Speaker 1: The election super depressing in a number of ways. And
Speaker 1: I think let's kick this off with the Bible verse
Speaker 1: that most frequently is coming to my mind throughout woe
Speaker 1: to those who call evil good and good evil, who
Speaker 1: put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put
Speaker 1: bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter, Isaiah chapter five,
Speaker 1: Verse twenty.
Speaker 2: I find it amazing that I guess in this sense.
Speaker 1: For most of my life as.
Speaker 2: A political observer.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I sort of noticed that
Speaker 1: always bugged me up until very recently was how even
Speaker 1: in presidential debates, even on news debate shows, sort of
Speaker 1: topics like abortion were always sort of skidded around. I
Speaker 1: think people were nervous to actually flat out argue for
Speaker 1: or against the nervous to actually duke it out.
Speaker 2: To have an actual argument about it.
Speaker 1: And I would say probably for most of the last
Speaker 1: twenty four Okay, the two thousand election was like the
Speaker 1: first election I was really kind of paying attention. I
Speaker 1: was thirteen years old, I was very engaged, and you know,
Speaker 1: listening to talk radio, et cetera. I don't think abortion
Speaker 1: was ever the lead issue for any of the presidential
Speaker 1: campaigns from two thousand through even twenty twenty. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's the lead issue in this election as far
Speaker 1: as how most people are thinking of voting, but it's
Speaker 1: certainly up there in a way that it hasn't been
Speaker 1: for any other election in my lifetime.
Speaker 2: And one of the things.
Speaker 1: I always realized was people just liked to say that
Speaker 1: abortion was such a contentious issue. This is such a
Speaker 1: contentious issue, And actually it was almost like so contentious
Speaker 1: that even in the context of a presidential debate, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't see the two major candidates actually duke it out
Speaker 1: about the ethics of abortion. No one would actually have
Speaker 1: that argument. No one would actually kind of go to
Speaker 1: the fundamentals and say, well, what is this thing? Is
Speaker 1: this good or is this not good? Is the unborn?
Speaker 1: Does the unborn child have value as a living human being,
Speaker 1: living member of society, or is this just a non
Speaker 1: valuable human organism. I wouldn't actually, if you really think
Speaker 1: about it, you go back to prior presidential debates, no
Speaker 1: one's actually trying to have that argument. No one's actually
Speaker 1: making the case. The Democrat candidate just sort of talks
Speaker 1: past it with their slogans, and the Republican candidate is
Speaker 1: skittish and doesn't want to talk about it.
Speaker 2: That's the dynamic.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, of all people, actually wound up engaging with
Speaker 1: it more vigorously, honestly than prior presidential candidates, just purely
Speaker 1: because he would actually talk about third trimester abortions and
Speaker 1: how vile they are, which was actually I think an
Speaker 1: effective thing against Hillary Clinton, certainly, but no one would
Speaker 1: actually sit there and debate it, no one, And Democrats
Speaker 1: even had to be a little careful with how they
Speaker 1: messaged on it. They had to be a little careful
Speaker 1: to not appear like absolute radicals on the issue, which
Speaker 1: they always were, so they would, you know, they'd say
Speaker 1: things like, you know, safe, legal and rare. That was
Speaker 1: the bit, you know, the Clinton era slogan safe legal
Speaker 1: and rare. And they've been a little quieter about what
Speaker 1: their slogan is right now. Their slogan right now is
Speaker 1: not safe, legal and rare. They don't want it to
Speaker 1: be safe, legal and rare. They want it to be
Speaker 1: accessible universally, meaning they don't they will sacrifice safety for
Speaker 1: the sake of universal access, and they demand legal And
Speaker 1: when I look at the Democrat messaging in these last
Speaker 1: days of the election, Harris had this big rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: which it seemed like this is you know, this is
Speaker 1: one of her last big rallies in the key swing state. Okay,
Speaker 1: and all right, so here she is. This is like
Speaker 1: one of her very last rallies. It's in the key
Speaker 1: swing state of Pennsylvania. Here's her closing message.
