Ep. 998 - Libs Are Livid After Losing Child Sacrifice Rights
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The Libs are absolutely losing it over the Supreme Court's apparent decision to overrule Roe v. Wade. Senator Lia Swart (D-NJ) is on the verge of an emotional breakdown over the court's apparent willingness to maybe allow her to kill little babies.
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The libs are absolutely losing it over the Supreme Court's apparent decision to overrule
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Roe versus Wade. I'm not just talking about the crazy hair color people on TikTok. I'm also
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talking about the crazy United States senators. Senator Liawatha had a full scale emotional
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breakdown over the court's apparent willingness to maybe sort of kind of restrict her ability
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to kill little babies. Senator, how are you feeling? I am angry. Angry and upset? Angry and upset and
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determined. The United States Congress can keep Roe versus Wade, the law of the land. They just need
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to do it. I've never seen you so angry. You seem to be- This is what the Republicans have been
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working toward this day for decades. They have been out there plotting, carefully cultivating
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these Supreme Court justices so they could have a majority on the bench who would accomplish
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something that the majority of Americans do not want. Sixty-nine percent of people across
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this country, across this country, red states and blue states, old people and young people
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want Roe versus Wade to maintain as the law of the land. We need to do that. And we have
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a right. This shrill lunatic is on the verge of angry tears because the Supreme Court might take
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her tomahawk away. You can look into her eyes and see a kind of madness. This is no mere political
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issue. You look into her eyes, you're seeing this sense that Quetzalcoatl is going to be deprived of
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his human sacrifices. That's the kind of issue we're talking about here, okay? Because Roe versus
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Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and this case, Dobbs versus Jackson, Women's Health Organization,
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these are not ordinary political cases, okay? And I would expect more leaks and I would expect a whole
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lot more than leaks because this is about much more than some esoteric debate about the nature of the law.
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This, for the left, is religious. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Ryan Reinbow, who says,
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Jesus says, this is my body which will be given up for you. The left says, this is your body which
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will be given up for me. This is a very good point, actually. The philosopher Peter Kreeft put it
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slightly differently, but the same sort of idea. He said that abortion is the antichrist's sacrament,
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that abortion uses the very same phrase, actually, that you see in the mass, this is my body,
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in a blasphemously inverted way. Because the women say, this is my body, this is my body,
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my choice. That's the mantra of the pro-abortion movement. It's so perfectly inverted
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as to send a chill down anybody's spine. I think, actually, regardless of your religious views
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or the way you look at other kind of political issues, you can just tell there's something
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delivered. The libs are absolutely losing it over this Dobbs decision, which isn't even official yet,
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by the way. We covered it yesterday. There was this leak from the Supreme Court. Probably the
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the predominant theory right now is that it was a law clerk for one of the more leftist justices,
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and most people seem to think it would be a justice in Sonia Sotomayor's office.
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Again, this is just speculation, but the reasoning here is that Sonia Sotomayor is by far the furthest
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left and most partisan judge, and so it would seem likely that she would hire a very far left,
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very partisan law clerks. There are something like 12 people that this could be. When you look at the
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number of Supreme Court law clerks, there are period, and then you look at the number of Supreme
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Court law clerks there are for the liberal justices. It would seem this was leaked by a liberal justice.
