Speaker 1: You've got port workers striking all up and down the
Speaker 1: East Coast, and the president is out to lunch over it.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this issue because it's striking
Speaker 1: at a couple of different I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: political principles I've got, but political instincts i'm feeling. So
Speaker 1: here are the issues. The Longshoremen's Association, the International Longshoreman's Association,
Speaker 1: is the labor union representing doc workers who are key
Speaker 1: cogs in the machinery of American commerce and American shipping,
Speaker 1: international shipping. They have a basically that they are a
Speaker 1: key cog in this whole machinery. If they don't work,
Speaker 1: goods can't come into ports along the East Coast. Now
Speaker 1: they are striking. They are demanding a seventy seven percent
Speaker 1: wage increase over six years, a complete ban on automation
Speaker 1: at ports on the East Coast and the Gulf Coast
Speaker 1: as they're negotiating a new labor contract. This is in
Speaker 1: an economy that's already been wounded pretty seriously by inflation
Speaker 1: over the last four or five years, in the middle
Speaker 1: of a presidential election. This is a alarming thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is something that could really seriously harm the economy,
Speaker 1: esp Right after a massive natural disaster has devastated large
Speaker 1: swaths of North Carolina and Georgia. Now they're sort of
Speaker 1: these dueling critiques. You have traditional conservatives who hate labor
Speaker 1: unions all the time, and I don't know that I
Speaker 1: am part of that. I've always been a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I guess this is the thing I've struggled with. I
Speaker 1: recognize that labor unions benefited working class Americans by improving
Speaker 1: their wages, improving their hours, improving their conditions of employment
Speaker 1: over the course of American history. The concept of the
Speaker 1: weekend is a pretty nice one. And I recognize that
Speaker 1: the decline of union labor and union manufacturing jobs in
Speaker 1: America has been part of the economic decline of the
Speaker 1: middle class and the lower socioeconomic classes in this country.
Speaker 1: That real wages have not grown, real wages have gone
Speaker 1: DOWNENNI you know, millennials and Gen z are going to
Speaker 1: do worse than their baby boomer parents for one of
Speaker 1: the first times in American history that a succeeding generation
Speaker 1: is going to do worse economically than their parents. The
Speaker 1: millions of manufacturing jobs in America that have moved away
Speaker 1: from America to other countries, to Mexico to China wherever.
Speaker 1: These are all really bad, and you have this sort
Speaker 1: of bizarre, unholy alliance of basically elite capitalism that has
Speaker 1: always hated labor unions, never likes them. They don't want
Speaker 1: to pay workers more, they want to keep more profits
Speaker 1: for themselves. So they figure, well, if I can get
Speaker 1: the same work done rather than a labor union, a
Speaker 1: labor union represented worker in America, who's going to make
Speaker 1: you know, the today equivalent of you know, twenty five
Speaker 1: dollars US, Or I can have this go to Mexico
Speaker 1: or China and pay workers the equivalent of five dollars
Speaker 1: per hour US. Yeah, I know what I'm going to
Speaker 1: do or what I want to do. So I feel
Speaker 1: like this is my problem, is that I like labor unions,
Speaker 1: but I feel like I only tend to like them
Speaker 1: in theory. When I'm actually approached with real live labor unions,
Speaker 1: I get kind of grossed out with the actual, real
Speaker 1: life manifestation of them. And this is where I kind
Speaker 1: of get to when I'm looking at the International Longshoreman's
Speaker 1: Association the ISLA, So the International Longshoreman's Association is the
Speaker 1: labor union that kind of controls shipping, et cetera at
Speaker 1: ports along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast. And
Speaker 1: they're already very well compensated. These guys are making like
Speaker 1: three nine bucks an hour as longshoreman. Some of the
Speaker 1: senior guy, I mean, some of the senior guys are
Speaker 1: making you know, two hundred grand a year being a
Speaker 1: port worker. A lot of these are jobs that could
Speaker 1: be automated that other countries have completely switched over to automation,
Speaker 1: where we've been insisting on just keeping humans doing these jobs. Now,
Speaker 1: I am not crazy about automation replacing human work. And
Speaker 1: I you know, they're already people starting to rumble about
Speaker 1: the idea of you know, AI powered cars and trucks
Speaker 1: replacing human truckers over the next ten years. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: debates about this in Sacramento, and uh initiative initiatives to
Speaker 1: ban you know, uh, non human trucking. And I do
Speaker 1: think things. I'm not a total sort of libertarian when
Speaker 1: it comes to this. If human beings are doing a job,
Speaker 1: you cannot just snap your fingers and immediately overnight just
Speaker 1: lay off all the human beings doing those jobs. When
Speaker 1: automation becomes more sensible. This is, these are human beings.