Speaker 3: And look, Donald Trump's not done. He would ban abortion nationwide, yes,
Speaker 3: even here in Pennsylvania if he were successful. He would
Speaker 3: restrict access to birth control, put IVF treatments at risk,
Speaker 3: and force states to monitor women's pregnancies. Just google Project
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. Read the plans for yourself.
Speaker 1: Now here's the sad thing about that. First is the
Speaker 1: idea that, I mean, just the whole mindset is so sad.
Speaker 1: Having actually started a nonprofit clinic that provides OBGYN care
Speaker 1: to women, having actually set up systems for directly interacting
Speaker 1: with women who are considering abortion, and having actually really
Speaker 1: exhaustively poured over the data and heard the actual stories
Speaker 1: of women considering abortion, it's so sad that there's a
Speaker 1: whole political movement built around this and like this, the
Speaker 1: problems we're seeing the drive towards abortion has to do
Speaker 1: with the atomization of society. Young women, young moms feeling
Speaker 1: isolated from their communities, isolated from their own families, sometimes
Speaker 1: isolated from friends, from support networks, the breakdown of community associations, churches,
Speaker 1: civic entities, whatever. Where these women feel so totally alone,
Speaker 1: so totally unsupported, that they don't feel like they can
Speaker 1: handle a pregnancy. And here in California, our public funded
Speaker 1: health systems, our public funded insurance systems, financially push you
Speaker 1: towards abortion more so than childbirth. If you wanted to
Speaker 1: get an abortion, it is easy. If you want to
Speaker 1: keep your baby is hard. There aren't enough doctors who
Speaker 1: want to take medical because medical is so screwed up.
Speaker 1: There aren't enough places to go to get an appointment.
Speaker 1: Whereas with abortion easy in California. Not in you know,
Speaker 1: not in some caricature of a Republican state that cuts
Speaker 1: Medicaid funding and cuts funding for healthcare.
Speaker 2: No, in California.
Speaker 1: Medical is so screwed up in California that doctors don't
Speaker 1: want to take medical because they lose money on every patient.
Speaker 2: A global bill for delivering.
Speaker 1: A baby from a mom who has private insurance, the
Speaker 1: global bill for patient visits and the actual delivery itself
Speaker 1: is forty five hundred dollars. The global bill for a
Speaker 1: medical patient exact same scenario is fifteen hundred dollars. They
Speaker 1: lose money. Dealing with medical is a nightmare. Dealing with
Speaker 1: the government is horribly difficult. Doctors don't want to do it.
Speaker 1: So you have fewer and fewer entities that are able
Speaker 1: to care for women, provide prenatal care for women, and
Speaker 1: planned parenthood will get you in and get you an
Speaker 1: abortion quick with no copey, with no deductible because California
Speaker 1: got rid of the cope and the deductible. And who's
Speaker 1: getting a nice fat reimbursement from insurance from medical with
Speaker 1: extra supplemented California dollars the abortion provider. So women who
Speaker 1: are scared, who are atomized from their families, who and
Speaker 1: this is the key, don't really want to have the
Speaker 1: abortion to begin with.
Speaker 2: Don't let me repeat that.
Speaker 1: About two thirds of women who have abortions don't really
Speaker 1: want to have an abortion. I see this anecdotally and
Speaker 1: it is backed up by the stats. These women don't
Speaker 1: want to have abortions. They are driven towards it by
Speaker 1: sinful structural problems. Structures of sin was I think the
Speaker 1: John Paul the second phrase for this kind of thing,
Speaker 1: the structures of sin within our culture, within our government,
Speaker 1: within our public health systems, our public funded health insurance systems,
Speaker 1: that are driving women towards abortion when all they need.
Speaker 1: And I've seen this directly in our work at Right
Speaker 1: Till Life of Central California. I've seen it directly. All
Speaker 1: these women really need is to slow down, talk with
Speaker 1: someone and think about what is the support system you
Speaker 1: have in place that maybe, yes, you can have this baby.
