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Ep. 6: Most. Corrupt. Supreme Court. Ever. Plus: What Happens If (When) We Win? · The Opinionated Ogre Podcast

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  SPEAKER_03: Welcome to this second recording of episode six of the Opinionated Ogre podcast,
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  SPEAKER_03: because I screwed it up the first time,
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  SPEAKER_03: all 45 minutes of it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's start again.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right.
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  SPEAKER_03: So...
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  SPEAKER_03: Welcome to Episode 6 of the Opinionator Ogre Podcast,
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  SPEAKER_03: where I did not think it was possible for me to have any less respect for Clarence
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  SPEAKER_03: Thomas or Samuel Alito,
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  SPEAKER_03: and yet,
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  SPEAKER_03: they keep finding new ways to noisy-ate me.
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  SPEAKER_03: I've got an unusually big show for you this week,
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  SPEAKER_03: now that I'm recording it a second time,
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  SPEAKER_03: since I could not contain my aggravation while working on the script.
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  SPEAKER_03: Bear with me as I rant about the undercover recording of Alito and his nutty wife
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  SPEAKER_03: being absolute assholes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Clarence Thomas being the most corrupt justice in American history.
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  SPEAKER_03: Trump's dangerous turn to full-fledged anti-vaxxerism.
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  SPEAKER_03: Republicans trying to rewrite history itself right in front of us.
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  SPEAKER_03: And oh my God,
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  SPEAKER_03: the sheer stupidity and desperation of the right trying to declare a mistrial in
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  SPEAKER_03: New York is really something else to see.
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  SPEAKER_03: After all of that,
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  SPEAKER_03: we'll get to the main part of the show,
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  SPEAKER_03: the Ogre Opinion,
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  SPEAKER_03: in which we answer a question not enough people are asking.
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  SPEAKER_03: What if we win?
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  SPEAKER_03: So, let's get to it.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's time for the Ogre Nation News Update.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're starting with this week's biggest story.
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  SPEAKER_03: No, not Hunter Biden's guilty verdict for crimes almost no one is actually ever charged for.
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  SPEAKER_03: He's not running for office, so I don't really give a shit.
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  SPEAKER_03: I am,
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  SPEAKER_03: however,
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  SPEAKER_03: looking forward to Republicans trying to make that a campaign issue while ignoring
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  SPEAKER_03: Donald Trump's 34 felony convictions.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now,
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  SPEAKER_03: what we're actually starting with is Samuel Alito and his wife,
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  SPEAKER_03: both of them far-right,
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  SPEAKER_03: theocratic assholes.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is from CNN.
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  SPEAKER_03: A left-wing activist on Monday released secret recordings of Supreme Court Justice
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  SPEAKER_03: Samuel Alito and his wife,
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  SPEAKER_03: as well as Chief Justice John Roberts,
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  SPEAKER_03: discussing a range of politically sensitive topics.
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  SPEAKER_03: The left-wing activist, by the way, is reporter Lauren Windsor.
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  SPEAKER_03: In a conversation with the activist,
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  SPEAKER_03: who represented herself as a religious conservative and did not disclose in the
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  SPEAKER_03: recordings she released that she was producing them and would make them public...
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  SPEAKER_03: I just got to take a quick moment here to point out the framing here.
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  SPEAKER_03: CNN is framing this as the most, they're framing this to be, to sound dishonest.
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  SPEAKER_03: And undercover reporting is a long tradition in journalism.
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  SPEAKER_03: They don't always show up with a badge saying, I'm from CNN.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm from MSNBC.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm from New York Times.
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  SPEAKER_03: A lot of journalists go undercover to get a story.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is a normal thing because sometimes you can't get people to talk to you if
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  SPEAKER_03: they know you're a reporter.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're certainly not going to be honest if they're scumbagging nefarious people like the Alitos.
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  SPEAKER_03: And yet CNN is just portraying this.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're framing this as something dishonest, just the way they're putting it in there.
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  SPEAKER_03: When they would report on Project Veritas,
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  SPEAKER_03: which this is very much like Project Veritas,
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  SPEAKER_03: except,
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  SPEAKER_03: of course,
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  SPEAKER_03: she's not lying about it.
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  SPEAKER_03: But when CNN would report on Project Veritas stuff, this is not how they framed it.
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  SPEAKER_03: They wouldn't do that.
