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A felon from Washington State made a series of mistakes when he shot himself in the testicles

and tried to hide the weapon, all while storing drugs in his butt.

Cameron Wilfrey Wilson, 27, was carrying a pistol in his front pocket while in Cashmere, Washington.

He was in an apartment on April 5th when the firearm accidentally discharged

and blew off one of his testicles.

Wilson, who is a 13.

It hurt to say that, Stu?

It did.

I could feel the pain.

Yeah.

Wilson, who is a 13-time convicted felon, told his girlfriend to dispose of the weapon before heading to the hospital.

When the ex-con finally went to the hospital.

Now, wait, hang on just a second.

Let me stop there.

Stu, why do you suppose he wanted that weapon

disposed of

being a 13-time felon.

There may be some criminal concerns there.

Right?

Like he doesn't have a right to own a gun.

Right.

And he also had already kind of disposed of his own weapon.

Yeah.

So

this is not a good day.

So when he went to the hospital, a balloon of drugs

slipped out of his anus

while he was being operated on by the doctor.

Now, I don't know how it just slipped out of his anus, but apparently it did.

Cops arrived at the hospital when alerted of the gunshot wound.

They searched his car where they discovered a bag of meth in the bloodstained jeans that he was wearing when he shot himself to death.

There are so many things that this guy's going to jail on.

They say men can't multitask.

No,

this is a really good.

As he was being processed at the County Regional Justice Center, Wilson was strip searched and another balloon of marijuana was found.

How much in it?

No,

I can't say it was found.

Let me quote the story.

Another balloon of marijuana slipped from his anus.

While in jail, he made a number of calls to his girlfriend and asked her not to cooperate with investigators.

Another crime.

That is the worst.

The convicted felon was charged with possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of meth, possession of a controlled substance in a correctional facility, and four counts of tampering with a witness.

Oh, wait a minute.

That's that.

I got to take issue with the possession in a.

What was it in a correctional facility?

I mean, yeah, that was a mistake.

Come on.

You had it in there long before.

Yeah, I mean, Your Honor, I was free when I put that in my butt.

Yes.

I think that's a legitimate defense.

I think so.

There's got to be an attorney will take that one.

Yeah, I think so.

I mean, we can cut him some slack on that one.

That's pro bono material, too.

I mean, that's just

wow.

You just, You really have to, at some point, it's like, you know, it's like those people that, you know, go on, you know, American Idol that somebody in their life didn't just say to them, you really suck at singing.

Somebody in his life needed to say, you're really not a good criminal.

I know you want to be a criminal, but you're really a bad criminal.

And it is one of those things, like criminal life is...

You only really get into it if you're good at it.

Or really theory, right?

I mean, like at some point, 13 times you start to think to yourself, I should apply my time to something else.

Like, I should apply to like a job and use like, because there's plenty of incompetent people in regular life that hold jobs down.

You could work for the federal government.

Yeah.

You could run for office.

You'll never go to jail.

You could have anything coming from your anus and you're fine.

Yeah.

And you have like a legitimate, like, you're above the law in some of these circumstances.

Remember when Harry Reid went on the Senate floor and he was like, look,

you know, Mitt Romney didn't pay his taxes.

He didn't pay his taxes, just blatantly lying with no evidence.

And later admitted it.

And later admitted it.

But he was on the Senate floor, so you can't really do anything about him.

I mean, if something were to slip out

when you were giving a speech on the Senate floor, I think you're exempt from any crime.

I think a 10-pound bag just slipped out of his butt while he was.

I was giving a speech.

I was giving a speech.

I was on the floor of the Senate.

I'm fine.

This would encourage some really interesting individuals to get into politics.

It would.

I think that's where we that's I think that's where we need to go.

So, if you were having a bad day,

just realize

most likely, I was going to say nothing, but most likely nothing is going to slip from your anus today.

And

you don't have to tell your girlfriend to hide a gun.

You're fine.

You're fine.

Today's a good day for you.

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I saw a story in the Huffington Post

about

pro-Trump drawings.

Are troll pro-Trump drawings art?

This drove me out of my mind.

They take

President Donald Trump has inspired a range of famous artists across different mediums to create works criticizing his administration and make a statement about his place in culture.

But there's also a lesser known group of amateur and professional artists who laud the president and depict him as a strong, sometimes superhuman leader.

Largely rejected from the established art venues, these pro-Trump images proliferate on social media and have staked out a place as the Trump administration's unofficial

iconography.

Okay.

So the premise of this article is: if you don't like Trump, you're a respected artist.

But if you do like Trump, you're not really an artist.

You're not doing art.

You're doing drawings.