Speaker 1: There can be a general transition towards there. There has
Speaker 1: to be a slower and slower transition towards automation when
Speaker 1: it makes sense. It can't happen just overnight. So I'm
Speaker 1: sort of sympathetic. At the same time, we are paying
Speaker 1: these guys for work that genuinely can be done by
Speaker 1: machines faster, better, cheaper, without the threat of a strike. Also,
Speaker 1: the ILA itself has a long and somewhat notorious history
Speaker 1: of connection with the mafia, with mobsters, with organized crime.
Speaker 1: That is unfortunately part of their history. The mafia has always,
Speaker 1: you know, the mafia has always tried to have connections
Speaker 1: with the organized crime. It's allowed them to get protection money,
Speaker 1: it's allowed them to control construction projects, it's allowed them
Speaker 1: to stop construction projects, allowed them to have all kinds
Speaker 1: of political power and influence. Labor unions have consistently been
Speaker 1: a thing that organized crime in America has sort of
Speaker 1: flocked to. And this is not ancient history necessarily. There's
Speaker 1: a piece in National Review by Dominic Pino who writes,
Speaker 1: most people are aware of the historical mafia connections of
Speaker 1: the International Longshoremen's Association. The East Coast Dock Workers Union
Speaker 1: on the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando, came out in nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty four. Many of the mafia connections to transportation were
Speaker 1: laid out by congressional committees in the fifties and sixties
Speaker 1: than by prosecutors in the major mafia trials in the
Speaker 1: eighties and nineties. But here's here's something from extremely recently, Okay,
Speaker 1: from twenty eighteen, here's one account. The Superior Court of
Speaker 1: New Jersey appelad Division denied the emergent motion by Frank
Speaker 1: Ferrara for a stay of the Commission's revocation of his
Speaker 1: registration to work as a maintenance man, penning his appeal.
Speaker 1: Ferrara's registration was revoked after the Commission found that he
Speaker 1: had associated with the following organized crime figures who had
Speaker 1: been convicted of racketeering activities. Pasquale Patty the clubber Falcetti Senior,
Speaker 1: a soldier in the Genevezi crime family. Andrew Gigante, an
Speaker 1: associate of the Genevezi crime family and the son of
Speaker 1: the crime family's late boss, Vincent the Chin Gigante, Carmine
Speaker 1: Little karm de la Kava, a soldier in the Genevesei
Speaker 1: crime family. The Commission further found Ferrara had committed fraud,
Speaker 1: deceit misrepresentation in connection with a sword interview in which
Speaker 1: he falsely denied associating with anyone who's a member or
Speaker 1: an associate of an organized crime group. In addition, the
Speaker 1: Commission found that for ours presence in the port was
Speaker 1: a danger to public peace of safety. So you got
Speaker 1: that That's just one example. Pino has like a bunch
Speaker 1: of different examples of different associations by Longshorman members who
Speaker 1: were totally mobbed up. Anthony pan Zzi, the third of Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: New York. He was affiliated with. He was associated with
Speaker 1: the careers of offenders of convicted racketeers. Anthony Sonny Chacone,
Speaker 1: a coppo in the Gambino crime family whose crimes involved
Speaker 1: the domination of il a Local one eight one four
Speaker 1: the same local river So Anthony pan Zizi, an associated
Speaker 1: with the Gambino crime family, Joseph scoops Licata, a coppo
Speaker 1: of the Philadelphia Bruno Scarfo crime family, and Jerry Balzano,
Speaker 1: a soldier of the Cavalcante crime family. Okay so these
Speaker 1: are all a bunch of cases. He's lined up like
Speaker 1: four or five cases of mobsters associated with the long
Speaker 1: Shoreman's Union from twenty eighteen. The head of the president
Speaker 1: of the long Shoreman's Association is this guy who's making
Speaker 1: seven hundred thousand bucks a year, walking around with like
Speaker 1: gold chains on, you know, has a yacht, brags about
Speaker 1: how he can cripple the whole country. These are not,
Speaker 1: you know, savory characters. The reality of who these long
Speaker 1: shoremen are as far as their union is kind of
Speaker 1: CD more than kind of CD, and their willingness to
Speaker 1: strike and thereby cripple American manufacturing to get you know,
Speaker 1: their their initial demand, and granted it's an initial demand,
Speaker 1: it's a negotiation. You shoot for the stars, and you
Speaker 1: shoot for the moon and hope you land among the stars.
