WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:04.320 As we're voting this week and as the election is tomorrow, 2 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:12.000 I want to talk about this overstated trope on the left, 3 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:14.839 and it has a lot to do with the election 4 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:18.320 lawsuits that we have already started to see and that 5 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:20.519 we're likely to start to see more of tomorrow. And 6 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:22.320 by the way, credit for all of this segment goes 7 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:25.039 to any McCarthy from National Review, who's talked about this 8 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:27.920 at length, and reading and listening to his stuff has 9 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:30.879 sort of illuminated me on this and caused me just 10 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:36.600 to realize, even just looking at the Constitution itself and 11 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:46.000 realizing that the right to vote is rarely talked about 12 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:52.640 in the Constitution. It's rarely delineated, it's rarely expounded upon, 13 00:00:53.079 --> 00:01:01.439 its rare it's not really anywhere clearly declared that the 14 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:07.599 ability to cast your vote is a sacred and fundamental right. 15 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:11.319 There is stuff guaranteeing the right to vote in certain 16 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:20.200 respects within the Constitution, so basically you're guaranteed that it's 17 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:24.799 guaranteed that the people will vote for members of Congress. 18 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:28.480 In the original draft of the Constitution, it was really 19 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:30.560 only guarantee that you would vote for your member of 20 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:34.159 the House of Representatives. And it wasn't until the twentieth 21 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:41.239 century that the Constitution was amended to allow the people 22 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:50.599 directly to elect their senators. Provisions were also put into 23 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:53.319 the Constitution over time, saying well, if you're gonna let 24 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:56.599 people vote, you can't deny people the right to vote 25 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:59.079 on the basis of a poll tax or failure to 26 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:02.359 pay a poll tax. The Constitution got amended to say 27 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:10.120 every adult eighteen and over can vote, that you can't 28 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:11.919 be denied the right to vote on the basis of 29 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:17.560 your race. But that's about it. There's not really anywhere 30 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:27.719 in the Constitution a florid, elaborate declaration of the importance 31 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:31.520 of voting or the sacred right to vote and how 32 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:34.919 it's secured, if anything, that the right to vote certainly 33 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:39.159 as the Constitution was originally framed, also of course expanding 34 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:41.280 the right to vote to women with the nineteenth Amendment. 35 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:47.319 The right to vote as it was conceived in the 36 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:56.719 original Constitution was fairly limited because the framers of the 37 00:02:56.759 --> 00:02:58.960 Constitution had a certain vision of what they wanted the 38 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:04.680 country to be, and it wasn't a democratic vision. They 39 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:11.520 didn't like the concept of democracy. Now why is this relevant, Well, 40 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:19.000 here's what's happening with all these election lawsuits. So you 41 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:26.280 have your state its ordinary means as established by statute, 42 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:29.360 federal statute, and individual state statutes pretty much all fifty states. 43 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:31.240 The ordinary way to vote is you show up on 44 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:37.439 election day, you go to a voting center at your precinct, 45 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:44.039 You fill out a ballot in a secret ballot booth, 46 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:49.680 You hand in your ballot. That's the way that voting 47 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:52.560 is supposed to happen, as kind of established mostly by statutes, 48 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:55.240 not really in the constitution, but mostly established by statutes. 49 00:03:55.240 --> 00:04:01.960 That is the normative way to vote. States set up 50 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:07.400 rules to facilitate voting in any fashion outside of that. 51 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:11.319 You're allowed to vote in any fashion outside of that 52 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:16.240 that the state establishes. But the idea is, hey, if 53 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:20.879 you're voting outside of this context, we've determined that this context, 54 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:26.480 the secret ballot is the safest, most secure, most surefire 55 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:31.160 way of ensuring the integrity of your vote, that your 56 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:34.839 vote's not influenced by outside actors, that your vote is counted, 57 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:41.319 et cetera. This is the best way to do it. 58 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:44.240 This is the way we want, This is the ideal 59 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:47.839 way to do it. So if you're going to vote 60 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:52.800 in some other fashion. You can do it, but you 61 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:58.800 gotta follow the rules. You have to postmark your mail 62 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:02.360 in or absentee by a certain day. You gotta do this. 63 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:04.800 You gotta fill in your name here. You have to 64 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:07.639 have a witness by signed two witnesses, or a blah 65 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:10.279 blah blah, whatever the rules are for your individual state. 