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Despite the Democrats' major electoral advantage in Virginia, the race is neck and neck.
Some polls even have Republican Glenn Youngkin up over Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
The race has come down to one issue above all the others, education.
McAuliffe declared during several public appearances that parents have no rights when it comes to their kids' education.
Youngkin promises to give parents a voice in their kids' education and kick the radical, racial, and sexual stuff out of the classroom.
So, in his final salvo to Virginia voters, what did Terry McAuliffe do?
He promised to get rid of a bunch of white teachers.
I promise you, we've got to diversify our teacher base here in Virginia.
50% of the students at Virginia schools K-12, 50% are students of color, and yet 80% of the teachers are white.
We all know what we have to do in a school to make everybody feel comfortable in school.
So let's diversify.
So here's what I'm going to do.
We'll be the first state in America.
If you'll teach for five years here in Virginia in a high-demand area, let it be geographic or coursework, We will pay room, board, and tuition at any college, any university, any HBCU here in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Because we all know you can't be taught by someone who's a different color than you are.
You won't feel comfortable.
You know how you had all those teachers who were different colors than you and you were just shaking and terrified all day long.
You weren't learning.
Is that what happened?
I don't know.
That was not my experience.
The battle lines are drawn, Virginians.
Do you want your kids to be indoctrinated into radical, racial, and sexual ideologies?
Or do you want them to get a decent education?
We will find out in a matter of hours.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is the Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show, Michael.
My favorite comment yesterday from Matty Ice, 113, who says the Democrats needed a black man to play a white supremacist.
That labor shortage is real.
Labor shortage is real, man.
And that's not even the last dirty trick they pulled.
The McAuliffe campaign pulled another dirty trick before the polls opened today.
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There was one last dirty trick.
One last dirty trick before the big election day in Virginia.
They've been pushing the racial stuff the whole time.
And they're still pushing the racial stuff, and the final salvo from the McAuliffe campaign was about how black kids can't learn from white teachers.
It's preposterous.
It's a preposterous argument.
But then the final shot, after the Charlottesville hoax, the Tiki Torch guys sent to the Yunkin campaign, after the, we gotta fire the white teachers, There was someone who showed up at one of the final Yunkin rallies wearing a Confederate flag on the back of his jean jacket.
Wow, he's a Confederate!
He's a racist!
He's a white!
Now, they were smart this time.
This guy, who the Democrats obviously sent in, at least he wasn't a black guy.
They made that mistake with the Tiki Torch stunt at the Yunkin rally.
But they made a few mistakes.
The Democrats who obviously sent this guy in made a few mistakes.
First of all...
The Confederate flag that is on the back of this jean jacket was obviously just purchased.
It's brand new.
It doesn't have a smudge on it.
There's no dirt, no lint, no wrinkle, no rip, no nothing.
They probably ironed this thing on about an hour before they sent the person into the rally.
The jacket itself might be new as well.
Now, ordinarily, when someone does a racism...
You know, there's the racism and then the trends on the internet.
What happens?
The person who is implicated in the racism gets doxed.
Their identity is revealed.
They're dragged.
They have to block their Twitter accounts.
And yet, for this photo, no one seems to have identified who this person is because this person is wearing a jean jacket.
The only thing on the jean jacket is the Confederate flag, which was purchased about three hours prior, I think.
Collar popped up, long hair, and a giant cowboy hat covering up.
So his identity is completely concealed.
You can't look up who this person is.
And then, if you look out there, thousands and thousands of people at this Yunkin rally.
I don't see any Confederate flags.
I don't see...
This is Virginia, first of all, and it's Glenn Yunkin.
It's a moderate Republican.
So I don't even think if you're...
If you are the sort...
To be interested in more racially minded sort of hard-nosed politics, I don't think that you'd be showing up to the Glenn Youngkin rally.
No one else has anything like that.
There's just this one dude right in front of all the reporters.
It's so transparent.
It's so lame.
So then you get these three reporters who just take the photo of the guy who showed up in the brand new Confederate flag thing right in front of them, and they push the narrative, the completely false narrative that, you know, Youngkin's a racist bigot, a supremacist.