Speaker 1: Shooting for a seventy seven percent pay increase. What industry
Speaker 1: is getting a seventy seven pay increase in this country? Now,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, there's a part of me that
Speaker 1: thinks this I think part of why people get Let's
Speaker 1: set aside the striking aspect, Let's set aside the mobbed
Speaker 1: up aspect. What are they asking for? They already make
Speaker 1: decent money, they want more. I think part of our
Speaker 1: resentment and the resentment people on the right feel, is
Speaker 1: this resentment of nobody else in America's got this good
Speaker 1: of a deal. What the hell are these guys doing
Speaker 1: pushing for such a big pay increase. Maybe it's because
Speaker 1: a lot of the rest of America is getting screwed.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't blame these guys for living out
Speaker 1: what a lot of other Americans should be living out.
Speaker 1: These guys acknowledge. Yeah, prices for everything has gone up,
Speaker 1: cost of living has gone way up. You know, a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys living in New York, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: these are not cheap places to live. And they're saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I signed up to be a dock worker.
Speaker 1: I got a thirty year mortgage on my house. If
Speaker 1: you replace my job with automation, how am I paying
Speaker 1: my mortgage. I'm a dock worker. It's not like I
Speaker 1: got other you know. It's not like I can go
Speaker 1: be a computer programmer tomorrow. It's not like there's a
Speaker 1: green technology just automatically waiting for me. And that's always
Speaker 1: sort of the attitude that I think real strict libertarians
Speaker 1: have is that, well, when an industry becomes obsolete, you
Speaker 1: got to immediately replace all the human beings working in
Speaker 1: that obsolete industry, replace all the human beings with automation.
Speaker 1: Because it's economically it economically doesn't make sense, all right,
Speaker 1: But what do you do about this human being who
Speaker 1: might have again a mortgage that those payments aren't going away.
Speaker 1: He's been doing this for the last fifteen years. It's
Speaker 1: not like you can snap your fingers and this guy
Speaker 1: automatically gets a job doing something else. I mean, this
Speaker 1: guy could be this human being with a human being
Speaker 1: family might be massively worse off as a result of this.
Speaker 1: So I guess I feel conflicted. On the one hand,
Speaker 1: I can see yet some of these long shortmen, I mean,
Speaker 1: the union that represents them has had all these historic
Speaker 1: ties to the mafia. There's a lot of problems there.
Speaker 1: The terms of what they're asking for do seem extreme,
Speaker 1: and using their striking power at a time to using
Speaker 1: their striking power in this kind of a disruptive way
Speaker 1: that's going to disrupt the whole economy that, I mean,
Speaker 1: the head of the union's bragging about how he can
Speaker 1: cripple the entire United States, he can bring the entire
Speaker 1: country to its knees. I guess that really ticks me off.
