WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.839 I have a couple of thoughts about a couple of different things going on around 2 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:09.640 California. First, some of the pro Palestinian protests that were ninety three people 3 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:15.199 arrested at USC for these various Palestinian protests. But I think what I'm gonna 4 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:18.559 start with, and I had some local news outlets asking me about this yesterday, 5 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:21.480 so I'm gonna think I got to speak on it a little bit. 6 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:29.920 Is this announcement yesterday by Governor news about a new proposed new proposed state legislation 7 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.320 that may come out. Frankly, I don't know that it's ever actually gonna 8 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:37.600 need to come out, because I think stuff is going to change in Arizona. 9 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:50.000 But it's basically this proposal by Governor Newso that is being sort of presented 10 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:57.560 as if it's helping to address the alleged problem that Arizona, their state's supreme 11 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:07.200 court allowed their prerov Wade law banning abortion to come into effect. Well, 12 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:10.599 and I shouldn't even really say pre rov Wade law. It's actually a postrov 13 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:15.359 Wade law. So let me explain what's going on in Arizona, because probably 14 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:18.319 some of you have heard like rumblings about this and you know, write the 15 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:19.879 life director over here, I should probably explain what's going on, all right, 16 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:27.599 Arizona in eighteen sixty four, like most states around the Union, were 17 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:32.959 doing this around the same time, because it was in the mid eighteen hundreds 18 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:40.760 that people actually realized when human life begins exactly. It was only in the 19 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:46.760 eighteen hundreds that people were able to see under a microscope when mammal life begins, 20 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:49.200 that it actually begins right at the moment of egg sperm fusion, that 21 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:53.640 you have the zygote, which is the very first cell of a new mammal 22 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:59.319 organism, and that that very first cell is its own, living, unique 23 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:02.959 organist. It's the earliest stage of a human life. It's not a part 24 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.400 of the body of Dad like a sperm cell is. It's not part of 25 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:10.240 the body of the mom like the egg cell is. It is its own 26 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:16.159 entity, with its own metabolism, its own progress towards growth and growth and 27 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:25.759 development, et cetera. So, in response to this new discovery, and 28 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:35.280 this was also a time when America was doing more to what's called codify the 29 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:39.840 law. Much of early American law, like at the time of the Founding, 30 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:45.240 was grounded in the British common law tradition, where the common law tradition 31 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:51.080 was basically judge made law, where laws governing you know, what is our 32 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:57.599 murder statute, for example, It wasn't in a code of criminal statutes, 33 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:01.120 like here's the murder statue. You know, section one O two three. 34 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:06.840 The California Penal Code, section one eight seven deals with murder. No, 35 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:14.560 it wasn't like that. Basically laws were in really in the form of judicial 36 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:17.719 law was created in the form of judicial decisions made by judges that were passed 37 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:23.680 down to subsequent judges through a system of precedent, which we call the common 38 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:30.319 law. And so studying the law meant reading, you know, studying the 39 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:35.560 common law, learning about legal classic legal definitions, from classic cases about you 40 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.599 know, what is the common law definition of murder? What is the common 41 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:42.719 law definition of burglary? What is the common law definition of this. Over 42 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:46.520 the course of the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, American law started to 43 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:50.719 change towards what's called codification. We're basically, instead of having all of our 44 00:03:51.199 --> 00:04:00.719 different legal doctrines hidden in case law, states would pass statutes, normal laws 45 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:04.439 to codify whole bodies of law. So we're going to pass a whole criminal 46 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:08.919 code that has, you know, and will take the old common law definitions 47 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:12.599 of things. But we're not going to charge someone with murder on the basis 48 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:15.120 of some court decision from one hundred years ago. We're going to charge them 49 00:04:15.160 --> 00:04:19.240 with murder on the basis of California Penal Code one to eight to seven. 