You're an amateur drawer.

Okay, that's what you are.

A few months ago, we assembled a group of editors and reporters from our culture and politics team, some who are no longer with the company.

I love that.

Why?

Why are they not with the company?

We executed them.

They actually used

Trump stuff was good, so

they're no longer here

or the earth.

They're no longer here.

Right.

To discuss the pro-Trump art.

So

they go through

these artists.

And some of them are good.

Some of them are bad.

But, you know, like John McNaughton, you you know who John McNaughton is, right?

Yeah.

John McNaughton is a real artist and has done some really amazing religious paintings and everything else.

He's the guy who most conservatives will know

because he did the painting of, I think it was.

Obama, wasn't he standing on the Constitution and the founders were behind him weeping?

And he did a lot of different political art, but it's real art.

I mean, it's beautiful art.

He did something for the Underground Railroad as a fundraiser.

He's done

a lot of

famous art, if you're on the right.

But he never gets any credit because he's on the right.

This whole thing is

where they talk about the pro-Trump art.

It's just propaganda.

It's not art.

Really?

Because do you remember the Hope poster?

That's now hanging in which museum?

In Los Angeles?

One of the big museums is now hanging his work.

Now, that truly was propaganda.

That was released as street art, if I'm not mistaken, at first.

And it was used as propaganda.

It was based on propaganda.

And that one's art.

But

anything that makes Trump look good is just a drawing.

Yeah, I mean, it's

not surprising, of course.

Now, you, as the hundredth most important man in the world of art, as named by some really high-falutin art artists.

I don't even remember.

It's so high-falutin, I don't even remember which magazine it was.

That's actually legitimately happened.

It It really did.

Because you had correctly talked about the art at Rockefeller Center,

and they wanted to demean you and mock you by putting you as a hundredth.

You actually were a hundredth, though.

Yes, I was.

I was the most important man of art.

As someone who knows that, though, I mean, we all know, you obviously know what this world is, right?

Like, it's just a world to promote the hard left.

You know, the idea of political art at this point, the reason why

you can name a few of the conservative artists is because they're so rare.

It's like you know the story because it's a story, you know,

rarity makes it, yeah, Sabo, exactly.

Like when he comes out and he does one of his, his great posters and they, they show up at, you know, whenever there's a big democratic event somewhere,

you know about it and it's a big story because of the fact that it's so rare that someone actually takes that stand.

I mean, there's a lot of people who are conservative artists that just, you know, they don't get into that world.

Like we've met a bunch of people who are real real artists and known for their art.

However, they don't come out and state their political views.

No, I know one of my favorite artists who shall not be named

kind of at a request of him.

Please don't, please don't ever, please don't.

He's a big fan.

He listens every day.

He paints most of his stuff, and it goes for hundreds of thousands.

I can't afford one of his paintings.

I want one of his paintings really badly.

One of my favorite artists,

He sells for thousands and thousands of dollars.

He's a huge fan.

He sells a lot of stuff to, most of his stuff, to the left, to the hardcore left.

And they have absolutely no idea.

And his paintings are very American.

I love them because it's, do you know who I'm talking about, Stu?

They're very American, but not red, white, and blue America.

They're very, they're subtle in their America.

You know, when you think of American painters, you think of the eagle, you know, and the flag and a soldier and a jet flying someplace.

Not that.

He does this beautiful, beautiful art, but he can't be known.

He's like, I'm, I'm doomed.

If it ever comes out, I'm doomed.

He's in museums and everything else, and he's had to live in hiding.

That is horrible.

Absolutely horrible.

But if you go to museums, what you're seeing is, I mean, come on.

When I went, they took down the painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware

one year in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

And I went there specifically to take my kids through the art museum.

And one of the things I wanted to show them was that.

But I also went through all of their, you know, modern art and everything else.

I'm a fan of art.

And

we got to where the painting was supposed to be.

And they're like, oh, yeah, it's in a warehouse.

But you know what wasn't in a warehouse?

A bigger painting, and if you've ever seen Washington Crossing the Delaware, it's like 20 feet by, I don't know, 15.

It's a gigantic painting.

What wasn't in the warehouse was

a piece of art I like to call blue.

And I like to call it blue because I believe that was the name.

on the card blue.

Okay.

Now I went up to read the little card on this entire wall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art because I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to be.

And then I read blue.

And I'm like, well, yes, it is blue.

I think it's Sherman Williams number five.

I'm not sure.

But it was entirely flat blue.

It was on a wall I like to call eggshell white.

Now, at some point,

somebody, and you know this is happening, somebody went, I'm going to paint, I'm just going to paint this thing blue.