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  SPEAKER_03: They would neglect to mention that Project Veritas was editing all of their stuff
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  SPEAKER_03: to fill a particular narrative,
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  SPEAKER_03: and then they would just get around to mentioning that later.
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  SPEAKER_03: But,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: of course,
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  SPEAKER_03: since this made a Republican look bad,
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  SPEAKER_03: CNN is going out of its way to frame this as something dishonest and underhanded,
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  SPEAKER_03: which it's not.
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  SPEAKER_03: Anyway, back to CNN.
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  SPEAKER_03: Justice Alito endorses her suggestion that,
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  SPEAKER_03: quote,
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  SPEAKER_03: people in this country who believe in God have got to keep fighting for that to
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  SPEAKER_03: return our country to a place of godliness.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, I agree with you.
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  SPEAKER_03: I agree with you, Alito says.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm going to play a bit of this clip here.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's like six minutes long.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm not going to play the entire thing because, well, you know, that would be boring as hell.
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  SPEAKER_03: So you have to listen a little carefully.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not as loud as I would like it, but here.
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  SPEAKER_01: But,
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  SPEAKER_01: and I'm sure you don't remember this at all,
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  SPEAKER_01: but what I had asked you about was about the polarization in this country.
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  SPEAKER_01: About, like, how do we repair that risk?
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  SPEAKER_01: And considering everything that's been going on in the past year,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: as a Catholic and as someone who,
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  SPEAKER_01: like,
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  SPEAKER_01: really cherishes my faith,
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  SPEAKER_01: I just don't know that we can negotiate for the left in the way that needs to
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  SPEAKER_01: happen for the polarization to end.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that it's a matter of winning.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think you're probably right.
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  SPEAKER_02: One side or the other is going to win.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, there can be...
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  SPEAKER_02: a way of working a way of living together peacefully but it's difficult you know
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  SPEAKER_02: because there are differences on fundamental things that really can't be
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  SPEAKER_02: compromised I wrote about this yesterday he's just flat out saying he's incapable
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  SPEAKER_03: of compromising
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  SPEAKER_03: Which is, you know, that alone is ridiculous.
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  SPEAKER_03: And not what a Supreme Court justice is supposed to be doing on the bench.
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  SPEAKER_03: And godliness, there's no fucking godliness in the Constitution.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's not the rule of law speaking.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's Alito's far-right religious bullshit speaking.
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  SPEAKER_03: He just admitted that he's not guided by the law or the Constitution or anything
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  SPEAKER_03: this country was founded on,
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  SPEAKER_03: but rather by his own personal devotion to religion.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's the most un-American thing imaginable, and that alone should see him removed from the bench.
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  SPEAKER_03: If Elena Kagan said she put God before the Constitution in ruling on the death
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  SPEAKER_03: penalty or anything,
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  SPEAKER_03: Republicans would set the country on fire.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, here's a clip of Alito's white trash wife, Martha Ann.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I want?
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  SPEAKER_00: I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag because I have to look across the lagoon at the
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  SPEAKER_00: Pride flag for the next month.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, oh, please don't put up a flag.
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  SPEAKER_00: I said, I won't do it because I'm deferring to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when you are free of this nonsense, I'm putting it up and I'm going to send them a message every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe every week I'll be changing the flags.
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  SPEAKER_00: There'll be all kinds.
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  SPEAKER_00: I made a flag in my head.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is how I satisfy myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I made a flag.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's white.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has yellow and orange flames around it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the middle is the word vergogna.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vergogna in Italian means shame.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vergogna.
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  SPEAKER_00: V-E-R-G-O-G-N-A.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vergogna.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shame, shame, shame on you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know.
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  SPEAKER_03: So she sounds stable.
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  SPEAKER_03: Actually, she sounds like a raving piece of shit who's just mean and nasty and vicious.
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  SPEAKER_03: So remember,
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  SPEAKER_03: the whole thing was supposed to be between her and her neighbors was like,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  SPEAKER_03: the neighbor started fighting.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's like, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm pretty sure the neighbor didn't start the fight.
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  SPEAKER_03: She sounds like exactly that.
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  SPEAKER_03: She sounds like a Karen.
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  SPEAKER_03: who would just see something she doesn't like and just felt entitled to start
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  SPEAKER_03: yelling at you,
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  SPEAKER_03: like,
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  SPEAKER_03: how dare you?
