I have a couple of thoughts about a couple of different things going on around California. First, some of the pro Palestinian protests that were ninety three people arrested at USC for these various Palestinian protests. But I think what I'm gonna start with, and I had some local news outlets asking me about this yesterday, so I'm gonna think I got to speak on it a little bit. Is this announcement yesterday by Governor news about a new proposed new proposed state legislation
that may come out. Frankly, I don't know that it's ever actually gonna need to come out, because I think stuff is going to change in Arizona. But it's basically this proposal by Governor Newso that is being sort of presented as if it's helping to address the alleged problem that Arizona, their state's supreme court allowed their prerov Wade law banning abortion to come into effect. Well, and I shouldn't even really say pre rov Wade law. It's actually a postrov
Wade law. So let me explain what's going on in Arizona, because probably some of you have heard like rumblings about this and you know, write the life director over here, I should probably explain what's going on, all right, Arizona in eighteen sixty four, like most states around the Union, were doing this around the same time, because it was in the mid eighteen hundreds
that people actually realized when human life begins exactly. It was only in the eighteen hundreds that people were able to see under a microscope when mammal life begins, that it actually begins right at the moment of egg sperm fusion, that you have the zygote, which is the very first cell of a new mammal organism, and that that very first cell is its own, living, unique organist. It's the earliest stage of a human life. It's not a part of the body of Dad like a sperm cell is. It's not part of
the body of the mom like the egg cell is. It is its own entity, with its own metabolism, its own progress towards growth and growth and development, et cetera. So, in response to this new discovery, and this was also a time when America was doing more to what's called codify the
law. Much of early American law, like at the time of the Founding, was grounded in the British common law tradition, where the common law tradition was basically judge made law, where laws governing you know, what is our murder statute, for example, It wasn't in a code of criminal statutes, like here's the murder statue. You know, section one O two three. The California Penal Code, section one eight seven deals with murder. No,
it wasn't like that. Basically laws were in really in the form of judicial law was created in the form of judicial decisions made by judges that were passed down to subsequent judges through a system of precedent, which we call the common law. And so studying the law meant reading, you know, studying the common law, learning about legal classic legal definitions, from classic cases about you know, what is the common law definition of murder? What is the common
law definition of burglary? What is the common law definition of this. Over the course of the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, American law started to change towards what's called codification. We're basically, instead of having all of our different legal doctrines hidden in case law, states would pass statutes, normal laws to codify whole bodies of law. So we're going to pass a whole criminal code that has, you know, and will take the old common law definitions
of things. But we're not going to charge someone with murder on the basis of some court decision from one hundred years ago. We're going to charge them with murder on the basis of California Penal Code one to eight to seven. All right. So, states were codifying their law, and around the time of the Civil War, states passed statutes to explicitly outlaw abortion. Arizona did just such a thing in eighteen sixty four, and this statute outlawing abortion was
reaffirmed in various subsequent Arizona attempts to codify state law in various ways. It was reaffirmed several times over the course of the twentieth century, and even after Roe v. Wade was issued in nineteen seventy three, the Arizona state legislature passed again in nineteen seventy seven, passed that same law that same language, because from their perspective, they were like, well, it's illegitimate that the Supreme Court just overrules our state law on this. We're just going to repass
our state law. We realize we won't be able to enforce it. But this is the law of the state of Arizona that abortion is illegal except to save the mother's life. The Arizona State Supreme Court about a month ago issued a ruling saying that yes, that law originally drafted in eighteen sixty four but subsequently reaffirmed by the Arizona State Legislature several times, that law, now that Roe v. Wade is overturned, is in effect, that law is still
good. That law is still on the books. Now. This has led to Republicans flailingly giving up on the abortion issue. Carry Lake, Donald Trump all saying that this is terrible, this is too far, when this is in fact, it is protecting all human life in the womb. It's outlawing abortion. That this is precisely what is a plank of the Republican Party platform. May I remind you, Okay, this is outlawing abortion. This is
actually the thing we've been pursuing for all this time. So Carrie Lake and Donald Trump, because they realize that this is an unpopular position in Arizona, are flailingly running away from this position and want to change the lawn all these different ways. Well, in spite of the fact that both the governor and the Attorney General of Arizona are Democrats and pro choice Democrats who are very clearly saying that they are not going to want to prosecute any doctor for performing abortions.