I'm just going to take a roller and I'm going to paint it blue.

I'm not talking about Jackson Pollock, where the splatters can be, I'm talking flat blue.

I'm looking at the painting now, Glenn.

You see it?

Wow, it's amazing.

It's blue.

It's well, that is, you're using a shorthand.

And you, because you're so familiar with the world of art, you feel comfortable doing that.

I will call it by its full name, Blue Panel 2.

Blue Panel 2.

Painted in 1977.

Yeah.

Now, I'm guessing that who's the artist there?

I'm pretending I don't know.

Ellsworth Kelly.

Ellsworth Kelly.

I'm guessing that Ellsworth Kelly was very, very popular on the left at the time.

I don't know.

That's interesting.

And

had at some point said to somebody, maybe his husband, maybe his wife, I'm not judging,

whatever it is, somebody that he really trusted and went,

I just sold this to a freaking museum.

Okay?

That's how stupid this whole system is.

I just sold this.

It's Blue Panel 2.

Can you understand Blue Panel 2 if you didn't see the original?

Yes, you can understand.

If you don't see Blue Panel 1, if you can see that.

Blue Panel 1 is a little lighter or darker than Blue Panel 2.

Now, would you like to hear what he was doing?

Not that you don't know, but for the audience.

Yeah, what he was trying to do.

As Blue Panel 2 suggests, he treated color and shape in his painting as synonymous and an integral with each other, in keeping with a prevalent mid-century philosophy that illusionism was a denial of painting flat essays.

Gosh, this guy spent more time coming up with what the meaning was.

Kelly's conflation of shape and color is especially evident in his inventive exploration of the shaped canvas.

In this case, a trapezoid that is nearly a parallelogram.

This design is based on collages he made on a postcard,

postcard views of the island of St.

Martin, which may account for the painting's seductive blue evocative of sky and water.

It's just blue.

Which is blue.

It's just a blue painting.

That's all it is.

That's all it is.

That's amazing.

I don't think I made a billion dollars out of it.

You You know what?

Get over yourself, Huffington Post.

Get over yourself.

It's a scam.

Everybody knows it's a scam.

Gee,

how come the ones that reflect the values of the left are in museums, and it's just a caveman drawing over here?

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I grew up in the Pacific Northwest where extreme weather was 20 days of sunshine.

The only thing that we had

in regards to natural disasters that I recall, I remember I was about 17 years old, I think, when Mount St.

Helens blew up, and I was on the other side of the state, and I heard it.

It shook the windows.

But on that,

really nothing.

I mean, we don't have a fly problem or a mosquito problem.

It's pretty sweet in the Pacific Northwest.

You

move around the country.

And you get a real sense of how different people are and how different the areas are.

And you start to appreciate weather.

I remember because we didn't, it rained all the time in Seattle, but if you have ever been in Seattle or lived in Seattle, you know it doesn't ever rain really hard, it's just always misty and drizzly.

And I remember 18 years old moving out to Washington, D.C., and people must have thought I was crazy.

I'm 18, I'm

in this rental apartment that I had an Apple box, a little like 12-inch screen TV.

I had a mattress and a refrigerator full of beer and macaroni boxes.

That was it.

And

it rained in August, and it rained like a Washington humidity thunderstorm.

I had never seen lightning before.

We have what's called,

I can't even remember now, sheet lightning.

It would be up above the clouds in Washington State, so you never saw a bolt.

And I stood out and, like an idiot, stood out in the rain just watching these bolts come down, thinking, This is unbelievable.

The one place that I have lived that scares the hell out of me is Texas.

Because they have one weather event that is completely unpredictable and so destructive, it's terrifying.

They're tornadoes.

When a tornado goes off here, and we're in

kind of a suburb of Tornado Alley,

when we have tornado warnings that happen, and when they happen,

at least for me, it still freaks me out in the family.

Means get into the center of the house.

Like, well, oh, okay, all right, the center of the house where there's no glass.

Oh, okay, sure, that's gonna.

I don't know if you know this, it's up above the house, it could set down in the middle of the house and suck us up into it.

And they are so random.

If you've ever seen the effects of a tornado, something on one side of the street can be absolutely fine.

And a corner of the house across the street is completely gone.

They jump, they jump fast, and the destructive power is unlike anything I've ever seen.

A massive tornado tore through Dayton, one of Ohio's largest cities, last night,

leveled homes, entire apartment complexes, knocked out power, knocked out water, tens of thousands of people, about 140,000

people in this area

trying now to figure out their lives as this tornado, massive tornado, just hopscotched across Ohio.

Last week, it was bad.

Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio now, destruction all across the country, Oklahoma.