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  SPEAKER_03: I am the great and mighty wife of Samuel Alito.
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  SPEAKER_03: How dare you do something in my presence?
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  SPEAKER_03: She sounds like that type of person.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now,
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  SPEAKER_03: hilariously,
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  SPEAKER_03: at one point in her in this video,
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  SPEAKER_03: she complains that feminazis wanted her husband to control her,
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  SPEAKER_03: which is actually the opposite of what feminists say.
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  SPEAKER_03: It is, however, quite literally what the patriarchal right says out loud all the time.
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  SPEAKER_03: Martha Ann is all about being her own woman,
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  SPEAKER_03: even as her theocratic husband rules that women have no rights.
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  SPEAKER_03: The hypocrisy is jaw-dropping, but that's who these people are.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is what fascism is.
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  SPEAKER_03: Rules for thee, not for me.
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  SPEAKER_03: She's literally bragging about how free she is while she is desperately longing for
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  SPEAKER_03: a world where women are subjugated to the will of men in the name of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_03: I hope they both burn in hell.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, we're not done with the high court and the corrupt Republican assholes infesting it.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's bad enough that these people are fascist theocrats, but the naked greed is off the charts.
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  SPEAKER_03: The watchdog group Fix the Court was kind enough to add up all of the gifts the
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  SPEAKER_03: justices received in the last 20 years and oh my fucking God.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is from the UPI.
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  SPEAKER_03: Data released Thursday by judiciary watchdog Fix the Court found the high court's
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  SPEAKER_03: nine justices have accepted 344 gifts valued at almost $3 million since 2004.
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  SPEAKER_03: Adding 202 gifts for eight justices who have stepped down since then,
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  SPEAKER_03: that number grows to over $4.7 million.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thomas alone has accepted 193 gifts valued at over $4 million.
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  SPEAKER_03: The report also noted the George H.W.
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  SPEAKER_03: Bush appointee received an additional 126, quote, likely but not confirmed gifts.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, it's been estimated that Thomas has another 2 million in unreported bribes.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I mean, gifts.
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  SPEAKER_03: So just to be clear,
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  SPEAKER_03: in the last 20 years,
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  SPEAKER_03: 17 Supreme Court justices have received around $5 million in gifts.
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  SPEAKER_03: More than $4 million of that went to Clarence Thomas alone.
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  SPEAKER_03: And that's not including another $1 to $2 million he still hasn't reported,
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  SPEAKER_03: presumably because he forgot to list them on his financial disclosure forms.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is where I remind you that Thomas started to complain all the way back in 2000.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, he wasn't making enough money as a Supreme Court justice.
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  SPEAKER_03: He and his treasonous wife wanted to live large,
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  SPEAKER_03: and he was thinking about residing so he could make more money.
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  SPEAKER_03: Suddenly,
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  SPEAKER_03: like magic,
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  SPEAKER_03: after a decade of being on the court,
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  SPEAKER_03: billionaire friends showed up and started lavishing money.
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  SPEAKER_03: gifts on thomas and his family free vacations a free rv worth a quarter of a
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  SPEAKER_03: million dollars his mother's house paid for it and she got to live there for free
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  SPEAKER_03: his adopted son's schooling fully paid for so generous so wonderful all because
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  SPEAKER_03: they just like clarence thomas so very much no other reason
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  SPEAKER_03: Of course,
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  SPEAKER_03: after a few years of living la vida loca,
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  SPEAKER_03: Thomas would do anything to keep that money spigot open.
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  SPEAKER_03: It doesn't matter if he's broadly ideologically aligned with these billionaire scumbags.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now he has to rule the way they want, or they'll stop paying for his free trips to private islands.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's how bribery works.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's the corrosive effect of corruption.
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  SPEAKER_03: Alito and Scalia got a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of stuff,
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  SPEAKER_03: but I haven't looked at the breakdown,
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  SPEAKER_03: so I don't know if it was in like big chunks or stretched out over 10 or 20 years.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's still not great.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_03: Fox News,
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  SPEAKER_03: however,
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  SPEAKER_03: threw a huge temper tantrum over Kentucky Brown Jackson getting four tickets from
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  SPEAKER_03: Beyonce for one of her shows valued at a little over $3,000.