50 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:28.160 All right. So, states were codifying their law, and around the time 51 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:38.480 of the Civil War, states passed statutes to explicitly outlaw abortion. Arizona did 52 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:45.000 just such a thing in eighteen sixty four, and this statute outlawing abortion was 53 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:50.839 reaffirmed in various subsequent Arizona attempts to codify state law in various ways. It 54 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:56.879 was reaffirmed several times over the course of the twentieth century, and even after 55 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:00.639 Roe v. Wade was issued in nineteen seventy three, the Arizona state legislature 56 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:06.120 passed again in nineteen seventy seven, passed that same law that same language, 57 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:10.480 because from their perspective, they were like, well, it's illegitimate that the 58 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:14.639 Supreme Court just overrules our state law on this. We're just going to repass 59 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:17.879 our state law. We realize we won't be able to enforce it. But 60 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:21.839 this is the law of the state of Arizona that abortion is illegal except to 61 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:28.959 save the mother's life. The Arizona State Supreme Court about a month ago issued 62 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:34.480 a ruling saying that yes, that law originally drafted in eighteen sixty four but 63 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:44.600 subsequently reaffirmed by the Arizona State Legislature several times, that law, now that 64 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.560 Roe v. Wade is overturned, is in effect, that law is still 65 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:53.360 good. That law is still on the books. Now. This has led 66 00:05:53.399 --> 00:06:00.439 to Republicans flailingly giving up on the abortion issue. Carry Lake, Donald Trump 67 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:02.439 all saying that this is terrible, this is too far, when this is 68 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:09.519 in fact, it is protecting all human life in the womb. It's outlawing 69 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:14.879 abortion. That this is precisely what is a plank of the Republican Party platform. 70 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:19.399 May I remind you, Okay, this is outlawing abortion. This is 71 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:24.920 actually the thing we've been pursuing for all this time. So Carrie Lake and 72 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:28.920 Donald Trump, because they realize that this is an unpopular position in Arizona, 73 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:33.720 are flailingly running away from this position and want to change the lawn all these 74 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:40.680 different ways. Well, in spite of the fact that both the governor and 75 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:46.399 the Attorney General of Arizona are Democrats and pro choice Democrats who are very clearly 76 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:50.399 saying that they are not going to want to prosecute any doctor for performing abortions. 77 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:59.399 Nonetheless, abortion doctors in Arizona are nervous about the idea of performing a 78 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:05.160 bunch of abortions. They're nervous about the idea of performing abortions because it's technically 79 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:09.360 illegal right now in Arizona. They're afraid of losing their license, and most 80 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:18.079 importantly, I would say, they're afraid of losing money. So what does 81 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:24.240 it mean, Well, how does California play into this. The governor of 82 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:28.399 Arizona issued this call and the Attorney General of Arizona issued this call for other 83 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:34.079 states to help out. So Gavin Newsom had a big press conference yesterday announcing 84 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:48.560 he's going to introduce legislation to allow abortion doctors to get temporary licensure in California. 85 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:57.000 Abortion doctors from Arizona to get temporary licensure in California so they can still 86 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:01.319 do abortions. The idea being well, probably Arizona is going to overturn this 87 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:05.600 law by the time we get to November. So he's gonna give them temporary 88 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:11.879 licensure in California through November. Now. Now, I've talked with a few 89 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:16.839 doctors about this. The idea of just giving someone temporary licensure when there are 90 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:24.279 so giving abortion doctors temporary licensure, when there are so many hoops you gotta 91 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:31.199 jump through for licensure purposes, for being a medical practitioner, for being a 92 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:35.320 physician in the state of California. It's insane. It's absurd, the idea 93 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:39.919 that we're letting these guys cut to the front of the line. Why it's 94 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:43.720 not so that women from Arizona even can get abortions. Okay, look, 95 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:48.159 I don't think that this is some great act of charity to facilitate women from 96 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:52.919 Arizona being able to get abortions. I think, first of all, the 97 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:58.440 overwhelming majority of women who get abortions would prefer not to have abortions. Their 98 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:05.360 problem is is not wanting a child. It is from lack of financial support, 99 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:09.639 lack of partner stability, things of that sort. I'm not saying that 100 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:16.200 based on a like a gut intuition. I'm saying that based on multiple surveys 101 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:22.279 