And it's been a busy week for Mercury One.

And to tell us what we can do is Suzanne Grishman.

She is here.

She is the

executive director of Mercury One.

Welcome to the program, Suzanne.

How are you?

I'm good.

Good morning, Glenn.

So I I know you guys were out last week for the storms in Oklahoma.

What do we have going on and what do people need?

So it's been a busy week for our partners on the ground.

People need food.

They need water.

They are mucking out homes right now.

A lot of the areas have been flooded very badly in the Midwest.

But the trail, the devastation of destruction is really what's the worst right now on the ground.

We have Team Rubicon working real hard.

A lot of our veterans that volunteer their time through Team Rubicon, they're deployed all over the Midwest right now and they're responding.

For people who don't know what Team Rubicon is, this is the greatest charity.

It is, they're all veterans and these veterans, you know, they come home and they feel like they're not making a difference and they want to make a difference.

And Team Rubicon is usually the first on the ground and they're the last to leave.

There's a lot of people still on the ground with Team Rubicon with Hurricane Harvey still.

There's amazing homes.

It's amazing.

And so they come in and the first thing they do is mock out homes.

And if you've never had to do that, it's an awful experience to do it for somebody else's house.

I can't even imagine doing it for your own house.

But Team Rubicon is great.

Operation Blessing is there.

They're really food and disaster relief kind of

food disaster relief.

They actually are a volunteer organization as well.

So they go in with people and they work through some of the local churches there and they try to lift people up in a time of crisis and you can imagine a lot of trauma.

Minuteman Disaster Relief and City Impact.

What Mercury One does is we give 100% of whatever we collect to these charities.

We've vetted these charities.

We've worked with these charities.

We know that this is actually,

your money is going to the right place.

Nothing against the Red Cross, but

you're funding sometimes their phone system when you give to the Red Cross.

This, we know, 100% goes to these impact.

And

you can go to natural disasters if you want to just fund natural disasters.

We know that that money will go right directly to the people and not to some big institution.

And so we really need your help.

You can go to mercury1.org, donate to our humanitarian relief fund.

Did you see also,

Suzanne, there was a story that came out today that says, here it is, genocide of Christians reaches an alarming stage.

Christian persecution is now, quote, at near genocide levels.

This is according to a report in the BBC.

A lengthy interim study ordered by the British former secretary,

blah, blah, blah, says one in three people around the world suffer from religious persecution, with Christians being the most persecuted religious group.

That's crazy.

It is unfortunately the truth.

It is happening all around the world.

They're saying that nobody is talking about it, and they're not talking about it for politically correct reasons.

Which is the wrong reasons.

This is when you do stand up

and take a stand.

That's exactly right.

And I know we're doing a lot around the world on Christian persecution.

You can get involved on that at mercury1.org.

And one last thing: we do these pop-up museums,

and

the collection at Mercury One has grown is quite an amazing collection already, and it's about to get even bigger as we move forward.

But we're also partnering with other museums, the African American Museum in Dallas, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the Frontiers of Flight Museum, the Dallas Historical Society, the Old Red Museum, blah, blah, blah.

And

we've partnered with them to put together something called 12 Score and three years ago, based on Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Four Score and seven years ago.

It's now been 12 score and three years ago that our founders got together and said, hey, we have an idea for a country.

And Lincoln had a goal.

And Lincoln's goal was, can we actually do all men are created equal?

Can we free slaves?

It's been a fascinating journey.

And many people will focus on the really bad things about slavery, or they will take it out of context.

It's important that context is

put in around slavery so you really truly understand what was going on and how it affects us today.

But also, those who did something with their freedom, those who said, I'm not going to sit around.

I'm free now.

What am I going to do with it?

We look at the Gettysburg Address.

We'll be here, the Emancipation Proclamation coming.

That's amazing stuff that you will be able to see.

12 score in three years ago, the unfinished promise of unity.

And when does that happen?

So it's going to happen on the 29th and 30th of June, and then we'll be also here the 4th through the 7th.

So come spend your 4th of July weekend with us.

They can go on a tour with you too, Glenn.

I know.

David Barton is going to be giving tours.

I'm going to be giving tours.

Stu will give his usual crappy tour where he really doesn't know anything.

I'm just saying, if you don't want your kids to learn anything, you just want to have fun, go on the Stu tour.

That's what I do.

But anyway, grab your tickets now.

You can get them at mercury1.org

and just look for 12-scoring three years ago.

And come see us as we open up the studios again this year for a really fantastic

look at American history and the promise of

that has not been fulfilled yet, and what we have done in the past and what we need to do in the future going forward.

