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Tech journalist Kara Swisher made an ominous prediction recently on her Pivot podcast regarding the future of LGBTQ rights in the U.S.
Swisher and co-host Scott Galloway regularly end their episodes with predictions and Swisher went first at the end of last week, saying, “I’m going to make a very short one.”
“Italy just passed an anti-surrogacy law, and it’s very much aimed at gay men having children and taking away parental abilities for gay people, not women. Many of them have uteruses, but and can’t be stopped from having children, although maybe that’s also in the offing there,” Swisher said, adding:
This is coming to this country, this kind of attitude towards, you know, everyone’s like, don’t panic. When we all said Roe v. Wade is going to get overturned, it means like you’re over you know, you’re being dramatic. Nobody was dramatic dramatically saying this. I listen to what the evangelicals say and the right and they are very much against gay marriage, gay parenting.
“What happened in Italy, which is heinous. And Giorgia go fuck yourself, you terrible, heinous shrew,” Swisher continued, swiping at Italy’s right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
“I think that this is going to be coming here. These ideas of pushing back on gay marriage, gay having kids. And I have you know, the fact that JD Vance hasn’t said anything about this since he’s pro-family. And again, I have one more child than he does. This is really dangerous. I think what’s happening in Italy and I hope it doesn’t happen here, but I listen to what the right says and they have it out for gay marriage and gay parenting. So there you have it,” Swisher concluded.
“If you really cared about families and wanted more kids, you’d put more money in the pockets of young people. 60% of able-bodied Americans age 30 to 34, used to have at least one child. Now it’s 27%. And I don’t think it’s because they’re turned off of kids. I think it’s because they don’t have the money,” replied Galloway.
After a back and forth on the topic, Swisher noted, “Let me be clear about that. By the way, on this bill, it already extends a practice inside the country to also include those who seek it out in places where it is legal, such as the U.S. or Canada. So they can’t travel or they have, there’s prison two years in prison and fines. And again, Giorgia Meloni can go fuck herself.”
Listen to the full episode here.
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