I think, my takeaway from this, other than the Democrats need to get better at their dirty tricks because they used to be a lot better at these things and now it's pathetic.
My big takeaway is there must not be a single white supremacist left in America.
I don't think there's a single one.
I mean, I guess there's David Duke, right, and Richard Spencer, maybe, who are almost certainly feds.
These guys who, like, they go on CNN to play white supremacists on CNN. And then, are there any others?
If there were white supremacist, racist, bigot, evil, Nazi, whatever, if there were any of those guys actually in America, Don't you think the Democrats could wrangle one of them and push them toward going to a Glenn Youngkin rally or going to a Glenn Youngkin campaign stop?
They can't.
They can't find any of these guys.
So they have to make them up themselves.
Speaking of dirty tricks and election integrity, I felt that Bill Maher was a little...
Disingenuous and dishonest the other night.
Conservatives really like applauding Bill Maher now because occasionally he attacks wokeism.
But he is still a Democrat.
He is still a lib.
And he still pushes for things that are really ridiculous.
So Bill Maher had Sean Spicer on his show.
And Bill Maher took the opportunity not to discuss what's going on right now, not to discuss the relevant political issues to today, but to focus on The 2020 presidential election and the January 6th, the worst event ever in history, and the big lie.
This was looked at by people from both parties and that people have come down on the idea that Trump lost this election and you won't say it.
And if you're either part of the big lie or you're part of the conspiracy.
It is not a big lie.
The Wisconsin State Audit Committee just released a report.
I have it here.
You're just afraid.
You're afraid of Trump.
I'm not afraid of anything, Bill.
You're afraid of Trump.
No.
You're afraid of being honest.
Yes, you are.
You said, I've not seen, I have not, then again, I wasn't on the campaign, I did not see evidence of widespread fraud.
What I did say, and what I'm telling you is that in certain states where they sent out ballots that were not requested in violation of a law, that should concern everybody.
But he still lost the election.
Okay.
Okay, now.
So worry about Biden.
Okay, so he did lose the election, Trump.
Biden's president.
Did he lose the election?
He did.
It's a big lie.
It wasn't rigged.
It wasn't.
It was.
It was.
The election was rigged, okay?
It was obviously rigged.
They changed all the rules right before the election.
What do you mean the election wasn't rigged?
Of course the election was rigged.
Now, Are you saying the election was rigged and Trump actually got more votes?
I don't know.
I mean, to Sean Spicer's point, I don't know.
They didn't prove it in court, so you can't say that definitively.
Was the election stolen?
Jeremy Boring, the god king of the Daily Wire, made this point.
Jeremy said the election was rigged, but he doesn't think the election was stolen.
There actually is a distinction to be had here.
Rigged is the Democrats...
Set up everything to give them an advantage, which they obviously did.
In Pennsylvania, they changed the election rules in violation of the state constitution, for goodness sakes, by pushing the widespread mail-in ballots.
Does this mean that Trump actually got more votes?
I don't know.
I mean, like, I guess not.
I don't, you know, I mean, to Sean Spicer's point, Biden is the president.
But please do not tell me that the election was the most above-board election in history, and if you question it, you're an insurrectionist, terrorist, whatever.
Terry McAuliffe, who is running for governor of Virginia, former governor of Virginia, who is now running again, during this election refused to acknowledge the results of the 2000 presidential election.
During this election, in the year of our Lord, 2021, refused to acknowledge the results of the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election.
And please, enough with the big lie.
You know what's amazing?
Do you know where the big lie was coined?
Do you know who coined that phrase and where he did it?
Hitler coined that phrase.
He did it in Mein Kampf.
And he used the phrase to accuse the Jews of pushing a big lie to blame German General Erich Ludendorff for losing the First World War for Germany.
When you use the phrase, the big lie, and weaponize it against your political opponents, you are putting yourself in the position of the Nazis, which the Democrats are doing right now, and they're so historically illiterate, including Bill Maher, that they don't even realize that they're doing it.
Enough with the ridiculous, shallow-talking, good grief people.