66 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:14.439 These are the rules, and if you don't follow them, 67 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:21.839 your vote doesn't get counted. That's it. We're giving you 68 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:26.720 some grace, extending you an opportunity to vote outside of 69 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:30.879 the normative, most secure way of doing it. So if 70 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:37.360 you don't follow this, whatever safety precautions, ensuring reliability, anti 71 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:43.360 fraud protection schemes that we have, if you don't follow them, 72 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:49.360 tough luck, you're out. And so what happens in state 73 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:54.040 after state after state seems to be this, a group 74 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:58.800 of Democrat voters wants to be able to vote without 75 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:02.199 having followed the rules in some way, shape or form. 76 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:08.879 Not following the rules, and that rule in isolation seems 77 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:13.680 pickyun or kind of picky or sort of like a 78 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:21.600 ticki tacky technicality. Well, he had it postmarked by election day, 79 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:24.800 you know, So why should it matter that the ballot 80 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:29.319 arrived two days later, or you know, whatever it is. 81 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:32.439 You know, we should be counting all the but even 82 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:34.040 if they're not postmark, we should be counting all the 83 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:36.800 ballots that arrive even within three days after the election. 84 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:39.600 Or you know, or this or that, or well, why 85 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:42.759 are you saying that someone's vote can't be counted just 86 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:48.319 because the two signatures on the outside weren't obtained because 87 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:51.079 they misread the instructions. That that's not fair. And the 88 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:56.759 appeal is always made in these lawsuits to the sacred 89 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:05.319 American right true vote. You're going to deny someone the 90 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:10.319 ability to have their vote be counted, to deny them 91 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:16.959 the sacred, god given cornerstone of our republic. You're going 92 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:21.839 to deny someone the sacred right to vote on the 93 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:30.360 basis of this little technicality. How could you? And often 94 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:38.319 those kinds of court cases win. Often judges will allow 95 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:41.879 a party who has not followed the rules to get 96 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.319 their vote counted on the basis of some kind of 97 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:48.360 grandiose idea that, well, you know, the right to vote 98 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:51.639 is a more important value and we need to respect that, 99 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:56.920 and this is a small rule technicality and blah, And 100 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:02.720 in isolation, probably one of these individual cases seems like 101 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:04.800 not a big deal, Like, come on, you're really gonna 102 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.240 say someone's vote can't count because they just didn't, you know, 103 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:10.399 fill out this signature line or something like that, they 104 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:13.399 were one day late, and you're gonna make their ballot 105 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:17.600 not count and the response should be yes, their vote 106 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:24.040 shouldn't count. These rules are in place to ensure the 107 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:26.839 integrity of the election. These rules are in place to 108 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:33.240 ensure that fraud doesn't occur, that bad actors don't abuse 109 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:42.120 the system to try to game it. You can vote 110 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:46.000 outside of voting at your precinct in person on election 111 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:48.639 day if you want, but if you do, you gotta 112 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:51.720 follow the rules, because we have rules to ensure that 113 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:56.960 the election is authentic and has integrity, that the result 114 00:08:57.360 --> 00:08:59.679 is actually reflective of what the country wants, or what 115 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:02.600 the your state wants, or your congressional district wants, your 116 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:10.960 county