WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:04.120 Why do you listen to local radio so you can get local news? Why 2 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:10.880 do you listen to a geographic specific show so you get geographic specific information? 3 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:19.199 And I think one of the big holes in our information media landscape is that 4 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:25.440 very few people talk enough about what happens at the level of California state government. 5 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:34.119 It's this huge thing that impacts like forty million Americans, and yet local 6 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:38.520 newspapers are dying. Local television broadcast news is dying. And even when you 7 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:44.039 watch those or look at those, they cover California state politics so relatively little. 8 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:49.119 And that's why you've got me to cover all the big stuff that's happening 9 00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:53.840 in Sacramento. Now, what do I want to cover? There is a 10 00:00:54.359 --> 00:01:00.600 hugely consequential bill that will be a focus for me, particularly as mister Right 11 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:03.679 to Life. We will talk about it on Right to Life Radio. We 12 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:08.200 will talk about it on this show. I want to keep the attention focused 13 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:15.439 on this. It is SB one one nine six, s B one one 14 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:19.359 ninety six. What is SB one one nine six. This is a bill 15 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:26.959 to expand legalized physician assisted suicide. And I want to go into it because 16 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:34.079 I want to kind of explain how legalized physician assisted suicide currently works, how 17 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.239 they're trying to expand it, and the motivations behind it, Like, where 18 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:41.120 did this push for people to kill themselves come from? Who is pushing this, 19 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:46.560 what are the ideas behind it? What are some of the unintended consequences 20 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:53.000 behind it? So I want to dig into this. California's had legalized physician 21 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:57.560 assisted suicide since twenty fifteen, and I think the first thing to do in 22 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:05.959 this conversation is to find our terms. You have physician assisted suicide and you 23 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:14.319 have euthanasia. They are different things slightly. They are related, They're not 24 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:15.759 too far apart from each other, but they are different things, and I 25 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:22.120 would say euthanasia is worse. Both are quite bad. Euthanasia is slightly worse. 26 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:28.879 Let me explain why assisted suicide is what it says on the tin physician 27 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:39.120 assisted suicide, I am killing myself. Suicide actually from the Latin words sue 28 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:49.199 isn't really Basically the root for himself, oneself and side comes from kado caterreat 29 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:54.319 to fall death, so suicide means death to oneself, killing yourself, Okay, 30 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:00.680 physician assisted. So basically what happens is a physician helps me out but 31 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:05.919 I'm still killing myself. I am still the one doing the thing that results 32 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:09.360 in killing myself. And what happens in the context of California's legal regime around 33 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:20.560 assisted suicide is a doctor prescribes me deadly drugs so that I can kill myself. 34 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:27.240 California has created this legal structure a big exception to ordinary California law, 35 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:34.159 which is that helping someone commit suicide is a crime. Normal California law is 36 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:42.599 that if you knowingly give somebody a gun with the specific intent of I know 37 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:45.120 this person wants to kill themselves. They asked me, Hey, could you 38 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:46.759 get me a gun so I can kill myself. Here you go, buddy, 39 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:52.400 here's a gun so you can kill yourself. I'm gonna face some criminal 40 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:58.960 liability for this person's death. I'm an accomplice to murder. More, I'm 41 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:01.840 an accomplice to this person engaging in self murder. You're not legally allowed just 42 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:09.560 to commit suicide. The coercive power of the state can be used in California 43 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:13.759 and in any other jurisdiction in the United States of America. The coercive power 44 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:17.800 of the state can be used to stop you from killing yourself. All right, 45 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:23.199 if a cop sees a guy standing a cop or a firefighter sees a 46 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:28.920 guy standing on the ledge of a tall building about to jump, the CoP's 47 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:34.279 able to grab the guy and tackle him to the ground, maybe even have 48 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:41.399 him committed to, you know, being detained in a mental health setting or 49 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:46.839 something like that. The coercive power of the states allowed to stop someone from 50 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:53.360 one killing other people or two killing themselves. So California had to create a 51 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:56.920 