Speaker 1: There's a big part of me that ticks me off
Speaker 1: that where that attitude, that behavior, and President Biden's total
Speaker 1: nonchalance about it, which we'll talk about in the next segment,
Speaker 1: really ticks me off. But on the other hand, you know,
Speaker 1: this guy's representing all these workers. The Longshorm Union is
Speaker 1: representing all these workers. He wants all of his workers
Speaker 1: to still have jobs. He wants all of his workers
Speaker 1: to still be able to make money, and he wants
Speaker 1: them to make more money. I mean, he's using the
Speaker 1: tools that are at his disposal. And if every worker
Speaker 1: in this country had been able to fight like that
Speaker 1: to prevent manufacturing jobs from leaving the United States over
Speaker 1: the last forty years, to prevent jobs moving to China,
Speaker 1: jobs moving to Mexico, et cetera, I mean, maybe we
Speaker 1: needed more, you know, maybe maybe we needed more guys
Speaker 1: named you know, Lou and Moose and Rocco, you know,
Speaker 1: handling these kinds of negotiations to stop big, huge corporations
Speaker 1: from moving good paying, middle class American jobs out of
Speaker 1: the United States. Maybe we needed more of that over
Speaker 1: the last forty years. I don't know, and I guess
Speaker 1: it's a thing of if you want the middle class
Speaker 1: to grow, if you want labor to be paid well,
Speaker 1: if you want real wages in this country to go
Speaker 1: up for the middle class, maybe you need some guys
Speaker 1: like this who are pushing for people to make more money. Now,
Speaker 1: when we return, I want to talk about Joe Biden's
Speaker 1: idiotic posture through all of this, which really I think
Speaker 1: shows his disconnection from reality and where Senile Joe is
Speaker 1: really harming this country. That is next on the John
Speaker 1: Girardi Show. Some of you may have remembered this clip.
Speaker 1: I played this on air about a week ago on
Speaker 1: September twenty ninth. I guess, so a couple of days ago,
Speaker 1: President Biden is going to It looks like this was
Speaker 1: on his way back to Rehobeth for you vacation weekend,
Speaker 1: because every weekend when you're president Biden is vacation on
Speaker 1: the beach weekend essentially. So he's getting out of a
Speaker 1: big black suv and walking to a plane. He's on
Speaker 1: tarmac somewhere, got Secret Service agents around him, and there's
Speaker 1: some press on the tarmac and they're yelling to him,
Speaker 1: and they're they're trying to ask him about the Israeli
Speaker 1: strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, which is one of
Speaker 1: several Iranian proxies that have been attacking Israel, and President
Speaker 1: Biden had this bizarre exchange, mister President, will you deploy
Speaker 1: more US troops in the Middle East? Mister President hukung
Speaker 1: to fall any comment on the strikes and Yem and
Speaker 1: mister President, that is strikes. We got set the stroke.
Speaker 1: We collective party never I think they'll show the start.
Speaker 1: So if you didn't catch that, the reporters were asking
Speaker 1: him about the Israeli strikes against the Houthis, and President
Speaker 1: Biden said, I think they'll settle the strike. I've talked
Speaker 1: to both sides and I'm pretty sure the strike will
Speaker 1: be resolved soon. So they were asking the President about
Speaker 1: Israeli missile strikes against Yemen, and President Biden thought they
Speaker 1: were talking about the Long Shortman's strike, the labor union strike,
Speaker 1: or hopefully he was thinking about the Long Shorman union.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe he was just saying generic kind
Speaker 1: of things that he say that he would say for
Speaker 1: any kind of big labor union strike. I've talked to
Speaker 1: both sides, and you know, I think the strike will
Speaker 1: resolve itself soon. I'm hopeful it'll resolve itself soon. So
Speaker 1: his classic example of Biden being flat out senile, not
Speaker 1: understanding what the reporter was saying, and spitting something back.
Speaker 1: And this is this is Biden. He's If you read
Speaker 1: through sections of the her transcript, you can just see
Speaker 1: anyone who's dealt with an older relative can understand this.
Speaker 1: They're not able to hear the question, process the question,
Speaker 1: respond in a responsive way to your question with the
Speaker 1: speed and alacrity that any normal functioning adult can do.
Speaker 1: And sometimes they get it wrong. Sometimes it takes them
Speaker 1: a while to understand what you're saying. They're probably a
Speaker 1: little hard of hearings, so you got to repeat yourself.
Speaker 1: That's the stage he's in and the posture Biden has
Speaker 1: taken to this strike by the International Longshoreman Association. So
Speaker 1: this is, you know, the labor union representing dock workers
Speaker 1: all over all up and down the East Coast. A
Speaker 1: huge cog in American shipping could cause big supply chain disruptions.