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The left is getting more hysterical than usual.
With the Confederate flags and the fake Charlottesville white supremacists and the big-lie Nazi comparisons, they're getting...
More hysterical than usual.
They're now comparing the phrase, let's go Brandon, to the phrase, long live ISIS. CNN contributor just did this.
Asha Rangappa.
Asha Rangappa, who is a CNN contributor and faculty member at Yale's Jackson Institute, tweeted out, quote, as an experiment, I'd love for a Southwest Air pilot to say, long live ISIS before taking off.
My guess is that one, the plane would be immediately grounded, two, the pilot fired, and three, a statement issued by the airline within a matter of hours.
Yes.
Yes.
Different things are different.
This is just the modern version of everyone I disagree with is Hitler.
Everyone I disagree with is ISIS. To compare a pro-conservative, anti-Biden chant, it's kind of a cheeky one, it's not even vulgar, it's just let's go Brandon, haha, to long live ISIS is hysterical.
It's a hysterical thing to say, and you certainly would expect this from someone on CNN. You'd hope that someone at a prestigious university would...
I guess you would expect that from them, too, these days.
The point I think that this woman is making, or I think it's a woman.
I don't know, actually, though.
I've never seen a picture of this person, and I'm not familiar with the name Asha, so who knows?
The point that this person is making is that...
The two phrases are, they're both political, they're both expressing your preference, they're both, I guess, expressing some antipathy toward the ruling party right now in the United States, and therefore they're the same.
The form of them, because they're both political chants, the form is similar, so therefore they're comparable.
But they're not, because the substance is quite different.
This is a problem on the left and the right.
We don't understand that.
You saw this most clearly.
We don't need to rehash the debate.
But you saw this with the debate a few years ago over Drag Queen Story Hour.
Squishes on the right said that if we ban Drag Queen Story Hour from the library, why then?
That'll make us no different than the left who wants to ban us from going to church.
No, it makes us quite different because Drag Queen Story Hour and church are different.
Yes, the form of banning something is the same, but the substance really matters here, folks, okay?
And the chant, let's go Brandon, which really means F Joe Biden, is different than the chant, long live ISIS. I mean, frankly, the longer that Joe Biden stays in office, probably the better shot ISIS is going to have at rebuilding its power.
Speaking of fighting our wars, Senator Josh Hawley.
Filed an amendment just yesterday to prevent Democrats from drafting women.
We covered this when it first went into the big bill.
Democrats are requiring women to register for the draft, or at least they want to.
This is ridiculous.
This is ugly.
This is unjust, uncivilized, deeply un-American.
And so Josh Hawley says, we got to take this out.
Now, there are a lot of conservatives who want to argue.
Some conservatives actually will go along with it.
They'll say, fine, women and men are equal?
That's fine.
Fine, the feminists say that men and women are exactly the same?
Fine, let them draft the women.
No, the feminists are wrong.
Men and women are not exactly the same.
And I don't want to live in a country that sends our women to go fight our wars for us and get killed by terrorists.
That's an ugly country.
I don't want to live in that country.
Sometimes you'll hear conservatives argue this from the numbers.
They'll say, well, women are, you know, less strong and their muscle mass is different and they're not as heavy and they're not as tall and they're, yeah, sure, that's all true.
Also, they're women.
I think we also need to make these arguments not just from egghead accounting and spreadsheets and numbers, but also from justice, also from civilization.
But as long as we're talking about the numbers, there's an incredible statistic that just came out.
There's an Ipsos poll on the question of drafting women into the military.
45% of Americans support drafting women in the military.
That's as of this August.
Now, that number is way down.
When this poll was taken in 2016, 63% of Americans supported drafting women into the military.
The reality of it might be kicking in now.
In 2016, we hadn't seen a whole lot of hot military action.
We've just seen that debacle in Afghanistan where 13 servicemen were killed.
All of a sudden, I think, people are remembering the reality of war.
But then, here's the really crazy number.
Men who were surveyed favored drafting women at 55%.
Women favored drafting themselves at just 36%.
Men were much more likely to support drafting women than the women were.