big exception of that, and this is the legal structure by which people can 52 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:02.800 legally kill themselves. That's what we've done. We've basically said human life is 53 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:11.319 valuable in California. Human life is valuable enough that the coercive power of the 54 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:18.519 state can be used to protect innocent life. We will even use the course 55 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:25.240 of power of the state to defend innocent life to the extent of ending guilty 56 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:31.639 life. You can use deadly force. If the deadly force is the proportionate 57 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:36.560 response, you can use deadly force to protect innocent life. If someone bursts 58 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:40.399 into your home with a shotgun pointed out your head, you're allowed to grab 59 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:46.759 your pistol and shoot that guy in the chest, protecting innocent life. The 60 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:51.800 life of someone who isn't threatening deadly violence to anyone else is so important in 61 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:59.120 California that you can even go to that extent. And our desire to protect 62 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:09.240 innocent life extends to people wanting to kill themselves. But California says, has 63 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:14.639 said since twenty fifteen, No, there's a certain segment of human life that 64 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:19.399 we're not gonna protect from killing themselves, that we're gonna let kill themselves. 65 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:27.399 We're gonna say that these people their lives are a different category of not as 66 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:34.560 important because we're not going to afford them that protection well as long as they 67 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:41.040 themselves consent to it. And so California created the structure in twenty fifteen for 68 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:44.800 physician assist at suicide. It has to be for persons who have a six 69 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:51.879 month terminal prognosis. Now, what is a six month terminal prognosis? I 70 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:58.480 don't know. When my dad got diagnosed with having like very badly, he 71 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:02.040 was diagnosed with cancer, and then about a year ago they sort of determined 72 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:11.759 that the cancer was extremely progressed and dangerous and they you know, how long 73 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:16.120 did you have to live? It was anyone's guess. Honestly, you could 74 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:19.199 have. He wound up living about a year, a little less than a 75 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:24.759 year, but not even dying from like the cancer necessarily, it was he 76 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:31.480 died from complications arising from treatment. So like, honestly, a physician saying 77 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:34.839 to someone, well, you've got six months. It's not like at five 78 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:40.439 months and twenty nine days you're walking around just fine, and then at five 79 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:45.120 months and thirty days exactly six months, you boop immediately drop dead like a 80 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:47.879 stone. No, that's not how it works. It's a good faith guess 81 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:51.759 that the position gives based on all the factors that he know, he or 82 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:57.279 she knows at the time. And guess what, there are a billion and 83 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:03.879 one factors that maybe that physician does not know or cannot possibly know. There 84 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:07.720 are people who receive six month terminal diagnoses who go on to live twenty years. 85 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:09.720 There are people who receive six month terminal diagnoses who die in a week. 86 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:18.720 Nonetheless, California law has premised who can kill themselves and who can't, 87 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:22.879 Whose life has value, whose life doesn't on the basis of a six month 88 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:30.759 terminal prognosis by physician a good faith guess. So currently California law says you 89 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:37.120 need to have a terminal condition with a six month prognosis. The person asking 90 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:43.720 for physician assistant suicide has to be mentally competent to ask. There's a certain 91 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:54.879 process of talking it through with healthcare providers, of making at least two requests 92 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:03.759 through physicians for physician assistant suicide. And then what happens is the doctor prescribes 93 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:15.840 pills that contain deadly drugs that the person is supposed to ingest orally. So 94 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:22.320 it's the it's the person ingesting the drugs orally. It's not the doctor directly, 95 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:28.600 you know, killing the person. It's the doctor gives the person the 96 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:35.960 means to kill themselves. The doctor prescribes and provides deadly medication to the person 97 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:39.279 who wishes to kill himself. That person ingests the pill orally, that person 98 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:48.120 dies. That's the current law. SB eleven ninety six is going to change 99 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:54.559 that in several key ways. And Alex Schadenberg from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, 100 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:58.559 who does great work across the country looking at physician assistant suicide in different states 101 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:03.759 and so internationally too, looking at assisted suicide and euthanasian other countries, has 102 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:07.799 kind of a summary of this bill. You can find info about it at 103 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:13.159 at Twitter dot com slash John Girarti at John Girardi on Twitter x whatever. 