that have investigated this question, and women who are having abortions are reporting this 102 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:26.159 that the overwhelming majority of them don't actually want to have the abortion. They 103 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:30.960 feel like they have no other choice, and they're being coerced into the circumstance 104 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:35.039 by financial pressures. Okay, National Institutes of Health to surveys finding sixty percent 105 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:39.919 of women were pressured into having an abortion by their financial circumstances. Another study 106 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:43.799 done by the Charlotte Loser Institute just this last year found that seventy percent of 107 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:50.600 women their abortions were against their preference. It was either something they were pressured 108 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.159 to do, coerced into doing, or they felt like they had to do 109 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:58.799 it because of financial constraints. Okay, so all of the social science evidence 110 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:03.360 indicates that you're not doing some grand act of charity by providing abortions for women. 111 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:07.799 But that's not even what this is. This isn't some act of furnishing 112 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:16.000 abortion for the women of Arizona in California. What Governor Newsom's proposing is purely 113 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:20.919 to help abortion doctors so that they can keep making money, which, by 114 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:26.720 the way, ninety three percent of obgyns don't do abortions. This is for 115 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:37.320 a small select group of Arizona abortion butchers so that they can come to California 116 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:45.360 and still make some money between now and November. That's what it is. 117 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:54.000 That is the kind of performative bend over backwards to do what the abortion industry 118 00:10:54.039 --> 00:11:01.279 wants because it makes his Democrat donors happy. The kind of perform normative bs 119 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:07.799 which stands for baloney sandwich that our governor is pulling off. And let's remember, 120 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:15.840 so much of Newsom's abortion advocacy is this performative nonsense that is designed to 121 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:20.039 make about one hundred people happy. It's designed to make all of the super 122 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:28.960 elite California Democrat donors who can fund his run for president someday happy. That's 123 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:35.159 what this is about. It's about keeping them happy. Because look, Gavin 124 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:41.960 Newsom is not some AOC type socialist. Okay, he is not some Bernie 125 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:48.720 Sanders socialist. Gavin Newsom likes money. Gavin Newsom likes you know, he 126 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:54.120 likes hobnobbing with very wealthy people, capitalists who have already made their billions, 127 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.440 not small business owners who have to live under the crushing burdens of stupid California 128 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:03.639 regulation and business regulations and stuff like that, no, he doesn't care about 129 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:13.039 those jerks. He likes hanging out with billionaires. And that donor class is 130 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:18.919 characterized by they are not sort of Bernie Sanders level socialists. They don't want 131 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:26.960 someone reaching their hand into their pocket that much. But they compensate for their 132 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:33.840 phony fiscal liberalism. They compensate for it by being the most rabid social liberals 133 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:41.759 possible. They compensate for that by being the most aggressively pro abortion lunatics possible. 134 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:46.000 So that's whom Newsom is placating here, That's the audience he's he's doing 135 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:48.279 this for. This isn't doing anything one way or not, even if you 136 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:58.240 accept the false premise that abortion is somehow helpful for women, Even if you 137 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:05.159 accept that false what Newsom's doing here isn't even helping women. It's helping abortion 138 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:09.679 doctors so that they can just keep making money. And really, what it's 139 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:20.080 about, these California Democrat donors clearly love the idea of Gavin Newsom governor of 140 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:24.039 everything else but California. We're going to discuss that next on the John Girardi 141 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:28.519 Show. How Gavin Newsom thinks he's the governor of every other state other than 142 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:37.279 California next governor. Newsom has frequently been hit and this is especially true specifically 143 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:45.639 for certain kinds of issues. Abortion maybe abortion is really the only issue I 144 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:50.840 know. Mostly for abortion and other kinds of hot button social issues. Newsom 145 00:13:50.879 --> 00:14:01.919 has been hit by moderate and conservative critics with the charge that he seems like 146 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:11.440 he doesn't really like being the governor of this state. I think more and 147 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:13.600 more that that's true. I mean, like we've seen like he basically didn't 148 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:18.240 even really do a state of the State address this year. It's just eh, 149 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:22.799 