WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.640 The election super depressing in a number of ways. And 2 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:07.919 I think let's kick this off with the Bible verse 3 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:14.000 that most frequently is coming to my mind throughout woe 4 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:17.719 to those who call evil good and good evil, who 5 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:21.160 put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put 6 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:26.120 bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter, Isaiah chapter five, 7 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:29.839 Verse twenty. 8 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:34.600 I find it amazing that I guess in this sense. 9 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:40.600 For most of my life as. 10 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:41.640 A political observer. 11 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:47.000 One of the things that I sort of noticed that 12 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:54.600 always bugged me up until very recently was how even 13 00:00:55.600 --> 00:01:08.640 in presidential debates, even on news debate shows, sort of 14 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:15.040 topics like abortion were always sort of skidded around. I 15 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:19.319 think people were nervous to actually flat out argue for 16 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:23.719 or against the nervous to actually duke it out. 17 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:25.640 To have an actual argument about it. 18 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:30.040 And I would say probably for most of the last 19 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:34.959 twenty four Okay, the two thousand election was like the 20 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:37.359 first election I was really kind of paying attention. I 21 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:40.840 was thirteen years old, I was very engaged, and you know, 22 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:44.719 listening to talk radio, et cetera. I don't think abortion 23 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:51.680 was ever the lead issue for any of the presidential 24 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:57.719 campaigns from two thousand through even twenty twenty. I don't 25 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:00.599 think it's the lead issue in this election as far 26 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:03.079 as how most people are thinking of voting, but it's 27 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:05.799 certainly up there in a way that it hasn't been 28 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:08.280 for any other election in my lifetime. 29 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:14.879 And one of the things. 30 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:20.080 I always realized was people just liked to say that 31 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:22.560 abortion was such a contentious issue. This is such a 32 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:26.879 contentious issue, And actually it was almost like so contentious 33 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:30.159 that even in the context of a presidential debate, you 34 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:33.240 wouldn't see the two major candidates actually duke it out 35 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:36.319 about the ethics of abortion. No one would actually have 36 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:40.319 that argument. No one would actually kind of go to 37 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:43.840 the fundamentals and say, well, what is this thing? Is 38 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:47.159 this good or is this not good? Is the unborn? 39 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:52.240 Does the unborn child have value as a living human being, 40 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:58.039 living member of society, or is this just a non 41 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:04.000 valuable human organism. I wouldn't actually, if you really think 42 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.439 about it, you go back to prior presidential debates, no 43 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:13.039 one's actually trying to have that argument. No one's actually 44 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:19.159 making the case. The Democrat candidate just sort of talks 45 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:23.360 past it with their slogans, and the Republican candidate is 46 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:24.919 skittish and doesn't want to talk about it. 47 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:29.960 That's the dynamic. 48 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:37.120 Donald Trump, of all people, actually wound up engaging with 49 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:42.919 it more vigorously, honestly than prior presidential candidates, just purely 50 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:47.240 because he would actually talk about third trimester abortions and 51 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:52.879 how vile they are, which was actually I think an 52 00:03:52.879 --> 00:04:01.960 effective thing against Hillary Clinton, certainly, but no one would 53 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:05.199 actually sit there and debate it, no one, And Democrats 54 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:08.639 even had to be a little careful with how they 55 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:12.159 messaged on it. They had to be a little careful 56 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:15.080 to not appear like absolute radicals on the issue, which 57 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:19.600 they always were, so they would, you know, they'd say 58 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:22.439 things like, you know, safe, legal and rare. That was 59 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:24.680 the bit, you know, the Clinton era slogan safe legal 60 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:27.279 and rare. And they've been a little quieter about what 61 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:30.120 their slogan is right now. Their slogan right now is 62 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:32.000 not safe, legal and rare. They don't want it to 63 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:36.839 be safe, legal and rare. They want it to be 64 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:45.720 accessible universally, meaning they don't they will sacrifice safety for 65 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:55.240 the sake of universal access, and they demand legal And 66 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:02.360 when I look at the Democrat messaging in these last 67 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:08.279 days of the election, Harris had this big rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 68 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:11.000 which it seemed like this is you know, this is 69 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:18.879 one of her last big rallies in the key swing state. Okay, 70 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:22.639 and all right, so here she is. This is like 71 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:25.399 one of her very last rallies. It's in the key 72 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:29.839 swing state of Pennsylvania. Here's her closing message. 