Speaker 1: If American shipping has to go from the East Coast
Speaker 1: to the West coast, instead, if you've got to go
Speaker 1: through the Panama Canal or however it is that you're
Speaker 1: going to get into the United States instead, it's going
Speaker 1: to cause huge disruptions, huge costs. And what President Biden
Speaker 1: has basically said is I'm not going to invoke the
Speaker 1: Taft Hartley Act. Now, what is Taft Hartley. Taft Hartley
Speaker 1: is a tool that President Biden has in his toolbox
Speaker 1: to fix this. It is a law that Congress passed
Speaker 1: over Harry Truman's veto actually, and basically what it does
Speaker 1: is it allows the president when there's a major American
Speaker 1: labor union, it allows the president himself to intervene in
Speaker 1: a big worker's strike. It allows him to go to
Speaker 1: court to direct the Attorney General to basically get an
Speaker 1: injunction to stop the strike, force the two parties to
Speaker 1: come back to the negotiating table with federal mediators. So basically,
Speaker 1: for any kind of strike that poses real threats to
Speaker 1: the national interest, which I don't know, all us shipping
Speaker 1: on the East Coast, Yeah, that's in the national interest.
Speaker 1: In the middle of a hurricane, in the middle of
Speaker 1: you know, a devastating hurricane recovery that has left a
Speaker 1: bunch of North Carolina and Georgia in chatter, you know,
Speaker 1: in tatters. This would probably be a good time for
Speaker 1: President Biden to intervene and stop a strike and the
Speaker 1: harmful effects of a strike. It doesn't mean that union loses,
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that labor, it doesn't mean that management wins.
Speaker 1: It does mean, though, that everyone has to get back
Speaker 1: to work. We have to get back to the negotiating
Speaker 1: table and get this resolved now. Organized labor has never
Speaker 1: liked this bill, this law, never liked it. They realize
Speaker 1: they have more power, more weight, more leverage if they
Speaker 1: can just strike without having something happen that can force
Speaker 1: them back to the negotiating table. They know they have
Speaker 1: more leverage and can get more if they have the
Speaker 1: effective power of knowing you want to keep crippling the
Speaker 1: United States economy, we'll do it. We don't give a crap.
Speaker 1: And for President Biden to just take the position, oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna invoke it. It's the most lazy pro
Speaker 1: union position humanly possible. And it's this dismissive. I've just
Speaker 1: got the sense that the White House discussions on it
Speaker 1: just sort of went nowhere. Biden knows it still rattling
Speaker 1: around in his brain. Probably what it is. He knows
Speaker 1: enough about labor unions and labor union policy from his
Speaker 1: thirty whatever years is VP and Senator and president. Now
Speaker 1: he knows what it is. He's got it rattling around
Speaker 1: his head. He knows organized labor doesn't like it, and
Speaker 1: so he just does the most reflexively pro labor union
Speaker 1: thing he possibly can. And I gosh, I kind of
Speaker 1: think that's a really terrible thing to do. I think
Speaker 1: that's especially like right at this precise moment, when devastating
Speaker 1: hurricane North Carolina and Georgia, a somewhat lackluster federal response,
Speaker 1: a lot less media scrutiny of that federal response as
Speaker 1: compared with the federal response to say, Hurricane Katrina, and
Speaker 1: I and just this, No, we just do what the
Speaker 1: labor unions want. I honestly wonder how that's going to
Speaker 1: play out in North Carolina and Georgia, two of the
Speaker 1: three most important states in this whole election coming up
Speaker 1: when we return the disappointing problem of every Republican first
Speaker 1: lady being pro choice. Next on the John Girardi Show, Well,
Speaker 1: in another disappointing round of taking it on the Chin
Speaker 1: on the part of the pro life movement. Milania Trump,
Speaker 1: President Trump's wife, released this memoir in which she gave
Speaker 1: a full throated defense of abortion rights and talked about
Speaker 1: how abortion should be legal and a bunch of the normal,
Speaker 1: obvious cruddy arguments in favor of legalized abortion. Blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. I don't know how many of you
Speaker 1: have noticed this. I have noticed this. Every single first
Speaker 1: lady since Rovy Wade has been pro choice Republican Democrat.
Speaker 1: Every single first lady since Rovy Wade has been pro choice.
