0:00

My own personal experience with abortion,

0:02

and I don't think we talk about this enough, abortion

0:04

can be another word for mercy.

0:06

Our country has f****** failed

0:08

us! I'm

0:13

very excited about this daily cancellation. I finally

0:15

get a chance to cancel Anne

0:18

Hathaway. I've held a grudge against

0:20

this woman ever since my wife, early

0:22

in our marriage, forced me to go to the theater with

0:24

her, with her mom and her sister, to

0:26

watch Les Miserables. It was the worst

0:29

experience of my life. Every

0:32

actor in the film was deeply and painfully

0:34

annoying. None of them would stop

0:36

singing at all. They sang the entire

0:39

time from start to finish. Yet even in mid-stall

0:41

of that, Anne Hathaway managed to be irritating

0:45

and insufferable on a level that even Russell Crowe's

0:47

blubbering off-key performance couldn't reach.

0:50

A couple of years later,

0:52

I went with much higher hopes to go see Interstellar.

0:55

And there was Anne Hathaway again, helping to ruin

0:57

the film with her cringey saccharine speeches

1:00

about the transcendent power of love. I

1:02

wanted to see a movie about deep space exploration.

1:05

I was hoping there'd be aliens.

1:06

Instead, I got no aliens, only a little bit of space

1:08

exploration in exchange for a lot of scenes of

1:11

Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain sulking

1:13

and whining and giving corny sermons.

1:16

You son of a b****. The only thing that would have

1:18

made it worse is if they started singing. Can you hear the

1:20

people sing? But

1:22

thankfully, they didn't.

1:23

All that to say, this

1:26

cancellation is a long time coming. Hathaway's

1:28

appearance this week on The View has, I think, finally

1:31

provided me the opportunity that

1:33

I've been waiting for. Let's watch.

1:35

The devil is proud. It didn't turn 16 this

1:38

summer. Yes. The time flies, boy. So

1:40

you wrote this on Instagram, quote, I am

1:42

struck by the fact that the young female characters

1:44

in this movie built their lives and careers

1:47

in a country that honored their right to have choice

1:49

over their own reproductive health. See

1:51

you in the fight.

1:52

So why did you write that? Why was

1:54

it important to you to write

1:56

something like that? Because we're in the fight.

1:59

Yeah. We're in the fight every day, we're in the fight every

2:01

minute. And you mentioned the devil was proud of turning sweet 16.

2:05

Some 16 year olds life has been irrevocably

2:07

changed because of the current

2:10

overturning of Roe v. Wade. I think about

2:12

it all the time. I think we all think about it all the time. And

2:16

what its implications are. And

2:19

what it means to live in a country that

2:22

puts us in this position. Again.

2:25

Again. Freaking again. Yeah. Again.

2:29

Here we go again. This is not a moral

2:32

conversation about abortion. This

2:34

is a practical conversation about women's

2:36

rights. And by the way, human rights, because

2:39

women's rights are human rights. And

2:41

the freedom that we all need to be able to

2:43

choose and build our lives

2:45

and have access to excellent health

2:47

care.

2:48

So

2:49

let's try to sift through this. She says

2:51

that it grieves her to consider

2:54

that the young female characters in Devil

2:56

Wears Prada would not be able to have

2:58

abortions if the film was set in the current day.

3:00

It is to begin with extremely strange

3:02

to worry about the availability of abortion

3:04

for fictional characters. Also again, not

3:07

having seen it, my impression is that the movie

3:09

has a rather dim view of selfish

3:11

career obsessed people. That's

3:14

like the Devil Wears Prada. That's

3:16

part of the moral of the story from what

3:19

I understand is that there's more to life than

3:21

professional ambition. Yet Hathaway's

3:23

takeaway is that women need to be

3:25

able to kill their children so they can focus more on career

3:27

advancement. There seems to be a little bit

3:29

of a disconnect here. She also speaks about reproductive

3:32

destiny, which of course is exactly the sort of asinine

3:35

hackneyed phrase you would expect and

3:37

Hathaway to use when discussing abortion.

3:40

It's not

3:42

the sort of wording that I would ever choose, but

3:45

since she brought it up, let

3:47

us ask this question. Once a woman

3:49

has conceived a child, what

3:52

is her reproductive destiny? The

3:54

word destiny implies a force outside

3:57

of the individual, a message, a mission. from

4:00

beyond ourselves. So what is this

4:02

force? Call it nature, call it the universe, call

4:04

it as I do, God. What is this

4:06

force trying to say to the woman?

4:09

What is her destiny now that she has conceived the child

4:11

in her womb? Is it her destiny to partake

4:13

in the joy and beauty and fulfillment of motherhood?