73 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:36.079 And look, Donald Trump's not done. He would ban abortion nationwide, yes, 74 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:42.040 even here in Pennsylvania if he were successful. He would 75 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:47.600 restrict access to birth control, put IVF treatments at risk, 76 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:55.399 and force states to monitor women's pregnancies. Just google Project 77 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:57.920 twenty twenty five. Read the plans for yourself. 78 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:10.879 Now here's the sad thing about that. First is the 79 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:16.519 idea that, I mean, just the whole mindset is so sad. 80 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:25.319 Having actually started a nonprofit clinic that provides OBGYN care 81 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:30.560 to women, having actually set up systems for directly interacting 82 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:36.120 with women who are considering abortion, and having actually really 83 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:41.519 exhaustively poured over the data and heard the actual stories 84 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:46.600 of women considering abortion, it's so sad that there's a 85 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:52.120 whole political movement built around this and like this, the 86 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:57.839 problems we're seeing the drive towards abortion has to do 87 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:04.279 with the atomization of society. Young women, young moms feeling 88 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:08.439 isolated from their communities, isolated from their own families, sometimes 89 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:18.720 isolated from friends, from support networks, the breakdown of community associations, churches, 90 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:29.120 civic entities, whatever. Where these women feel so totally alone, 91 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:34.639 so totally unsupported, that they don't feel like they can 92 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:42.639 handle a pregnancy. And here in California, our public funded 93 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:48.879 health systems, our public funded insurance systems, financially push you 94 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:55.240 towards abortion more so than childbirth. If you wanted to 95 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:59.040 get an abortion, it is easy. If you want to 96 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:03.839 keep your baby is hard. There aren't enough doctors who 97 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:06.680 want to take medical because medical is so screwed up. 98 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:10.560 There aren't enough places to go to get an appointment. 99 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:16.600 Whereas with abortion easy in California. Not in you know, 100 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:22.120 not in some caricature of a Republican state that cuts 101 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:25.079 Medicaid funding and cuts funding for healthcare. 102 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:26.399 No, in California. 103 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:34.159 Medical is so screwed up in California that doctors don't 104 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:37.120 want to take medical because they lose money on every patient. 105 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:41.480 A global bill for delivering. 106 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:43.799 A baby from a mom who has private insurance, the 107 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:46.759 global bill for patient visits and the actual delivery itself 108 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:49.840 is forty five hundred dollars. The global bill for a 109 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:55.720 medical patient exact same scenario is fifteen hundred dollars. They 110 00:08:55.919 --> 00:09:00.720 lose money. Dealing with medical is a nightmare. Dealing with 111 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:08.440 the government is horribly difficult. Doctors don't want to do it. 112 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:11.399 So you have fewer and fewer entities that are able 113 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:16.519 to care for women, provide prenatal care for women, and 114 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:18.600 planned parenthood will get you in and get you an 115 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:21.759 abortion quick with no copey, with no deductible because California 116 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:25.120 got rid of the cope and the deductible. And who's 117 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:28.559 getting a nice fat reimbursement from insurance from medical with 118 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:36.879 extra supplemented California dollars the abortion provider. So women who 119 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:42.320 are scared, who are atomized from their families, who and 120 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:46.600 this is the key, don't really want to have the 121 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:47.879 abortion to begin with. 122 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:50.399 Don't let me repeat that. 123 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:55.600 About two thirds of women who have abortions don't really 124 00:09:55.720 --> 00:10:03.360 want to have an abortion. I see this anecdotally and 125 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:08.519 it is backed up by the stats. These women don't 126 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:16.759 want to have abortions. They are driven towards it by 127 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:21.600 sinful structural problems. Structures of sin was I think the 128 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:24.120 John Paul the second phrase for this kind of thing, 129 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:27.919 the structures of sin within our culture, within our government, 130 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:31.799 within our public health systems, our public funded health insurance