Speaker 1: Richard Nixon's wife, Gerald Ford's wife, Jimmy Carter's wife, Nancy Reagan,
Speaker 1: George H. W. Bush's wife, obviously, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush obviously,
Speaker 1: Michelle Obama, and now we learn Malania Trump, and of
Speaker 1: course Doug M. Hoff is more than you know, slightly
Speaker 1: uh pro choice. Oh oh, and Jill Biden too. Okay, sorry, no,
Speaker 1: I forgot for a second that Joe Biden was president. Okay,
Speaker 1: So every single first spouse since again, you know, since
Speaker 1: rov Wade, since Rovi Wade nineteen, every three, every single
Speaker 1: first lady has been pro choice, including all the Republican
Speaker 1: wives now this in itself, one might say, is irrelevant.
Speaker 1: Who cares? You know, the first lady doesn't have any power.
Speaker 1: First lady doesn't have any responsibility. She's just the president's wife.
Speaker 1: Who cares? I care? I think it kind of matters,
Speaker 1: and just you know, it matters in this way. Just
Speaker 1: talking about marriage, I think most of the presidents and
Speaker 1: most of the first ladies have had what looks like,
Speaker 1: on the outside, fairly healthy looking marriages. Barbara and George H. W.
Speaker 1: Bush were married for a bazillion years. George and Laura
Speaker 1: Bush seemed to like each other. Other presidential and first
Speaker 1: lady marriages not so sure. I really don't know the
Speaker 1: dynamic between Donald and Millennia. Lania does seem to care
Speaker 1: about him. I I don't know. I don't know how
Speaker 1: that works with you know, the third wife, and you know,
Speaker 1: fairly credible timelines and reports about Donald's infidelity even within
Speaker 1: that marriage, certainly within his prior marriages. And god knows
Speaker 1: what's the dynamic between Bill and Hillary. But you know,
Speaker 1: i'd like to say many you know, Nancy and Ronald
Speaker 1: Reagan seemed really to love each other very deeply. I
Speaker 1: guess I don't know much about Gerald and Betty Ford
Speaker 1: or Pat and Richard Nixon. But let's let's concede that
Speaker 1: many of the presidential marriages were more or less healthy marriages,
Speaker 1: and even in the ones that weren't healthy, involved a
Speaker 1: kind of meeting of minds on a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Bill and Hillary Clinton. God knows what that dynamic is,
Speaker 1: but at the very least it does seem that they
Speaker 1: have a meeting of minds when it comes to politics.
Speaker 1: I think most healthy marriages involve two people who think
Speaker 1: really similarly about big picture stuff. I look at my marriage,
Speaker 1: which I would say is very healthy marriage. My wife
Speaker 1: and I love each other very much, and we're pretty
Speaker 1: darn happy being married. We have this little joke with
Speaker 1: each other where we sing this. We have this song
Speaker 1: that we sing sometimes where at the end of a
Speaker 1: hard day, I'll sing, I don't like this part of work,
Speaker 1: and I don't like that part of work, and I
Speaker 1: don't like this, and I don't like that. I don't
Speaker 1: like this, and I don't like but I like you.
Speaker 1: You're the one that I like. I don't like anybody else.
Speaker 1: You're the only one that I like. Everyone else can
Speaker 1: take a hike. So this is a song that I
Speaker 1: made up one day when I was frustrated about things
Speaker 1: and was talking to my wife, like, Yeah, you're like
Speaker 1: the one person who consistently always makes me happy, and
Speaker 1: when you have a healthy marriage, you think alike on
Speaker 1: probably a lot of things. I feel like my wife
Speaker 1: and I have known each other for so long, like
Speaker 1: we've known each other. I mean, we're I'm thirty seven now.
Speaker 1: Holly was a year behind me in school, so when
Speaker 1: we met, I was nineteen and she was eighteen, And
Speaker 1: we've been kind of dating pretty much ever since we met,
Speaker 1: dating slash married ever since we met. So I've just
Speaker 1: been hanging out with Holly, you know, almost every day
Speaker 1: for at this point, about eighteen of my life, thirty
Speaker 1: seven years on this earth. And when you hang out
Speaker 1: with someone that long, you tend to kind of shape
Speaker 1: their personality. You have an influence on each other's personalities.
