Donald Trump as a political candidate is here for the women. And if you didn't know that, well, he is telling you in a truly unhinged post on Truth Social. Last Friday, Trump claimed that if he wins in November, women will, quote, no longer be thinking about abortion. [00:00:15] And that's so nice. All I do is thinking about abortion. And I, you know, I'm really happy to not have to do that anymore. So let's see what he had to say. It's a lot, so just bear with me. He said this on Truth Social. He said women are poorer than they were four years ago, are less healthy than they [00:00:31] were four years ago, are less safe on the streets than they were four years ago, are more depressed and unhappy than they were four years ago, and they are less optimistic and confident in the future than they were four years ago. I will fix all of that and fast. [00:00:46] And at long last, this national nightmare will be over. Women will be happy, healthy, confident and free. You will no longer be thinking about abortion because it is now where it always had to be with the states and a vote of the people. And with powerful exceptions like those that Ronald Reagan insisted on for rape, [00:01:05] incest and the life of the mother, but not allowing for Democrat demanded late term abortion in the seventh, eighth or ninth month, or even execution of a baby after birth. I will protect women at a level never seen before. They will finally be healthy, hopeful, safe and secure. [00:01:23] Their lives will be happy, beautiful and great again. Okay, we're not going to break down the whole thing because you know, you get it. You know why? It's ridiculous. You know, he's just talking with the intention that someone will read what he said and think to themselves, oh, you know what? So true. [00:01:38] I am a lot unhappier than I was four years ago. But he went on to evoke the memory of Ronald Reagan. He also mentioned the thoroughly debunked claims that Democrats want late term abortions, including abortions so late that the baby is fully out of the womb by the time [00:01:54] their mothers decide to get rid of it. Trump then said he will protect women at every level, at a level never seen before. Which is funny because we know how he deals with women. And he closed his statement by saying that women's lives will be happy and beautiful [00:02:10] once he is president again. Women's lives. We're going to talk about the quality of those red state women's lives in a moment, but we got to talk about the post. What are your initial thoughts here? Yeah, three parts that were crackups that women are finally going to get [00:02:25] to feel happy, healthy and confident because of Donald Trump. Yeah. Okay. - I mean. - Look. - Can't wait. - Yeah. If you're a woman who believes that there was no way we could help you anyway. So you were going to vote for Trump because you believe in absurdities. [00:02:42] So we'll get to some of the things that he's done to women in a minute that has not exactly made them happy or healthy or confident. Okay. And then he says, but the political stuff is even funnier in a sense. Now it's exactly where women wanted it. Abortion decided by the states. [00:03:02] That way half the states can make it illegal and make sure that you can't control your own body, and that big government gets between you and your doctor, and then actually might do things where you know you die. So aren't you so happy? But he's used to it. [00:03:19] To be fair to Donald Trump, he's used to with MAGA. He just has to say something. It doesn't matter what it is. They'll believe it instantly. So he thinks. I don't know, maybe it'll work with everybody. I am a martian brought to you from the past, and I am here to save Zagade, [00:03:36] which is the actual name of this planet. And I'm a lizard person, but I'm here for good. MAGA is like, of course, lizard people 2024. Right. So he says he's going to make women happier and that women wanted to be restricted on abortion in all the red states. [00:03:55] I don't know, maybe some MAGA women will agree and think, oh yeah, that's the alternate reality I live in. And the last one from the statement is of course, they're executing babies after they're born. Name one. Name one baby that has been executed that has had a post-birth abortion. [00:04:15] There was a governor and he died. And we're taking his quote and misinterpreting it. And then. Yeah, I didn't think so. You don't have a single case of it. If you believe that there is post-birth abortions where they just simply execute the babies after they come out, you're a lunatic. [00:04:31] So get counseling. And that's one of the presidential candidates. That's not just like I know, but to be fair, of course it's going to be crazy people on either side at the extremes, and that's part of his base. But that's not fair. No, he's saying it. He's the lunatic. All right. [00:04:48] Yes. Back to you. All right, so let's see how things are actually going for these women in red states. Texas was one of the first states to implement sweeping and extremely restrictive abortion laws. The minute the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. And they're trying to make things even more miserable for women here in Texas. [00:05:06] This is from The New York Times, and it says that the lawsuit that is being brought right now by Attorney General Ken Paxton takes aim at federal privacy rules, including one enacted this year that Ken Paxton called a backdoor attempt at weakening Texas laws. [00:05:22] He's referring to Ken Paxton is suing the Biden administration because they want to be able to track women who travel out of state to obtain abortions and buy out of state. I really mean, you know, out of the Deep South, because I would have to travel at least a few states over before I could find a doctor, not limited by state [00:05:40] imposed restrictions here in Texas. And traveling out of state is really one of the only options that many women in red states have. Because look at what's happening in Texas. This is reporting from NBC, and it says that there has been a dramatic rise in pregnant women dying in Texas after abortion ban. [00:05:58] Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same period. Wow. It's terrifying out here. [00:06:13] The analysis was conducted by the Gender Equity Policy Institute, or GFI, using publicly available data from the centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nancy Cohen, the president of the GPI, explained the findings, saying this. [00:06:28] She said there's only one explanation for this staggering difference in maternal mortality. All the research points to Texas's abortion ban as the primary driver of this alarming increase. Texas, I fear, is the harbinger of what is to come in other states. [00:06:45] And just a reminder that in Texas, the state banned abortion at five weeks prior to the overturning of Roe v Wade after the