Thank you so much, Suzanne.

I appreciate it.

You're welcome.

All of this can be found at mercury1.org.

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You know,

what happened in the elections last week in Europe took a lot of people by surprise.

And it took people by surprise exactly the same way the Donald Trump win took people by surprise.

And it shouldn't.

Because what the EU is, is an artificial entity.

It was an entity that was maybe started with good intentions.

It was started because after World War II, they were like, okay, these countries, it's, you know, Belgium, you're not really even a country or a waffle house at best.

And, you know, we're just going to put you into one group.

Well, the Belgians are like, yeah, we do make waffles, but we also do a couple of other things that are really cool.

And

the EU was starting to erase those things and starting to call people names.

You're a racist if you were a proud Belgium.

You were a racist if you were proud of your Swedish flag.

Well, that has nothing to do with racism.

And this is by erasing and folding everybody into this artificial EU,

people started to push back on it.

Now, that doesn't mean that they hate France or hate Italy.

It means that they're proud of who they are and they don't like this artificial argument

that they're racist.

That's only making things worse.

No,

we just don't want to be controlled by a foreign body.

We don't want the Germans telling us in France what to think or do.

We're different.

Doesn't mean we hate Germany, but because it's been set up this way and because the media and everybody else has been saying, well, you're a racist if you believe this, the Bubba effect is coming into play in Europe.

The Bubba effect is really happening.

And you can see it in things like

Nazis punching Nazis.

We all know punching Nazis, punching anybody is wrong.

Yeah, but you don't get that reaction from the left because they say, well, you know, punching someone.

I mean, you're like, look, the Nazis deserved it.

Sure, punching people is wrong, but

they deserved it.

And someone needed to stand up.

And you're not going to step in and tell us we can't do that.

And that is the effect that's, you know, it's been long rumored that it would happen to somewhere, you know, in some southern

city.

And after some, you know,

effect, a bunch of racists would be involved in it.

And it's been the opposite.

It's been in

San Francisco where you're seeing it happen.

But the point is, people get to that level where they don't care anymore.

And

they know that, for instance, are Nazis a problem?

Yeah.

Are Nazis really one of the biggest problems in the United States?

No.

But there's a rally scheduled this

weekend for the KKK.

It was in the UK.

I mean, it was headlines everywhere.

I thought it was in Dayton.

I thought it was in Ohio someplace.

Like nine people show up.

Nine people.

Nine.

Endless coverage.

Previewing an event where nine people show up.

Now, there should be zero people.

We all realize that, but you can't account for stupidity that much.

I mean, like, you can't, you're not going to be able to find, you know.

There are racists.

There will always be racists.

There will always be racists.

And do we like them?

No, we don't.

But we don't blow it out of proportion.

And that's what everything, that's everything right now.

Everything is blown out of proportion.

And what happened in Europe is happening here and is going to continue to happen on a bigger and bigger scale until we either get it or destroy ourselves.

Let's take abortion.

Where are most people on abortion?

Most people are, look, I mean, I don't wanna, if there's rape or incest, I don't

I, I, yes, it's a baby, and I don't want to even think of it that way.

Most people,

and I'm giving the benefit of the doubt on this, because I don't think this is most people, but it's close, but I'm going to throw the scale in their favor.

Most people are safe, rare, and legal.

That's where most people are.

And legal for a short period of time.

Short period of time.

Short period of time.

When, you know, when you're into 25 weeks,

dude, you've already carried the baby.

What kind of scars are you?

I mean, hello, what are you talking about?

So, if you were raped or there was incest, and

you know, you that's where most people are.

That's not where

that's where I want to be,

but it's not really where I think I am.

I, I, life is life,

and I'm changing on that, and people are changing, And if you have, when you stop changing, you're dead.

You're either dead physically or you're dead mentally.

If you're not changing, if your views aren't evolving, someplace in you, you're dead.

Why get up in the morning?

You're not learning anything new.

So

the problem is.

Is that just like the EU, you are either in the EU and for the EU, or you're a racist.

That's not true.

That is not true.

And people have had enough of it.

And it's not going to end in a good way

when it comes to abortion.

You either hate women or you're for whatever the latest is

right before birth, right after birth, two years after birth.

You're either for that

or you hate women.

That's not true.

And here's why it's effective for the left, because they always make it about that one person.

They make it about a story.

For instance, does anybody think giving your kids

access to

gender and hormone treatment is a good thing as a parent?

Does anybody think that?

Now, what they want to do after they went, your brain stops developing, you're fully developed, I think, at 24,

you know, legally 18.

Okay, you're on your own, you can do your own thing, whatever.