Speaker 1: You know, we've just been hanging out together since we
Speaker 1: were teenagers. We kind of know what the other thinks.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times it's happened that
Speaker 1: I've read a news story or I've seen something, some
Speaker 1: event has happened, and I think I know exactly how
Speaker 1: Holly is going to react to this, and I tell
Speaker 1: her about it, and she was thinking I was thinking
Speaker 1: the same thing. I saw that news story, and I
Speaker 1: knew that you were going to react the exact same way.
Speaker 1: And it's this wonderful thing where it's like, yes, well,
Speaker 1: we can read each other's minds before we even see
Speaker 1: a thing. So in a happy marriage, I think that's true,
Speaker 1: and you care especially you know, you might not agree
Speaker 1: on every tiny little thing. And there are some famous
Speaker 1: examples of marriages of political opposites. James Carville and Mary
Speaker 1: Madaline are kind of the classic example. But I think
Speaker 1: it's hard to be married to someone if you're a
Speaker 1: hard line conservative who really firmly believes in a lot
Speaker 1: of like ethical beliefs surrounded in Christianity. I think it's
Speaker 1: really hard to be married to a really hardcore liberal
Speaker 1: who believes in a very different kind of ethical worldview
Speaker 1: from you. And where that ethical worldview is manifesting itself
Speaker 1: in politics and how you vote. I don't know how
Speaker 1: those two things mix. I find it very difficult to
Speaker 1: understand how, but apparently it happens. I mean, look, if
Speaker 1: only men voted, Donald Trump would win in a landslide
Speaker 1: if only women voted, Kamala Harris would win in a landslide.
Speaker 1: There are clearly marriages out there where the wife is
Speaker 1: voting one way and the husband's voting another way. I
Speaker 1: don't understand how that works. I can't fathom how that
Speaker 1: would work. But I do believe that in most healthy
Speaker 1: marriages there is this kind of sympathy between husband and
Speaker 1: wife on the big things. And that's why I really
Speaker 1: hate it that literally every single Republican first lady has
Speaker 1: been pro choice, because you know what I think it means.
Speaker 1: I think, deep down, I'm not sure that we've had
Speaker 1: one pro life president. I think we've had presidents who
Speaker 1: did pro life things. I think Donald Trump did pro
Speaker 1: life things, but I don't think he was sincere about
Speaker 1: any I don't know, And by the way, I guess,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, he overturned Robie Wade. I guess there's
Speaker 1: a part of me that doesn't care if he was
Speaker 1: sincere about it or not. I am now caring about
Speaker 1: his sincerity because he seems to be completely changing all
Speaker 1: of his views, or many of his views. But you know,
Speaker 1: in the Conservative coalition, we've always had kind of three
Speaker 1: interests at place, So the historic Reaganite coalition. You had
Speaker 1: military hawks who wanted to keep being hawks after the
Speaker 1: Soviet Union collapsed, and we've seen how disastrous that's been.
Speaker 1: You have economic libertarian leaning people who want to represent
Speaker 1: business interests, and these are the people who, working with
Speaker 1: both Democrats and Republicans, have managed to ship millions of
Speaker 1: manufacturing jobs out of the United States and hollow out
Speaker 1: the middle class in the United States such that millennials
Speaker 1: and Gen z are the first generation to do worse
Speaker 1: than their parents. And then you've got social conservatism, where
Speaker 1: social conservatism has all the voters but doesn't have any
Speaker 1: money right, and they don't have any big picture global
Speaker 1: geopolitical ambitions. They don't have huge businesses with tons of
Speaker 1: money to help fund politicians. All they have are voters.
Speaker 1: Voters who crawl over broken glass to vote for Republicans
Speaker 1: every two years. You know who I mean? Like again,
Speaker 1: for all the ways in which Trump is sort of
Speaker 1: poopooing pro lifers, who is the one group of voters
Speaker 1: that never misses an election, who will crawl over broken
Speaker 1: glass to vote in a primary election for the local
Speaker 1: county dogcatcher And ask first if the dog catcher candidate
Speaker 1: is pro life, pro lifers, social conservatives. They're the most
Speaker 1: reliable vot voters in the whole freaking world. And the
Speaker 1: fact that every first lady has been pro choice indicates
Speaker 1: to me maybe all these Republican presidents are faking it
Speaker 1: all the words they say about the dignity and sanctity
Speaker 1: of human life. And I say that because of the
Speaker 1: anemic results we've gotten from so many Republican presidents. Ronald Reagan, Okay,
Speaker 1: the Mexico City policy was good. Antonin Scalia was pretty good.