Shows you the difference between ideology and reality.
Okay, and also I think it shows you something that Might be a little bit unexpected here, which is that when it comes down to it, women are more likely than men to know that men and women are different.
What I mean by that is you look at the TERFs, the trans-exclusionary radical feminists.
They're women.
They're women.
J.K. Rowling, those sorts of people.
I guess Dave Chappelle now counts too.
But they're generally led by women.
They are pushing back against this.
Megan Murphy, right at the feminist current.
Men don't need to think about the differences between men and women all that often.
Because we're stronger and bigger and faster, even those of us who are not particularly athletic.
We just are.
It's just the way we're built.
Women are aware of that because women have to think about that when they're going out alone at night, when they're deciding whether or not to cut down that dark alley to get back to their car, when they are in a room with men.
So much of the Me Too movement talked about how women felt intimidated, even if men were unaware of the fact that they were intimidating.
Women know very well that they are at the physical disadvantage when it comes to men, okay?
And so when push comes to shove, when you get down to those numbers, the women do not want to be drafted because they know it's not right.
They know that it's wrong.
And men, who are probably just lazy, either lazy and just not thinking about it at all, or who are thinking in very shallow ways, or who want to seem feminist and hip and cool.
And so they say, of course we should draft women.
They need to get a little more tuned in with reality, kind of like the women are.
Speaking of women, the Biden administration just can't learn any lessons.
The Biden administration has just pushed one of the spookiest Just right after Halloween, one of the spookiest campaigns I've seen, specifically around women.
It's called The Life of Linda.
Now, the Obama campaign did something similar in 2012.
They pushed something called the Life of Julia.
And the Life of Julia was this really creepy video graphic campaign where it talked about how Obama's government was going to take care of this woman, Julia, from cradle to grave.
And it was spooky because the only meaningful relationship in her life ever was with the government.
And there was such backlash to it in 2012 that they basically scrubbed it from the internet.
I've tried to find the life of Julia in recent years.
You can't find it.
So I remember when it was on air.
Younger viewers might not remember that.
Well, Joe Biden's back with it again.
The world wasn't ready for the life of Julia in 2012, but the left is nothing if not persistent, so they're going to try it again nine years later.
Life of Linda.
Linda, here are the slides.
Linda is a working mother in Peoria, Illinois.
She works at a local manufacturing facility as a production worker and earns $40,000 per year.
She is pregnant with her son, Leo.
Who is Leo's father?
We're not sure.
Is Linda married?
It's unclear.
Is Linda going to stop working when she has her kid?
What is going to happen?
Okay, there's Linda, she's got probably what Joe Biden considers to be a clump of cells in her belly.
It's weird that they would name a clump of cells Leo, because Joe Biden supports abortion at this point, basically up until the point of birth.
So it's weird that he would name, but okay, fine.
She's pregnant with her son Leo, so what's going to happen?
Well, Joe Biden's going to help out.
Once Leo is born, Linda is going to receive a child tax credit of $300 per month, $3,600 annually, to help cover essential costs like groceries, rent, and medicine.
We were wondering earlier, if Linda's married, if Leo has a father who's stuck around, it doesn't matter.
Big Daddy Biden's going to come in, he's going to take care of those things like groceries, rent, and medicine.
What happens when Leo grows up?
Don't worry.
Joe Biden, Big Daddy Biden is there for Leo as well.
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We'll be right back with a lot more.
Back to the life of Linda.
up.
So this is the new Biden plan for how he's going to take care of your kid and you, and the only meaningful relationship you're ever going to need is with him.
As Leo grows up, the government helps cover the costs for his daycare, guaranteeing that Linda doesn't need to pay more than 7% of her income on child care.
We'll get to the real troublesome aspects of this in a second.
When Leo turns three, he attends a high-quality pre-K program for free.
When Leo leaves high school, he's able to enroll in community college thanks to Pell Grants and community colleges.
Thanks to his community college training, Leo lands a good-paying union job as a wind turbine technician.
Leo's job is one of 4 million new jobs a year that are supported by President Biden's economic plan.
Yeah, okay.