Nonetheless, abortion doctors in Arizona are nervous about the idea of performing a bunch of abortions. They're nervous about the idea of performing abortions because it's technically illegal right now in Arizona. They're afraid of losing their license, and most importantly, I would say, they're afraid of losing money. So what does it mean, Well, how does California play into this. The governor of Arizona issued this call and the Attorney General of Arizona issued this call for other
states to help out. So Gavin Newsom had a big press conference yesterday announcing he's going to introduce legislation to allow abortion doctors to get temporary licensure in California. Abortion doctors from Arizona to get temporary licensure in California so they can still do abortions. The idea being well, probably Arizona is going to overturn this law by the time we get to November. So he's gonna give them temporary licensure in California through November. Now. Now, I've talked with a few
doctors about this. The idea of just giving someone temporary licensure when there are so giving abortion doctors temporary licensure, when there are so many hoops you gotta jump through for licensure purposes, for being a medical practitioner, for being a physician in the state of California. It's insane. It's absurd, the idea that we're letting these guys cut to the front of the line. Why it's
not so that women from Arizona even can get abortions. Okay, look, I don't think that this is some great act of charity to facilitate women from Arizona being able to get abortions. I think, first of all, the overwhelming majority of women who get abortions would prefer not to have abortions. Their problem is is not wanting a child. It is from lack of financial support, lack of partner stability, things of that sort. I'm not saying that
based on a like a gut intuition. I'm saying that based on multiple surveys that have investigated this question, and women who are having abortions are reporting this that the overwhelming majority of them don't actually want to have the abortion. They feel like they have no other choice, and they're being coerced into the circumstance by financial pressures. Okay, National Institutes of Health to surveys finding sixty percent
of women were pressured into having an abortion by their financial circumstances. Another study done by the Charlotte Loser Institute just this last year found that seventy percent of women their abortions were against their preference. It was either something they were pressured to do, coerced into doing, or they felt like they had to do
it because of financial constraints. Okay, so all of the social science evidence indicates that you're not doing some grand act of charity by providing abortions for women. But that's not even what this is. This isn't some act of furnishing abortion for the women of Arizona in California. What Governor Newsom's proposing is purely to help abortion doctors so that they can keep making money, which, by
the way, ninety three percent of obgyns don't do abortions. This is for a small select group of Arizona abortion butchers so that they can come to California and still make some money between now and November. That's what it is. That is the kind of performative bend over backwards to do what the abortion industry wants because it makes his Democrat donors happy. The kind of perform normative bs
which stands for baloney sandwich that our governor is pulling off. And let's remember, so much of Newsom's abortion advocacy is this performative nonsense that is designed to make about one hundred people happy. It's designed to make all of the super elite California Democrat donors who can fund his run for president someday happy. That's what this is about. It's about keeping them happy. Because look, Gavin Newsom is not some AOC type socialist. Okay, he is not some Bernie
Sanders socialist. Gavin Newsom likes money. Gavin Newsom likes you know, he likes hobnobbing with very wealthy people, capitalists who have already made their billions, not small business owners who have to live under the crushing burdens of stupid California regulation and business regulations and stuff like that, no, he doesn't care about those jerks. He likes hanging out with billionaires. And that donor class is
characterized by they are not sort of Bernie Sanders level socialists. They don't want someone reaching their hand into their pocket that much. But they compensate for their phony fiscal liberalism. They compensate for it by being the most rabid social liberals possible. They compensate for that by being the most aggressively pro abortion lunatics possible. So that's whom Newsom is placating here, That's the audience he's he's doing