Speaker 1: He also gave us Anthony Kennedy and Sandrade O'Connor, who sucked,
Speaker 1: Who kept Roe V Wade on the books? George H. W. Bush, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he gave us Clarence Thomas. He also gave us David Souter,
Speaker 1: who sucked immediately sucked, became a hard left vote on
Speaker 1: the court, immediately kept Rovy Wade on the books for
Speaker 1: an additional twenty years. George W. Bush tried to, you know,
Speaker 1: nominates the squish. John Roberts tries to nominate Harriet Myers.
Speaker 1: God knows what she would have been. She had Sandra
Speaker 1: Day O'Connor written all over her. I think, and got
Speaker 1: so much backlash from conservatives, he had to, with his
Speaker 1: tail between his legs, withdraw her nomination and only then
Speaker 1: nominated the glory of his presidency, the crown jewel of
Speaker 1: his presidency, sam Alito. The single best thing George W.
Speaker 1: Bush ever did was nominate sam Alito to the Court.
Speaker 1: And then here's President Trump, who accomplished a ton of
Speaker 1: great pro life things in his first term. Not everything, though.
Speaker 1: His unwillingness to get rid of the Francis Collins and
Speaker 1: Anthony Fauci's of the world really bit him in the
Speaker 1: butt during COVID and allowed the United States to keep
Speaker 1: funding federal research using the bodies of aborted children. And
Speaker 1: now he's running for president saying, oh, no, we don't
Speaker 1: support any he kind of restrictions on abortion on the
Speaker 1: federal level. No, no, no, no no. My administration will
Speaker 1: be great for women in their reproductive rights quote Donald J. Trump.
Speaker 1: Now he's kind of running away from the abortion issue
Speaker 1: on a number of fronts because it's not popular anymore.
Speaker 1: So he was immediately willing to abandon it because I
Speaker 1: don't think any of these Republican presidents actually give a
Speaker 1: crap about it, And that's what frustrates me. You know,
Speaker 1: my kingdom for one Republican president someday who actually cares
Speaker 1: about this When we return. Some exciting stuff happening it
Speaker 1: Right to Life Essential California. I just want to highlight
Speaker 1: that is next on the John Girardi Show. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on with us a right
Speaker 1: to Life. I don't talk about it too much on
Speaker 1: John Girardi Show, but I thought i'd just let you
Speaker 1: guys in on this. So if any of you are
Speaker 1: going to the Big Fresno Fair, go over to the
Speaker 1: Commerce building and say hello to the folks over at
Speaker 1: Right to Life of Central California. We've got a booth
Speaker 1: right there in the Commerce building. We've got literature, we've
Speaker 1: got fetal development models, we've got all kinds of cool
Speaker 1: stuff you can learn more about what we're doing. We've
Speaker 1: got information about Right to Life Radio, which happens every
Speaker 1: Saturday morning nine to ten on Power Talk here in Fresno.
Speaker 1: And we're right near the Republican Party booth. So you
Speaker 1: can go over there to the Fresne County GOP. You
Speaker 1: can say hi to them. Just mosey on over to us,
Speaker 1: say hello. So we've got anyway say hello to us.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of cool stuff. And by the way,
Speaker 1: if you want to volunteer at our booth, we still
Speaker 1: have some times at the fair that we need to
Speaker 1: get filled. If you want to volunteer at our booth,
Speaker 1: give us a call. This is Aeron, So this is
Speaker 1: where are we now right now, it's Thursday nine almost seven.
Speaker 1: Give us a call at Right to Life tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: Five five nine two two nine two two two nine.
Speaker 1: If you come volunteer at our booth, we give you
Speaker 1: free parking, We give you a free ticket. It's a
Speaker 1: great deal. You hang out at our booths for a
Speaker 1: bit and then you can go enjoy the fair. So anyway,
Speaker 1: get in touch with us five five nine two two
Speaker 1: nine two two two nine or an email us at
Speaker 1: info at RTLCC dot org. That will do it. Thank
Speaker 1: you guys so much for listening to the John Juraradi Show.