Hey, try to keep gas below like $20 a gallon, then we can talk about your brilliant economic plan.
Later in life, Linda needs home care and hearing care.
Thanks to President Biden's plan, Linda can access affordable hearing care through Medicare, and Leo is able to afford at-home elder care for his mom.
Okay, what is so unfortunate about this?
I am not of the opinion, as so many Republicans have been for a long time, that the big problem with this is, it's too expensive!
You're spending too much money!
This is, economically, this doesn't make any sense!
You need more, the free market or something!
That's not my, you know, these are legitimate concerns, but it's not my primary concern.
My primary concern is that this is so inhumane.
This is so inhuman.
So first, mama's got to work.
Mama doesn't get to stay home.
Mama doesn't get to raise her kids because there's no daddy in the picture.
So mama, that's good.
She gets to carry the baby.
She's got to work until at the very end.
She can take off, have the kid, and she's going to get some child tax credits.
Why?
So that she can pay some other woman to raise her child.
So she right away ships the kid off to daycare.
Then, you know, that's the first step.
The second step is by the time he's three, he gets to go to Joe Biden's school.
He gets to go to Biden-funded government school.
I didn't start going to school at three.
I started going to school at five, I guess, kindergarten.
My dad started going to school at six, first grade.
But now, they're expanding it out.
I have a friend of mine who sends her two-year-old daughter to school.
Two-year-olds don't go to school.
But what this is about is removing the ability to educate your child from the parent to the state.
This is what the election in Virginia is about, too, folks.
At different stages in life, but it's the same issue.
Who gets to raise your kid?
So, in the life of Linda, the state gets to raise Linda's kid.
Then the kid goes to another government school, and then the kid gets a union job, and then the great part of the union job is the kid gets to pay someone else to take care of his mother.
Where is the humanity?
Where is the husband?
Where is the son?
Where is the filial loyalty?
Where is the family?
Where is the family?
There is no family.
As the life of Linda expands...
As the government program, the life of Linda, expands, the family disappears.
There is a direct correlation here.
That's the problem with it.
I don't care about spending money on school.
It's a very rich country.
It might not be for long, depending on how long Joe Biden's in office, but it's a rich country.
I don't really care.
If I thought that it were good for Leo or Linda or the American people to have pre-pre-pre-K funded by the state, I guess I'd be fine with that.
Or to have these massive programs.
I guess I'd be fine with that.
The problem is the inhumanity.
Conservatives are just right about everything.
When we say, hey, if you keep going in this direction, progressives, you're going to destroy the family.
And they say, oh please, that's a slippery slope.
That's a crazy...
You're nuts.
We're right.
We're right.
We're always right.
Hey, if you redefine this thing, then pretty soon you're going to redefine marriage.
No, that's a crazy, that's a slippery slope argument.
You hysterical conservatives are nuts.
What happens?
That's exactly, you know, if we redefine marriage, pretty soon we're going to be redefining sex itself.
Oh, you're just crazy, hysterical conservatives.
Conservatives?
And oh, that's exactly what happened like five minutes later.
Speaking of women's issues.
Mary Margaret Olihan at The Daily Caller has a delightful video out where she goes out and interviews the Catholics for Choice lady.
So there is a group called Catholics for Choice.
I've got to put this in quotes because...
The group is not Catholic.
The group is in grave error and is contradicting very basic Catholic teachings.
And so you could not call them practicing Catholics by any chance.
This is a fake Catholic group that is pushing for abortion underneath the Catholic banner, which actually incurs another sin, which is the sin of scandal.
So anyway, a delightful video out here asking the Catholics for Choice lady How to defend her views.
So we represent and amplify the majority of Catholics in the United States who support abortion rights.
68% of Catholics in the U.S. do not want to see Roe vs.
Wade struck down, so we thought it was very important for us to be out here today.
What about, doesn't the Catholic Church teach that abortion is a crime against human life?
Well, the teaching on abortion has changed quite a bit over the centuries.
As you know, the Catholic Church is an old institution.
And the fact is, two of our major theologians, Thomas Aquinas and St.