systems, 131 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:37.120 that are driving women towards abortion when all they need. 132 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:39.480 And I've seen this directly in our work at Right 133 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:42.360 Till Life of Central California. I've seen it directly. All 134 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:45.240 these women really need is to slow down, talk with 135 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:47.360 someone and think about what is the support system you 136 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:49.720 have in place that maybe, yes, you can have this baby. 137 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:56.000 And instead, our laws, our public health systems are pushing 138 00:10:56.039 --> 00:11:03.279 women towards abortion far more readily, far more easily, far 139 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:06.559 more simply than they are towards childbirth. It is evil. 140 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:11.799 It is wicked for one of the two major presidential 141 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:18.159 campaigns to make this its signature issue, for it to 142 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:23.440 have convinced an entire demographic of eighteen to thirty five 143 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:25.279 year old women that. 144 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:27.159 This is the right to do. 145 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:30.039 This, this thing that sixty seven percent of the women 146 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:31.840 who participate in it don't want to do. 147 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:34.399 It's against their preference. They would rather have the baby 148 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:35.840 if they could, but they feel like they can't. 149 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:40.240 That that freedom, which is a mockery of the word 150 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:45.759 freedom is the single most important right that they have 151 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:50.200 as Americans. It should guide their vote for the president 152 00:11:50.320 --> 00:12:01.600 of the United States. It is a tragedy, and listen 153 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:07.519 to the things. And this is the cornerstone of the 154 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.720 Kamala Harris campaign. It's all she's got. It's the only 155 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:14.200 thing that she pulls better than Donald Trump on. The 156 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:17.440 only issue she has in her back pocket that she 157 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:20.240 knows she pulls better on is abortion. And so it 158 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:25.600 is front and center. And I think the bigger tragedy 159 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:29.440 here is because of one bad election cycle in twenty 160 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:40.799 twenty two, Donald Trump can't effectively respond. He feels like 161 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:44.919 it's a loser of an issue. I know of people 162 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:47.919 who talked to Donald Trump and heard him say that 163 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:48.799 to their face. 164 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:53.080 This issue is a loser. The pro life cause is 165 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:58.720 a loser politically, and as a. 166 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.200 Result, all of the good pro life things that are 167 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:08.039 in the Republican platform that are not anti woman. If limit, 168 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:13.159 if you think unrestricted abortion is pro woman, then talk 169 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:15.480 to the sixty seven percent of women who don't even 170 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:17.879 want to have these abortions in the first place, who 171 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:20.480 feel like they have no choice, who are having this 172 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:23.559 abortion either because they were pressured by boyfriends, possibly even 173 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:26.960 in a small number of cases even coerced, or just 174 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:34.759 feel coerced by the pressures of atomization, isolation finances. 175 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:37.919 Et cetera. Who are shoved that way by medical. 176 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:41.960 Shoved that way by a lack of providers able to care, 177 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:49.519 who are willing to care for them. And before you say, 178 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:53.159 what have you, I've started one more nonprofit obgyn clinic 179 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:54.279 to care for these women than you have. 180 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.919 I can guarantee that what have you done? All your 181 00:13:56.919 --> 00:13:58.519 pro life is just care about fetuses? 182 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:02.559 Shut up, walk a mile in my shoes first before 183 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:06.879 you start saying crap like that. I think that maybe 184 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:11.159 the most tragic thing about what Harris said. Here's the 185 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:13.639 list of things Harris said. She says that Trump wants 186 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.399 to ban abortion nationwide, he wants to stop access to 187 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:22.120 birth control, he wants to threaten IVF and follow Project 188 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:26.919 twenty twenty five. I think the saddest thing is that 189 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:32.320 Trump doesn't want to limit abortion nationwide, that he has 190 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:35.639 not been super clear. I mean, I guess I find 191 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:39.879 it highly questionable that Trump would follow through with Democrat 192 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:43.480 led mandates for contraception for employers who. 193 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:44.039 Don't want to cover it. 194 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:46.240 I think he'd probably be the right way on that, 195 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:49.360 But threaten IVF. Trump doesn't want to threaten IVF one 196 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:56.000 iota with the you know, ten embryos destroyed for every successful. 