104 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.519 So he notes what SB eleven ninety six is going to do. One, 105 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:28.000 it's going to change the criteria for who can get physician assisted suicide from people 106 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:33.720 who are terminally ill with a six month prognosis to the Canadian model quote someone 107 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:46.799 with a quote grievous and irremediable medical condition. That means two things. One 108 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:52.360 no time limit. Doesn't have to be someone with a six month terminal prognosis, 109 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:56.559 And in fact, it doesn't even need to be a terminal prognosis. 110 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:03.639 It just needs to be a medical condition that is quote grievous and irremediable. 111 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:16.320 Are you blind you can kill yourself? Do you have spina bifina You can 112 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:24.879 kill yourself? Are you any kind of disabled person? You can kill yourself? 113 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:35.159 Now you might be thinking, well, sure, but it's still you 114 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:39.000 know, this is about respecting people's autonomy. If they want to kill themselves, 115 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:46.879 why don't we let them? Ahaaa, autonomy the great refuge of the 116 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:54.000 libertarian Let's talk about autonomy and how assisted suicide immediately starts attacking the flimsy wall 117 00:11:54.159 --> 00:12:01.200 that is consent. The next thing s B eleven ninety six is it allows 118 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:09.279 people with early to mid stage dementia to consent to assisted suicide euthanasia even though 119 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:15.519 they have a condition that impairs their capacity to consent. Why because people say, 120 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:18.039 oh, well, but you know you can't just deny it to anyone 121 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:22.000 who has early stage dementia. Well, by that time, that's usually when 122 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:26.279 a lot of people are at the stage where they would want assisted suicide. 123 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:30.840 So how can you do that? Would they really want to continue living in 124 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:35.440 that condition? Would they want to? Would they want to? Quality of 125 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:41.000 life questions? These immediately start creeping in. Can you see, by the 126 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:46.279 way, why one of the main opponents of physician assistant suicide are disabled people, 127 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:52.639 because whose health care is really expensive? Disabled people? You know, 128 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:58.840 it's a lot cheaper than healthcare for disabled people having them kill themselves. By 129 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:01.919 the way, this financial thing, I'll talk about it more in depth in 130 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:05.360 the next segment. The financial thing is at the root of all this. 131 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:13.159 The next big thing that SB eleven ninety six is going to do is it's 132 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:18.440 going to allow straight up euthanasia, not assisted suicide. Euthanasia not just I 133 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:20.759 prescribe you these pills. Here are these pills. You ingest them when you 134 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.279 want, you are still the one ingesting them. It's still you committing suicide. 135 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:31.240 Nope, we will allow the doctor to do it. Allow the doctor 136 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:39.559 to inject the drugs into an IV for you. Changing the doctor patient relationship 137 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:48.279 fundamentally. Four Removing the California residency requirement. Hey, all the rest of 138 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:52.080 the country, come to California to kill yourself. Everyone in Texas, come 139 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:58.240 to California. You can kill yourself. Five Remove the forty eight hour waiting 140 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:01.000 period between the first and second request by the patients, so you can kill 141 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:07.080 yourself the same day. Six eliminating the sunset on the current California assisted suicide 142 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:09.519 law, which is a scheduled to sunset in twenty thirty one. Now, 143 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:13.960 when we return, I want to talk about the financial aspect of assisted suicide 144 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:20.240 and euthanasia and why it's so furiously opposed by people with disabilities, why it 145 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:26.519 should be opposed by anyone who's lower income, and why the precarious state of 146 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:31.000 medical makes me terrified about assisted suicide. That's next on the John Growardy Show. 147 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:39.039 California is considering basically adopting all of Canada's standards for physician assisted suicide and 148 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:43.279 euthanasia through SB eleven ninety six, a bill that was introduced into the state 149 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:50.759 legislature, a