Speaker 1: And instead, our laws, our public health systems are pushing
Speaker 1: women towards abortion far more readily, far more easily, far
Speaker 1: more simply than they are towards childbirth. It is evil.
Speaker 1: It is wicked for one of the two major presidential
Speaker 1: campaigns to make this its signature issue, for it to
Speaker 1: have convinced an entire demographic of eighteen to thirty five
Speaker 1: year old women that.
Speaker 2: This is the right to do.
Speaker 1: This, this thing that sixty seven percent of the women
Speaker 1: who participate in it don't want to do.
Speaker 2: It's against their preference. They would rather have the baby
Speaker 2: if they could, but they feel like they can't.
Speaker 1: That that freedom, which is a mockery of the word
Speaker 1: freedom is the single most important right that they have
Speaker 1: as Americans. It should guide their vote for the president
Speaker 1: of the United States. It is a tragedy, and listen
Speaker 1: to the things. And this is the cornerstone of the
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris campaign. It's all she's got. It's the only
Speaker 1: thing that she pulls better than Donald Trump on. The
Speaker 1: only issue she has in her back pocket that she
Speaker 1: knows she pulls better on is abortion. And so it
Speaker 1: is front and center. And I think the bigger tragedy
Speaker 1: here is because of one bad election cycle in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, Donald Trump can't effectively respond. He feels like
Speaker 1: it's a loser of an issue. I know of people
Speaker 1: who talked to Donald Trump and heard him say that
Speaker 1: to their face.
Speaker 2: This issue is a loser. The pro life cause is
Speaker 2: a loser politically, and as a.
Speaker 1: Result, all of the good pro life things that are
Speaker 1: in the Republican platform that are not anti woman. If limit,
Speaker 1: if you think unrestricted abortion is pro woman, then talk
Speaker 1: to the sixty seven percent of women who don't even
Speaker 1: want to have these abortions in the first place, who
Speaker 1: feel like they have no choice, who are having this
Speaker 1: abortion either because they were pressured by boyfriends, possibly even
Speaker 1: in a small number of cases even coerced, or just
Speaker 1: feel coerced by the pressures of atomization, isolation finances.
Speaker 2: Et cetera. Who are shoved that way by medical.
Speaker 1: Shoved that way by a lack of providers able to care,
Speaker 1: who are willing to care for them. And before you say,
Speaker 1: what have you, I've started one more nonprofit obgyn clinic
Speaker 1: to care for these women than you have.
Speaker 2: I can guarantee that what have you done? All your
Speaker 2: pro life is just care about fetuses?
Speaker 1: Shut up, walk a mile in my shoes first before
Speaker 1: you start saying crap like that. I think that maybe
Speaker 1: the most tragic thing about what Harris said. Here's the
Speaker 1: list of things Harris said. She says that Trump wants
Speaker 1: to ban abortion nationwide, he wants to stop access to
Speaker 1: birth control, he wants to threaten IVF and follow Project
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. I think the saddest thing is that
Speaker 1: Trump doesn't want to limit abortion nationwide, that he has
Speaker 1: not been super clear. I mean, I guess I find
Speaker 1: it highly questionable that Trump would follow through with Democrat
Speaker 1: led mandates for contraception for employers who.
Speaker 2: Don't want to cover it.
Speaker 1: I think he'd probably be the right way on that,
Speaker 1: But threaten IVF. Trump doesn't want to threaten IVF one
Speaker 1: iota with the you know, ten embryos destroyed for every successful.
Speaker 2: IVF implantation more or less, and follow Project twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Trump has only decried Project twenty twenty five a million times,
Speaker 1: inspite of the fact that everything Project twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: says about the abortion issue is sound and great. And
Speaker 1: I think this is sort of the tragedy is at
Speaker 1: this moment where one whole political movement is dedicated to
Speaker 1: calling evil good, calling good evil. Who put darkness for
Speaker 1: light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet
Speaker 1: and sweet for bitter? As Isaiah says, I guess it
Speaker 1: just saddens me that I don't think Trump has a
Speaker 1: response for that.