wants, your city won whatever. But it's all premised 117 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:14.320 around that. The court challenge is premise the sacred right 118 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:18.279 to vote. Now, what it's really premised around, I think 119 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:24.000 is Democrats like to cheat, or maybe there are Republicans 120 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:26.159 who like to cheat too. But it seems like the 121 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:31.120 vast majority of these lawsuits are framed as Democrat voters 122 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.600 didn't follow a rule in some way, shape or form, 123 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:40.840 their lawyers file this lawsuit, and they and that's and 124 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:46.360 it's Republicans opposing the lawsuit. That's what seems to be 125 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:56.000 the consistent scenario in state after state after state. And 126 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:58.639 I'm here to tell you I don't know how much 127 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:02.279 the framers of the Constitution really viewed the right to 128 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:06.759 vote as the most important thing. Allow me to explain 129 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:12.679 first is the kind of vision before I go to 130 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:15.000 the break. I'll explain this first, is the vision of 131 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:17.320 what the framers of the Constitution thought this country was 132 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:25.120 going to be. We talk a lot about democracy, but 133 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:31.960 what the framers of the Constitution liked was republicanism, not democracy. 134 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:34.559 And I'm not talking about the modern Republican party or 135 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:38.000 the modern Democrat part. I'm not making some statement that, 136 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:40.840 you know, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would have been 137 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:46.559 Republicans rather democrats. What I'm talking about is those forms 138 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:54.159 of government, republicanism, a mixed republic, versus direct democracy. The 139 00:10:54.200 --> 00:11:01.559 framers of the Constitution accepted the conservative worldview of most 140 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:04.679 authors in the ancient world. Most of the authors of 141 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:11.279 classical antiquity that democracy was a terrible idea. Most of 142 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:18.759 most classical Greek authors writing about the democracy of Athens 143 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:25.399 in the four hundred s BC looked at it with disgust. 144 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:30.519 They didn't like it. Even a lot of Athenian authors 145 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:38.320 didn't like direct democracy. And they basically thought that direct 146 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:46.440 democracy where law where your populace is governed by the 147 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:49.960 will of the majority. They thought it could quickly turn 148 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:53.679 into just a tyranny of the majority, that the majority 149 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:58.600 could just vote away the basic protections for the minority. 150 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:02.639 If you had a true straat majority, if you had 151 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:06.480 a true straight up majority rule. You know, first of all, 152 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:08.840 you could just have one House of Congress. Let's say 153 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:11.480 we just had the House of Representatives. And Mike Johnson said, 154 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:13.120 all right, well, we're going to pass a law here 155 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.639 saying that no democrat has the right to speak, no 156 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:19.360 democrat has a right to freedom of speech. He could 157 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:22.200 just pass that he has a simple majority. And the 158 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:25.360 framers of the Constitution thought that was a terrible idea, 159 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:34.960 that once you had just simple majority rule, the party 160 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:40.399 in power could oppress the party out of power. The 161 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:45.639 party in power could vote themselves bred and circuses. They 162 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:51.080 didn't like direct democracy, explicitly did not like it. What 163 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:58.480 they liked was republicanism. The Founding Fathers thought of themselves 164 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:04.399 as re creating, in some way in the new world, 165 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:09.000 a vision of the Roman republic. That's what they liked. 166 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:16.240 They liked Rome, not Athens. They liked the Roman republican system, 167 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:20.440 and that's how they envisioned themselves. They envisioned themselves a 168 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:25.120 lot of the Founding Fathers themselves Thomas Jefferson, et cetera. 