this for. This isn't doing anything one way or not, even if you accept the false premise that abortion is somehow helpful for women, Even if you accept that false what Newsom's doing here isn't even helping women. It's helping abortion doctors so that they can just keep making money. And really, what it's about, these California Democrat donors clearly love the idea of Gavin Newsom governor of everything else but California. We're going to discuss that next on the John Girardi
Show. How Gavin Newsom thinks he's the governor of every other state other than California next governor. Newsom has frequently been hit and this is especially true specifically for certain kinds of issues. Abortion maybe abortion is really the only issue I know. Mostly for abortion and other kinds of hot button social issues. Newsom has been hit by moderate and conservative critics with the charge that he seems like he doesn't really like being the governor of this state. I think more and
more that that's true. I mean, like we've seen like he basically didn't even really do a state of the State address this year. It's just eh, whatever, Like it's almost like Nick Newsom has senioritis, Like he's tired of being governor of California. It's more work than he likes. He had a very stressful first term because he had COVID and he had you know, all the wildfires and stuff like that. So he's, you know, he had his election, he had his recall election, he had his second,
he had his normal reelection. He's basically, you know, he's checked out.
And the thing that seems to energize him the most is extra California stuff, stuff outside the state of California. Picking fights with Rond de Santis, Debating Rond de Santis, yelling at how terrible Greg Abbott is talking about abortion stuff that's happening in other states, putting up billboards in states like Oklahoma, letting the poor benighted, you know, rubes in Oklahoma know that they can come to California if they want to have abortions, passing legislation to help financially
facilitate that. Blah blah blah blah blah. So he keeps spending all this time talking about other states, talking about how Rohndasant is terrible, talking about all this stuff, and conservative critics sort of weakly say, oh, why like me week because we have no electoral power? Say whoa he's he seems so much more interested in governing other states that rather than California. Yeah,
yes, yes, yes, that is correct. You know why he can get away with it because One, he was elected, beat off a recall, and re elected, so he doesn't have to answer to anybody electorally in California. He knows he no matter what he does, his political standing is safe. Two, his donors love this stuff. His donors love it. Understand that I just want to paint the picture of these liberal donors for all of you. These people are watching MSNBC twenty four to seven. These people
are hashtag resistance. Just think about like the way that like maybe you are with Fox News, they are with MSNBC, only they have a billion dollars. Okay, that's the quality of people we're talking about. Like that, that's the kind of people we're talking about here. Imagine your one trumpiest friend who watching, who yells about how Fox News is a bunch of phony conservatives and how you know, has you know, a let's go Brandon flag in
his front yard. Imagine that person only the mirror opposite for the left and with a billion dollars. That's essentially the audience that Gavin Newsom is dancing to dancing for. Okay, he's just trying to get their money. So yeah, this is obviously the politically smart thing for him to do, because these people are They think of Ron DeSantis as the boogeyman. They think of the
overturning of Rov Wade as the greatest disaster since the Hindenburg. They think of you know, they they think that Gavin Newsom bending over backwards to provide abortions for all the black people and all the brown people who mow their lawns, et cetera. They think that's just wonderful, without realizing how unbelievably classist, how unbelievably elitist, how unbelievably dismissive they are. They love this stuff, and that's the audience that Gavin Newsom is doing this for. You know,
so often I say this about liberals in different contexts. You scratch someone who has an altruistic liberal facade. I remember that was a Rushlimbov phrase. Rush would always say about environmentalists that environmentalists were watermelons. They were green on the outside, but you cut into them and actually they're red, because he basically he was trying to say they were all communists. I think with a lot of people who present themselves as altruistic liberals, you scratch that facade and what
you actually find is someone trying to make a lot of money. And that's kind of what Newsom's doing. He's pretending like, oh, I'm doing this altruistic, wonderful thing to help women. Really what does he want? He wants donor dollars, that's what he wants. I have to think of something that's like blue on the outside but green on the inside. They'll see if I can come up with something that works like that for that metaphor, but yeah, or for that analogy. Yeah, but that's what he is doing.