Speaker 2: I hope.
Speaker 1: I think Trump is going to win, and I hope
Speaker 1: if he gets elected he just does all the same
Speaker 1: things he did as first term.
Speaker 2: If he does, it will be a successful.
Speaker 1: And positive pro life presidency. But he hasn't committed this
Speaker 1: go around.
Speaker 2: To doing any of those things.
Speaker 1: And I guess that's the tragedy here, is that there's
Speaker 1: this assumption on the part of Republicans. You know, I'll
Speaker 1: discuss this when we return. I think that Republicans are
Speaker 1: actually afraid that their messaging is anti woman, when it
Speaker 1: is the last thing from it. It's actually pro selfish men.
Speaker 1: That's next on the John Gerardy Show. I've been sort
Speaker 1: of stunned a little bit at how abortion is really
Speaker 1: the central messaging of these last days of the Harris campaign.
Speaker 1: It's all Harris has left. It's all Harris has left
Speaker 1: is the abortion issue. And like one of her big
Speaker 1: last rallies that she has in Harrisburg, what's the cornerstone
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: It's abortion.
Speaker 1: And I feel like Republicans Trump included, have been nervous
Speaker 1: about how to respond and this idea. I mean, Trump
Speaker 1: is openly criticis been critical of Florida's law that bans
Speaker 1: abortion after six weeks, saying, oh, you need more weeks,
Speaker 1: you need more weeks available for people to have abortions.
Speaker 1: Trump has said that, all right, that's not a pro
Speaker 1: life position. I mean, clearly he's favoring abortion for much
Speaker 1: of the first trimester, that it's somehow too harsh to
Speaker 1: women to ban abortion. That's not a pro life position.
Speaker 1: And I think Trump has been embarrassed by the pro
Speaker 1: life position to he I think he actually deep down
Speaker 1: feels like he has to actually agree with the contention
Speaker 1: that it's anti woman. Let's talk just real quickly though,
Speaker 1: about whom this is really benefiting, which is selfish men.
Speaker 1: So much of the there have been several ads in
Speaker 1: the last few days about basically basically several ads in
Speaker 1: the last few days Harris ads aimed at guys because
Speaker 1: the Harris campaign realizes, oh my gosh, we're losing young men,
Speaker 1: like young men are completely not voting for Harris. One
Speaker 1: of them has involved a guy pleasuring himself, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, a Republican congressman jumps in to say, oh,
Speaker 1: Republicans want to ban pornography, limit pornography. That's terrible, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that is terrible.
Speaker 2: I'm going to vote Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: Another shows a man and a woman having sex and
Speaker 1: the man it's oh, my condom broke, and the woman says,
Speaker 1: it's okay, I've got plan B. And then a Republican
Speaker 1: congressman comes into the room and says, so you can't
Speaker 1: do that. Republicans want to stop you from having sex,
Speaker 1: and the messaging to men, the only messaging the Harris
Speaker 1: campaign can have for men around sexuality is one of selfishness, selfishness,
Speaker 1: avoiding responsibility, personal gratification, because that's kind of what abortion
Speaker 1: is ultimately, when you message it to a male voter, Hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to get out of responsibility for the
Speaker 1: natural consequence of your actions?
Speaker 2: Support legal abortion? Men?
Speaker 1: Are you desperate to not have to pay for a
Speaker 1: child who came about because you were horny? Support legal abortion?