169 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:31.120 They thought of themselves as if they were recreating the 170 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:41.200 life and lifestyle of a patrician, noble Roman, a wealthy 171 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:46.840 Roman who made his money off of his land holdings, 172 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:56.840 a gentleman farmer slash scholar slash statesman slash general. That 173 00:13:57.039 --> 00:13:59.799 was their kind of vision of what was best to 174 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:03.120 say life. George Washington sort of embodied this, and the 175 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:11.120 constant comparisons between George Washington and Cincinnatus. Cincinnatus was a 176 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:17.000 famous Roman sort of sort of a legendary Roman senator 177 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:20.919 who was called upon to be the dictator of the 178 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:23.360 city of Rome. The dictator was a temporary office in Rome, 179 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.559 where instead of having two guys, the two consuls be 180 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:30.639 the chief generals in charge of Roman military affairs. They 181 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:32.240 would say, all right, well, we can't have these two 182 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:34.679 generals fighting with each other. We have a really serious threat, 183 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:37.320 the Republicans in danger. We need a dictator, one guy 184 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:41.639 who talks. So they pick a guy. There's a famous 185 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:45.879 story about Cincinnatus who was picked. He was working on 186 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:49.000 his farm. He said, hey, Cincinnatus, we need you to 187 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:51.360 be the dictator. The enemy's coming. Help save Rome. He 188 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:54.000 sets down his plow, he goes, He leads the Roman army, 189 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:57.200 he defeats, the enemy, comes back several months later, picks 190 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:00.559 up his plow, keeps plowing. That was the Comparson made 191 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:07.000 to George Washington constantly, constantly, constantly. That's who we named 192 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:10.639 the city of Cincinnati after. Okay, and the idea of 193 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:15.360 Washington being the American version of that. They thought of 194 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:22.320 themselves as the Roman elites, and they viewed the right 195 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:25.720 to vote in this very sort of attenuated way. When 196 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:28.559 we returned the ways in which the founding fathers didn't 197 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:34.480 actually think voting was that important, and by the not 198 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:37.200 for me to suppress your votes. Go vote if you 199 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:40.559 want to, but I don't think just voting in general 200 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:44.799 is necessarily a grand virtue. Next on The John Girardi Show. 201 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:50.840 In the first segment, I was trying to explain people 202 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:53.159 have this sense that the right to vote is like 203 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:56.919 one of the most sacred and fundamental of all American 204 00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:03.320 rights and kind of but not really. It's actually much 205 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:06.039 more attenuated than you'd think, and was given a lot 206 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:09.320 less emphasis by the founding fathers than you would have imagined. 207 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:13.480 It was not something that was in the Bill of Rights. 208 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:15.840 Bill of Rights has a right to fredium of speech 209 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.360 for exercise of religion, right to keep a bear arms, 210 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.159 not to have a soldier quartered in your house against 211 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:27.320 unreasonable searches and seizures. You know, go through the first 212 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:30.039 ten amendments to the Constitution. The right to vote isn't 213 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:36.360 in there. And in fact, when you read the Constitution, 214 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:43.279 especially looking at like the Constitution as originally adopted, the 215 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:49.399 only thing, the only federal office that the Constitution actually 216 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:52.759 directs people to vote for is your member of the 217 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:57.679 House of Representatives. You didn't get to vote for your 218 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:02.159 US senator. The state legislators voted for the senators who 219 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:10.119 represented each state, and even the presidency. States could determine 220 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:15.680 however they wanted how they would pick their electors for 221 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:22.319 the electoral College. Now, over time, the way that all 222 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:28.720 states wound up determining that is by a democratic vote 223 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:32.279 of the people of those states. But it didn't necessarily 224 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:33.920 have to be that way. It could have been through 225 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:37.640 an election by the state legislator. By the state legislature. 226 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:44.559 It wasn't even necessarily envisioned that the average Joe American 227 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:48.000 citizen would have the right to vote for president. Not necessarily. 