whatever, Like it's almost like Nick Newsom has senioritis, Like he's tired 150 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.720 of being governor of California. It's more work than he likes. He had 151 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:31.080 a very stressful first term because he had COVID and he had you know, 152 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:35.679 all the wildfires and stuff like that. So he's, you know, he 153 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:37.600 had his election, he had his recall election, he had his second, 154 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:45.840 he had his normal reelection. He's basically, you know, he's checked out. 155 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:52.240 And the thing that seems to energize him the most is extra California stuff, 156 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:56.519 stuff outside the state of California. Picking fights with Rond de Santis, 157 00:14:56.679 --> 00:15:03.240 Debating Rond de Santis, yelling at how terrible Greg Abbott is talking about abortion 158 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.399 stuff that's happening in other states, putting up billboards in states like Oklahoma, 159 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:13.279 letting the poor benighted, you know, rubes in Oklahoma know that they can 160 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:18.480 come to California if they want to have abortions, passing legislation to help financially 161 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:24.840 facilitate that. Blah blah blah blah blah. So he keeps spending all this 162 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:28.279 time talking about other states, talking about how Rohndasant is terrible, talking about 163 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:33.320 all this stuff, and conservative critics sort of weakly say, oh, why 164 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:41.759 like me week because we have no electoral power? Say whoa he's he seems 165 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:45.840 so much more interested in governing other states that rather than California. Yeah, 166 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:50.840 yes, yes, yes, that is correct. You know why he can 167 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:58.440 get away with it because One, he was elected, beat off a recall, 168 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:02.639 and re elected, so he doesn't have to answer to anybody electorally in 169 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:07.039 California. He knows he no matter what he does, his political standing is 170 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:17.879 safe. Two, his donors love this stuff. His donors love it. 171 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:23.879 Understand that I just want to paint the picture of these liberal donors for all 172 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:30.840 of you. These people are watching MSNBC twenty four to seven. These people 173 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:41.840 are hashtag resistance. Just think about like the way that like maybe you are 174 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:48.759 with Fox News, they are with MSNBC, only they have a billion dollars. 175 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:53.279 Okay, that's the quality of people we're talking about. Like that, 176 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:59.679 that's the kind of people we're talking about here. Imagine your one trumpiest friend 177 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:03.680 who watching, who yells about how Fox News is a bunch of phony conservatives 178 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:14.039 and how you know, has you know, a let's go Brandon flag in 179 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:21.240 his front yard. Imagine that person only the mirror opposite for the left and 180 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:26.680 with a billion dollars. That's essentially the audience that Gavin Newsom is dancing to 181 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:33.880 dancing for. Okay, he's just trying to get their money. So yeah, 182 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:37.200 this is obviously the politically smart thing for him to do, because these 183 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:42.480 people are They think of Ron DeSantis as the boogeyman. They think of the 184 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:47.200 overturning of Rov Wade as the greatest disaster since the Hindenburg. They think of 185 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:52.200 you know, they they think that Gavin Newsom bending over backwards to provide abortions 186 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:56.680 for all the black people and all the brown people who mow their lawns, 187 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:04.279 et cetera. They think that's just wonderful, without realizing how unbelievably classist, 188 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:11.759 how unbelievably elitist, how unbelievably dismissive they are. They love this stuff, 189 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:19.759 and that's the audience that Gavin Newsom is doing this for. You know, 190 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:30.720 so often I say this about liberals in different contexts. You scratch someone who 191 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:37.000 has an altruistic liberal facade. I remember that was a Rushlimbov phrase. Rush 192 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:41.599 would always say about environmentalists that environmentalists were watermelons. They were green on the 193 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:45.519 outside, but you cut into them and actually they're red, because he basically 194 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:49.480 he was trying to say they were all communists. I think with a lot 195 00:18:49.519 --> 00:19:03.039 of people who present themselves as altruistic liberals, you scratch that facade and what 196 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:07.799 you actually find is someone trying to make a lot of money. And that's 197 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:11.359 kind of what Newsom's doing. He's pretending like, oh, I'm doing this 198 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:14.680 altruistic, wonderful thing to help women. Really what does he want? He 199 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:19.119 wants donor dollars, that's what he wants. I have to think of something 200 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:22.720 that's like blue on the outside but green on the inside. They'll see if 201 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:26.920 I can come up with something that works like that for that metaphor, but 202 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:30.200 yeah, or for that analogy. Yeah, but that's what he is doing. 