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  SPEAKER_03: The fucking scandal.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's not talk about Clarence Thomas, though.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's off limits.
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  SPEAKER_03: You want to do something about that?
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  SPEAKER_03: Give Biden and the Democrats full control of the government and take Thomas and take Thomas's power away.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let them expand the court.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let them do term limits.
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  SPEAKER_03: Bribes don't mean shit if you can't act on them.
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  SPEAKER_03: Then he could resign in disgrace and be remembered as the worst justice in American history.
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  SPEAKER_03: Republicans have been polluting judiciary with monsters because that's been their plan for decades.
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  SPEAKER_03: They saw the writing on the wall.
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  SPEAKER_03: They would lose the ability to win elections,
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  SPEAKER_03: so they spent decades and hundreds of millions of dollars to seize control of the
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  SPEAKER_03: courts and lock in their power.
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  SPEAKER_03: This was always plan A.
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  SPEAKER_03: They only turned to insurrection when they realized that fascism was really popular
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  SPEAKER_03: at their base of domestic terrorists.
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  SPEAKER_03: But if that doesn't work out, they intend to rule America through the courts for the next 50 years.
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  SPEAKER_03: That only works if we allow them to keep stacking the courts and if we throw away
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  SPEAKER_03: elections like we did in 2016.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_03: We could be eight years into the end of gerrymandering and no more Citizens United.
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  SPEAKER_03: But the far left hated Hillary more than they loved progress after swallowing a ton
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  SPEAKER_03: of Russian propaganda.
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  SPEAKER_03: And they're trying to do it again.
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know about you, but I am not up for being rat fucked a second time.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, it is time to move on to even more good news.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_03: And by good news, I mean something I've absolutely been dreading for the better part of a decade now.
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  SPEAKER_03: No!
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  SPEAKER_03: This segment turned out to be a bit of a mini ogre opinion.
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  SPEAKER_03: It actually was a topic that was up for voting.
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  SPEAKER_03: It didn't get voted in, but I'm still doing it because, well, something happened and it's important.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's extremely dangerous and it's got me all bent out of shape.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_03: Several years ago,
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  SPEAKER_03: I wrote an article begging people not to press then President Trump about his son,
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  SPEAKER_03: Barron,
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  SPEAKER_03: and his autism.
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  SPEAKER_03: I didn't do this out of decompassion for Barron, who was at the time like 11 or 12 years old.
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  SPEAKER_03: Not for nothing.
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  SPEAKER_03: The kid is obviously on the spectrum.
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  SPEAKER_03: The hand flapping, the lack of eye contact, and the fact that his father rarely has him in public.
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  SPEAKER_03: There might as well be giant neon signs over his head.
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  SPEAKER_03: My issue was that if we somehow made this information public, Trump would lose his shit.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_03: Remember, Trump is a malignant narcissist.
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  SPEAKER_03: Everything is about him.
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  SPEAKER_03: Literally everything.
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  SPEAKER_03: If the world found out that Barron Trump was autistic,
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  SPEAKER_03: Donald Trump would not stand up and say,
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  SPEAKER_03: yes,
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  SPEAKER_03: he is,
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  SPEAKER_03: and I love him.
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  SPEAKER_03: I dare you to say one fucking word about it.
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  SPEAKER_03: He's incapable of that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Instead, Trump would make it about him.
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  SPEAKER_03: Barron's autism would be embarrassing because somehow it would reflect poorly on Trump.
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  SPEAKER_03: Therefore, Trump would need to blame someone or something.
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  SPEAKER_03: He'd already flirted with blaming autism on vaccines,
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  SPEAKER_03: and there is zero chance he would not have gone all the way and blamed Barron's
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_03: autism on his childhood vaccines.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_03: That was in 2017 or 2018, years before COVID.
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  SPEAKER_03: Anti-vaxxerism was still a fringe thing for bored,
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  SPEAKER_03: rich white people who needed something to be scared of and far,
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  SPEAKER_03: far right conspiracy nuts.
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  SPEAKER_03: I hated these people with a passion because part of their worldview is that they
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  SPEAKER_03: would rather have their child die from a preventable disease than be autistic.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_03: As the father of an autistic son, my response to this is a thoughtful and polite, fuck you.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_03: My kid horrifies you so much that you'd rather have your precious little snowflake in a coffin instead?