Speaker 1: And there were plenty, plenty, plenty, plenty of quotes from guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember in the White Dudes for Harris,
Speaker 1: you know, zoom call where they were raising money all
Speaker 1: these White Dudes for Harris, where Pete Bodagich talked about
Speaker 1: how abortion makes men more free, more free for what
Speaker 1: Pete more free to escape the consequences of their actions,
Speaker 1: all of the you know, I had this tweet I
Speaker 1: saw from uh this guy named John Hassen is a
Speaker 1: conservative kind of commentator guy, and he writes out here
Speaker 1: are all the things that the Harris campaign has been
Speaker 1: promoting to young men as the reasons they should vote
Speaker 1: legal weed, cryptocurrency, porn, video games, they've been just so
Speaker 1: they've had had try to have Tim Walls play Madden
Speaker 1: the NFL video game against AOC of all people. What
Speaker 1: a bizarre combination of people. Ben Walls comes out with
Speaker 1: several tweets, including another today that seemed to indicate he
Speaker 1: has never watched a single snap of football in his life.
Speaker 1: Video games and avoiding fatherhood. This is the vision of
Speaker 1: masculinity from the left, weed crypto porn, video games and
Speaker 1: not being a father. That's the only thing abortion is
Speaker 1: promoting for men is the avoidance of responsibility. How is
Speaker 1: supporting abortions somehow kind to women? And again, let me
Speaker 1: just reiterate, there's this Republican. I think there are a
Speaker 1: lot of these Republicans who genuinely are afraid that they
Speaker 1: are being hostile to women by supporting restrictions on abortion.
Speaker 1: I think Trump has more or less admitted this because
Speaker 1: he opposed Florida's six weeks abortion ban and said it
Speaker 1: was too harsh, too few weeks in which women could
Speaker 1: have abortions, that that's too harsh to women. What about
Speaker 1: abortion do you think is positive for women? Sixty seven
Speaker 1: percent of women report they would rather not have an abortion.
Speaker 1: It is this undertold epidemic of abortions in America that
Speaker 1: are either pressured or coerced by economic circumstance or and
Speaker 1: I think this is much more common than anyone on
Speaker 1: the left wants to admit. Women who are pressured into
Speaker 1: abortions by the fathers of these children, where if it's
Speaker 1: not outright coercion, maybe it's a threat that I, you know,
Speaker 1: I never agree to have this baby. If you have
Speaker 1: this baby, then we're done. I'm not going to support
Speaker 1: you in any way. If you have this baby, you're
Speaker 1: on your own. If you have this baby. There is
Speaker 1: an epidemic of that kind of thing. There are probably
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of women on the low end of
Speaker 1: this who are having abortions for that precise kind of pressure.
Speaker 1: I wish Republicans would have the perspective that there is
Speaker 1: nothing about abortion. The social science backs it up, the
Speaker 1: stats back it up. This is not something kind to women,
Speaker 1: This is not something supportive of women, This is not
Speaker 1: something that is pro women. Multiple surveys shows between sixty
Speaker 1: and seventy percent of women do not even want the
Speaker 1: abortions they are having, would rather not And it's again,
Speaker 1: it saddens me that we live in this topsy turvy
Speaker 1: world where good is called evil, evil is called good,
Speaker 1: and I feel like Republicans don't have.
Speaker 2: The wherewithal to really address it.
Speaker 1: All Right, We're gonna shift to something light, the bizarre
Speaker 1: world of online yarn sellers.
Speaker 2: We'll talk.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about this bizarre thing I found next on
Speaker 1: the John Girardi Show. I want to talk real quick
Speaker 1: about that. Just I need to lighten the mood. The
Speaker 1: first two segments of this show were way too serious.
Speaker 2: I think it's true. Everything I said was bright.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's appropriately serious, but we're it's a little heavy.
Speaker 1: It's Friday afternoon, guys. Let's end on a some levity here.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this bizarre world, this little
Speaker 1: pocket of wokeness, if you will, as much as the
Speaker 1: word woke is overused, this little pocket of such extreme
Speaker 1: navel gazing, so insane, but so much in your bubble
Speaker 1: that you don't realize how insane you sound to the
Speaker 1: entire rest of the world. This little world that my
Speaker 1: wife told me about. All Right, my wife is really
Speaker 1: good at a lot.
Speaker 2: Of different things.
