:47:02.180 has lots of white people on it, and men in particular, and they can't vote to overrule 0.53

00:47:07.500 Roe v. Wade. Well, the court that enshrined Roe v. Wade was entirely men. So what are you talking 0.83

00:47:13.480 about? The arguments are not coherent, and so what it boils down to is the same old thing.

00:47:22.000 It's racism. Eric Swalwell says, if you oppose the killing of babies, you're probably, you're a racist.

00:47:27.820 First, this guy on MSNBC is neo-Nazi. If you think conservatives should be able to speak at all

00:47:32.680 whatsoever on social media, you're a Nazi. This is not the way that republics are supposed to conduct

00:47:40.220 our political debates. This is not civilized. This is not standards. This is not norms that Americans

00:47:45.240 have traditionally been used to, but that's because this issue is different. That's because this is not

00:47:51.780 just a little scholarly debate around a classroom. We're talking about questions of life and death.

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Ep. 998 - Libs Are Livid After Losing Child Sacrifice Rights

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