4:16

Good idea, oh Lord. Of course it's a good

4:18

idea. Or is it her destiny to

4:20

pay some abortionist to kill her baby and throw

4:22

his body into a medical waste dumpster? I

4:24

would say the former. Indeed, how could it be anyone's

4:27

reproductive destiny to reject

4:30

their reproductive capacity and violently

4:32

destroy the human life that they have reproduced? To

4:35

call such a choice reproductive destiny seems

4:38

bizarre to say the least. Hathaway also claims

4:40

that she's not interested in having a moral conversation

4:43

about abortion, but rather a practical conversation

4:45

about women's rights. Well,

4:47

except that a conversation about

4:49

rights is automatically a conversation

4:52

about morality.

4:53

You cannot extract the concept

4:55

of morality from the concept

4:57

of human rights. A practical

4:59

conversation, a real practical conversation,

5:02

is one that is not concerned with theories or ideas

5:05

at all. But human rights

5:07

are a theory, they are an idea.

5:09

They're a moral idea. That isn't to say they don't exist,

5:12

but rather that they exist in the moral

5:14

realm. They don't exist physically, practically,

5:17

like a chair or a rock or the ocean exists.

5:20

So to say that you don't wanna talk about morality,

5:22

you just wanna talk about human rights, that is to speak

5:25

gibberish. Human rights are a

5:27

moral concept. The minute you

5:29

bring them up, you have entered into the moral

5:31

realm. But that's not where Anne Hathaway wants

5:34

to be because she knows that she can't actually

5:36

defend abortion on moral grounds.

5:38

None of these people can.

5:40

And that's the issue. But she had more to say, and it only

5:42

gets dumber from here, so let's continue.

5:44

Without going to too many details, my

5:46

own personal experience with abortion,

5:48

and I don't think we talk about this enough, abortion

5:51

can be another word for mercy. What

5:52

is she saying?

5:54

We know that no two pregnancies

5:56

are alike, and it follows that no two lives are

5:58

alike, that follows that no two.

5:59

two conceptions are alike. So

6:02

how can we have a law? How can we have

6:04

a point of view on this that

6:07

says we must treat everything the same? And where

6:09

I come at it from is when you allow

6:11

for choice, you allow for flexibility,

6:14

which is what we need in order

6:16

to be human.

6:18

Abortion is another word for mercy, she

6:21

says, but mercy for whom? Genocide.

6:24

Mercy. Mercy for the child who's being killed, that's not

6:26

mercy. The child has an entire life ahead of him,

6:29

or he should, you're taking that away.

6:31

You're deciding for him that his life is not

6:33

worth living. You're erasing all of his potential,

6:36

all that could have been. There's no mercy

6:38

on that. It's the opposite of mercy because it's

6:40

the opposite of empathy,

6:42

and you can't have mercy without empathy. Or do

6:44

you mean that it's merciful to the woman?

6:46

Are you saying that killing a child is an act of

6:48

mercy to the child's mother?

6:50

Well, no, mercy to the mother is to help

6:53

her, to give her the resources she needs.

6:55

Mercy is what pregnancy centers

6:57

provide. Mercy is their ministry. It's

6:59

what they do.

7:00

Abortion clinics, on the other hand, are vultures. They

7:03

prey on fear and misery. They cash

7:05

in on it. They feed off of it. They profit off of it. They

7:07

sell guilt. They sell regret. They sell loneliness.

7:10

While taking away

7:12

the love and joy

7:14

of motherhood. That's not mercy, it's mercenary.

7:17

So whichever way Hathaway meant it, she's

7:19

wrong. Though I'm not sure she knows how she

7:21

meant it because she's just babbling, which

7:23

is what most defenses of abortion boil down to.

7:26

Incoherent, babbling. And

7:28

that is why Anne Hathaway is today,

7:30

finally, after all these years, cancer.

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For our daily cancellation,

9:02

we turn to American Idol. Most

9:05

interesting thing about this show is that

9:07

it is apparently still on the air.

9:10

I don't know if it's an indication that I'm out of touch

9:12

or that American Idol is irrelevant, but

9:14

until this moment, I thought American Idol was canceled

9:17

years ago.

9:18

Be that as it may, it was back in the cultural

9:20

conversation ever so briefly this week, but not

9:22

for anything related to music or singing. Instead, it was

9:24

the story of one contestant,

9:26

and more specifically, a judge's reaction

9:28

to that story, but had people

9:31

talking, watch. In May 2018,

9:35

a gunman walked into my school. I

9:38

was in art room one, and he

9:41

shot up art room two before

9:43

he made his way to art room one. Lost

9:47

a lot of friends. Eight

9:50

students were killed, two

9:52

teachers were killed, and it's just

9:55

really been negative, man. Santa Fe's had a bad

9:57

rap year since 2018. What

10:06

you doing, Katie? Our

10:08

country has failed

10:10

us. Facts.

10:13

This is not okay. You

10:15

should be singing here because you love music.