Augustine, believed abortion was licit within the first trimester.
So we're here to tell Catholics that it's more complicated, and the Church's teaching on that is more complicated.
That's so funny.
I've never heard that in my life.
I've heard my whole life that the Catholic Church teaches that abortion is a crime against human life, and that if you get one, you're excommunicated.
And I have never heard that that teaching changed.
That's funny.
I never heard that.
That's so weird.
By the way, I said The Daily Caller, but I just noticed on the microphone it says The Daily Signal.
So I want to give credit where credit is due for this very entertaining video.
Obviously what this woman, this leftist activist who...
Runs Catholics for Choice.
What she's saying about abortion is not true.
She's saying that the Catholic teaching has changed a lot, and the Catholic Church used to support abortion, but now the Catholic Church doesn't support abortion, and so it's kind of up in the air and up for grabs.
That's not true.
The Catholic Church has condemned abortion and prohibited it since the first century.
Since the very first years, After the crucifixion and the resurrection, the earliest catechism we have, the didache, explicitly condemns abortion.
So that's not true.
This argument about Thomas Aquinas and Augustine, also bogus stuff.
I'll just...
Just to give you the background here, this is an example of a half-truth or a quarter-truth being perverted to completely misrepresent one's view of things.
St.
Thomas Aquinas believed that conception was a process that took place when the sperm served a formative function on the menstrual blood of women.
I hate to be gory here, but this is his understanding of the physical function.
Okay, and he's basing that on Aristotle's physics, which was the physics they had at the time.
Obviously, they didn't have modern medical science at the time.
So when you're describing the physical act of conception, it was unclear to someone like St.
Thomas Aquinas, even a great genius like St.
Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest theologians ever.
The view was that the sperm acts on the menstrual blood and then creates this kind of vegetative thing that is not ensouled until quickening.
St.
Augustine has a similar view of this, as this woman alludes to.
What we know with modern medical science is that the sperm does not merely serve some formative function on the menstrual blood.
It doesn't work on the menstrual blood at all.
But that the sperm and the egg come together and that the act of conception, which previously in the Aristotelian world, the Aristotelian model would have taken...
Weeks and weeks.
Actually occurs almost instantaneously.
And we know now, again, just because of modern medical science, that the sperm contains unique genetic information.
And the egg contains unique genetic information.
And when the sperm and the egg come together, they both cease to be.
And a new being is formed.
And that new being is the first...
Iteration of human life.
So we know that now, okay?
Applying the metaphysical principles of saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas to the modern understanding of physics, we know that life begins at conception.
And you can't call Augustine and Thomas Aquinas dummies.
They were operating on the physical understanding of the world at the time.
But what is so disingenuous is, well, one, maybe this Catholics for choice lady seems a little confused.
So maybe she just doesn't understand what I have just explained.
But maybe she does understand.
And maybe she's just being a little clever here.
Or trying to be a little clever.
And maybe she's just trying to use Aristotelian physics to justify her indefensible position on abortion.
Do you think this woman defers to Are Aristotelian views of the physical world in other questions?
Or just when it comes to abortion because of a mistaken view, a manifestly mistaken view of how conception takes place?
I think it's probably the latter.
I think this woman probably says she loves to follow the science.
And she's very modern and follows all the modern science.
Except when it comes to conception.
There she follows the most ancient and mistaken science that there is.
Such BS. The bigger question, though, beyond the obvious nonsense that this woman is spouting, is why does she want to be considered Catholic?
Why?
She doesn't.
She's a lesbian, by the way.
I'm not telling any tales out of school.
She's pretty public about that.
So she disagrees with the church on sex.
She disagrees with the church on life and essential non-negotiable teaching.
She disagrees with the church on women ordination.
That's another aspect of her activism.
She disagrees with the church on a great deal of things.
A great number of things.
So why can't she just be...
I don't know what category she would put herself.
Leftist for choice.
Why can't she just be regular old leftist who disagrees with the Catholic faith...
For abortion.
Because the Catholic Church is the fundamental institution in the West.
Even if you're Protestant, even if you're agnostic, even if you're atheist, the Church formed the West.