203 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:34.599 He is pretending like he's this grand, bleeding heart on behalf of the 204 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:41.960 poor, benighted women of Arizona, oppressed by evil conservative laws limiting abortion access 205 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:48.160 as we have to call abortion care, as we euphemistically call it, when 206 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:53.519 actually what he's really doing is a song in dance for the Getty family, 207 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:59.720 for all the big gazillion dollar donors that he knows he's going to have to 208 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:06.079 rely on if he runs for president in twenty twenty eight or possibly twenty twenty 209 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:11.920 four, because I think that's still in play. Yeah, the Democrats at 210 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:17.359 their convention, they could swap out Joe Biden in a heartbeat. That's still 211 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:21.519 in play. I don't know if they will. I think logistically it would 212 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:26.440 be pretty hard for them to pitch out Kamala Harris, you know, pitch 213 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:33.480 out a black woman for another white guy. But that's what Gavin Newsom is 214 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:40.000 doing. When we return, we'll talk about the MYU just befuddlement at all 215 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:42.599 the various pro palest Indian student protests. Next on the John Girardi Show. 216 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:51.200 I'm slightly befuddled, slightly befuddled, but maybe not really just a little bit 217 00:20:51.240 --> 00:20:59.400 logistically at the wave of student protests that are happening at elite universities all across 218 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:03.920 the country. We're now seeing them. These are coming to California. About 219 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:11.000 ninety students were arrested at USC. I kind of think that ninety students should 220 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:14.960 always be arrested at USC, frankly, just you know, just because being 221 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:19.960 a Notre Dame grat. But ninety students were arrested for basically basically trying to 222 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:26.039 make these camps. It's not just let's have a protest, let's go back 223 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:33.079 to the dorm. It's we're gonna set up a camp on campus with tents. 224 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:41.720 We're gonna somehow degenerate this into a homeless shelter, almost to protest for 225 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:48.519 Palestine until our demands are met that the university not participates somehow with I don't 226 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:53.000 know, with Israel. It's this bizarre instinct, and I want to tackle 227 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:56.680 it from just a couple of perspectives. I mean, I was a college 228 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:00.160 student, gosh, I was a college student a fairly long time ago. 229 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:04.839 It is depressing to think about that, I'm eleven years out from law school 230 00:22:04.920 --> 00:22:10.880 and therefore fourteen years out from college. But let me just go back in 231 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:18.519 time as I hobble around with my walking stick and my prune juice and just 232 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:22.039 thinking back to my own college experience and my law school experience. All right, 233 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:26.880 I just want to know how these students have the time for all this. 234 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:34.319 Don't you people have to go to class? Don't you people have to 235 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:41.279 study? Like just the energy for this level of protein. I mean, 236 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:48.079 like, I say this as someone whose literal job is being an activist on 237 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:53.559 behalf of a human rights cause. Like I am an activist against abortion. 238 00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:57.640 That is literally what I do. That is literally my job. I don't 239 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:02.599 feel like I have the time for this in college. I certainly didn't. 240 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:14.240 Like. Yes, I get that you think Israeli settlements and the existence of 241 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:15.920 the state of visits. I get that you think that it's unjust colonialism, 242 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:18.279 but you think the plight of the people of Palestine whatever, it is? 243 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:22.680 All right, fine, don't you have to go to class? Though? 244 00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:30.240 How are you doing this? And I think it's a couple of things. 