terrible, terrible bill, and we I think we therefore need 150 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:54.919 to look at Canada, what's going on in Canada with assisted suicide and euthanasia, 151 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:58.320 because that's what's being proposed for us, and it's actually a decent comparison 152 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:07.000 point. Canada is obviously a pretty different place from California, but its population 153 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:13.159 is relatively similar. Canada's population is relatively similar to that of California. Canada 154 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.840 had in twenty twenty two, the most recent year that we have stats for, 155 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:22.399 about thirteen thousand people commit assisted at suicide or euthanasia, which was a 156 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:26.519 thirty one percent jump from twenty twenty one. So in Canada, assisted suicide 157 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:35.840 is booming. If we adopt all of Canada's standards, maybe obviously there's a 158 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:41.759 lot of factors that are different between California and Canada, but maybe we could 159 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:48.519 see assisted suicide jump in the same way in California as in Canada. And 160 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:56.200 I think there is one way in which that could definitely happen. It's because 161 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:02.600 of two things. One, homelessness in California, people who are homeless and 162 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:07.240 drug addicted, which I think California may have more of than Canada. And 163 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:18.320 two, a massive government healthcare system with scarce limited resources, which is going 164 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:25.440 to naturally be incentivized into pushing people into assisted suicide and euthanasia. All right, 165 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:32.159 so let me let me explain both of these things. Canada's legal standard 166 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:41.279 for who can kill themselves is what's being proposed in California, and Canada's standard 167 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:45.240 is not that you need to have a terminal diagnosis, that's the current California 168 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:52.279 law. Canada's standard is that you have to have a grievous and irremediable So 169 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:57.799 a serious grievous means serious whatever my fault, my phone, my most grievous 170 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:03.119 fault. What does grievous mean? Necessarily? Obviously, up to interpretation, 171 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:15.720 a grievous and irremediable condition means a condition you can't really fix, so doesn't 172 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:21.960 have to be a terminal diagnosis. Anyone with a disability pretty much qualifies. 173 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:30.440 Canada has been allowing drug addicts to kill themselves, Homeless people with drug addictions 174 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:37.880 to kill themselves. You know what, California has a lot of You know 175 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:41.359 what California has a massive problem with. You know what, California looks at 176 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:47.240 as a near insoluble solution that California just cannot figure out how to fix, 177 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:52.079 you know, other than like building more housing and getting rid of the environmental 178 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:56.640 regulations that inhibit us from building more housing, and getting rid of some of 179 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:00.759 the insane union rules that prohibit us that limit us from building more housing, 180 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:03.599 et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. No, no, no, 181 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:07.319 we couldn't just adopt more conservative policy surrounding housing or anything like that. No, 182 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:08.440 no, no, that would be completely impossible. Are you? Are 183 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:18.440 you insane? California looks at homelessness as an insoluble problem almost, I mean 184 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:25.759 more or less. I think our leadership is tacitly. You know, at 185 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:30.680 the very least, California's political leadership completely excludes certain categories of solutions to the 186 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:37.000 homelessness problem because conservatives like them and because they step on certain kinds of liberal 187 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:48.319 shibaleths regarding the environment or labor or whatever. So the state's going to be 188 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:56.319 incentivized to push to have some kind of solution to the homelessness problem. Why 189 00:18:56.359 --> 00:19:03.920 not quote the final solution Now, maybe you think I'm crazy, Maybe you 190 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:07.680 think I'm maybe you think I'm off my rocker. I'm just telling you that 191 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:12.680 this is happening in Canada, that the MADE program is being gently promoted, 192 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:18.480 gently promoted, promoted, promoted, promoted, promoted all throughout Canada, and 193 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:23.680 that it's being done to homeless people, homeless people in Canada. Excuse me, 194 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:27.799 unhoused people. Just saw a big headline in the Fresno But how many 195 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:32.920 unhoused people are there in Fresno? Ah? Yes, you're so sensitive to 196 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:37.519 the unhoused people that you still that you won't call them homeless, but you 197 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:45.960 won't actually promote policies that