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Then we're talking about maybe a dozen people that this could be. So they'll, they're investigating it
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right now. The Chief Justice John Roberts has ordered an investigation, but the leak has already
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achieved its purpose, which is to get the left wild, angry, outside, demonstrating, putting a lot
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of political pressure on the court and trying to flip the votes. There hasn't been a firm vote on
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this yet. Roe versus Wade has not yet officially been overruled. We hope it will be, but we don't
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yet know, and the left is already going into overdrive about it. Eric Swalwell, former future president of
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the United States, one of the first guys out of the 2020 Democrat presidential primaries. Eric Swalwell,
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who then embarrassed himself on national television. Eric Swalwell, who was then found to be
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bumping uglies with a Chinese spy. Eric Swalwell tweeted out, the Republicans won't stop with banning
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abortion. They want to ban interracial marriage. Do you want to save that? Well, then you should
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probably vote. What? So the first part, Republicans want to ban abortion. True. Republicans want to ban
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interracial marriage. Not true. Not only not true, but not related in any way to the, it would be,
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it would be like saying the Republicans won't stop with banning abortion. And they, they like to put
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pineapple on pizza too. What do you, you, do you support pineapple on pizza? Vote for me. It's just
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completely unrelated. And the claim they make is not true. And also it's very difficult for Democrats
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to make the claim that the pro-life movement is racist. Democrats always revert to this line of
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calling their opponents racist because it's all they've got. When a leftist calls you a racist,
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you know, you've won the argument and they do it completely baselessly, but they only do it because
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to be called a racist is to be called the worst possible thing you can be in modern America. So they
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just do it without any basis, but it's especially preposterous with the issue of abortion because black
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babies are disproportionately the victims of abortion. The pro-life movement disproportionately
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is saving black babies. The abortion rate among black women is five times the abortion rate among
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white women. That's not even a number according to a pro-life research center. That's according to the
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Guttmacher Institute. That's according to the pro-abortion center. And they're admitting, yes,
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abortion kills five times as many black babies as it kills white babies. In New York, more black babies
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are aborted than born. In New York, the most dangerous place for a black person is in his
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mother's womb. So the pro-life movement really doesn't have anything to do with race. The pro-life
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movement is simply about saving babies from being killed. Race doesn't play a role in it. But if you're
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going to insist on making race an issue here, then the pro-life movement is one of the most pro-black
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movements in the entire, probably the single most pro-black movement in the entire country. But what
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does Eric Swalwell know? Nothing. He's just desperate. So he's scraping the bottle of the
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barrel here. That's what Democrats are trying to do. And frankly, Swalwell was more articulate than Joe
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Biden, which is damning with faint praise. But Joe Biden was asked his thoughts about this leaked
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decision. And he almost formed a coherent English sentence. The idea that we're going to make a
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judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child based on
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a decision by the Supreme Court, I think goes way overboard. And the decision that we're going to be,
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and we're deciding, and no one decides we're going to have no abortion. Come on, man. Come on,
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Jack. Come on here. Corn pop. That's just too much, man. Give me an ice cream cone. So it would
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seem that the point he's trying to make is that the court should not overrule Roe versus Wade. And
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then we know elsewhere, Biden has said Roe versus Wade is so central, so important to, in the words of
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John Fetterman, who's the Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, now Democrat candidate for Senate,
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abortion is sacred. They actually say abortion is sacred, just like every demon worshiping tribe in
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the history of the world. It's sacred to sacrifice little babies. Because Biden and the Democrats have
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taken up this line, they're saying that if the court does overrule Roe and does get rid of the
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fictional national right to an abortion, that we need a national law passed by Congress to codify that
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abortion protection, that license to abortion into law. The mistake that Joe makes here in his line
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is he admits that abortion kills a baby. Because what the Democrats have been doing in recent years,
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I say Democrats, or I say leftist, or I say the pro-abortion movement, there is some distinction
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between the three, but not much. There used to be much more of a distinction, like back when Joe Biden
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was voting to try to overturn Roe versus Wade in the states. Can you forget that? Do we all forget
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that? I guess we do. The New York Times actually didn't forget this about three years ago.
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The headline, when Joe Biden voted to let states overturn Roe versus Wade, the year was 1981.
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There was an amendment that was being proposed by Senator Hatch, I guess it was. The amendment would
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have overruled Roe versus Wade at the state level and said states can get rid of Roe if they want to,
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because there's no constitutional right to an abortion. Joe Biden voted for that amendment. So he voted,
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practically speaking, to overrule Roe. Now he's completely changed his views on this,
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but he hasn't changed his rhetoric all that much. And so even in that clip of Biden defending
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Roe versus Wade and saying we shouldn't overrule it, he says we need the right to abort a child.