245 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:33.680 First, I wonder how many of these kids are in such Mickey mouse majors 246 00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:40.920 that they're able to kind of not really study and still kind of get by 247 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:48.799 two. I sort of wonder some of these universities there's such great inflation that 248 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:51.400 maybe they can get away with it. My mom pointed out to me when 249 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:53.359 I was talking with her about this yesterday. My mom pointed out to me 250 00:23:53.839 --> 00:24:00.079 that Yale shifted its grading scale from a normal like, you know, if 251 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:03.799 you get you know, ninety three and up, it's an A or you 252 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:07.799 know whatever, whatever the grade scale is AA minus B plus whatever. They 253 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:18.440 shifted away from the normal scale with GPA to pass fail. So maybe these 254 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:21.799 kids just don't feel the pressure to actually need to work that hard once they're 255 00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:26.119 actually in the institution. Maybe you just don't have to work that hard depending 256 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:33.920 on your major. And I'm guessing a lot of these kids aren't necessarily engineering 257 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:38.319 majors, although big old protests like this at MIT also where presumably pretty much 258 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:48.000 everyone's then some kind of very difficult major. So I'm just befuddled. So 259 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:52.440 maybe they just have the time. Maybe their professors are also left wing. 260 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:56.799 I mean, that's that's one of the videos I saw was that there was 261 00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:03.720 a professor walk out at I think it was Columbia in defense of their students 262 00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:08.839 doing all these horrible protests, which maybe so you're you're just not going to 263 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:15.920 show up and do your job. It's the weird sort of fairy land that 264 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:19.640 universities exist in sometimes, where like the idea that you don't have to show 265 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:30.640 up for your job because you're upset about a geopolitical issue that your country is 266 00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:37.519 involved in indirectly a war that is happening half a world away and the geopolitical 267 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:42.839 fallout of that that that you think that you can therefore not go to work 268 00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:55.319 in solidarity. Like just what a bizarre fairyland that is? I mean, 269 00:25:55.519 --> 00:26:03.440 if you know, I'm really upset about Armenia being invaded by Azerbaijan, if 270 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:07.319 I just don't show up at work and my board of directors emails me and 271 00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:12.079 says, hey, John, what the heck man? You coming to work? 272 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:18.519 As I know I how can you force me to work while the people 273 00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:22.559 of art sook are, you know, being driven from their homes? Like 274 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:26.640 my board will be like, Okay, well, yeah, it's bad that 275 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:32.640 that's happening, that that is a bad thing. Objectively, yes, you 276 00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:37.279 should still go to work though, Like it's it's not. Actually, there's 277 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:40.519 no reason for you not to work as a result of this sad thing, 278 00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:45.880 Like it has nothing to do with your life. Actually, it's a sad 279 00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:48.079 thing. It's a bad thing. It's an unjust thing, it's an evil 280 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:49.759 thing. It's the thing you can raise your voice about and be an activist 281 00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:56.640 over. But you still got to like go to work. And that's sort 282 00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:02.039 of this bizarre attitude that people at universities seem to have. Now, other 283 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:08.599 things I have noticed this is somewhat shifting gears into general youth culture and general 284 00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:15.880 youth appearances, and it's probably a sign that I am getting older. But 285 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:22.640 some of these student protests have made me notice this. Almost all of the 286 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:36.119 female students that I see at these protests are sporting piercings through their septum, 287 00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:42.119 which the piece of cartilage that divides your left and right nostrils. Almost every 288 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:48.480 it seems like almost every girl involved with these protests has these septum rings. 289 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:55.920 In Guys, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna come out here, like since 290 00:27:55.960 --> 00:27:59.640 I have ceased to be a young person, I'm now thirty six years old, 291 00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:03.119 I'm gonna I'm not hip and young and with it anymore. All Right, 292 00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:07.839 I have five children. I'm past the point of being hip. I 293 00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:14.039 have seen I'm now at the age where I'm starting to see fashion trends come 294 00:28:14.200 --> 00:28:19.960 and go in these cyclical ways. And I can for many of these fashion 295 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:30.039 trends, I can at least understand why someone would perceive a given fashion trend 296 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:37.720 as being esthetically pleasing. I can sometimes understand it. I got it, 297 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:45.240 and I'll say that about I understand that about certain kinds of nose piercings. 