Arizona's Abortion Ban Sends Trump and the GOP Reeling | Hanif Abdurraqib

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We have so much to talk about tonight. Politicians are falling downstairs. Joe Biden almost remembered what time it is. And when it comes to abortion, even Republicans are matter Republicans. So let's get into the headlines. Let's talk about some big news on the abortion front. Earlier this week, former President Trump announced that after getting Roe v. Wade overturned, he's happy with how everything has worked out, because from

Well, that's how human rights are going to work now, So what could go wrong?

But then Arizona decided that its law would be a nearly complete abortion ban that was first enacted during the Civil War, and even pro life Republicans started freaking out.

Tonight, some Republicans across the country are rhetorically trying to distance themselves from Arizona's Supreme Court ruling that upholds a near total abortion ban.

Congresswoman Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, called it an asinine ruling.

And Republican congressman wants this gomani calling the decision disaster for women and providers. Carrie Lake, locked in one of the most high profile races in the country. She released a statement which reads, and I quote, I oppose today's ruling, and I am calling on Katie Hobbs and the state legislature to come up with an immediate, common sense solution that Arizonas can support.

Yeah, yeah, I mean this anti abortion law is being received as well as OJ Simpson at the Pearly Gates.

Yeah, I.

Don't see you on here. Even far right Republican Carrie.

Lay hates it.

And that can't just be because she's in a tight Senate race.

Surely she's always hated it, right.

Carry Lake previously said this about the eighteen sixty four law less than two years ago.

I'm incredibly thrilled that we are going to have a great law that's already on the books.

I believe it's ars thirteen thirty six oh three.

Wow, Carry Lake didn't just support this bill, she knew it's bill number by heart. I believe it's ARS thirteen thirty six oh three. She said that, like when a guy tries to play it cool about how much he's into Dune, you know.

Oh yeah, I think I've heard of that movie.

I believe that's the one where Paul at Trades wields the power of the Bena Jesuit to fulfill the prophecy of the Lizingel Gay.

I think that's the one. They changed it from the books.

I mean, look, have you ever loved a loss so much that you memorized it?

Even the person who wrote the law in eighteen.

Sixty four would be like, my lady, thou art a weirdo or however they talk back on I'm just saying the way she rattle it off.

Thirteen thirty six three.

I'm pretty sure if you find Carrie Lake's iPhone, you'll be able to unlock it.

But hey, that's fine.

If even Republicans agree that this abortion ban is too extreme, then Arizona Democrats can just propose a bill to reverse the.

Old law, and I'm sure the GOP will get on board. Check it out.

GOP lawmakers today block a vote to reverse the landmark ruling from the state Supreme Court yesterday reinstating a pre statehood near total ban on abortion.

Well, that's that's weird.

I mean, you guys say it, you don't want an insane abortion ban.

But then you voted to keep it. It's almost like you're just totally full of shit.

I mean, listen, if Arizona women, if Arizona women are going to be forced to live under this law from eighteen sixty four, then all of Arizona's lawmakers should be forced to get their healthcare from eighteen sixty four standards too. Yeah, you've got back pain, put some leeches on it, migrain more leeches. Feeling depressed, you can see a therapist. Your therapist is a leech. Okay, clearly, clearly this law has completely thrown Republicans for a loop.

They hate the law, they love the law. They don't know what.

To do, and this is all great news actually for President Biden, a perfect opportunity to hammer the Republicans in a swing state for their confusion and their hypocrisy.

Dude, you got a wide open net, my man. All right. All you need to do is just tap the ball. And President Biden was asked today what his message is to Arizonans elect me.

I'm in the twenty twentieth century, twenty first century.

Yeah, blood, Okay, Hey, Republicans think we're in eighteen sixty four. The President thinks we're in the twentieth century. If we're playing by the price is right rules, Biden was closest without going over right.

Yeah.

Now, Luckily, Arizona voters will be will likely vote on a bout initiative in November that will let them decide for themselves if they want abortion to be legal, and for anyone in Arizona who might need an abortion before then.

Republicans want you to know, Hey, everything's fine. I mean, this is tricky business.

How does this play out?

