The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott,
just signed basically, the most
extreme anti abortion legislation,
currently in the United States.
It's known as the heartbeat law,
although, I would really love,
if it would stop being known as
that because,
that;s scientific nonsense.
It amounts to an outright ban
on abortion,
as many women are not aware of that
there they're pregnant at the six
week mark that it would
actually ban abortions set.
It would also allow any private
citizen to sue doctors or abortion
clinic employees who would perform
or help arrange for the procedure.
So it's not just that it's based on
something that's
totally unscientific.
It's emotional manipulation to
talk about this as being about
heartbeats.
It also allows a country full of
Karen's to personally involve
themselves in trying to shut down
these clinics and
get these doctors put behind bars.
Now that is now law in Texas across
all of Texas as massive
populous state in some areas of
Texas is actually worse though.
So Texas chapters of
Planned Parenthood and
the ACLU recently filed a lawsuit
against Lubbock, Texas.
Where voters approved
a sanctuary for
the unborn ordinance this month.
The rule effectively bans all
abortions in the city of
almost 260,000 residents.
And I would like to at least give
them credit for honesty, because
this stuff about 20 weeks or
14 weeks or heartbeats or whatever,
is nonsense.
They're at least in Lubbock doing
what the Republicans really want to
do, which is totally get rid of it.
To say that more than a half a
century of Supreme Court precedent
and Roe V Wade and all of us.
People have born and lived and died
under a constitutional guarantee
the reproductive rights, we're done
with that, for whatever reason,
because we have the power to do it.
In our base likes that or
because we honestly believe that
this is what Our virulent form of
conservative Christianity requires
we're going to ban it.
It's going to be wiped out and
as of right now in Texas, it is
effectively that way right now.
>> Okay, well, there's going to
be some twists and turns to what
I'm going to say here.
One I'm actually going to give,
John's going to hate this, Donald
Trump some credit in this story.
All right,
we'll get to that in a second.
But I want you to know that there's
a more absurd part of this law.
So the six weeks means basically
we're ending abortion as John
explained, right.?
But that's what Republicans said
they were going to do.
Did you think they were lying?
So if you don't agree with that
don't vote for Republicans.
So it doesn't have a constitutional
problem?
Yes, might the service Supreme
Court now overrule Roe V Wade?
Yes, and then it'll be a political
issue and then a lot of folks
will be enraged.
You should be, but understand
the consequences of voting for
Republicans.
They believe in big government that
intrudes in your personal life
in the most personal way you could
possibly imagine.
They literally want the government
to go inside your body and
dictate what you do with it.
So that's who republicans are,
they're loathsome.
But if you like that, if you say,
I love it when they regulate what I
can and can't do with my own body,
I hate freedom.
I'm one man who hates having any
freedom at all.
I can't wait to give away a choice
about my body and my entire life,
my entire life to a bunch of
Republican politicians
who have never met me.
Okay, well didn't vote for
Republicans, right?
And by the way, they also hate gay
people, they also tell you what
kind of sex to have, etc.
And they're also amazingly,
here is contraception.
So you like these idiotic barbaric
laws and with these cavemen that
you vote Republican, that's clear.
But the second part of this law
says that anybody in Texas can sue
doctors or anyone that's a part of
a facility that provides abortions.
If they hear that they're doing
abortions past six weeks.
>> How is that legal?
>> That's not a thing, so this is
the modern Republican Party.
So the anti choice,
anti abortion wing of the party has
been around forever, right, so
that's not modern.
The second half this legislation is
the modern version where they go,
well normally you have to wait to
sue someone civilly is if you were
hurt, right?
This is not criminal action,
this is civil action.
John gets something to me and
so I'm suing him to get him to stop
doing it or
pay me damages, etc, right?
In this case nothing
happened to you.
You claim you have information
there's somebody else got
an abortion at that clinic and
you sue the doctors.
But that's not recognized in
American law,
that's not how it works.
I don't know how to describe that,
because it's makes no sense.
It's like I don't even
have an analogy,
that's how nonsensical it is, okay?
And Republicans know it.
You think Republican politicians or
the governor that sign that don't
know that this is not the American
form of government?
They know that, right?
Like, who cares?
Because we're not attached to logic
anymore and that's why the MAGA
guys are like, ha ha, we live
rent free inside your heads, right?
because he just can't figure out
how dumb we are.
[LAUGH] >> But that's true and
it bothers you that we don't care
about facts or logic [LAUGH] Yeah,
it does kind of bother me.
[LAUGH] Right?
And the fact that 40% of this
country has lost his mind is
maniacal and doesn't even care
about the concept of logic.
It's just an amazing phenomenon and
this is yet another example.
>> Yeah, it's bizarre,
I don't know what standing these
people would have.
And an idiot might think that
putting in the thing about allowing
you to sue them would then provide
some cover for the overall law by
changing the concept of standing.
But no that's not how
the constitution works either,
none of it makes any sense.
Credit to them I guess for so
many of the things the republican
party has tried to do Especially
when it comes to women has seemed
ripped from the pages of
the handmade Maids tale.
But I've read The Handmaid's Tale
and the testaments.
There's nothing about people
being able to sue clinics
that they're not involved in.
So at least they're experimenting,
they're coming
up with something new.
