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Hey, welcome to the Buck Brief. It is Trump versus Lindsay Graham on the abortion issue. Let's talk about this. So Trump puts out his position for the election on abortion, and it is that it is a state's issue or an issue that will be left to the states to determine. Now I have made it clear. I think that legally, constitutionally, I think that is the correct that is the correct decision politically morally. That's where we can start to have
I think more of a debate or an argument. But Lindsey Graham, to be clear, says essentially, and you know what, I can actually pull it up for you. Lindsey Graham says that he respectfully disagrees with Trump on this issue and that the pro life issue is about saving lives, not about Dobbs is not required.
This is the actual quote. Dobbs does not required.
The conclusion legally in the pro life movement has always been about the well being of the unborn.
Child, not geography.
So what does Lindsay Graham recommend if you pass a federal law at sixteen weeks. First of all, it shouldn't be a federal law because there's no role for the federal government in abortion. There should not be. And beyond that, the Democrats then will just the second that they can, they will change the law to make sure that abortion is effectively what it was under the Row regime. But there's no chance in hell of actually getting anything passed anyway, right,
so you're going to need sixty votes. You're not going to be able to do it with the Barre majority in the Senate. So it's a fool's errand to try to pass this federal legislation. And if the federal the federal legislation is not for a national abortion ban, that's, you know, not what's going to certainly that's never going to go through. I think Lindsay Graham, for anyone who's paying attention, is a grandstander. I think he grandstands for the cameras. I think that he is more of a
Fox News contributor than he is a senator. In many ways, he spends more time going on Fox shows and making promises that he has no intention of keeping. And you know, He's also a guy who's never seen a war that he didn't want somebody else, somebody else to fight.
In his you know, in his place. He's not going to go fight any of these wars. So I don't know.
Obviously have a lot of respect for Lindsay Graham, but I also on this issue, I don't understand what he thinks. So his his preferred position would be for President Trump to do what exactly what would the move be. Senator Lindsey Graham introduced the Protecting Pain Capable Unborn Children from Late Term Abortions Act. Legislation would set a federal minimum protection for unborn children fifteen weeks. But that legalizes abortion
for the first four months. So you're going to pass a federal law and whenever to think about this for a second, you're going to pass a federal law that Trump would sign as a Republican, that Republicans would go along with that. Abortion for the first four months is okay. That's when a majority of the abortions are occurring anyway, vast majority from what I understand, And that's supposed.
To be a victory to pass the federal law.
All they'll do is change that federal law, and they'll start moving how many weeks it is around, but you will effectively have had Republicans declare that abortion most of the time fine and should be federally protected.
That's insane. That is insane.
There are some states that have effectively outlawed abortion now depends on where you are, and there are others that I think will follow suit in time or will dramatically restrict abortion in real ways, just for what Trump says, for example, life of the mother, rape insists life of
the mother, things like that. So, I mean, Lindsey Graham, I don't know what he thinks he's accomplishing here, but if you pass a federal law that codifies abortion for all fifty states being legal for the first sixteen weeks or fifteen weeks of a pregnancy, you're federally codifying abortion.
Like what is he doing? I mean, the one thing for me to.
Say we should have a federal law banning all abortions. To that, I'd say, well, that's a consistent, a morally consistent and principled position, no doubt that everybody knows, has absolutely zero chance of becoming the law in this country, no chance at all. Okay, so you can't even get all the Republicans to go along with that, and so the idea that you would be able to get sixty senators, which is what it would require, it's not going to happen. Okay,
So that's not what he's advocating for. To say that you should have you would have if Trump had done with Lindsay Graham wanted and said, yeah, he wants a fifteen week abortion ban or the line is at fifteen weeks. If Trump had done that, you would have two pro choice presidential candidates to choose from, one just being slightly less pro choice than the other.
That's it.
There wouldn't even be a pro life candidate at least with what Trump is saying is, look, I want to advocate for life and for protections for babies as much as possible. It's not a federal issue, but states. He's going to encourage states to be as restrictive as they can be under their state constitution and with the will of the people represented. That to me is a far
better position to be in. You know what, this is the thing for the people that want a maxim maximalist position on this issue, I want to know what.
Do they want?
Trump to say, because if the answer is an abortion ban after fifteen weeks, that means that most abortions are fine and legal, and Trump would be signing off on that. Federally, the federal government would be guaranteeing your right to an abortion. It would override states that have outlawed abortions. So this is a horrible idea, a horrible idea in every respect.
And you know, it feels a little bit sometimes like the pro life movement, which I've certainly been a supporter of for twenty some odd years now of my life and basically as long as I've been an adult, as long as I've really thought about politics, I think the pro life movement is feeling a little caught off are by just what's happened in some of these states where people have been able to vote on this and it
has not been going our way. But I think I think Trump has taken the right position on this politically and legally, and for people say, well, he should have taken the right position or the perfect position ethically, politics isn't about what's perfect. Unfortunately, you know, you save the lives you can. You know, we would never go to war because we killed us in people. We'd never go to war if we didn't, if we didn't recognize that,
we would make mistakes and there'd be people who were killed. Right, But you do the best you can. You do the best you can. There are trade offs that have to be made, and I think that Trump is making the right trade off here. That's that's at least how I see it. And I think it's going to continue to Oh, it's going to continue to be pretty tense. I think that much is obviously also the case. So with that, my friends, I'm going to be diving.