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_03: You can eat shit and die, you motherfuckers.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_03: Anyway,
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  SPEAKER_03: part of my job is to look at things as they are and fast forward a few years to see
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: where they might end up.
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  SPEAKER_03: And this was an easy one.
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  SPEAKER_03: I saw as clear as day that if Republicans ever realized how potent a weapon
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  SPEAKER_03: anti-vaxxerism could be,
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  SPEAKER_03: it would be a fucking disaster.
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  SPEAKER_03: It has all the elements of the perfect culture war issue for them.
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  SPEAKER_03: Anti-government, anti-shadowy big business, in this case, big pharma.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's something kids have to do a lot, but adults do much less frequently.
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  SPEAKER_03: You only get one, maybe two vaccines a year at most.
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  SPEAKER_03: Protect the children wasn't a thing yet, but that instinct...
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  SPEAKER_03: They would have used that even before Protect the Children became a thing for them.
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  SPEAKER_03: The damage this would have done wouldn't have been immediate.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_03: Republicans could whip their base into a frenzy of rage and fear,
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  SPEAKER_03: and it would take years for the consequences to manifest,
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  SPEAKER_03: at which point they would just blame Democrats because there wouldn't be a clear
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_03: connection between what Republicans had done and the harm it was causing.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_03: That's one of their favorite games.
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  SPEAKER_03: I lived in fear of this because I knew how bad it would get if millions of
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  SPEAKER_03: Republican morons suddenly stopped vaccinating their kids.
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  SPEAKER_03: All those fun childhood diseases my parents and grandparents lived through would come roaring back.
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  SPEAKER_03: By the time that happened, my kids would be adults and out of school, mostly.
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  SPEAKER_03: Kyle would be in high school at that point, so mostly safe.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_03: But still, tens of millions of other kids would be at risk.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_03: Tens of thousands would get sick and either be maimed or die,
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_03: all because Donald Trump had to blame something for Barron's autism.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_03: And then his cult would follow him.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_03: And then COVID came, and my worst fears came true.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_03: Republicans discovered how useful anti-vaxxerism is.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_03: Now,
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_03: four years later,
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_03: they've moved well beyond just COVID vaccines,
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_03: and Donald Trump,
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_03: in a panicked attempt to outflank fucking RFK Jr.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_03: on his right, is going full anti-vaxxer.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_03: This is from Politico.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_03: Donald Trump,
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_03: former COVID-19 vaccine booster,
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_03: is now the nation's most high-profile critic of immunization mandates.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_03: The former president has,
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_03: on the campaign trail,
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_03: promised to strip funding from schools with vaccine requirements and lambasted
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_03: independent candidate Robert F.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_03: Kennedy Jr.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_03: as a quote-unquote fake anti-vaxxer,
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_03: while obscuring his role in speeding the development of the COVID shot when he was
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_03: president during the pandemic.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_03: Trump's new anti-vaccine persona could have far-reaching consequences if he's
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_03: elected for a second stint as president with far-reaching administrative powers.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_03: Public health experts say a White House opposed to immunization mandates could
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_03: potentially cause upticks in cases of measles,
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_03: polio,
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_03: and other vaccine-preventable diseases or hamper efforts to fight a future pandemic.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_03: The CDC could pare back the number of vaccines it recommends children receive or
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_03: eliminate those recommendations entirely.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_03: The CDC could change the paperwork required to be shared with parents to make
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_03: vaccines sound less safe than they are.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_03: Or the FDA could increase the number of years of safety testing required for new
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_03: vaccines or impose other ownership requirements for vaccines to be approved in the USA.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_03: So even if – when Trump loses,
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_03: Republicans are still going to pursue this because they never,
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_03: ever let go of a culture war issue.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_03: They are literally going after contraception, and that's been – we've had that for decades.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_03: It's been over 50 years, and they're still going after it.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_03: They will go after mixed race marriage, something they've wanted to get rid of for over 50 years.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_03: They will go 100% to go after women's right to vote, which has been a century.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_03: They will never stop, which means, and I promise you, this is going to happen.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_03: They will try to use the Supreme Court to end vaccine mandates and unleash a nightmare in this country.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_03: You want to keep that from happening?