It hurts Trump for a few days, and then people start to realize this is not the worst thing in the world. If you had to travel to another state to get an abortion, it's not the worst thing in the world. Hopefully this is a very rare occurrence in your life. Once in your life, maybe it would do it. Buying a bus ticket to go somewhere to get it is not the worst thing in the world.

It's It's true, it's technically can't be the worst thing in the world as long as that to pay exists. But what is wrong with you guys? It's not the worst thing in the world to take a bus to a different state. It's also not the worst thing in the world to just let women have rights. You know, I would say it's actually significantly nicer than going on a bus.

You know, it doesn't cost you anything.

There's never a circumstance where someone takes the shit so bad they need to pull over and wait for a second bus to pick everybody up. And by the way, I love that he made this entirely the woman's problem.

Where's the father in this scenario? He can't give her a ride. He's just standing at the bus station waving.

Like, bye, have a nice abortion, try to pick up some food on the way home. I mean, Now, a panel of men talking about abortion might seem like a ridiculous embarrassment for everyone involved, but I actually think it's a great idea for our new segment.

Men talk about abortion nowhere joining me? Now is my main bro, my main man. You're just like me, aren't you. Yeah, a big old man just watch me open this jar. I'll finish it. I was softened it up. You softened it up, big dog. All right, let's get right to it. Manda man, what's your solution for abortion? Okay, easy, peasy, livin.

Squeeze, all right, yeah, yeah, woman needs an abortion. She should just take the bus to a state.

Words league.

Okay, Look, obviously I've.

Never had to travel on a state for an abortion.

But I did accidentally hit myself in the balls trying to double knot my deck shoes. I cried so hard the helicoptered me to a hospital in the next state.

I was fined. Couldn't agree more, Chief, couldn't agree more? Chief.

Women should just take the bus ride or just give birth. And look, I've never given birth.

Of course not but I but you would crush it.

If you did. I mean you would it.

I got what's frustrating for women, But we can't all we you know, we have rights some places and other places.

We know.

For example, I'm not allowed to go to the Epcot food court anymore because apparently you can't do that to the funnel cakes.

I mean double stands, double stand totals, double stander.

Look, look, women are.

Making too big a deal about all this. Look, I've never had.

To walk through a line of protesters to get basic health care, but I have had to make eye contact with the woman at Walgreens weill buying a pack of slim fit Trojan Condo.

So I go.

Sometimes you gotta get past feeling John Sladies, you're brave.

You are brave, my bro ham. And by the way, what about the father's right The fathers have to have right right? Right? Are you a father? I am not a father.

No, No, I would like to be, but I haven't quite figured out how it works. Yes, wrong, I do know boobs are involved, though you know, how about you?

I haven't found the right lady yet.

I was in a relationship for several years, but she turned out to be a raccoon and she tricked me out of my credit.

Oh tailors, all his time playing tails, all his time. In fact, my ex was three possums in a trench coat.

Just boys. When it comes to its right to we get it.

Yeah, all right, before we go, quick question, what is an abortion?

Not a clue? Not a clue?

But but but I think the boobs are once again involved.

Sounds right to me, My main man Broham Jones.

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My guest Tonight, My Guest Tonight is a cultural critic, poet, and best selling author whose new book is called There's Always This Year, on basketball and ascension, Please walk, Anif.

Abdu Raki unbelievable. This book, There's Always This Year. This is a beautiful book.

It's been said ball is life, but you have written a book about basketball, poetry, meditation, music, lebron Was your intention to do ball as life?

Right here?

Everything?

Yes, And in some ways I think I failed, But in other ways I think I succeeded. My hope was to write a book where anyone could see their own interest in it. You know, it's like walking to a body of water, looking in and seeing what you most want reflect it back to you. So if you are in this book saying I want to find a basketball book, you will. If you're in this book saying I want to meditate on grief or place or home, you will.

I you know, you tell the story of seeing your dad shoot a basketball once one time, and this book reminded me of how much I love basketball, and also how much I watched with my dad, and I wonder it's not often described this way.

Is basketball a family sport?

It feels like at least a family sport from the standpoint of witness. I grew up in a house of Knicks fans largely, and I remember my mother loving Charles Smith and you know, the dislike for the Bulls, so you know, it was strange for me. I can't love Michael Jordan because you know so in some ways basketball is in a family that loves basketball, it gets passed down.