But I would caution that you don't do anything when you're a kid that lasts forever.

We don't let our kids go into a tattoo parlor, you know, at five or six or eight.

Why?

Why?

Because it's permanent.

Don't make any permanent decisions.

Don't let your kids get married at nine.

Why?

It's not about sex.

It's about they're not fully developed.

They can't make that decision.

Now, here's Gillette framing

gender therapy in a completely different way.

And they, when they do this,

how do you argue?

Here's, yes, the sexist razor company trying to show you just how evil you are.

Listen.

Growing up, I was always trying to figure out what kind of man I wanted to become, and I'm still trying to figure out what kind of man that I wanted to become.

I always knew I was different.

I didn't know that there was a term for the type of person that I was.

I went into my transition

just wanting to be happy.

I'm glad I I'm at the point where I'm able to shave.

South, south, north, north, east, west, never in a hurry.

Right.

Now don't be scared.

Don't be scared.

That's his problem.

The problem is about being confident.

Oh, you're doing fine.

You are doing fine.

I'm at the point in my manhood where I'm actually happy.

It's not just myself transitioning, it's everybody around me transitioning.

Whenever, wherever, however it happens, your first shave is special.

Gillette, the best a man can get.

Now, how do you argue about that?

You see that, and if you say, wait a minute, wait a minute, can we not jam transgenderism down everybody's throat?

You're immediately a hater.

Why?

Well, the feeling of that is nice, right?

It's a dad and his kid, and they're having a nice moment.

And, you know,

how can you fight against that?

So I read this story.

I didn't see that.

That's the first time I've seen the commercial, but I read the story.

And when I read the story,

it was an anti-Gillette stance.

Okay.

But as I read the story and I read the transcript, they're selling love.

That's what they're selling.

They're selling love.

Just like they sold love.

Who are you to judge?

You're going to stop?

This is about love.

Love always wins.

No,

no.

Gay marriage was not about love.

If it was about love, we should have said the federal government shouldn't have anything to say about anybody's marriage.

Because love, if you love a tree and you want to marry a tree, marry a tree.

It's not the government's business.

But it wasn't about love.

It was, in some particular cases it was about love.

It was at the individual level in most cases about love.

But in the political arena,

at the level of the activist, it wasn't.

It was about change, not a change in me, about change in everyone else.

It's a change of everyone else.

You now must agree with me.

So we've just taken you must agree with me gay marriage is wrong to you must agree with me gay marriage is right.

Neither of those is good

because it rules out people being different.

I may not hate people who are gay.

I may not hate people who are

who are married,

but that doesn't mean that

I want that in my life, that I want to teach that in my life.

It means I'm tolerant of people who are different.

But are the people who are different than me tolerant of me?

In my particular case, yes, unless they are politically motivated, yes.

Every gay person I personally know, we don't have have a problem at all.

None.

Married, they have children.

I don't care.

They're my friends.

That's the way it is with most Americans.

But

you are made to feel like you hate.

If you're not for abortion in the extreme,

you hate women.

If you're not for hormone therapy, for your six-year-old, eight-year-old, fifteen-year-old, you hate people who are different than you.

That's not true.

That's not true.

If you don't agree with them on abortion up until the last minute of birth,

you're pro-life, which means you're a hater.

And I want to talk to you a little bit about how that has been flipped around on us so much

that now

people want to be

pro-choice,

even though they're really not.

They're more pro-life than a lot of Republicans.

But because this media has made this, it has done such an effective job

that you, if you are truly pro-life and are willing to say it, you are made to feel completely alone, even though many of those people who are pro-choice

may, in some cases, be more pro-life than even you are,

but they fail to recognize it, and they certainly won't admit it.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Breaking news from the Supreme Court in the last hour or so.

We're going to do our best to wade through this.

We think it's both good and bad for

pro-life people.

The bad part is the Supreme Court decided not to even consider

an overturning of a law that was passed by Mike Pence when he was the governor of Indiana that said you cannot abort based on sex,

well, gender.

I think disability is in there.

Disability, which is really remarkably bad, and race, I think, is in there too.

So you can't say, oh, it's a white baby.

I don't want a white baby.

You can't say, oh, well, they're handicapped, so I don't want a handicapped kid.

They've overturned that.

So you can do those things, which

I don't understand yet.

We haven't read Clarence Thomas concurred with that, but it's a long

statement.

It's like 25 pages long, so we haven't read it yet, but we will by tomorrow.

And I'll have that for you because I don't understand that.

Yeah, and they're basically race, sex, and disability are the three main ones.

And they're basically saying they have no opinion on that.

They didn't take it up.

You would have an opinion on that.