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_03: Vote blue and take back to court.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_03: Or a decade and a half from now,
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_03: you're going to be reading about how polio is killing thousands of kids a year.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_03: Now, that's future history.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_03: And future history is only going to matter if we remember actual history.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_03: Which brings us to our next story.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_03: Trump and the GOP are seriously trying to rewrite history right in front of us right now.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm going to give you two specific examples.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_03: One you probably saw because it was hard to miss.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_03: And the other one was a lot more subtle.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_03: The first one was Trump yapping on his stupid Twitter ripoff, Truth Social.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_03: Ahem.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_03: Low insulin pricing was gotten for millions of Americans by me and the Trump administration,
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_03: not by crooked Joe Biden.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_03: He has nothing to do with it.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_03: It was all done long before he so sadly entered office.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_03: All he does is try to take credit for things he's done by others, in this case me.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_03: That's a terrible Trump invitation, but just roll with it.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_03: That, of course, is absolute bullshit.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_03: Insulin was capped by the Inflation Reduction Act passed by Biden and the Democrats in 2022.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_03: Every single Republican voted against it.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_03: Trump stomped his feet and held his breath in a temper tantrum over it.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_03: Fuck them all.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_03: The insulin cap alone has saved countless billions of dollars.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_03: And more importantly, saved countless lives.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_03: Part of the GOP's Project 2025 is to repeal the IRA,
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_03: which would remove the cap and make insulin unaffordable again for millions of people.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_03: Trump is a murderous liar.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_03: While that was happening,
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_03: Republicans in Congress were grilling Anthony Fauci,
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_03: trying to prove a single one of their stupid fucking COVID theories and failing
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_03: visually because they're morons and they have no evidence of anything,
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_03: just Fox News talking points.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_03: But here's something to Professional Left Podcast, which you really should be listening to.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_03: This is something the Professional Left Podcast caused that was really important.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_03: New York Representative Nicole Malliotakis asked Fauci the following question.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_03: How much have you earned in royalties from pharmaceutical companies since the pandemic began 2021?
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_03: Did you catch it?
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_03: She said the pandemic began in 2021, a full year later after it started and after Trump had left office.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_03: As the professional left noted, this was not a gaffe or a slip of the tongue.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_03: She was reading from notes.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_03: This was written down for her, and it was 100% intentional.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_03: The GOP really, really wants to erase Trump's catastrophic COVID response.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_03: Remember, they keep asking questions.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_03: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_03: Four years ago,
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_03: thousands of people were dying every week and the country was huddled in terror
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_03: because Trump deliberately let COVID spread.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_03: It's really important that we not forget this because people keep erasing it from their minds.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_03: Trump and Jared Kushner had a nationwide COVID response ready to go.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_03: Then they found out that COVID was killing Black people at a much higher rate and
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_03: that it was impacting cities in blue states the hardest.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_03: They made the deliberate decision to do nothing because these fucking idiots
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_03: thought it would help Trump win the election.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_03: Ha ha ha ha.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_03: Look at all the people dying in blue states because Democrats suck.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_03: They both really actually thought a fucking virus would stop at the border between
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_03: a blue state and a red state and leave Republicans alone.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_03: I wrote about this, too.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_03: Because I knew COVID would hit rural America like an asteroid.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_03: And with their limited infrastructure and even more limited access to health care
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_03: and hospitals,
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_03: the death toll would be unbelievable.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_03: And that was before Trump told them to ignore every bit of medical advice.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_03: And what happened?
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_03: Half a million people died because of the fact,
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_03: because that fat fuck and his creepy treasonous son-in-law just died.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_03: Made it happen.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_03: Now Republicans want to erase all that and blame COVID on Biden?
