Joe Rogan on Alabama's Controversial Abortion Law

Oh my god. Yeah, that's how it would go at the Comedy Cellar. Like, just like this fucking dunce, it would count. Dude, I hear that the Comedy Cellar is like, seriously, has a social justice war infestation. Like, they need to like, spray the place. Oh, I don't, I mean, when I've been there, it hasn't been like that. That's right here. I mean, there have been people writing about it. There have been, I mean, it's like, the Comedy Cellar is like the main hub of culture now. The main hub of wokeness? Yeah, I mean, but it's also like the main battlefield of wokeness where it's like, Louis came, and they were protesters, and then I couldn't sit at the table. And I, because it's like, all right, I mean, I don't think it's- Pull your dick out. Yeah, exactly. Someone told Louis to pull her dick out, and she was a hero. I was quoting all these tweets that were talking about it, and articles that were written, hero, she was heroic. I think someone sent me a Louis article today. I think there's just fatigue at this point. Yes. I think people are just like, what's he, I don't, okay. Like try to find a new Stormy Daniels article. Yeah. Everybody's like, enough. Yeah. We thought it was gonna work, it didn't work. He doesn't give a fuck. He doesn't give a fuck. Ah, fuck. He doesn't care, shit. Dude, Justin Martindale was in, I'll never forget, he's in the fucking hallway of the Comedy Store, as flamboyant as he could ever be. And he goes, that's our Monica Lewinsky. She's gonna take him down. I'm like, good luck. Stormy Daniels? Yeah, I'm like, good luck. I ain't gonna do shit. Yeah. So what's the worst thing that comes out of this? That he fucked her? Or that he paid her to keep quiet and she didn't keep quiet? What's the worst thing? Do we think he doesn't fuck? Yeah, it's all different strains. I'm like, we knew he was gross. No one cared. The only way that we'll, it goes he raises taxes, or then he'll lose his base, or you raise his taxes on lower middle class people. And if he doesn't stand by his abortion stuff. But otherwise, all the donors are sticking with him. Everyone's sticking with him. What happened yesterday? There was a new abortion ruling. Was it in Alabama? Yes. That literally outlawed. I personally believe it's gonna backfire. You think so? Yeah, because I think people, the thing that's always been true was Republicans were against abortion. And they would go like, and they never got to repeal it. Right? I think they're gonna repeal it. And then people are gonna go like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is crazy. If you don't wanna get abortions, fine. But you can't change a law based on, a lot of times not even a plurality of, in general elections, in the general presidential election. It's not even the majority of the country that elects the president now. Who voted? Was this something that the people of Alabama voted on? No, it's the government, the state legislature. That is a slippery slope. Yeah. It's like you're doing 99 years in jail if you give an abortion or get one, yeah. Really? That's what it is now? Yeah, that's what it's gonna, that's the law that they passed. I just personally believe that, I mean, I'm obviously hopeful, but it's a bit like, nah, that's too far. It's a bit like when they made Clinton testify and people are like, ah, that was too, that was like the too far, the align was crossed when they made Clinton testify about his sex life. And it was like, we don't like that. We understand that you wanted to rebuke the guy, but don't make the president. And I feel like I'm hoping, and I believe it's true, that it will be too far afield for moderate people. I hope you're right. And it's just, it's very dangerous when you just decide that no one can do it anymore based on a few people's decision that is gonna affect the millions of people that live in Alabama. Well, also abortion laws are odd because the assumption is, the reason Christians wanna outlaw it is because they think God is gonna say, what's with your vote on that? I saw that you voted for abortion. You wanna kill babies? Yeah, so you wanna kill babies? Like, well, no, I didn't kill any babies, yeah, but you voted for it. It's like, they don't wanna live in a country where that's legal. Having said that, if you Google the worldwide rights of abortion, it's not legal everywhere, which surprised me because I was like, what is America's, where do we stand within the rest of the world? And there are not a ton of countries, but there's, I think it's illegal in a quarter of the world. Wow. If not more. Well, abortion is one of those things where it's like, okay, when does it bother you? Doesn't bother me at all if you're two days pregnant. Doesn't bother me at all. It bothers me a little if you're four months pregnant. It bothers me a lot if you're five or six. It bothers me a lot. If you look really pregnant, you get an abortion, it's like, what is that? Is that a baby that would be viable outside of the womb? Because it's one of those, it's something that people just have a deep discomfort about when discussing, even if you're a supporter of it, if you just discuss the actual reality of what it is, what the act is, what this surgical procedure is, and it makes, you know, it's not like- It's not nothing. That's the thing, it's not nothing. And I think that one of the indicators is it's not nothing, and I'm pro-choice. As on. Yeah, like, you're right-wing, Joe, everybody knows that. Super, so I'm so far right, I go the other way, I'm left. Tension on the backside. I actually do wanna talk about the presumption about you. That one of the indicators is when people talk about even getting an abortion, they always whisper about it. And I don't know if it's because of the stigma, or because it's kinda not nothing. Yeah, it's a personal thing too, I don't think they wanna discuss it with other folks. But I wouldn't care if I got a cyst removed, I mean, if that's the indication. Right, it's just that. Yeah, if it's just a medical procedure, and again, pro-choice, have at it. I've never, I haven't had any abortions that I know of, but I don't know at what point I'd be like, ah! And these attitudes about it, about the taboo of discussing it though, it impedes rational discourse, it impedes your ability to talk about things and communicate about them. Because you have to have this very rigid opinion that you're always pro-abortion, pro-women's rights, women's right to choose, which I am. But we're still talking about a real thing, and that real thing is killing a thing that would grow up to be a person, and that's why people freak out about it. And to pretend it otherwise is just disingenuous. Louis was the first one I heard talk about that on stage in a way that was funny, where like, if they think they're murdering babies down there, yeah, I'd protest too. If I thought they were, if there was a place that I thought these people are murdering babies, I'm out there every day. He's like, I don't care. I personally think they are murdering babies, I don't care. I'm just scared.