My dad loved the floater, yeah, the best, and you describe it in here, you know, and I I just have do you mind.

If I read some your words to you? Really? Isn't that strange? In honor? But strange? Yeah, it's gotta be weird.

The float or the most romantic shot in the game, when done right, it's almost obsessed with drama. Almost pausing in the air to make sure you get its good side before it begins to twirl downward. I thought of my dad when I read that.

Really you did that.

You read that beautiful man. I'll tell you, I'm in the second half of my book tour. You should take over from that.

I can take over.

But it's just one example of the things you described so well. You said you're a Knicks fan, so you're familiar with there's always next year. But the significance, the significance of there's always this year.

It presents a real urgency. I mean, so much of this book is also about the passage of time, in making peace with the passage of time, which I think a lot of people. I turned forty last year. I think a lot of people as the age think first about what is being taken from them instead of thinking about the mini versions of themselves there are to come. And to present a kind of urgency and an affection around the time you have and put it in the

Well, yeah, and the book, you know it's.

And you know he's not just saying that it's actually divided into quarters and timeouts, and there's clocks as a countdown, you know, And is that to give me the reader a sense of like time is limited, enjoy this page.

I mean, in some ways, to put a literal stop clock, litteral countdown clock in a book is to say you the reader and me the writer, because so much of the process of the book was to make us feel like we are in this together and understanding what time is, how much we have left, how much we don't have left. But some of the language I was attempting was to slow you down and say, for example, we are all certainly going to die, but we are not dead yet. And so since we are not dead yet, have you

You know.

I was in Cleveland this past weekend reading both the book and.

And the audio.

You know, So I'm I'm walking around Cleveland and you're writing about Cleveland.

Yes, a lot a lot of clevel here.

And I had forgotten how good Lebron James is a basketball Can you believe in it?

For?

Can you believe that?

I know, I know why, I'm too busy watching the tennis channel. But you know there's a lot of Lebron James. But why why is he an important backdrop for you to tell a story of your life?

For two reasons. One, I got very interested in this idea of Lebron James as an immortal figure, someone who we believe will play forever, because it does seem right now as though he might play forever. But of course we also know immortality is a lie. You know, time is undefeated. As they say, time will get the best of us eventually. However, in a moment where it feels like I could focus in on the idea of immortality, the idea of living forever, yep, it was interesting to me.

Well, and that leads to my next question, which is home.

Yes, you know, I believe you moved back to Columbus six or seven years ago. You talked about everyone getting something from this here I am. I feel like we might have had different childhoods. Ok and man, your description of going back home to Ohio reminds me of when I go home to Michigan. Of did I have to leave Michigan to be successful in comedy? Do we have to leave? What is ascension? All of this was hitting me in the face. What is home to you and you need to leave it?

I don't think I need. I mean, one, it's good to talk to another Midwestern Yeah, for sure, I will say for me, I never felt the need to leave home. I think this book is also trying to realign a consideration of what making it is. Ascension not necessarily is something that sends you upward, but anything that moves you from the place you were to the place you're going, and sometimes that place geographically is the same, but is

I need help. I need your help.

You wrote the nostalgia is a relentless hustler.

Truly, please educate me.

Okay.

I know you did it in here, but I needed help with. You need help with Okay.

So there's a useful way to say. If we sit back and talk about the good old days of our Midwestern youth, that's a lot of fun, and we could do that, but it actually doesn't do anything to inform the way we can live thoughtfully and generously. Now nostalgia for nostalgia's sake. It's great, But there's a difference between, say, a porch conversation and a page conversation. A page conversation has to use nostalgia as a way to move your

You know.

Yeah, you know, I can't play.

The way I did when I was twenty or even thirty. And it doesn't really serve me to sit back and say, man, in the good ol days, I could run up and down the court and to do all this other stuff. But it serves me more to say I cannot do that anymore, but I can still do this other series of things that align with what I know about the game and what I love about the game, and what my body is still capable of. And when I do those things, I'm unstoppable for a little while.

I love that, Honey, Thank you.

There's always this year is available now, hanif I do right.

Cai, We're gonna take a quick break up for this, Thank you, madam beautiful book.

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