In DC so just today Capital police arrested
34 abortion rights demonstrators for blocking a road in DC.
And among those 16 representatives, 16 lawmakers including representative
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Representative Ilhan Omar, representative Cori Bush,
representative Rashida Talib and representative Ayanna Pressley.
So the squad plus the people you might imagine and
here's a little bit of that arrest what we do.
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She's carried away to the sound of the beat their little drum circle.
That was Alexandria Ocasio Cortez being carried away with
another activist alongside her.
She was in handcuffs there.
And this is representative where she just leave putting out a statement.
She was also arrested.
She writes civil disobedience has always been part of our history and
fight for change this moment and the fight for women's and
reproductive rights calls for it.
The fight is far from over and
we must push forward with bold action to protect and preserve our rights.
We won't back down.
So they're putting their bodies on the line.
Meanwhile Jill Biden is saying things like what are you gonna do next little
girl by the way she said that to her granddaughter who also went out and
protested recently abortion rights.
And the abortion bans and she said, cute, what are you doing next?
That was fun [LAUGH].
I just amazing.
Two quick notes it's not all doom and gloom on the state level.
Minnesota has recently struck a judge struck down numerous state abortion
restrictions.
The judge found that several of the laws which were enacted over decades violated
the Minnesota constitution which enshrines abortion rights.
Again, we're back to state rights here.
States rights, so Minnesota did that now.
Michigan collected tons of signals 750,000 signatures.
And so abortion rights now poised to go before Michigan voters this fall as
hundreds of thousands signed the petition.
It broke records.
They want to put that into their state constitution.
These are Midwest Bluish mostly Blue states, but
especially on abortion rights, absolutely overwhelmingly for them.
And if it's been kicked back to the states, states are trying to
buck up to to not throw women and other people under the bus.
>> Yeah, so I love this development in terms of the protests.
So progressive activists have been trying to get
influential Democrats to do something for decades now.
And civil disobedience is top of the list when it comes to issues like this.
And up until now we've gotten a wall of no, no, no, no, no, no.
You guys go out there and we'll privately mock you and
tell the reporters not to cover you,
we're not gonna put our precious asset on the line, but now we have just Democrats.
And now we have progressives in Congress, and
progressives actually want to fight Republicans.
Establishment Democrats love Republicans and they like republican Joe Biden likes
Republicans way more than he likes his own voters way more.
I mean, this is Mitch McConnell said that the chad MEREDITH nomination,
the extremist right wing judge that is anti choice,
that Biden was going to put on the federal bench.
McConnell said didn't even ask for anything,
joe just did it as a sign of personal friendship,
as a gesture as a gesture of friendship, because Joe Biden loves mitch McConnell.
He loves him, his own voters, he couldn't give a rat's ass about, okay, but sorry,
now there's progressives in Washington and so they're taking action.
They're doing civil disobedience and I love it.
And by the way, mainstream media liars, okay, you always portray
progressives as not democratic enough, which is the height of absurdity.
No, they're actual Democrats.
And one of the ways that they show that is they would like to fight the other side.
The other side is Republicans.
I know if you're in the press, you're taught to love bipartisanship.
When corporate Republicans and corporate Democrats make out and
they make a little corporate subsidy Bill baby.
That's when you're like the happiest guys alive, you're like, yes,
finally, corporations win again and again, yes, bipartisanship.
Progressives are fighting Republicans, [INAUDIBLE] How dare you don't
you know that the job of the Democrat is to lose and
to surrender to Republicans know, we don't know that.
And if you're an establishment and Democrat get the hell out of our way,
which is by the way, 90% of the Democratic Party get out of the way, get out of
the fight way so we can get into the fight and fight those Republicans.
So thank you AOC to leave and all the others for
being actual Democrats and for actually caring.
I mean you would Democratic leadership.
I mean they might do this like many months from now with Kente cloth and
a bono poem in their hand as like if they realize it's good optics and
then they can send an email fundraising off of it.
Right, but
otherwise you're never gonna see them take any action to fight Republicans.
Nothing, nothing at all.
The only thing Democratic leadership has done since Roe got overturned was to help
anti choice legislators.
That's not hyperbole.
Nancy Pelosi helped to put quay are Jim Clyburn helped to put her back
into congress.
Claire is anti choice.
That's a fact.
He voted to defund planned parenthood among many other terrible votes.
And Joe Biden helped to put try to put an anti choice judge on the federal court.
That the only thing they've done is to help the other side.
>> Yep. >> Democratic leadership is the they're
the worst people on the planet cuz the Republicans might be monsters.
But these idiot Democratic leaders are like how do we help those monsters?
>> 100% and I'll just say that Nancy Pelosi as recently as 2016 was
saying that abortion rights shouldn't be a purity test for Democrats.
Yeah, you can be anti choice and still a Democrat.
No, no you don't get to do that.
Sorry, not anymore.
And the new progressive leadership that is coming up is not afraid to say the word,
abortion is not afraid to link it to broader maternal health care.
Is not afraid to be the ones on the front lines of things like universal
family leave of all of Medicare for all cuz of course this is an access issue.
This is a healthcare issue.
So my God, I just wish they would sit there asses down and think about and
like look at what look at to the beast that they've handed us to.
They've walked us into the mouth of these murderers and
now they wanna wash their hands of what they've done.
I hate, I mean, you're absolutely right.