298 00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:49.960 Okay, I think having a nose piercing like on the side of your nostril, 299 00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:55.160 like I wouldn't do it. I would not be thrilled if my wife 300 00:28:55.480 --> 00:28:59.359 did it, or I don't want my daughters to do it. I think 301 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:03.079 kind of the Girardi family policy for piercings is going to be ear lobe for 302 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:11.079 girls, and that's it. But I can kind of understand that having a 303 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:17.759 little thing on the side of your left or right nostril can be kind of 304 00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:22.599 cute. I can kind of see that for a pretty girl, like Okay, 305 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:32.359 maybe the septum ring thing. I just don't get it makes it it 306 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:36.279 just all I can think of is a cow a cow with a ring like 307 00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:44.079 that through their nose. It is actively you know, different beauties in the 308 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:45.920 eye of the beholder. Well, I don't think purely beauties in the eye 309 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:49.160 of the beholder. I think there are certain objective things about beauty that are 310 00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:53.960 sort of universally true, although to a certain extent, people's tastes vary. 311 00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:57.119 No accounting for taste, I get it, different strokes for different folks, 312 00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:03.640 all right, I'm open to that. Just got to say actively repulses me, 313 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:11.880 and I just kind of don't understand who finds that attractive or who finds 314 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:18.440 that aesthetically pleasing. It doesn't seem to be a I don't know. It 315 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.960 seems to be hetero. It doesn't seem to be a thing that's differentiated necessarily 316 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:30.480 between heterosexual women versus gay women versus. I don't think it has anything to 317 00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:36.640 do with that man. It is just a thing I don't understand. The 318 00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:38.200 other thing I don't understand like that. This has nothing to do with the 319 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:45.160 Palestinian protests. This is just with young Hispanic meals. There's this haircut called 320 00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:51.240 the Edgar. And by the way, I say this with love, I 321 00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:55.119 do all these educational presentations now through right to life for all kinds of kids, 322 00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:57.440 all up and down the valley, all these young Hispanic kids who they 323 00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:02.400 will joke with me about this, so I don't feel like I'm stepping on 324 00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:07.759 some racial landmine. There is this haircut among young Hispanic males which is called 325 00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:12.640 the Edgar. You young guys who have this haircut, I just want to 326 00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:18.640 say, you are gonna look back on this haircut ten years from now, 327 00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:22.359 and you are gonna say, why did I have this haircut? I look 328 00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:26.480 like such a freaking moron. It is the ugliest hair It looks like a 329 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:34.000 helmet of hair. It's like you have this very aggressive, straight hairline across 330 00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:41.480 the top, very thick and full and furry, very severely tapered to a 331 00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:45.599 fade at the sides and back. It's like sometimes you can meld the There 332 00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:48.720 are so many varieties of the Edgar, like you can meld it into like 333 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:56.960 a mullet or something like it. It has got to be and it seems 334 00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:05.160 to be popular among young Hispanic boys, teenagers. Guys. I love you. 335 00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:08.960 I'm pulling for you. You know. I want what's good for you 336 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:13.720 guys in life. I want you to meet that pretty girl, get married, 337 00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:15.319 have that white pick of fence. I'm just telling you, guys, 338 00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:22.920 this is the ugliest freaking haircut I've ever seen. Well, the only thing 339 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:28.039 I think is maybe uglier was this was popular maybe about ten years ago. 340 00:32:28.920 --> 00:32:36.279 Was for girls like shaving like one side of their hair and then having the 341 00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:38.839 rest of their hair long to sort of like flip over it like Miley Cyrus 342 00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:43.160 had that going on for a while. Rihanna did it for a bit. 343 00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:47.720 That was like the stupidest girl haircut I'd ever seen in my life. So 344 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.839 I'm just now, I don't want to act like I'm just picking on. 345 00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:59.039 There are a lot of dumb boy haircuts too. Some boys were doing that 346 00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:07.240 kind of stuff too, But just google the Edgar and you will see maybe 347 00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:15.319 the absolute ugliest haircut I think I've ever seen in my life. So you 348 00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:17.920 young guys out there you're thinking about doing this, I just want to reaffirm 349 00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:23.480 for you, nobody ever lost out on a date because they had a crew 350 00:33:23.480 --> 00:33:29.279 cut, all right. No girl's ever seen like, like, no girl 351 00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:35.920 worth getting has ever seen a guy clean shaven with a crew cut and thought 352 00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:39.720 that guy looks like an idiot. No crewcut basically has a pretty immaculate track 353 00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:46.359 record. Okay, so just stick with that, don't overthink it. Stick 354 00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:52.079 with a crew cut. Okay, this Edgar thing, I just guarantee you, 355 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:54.279 