will help them not be homeless anyway. The other 198 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:55.119 factor is a massive government run healthcare system with scarce resources. So Canada has 199 00:19:56.559 --> 00:20:03.720 single payer, universal government run healthcare. California has medical all right, so 200 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:10.119 medical is not a one, single government run healthcare program that everyone's on. 201 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:14.799 But a ton of people are on medical in California. And we just extended 202 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:22.519 medical eligibility to people who have immigrated into this country illegally, so a ton 203 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:27.359 of people are on medical. It's a government run system, and much like 204 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:37.200 Canada's government run system, there is a finite amount of healthcare resources. That's 205 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:41.039 the thing with government run universal healthcare is that not everybody's getting a Cadillac. 206 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:44.960 Maybe everyone can get a Honda Civic or a Honda a Cord, but not 207 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:52.079 everyone's getting a Cadillac. And as a government run system that doesn't have an 208 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:59.559 infinite amount of money, especially a state run system like medical, you're trying 209 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:07.359 to cut. Okay, California's got medical. Medical is already like incredibly precarious. 210 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:11.279 Like all kinds of providers in different kinds different fields feel like they can't 211 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:15.720 take medical patients because they lose money on each one. They lose so much 212 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:18.880 money that they're basically and medical is such a pain in the butt to deal 213 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:22.160 with that. A lot of providers basically forget it. I'm not gonna take 214 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:27.119 medical patients. That's what's happened with a lot of obgyn care in presdent. 215 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:32.400 That's why I started our Obria Clinic, which, by the way, Thursday 216 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:36.519 this Thursday, five point thirty at the Toka Madera Winery, you can come 217 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:41.400 harving a little fundraiser for Obria. Uh if you're interested five five nine, 218 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:44.599 two oh one eight three eight oh, you can buy tickets or go to 219 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:49.319 Obria three six five dot org Obria three six five dot org. Basically, 220 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:55.960 medical is not really solvent, or at the very least, there are these 221 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:59.519 huge financial constraints, a ton of people, not enough tax revenue to pay 222 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:03.440 for them all. You know, it's a heck of a lot cheaper than 223 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:06.359 palliative care. You know, it's a heck of a lot cheaper than chemo 224 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:07.759 therapy. You know, it's a heck of a lot cheaper than any of 225 00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:15.279 the very complex and expensive kinds of care that people with disabilities need. You 226 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:22.319 know what's more expensive than ongoing drug rehab therapy killing somebody. That's the thing 227 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:26.559 with assisted suicide and euthanasia. It's cheap and it's way cheaper than the alternatives. 228 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:34.400 Don't think for a second that if we in California legalize an extremely permissive 229 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:40.079 regime around euthanasia and assisted suicide that it won't get the promoted the absolute hell 230 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:45.079 to lower income people on medical specifically, that's what's going to happen, and 231 00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:48.319 these families will be forced into this decision of well, do we get really 232 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:55.200 expensive chemo or do we just kill grandpa? Let grandpa kill himself. Does 233 00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:57.799 Grandpa want to kill himself or put this big financial burden on his family? 234 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:03.519 Those are the kinds of choices, or maybe even you close off certain choices. 235 00:23:04.279 --> 00:23:07.519 We're not going to offer this kind of chemo for this kind of person. 236 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:17.000 Here's assistant suicide is the option SB eleven ninety six. Call your assembly 237 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:22.160 member, call your state senator, tell them to vote no. When we 238 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:29.200 return Shifting Gears, a generalized rant about conservatives and how to prioritize Second Amendment 239 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:34.000 issues next on The John Girardi Show. I won't give him a ton of 240 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:40.119 publicity or anything, but there's this one kind of conservative writer, commentator and 241 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:47.640 I follow on Twitter and he's not. One of the things I've really been 242 00:23:47.720 --> 00:23:56.880 noticing since Rovi Wade got overturned is that there's more and more a realization by 243 00:23:56.200 --> 00:24:02.640 social conservatives like me, and I think if I label myself as conservative, 244 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:10.000 although actually I will say I one time, listen to this the Teaching Company 245 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:17.720 course on the History of Conservatism. The Teaching Company provides all these like audiobook 246 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:23.640 or video courses, like college university courses. They get professors at different colleges 247 