The Church endured from antiquity into modernity.
No other organizations or institution in the West can claim that.
It is the West.
As Hilaire Belloc put it, the faith is Europe, Europe is the faith.
It is the West.
And so, if you want to transform the civilization, you've got to get to the heart of it.
And I suspect this woman has a natural longing.
She wants all the good stuff that comes with the faith.
But she doesn't want...
She doesn't want to make those decisions.
She doesn't want to tamp down her basest appetite.
She doesn't want to circumscribe her individual autonomy.
She's trying to have it all.
But you can't have it all.
You have to make choices.
You have to make certain exclusions.
Speaking of abortion, an Ohio city has just voted to make abortion a crime.
The City Council of Mason, which is just north of Cincinnati, voted on Monday, I think it was last Monday, to criminalize abortion.
Council members voted four to three to make the city, quote, a sanctuary for the unborn.
Now, Mason does not currently have any abortion clinics within the city limits.
The people who pushed for this ban said that now that there is a ban, no abortion clinics would be put into the city, so I like that as a preventative measure.
Some people will say that the city has no right to ban abortion.
Abortion is a federal right that was discovered in the Constitution in 1973, I guess written in Invisible Inc.
You'll hear leftists make that argument, and some kind of squishy types will make that argument, too.
Well, you know, look, I don't agree with the Supreme Court's decision, Roe versus Wade, but we can't just go around, you know, contradicting the court, and we need to fight it, and yeah, okay, whatever.
I think this is a great idea.
I think this is terrific.
Love it.
Keep it up, Ohio.
Keep it up, Mason.
They were right on just about every aspect of this.
First, to use the left's sanctuary hypocrisy against them.
The left loves to violate federal law and create sanctuary cities for illegal aliens, for foreign nationals who are living in our country in contravention of our laws.
But they won't do it for innocent little babies.
They are, in Mason, standing up for what is right, what is truly right, defending the right of life for the unborn, and they're going on the offense politically.
That's almost the most important part here.
It's not as important.
Obviously, the ban itself is very important.
Saving these lives in the future is very important.
But going on offense politically is something that we could all learn from.
Why are we always reacting to the left?
You're going to redefine marriage.
You're going to redefine sex.
You're going to change the bathrooms.
You're going to upend our culture.
You're going to ban certain speech.
Why?
Stop doing that to us.
How about we start doing some things?
How about we start setting the standards and the taboos?
How about we start using our political power?
I'll be discussing this later today at the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando.
Some people are getting tough.
Some people are standing firm.
A student at Yale Law School is doing that, which is really wonderful to see.
We covered this story a week or two ago.
I want to follow up on it, though.
There was a Yale Law student who sent out a letter.
He's a member of the Federalist Society, which is a at least somewhat conservative law society.
He happens to be a Native American student.
He sent out a letter inviting people to a party, and because he's a conservative, because he's in the Federalist Society, some people read the letter and pretended that it was racist or bigoted or whatever.
I think he made a pop culture reference to a trap house, which is a perfectly ordinary pop culture reference.
And this was then used by leftists on campus to say, he's racist.
You're not allowed to use that phrase, trap house.
I mean, they were just looking for an excuse.
And so he was called in by the diversity deans.
And the diversity deans said, the student recorded it, thankfully, so we had the recording.
The diversity deans said, listen, You were just accused of racism and it's not as bad for you as it would be for a white guy because you're Native American.
But look, you should just apologize.
We don't think you did anything wrong.
Obviously, you didn't do anything wrong.
But look, you don't want your career to be hurt.
You don't want your life on campus to be hurt.
You don't want people to start saying things about you.
You don't want to be called a racist.
So, here's what you're going to do.
Here's a letter we drafted up of an apology.
Look, we think it's bogus.
You should have nothing to apologize for.
But we drafted it up anyway and you're going to sign it, okay?
And this student He said no.
The student said no, I'm not going to sign it.
He has now said, quote, I don't believe that the now common ritual of compelled apology, complete with promises to grow and do better, their words, but ones I'm sure you've seen many times before, helps anyone or is even intended to.
