We now know that the story has been widely reported about a 10 year old
being forced to flee her Republican run state so
that she can get an abortion after being raped, is true.
And so for all of those conservative media,
how are they gonna respond to the fact that they had been implying this was fake.
I mean, you had Fox News PJ Media,
the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal all casting doubt on it.
The Wall Street Journal called it a post-Roe tale of woe for
those who want to make abortion a voting issue this fall.
So it's not about defending the kid,
it's all of you, you just want to make something off it.
Writer for PJ media Megan Fox greeted the news that it's true,
that they've actually caught the person, which is great.
Not by issuing a mea culpa, but
she herself had said that it was likely a hoax.
But instead by taking credit for the arrest,
people have been tweeting at her and she's been doing what you should never do,
which is try to tweet through your own humiliation.
She said I should delete my account for exposing that no media was looking for
a rapist and was only interested in political weaponization of child rape.
Would this arrest have happened if no one asked questions about the shoddy reporting
of this heinous act?
I'm glad someone was arrested.
>> You're not, you don't care.
You don't care, Megan.
You don't care, you're disgusting, despicable human being, you don't care.
They don't care.
Let's address the fact that Megan Fox who unfortunately shares a name with
an actress, but obviously we're not talking about the actress for
anyone who's watching or listening to the podcast.
Yes, actress Megan Fox, she's with a kind of questionable guy but
reporter reporter Megan Fox much worse.
Listen.
>> Yep.
>> Address the fact that you support forcing a 10 year old rape
victim to go through the traumatic process of pregnancy, of labor and delivery.
I want you to think about what that does to a full grown adult woman's body.
And then I want you to picture how you want to force a 10 year old to do it.
Just want you to think about that.
>> Because look, we care about this individual 10 year old, but we also care
about a legal system set up to force those things to happen frequently.
She wants all of your attention to be on, that one probably isn't
true to cloak the fact that she wants a situation to exist where it can be true.
It turns out in this case it was also true, but
she wants it to be true in any number of other cases.
So look,
she was on in the video that we showed you earlier in the show with Jesse Watters.
So, she had called it a hoax and that is now claiming credit for
this guy being caught.
Jesse Watters also said in a show primetime covered this story heavily
on Monday, put on the pressure and now we're glad that justice is being served.
So, he points out that he had talked about it a day before they caught
the guy thus he deserves credit.
Of course, as Parker Molloy points out,
the police referral in regard to this guy was made on June 22.
They did not need your implying,
it's made up to somehow get them to try to track down the person.
Now, it is true that all too many rapists don't get caught.
Many don't get reported in part because people don't think they'll be believed.
This is a great example of that, that women don't feel like they'll be believed
when they talk about the fact that they have been raped.
But anyway, as Erin Ryan points out, no honey keep tweeting through it,
whenever anybody does this, it goes great for them and that's what she'll do.
Why come out and say look, I take this as seriously as you do.
I believe that there were parts of this story that seemed suspicious but
it now turns out that it was totally true and I'm sorry if in my totally honest,
good faith attempt to figure out truth from falsity.
If I made anyone feel bad about the experience, No,
she's not doing any of that.
She went immediately from this is probably fake,
you shouldn't be horrified about this too.
Yeah, no, it turned out it's true and
thank God I covered it cuz that's why we caught someone.
She says, if I hadn't brought scrutiny on this poorly sourced story,
we would have never heard about this illegal alien rapist.
They found a new reason to be interested in this and to distract about it.
You're welcome.
Also, no one would have known that Caitlin Bernard used a real victim as a political
weapon and misrepresented Ohio law, I should win a Pulitzer.
So she should get an award.
No, the doctor didn't do any of that, the doctor defended a kid who had been raped.
You tried to make a political thing out of it attacking Democrats, attacking people
who believe that people should have these rights that they've had their entire life.
You were pointed out in that regard.
But I have one more tweet, I have to show you that it's just amazing.
So, she retweeted this with a yep.
Raheem Kassam says, literally 10 year old girls are being raped because of left wing
immigration policies and their responses.
Well, they should have abortion access duh no, of course,
there's not a single person who believes in reproductive rights.
That their position, that's a complete obvious intentional mischaracterization.
But think about that, even if that was true, they say
it's horrifying that you think they should have access to abortion procedures.