What do I have next year? Anyway?
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the level of conversation is remarkably stupid. But here is Sonny Hostin, who I think is supposed to be the smart one at the table, which is pretty funny, or or among the smarter ones. Certainly she has a she has a law degree. Doesn't really say that much about the bar exam, I suppose, but she has a law degree and was a practicing lawyer for a while. So anyway, she we had an earthquake recently, and as you know, we had the eclipse.
Oh, the eclipse. And here is what she.
Said leaving we've got a solar eclipse. We've got random the hallway is here, as here. And then also I learned that the socatas are coming Cicada. It is the first time in two different Well this is what I've read, two different times, different kinds of different times. Times are coming the good for the first time in many many years. Every seventeen years has happened. Well, that's not what I read. But maybe you know, make you know better.
But in a way, say.
All those all those things together, what maybe need one to believe that you know, either climate change exists that or something is quite not at the mercy of climate change, it's underground. I don't think that it happens the eclipse. They've known about the eclipse coming, because the eclipses happened.
Now to think that climate change is somehow the cause of the eclipse, Think about how ignorant and incapable of basic thought processes.
You'd have to be for that.
I mean, but this isn't just something that should be dismissed out of hand, because clearly she wants to make it about something that fits within her framework for how she approaches everything, which is, Oh my gosh, the evil people. I'm a victim climate change. They're not stopping climate change.
It's causing the eclipse. And ultimately, you can never underestimate the ignorance and the narcissism of these leftist pundit types because they really suffer overwhelmingly from a personality series of personality disorders, I mean mental The mental health of the left wing commentariat is not strong. That's very obvious if you pay attention to how anxiety and fear rules their
lives all the time. But the idea that there is an effect one degree celsius they may have over the next fifty years or something like that, the climate change, folks, one.
Degree celsius, Oh my gosh.
And then that would affect where the sun and the moon are, because right, the moon blocks out the sun. That's the eclipse. That is completely insane. Right, how would our climate here affect the trajectory.
Of the moon in the sun.
Even Joy Behar has to jump in and be like, hold on a second, You're not that stupid.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, you know, Oh you can't just say these things.
She jumps in and she's like, well, that has nothing to do with it. So, I mean, maybe joy Bahar is the smart one at the table. I suppose there's that possibility. But once you understand the climate, the climate cult is very it is very much a cult. I mean that's not a I'm not just disparaging them with
that term. I'm accurately describing them. They deeply believe in this in a religious sense, and it's brilliant for them because it allows them a narrative where they're the hero, where they're saving the world, where anyone who opposes them as a bad person and they don't have to do anything, they don't have to do anything. So for a lot of leftists out there, this is a very enticing, very
enticing option to believe in this stuff. That's why they'll say things like this because it's about it's a faith based tradition, if you will. It's not about science. It's not about reason or logic, and that's how you can think that climate change.
Affected the eclipse.
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So we got the eclipse over with? What else?
Did I have any anything, anything fun to tell you about from the weekend. I've been watching The Crown and I've got to say it's very good television. But they're clear, the showrunners clear hostility toward Margaret Thatcher is just so annoying. Obviously far left wing politics for the people that are running this because the only the only prime ministers think
about this. The only prime ministers in the Crow who are represented in kind of a negative light are Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, the complete idiot nincome poop, destroy the country's economy, socialist buffoons in between, although Anthony Eden's conservative, you know, he gets rough stuff too, but of course he's a conservative. But all the other all the other prime ministers that come in between, they're treated like they're great.
Oh they're great, you know Harold Wilson, Oh he's great. What what It's absurd, it's absurd. But beyond that, forget about the fact that they're they don't really show Margaret Thatcher in a in a light that.
I think shows her brilliance and her talent properly. But beside that, I think that the Iron Lady was awesome.
Obviously, the British Royal Families is going to be gone in fifty years, maybe less. They're gonna they're gonna scale it down. But you can't have this story tale, uh, this story time fairy tale with this this really loadsome.
Twerp.
The current King of England, Charles, It's it's pathetic. The whole thing is pathetic now. I think it's very obvious to anybody who even briefly investigates it. Plenty of other European countries had monarchies that have kind of faded away into total irrelevance or don't even exist anymore at all, and that's where Britain is heading. It's just an anachronism. It's they were able to ride the wave of celebrity culture in the twentieth century a bit, but the whole
thing's going to come apart. That's what I think when I'm watching The Crown and people love to think about this, Oh it's like a fairy tale.
No, not really.
They're just a bunch of narcissistics, spoiled brats, it's not really a fairy tale at all. Not impressed by any of them, don't like any of them. Think the whole thing is pretty pathetic. It is a great show, though very entertaining. I'll give you that more tomorrow. Team, Thanks for hanging out with me. Please, if you are listening to this, subscribe on YouTube and also on Rumble or whichever one you.
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