overturning. Ironically, abortions are now only permitted in extreme circumstances when the mother's life is in danger. Problem is, a lot of times women have to suffer immensely before doctors are [00:07:03] able to claim that her life was in danger, sometimes to the point of damaging her reproductive organs, to the point that she can no longer conceive a child in the future. And the reality of these abortion bans that is less obvious in stats and data points, is that plenty of women who want to have children in red states [00:07:22] are now reluctant to do so, out of fear that should something go wrong, they won't have access to the care they would need. A doctor. Leah Tatum, an ob gyn from Austin, said that she's seeing many women in their late 30s and 40s who, even though they would like to have children, [00:07:39] worry they wouldn't have an option to end the pregnancy if it turned out that the baby wouldn't be born healthy. What? What happens if I end up with a genetically abnormal fetus? Tatum said her patients have asked her. They worry their options are limited, she said. [00:07:54] But as I mentioned, this is happening all over the country and the dystopian red states in Georgia. Similar stories. Kandi Miller was afraid to seek care amid Georgia's abortion ban, so she stayed at home and died. This is reporting from ProPublica, it says. [00:08:11] Candy Miller's family said she didn't visit a doctor due to the current legislation on pregnancies and abortions. Maternal health experts deemed her death preventable and blamed Georgia's abortion ban. So, Jake, this one obviously hits very close to home. [00:08:29] I am a woman in my mid to late 30s in Texas who would like to have children, and now I'm I don't know, I just might not because unless I move, which I don't think I will anytime soon, it would be very scary for me to have a baby here in Texas. [00:08:44] But I feel like a lot of those real world stories, you know, we hear the really, really scary ones about, you know, this woman had to have a miscarriage in the bathroom of an E.R. Because the doctors wouldn't see her here in Texas. By the way, if a doctor is even perceived to have been aiding in an abortion, [00:09:01] even if the woman technically has a miscarriage or anything like that, the doctor could lose their license to practice medicine. Or they could even be, given a life sentence in prison, they could go to jail for life if they're even perceived to have aided a woman. [00:09:17] Which is why a lot of doctors, like, even if they want to help women, they just can't or they won't, or a lot of them are leaving red states. So women have even fewer options, even just for consultations with their doctors. So it really is a big scary problem. I do not believe that Donald Trump is going to help us at all, because I blame [00:09:34] Donald Trump for the fact that I lost my rights to health care here in Texas. Jake, what do you think? Yeah, this 56% increase in maternal death brought to you by the pro-life movement. So, I was on a British show a couple of days ago, and it was conservative. [00:09:55] And when we got to abortion, they demanded that. I say that abortion is immoral. I'm like, brother, you're not getting it. I don't think like you do. I think these women dying because big government got involved and told them what they could, and couldn't do with their body is Immoral. [00:10:14] I don't think a zygote in a petri dish is a human being. I know, like the pro-life movement goes women? Nah. Who cares about their life? Oh, my God, a zygote in a petri dish. Oh, that's a life. That's a life. But this one. Yeah. Oh. She died. [00:10:30] Who cares? Okay, don't tell me you don't. You care? What are you guys increase? Demanding an increase in funding for maternal care. Are you demanding an increase in funding or any other kind of care for women? Nothing. How about increase in in funding to help, babies after they're born? [00:10:46] Because you're so pro-life? No, nothing. Who cares? Who cares, who cares? Republicans vote no on all of those things. Just. I just want to be able to control the woman's body. You finally go back to doing what I told you. I mean, I'm pro-life. Are you? Are you? Because it doesn't look like it. So you could tell all the pretty little lies you want. [00:11:03] It doesn't matter. 70% of this country gets it. We think freedom means the freedom to control your body and not to have some sort of Taliban figure come in and go, Oh, the Lord disapproves. You are immoral. Okay, now you have. [00:11:20] You. You're getting. It's going to be a miscarriage. There's a an ailment where a baby's bones are so brittle. There's so many different diseases, right? This is one of, like, thousands that the bones break within the body, and [00:11:36] then they've got to take the fetus out. Otherwise it's going to die. And then when it does, it's going to create an infection. And then sepsis is very deadly. And that's one of the common things that happen. But now doctors across the country in the red states are like, [00:11:54] sorry, we're not taking anything out. I don't want to spend ten years in prison. So. But wait, it might kill her. Yeah, it might, but I'm not going to do it because I'm not going to. Because these are actual like. And I don't mean like, normal mullahs. I mean fundamentalist lunatic Taliban [00:12:10] mullahs going, no, no, let her die. Who cares about your stupid medical opinion? Stupid doctor. You don't. You're not in charge. My ancient texts are in charge. [00:12:26] Okay. And that's not even true. And then I told the host. Hey, do you know that the abortion is pro Bible? I'm sorry. The Bible is pro abortion. That was funny. Okay. Numbers 511 through 31. God, if you think your wife is cheating [00:12:41] on you, take her to a priest. The priest will do the abortion and God will decide upstairs. Oh, she did cheat. And then God says, okay, that's it. Abort. The Bible is indisputably pro-abortion. Oh, but my priest told me. God breathing life into. [00:12:59] Oh, interesting. And every life is sacred. Wait. What does that have to do with abortion? Does it have anything to do with abortion? Whereas numbers five, 11, 31 directly says God will do the abortion for you if you think your wife cheated on you. Don't believe me? Go ahead, pick up any Bible. Not my Bible. [00:13:16] Pick up your Bible. Read numbers 511 to 31. So the whole thing's a lie. It's the religious leaders invented this lie that is not at all in the Bible. In fact, the very opposite is in the Bible, because religious leaders were all men who wanted to make sure that they could control their chattel, [00:13:35] because back in the day, women were property and they were like, we don't want this property getting any ideas. So we're going to tell them the opposite of what the Bible says, and we're going to control every part of their lives. 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