He is pretending like he's this grand, bleeding heart on behalf of the poor, benighted women of Arizona, oppressed by evil conservative laws limiting abortion access as we have to call abortion care, as we euphemistically call it, when actually what he's really doing is a song in dance for the Getty family, for all the big gazillion dollar donors that he knows he's going to have to rely on if he runs for president in twenty twenty eight or possibly twenty twenty
four, because I think that's still in play. Yeah, the Democrats at their convention, they could swap out Joe Biden in a heartbeat. That's still in play. I don't know if they will. I think logistically it would be pretty hard for them to pitch out Kamala Harris, you know, pitch out a black woman for another white guy. But that's what Gavin Newsom is doing. When we return, we'll talk about the MYU just befuddlement at all
the various pro palest Indian student protests. Next on the John Girardi Show. I'm slightly befuddled, slightly befuddled, but maybe not really just a little bit logistically at the wave of student protests that are happening at elite universities all across the country. We're now seeing them. These are coming to California. About ninety students were arrested at USC. I kind of think that ninety students should always be arrested at USC, frankly, just you know, just because being
a Notre Dame grat. But ninety students were arrested for basically basically trying to make these camps. It's not just let's have a protest, let's go back to the dorm. It's we're gonna set up a camp on campus with tents. We're gonna somehow degenerate this into a homeless shelter, almost to protest for Palestine until our demands are met that the university not participates somehow with I don't know, with Israel. It's this bizarre instinct, and I want to tackle
it from just a couple of perspectives. I mean, I was a college student, gosh, I was a college student a fairly long time ago. It is depressing to think about that, I'm eleven years out from law school and therefore fourteen years out from college. But let me just go back in time as I hobble around with my walking stick and my prune juice and just thinking back to my own college experience and my law school experience. All right, I just want to know how these students have the time for all this.
Don't you people have to go to class? Don't you people have to study? Like just the energy for this level of protein. I mean, like, I say this as someone whose literal job is being an activist on behalf of a human rights cause. Like I am an activist against abortion. That is literally what I do. That is literally my job. I don't feel like I have the time for this in college. I certainly didn't. Like. Yes, I get that you think Israeli settlements and the existence of
the state of visits. I get that you think that it's unjust colonialism, but you think the plight of the people of Palestine whatever, it is? All right, fine, don't you have to go to class? Though? How are you doing this? And I think it's a couple of things. First, I wonder how many of these kids are in such Mickey mouse majors that they're able to kind of not really study and still kind of get by two. I sort of wonder some of these universities there's such great inflation that
maybe they can get away with it. My mom pointed out to me when I was talking with her about this yesterday. My mom pointed out to me that Yale shifted its grading scale from a normal like, you know, if you get you know, ninety three and up, it's an A or you know whatever, whatever the grade scale is AA minus B plus whatever. They shifted away from the normal scale with GPA to pass fail. So maybe these kids just don't feel the pressure to actually need to work that hard once they're
actually in the institution. Maybe you just don't have to work that hard depending on your major. And I'm guessing a lot of these kids aren't necessarily engineering majors, although big old protests like this at MIT also where presumably pretty much everyone's then some kind of very difficult major. So I'm just befuddled. So maybe they just have the time. Maybe their professors are also left wing.