As an average person, you would have an opinion on that.

Yeah, you know, there's complicated reasons why they do these things.

And so not necessarily a bad ruling, but you would have wanted a ruling in, you know, you want them to hold up the law.

So that will now have its legal challenges on its own.

Now,

the Supreme Court did

overturn an overturning

of the law that Mike Pence did on fetal remains.

Yeah, so just to make it understandable, it went the good way for pro-life people on the fetal remains part of the law, which basically says, hey, it's a person, so you kind of have to bury it with all the laws of burying a person, cremate or bury, right?

You can't just, I don't know, you know, sell it for parts or, you know,

put it on, you know, whatever they're doing, whatever, whatever weird, twisted thing Planned Parenthood is doing these days with the remains, they have to bury it like it's a person.

And it's a respectful thing, obviously.

They don't want that to happen because they're trying to argue it's not a person.

So it went to

a big, that's

yeah, and it's interesting because I think one of the things it does is it puts another

burden on Planned Parenthood, right?

So if they're having 10,000 abortions at a clinic, they now have to have 10,000 cremations or 10,000 burials.

But that's not what they really argued.

They didn't argue it was an undue burden, which is one of the reasons why it seemingly went through.

Basically, the law was,

does the government have any

reason to look at how people are buried?

And they said, yes, they do.

And so they upheld the law.

So that one, I think, is good.

And I think it is good anytime Bland Perrin has another burden to deal with.

You know, the way they approach that, I kind of wonder, does the federal government have any place?

Well, remember, this is

a state law.

You know, so that's a whole other situation.

So there's been some good and some bad on that.

There's still a few big cases.

We can go over this.

Maybe we should spend some time time on this because we're getting to the end of the session here.

We're going to have some of the bigger rulings coming out.

Before we move off of abortion, let's just wrap up what we were talking about on abortion and how

we are focused on the wrong things.

And even people who are

really, truly pro-life say they're pro-choice.

Because

they don't want to say that they're pro-life.

Yeah, and they are viewing it differently.

Yeah.

A friend of mine was talking about the pro-choice, pro-life thing, and he says he's pro-choice.

And you investigate these things and you realize that the people even that say that they're pro-choice are so far away from where the debate is actually happening and certainly so far away from anything the Democratic Party is advocating for these days.

He said it was basically the first trimester, which is kind of where Roe versus Wade was.

That's where the ruling initially was,

unlimited ability to get an abortion in the first trimester.

And

he was talking about cognitive abilities and how far along it was.

And as you talk to him, you're like, well, the position he's describing, and what a lot of pro-choice people are describing, is something considerably to the right of what most Republicans are trying to do in their states.

Most, the typical Republican position, and this is different than

the last week or so of debates where people were talking about Alabama going for six weeks.

Most Republican states are trying to get a ban on abortion at 20 weeks.

20.

And what we're talking about here with people who consider themselves pro-choice, they're saying, well, I think that it should be allowed up to 12 weeks or 10 weeks.

I mean, the polling on it is really incredible.

As we talk about the first trimester, about 60% of Americans think abortion should be legal in some form.

And the reason why, I truly believe, is because it's been drilled into our head.

Rape, incest.

I don't want to make that decision.

I'm not that person.

It is the emotional argument there.

Right.

And so I think that is the argument of compassion, people think.

And

it's normal, I think, to be there because you want to say, and it's actually in some ways very American to be there.

I'm not in your situation.

Right.

I don't want to make that call.

And that's what people, because it has not been made about life.

The left gets all libertarian, are you?

Yeah.

Oh, God.

We don't want anything to do with our body.

I mean, sure, we want to micromanage this type of straw and how much soda you drink every single day.

Yeah.

But we don't want to be involved in your health decisions.

Sure, we want to take over the entire healthcare system.

But gosh, you and your doctor, that relationship is so important.

It's so insultingly fake.

I mean, they don't argue this point on any other issue.

But it works for a while.

Yeah.

It works because if they are there and you keep the argument there,

most people are there.

If you can do that.

Yeah.

So 60% of people in the first trimester think abortion should be legal.

In the second trimester, generally legal or not, only 28%.

So you're down to an incredibly unpopular position.

So you're an incredibly, you are very much alone if you believe in the second trimester.

But the word trimester means there's another trimester that's coming.

And you're at 13%.

13% of people believe in the stated Democratic position, right, that you should be able

to

have an abortion in the third trimester generally.

That's incredibly terrible.

And this is a position, can you believe that they have 24 candidates and they can't find one who's going to side with the 80?

I think it's 84 to 13 technically.

84% of people who believe third trimester abortion should be illegal.

They can't find a person.

