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t Democrats disparaged the COVID vaccine while he was president and now they wonder why some are hesitant, says Trump. Do you buy that? That the reason people are hesitant may be in part because the Democrats disparaged it? What do you think? I don't know, maybe a little. But I can't believe that the Democrats would have influenced Republicans, right? Democrats influence Democrats. But Democrats a…
← Previous segment →lve. And whatever women as a group want to come up with, make it legal, make it illegal. If women are okay with it I'm going to back it. And I would ask that same standard in reverse. Should there be a topic in which it's really a man's question because it doesn't apply to women for one reason or another? I don't want to hear your opinion at all. I don't want to hear your opinion at all unless you're an expert. I mean if a man is an expert on some element of biology or abortion then yeah. But I'm not an expert.
Somebody says weak. It's weak? Is it? I would say that's pretty subjective. Fortified skins agree abortion is a human rights issue. That's an opinion because you start with the answer. So when you say abortion is a human rights issue I think what you're saying is that the fetus has a human right. I think that's where you're going with that comment. But you've started the argument with your assumption. If your assumption is it's human, well there's no debate to be made. So you haven't really debated. You just put an assumption in there and said you're done.
And this is another reason why I don't get into the actual debate because you can't win in the debate. The only thing you can do with abortion is make sure that the right person makes the decision.
How many of you are fans of Thomas Sowell if I pronounced his name right? I hope I did. Thomas Sowell, you know the famous black economist. And because it's 2021 and we're all, I have to throw in the black part like that mattered. It didn't. It didn't make any difference to the point I'm going to make that he's black. But it's 2021 so you have to throw that in there. Someday we'll just be able to say economist. We're not quite there yet like we hope we will be there but someday.
Anyway one of the things that Thomas Sowell says that I love is that it's not so much what the decision is, it's who gets to make it. Now he's using it in a different context but same thing with abortion. I'm less concerned with what the decision is because there's no right decision. It's awful either way. It's just awful in different ways to different people. So what I care about is the decision was made by the right people. And the only thing I know for sure is I'm not one of them. I'm not one of the right people. So the best thing I can do for the system is to take a shower when you're deciding what to do and then I'll back it.
Now I'd be a jerk if I say you make the decision but I'll criticize you for it. Nope. You make the decision, you being women or any men who want to because you have a right. You have a right to be part of the decision. I'm not arguing that all men have a right to be part of the process. But after you make a decision I'll back it whatever it is. Yeah, 80 year old women also have a say. Women who can't produce children have a say because they're all in the same pot meaning that their lives are most affected by this even if they can't h
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ave children. You know they're seen as people who can have children or did. Yeah I don't care about whether trans are part of it. That's not going to move the needle enough. All right, that's all for now. YouTube, I'll talk to you later.
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