I do also want to reassure a lot of
Americans and especially our
international viewers.
You might look at this and
think, there is something seriously
wrong with Texas and
they're very much is this is their
government partially as a result of
gerrymandering and all that.
But this isn't actually
representative of what Texans think
about reproductive rights.
In a recent survey about 40% of
respondents, they're identified as
pro life and 41% as pro choice and
those are obviously loose labels.
They can refer to a lot of things,
but I don't think the pro choice
people believe that there should be
no abortion under any circumstances
which effectively is what this
produces.
So you have a very split population
and what's your law as a result of
a split population.
Is it unity and bipartisanship that
the republicans say they want?
No, it's the most extreme
legislation in the entire country.
Pick a red state,
they're worse than that,
even though their elections
are within a couple points of
flipping blue in any given case,
and yet, this is what we get there.
>> You ever noticed?
I mean, isn't it amazing that
American media doesn't
tell you this?
That whenever Democrats in office,
we hear nonstop unity and
bipartisanship.
Whenever Republicans hold office we
never hear about unity and
bipartisanship.
John's right in the coverage
of this Texas issue.
I've not heard one instance of
anyone in the media saying how
there's evenly split on this issue
in Texas.
And yet the Republicans did not
seek unity or bipartisanship.
>> Yeah, >> Because nobody would
even think that of course they're
going to see unity or
bipartisanship.
That's for idiot Democrats,
when we sucker them into agreeing
with Republicans even when they won
the republicans aren't that stupid.
I just told you how maniacally
detached from reality that
they have become an even they're
not stupid enough to do unity of
bipartisanship against
themselves when they're in power.
So we're stuck between dumb and
dumber in this country in terms of
the political parties.
Now back to Trump.
Now why give Trump credit on this?
>> I don't know, just don't.
>> [LAUGH] Well, I'm going to,
because I'm fair and honest.
So what Trump started was
a rebellion against
the establishment.
Now it was in the form of
a maniacal, egotistical con man who
lives nonstop and is a buffoon but
the phenomenon is real and
it's hard.
So this story reminded me of when
Mitch McConnell went on the Senate
floor and said if the democrats
killed the filibuster, here's all
the things we're going to do for
whoever in charge.
And he listed the wish list of all
the Republican voters,
including getting rid of abortion.
Which then led us to ask
the question, then why didn't you
do that when you were in charge?
And the reason is because there
was only use that as political
gimmicks, and the only thing they
actually want to do is tax cuts for
the rich.
Now, Trump was the person who was
in charge, he could have done those
things he chose not to either and
he also chose to give tax cuts for
the rich.
So he went along with all the
republicans so don't get me wrong.
Again con man, the worst of
the worst, all of that, but
that rebellion Israel, and
like it or not, he's the one that
started the rebellion,
at least on the right wing side.
And so now that is spreading like
wildfire and so now in states like
this, they're the voters
are saying, the Republican voters.
Now we're tired of you not doing
what we want now I'm completely
against what the Republican voters
want in Texas, okay?
But they're at least saying, no,
I'm tired of you just telling me
yeah, that energy company
that killed us during the freeze,
they're awesome and you got
a couple million bucks in you.
And that barely got covered
by the media because the media is
awful right?
And I don't know that a lot
of people know about that but
they weren't excited by that.
It's not like Republicans in Texas
were like, yes,
we froze to death the way to
go governor Abbott, right?
Maybe they were excited by cultural
issues and hey,
took the mask off earlier, etc.
But when he does this,
they're like, there you go.
Okay, so even though I think this
law is insane and wrong, at least
it is the beginning of some portion
of our electorate saying,
you better serve us.
Otherwise there's going
to be political consequences.
The right wing has begun that and
unfortunately it was started by
the worst of people, Donald Trump.
The left wing has barely started
it, I'm being honest with you guys.
Even though I'm on the left,
I wish it was better.
Our rebellion is a little bit later
than their rebellion,
our rebellion is way more logical.
It's a thousand times more
reasonable, right?
But I think that's
a phenomena thoughts.
>> I guess.
>> [LAUGH] I got an I guess out of
John [LAUGH] I get a credit for
Trump.
>> I mean, yes, they do expect them
to deliver on some of the insane
things that right wing media has
trained them to watch in lieu of
solutions to their economic crises.
So filtered through nonsense and
ignorance and hatred and
xenophobia.
They have a won and they expect
it to be delivered on that is true.
>> Yeah, whereas Democratic voters
will get our asses handed to us 99
out of 100 times and we'll go back
and go no, those are great.
Don't disagree, don't do that, we
just have to support them harder,
we have to support them harder.
Joe Joe Biden wage to collapse
on $15 minimum wage I'm supporting
you even harder, right?
And so honestly, up and
Adam left wing you guys kind of
suck at this rebellion thing.
And we gotta get way better at
it as obviously, you saw an Israel,
Palestinian issue it has begun on
some issues.
Now progressives boldly challenging
the establishment of their
own party.
It's about damn time, on this one
you could learn a lesson or
two from the Republicans just minus
the lunacy.
>> Yeah, so form a Chi tea party,
basically.
[LAUGH] >> I don't know that
I would frame it that way.
[LAUGH]