fifteen years from now you're gonna look at old pictures of yourself with an 356 00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:58.519 Edgar haircut and you're gonna think, what was I thinking? That is the 357 00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:01.039 absolute ugliest haircut ever. Now, that has nothing to do with the Palestine 358 00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:05.240 protest, but I just thought i'd throw that in when we return the bizarre 359 00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:10.639 phenomenon of so called red pill influencers online next on The John Girardi Show. 360 00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:19.440 One of the bizarre phenomena of internet culture in the Year of Our Lord twenty 361 00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:24.159 twenty four is the rise of so called red pill male influencers. The term 362 00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:30.719 red pill derives from The Matrix, a science fiction movie from about twenty five 363 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:37.159 years ago, wherein the character the main character is unbeknownst to himself, living 364 00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:43.920 in a computer simulation and a group of freedom fighters offer him the opportunity to 365 00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:46.440 get out of the simulation and see the real world, and so offer him 366 00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:50.639 two choices. One take this red pill and you can see the real world 367 00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:53.280 the way the world really is, or take the blue pill and continue to 368 00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:57.920 go to sleep and be living in this computer simulation while you were a slave 369 00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:01.360 of the machines. So these red pill influencers try to tell you how the 370 00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:08.559 world really works. And they're usually these men who pose themselves as very anti 371 00:35:08.760 --> 00:35:15.719 feminist, and for that reason they get this conservative label attached to them in 372 00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:20.239 spite of the fact that they're not actually very conservative in any meaningful sense of 373 00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:25.119 the term. One of the bizarre things I keep seeing is that they are 374 00:35:25.159 --> 00:35:32.960 getting more and more of a youth following from especially young men who are sometimes 375 00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:39.360 from young men who are frustrated by the culture of young liberal women, some 376 00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:44.719 men who are maybe just frustrated in love, and they are getting some of 377 00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:49.760 the most god awful dating advice from these people possible, some of the most 378 00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:54.159 god awful advice for how to relate to women that I can possibly think of, 379 00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:58.639 Because these red pill guys are not exactly like they are not at all. 380 00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:05.239 You know guys who want to promote you know, marriage and family in 381 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:07.840 a white pick at fence. No, these are guys who want to promote 382 00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:13.079 sleeping around with a whole bunch of women and gambling and you know, being 383 00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:21.199 being a badass who you know, is a playboy basically, And one of 384 00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:28.079 these leading guys is this guy Andrew Tait, who has a whole pyramid scheme 385 00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:37.360 that he runs where basically what he does is he promotes OnlyFans models. These 386 00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:39.519 are women who take off their clothes for money on the internet. So yeah, 387 00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:44.239 not exactly, you know, Ronald Reagan Conservatism, not exactly jump all 388 00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:51.000 the second Christian fidelity here. Yeah, he's a total sleeze ball who has 389 00:36:51.039 --> 00:37:00.639 been arrested in Romania on sex trafficking charges. And he keeps he's so far 390 00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:05.119 into this pretending he's an ultra masculine man that he's now at the point of 391 00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:10.440 trying to say that like, basically he converted to is He didn't. Basically, 392 00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:15.559 he says he converted to Islam because they have a better approach to women 393 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:22.440 than Christianity does. Also because he likes polygamy. I guess now he's into 394 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:28.239 that. He basically says what he's now at the point though, of almost 395 00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:32.280 sounding like, I mean, it's it's completely insane the levels he's gotten to 396 00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:37.519 where he says, basically, sex for anything other than reproduction is gay. 397 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:40.559 I mean, look, I'm Catholic. I believe what the church teaches about 398 00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:45.840 contraception. I don't know. I think God, I don't know. I 399 00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:51.440 think sexual relations with a woman you love pretty enjoyable thing. Just just my 400 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:54.920 just my two cents on the whole controversy. I don't know, my wild 401 00:37:54.960 --> 00:38:00.039 and crazy opinion. Uh yeah, So if any of when you hear of 402 00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:06.639 your kids listening to Andrew Tait, watching Andrew Tait YouTube videos or something, 403 00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:10.039 take their phone or their laptop whatever they're watching him on and throw it in 404 00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:16.800 the garbage. It's straight up lunatic idiocy. That'll do it for the John 405 00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:19.760 Girardi Show. We'll see you next time on Power Talk.