10:18

It's true. Not because you have

10:20

to go through that. I

10:23

agree. You didn't have to lose eight

10:26

friends. I hope that

10:28

you remind people that we

10:30

have to change. Because,

10:32

you know what, I'm scared too. They

10:35

ask you how you are and

10:36

you just have to say that you're fine. When you're not really

10:38

fine, you just can't get into it because they would never

10:40

understand. Now, before we deal with the

10:43

substance of Katie Perry's response to

10:45

the extent that it had any substance, we cannot

10:47

ignore the incredible narcissism

10:49

on display here by her. You

10:51

know what, I'm scared too.

10:52

He is calmly recounting his own

10:55

horrific experience and Perry

10:57

uses it as a platform to put on this

11:00

over-the-top emotional performance.

11:02

She even relates it back to herself somehow

11:05

as her fellow judges comfort her. They

11:07

start patting her on the back and comforting her

11:10

while the kid who was actually in the shooting stands

11:12

there and watches. Here's a hint. If someone is

11:14

telling you about something awful that happened

11:16

to them,

11:17

your response should not contain

11:20

the words I or me unless

11:23

you're saying something like, I'm so

11:25

sorry or I'm here for you.

11:27

But if you're attempting to put yourself at the center

11:29

of this person's suffering or

11:31

deflect from it so that the focus is on you

11:33

and your own emotions,

11:35

then you are a classic narcissist. And

11:38

maybe worst of all, you're creating an incredibly

11:40

awkward situation for everyone else who

11:42

has to be in the room with your lack

11:44

of self-awareness. I can only imagine how comfortable it

11:46

must have been for that young man to be standing there

11:49

not sure what to say or how to respond as Katy

11:51

Perry launches into her camera-ready monologue

11:53

like she's auditioning for a soap opera.

11:57

You know what, I'm scared too.

11:59

by the way, considering

12:01

that the judges would have known ahead of time that

12:03

a contestant was coming up who'd been in

12:05

a mass shooting. I mean, I understand that

12:08

this is a very cynical interpretation of events,

12:11

but I've been around long enough and I've been in media

12:13

long enough and I've met enough of these sorts

12:15

of people

12:16

to justify my cynicism. But what about the

12:18

actual point she was making in her scripted

12:20

diatribe? She says that the country has failed

12:23

the victims and survivors of this school shooting. And

12:26

of course she means specifically that it failed by

12:28

not passing enough gun control laws to

12:30

prevent the shooting from happening. Nevermind that the shooter

12:32

already broke a dozen different laws in

12:35

carrying out his crime.

12:36

It's unclear how exactly it would

12:38

have helped to add one or two

12:41

more laws onto the pile that the killer was

12:43

already determined to disregard. You

12:45

can only make an act illegal so

12:47

many times before the laws start to become

12:50

redundant and therefore useless. Yet

12:53

this is what we so often do in our culture. When

12:55

a bad thing happens, we declare that

12:57

the bad thing is the result of some sort of failure.

13:00

It's always a systemic failure.

13:02

Failure of government, of policy.

13:04

People like Katy Perry take solace in the idea that

13:07

all tragedies are policy failures

13:09

because, and really all bad things. You

13:11

know, they say poverty is a policy failure

13:13

too.

13:14

Because for one thing it gives them an excuse to push

13:16

their political agenda obviously, but for another it comforts

13:18

them to think that the right policies,

13:21

if we could finally land on them,

13:23

would banish all the bad things from our midst.

13:26

When Perry says that the country failed because there

13:28

was a school shooting,

13:29

what she means is that we ought to have

13:31

a country where there are no shootings

13:33

at all. And she's right, in

13:35

the sense that every mass shooting and every bad thing

13:38

shouldn't happen, that's why it's a very bad thing. If

13:40

something is evil, like any evil shouldn't happen.

13:43

But Perry, like any other leftist, believes that

13:45

a country without any murder, without any

13:47

bad people doing bad things, is actually

13:50

practically achievable

13:52

and that it can be achieved through policy. The

13:54

irony, of course, is that the utopianists

13:56

who imagine that a world of perfect peace and harmony

13:59

can really be achieved. 10 through

14:01

their policies to create a world that is ever

14:03

farther away from peace and harmony. Worlds

14:06

like the world of Chicago, for example.

14:08

People with Katy Perry's worldview

14:11

run most of our major American cities, and

14:13

most of our major American cities are violent crime

14:15

and disease-ridden hellholes. Which actually isn't

14:17

all that ironic when you realize

14:19

that effective governance means understanding

14:22

human nature. And understanding human nature means

14:24

acknowledging that bad people will

14:27

always exist and they will always do bad

14:29

things. It's still true that a school shooting

14:31

represents a failure. In fact, it's a whole series

14:34

of failures.

14:36

But they're mostly the kinds of failures that Katy Perry

14:38

and her ilk never want to talk about. And

14:40

they're the kinds of failures we skip over, focusing

14:42

instead on debates over gun control.

14:45

And that itself is also a failure. One

14:49

which only ensures that this kind of thing will keep

14:51

happening with the same or greater

14:53

frequency.

14:55

And that is why Katy Perry is

14:57

today, finally canceled.