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:29.440 and universities and they either audio record or video record different courses on a lot 248 00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:33.839 of different subjects. And if I have an audible subscription, which is like 249 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:37.359 an audiobooks subscription, and they have a ton of their courses on there, 250 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:41.319 so for like fifteen bucks, I can get a whole, like forty hour 251 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:45.079 long series of lectures on the history of the Roman Empire, the history of 252 00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:51.160 this, the history of you know, on history, philosophy, whatever you 253 00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:53.960 know, topic might be of interest to you. And I downloaded, My 254 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:57.480 wife and I downloaded, and we're listening to a course on the history of 255 00:24:57.599 --> 00:25:04.319 conservatism as a kind of political posture, as a kind of political ideology, 256 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:07.799 the idea of conservatism. And one of the things I sort of walked away 257 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:14.799 from it with was sort of, honestly a little bit of disappointment that conservatism 258 00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:21.359 seems to sort of shift what it means almost every generation or so, that 259 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:26.720 it seems to be almost more of an attitude towards things than an actual kind 260 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:33.599 of concrete set of ideals or policies. It sometimes feels like to me, 261 00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:37.079 it's just liberalism and slow motion. Anyway, maybe that's a topic for another 262 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:44.359 day. Regardless, for those of us who are sort of hardcore social conservatives. 263 00:25:45.160 --> 00:25:52.200 We have been a little uncomfortable realizing, especially after Dobbs, after Roe 264 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:55.599 v. Wade has been overturned, that there's a lot of people in the 265 00:25:55.599 --> 00:26:00.000 conservative coalition who are not really all that pro life, who are don't really 266 00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:03.480 really agree with us very much at all about a lot of social conservative issues. 267 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:10.440 I think I've been extremely disillusioned by the debates over IVF that have taken 268 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:12.160 place in the last four weeks, where basically every Republican's like, no, 269 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:18.440 b ivf's totally fine. IVF is completely wonderful, absolutely no moral issues at 270 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:23.319 stake with IVF gonna back the IVF industry completely, and any Republican who says 271 00:26:23.319 --> 00:26:27.440 otherwise is an idiot. And it's like every Republican across the spectrum is saying 272 00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:36.039 this, from Flippin' Mike, you know, Bible clutching Mike Johnson and James 273 00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:42.319 Langford the pastor senator from Oklahoma, all the way to Donald Trump and Nancy 274 00:26:42.359 --> 00:26:48.839 Mas Basically everyone abandoned the fort on that regardless. I'm realizing that those of 275 00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:52.839 us who are like hardcore social conservatives, like me, I mean, why 276 00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:56.000 do I identify as a Republican or a conservative at all. It's chiefly for 277 00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:02.920 social issues. You know, I more or less agree with the conservative movement 278 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:07.240 on a lot of other things, but the chief reason why I'm a conservative 279 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:11.079 is for social issues. And I think that's probably true for everyone that you're 280 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:15.240 a Republican or a conservative, because there's maybe one or two issues that you 281 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:19.240 really grasp and really think are really important and that's why you're a Republican. 282 00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:33.799 One of the things that annoys me is when people prioritize certain kinds of things. 283 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:38.240 And I've ranted and raved how you know, I think an issue like 284 00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:44.480 abortion that results in, you know, nine hundred thousand innocent lives being taken 285 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:48.480 every year, I don't see how you can't prioritize that above almost everything else. 286 00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:59.759 And yet people will talk about relatively minor issues as if it's you know. 287 00:27:59.799 --> 00:28:02.319 Ever, I remember, before Roe v. Wade was being overturned and 288 00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:06.920 conservatives were really frustrated by Republican Supreme Court picks, there were a lot of 289 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:10.079 conservative talking heads who would say, oh, yeah, well, look how 290 00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:12.920 awesome we've done with the Second Amendment. And that's specifically what I want to 291 00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:21.759 talk about today. One of these gadfly sort of libertarian commentators who's been just 292 00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:27.640 awful and as far as how he's talked about basically totally fine with abandoning ship 293 00:28:27.640 --> 00:28:32.759 on the abortion issue. Post Obs was talking about visiting California and how, 294 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:37.400 you know, conservatives over eight how bad California is. It's still totally beautiful 295 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:41.319 here in beautiful beaches. I'm here in Orange County and I'm just living it 296 00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:44.960 up. It's super safe, and you know, you can concealed carry in 297 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:49.359 