228 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:52.000 The only thing he was really allowed to vote for 229 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:56.640 that was guaranteed by the Constitution was his member of 230 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:59.839 the House of Representatives. Now this got amended over time. 231 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:03.160 In the twentieth century, it was mended to say that 232 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:05.680 the average Joe citizen could also vote for his US sender, 233 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:07.960 But that was not in the Constitution at the time 234 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:12.839 of its adoption. Why the framers of the Constitution thought 235 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:17.160 of themselves as recreating in a certain fashion, the Roman Republic. 236 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:24.400 They didn't like direct Greek democracy. They actually thought that voters, 237 00:18:24.599 --> 00:18:31.359 for the most part, were pretty dumb, and that they're 238 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:35.680 exercising the right to vote could be destructive for stuff 239 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:40.279 that was beyond their capacity to understand and beyond their 240 00:18:40.279 --> 00:18:44.599 capacity to really engage with it. So let's look at again. 241 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:49.759 In the original structure of the constitution, individual states could 242 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:56.880 pick their own electors for president, sort of in whatever 243 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:00.839 system the state developed. And there's a decent amount of 244 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:04.440 evidence apparently that the state a lot of these states 245 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:08.000 envisioned that the state legislatures would just pick the electors 246 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:12.359 who would cast their votes for president in the electoral College, 247 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:15.440 and the idea being that maybe some of these electors 248 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:22.119 would themselves be state representatives or statesmen who would be 249 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:27.519 able to bring the important interests of their state to 250 00:19:27.559 --> 00:19:30.599 the electoral College for the proceedings of voting for a 251 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:35.559 new president. Now that's not really how the system wound 252 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:38.519 up going. Basically, what happened is all these individual states 253 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:44.440 decided via statute to say, well, no, the electoral college 254 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:49.319 will be basically determined, the electors for the electoral College 255 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:52.440 will be determined by a vote of our citizenry. So 256 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:55.119 you citizens vote for electors who are going to vote 257 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:57.039 for Donald Trump or electors who are going to vote 258 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:02.599 for Kamala Harris. That's it. And pretty much every state 259 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:07.279 has adopted that via statute. Yes, literally every state has 260 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:12.200 adopted that via statute. Although with some slight differences, notably 261 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:15.559 Maine and Nebraska. Most of the states have it set 262 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:20.359 up so that if a majority if fifty percent plus one, 263 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:25.559 if Kamala Harris gets fifty percent of the vote plus 264 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:30.559 one in California, all of California's fifty or whatever it is, 265 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:35.359 electoral College members vote for Kamala Harris. Not so in 266 00:20:35.400 --> 00:20:41.960 Nebraska and Maine. Nebraska and Maine, the individual congressional districts 267 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:47.839 that compose the electoral College votes within Nebraska and within 268 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:50.480 Maine can go to one candidate or another. So you 269 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:54.119 can see a split where Maine goes three electoral College 270 00:20:54.200 --> 00:20:58.160 votes for Kamala Harris and one for Donald Trump. Nebraska 271 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:00.440 could go I think it's five in Nebraska four or 272 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:05.240 five Nebraska three for one, one for the other. And 273 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:07.920 basically the idea that the Founding fathers had was that 274 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:13.519 we don't actually trust the entire citizenry to vote on 275 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:21.119 questions of the utmost critical importance. They honestly had a 276 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:25.640 very non egalitarian attitude in all of this. They thought, yes, 277 00:21:25.799 --> 00:21:34.319 we the founding fathers here, who are gentlemen, farmers, educated philosophers, statesmen, 278 00:21:35.680 --> 00:21:41.640 military officers, we should be able to decide who our 279 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:44.720 senators will be. And by the way, the Senate is 280 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:50.599 very much copying a Roman institution, the Senate. It's perfect, 281 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:53.160 you know, copy the idea of the Senate in Rome 282 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:56.160 was the most dominant, most powerful, most important sort of 283 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:59.720 governing body within the Roman Republic, governing, if you will 284 00:21:59.759 --> 00:22:03.680 advise body. And it was a body of not people 285 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:06.519 who were elected to represent anybody. The Senators did not 286 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:09.240 