“Menstruating Person” Accuses Greg Abbott of Ignorance

BUCK: You no doubt are familiar with Ms. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, better known as AOC, and she is the member of Congress who can certainly get the most headlines. Pelosi is the most powerful Democrat in Congress, but AOC can just flip open her phone, do a live stream, and get CNN levels of viewership from her phone, it seems.

It’s pretty amazing to watch it play out in real time, especially given how I just believe she’s a very, very ignorant person without a particularly developed knowledge of really anything other than progressive slogans and sloganeering. She’s also somebody who is, of course, always very critical of people on the right for not “following the science.”

Meanwhile, on issues like the Texas heartbeat bill, people like AOC will refer to… Well, I want you to just listen to this clip. This is on CNN. Listen to the different ways you and I, Clay, would describe women — pretty straightforward — the ways that she replaces that term.

OCASIO-CORTEZ: When we talk about the law that was passed in Texas, we know that anti-choice bills are not about being pro-life, because if they were about being pro-life, then the Republican Party would support, frankly, an agenda that helps guaranteed health care, that helps ensure that people (pause) who do give birth that don’t have the resources, uh, to care for a child can have that care for a child so we know that none of this is about life.

None of this is about supporting life! What this is about is controlling women’s bodies and controlling people who are not cisgender men. This is about making sure that someone like me as a woman — or any menstruating person in this country — cannot make decisions over their own body. And people like Governor Abbott and Mitch McConnell want to have more control over — over a woman’s body than that woman or that person has over themselves.

BUCK: Okay, Clay. I took notes on this one. A, “people who give birth,” also known as women, “menstruating person,” also known as a woman, but they will not use that term because, as you know, leftist orthodoxy is now that “women” can have male genitalia and “men” can give birth.

CLAY: It’s mind-blowing how broken the logic is for people like AOC. And you can even hear her in her head thinking about it. Instead of just saying “women,” she’s thinking “menstruating… menstruating person?” You can’t even say “pregnant woman” anymore? It’s gotta be “pregnant person” for the AOCs of the world?

“Birthing persons” instead of moms? I mean, this is all chaotic. And where it leads is reasonable people across the country hear language like this, and it doesn’t connect with their life experience — and when you don’t connect with people’s life experience, you know what happens in elections? You get your ass kicked, and that’s where Democrats are headed.