most of the state. In most of the state, you can concealed Carrie 298 00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:56.000 was like one of his first lead off argument for how California is more conservative 299 00:28:56.039 --> 00:29:02.759 than you think. You can concealed carry in most of the state. Now, 300 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:11.480 I want to talk about two pieces of idiocy I think that reflects one 301 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:18.119 is that concealed Carrie. The ability to concealed Carrie is precisely just what the 302 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:25.960 Second Amendment allows. As Clarence Thomas has been arguing this in his decisions he's 303 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:34.640 been co authoring or authoring at the Supreme Court regarding legislation surrounding guns. The 304 00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:47.279 Second Amendment specifically says the right to keep and bear arms bear not a grizzly 305 00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:56.960 bear carry him around, So concealed Carrie is just what the Second Amendment affords. 306 00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:02.720 So to set all, California is more conservative than you think. In 307 00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:06.920 most counties you can conceal carry. Oh great, most of the counties of 308 00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:11.160 California respect the Constitution of the United States, acknowledge that the Constitution of the 309 00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:18.000 United States applies to them. Oh, how wonderful for those counties of California. 310 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:25.640 Why would any county of California not How do we have this situation where 311 00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:30.039 we act as though like that's a gold star for you that you do, 312 00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:36.559 in fact follow what the law of the land dictates in your county. Why 313 00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:45.799 why doesn't literally every county of California do that, although I would guess that 314 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:49.000 every county of California kind of technically does so. I think this guy is 315 00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:56.839 both both. He's like a moron from like five different directions. But the 316 00:30:56.839 --> 00:30:59.759 bigger point I want to make is this to lead off by saying, well, 317 00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:02.480 you know, well, California's actually a little more conservative than you think. 318 00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:03.799 And he's got a picture of the beach he said, you know, 319 00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:07.839 uh, California allows concealed carry in most states. As he's got a picture 320 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:11.799 of you know, surfing or whatever. It's like. First of all, 321 00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:15.240 one, are you really bringing your gun with you to surf? Like? 322 00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:22.319 Okay, I kind of doubt that. Secondly, that's your lead off is 323 00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:32.400 being able to conceal Carrie. Second Amendment stuff. Now, I agree with 324 00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:38.680 most, for the most part, with most conservative arguments in favor of private 325 00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:45.440 gun ownership. Most of the kind of nrash crowd more or less I agree 326 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:52.680 with them, you know. I'm I'm fine with if people want to conceal 327 00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:57.039 Carrie. I think that's great. I think people who do concealed carry result 328 00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:04.039 in such a tiny fraction of gun crimes in the country and in the state. 329 00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:07.000 I think concealed carry is great. I think the amount of training that 330 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:14.359 you get makes it very safe. I think that private gun ownership is, 331 00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:19.920 for the most part, a decent thing. Okay, I'm more or less 332 00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:24.400 fine with the Second Amendment. I'm I'm fine with it all right. For 333 00:32:24.440 --> 00:32:30.480 the most part, I support Second Amendment things. I can't say though, 334 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:37.240 that if I'm looking at my political beliefs, the Second Amendment is the most 335 00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:43.640 important thing for me. I guess I don't understand how for anyone who with 336 00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:50.680 a social conservative position on thinking abortion is wrong anyone coming from a Christian mindset 337 00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:54.519 again, and I'm pro Second Amendment, pro private gun ownership, pro people 338 00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:59.759 being able to conceal carry. I think the concealed carry process is actually great. 339 00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:06.200 Think having people be very well trained, good responsible citizens with no criminal 340 00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:13.599 record, being really well trained in using guns, very low records of dangerous 341 00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:15.720 activity or crimes or anything like that. I think that's a good thing. 