I mean, that's that's one of the videos I saw was that there was a professor walk out at I think it was Columbia in defense of their students doing all these horrible protests, which maybe so you're you're just not going to
show up and do your job. It's the weird sort of fairy land that universities exist in sometimes, where like the idea that you don't have to show up for your job because you're upset about a geopolitical issue that your country is involved in indirectly a war that is happening half a world away and the geopolitical fallout of that that that you think that you can therefore not go to work
in solidarity. Like just what a bizarre fairyland that is? I mean, if you know, I'm really upset about Armenia being invaded by Azerbaijan, if I just don't show up at work and my board of directors emails me and says, hey, John, what the heck man? You coming to work? As I know I how can you force me to work while the people of art sook are, you know, being driven from their homes? Like my board will be like, Okay, well, yeah, it's bad that
that's happening, that that is a bad thing. Objectively, yes, you should still go to work though, Like it's it's not. Actually, there's no reason for you not to work as a result of this sad thing, Like it has nothing to do with your life. Actually, it's a sad thing. It's a bad thing. It's an unjust thing, it's an evil thing. It's the thing you can raise your voice about and be an activist over. But you still got to like go to work. And that's sort
of this bizarre attitude that people at universities seem to have. Now, other things I have noticed this is somewhat shifting gears into general youth culture and general youth appearances, and it's probably a sign that I am getting older. But some of these student protests have made me notice this. Almost all of the female students that I see at these protests are sporting piercings through their septum,
which the piece of cartilage that divides your left and right nostrils. Almost every it seems like almost every girl involved with these protests has these septum rings. In Guys, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna come out here, like since I have ceased to be a young person, I'm now thirty six years old, I'm gonna I'm not hip and young and with it anymore. All Right, I have five children. I'm past the point of being hip. I have seen I'm now at the age where I'm starting to see fashion trends come
and go in these cyclical ways. And I can for many of these fashion trends, I can at least understand why someone would perceive a given fashion trend as being esthetically pleasing. I can sometimes understand it. I got it, and I'll say that about I understand that about certain kinds of nose piercings. Okay, I think having a nose piercing like on the side of your nostril, like I wouldn't do it. I would not be thrilled if my wife
did it, or I don't want my daughters to do it. I think kind of the Girardi family policy for piercings is going to be ear lobe for girls, and that's it. But I can kind of understand that having a little thing on the side of your left or right nostril can be kind of cute. I can kind of see that for a pretty girl, like Okay, maybe the septum ring thing. I just don't get it makes it it just all I can think of is a cow a cow with a ring like
that through their nose. It is actively you know, different beauties in the eye of the beholder. Well, I don't think purely beauties in the eye of the beholder. I think there are certain objective things about beauty that are sort of universally true, although to a certain extent, people's tastes vary. No accounting for taste, I get it, different strokes for different folks,
all right, I'm open to that. Just got to say actively repulses me, and I just kind of don't understand who finds that attractive or who finds that aesthetically pleasing. It doesn't seem to be a I don't know. It seems to be hetero. It doesn't seem to be a thing that's differentiated necessarily between heterosexual women versus gay women versus. I don't think it has anything to do with that man. It is just a thing I don't understand. The
other thing I don't understand like that. This has nothing to do with the Palestinian protests. This is just with young Hispanic meals. There's this haircut called the Edgar. And by the way, I say this with love, I do all these educational presentations now through right to life for all kinds of kids, all up and down the valley, all these young Hispanic kids who they will joke with me about this, so I don't feel like I'm stepping on
some racial landmine. There is this haircut among young Hispanic males which is called the Edgar. You young guys who have this haircut, I just want to say, you are gonna look back on this haircut ten years from now, and you are gonna say, why did I have this haircut? I look like such a freaking moron. It is the ugliest hair It looks like a helmet of hair. It's like you have this very aggressive, straight hairline across the top, very thick and full and furry, very severely tapered to a
fade at the sides and back. It's like sometimes you can meld the There are so many varieties of the Edgar, like you can meld it into like a mullet or something like it. It has got to be and it seems to be popular among young Hispanic boys, teenagers. Guys. I love you. I'm pulling for you. You know. I want what's good for you guys in life. I want you to meet that pretty girl, get married, have that white pick of fence. I'm just telling you, guys,
this is the ugliest freaking haircut I've ever seen. Well, the only thing I think is maybe uglier was this was popular maybe about ten years ago. Was for girls like shaving like one side of their hair and then having the rest of their hair long to sort of like flip over it like Miley Cyrus had that going on for a while. Rihanna did it for a bit. That was like the stupidest girl haircut I'd ever seen in my life. So I'm just now, I don't want to act like I'm just picking on.
