Okay, let's turn now to just the worst thing, this is,
this is like almost a spiritual follow up update to the Dr Oz story.
You'll know what I'm talking about in just a minute.
Let's talk about Bo Hines, congressional candidate.
I don't think we've ever mentioned on the show before.
He apparently name is bo hines, sorry for
interrupting his name is Bob Heinz, but it's his real name, Bo Hines.
He's a 27 year old congressional candidate.
Young candidates are becoming more common, but in this guy's defense,
he comes equipped with a lot of experience.
He was a college football player and then he briefly worked for
a couple of republicans and then that's it.
Anyway, in campaigning in a year where roe v wade has been utterly annihilated.
A lot of these candidates are having to be careful about how they talk about abortion
and access to abortion.
Bo Hines is also being careful, He has an idea for
how to sort of compromise between two different sides.
He thinks that abortion should be unlawful except in cases where a mother's life
is at risk.
Okay, so that seems pretty extreme.
He thinks victims of rape and incest though, should be allowed to get
an abortion on a case by case basis through a community level review
process outside the jurisdiction of the federal government,
like getting together a group of politicians to weigh your particular
story, your trauma to decide whether you get to have an abortion.
Critics have dubbed this rape panels and I think that's perfectly fair.
The idea that you would have to come in the immediate aftermath of the worst
thing that has ever happened to you to stand before a group of dudes to explain
why your rape was bad enough that you should be allowed to get an abortion.
That's utterly horrendous.
This is Bowens by the way.
He's endorsed by Donald Trump, I mean why wouldn't Donald Trump have endorsed him?
He's a 27 year old guy with literally no experience whatsoever who holds
the sort of radical ideas that you're supposed to for the former most powerful
person in the world to believe that you should have a position in Congress.
Anyway, rape panels that's potentially even worse than what dr Oz was saying
with the local election of local political officials getting involved
anna what do you think?
I think that people like him look at Gilead and
think, this is the how to manual for us.
I mean just so incredibly gross.
I mean government couldn't possibly get any bigger.
You know, having a panel of politicians make a determination about something
traumatic that may have happened to someone.
We don't need any government official involved in those
incredibly important intimate decisions that have absolutely
no impact on them have no well could have an impact on the country.
We do spend tens of billions of dollars every year on unwanted pregnancies.
But when it comes to the real consequences, whether it be health wise
economically, all of those consequences lie in the woman's life,
not in the lives of these Rando those who want to latch onto this disgusting
american taliban message to rally support for their campaigns.
But you know, to be honest, when you look at the electorate and where most of
them stand on the issue of reproductive rights, they didn't want to ban abortion.
So if this guy wants to go around campaigning this way,
I don't know if it yields the dividends that he's expecting it to, but
I predict that it could actually hurt him.
So go go for it, bo bo Yeah, look, it is north Carolina.
So, you know, it's hard to say, I would say that if we're looking for
evidence about what he actually thinks will help him or hurt him,
we do have a bit of that evidence.
And that is that he had previously said that he just supports blanket
prohibitions on abortion.
So this is supposed to be a softening of that,
letting a bunch of old dudes hear about your dad raping you or whatever.
Also after winning the May 17 primary, he removed the life and family section from
his website, Which previously included links to a fundraising page that claimed
life begins at conception and the rights of the unborn must be protected.
So while we don't know much about this guy and let's be clear, Donald Trump and
the other Republicans that have endorsed him don't know much about this
guy because there's literally not much to know because he's a 27 year
old guy that played some football and then worked for some Republicans and that's it.
We can add to the list of things we know about him,
that he is a complete and utter coward.
Yeah, during the primary, he was super strong and bold.
The life of the unborn, the rights need to be protected as soon as he's done with
that, you know, I was like, I don't want people to know what I actually believe.
Then they might know who I am and what I would do to them and
then they wouldn't support me and
I really want them to support some idea of what I am based on ignorance.
What an utter coward.
He's not alone in that most of the super strong alpha republicans ran screaming
in terror from their previously stated positions on abortion after they won their
primaries.
But that's who this guy is, by the way, just to close out.
Also, let's see he's got the majority of his campaign funds from a trust fund.
Isn't that nice?
Isn't nice to have that bow Heinz is such an amazing example of
incredibly confident white mediocrity full of privilege.
Anyway.
He campaigned on an America first economy, but
his campaign hats are made china, which is fun.
He has pushed the big lie and calls for a complete halt to all immigration for
10 years.
So cool guy, with all of this without any qualifications and
radical extreme positions.
The two polls that I was able to find for
this had him up by five and then the opponent the democrat up by one.
So this is a toss up at best.
This insane radical has accomplished literally nothing in his life and
would want your kids if they were raped to go before a rape panel might
well be the next member of Congress.
And there are so many other races just like this.
I mean I can't help but think about the Senate races which I think
have an even bigger impact considering how long their terms are and
how small Congress is compared to the House.
We could have dr Oz be a United States senator.
We could have J.
D. Vance be a United States senator.
And while it's true that the party in power typically ends up losing power or
at least the majority in the midterm elections,
I just feel like some of these races were layups and tim Ryan I think in the final
hour really started pushing an aggressive and effective campaign.
I don't know if it's if it was done in time to to beat J.
D. Vance but
that is also one of those close races that I'm worried about.
Yeah that that's true.
We talked a little bit about some of what he had to say.
That was good. I don't love Tim Ryan or
anything like that but he's at least trying J.
D. Vance.
Yeah.