There's not one of the 20 two dozen candidates.

You can't find somebody who's going to stand up and say, yeah, by the way, that third trimester thing, that's a little nuts.

Nobody.

And all they can do is find people who come out and say, well, look, five minutes before,

before birth, yes, it's the woman's choice.

For any reason, the woman's choice.

That is,

I mean, and I think a huge problem because, number one,

people want to describe themselves, oddly to me, as pro-choice, even when they're taking positions to the right of where George W.

Bush was or where,

you know, where most Republican states are, right?

Like, people want to be able to say that they're pro-choice instead of pro-life.

And in a way, it's, it's, I mean, I would not certainly

consider someone who's for abortion in the first trimester to be pro-life, but when you look about the scale of debate right now, most of the debate's happening in the ninth month of pregnancy, where there's supposedly a controversy and isn't.

And then the rest of it, people are like, well, okay, 20 weeks, that's a Republican position.

Every time that gets trotted out, the media beats on them like they're psychotic.

They just want to steal women's ovaries and use them for sport.

And it's like, well, that's not what's happening at all.

They're ovary pool with ovaries.

Yes.

It's fun.

Ovary pool?

Ovary pool.

I figured you'd play before because you're an evil conservative.

Right, yeah.

So, I mean, they want to play ovary billiards.

That's one way to go.

But in reality, the conversation is to the, you know, the reality of the situation is if you could, if you went with all these Republican states and they said 20 weeks, you would get rid of

a massive amount of some of the most horrific things we allow as a society.

And it would not, you know, what the job wouldn't wouldn't be done.

And people will say, well, it's just a Trojan horse.

You're trying to get no more abortion.

It's not a Trojan horse.

I'm telling you, it's right there.

I'm telling you, that's what I'm going for.

Absolutely.

I consider this, all of these things, a step towards never having another one of these happen.

And that's why people will say they're pro-life because they get bogged down

pro-choice.

Yes.

Because they get bogged down in that first six weeks.

And they'll be like, I, you know, I don't want to make that decision.

And the left will say, well, they're just trying to get rid of it all entirely.

And they're stuck there at that point of compassion.

And because they are compassionate, Americans are compassionate people.

They will look at people who say, yeah, the night before.

Yeah, go ahead.

Kill the baby the night before.

Kill him.

Let him die after birth.

If we tried to kill him and we didn't kill him, we can let him die.

What they'll say to themselves is, that's not, that's not real.

That's not going to happen.

Yeah.

That's not.

it's just, people aren't going to do that.

No, no.

People are doing that.

People are shouting their abortions.

People are happy about abortions.

And so they live in this safe but rare kind of world where they're like, it's rare and it should be safe and it should be legal.

And so

I don't want to be pro-life because that means, you know, that

it's all going to be back alley abortions.

And so they get stuck there.

That point is really, it bothers me because, I mean,

I've heard people say this before, like, oh, well, look, you're talking about these last-minute abortions.

There's almost none of these things that happens.

It's like 1% to 2% of abortions.

That's one way of thinking about it.

And I bet that way makes you feel good.

How about this other way?

How many 9-11s are you willing to excuse?

Six, seven, eight, ten?

Because that's what we're talking about.

We're talking about tens of thousands of babies that could be born in weeks that are fully formed in the womb that you're killing.

So yeah, you can say one to two percent because that feels a lot better than saying seven or eight 9-11s.

I mean,

it feels a lot better.

But let's just say all we did was save the 20,000 kids that were killing within the last few weeks of pregnancy.

And by the way, there's a big story while you're outguinned.

The NPR

has their language of how you're supposed to talk about abortion.

You might have caught a little bit of that.

The one thing they did say in there was, don't call them rare because we don't know how many of them occur.

That's NPR.

All of that was all left-wing propaganda, except that one point.

They said, don't call late-term and third-term trimester abortions rare because we don't know if they're rare.

So we know we're talking about tens of thousands.

We don't know

how many there actually are.

And even if it was just that, if you could just get off this like little debate thing where you're saying, well, I don't know.

Donald Trump seems to not want them, so I want them.

If you can get past that sort of thing, you could save tens of thousands of actual children.

And wouldn't that be great?

And you know what?

You can go

in front of Congress and say, well, what about these kids that are in cages in the shiny blankets?

They aren't being treated as well as we should on the border.

That's a great point.

Seems secondary to the tens of thousands of kids that are dying.

Seems secondary.

You know, get rid of that first.

Then come talk to me about the color of their blankets.

It's the only way you could

argue about the color of the blankets because they are children.

And

we hear from the left all the time: if we can just save one,

it's worth it.

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