342 00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:21.000 I think it's honestly, it's a better thing than people buying guns who aren't 343 00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:25.880 concealed carry certified. Now I think California's recent law is making concealed carry like 344 00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:35.200 utterly extremely difficult to obtain or ridiculous. But nonetheless I like all of that. 345 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:42.359 I cannot say it's like even in my top five most important things that 346 00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:51.119 I care about. And I guess I just can't understand a conservative coalition being 347 00:33:51.400 --> 00:33:59.640 built around it now. It kind of the conservative coalition. I mean, 348 00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:02.960 actions are one and lost on gun control issues, or at the very least 349 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:07.400 they were in the early two thousands and the nineties. I mean, the 350 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:10.719 NRA is a train wreck right now. For those who have been following that 351 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:14.880 particular story, I think a lot of gun owners are sitting there nodding their 352 00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:19.599 heads at that NRA is in bad trouble with a lot of different scandals, 353 00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:25.400 and you know their membership is down and their political influences way down. That 354 00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:32.280 might be part of this, But I guess I just don't understand the idea 355 00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:37.119 of making that the most important thing, if that's your most important thing and 356 00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:40.639 not some kind of like moral thing or ethical thing, Like there's no moral 357 00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:45.199 guiding principle to your conservatism. The main thing you're care about, oh, 358 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:51.480 can I have a gun? Like again? I like the pro second Amendment. 359 00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:55.559 I agree with most conservative arguments about gun ownership. I don't understand this 360 00:34:55.760 --> 00:35:01.599 kind of libertarian ish mindset that thinks it's the most important thing. When we 361 00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:07.400 return my brief thoughts on whether or not America should ban TikTok next on the 362 00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:13.679 John Jurardy Show, there's this whole debate right now. I guess there's a 363 00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:19.760 bill that's been passed to actually ban TikTok from the American social media marketplace, 364 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:23.719 and of all people, Donald Trump is like opposed to it, which I 365 00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:30.719 think is utterly ridiculous. Now I can see the various arguments getting lined up. 366 00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:35.320 There's one line of argument that says, no, you shouldn't ban TikTok 367 00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:40.400 because people are lunatics and for some reason, TikTok is liberal coded in spite 368 00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:45.760 of the fact that it's owned and controlled by a hostile foreign power that is 369 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:51.800 literally using it to mind data on Americans in ways that can potentially be harmful. 370 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:54.960 Okay, it's owned by the Chinese. They use it to mind data 371 00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:59.599 on Americans. It's bad. There's a reason a bunch of state governments don't 372 00:35:59.639 --> 00:36:01.480 allow it. Why there's a reason why the federal government does not allow any 373 00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:09.079 federal government owned TikTok accounts like it's bad. It's obviously bad. But I 374 00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:16.360 can already see the libertarian response coming up. Well, TikTok would be fine 375 00:36:16.360 --> 00:36:21.519 as long as it's sold to an American or just as long as the Chinese 376 00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:23.800 communists don't own it, if they divest their ownership of it, if they 377 00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:30.960 sell it, then that's fine. And I'm gonna make this argument. Yes, 378 00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:32.840 TikTok is bad because it's owned by the Chinese and the Chinese are using 379 00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:37.360 it to mind dad on Americans, steal dad on Americans. It's bad in 380 00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:40.360 that sense, Yes, you know why, Else it's bad, though, 381 00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:49.920 it's the same reason why all social media is bad. One. It's destroying 382 00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:58.920 American morals. It's promoting wrongful ideas to gazillions of kids. It's why almost 383 00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:00.679 a quarter of gen z is identifying as L or G or B or T. 384 00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:04.760 It's not because all of a sudden, all these people had these identities. 385 00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:13.559 It's because of social contagion transmitted through platforms like TikTok. It's got all 386 00:37:13.639 --> 00:37:17.800 kinds of morally bad stuff. It's it's like the gateway to every kid viewing 387 00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:25.960 porn. It's pervasive. It's pervasively spreading every bad thing possible to millions and 388 00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:32.920 millions and millions of kids. It's also destroying attention spans. It's like it's 389 00:37:34.239 --> 00:37:38.519 bad. The platform itself is bad. In fact, not only is that 390 00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:43.519 platform bad. YouTube, which has scrolling videos that do the same thing is 391 00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:45.079 also bad. Facebook that has scrolling videos that does the same thing, it's 392 00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:49.239 also bad. Instagram that is scrolling, never ending videos that are also bad, 393 00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:54.000 is also bad. It's all bad. All of it should be regulated 394 00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:58.599 to stop that. And if that makes me not a libertarian, oh dear, 395 00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:02.639 so be it. It's bad. It's bad for health, it's bad 396 00:38:02.679 --> 00:38:07.599 for morals, it's bad for everything. It should be actually regulated and stopped, 397 00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:12.840 whether in American owns it or not. That'll do it for John Girardi 398 00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:14.280 Show. See you next time on Power Talk