If we continue to indulge this culture of performative denunciation, the very idea of an apology will lose its meaning.
Great, great point.
Great, great point.
What the Yale administrators are saying is that an apology is no big deal.
Oh, it's no big deal.
Look, you didn't do anything wrong, really, but, you know, these kids are offended, and look, you don't want to hurt your career, so just do it.
Just sign.
Just sign the letter.
We spent a long time drafting for you.
Just sign it.
It's not a big deal, and we can just move on.
It's not a big deal.
If it's not a big deal, why are the Yale diversity administrators so dead set on this kid signing it?
If it's not a big deal, why are these thugs, these diversity, inclusion, and equity thugs, threatening this kid's career if he doesn't sign, if it's not a big deal?
Because it is a big deal.
This is like when leftists say, or even some squished conservatives say, oh, just use the wrong pronouns.
Yeah, the guy is a guy, and he thinks he's a woman, and that's ridiculous, but just call him her.
What's the big deal?
I don't know what's the big deal.
Why...
If it's not a big deal, why are you so insistent that I use the word?
Don't worry, it's not a big deal, so it's cool.
So I'll call him him.
You can call him her if you want to, and that's fine.
No, it is a big deal.
Because words carry whole premises.
Why do they want it so bad?
And the idea of an apology will lose its meaning.
I mean, the kid makes a good point, too.
As the late Roger Scruton pointed out, society in many ways runs on Apologies.
Our ability to apologize to one another and have that apology accepted is a good measure of the health of society because it requires something of both parties.
When I apologize, when I ask forgiveness, I am sacrificing my pride.
I'm admitting that I did something wrong.
When you accept my apology, you are sacrificing your resentment.
Both of those things are valuable to us.
But then you do it, and then you move along together in society.
But we're not really allowed to do that anymore.
And young people are being really perverted with this kind of illogic.
I have to get to a story.
This really shocked me.
Speaking of young people.
A mother...
Has apparently locked her kid up in the house, effectively locked her kid up in the house since the start of the 15 days to slow the spread almost 600 days ago.
The mother just posted a video to TikTok or Instagram Reels or one of those where she has the little kid, the nine-year-old daughter, read the news that the kids can now get the vaccine.
And the kid almost breaks down in tears.
This is my daughter.
Hi.
She's nine.
She's nine.
We're about to blind react to something.
Okay.
What does that say?
Hold on, dear!
What does it say?
That the COVID vaccine for kids is...
Next week should be clear for kids until 5 to 11.
What does that mean for you?
I can go with my friends.
Yeah.
I can finally, you know, go outside.
Go to stores.
I'm excited.
I'm excited, Laura.
I thought I was going to be like in a couple months.
No, apparently it's next week.
I love you, Mom.
I love you too, Mom.
She's why you need to get vaccinated.
Okay.
She's why I need to get vaccinated?
The girl who statistically faces an almost 0% risk from the coronavirus, a girl in an age group that has an infection fatality rate of anywhere from 0.003% to 0.001% is why I need to get vaccinated even though the vaccine does not prevent me.
From transmitting the virus, according to the CDC, at the end of July?
That's why the vaccinated people are now supposed to keep wearing the masks?
That's why we're told the vaccine protects you against hospitalization and death, but does not necessarily prevent you from contracting or transmitting the virus?
The girl who is least at risk from the coronavirus that you have locked up in a house for almost 600 days...
Who is now giddy and hugging you because you might let her go outside next week.
That is madness.
And that is a form of child abuse that our politicians have pushed upon us and that gullible and cowardly and sick people have accepted.
And that, I know it seems a little disconnected, that is what this race in Virginia is about.
Okay?
The race in Virginia is about how we raise kids.
Do we raise them with the crazy racial theories and the sexual theories and CRT and the vaccine craziness and the COVID neurosis and the public health tyranny and the locking them away in a hermetically sealed cage and do whatever the state says?
Or do we raise them More in line with tradition.
More in line with human nature.
More in line with our own religious lights.
Which way?
Which way, Virginians?
Which way, America?
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