There are a lot of dumb boy haircuts too. Some boys were doing that kind of stuff too, But just google the Edgar and you will see maybe the absolute ugliest haircut I think I've ever seen in my life. So you young guys out there you're thinking about doing this, I just want to reaffirm for you, nobody ever lost out on a date because they had a crew cut, all right. No girl's ever seen like, like, no girl worth getting has ever seen a guy clean shaven with a crew cut and thought
that guy looks like an idiot. No crewcut basically has a pretty immaculate track record. Okay, so just stick with that, don't overthink it. Stick with a crew cut. Okay, this Edgar thing, I just guarantee you, fifteen years from now you're gonna look at old pictures of yourself with an Edgar haircut and you're gonna think, what was I thinking? That is the
absolute ugliest haircut ever. Now, that has nothing to do with the Palestine protest, but I just thought i'd throw that in when we return the bizarre phenomenon of so called red pill influencers online next on The John Girardi Show. One of the bizarre phenomena of internet culture in the Year of Our Lord twenty
twenty four is the rise of so called red pill male influencers. The term red pill derives from The Matrix, a science fiction movie from about twenty five years ago, wherein the character the main character is unbeknownst to himself, living in a computer simulation and a group of freedom fighters offer him the opportunity to get out of the simulation and see the real world, and so offer him
two choices. One take this red pill and you can see the real world the way the world really is, or take the blue pill and continue to go to sleep and be living in this computer simulation while you were a slave of the machines. So these red pill influencers try to tell you how the
world really works. And they're usually these men who pose themselves as very anti feminist, and for that reason they get this conservative label attached to them in spite of the fact that they're not actually very conservative in any meaningful sense of
the term. One of the bizarre things I keep seeing is that they are getting more and more of a youth following from especially young men who are sometimes from young men who are frustrated by the culture of young liberal women, some men who are maybe just frustrated in love, and they are getting some of the most god awful dating advice from these people possible, some of the most god awful advice for how to relate to women that I can possibly think of,
Because these red pill guys are not exactly like they are not at all. You know guys who want to promote you know, marriage and family in a white pick at fence. No, these are guys who want to promote sleeping around with a whole bunch of women and gambling and you know, being being a badass who you know, is a playboy basically, And one of these leading guys is this guy Andrew Tait, who has a whole pyramid scheme that he runs where basically what he does is he promotes OnlyFans models. These
are women who take off their clothes for money on the internet. So yeah, not exactly, you know, Ronald Reagan Conservatism, not exactly jump all the second Christian fidelity here. Yeah, he's a total sleeze ball who has been arrested in Romania on sex trafficking charges. And he keeps he's so far into this pretending he's an ultra masculine man that he's now at the point of
trying to say that like, basically he converted to is He didn't. Basically, he says he converted to Islam because they have a better approach to women than Christianity does. Also because he likes polygamy. I guess now he's into that. He basically says what he's now at the point though, of almost sounding like, I mean, it's it's completely insane the levels he's gotten to where he says, basically, sex for anything other than reproduction is gay.
I mean, look, I'm Catholic. I believe what the church teaches about contraception. I don't know. I think God, I don't know. I think sexual relations with a woman you love pretty enjoyable thing. Just just my just my two cents on the whole controversy. I don't know, my wild and crazy opinion. Uh yeah, So if any of when you hear of your kids listening to Andrew Tait, watching Andrew Tait YouTube videos or something, take their phone or their laptop whatever they're watching him on and throw it in
the garbage. It's straight up lunatic idiocy. That'll do it for the John Girardi Show. We'll see you next time on Power Talk.