represent the people of Rome at all. It was just 287 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:13.599 the council of the elders, the wisest. It was an 288 00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:16.880 aristocratic council. It was just all the people with the 289 00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:21.960 most money who came from the older established families, and 290 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:25.160 their decisions on things were what would ultimately become law. 291 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:33.799 Us senators. It's a direct attempt to copy that, the 292 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:40.519 idea of being, No, this is not pure egalitarian democracy 293 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:44.880 that we wanted to establish. They let the people vote 294 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:47.880 for the thing that was most localized and closest to them. 295 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:51.039 They're member of the House of Representatives, and that was it. 296 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:58.400 And the idea being if you really don't understand an issue, 297 00:22:58.599 --> 00:23:04.079 why is your vote, why should your vote matter? If 298 00:23:04.119 --> 00:23:09.680 you are really not wise enough, experienced enough, old, whatever, 299 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:13.960 why should your vote matter. And this is why I've 300 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:17.880 always had this bugaboot. There's always these sort of value 301 00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:21.400 neutral ways that people push, well, everyone should vote, everyone 302 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:24.440 should register to vote, get out there and vote, registered 303 00:23:24.440 --> 00:23:27.799 to vote. I don't know that that's necessarily a good idea. 304 00:23:28.839 --> 00:23:32.519 How many people out there, total rumdums that you know 305 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:36.720 who you know, are out there voting for Kamala Harris. 306 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:39.440 There's this meme going around the internet, me and the 307 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:42.799 Boys fighting in World War three because Taylor Swift told 308 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:46.480 her stupid girlfriends to go vote for Kamala Harris. Like, yeah, 309 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:51.640 that could be. So what I'm saying is, look, if 310 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:57.119 you understand politics at a pretty high level and you 311 00:23:57.160 --> 00:23:59.240 want to go vote, be my guest. But I'm not 312 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:02.839 gonna necessarily sit here and pontificate that it's absolutely everyone's 313 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:05.519 sacred duty. I don't know that that's true, and I 314 00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:07.200 don't think that's how the Framers would have thought of it. 315 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:10.680 When we return the sheer insanity of voting for your 316 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:13.599 daughter to have the right to kill your grandkid. Next, 317 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:17.839 on the John Girardi Show, there's another one of these 318 00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:23.240 weird Democrat ads out, these weird Kamala Harris ads. Following 319 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:26.880 up on the strange ad where you have a group 320 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:30.200 of women going into vote and they're in what it 321 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:32.319 seems to be very much coded that they are in 322 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:38.440 Republican territories. Everyone's wearing like patriotic stuff because Democrats aren't 323 00:24:38.519 --> 00:24:41.079 very patriotic. I guess, all right, I guess that's the 324 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:46.119 assumption here. And these women look across from each other 325 00:24:46.200 --> 00:24:48.880 and they nod knowingly, and then they decide to vote 326 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:51.160 for Harris, and the ideas, oh, vote for Kamala Harris. 327 00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:54.000 It'll be our little secret. You don't have to you know, 328 00:24:54.079 --> 00:24:55.799 you don't have to vote for Donald Trump. You could 329 00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:58.359 just vote for Kamala Harris because you believe, you understand, 330 00:24:58.839 --> 00:25:04.440 she's what's right women. And it's very women themed. And 331 00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:08.200 they've now produced another one with a bunch of dude, 332 00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:11.559 big dudes. One dude with a big old beard walking 333 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:15.119 in to vote and his daughter is standing there saying hi, daddy, 334 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:18.759 and he's looking over at her, looking protectively at his daughter, 335 00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:25.000 and decides to vote for Kamala Harris. And I'm apparently 336 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:28.720 not seeing this as much, but in Florida, the non 337 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:36.000 stop constant messaging for their Amendment four is basically voting 338 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:40.359 to protect my daughter's rights. That's the message that's being 339 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:47.000 pumped out. Protect your daughter's rights, protect your daughter's rights 340 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:57.519 to do what. Protecting my daughter's rights to abort my grandchildren. 341 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:04.599 It's the unspoken premise, but that's the unspoken right being protected. 