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A child? I thought it was a clump of cell, Joe. I thought it was just a zygote or a
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blastula or whatever silly scientific term they use to describe a baby. And Joe didn't do that. He said,
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no, you need to be able to abort a child. In the words of Naomi Wolf, the feminist who I thought
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gave a very honest description of the left's view of abortion, she said now probably 25 years ago,
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she said, we need to admit that the baby is a baby, the baby is alive, and women need the right
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to kill that baby in all of its humanity if they want to be the same as men. Ghastly, it's a horrific
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opinion, but at least she's being honest there. At least Joe Biden was accidentally being honest
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there. Yeah, we're aborting a child, not even just a baby, a child, a mother killing her own
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child. What a society in which mothers kill their own children will do anything. There's no limit to
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what they can do. And this is a big change, big change for Joe Biden, who once had, I think,
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sincere opposition to abortion. At the very least, it was politically convenient for him. Now,
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whatever sincerity that was and whatever convenience existed, that's totally gone. The guy is full
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throatedly in support of ritual human sacrifice. That's not good. That's really bad for our political
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the leak that showed up in Politico yesterday, is legit. There was some question yesterday when
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we were talking about it on the show. We said, we don't know if it's real or not. It seems to be
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real. It sounds like him. It looks like an opinion, but we don't know if it's real. John Roberts
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confirmed that it is real. The chief justice said, to the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the
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court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations. It will not succeed. The work of
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the court will not be affected in any way. Court employees have an exemplary and important
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tradition of respecting the confidentiality of the judicial process and upholding the trust of the
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court. This was a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the court and
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the community of public servants who work here. I have directed the marshal of the court to
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investigate the source of the leak. This is legit. We don't know exactly what the opinion is going to
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turn out to be. Right now, it's just a draft. It seems as though there is a 5-4 majority to overrule
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Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, but we don't know. Judges change their votes all the time
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until the decision is actually handed down. It's anybody's game. It also is even more complicated
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because it looks like the vote was 6-3 to uphold the Mississippi pro-life law that triggered this
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case in the first place. But then the vote was only 5-4 to overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood
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v. Casey. So it looks like John Roberts, the chief justice, may have flipped or not even flipped,
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just sided with the conservatives on the law, but sided with the liberals on upholding Roe v. Wade and
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Planned Parenthood v. Casey. But we don't know. Is the political pressure going to work? Maybe.
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Is this the end of the shenanigans here to try to undo this decision? I strongly doubt it.
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Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
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Roe is not an ordinary case. Some cases in the history of the Supreme Court exist chiefly as
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instruments to debate esoteric legal questions. There's a case I'm reminded of called United States
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versus 95 barrels alleged apple cider vinegar. This case comes from 1924, I believe. And the
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case is over whether or not a packing company mislabeled its apple cider vinegar because it
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said the vinegar was from selected apples. And in fact, the vinegar was from dried apples. And the
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court debated this subtle distinction, what that meant for the law. And it's a very interesting case
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to debate in law school. On the other hand, you've got a case like Roe v. Wade, which consigned 62
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million babies and counting to ritual slaughter. Those are very different cases, okay? In one,
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we can play by the Marquess of Queensbury rules. We can follow all the civilized customs and the norms
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of the court. And we can have debates over the minutia of these legal details. The other sorts of
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cases have much more urgent practical implications. And there is no case more urgent and more practical
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than Roe v. Wade. It is truly a matter of life and death to the tune of almost a million human
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beings per year. It doesn't get more tangible than that. Furthermore, this is a religious issue.
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It's a religious issue for me. It's a religious issue for the pro-lifers who think that it is
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extremely evil for a country to condone the slaughter of babies. But it's a religious issue
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for the left too, which is calling this sacred, which is saying this is a sacred right, which is saying
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that for women to be truly free, they must have the license to kill their babies.
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Elizabeth Warren's crazy eyes and shrill voice, why I'm angry? I've never been this angry. Right.
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You've never been this angry because you've been driven to a kind of religious mania because you're
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worshiping demons. That's why. Because your political actions and the rituals that you are trying to
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uphold are, whether you know it or not, actually demonic. Because all you're doing is the same
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thing that those Aztecs were doing, the same thing that ancient Middle Eastern tribes were doing with
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Moloch and Baal. You're just sacrificing babies. And you think it's really scientific and really
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modern and enlightened because you're sacrificing babies on the altar of ideologized liberation and
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on the altar of career and on the altar of money and on the altar of individual autonomy. But it's just
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the same thing. It's just exactly the same thing that the ancient pagans of yore were doing with
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named demons such as Moloch and Baal. You're just sacrificing your babies to what you perceive to
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be a higher calling, which is in fact a much lower calling. Okay. The reason I bring all this up is not
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just to get into a theological discourse over the implications of abortion, that we could be here
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all day if we did that. But it's because we need to be honest about what this case represents.
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I mentioned yesterday that everyone was surprised. They were so surprised that this unprecedented
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singular action in the history of the court to leak this document, it destroys the trust of the court.
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How could someone do this? How could someone do this? They kill babies. What do you mean,
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how could they do this? They do things that are a whole lot worse. I'm reminded of
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Norm Macdonald was talking to, the late great Norm Macdonald was talking to Patton Oswalt,
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his fellow comedian. And Patton Oswalt said, you know, this Bill Cosby issue, the Bill Cosby sex
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crimes, I think the worst part of it is the hypocrisy. And Norm Macdonald responded to him
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and said, I don't think so. I think the worst part is the raping. In my experience, most rapists are
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hypocrites. Very few are open and bragging about their raping. And they say, oh yeah, I'm raping,
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but I'm not going to hide it. Okay. I know it's not politically correct, but you know, I'm right.