Speaker 1: She's a very good little artist. She's a good photographer.
Speaker 1: She was actually a fine Arts major at Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: So she's actually a very good artist, very good photographer.
Speaker 1: She is a great cook. She's a spectacular baker in particular,
Speaker 1: and she has lots of skills with knitting and all
Speaker 1: kinds of things. Knitting in particular. My wife's really good
Speaker 1: at knitting. She's made sweaters for all the kids, kind
Speaker 1: of like in Harry Potter. One of the things that
Speaker 1: have one of the characters, Ron Weasley, his mom knits
Speaker 1: sweaters for all the kids and it has each kid's
Speaker 1: first name initial on the sweater.
Speaker 2: And Holly did that.
Speaker 1: For our kids, so our kids have Jack has a
Speaker 1: sweater with the letter J on it, and Selphie has
Speaker 1: a sweater with the letter S on it, etc.
Speaker 2: Maddie with them.
Speaker 1: Holly's a really good knitter and as a result, Holly
Speaker 1: wants to buy yarn for various knitting projects, so she'll knit.
Speaker 1: You know, friends having a baby, she'll knit sweater for
Speaker 1: the baby, or a blanket for the baby or whatever.
Speaker 1: And there's apparently a knitting themed social media site called Ravelry,
Speaker 1: which who knew. I had heard my wife mention ravelry
Speaker 1: before talking with her sisters or friends whatever, and I
Speaker 1: had assumed it was just like a store where you
Speaker 1: buy knitting product. Apparently, it's a whole social media website
Speaker 1: of people who knit talking about knitting, sharing projects, sharing,
Speaker 1: I guess, sharing patterns, etc.
Speaker 2: And my wife mentions to me.
Speaker 1: Oh, gosh, you know, it's probably a probably something about
Speaker 1: a fat tax for when you buy yarn.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, what fat tax? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Or a plus size discount? Huh So what I learned
Speaker 2: from my wife is that there's this whole sort of.
Speaker 1: Little mini industry of women who die yarn, and they
Speaker 1: usually have some kind of like like an Etsy shop
Speaker 1: or some kind of like little online shop. It's a
Speaker 1: little small business that these individual women run and they
Speaker 1: are selling. They get yarn from some kind of wholesaler,
Speaker 1: they diet themselves, and then they sell it. Interesting colors,
Speaker 1: interesting collections of colors, themes of color sets. You know.
Speaker 1: My wife was mentioning, my kids really love the children's
Speaker 1: picture books written by this artist slash author named Tommy
Speaker 1: to Paula, who writes a lot of I think he
Speaker 1: was a Catholic and he had a lot of very
Speaker 1: nice Christian Catholic he themed books.
Speaker 2: He wrote The strikean note books.
Speaker 1: So here's this yarn seller who's selling her Tommy to
Speaker 1: paula themed color palette of yarns for projects that you know,
Speaker 1: moms who like these books want to knit. And my
Speaker 1: wife mentioned something about a fat tax.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what the heck is that.
Speaker 1: Apparently these yarn sellers are so left wing and so woke.
Speaker 1: This is the kind of insular, insane liberalism that goes on,
Speaker 1: and it is fomented on this little social media site
Speaker 1: Rivelry that everyone everyone seems to want to do. There's
Speaker 1: rushing to do this to be the most woke. Apparently
Speaker 1: being overweight is unfair. It is unfair the various kinds
Speaker 1: of quote fat taxes that are imposed on overweight people
Speaker 1: that you know, because you're overweight, maybe you have to
Speaker 1: buy two tickets on an airplane, and that that is unfair.
Speaker 1: That because and this extends to the yarn selling community,
Speaker 1: the yarn dying and selling online store community, because well,
Speaker 1: overweight people need more yarn, more square footage of yarn
Speaker 1: for their knitting project than a skinny person would.
Speaker 2: Okay, look you're doing a.