197 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:02.879 IVF implantation more or less, and follow Project twenty twenty five. 198 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:05.840 Trump has only decried Project twenty twenty five a million times, 199 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:07.840 inspite of the fact that everything Project twenty twenty five 200 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:13.960 says about the abortion issue is sound and great. And 201 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:17.039 I think this is sort of the tragedy is at 202 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:23.360 this moment where one whole political movement is dedicated to 203 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:28.639 calling evil good, calling good evil. Who put darkness for 204 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:31.279 light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet 205 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:36.559 and sweet for bitter? As Isaiah says, I guess it 206 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:42.480 just saddens me that I don't think Trump has a 207 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:43.559 response for that. 208 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:51.600 I hope. 209 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:54.159 I think Trump is going to win, and I hope 210 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:55.759 if he gets elected he just does all the same 211 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:56.720 things he did as first term. 212 00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:00.360 If he does, it will be a successful. 213 00:15:59.799 --> 00:16:03.480 And positive pro life presidency. But he hasn't committed this 214 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:04.159 go around. 215 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:05.320 To doing any of those things. 216 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:10.480 And I guess that's the tragedy here, is that there's 217 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:14.360 this assumption on the part of Republicans. You know, I'll 218 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:19.679 discuss this when we return. I think that Republicans are 219 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:25.159 actually afraid that their messaging is anti woman, when it 220 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:29.759 is the last thing from it. It's actually pro selfish men. 221 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:34.559 That's next on the John Gerardy Show. I've been sort 222 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:38.200 of stunned a little bit at how abortion is really 223 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:42.840 the central messaging of these last days of the Harris campaign. 224 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:50.120 It's all Harris has left. It's all Harris has left 225 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:52.279 is the abortion issue. And like one of her big 226 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.639 last rallies that she has in Harrisburg, what's the cornerstone 227 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:56.120 of it. 228 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:56.679 It's abortion. 229 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:03.159 And I feel like Republicans Trump included, have been nervous 230 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:05.799 about how to respond and this idea. I mean, Trump 231 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:09.640 is openly criticis been critical of Florida's law that bans 232 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:11.960 abortion after six weeks, saying, oh, you need more weeks, 233 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:15.759 you need more weeks available for people to have abortions. 234 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:19.720 Trump has said that, all right, that's not a pro 235 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:24.240 life position. I mean, clearly he's favoring abortion for much 236 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:29.119 of the first trimester, that it's somehow too harsh to 237 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:36.839 women to ban abortion. That's not a pro life position. 238 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:39.680 And I think Trump has been embarrassed by the pro 239 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:43.400 life position to he I think he actually deep down 240 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:47.480 feels like he has to actually agree with the contention 241 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:55.759 that it's anti woman. Let's talk just real quickly though, 242 00:17:55.880 --> 00:18:00.160 about whom this is really benefiting, which is selfish men. 243 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:04.720 So much of the there have been several ads in 244 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:14.359 the last few days about basically basically several ads in 245 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:18.680 the last few days Harris ads aimed at guys because 246 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:21.519 the Harris campaign realizes, oh my gosh, we're losing young men, 247 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:26.079 like young men are completely not voting for Harris. One 248 00:18:26.119 --> 00:18:33.519 of them has involved a guy pleasuring himself, and then 249 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:36.200 all of a sudden, a Republican congressman jumps in to say, oh, 250 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:39.920 Republicans want to ban pornography, limit pornography. That's terrible, isn't it. 251 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:40.920 Oh yeah, that is terrible. 252 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:42.240 I'm going to vote Kamala Harris. 253 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:50.079 Another shows a man and a woman having sex and 254 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:51.880 the man it's oh, my condom broke, and the woman says, 255 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:53.960 it's okay, I've got plan B. And then a Republican 256 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:55.960 congressman comes into the room and says, so you can't 257 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.480 do that. Republicans want to stop you from having sex, 258 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:03.440 and the messaging to men, the only messaging the Harris 259 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:12.160 campaign can have for men around sexuality is one of selfishness, selfishness, 260 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:22.599 avoiding responsibility, personal gratification, because that's kind of what abortion 261 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:25.920 is ultimately, when you message it to a male voter, Hey, 262 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:28.720 do you want to get out of responsibility for the 263 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:30.720 natural consequence of your actions? 