No, but think about this guy, Raheem and Megan Fox,
they don't think they should have access to that.
Everything that they just projected onto a non existent proabortion position,
they believe and
they believe that you should then have to give birth to the child of rape.
Like they imagine a horror that is true only of them and they go beyond even their
worst dreams to say yes, that should happen cuz it's gonna happen, rape exists.
You can outlaw, you can track down the people, they're still going to be rape,
we cannot stop that.
But if it happens, sorry, you're also gonna have to give birth because we think
you should be forced by the state to do that, they can't come out and
actually articulate their position because it's horrifying.
They have to play defense about cases like this because they know simply
talking about the obvious unavoidable consequences of the laws they
support are horrifying to reasonable people.
And so, these are the games they have to play with the most serious stuff going on.
>> The politics of the right never revolve around improving your life,
everything that the right wing sells the American
electorate is about making other people miserable.
And when you're down on your luck and when you're struggling and
when you feel like everything is falling apart.
I get it for some people feeling like there's something that gives you power,
something that gives you control over others is the social war,
the culture war stuff and the ability to keep others down.
I get it, I get that some people for
some reason feel a little bit better about their situation.
Or are more easily distracted from the fact that their lives are miserable by
being able to support a party that just sells you more misery for others.
I get it.
>> Yeah.
>> Understand that there's a better way and doing this to women,
including rape victims as young as 10, is not gonna make your life better.
It's just gonna make other people, it's gonna force other people to go through
one of the most traumatic things that could possibly happen to them.
Again, for the second time, think about what the process of childbirth is.
When you want it, when you plan for it, it could be a beautiful thing cuz
you're mentally, emotionally and to some extent physically ready for it.
But a 10 year old who's pregnant as a result of a rape,
just imagine putting her through what the right wing religious extremists
in this country want to put her through.
It's just not right.
It isn't, it's so wrong and the fact that we have these lawmakers
who run on these issues accumulate power through these issues.
And then when push comes to shove,
they try to run away from these issues because they know how cruel it is.
The American people know how cruel it is and it's really time that we start looking
out for one another regardless of what our political ideology may be.
And ensure that we force these lawmakers not to make others miserable, but
we forced them to actually represent our best interests.
I wish we could get to that point unfortunately, we're now so
entrenched in this culture war.
And look, I think reproductive rights, trans rights, rights for
everyone just to make sure everyone is whole, these are fights worth having.
But understand that there are manufactured issues that are meant to distract,
right, from like we're getting our rights taken away that's not manufactured.
But the lawmakers targeting these issues and
fearmongering around those issues, they do it intentionally to distract
from the issues that actually do impact your life every single day.
All Republicans do is sell you the politics of misery, that's it.
>> Exactly, yeah.
Never hope that anything can get better for you, the only thing you can hope for
is that people you've been trained to hate will suffer.
That's the entirety of conservative politics and they're gonna do that,
they're gonna come up with BS now that we do need
to defend against cuz it has real victims.
They'll have something else next year and in five years.
The solution is very simple.
You do have to play defense, you do have to stop these things, but
you also have to actually deliver.
And the Democrats are in a position to do that right now.
They're in power, people will get totally focused on just culture war distractions
if they've been trained by politics from both sides of the aisle to think that
nothing better can actually happen.
Well, if nothing better can ever happen and if they're never gonna do anything
to actually fix your problems, then why not just focus on this nonsense?
So this is on the Republicans who are elevating nonsense and
creating tons of victims along the way but it's also on the Democrats for
creating fertile ground for that.
If the Democrats every week, we're passing bills that deal with people's
actual crises, they wouldn't then be buying into this Republican nonsense.
>> Bingo.
>> And by the way, since this has been going on,
they took away the rights everything.
The house lawmaker is introducing a bill not only to ban abortion from conception,
all that more religious Christian supremacist nonsense, but
also to ban birth control.
Again, they want to ban birth control if you get pregnant, they want you to be
forced to bear that child under threat of some sort of consequence from the state.
Again, they love small government, except that it can chain you to a hospital bed
and force you to give birth to the rapist child.
And they also want you to be in a position where if you're raped,
you almost necessarily will get pregnant because they're not going to
allow you to have access to birth control as well.
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