Speaker 1: I guess knitting a sweater for someone who's this kind
Speaker 1: of a size takes more yarn than knitting a sweater
Speaker 1: for someone who's that kind of size, and apparently the
Speaker 1: need for more yarn and the need to buy more
Speaker 1: yarn is unfair. This is an unjust fa phobic phenomenon
Speaker 1: to charge fat people more for needing more yarn. Ergo,
Speaker 1: what a bunch of these stores have done, and they
Speaker 1: will get real I guess criticism if they don't is
Speaker 1: they have a fat basically an overweight or I don't
Speaker 1: know how that maybe they phrase it differently depending basically
Speaker 1: a plus sized discount where it's basically just on the
Speaker 1: honor system, you're supposed to message the owner of the
Speaker 1: store to say, hey, I'm overweight, give me a discount,
Speaker 1: and you get a discount. Now, the my immediate thought
Speaker 1: process was, okay, so they're just charging everyone too much
Speaker 1: so that they can offer fatter people this discount, Right,
Speaker 1: that's what that's that's really what's happening here. To make
Speaker 1: up the amount they lose selling to fat people, they're
Speaker 1: gonna make more off of skinny people, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: the economics of that is not terribly difficult to figure out.
Speaker 1: So this is basically I'm saying, this sounds like this
Speaker 1: is just a fat tax. And my wife's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean, maybe these are not the most
Speaker 1: savvy business persons in the world. The other thing my
Speaker 1: wife also noticed was all of these women who die
Speaker 1: yarn are just obsessed with left wing politics and i
Speaker 1: left wing identity politics. All of these different women who
Speaker 1: are selling yarn, and and it's usually like women with
Speaker 1: their own individual stores, or maybe they're identifying as women.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: All of their different color palettes for so many of
Speaker 1: them are LGBT themed, just like.
Speaker 2: Almost all of them.
Speaker 1: My wife's sister was recommending this one again. The the
Speaker 1: Tommy dea powla thing I mentioned. I heard about it
Speaker 1: because my wife's sister recommended it to her. My wife's
Speaker 1: sister likes Tommy to Pola. My wife likes Tommy pa
Speaker 1: Paola's storybooks for kids. She saw this store that was
Speaker 1: selling Tommy Depaola themed color palette of yarns. Hey, you
Speaker 1: like Strekkanna, Hey you like all these Tommy Papala stories.
Speaker 2: Why don't you? This is a cool store that sells these. Okay, thanks,
Speaker 2: And Holly.
Speaker 1: Goes to it and the store says immediately, if you
Speaker 1: don't support a women's right to abortion. Don't buy from
Speaker 1: our store. If you support Donald Trump. Don't buy from
Speaker 1: my store. If you're a Republican, I don't want your money.
Speaker 1: Like I refuse to sell to anyone who doesn't support
Speaker 1: a woman's right to choose. It's like, wow, I mean,
Speaker 1: these are terrible business persons. And it's all these stores.
Speaker 1: There's like all these the entire marketplace of ladies selling yarn.
Speaker 2: It's all these left wing women.
Speaker 1: Who refuse to sell the conservative don't don't want to
Speaker 1: take conservatives money. So don't don't dare breathe aloud that
Speaker 1: maybe you voted for Trump or something, and that's it, Like,
Speaker 1: don't don't you dare breathe aloud that you lean republic
Speaker 1: that you're anywhere to the right of Hillary Clinton. Unacceptable.
Speaker 1: And this is what happens, I think with communities of liberals.
Speaker 1: You know, I saw this when I was in college.
Speaker 1: This is how the woke kind of attitude works. You
Speaker 1: hear that a thing is not politically correct in some way,
Speaker 1: and you kind of can't unhear it. You know that
Speaker 1: other people will judge you negatively if you say something
Speaker 1: like okay, all of a sudden, there was a time
Speaker 1: when it became politically incorrect to refer to Native Americans
Speaker 1: as Indians. That became unacceptable, and so once you hear that, hey,
Speaker 1: that's offensive to call Native Americans Indians, you kind of
Speaker 1: can't get that out of your head. And the social
Speaker 1: consequences to you, if you're in a kind of insular
Speaker 1: liberal bubble, the social consequences of saying Indian are pretty
Speaker 1: are worse than the effort to put in to say
Speaker 1: Native American.