264 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:34.839 Support legal abortion? Men? 265 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:39.079 Are you desperate to not have to pay for a 266 00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:45.440 child who came about because you were horny? Support legal abortion? 267 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:52.680 And there were plenty, plenty, plenty, plenty of quotes from guys. 268 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:55.759 I mean, I remember in the White Dudes for Harris, 269 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:58.680 you know, zoom call where they were raising money all 270 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:03.440 these White Dudes for Harris, where Pete Bodagich talked about 271 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:07.640 how abortion makes men more free, more free for what 272 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:18.279 Pete more free to escape the consequences of their actions, 273 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:23.319 all of the you know, I had this tweet I 274 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:28.039 saw from uh this guy named John Hassen is a 275 00:20:28.119 --> 00:20:32.119 conservative kind of commentator guy, and he writes out here 276 00:20:32.119 --> 00:20:34.839 are all the things that the Harris campaign has been 277 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:37.680 promoting to young men as the reasons they should vote 278 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:45.799 legal weed, cryptocurrency, porn, video games, they've been just so 279 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:50.480 they've had had try to have Tim Walls play Madden 280 00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:53.319 the NFL video game against AOC of all people. What 281 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:57.799 a bizarre combination of people. Ben Walls comes out with 282 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:00.559 several tweets, including another today that seemed to indicate he 283 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:04.160 has never watched a single snap of football in his life. 284 00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:08.119 Video games and avoiding fatherhood. This is the vision of 285 00:21:08.160 --> 00:21:12.200 masculinity from the left, weed crypto porn, video games and 286 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:21.720 not being a father. That's the only thing abortion is 287 00:21:21.799 --> 00:21:29.759 promoting for men is the avoidance of responsibility. How is 288 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:34.319 supporting abortions somehow kind to women? And again, let me 289 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:38.359 just reiterate, there's this Republican. I think there are a 290 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:40.680 lot of these Republicans who genuinely are afraid that they 291 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:44.920 are being hostile to women by supporting restrictions on abortion. 292 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:48.559 I think Trump has more or less admitted this because 293 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:54.440 he opposed Florida's six weeks abortion ban and said it 294 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:57.480 was too harsh, too few weeks in which women could 295 00:21:57.519 --> 00:22:00.759 have abortions, that that's too harsh to women. What about 296 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:05.880 abortion do you think is positive for women? Sixty seven 297 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:08.960 percent of women report they would rather not have an abortion. 298 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:17.920 It is this undertold epidemic of abortions in America that 299 00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:26.599 are either pressured or coerced by economic circumstance or and 300 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:28.880 I think this is much more common than anyone on 301 00:22:28.920 --> 00:22:32.400 the left wants to admit. Women who are pressured into 302 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:40.799 abortions by the fathers of these children, where if it's 303 00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:43.920 not outright coercion, maybe it's a threat that I, you know, 304 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:45.599 I never agree to have this baby. If you have 305 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.359 this baby, then we're done. I'm not going to support 306 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:50.079 you in any way. If you have this baby, you're 307 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:52.319 on your own. If you have this baby. There is 308 00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:55.440 an epidemic of that kind of thing. There are probably 309 00:22:55.880 --> 00:22:59.799 tens of thousands of women on the low end of 310 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:05.359 this who are having abortions for that precise kind of pressure. 311 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:12.559 I wish Republicans would have the perspective that there is 312 00:23:12.680 --> 00:23:17.599 nothing about abortion. The social science backs it up, the 313 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:21.319 stats back it up. This is not something kind to women, 314 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:23.599 This is not something supportive of women, This is not 315 00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:28.279 something that is pro women. Multiple surveys shows between sixty 316 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:30.319 and seventy percent of women do not even want the 317 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:40.960 abortions they are having, would rather not And it's again, 318 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:44.160 it saddens me that we live in this topsy turvy 319 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:47.680 world where good is called evil, evil is called good, 320 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:51.000 and I feel like Republicans don't have. 321 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:55.119 The wherewithal to really address it. 322 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:58.920 All Right, We're gonna shift to something light, the bizarre 323 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:02.640 world of online yarn sellers. 324 00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:03.319 We'll talk. 325 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:06.359 We'll talk about this bizarre thing I found next on 326 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:11.160 the John Girardi Show. I want to talk real quick 327 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:13.200 about that. Just I need to lighten the mood. The 328 00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:15.440 first two segments of this show were way too serious. 329 00:24:16.440 --> 00:24:18.880 I think it's true. Everything I said was bright. 330 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:21.759 Maybe it's appropriately serious, but we're it's a little heavy. 