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And they say, well, at least he's not a hypocrite because that's, that would be the worst thing,
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right? That was Norm's funny way of pointing out that people who commit enormous sins will more
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easily commit lesser sins. People who kill little babies, it's about the most enormous sin I can think
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of. People who defend the mass ritual slaughter of little babies. I think they're going to be able to
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upend some norms and traditions at the court. I think they're going to probably be capable of
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violating the trust of the clerks. Okay. Cause that's a much lesser sin than the issue at hand.
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And, and the pro-life movement has done a great job. I am not criticizing the pro-life movement. Okay.
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But I fear that some of us in the pro-life movement have believed our own press releases
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for the better part of 50 years. Now pro-lifers have focused on the technical unconstitutionality
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of Roe and Casey. They focused on this one line in particular, which they say almost reflexively,
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they say, you know, if Roe versus Wade is overturned, that actually won't make abortion
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illegal. That will just return the issue of abortion to the States. And whether you support
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abortion or oppose abortion, I think we can all agree that it belongs in the States and specifically
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with the people through their legislatures, that's where it belongs. So we can decide the issue
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however we want for ourselves. That's the official line. The line has worked. Apparently it gave us
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this Alito opinion. It could severely restrict abortion. It's not the whole story. There are
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some conservative legal scholars. I'm thinking of John Finnis and Robbie George who have gone further
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to argue, no, actually the Supreme court should decide the issue of abortion. No, actually the court has
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every right and responsibility to decide the issue of abortion because the 14th amendment
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provides equal protection and the little babies should be protected by the 14th amendment.
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So actually they make an argument that contradicts the main conservative argument for it,
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that we should return it to the States and give it into the hands of the people. They say, no,
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actually there is a constitutional protection against abortion, but okay, that argument didn't win.
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The argument that appears to have won at the Supreme court is over the technical matter,
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not so much of what Roe versus Wade represents, but who has the right to decide the question
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of abortion? Okay, fine. Whatever works. Any even semi-plausible argument that works,
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any moral way to restrict abortion is fine by me, but that will not be sufficient for us to understand
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why the left is losing their minds over this. If this were merely just a sort of technical,
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interesting, scholarly debate over who gets to decide certain things in the constitution,
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you wouldn't see Liz Warren having steam come out of her ears and fire in her eyes. Okay.
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You wouldn't have unprecedented singular violations of the trust of the court. The reason this is
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happening is because Roe v. Wade is not about federalism and Roe v. Wade is not about the
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separation of powers. Roe v. Wade is about killing babies. Okay. And the stakes are extraordinarily high
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here. And, and we need to be honest about what this case represents if we want to understand what is
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going to occur into the future. Because this leak, that, that is not the end of the shenanigans around
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this case. That is the beginning of the shenanigans around this case. Prepare for attempts at court
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packing, prepare for attempts at passing a national right to abortion, prepare for attempts to get rid
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of the filibuster to get through the national right to abortion because Biden doesn't have the votes
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to do it. Prepare for mostly peaceful riots in the streets, prepare for lots of shrieking,
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prepare for the left to be basically ready to burn down the constitution.
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They've all already said that they're going to do all of these things, by the way. They've,
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they've even mocked the court. You've seen prominent left-wing accounts on Twitter and on social media
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that have said, why are we listening to these judges? We can completely ignore them. Who cares?
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We can push them off a bridge. No one would care. Why are we letting them tell us how we need to live
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our lives? Why are we letting them interpret the law for us? Burn it down. That's the kind of
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language that they are using because this issue cuts to the very heart of the left's, not just
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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
00:27:25.620
works when you've got female employees because you've got to give them probably a little bit of
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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,
00:40:20.820
when she gets sick of her husband's eccentricities, can just leave and take the kids and expose the kids
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
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.
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
00:42:43.780
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
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
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
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
00:47:07.500
Roe v. Wade. Well, the court that enshrined Roe v. Wade was entirely men. So what are you talking
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.
00:47:57.920
Expect it to become much, much more, not less, much, much more intense. I'm Michael Knowles. This
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copyright Daily Wire 2022. Today on The Matt Walsh Show, we're told that the impending decision on Roe v.
00:48:57.820
Wade will help the Democrats because it will galvanize their base around the abortion
00:49:01.400
issue. But as we've seen over the last couple of days, abortion is actually the last issue
00:49:04.900
Democrats want to talk about. And we'll talk about why that is. Also, Rachel Levine at HHS says that
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