Speaker 2: And so you therefore just don't say Native American again.
Speaker 1: Now, more and more examples like that compile within your
Speaker 1: little social bubble until you get to a point where
Speaker 1: you are so insane with how you talk about things
Speaker 1: that someone outside the bubble will look at you like
Speaker 1: you're a crazy person. It gets to the point of saying, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's offensive to transgender male to female
Speaker 1: transgenders to refer to or female to male transgender people
Speaker 1: to just say women, when you really what you're referring
Speaker 1: to is womb haves, so we should refer to them
Speaker 1: as womb haves.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden you'll start saying, you know,
Speaker 2: this is the way.
Speaker 1: That Native American womb havevers were treated was I literally
Speaker 1: saw this example just a few days ago. The way
Speaker 1: Native American womb havers were treated was shameful in the
Speaker 1: prior American history where it's like, okay, maybe Native American
Speaker 1: instead of Indian was more reasonable here. But womb havevers,
Speaker 1: do you realize how insane you sound? No, they don't
Speaker 1: because they're so insular. And so to see this on
Speaker 1: something as random as a yarn selling site, who would
Speaker 1: have thought that selling yarn was this politically coded thing
Speaker 1: where they are so obsessed with not wanting to appear
Speaker 1: not woke, with not wanting to appear insensitive to the
Speaker 1: plight of oppressed groups such as the overweight, that we're gonna,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, we're gonna have a whole system
Speaker 1: on the honor system. You get a discount if you're fat,
Speaker 1: but if you're not, you don't get that discount. And
Speaker 1: also all we have to name all of our color
Speaker 1: palettes after something LGBT themed, Pride theme, whatever. And also
Speaker 1: if you voted for Donald Trump, don't don't shop here.
Speaker 1: We won't take your money. Just to find this tiny
Speaker 1: little community like this, this tiny little insular thing I
Speaker 1: just thought was so hilarious, or you could find a
Speaker 1: tiny little island like that. In most communities in America,
Speaker 1: they are called universities and colleges. When we return, my
Speaker 1: final election forecasting for the week that's next on The
Speaker 1: John Girardi Show. All right, last days before the election,
Speaker 1: let's do some forecasting. By the way, listen to me
Speaker 1: from I'll do a special two hour edition of The
Speaker 1: John Girardi Show six to eight PM on Election Night,
Speaker 1: and then starting at eight Trevor and I will be
Speaker 1: anchoring Power Talks election night coverage, and we'll have special
Speaker 1: guests coming in throughout the course of the night. We'll
Speaker 1: have all the updates on local elections, plus obviously an
Speaker 1: I towards what's happening nationwide.
Speaker 2: Don't miss it.
Speaker 1: I one hundred percent recommend to you have your TV on,
Speaker 1: you know, Fox News or whatever you want, and then
Speaker 1: listen on your radio to me and Trevor. We're going
Speaker 1: to have a better election night coverage that's going to
Speaker 1: combine local and national stuff. It's going to be better
Speaker 1: than anything you're seeing on local news. It's going to
Speaker 1: be better than anything you're seeing on national coverage. So
Speaker 1: do tune in my last predictions. I don't think this whole.
Speaker 1: Oh Trump called for the assassination of Liz chanining, No
Speaker 1: he didn't. He said maybe she should, you know, stand
Speaker 1: in a foxhole rather than keep voting for wars.
Speaker 2: It's idiotic.
Speaker 1: Trump's ahead, but he's not ahead by a lot. And
Speaker 1: I'm afraid of what Shenanigan's Democrats could pull under cover
Speaker 1: of law or otherwise.
Speaker 2: That'll do it. John Dulready show see you next time
Speaker 2: on Power Talk