331 00:24:21.799 --> 00:24:25.880 It's Friday afternoon, guys. Let's end on a some levity here. 332 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:30.279 I want to talk about this bizarre world, this little 333 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:34.880 pocket of wokeness, if you will, as much as the 334 00:24:34.920 --> 00:24:39.880 word woke is overused, this little pocket of such extreme 335 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:47.920 navel gazing, so insane, but so much in your bubble 336 00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:49.640 that you don't realize how insane you sound to the 337 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:52.759 entire rest of the world. This little world that my 338 00:24:52.839 --> 00:25:00.640 wife told me about. All Right, my wife is really 339 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:01.720 good at a lot. 340 00:25:01.559 --> 00:25:03.079 Of different things. 341 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:08.559 She's a very good little artist. She's a good photographer. 342 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:11.359 She was actually a fine Arts major at Notre Dame. 343 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:13.720 So she's actually a very good artist, very good photographer. 344 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:23.039 She is a great cook. She's a spectacular baker in particular, 345 00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:29.240 and she has lots of skills with knitting and all 346 00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:32.839 kinds of things. Knitting in particular. My wife's really good 347 00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:36.440 at knitting. She's made sweaters for all the kids, kind 348 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:40.359 of like in Harry Potter. One of the things that 349 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:44.319 have one of the characters, Ron Weasley, his mom knits 350 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:47.519 sweaters for all the kids and it has each kid's 351 00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:49.319 first name initial on the sweater. 352 00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:50.799 And Holly did that. 353 00:25:50.759 --> 00:25:53.400 For our kids, so our kids have Jack has a 354 00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:56.160 sweater with the letter J on it, and Selphie has 355 00:25:56.160 --> 00:25:57.759 a sweater with the letter S on it, etc. 356 00:25:58.079 --> 00:25:58.799 Maddie with them. 357 00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:05.759 Holly's a really good knitter and as a result, Holly 358 00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:09.559 wants to buy yarn for various knitting projects, so she'll knit. 359 00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:12.720 You know, friends having a baby, she'll knit sweater for 360 00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:14.559 the baby, or a blanket for the baby or whatever. 361 00:26:16.880 --> 00:26:23.960 And there's apparently a knitting themed social media site called Ravelry, 362 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:28.519 which who knew. I had heard my wife mention ravelry 363 00:26:28.599 --> 00:26:31.559 before talking with her sisters or friends whatever, and I 364 00:26:31.559 --> 00:26:33.880 had assumed it was just like a store where you 365 00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:37.640 buy knitting product. Apparently, it's a whole social media website 366 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:43.440 of people who knit talking about knitting, sharing projects, sharing, 367 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:47.400 I guess, sharing patterns, etc. 368 00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:52.319 And my wife mentions to me. 369 00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:57.240 Oh, gosh, you know, it's probably a probably something about 370 00:26:57.240 --> 00:26:58.960 a fat tax for when you buy yarn. 371 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:05.359 Wait a minute, what fat tax? What are you talking about? 372 00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:13.799 Or a plus size discount? Huh So what I learned 373 00:27:13.799 --> 00:27:19.200 from my wife is that there's this whole sort of. 374 00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:26.960 Little mini industry of women who die yarn, and they 375 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:29.319 usually have some kind of like like an Etsy shop 376 00:27:29.559 --> 00:27:31.519 or some kind of like little online shop. It's a 377 00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:35.960 little small business that these individual women run and they 378 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:40.519 are selling. They get yarn from some kind of wholesaler, 379 00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:47.000 they diet themselves, and then they sell it. Interesting colors, 380 00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:53.359 interesting collections of colors, themes of color sets. You know. 381 00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:58.680 My wife was mentioning, my kids really love the children's 382 00:27:58.680 --> 00:28:02.559 picture books written by this artist slash author named Tommy 383 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:06.000 to Paula, who writes a lot of I think he 384 00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:07.680 was a Catholic and he had a lot of very 385 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:10.119 nice Christian Catholic he themed books. 386 00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:11.279 He wrote The strikean note books. 387 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:15.119 So here's this yarn seller who's selling her Tommy to 388 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:19.599 paula themed color palette of yarns for projects that you know, 389 00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:24.680 moms who like these books want to knit. And my 390 00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:26.559 wife mentioned something about a fat tax. 391 00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:27.720 I'm like, what the heck is that. 392 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:36.680 Apparently these yarn sellers are so left wing and so woke. 393 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:41.400 This is the kind of insular, insane liberalism that goes on, 394 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:44.519 and it is fomented on this little social media site 395 00:28:44.599 --> 00:28:47.119 Rivelry that everyone everyone seems to want to do. There's 396 00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:52.000 rushing to do this to be the most woke. Apparently 397 00:28:53.359 --> 00:29:00.759 being overweight is unfair. It is unfair the various kinds 398 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:06.119 of quote fat taxes that are imposed on overweight people 399 00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:10.359 that you know, because you're overweight, maybe you have to 400 00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:13.960 buy two tickets on an airplane, and that that is unfair. 401 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:20.319