342 00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:09.319 But that's what we're talking about, protecting your daughter's right 343 00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:18.880 to abort your grandchild. It blows my mind the idea 344 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:22.599 of running on abortion as a right. And I know 345 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:25.319 what the response will be, the responsiblity. These Republican abortion 346 00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:29.599 bands are killing women. Let me just speak to that 347 00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:33.279 because I've actually dealt with this time and time again. 348 00:26:35.759 --> 00:26:40.680 Essentially all of well not essentially, because it's very much quantifiable. 349 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:45.200 There are fourteen states right now that have laws on 350 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:50.400 the books restricting abortion with some kind of gestational age limit. 351 00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:57.519 In all fourteen of them, all fourteen of them, there 352 00:26:57.559 --> 00:27:02.079 is language in the bill, language in the law very 353 00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:14.359 clearly allowing for treatment of life threatening conditions, whether that 354 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:26.119 is pregnancy treatment, whether that is a post miscarriage i e. 355 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:28.599 Post spontaneous abortion, which, by the way, all these laws 356 00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:31.519 that are restricting abortion are defining what abortion is to 357 00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:36.680 not mean miscarriage. So I don't care what you know 358 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:39.799 that there's different medical terminology of what the word abortion. 359 00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:42.559 This is one of the huge problems that's happening right now. 360 00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:50.000 In certain kinds of medical parlance, the word abortion means 361 00:27:50.319 --> 00:27:58.559 any ending of pregnancy, whether spontaneous or induced. It can 362 00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:01.599 mean a spontaneous abortion is what you and I would 363 00:28:01.599 --> 00:28:06.799 commonly call, in common parlance, a miscarriage. So liberals will 364 00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:13.640 say Republicans are banning abortion access to treatment for an abortion, 365 00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:18.799 when what they're meaning is a miscarriage or an ectopic pregnancy, 366 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:23.039 a situation where no one is intentionally trying to kill 367 00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:25.920 the child, or where the child has already died in 368 00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:28.440 the womb. We just need to end the pregnancy by 369 00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:33.359 removing the body of the child from the woman. In 370 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:35.960 all these states, they define abortion as killing of a 371 00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:42.680 living embry or fetus, and they have exceptions for life 372 00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:45.880 threatening or and I don't even know that it's an exception, 373 00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:50.400 as much as it's a clarification that this is a 374 00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:54.680 different kind of situation for say, an ectopic pregnancy, treatment 375 00:28:56.920 --> 00:28:59.960 removing the body of a child who has already expired, 376 00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:04.079 providing after care for someone who maybe has already had 377 00:29:04.119 --> 00:29:11.160 an abortion. None of that is prohibited. This woman needed 378 00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:13.720 a DNC and that was prohibited by the state law. No, 379 00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:18.839 the procedures are not prohibited, So this is another aspect 380 00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:22.400 of this, all right. There are two kinds of surgical 381 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:30.240 abortion procedures, a dn E and a DNC. DNE means 382 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:37.839 dilation and curreitage. DNE means dilation and extraction. These are 383 00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:48.160 the two methods for performing abortions in first and second trimesters. However, 384 00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:53.240 when a woman has suffered a miscarriage such that the 385 00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:57.480 child has died in her womb already, and we just 386 00:29:57.559 --> 00:30:01.799 need to remove the body of the child from the 387 00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:06.119 woman's uterus, because if the child is if the child's 388 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:10.720 deceased body is left there, it can cause very serious 389 00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:13.720 health problems. It can cause sepsis, infection, et cetera. Okay, 390 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:17.559 so the procedure to remove the body of a child 391 00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:23.160 who has expired is actually the same exact procedure as 392 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:27.079 to perform an abortion on a living organism. But obviously 393 00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:31.000 the two things are wildly different as far as the 394 00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:38.519 ethics involved. Performing one of those procedures on a child 395 00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:44.640 who is alive intentionally is an act of killing a 396 00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:47.400 living member of the human species, a living innocent member 397 00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:51.960 of the human species, i e. Murder to remove the 398 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:58.279 body of a child who has deceased is actually medical care. Okay, 399 00:30:58.319 --> 00:31:01.680 because if that doesn't happen, the woman could get very, 400 00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:04.240 very sick. This is a medical treatment. It is treating 401 00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:08.359