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_03: Fuck you.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_03: The Republican Party murdered half a million Americans,
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_03: and if we let them,
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_03: they'll kill hundreds of thousands of more by taking away their insulin.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_03: Fuck these people.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_03: Our final story of the Ogre News Nation update is kind of frivolous,
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_03: but at the same time,
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_03: it shows just how stupid and truly desperate the Republican Party is.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_03: Now, to be fair, this is not entirely the fault of Trumpland, at least not at first.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_03: But after the truth quickly came out, they kept running with it because they're fucking morons.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_03: Enough of being cryptic.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_03: A few days ago, Judge Mershon, this is the judge that was overseeing the trial.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_03: the election interference hush money trial in New York,
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_03: contacted lawyers and all parties concerned about a Facebook post allegedly from
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_03: the cousin of one of the jurors.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_03: The post claimed that one of the jurors had leaked the information that Trump was
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_03: going to get a guilty verdict two days before the verdict was handed down.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_03: That would be before the jury had even begun to deliberate.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_03: Accordingly, the right has flown into a total rage, demanding the whole thing be nullified.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_03: And it's a mistrial and investigations.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_03: We need vengeance and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_03: The problem is the guy who posted it,
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_03: Michael Anderson,
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_03: is a Facebook troll who posts stupid shit for fun.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_03: We know this because he literally tells us that's what he's doing.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_03: It's on his Facebook profile.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_03: After the whole thing blew up, he went on Facebook to again tell people, chill out.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_03: He made it all up.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_03: But that hasn't stopped the right from continuing to fall with the mouth like
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_03: Donald Trump in one of his campaign ads.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, that's a thing that actually happened.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_03: It's super gross.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_03: You should read my article about it.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_03: It's nasty.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_03: So now this will become a permanent part of their mythology.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_03: They were already telling themselves it was rigged,
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_03: but this will be the quote-unquote evidence they need to prove it forever and ever.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_03: Facts?
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_03: Who needs facts?
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_03: They have Fox News talking points.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_03: It reeks of desperation, just like everything else the GOP does these days.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_03: That's it for the Ogre Nation News Update.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_03: Now it's time to move into the Ogre Opinion.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_03: That's the part of the show where I focus on a single topic for a deeper dive.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_03: This week, the topic is the runner-up from last week's Second Chance poll.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_03: What happens if we win?
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_03: So let's get into it.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so I tend to be a rather cynical person.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_03: I tend to think the worst,
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_03: especially when it comes to the horrible things the right does and plans to do.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_03: I have an exceedingly low opinion of people because,
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_03: not for nothing,
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_03: they keep letting Republicans take power,
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_03: destroy everything,
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_03: and then blame Democrats for not cleaning up the mess quickly enough.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_03: But while I'm extremely cynical,
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_03: I can also be very optimistic,
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_03: especially when there are plenty of signs things are not as terrible as the press
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_03: wants us to believe.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_03: Right now, the race could go either way.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_03: But as Simon Rosenberg at Hopium Chronicles keeps saying, I'd rather be us than them.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_03: Now, that's just true in general.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_03: Republicans are a sad and miserable group of people, incapable of experiencing joy.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_03: I wrote an article about that last week,
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_03: which apparently a whole crap load of people got a real kick out of.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_03: I recommend you take a gander.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_03: But aside from not wanting to be a Republican at any given moment of my life,
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_03: I definitely do not want to be one at this point in the election cycle.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_03: Oh,
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_03: they're all excited that Trump just got a huge surge in donations and the polls are
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_03: totally in Trump's favor.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_03: Sort of, but not so much anymore.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_03: They're kind of tied and they've been trending in the wrong direction for Trump for months now.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_03: But he's got big crowds,
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_03: except when they're not that big or when half the crowd leaves because Trump's
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_03: speeches are repetitive and boring as fuck.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_03: Well, it's a witch hunt.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_03: I'm a victim.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_03: It's unfair.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_03: Give me your money.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_03: I don't care about you.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_03: I just want your vote.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_03: Whatever.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_03: But Biden still has a massive war chest.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_03: He isn't a convicted felon.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_03: The economy just refuses to collapse no matter how much the press keeps saying it will.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_03: A whole shitload of greedy corporations that have been price gouging have announced
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_03: that they're dropping prices on staples like,
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know,
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_03: fucking groceries.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_03: So people will finally feel that strong economy.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_03: And OPEC just announced they're throwing in the towel on trying to artificially
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_03: reach $100 per barrel of oil,
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_03: and they're increasing their oil production.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_03: That means the price of gas will not keep rising before the election and will probably drop.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_03: On top of all of that, the Republicans on the Supreme Court are about to make a bunch of major decisions.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_03: This week alone, they're making decisions on Thursday and Friday, so...
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_03: That's going to be God knows how awful.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm sure we'll discuss that on next week's show.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_03: And they're about to piss off pretty much every liberal voter in the country,
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_03: thus reminding us that they need to be reined in,
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_03: along with all the other crappy shit that they've been doing.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_03: Something this will only happen if Trump loses.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_03: As of right now, that looks more likely than not.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_03: Trump's not doing well, and that's not even getting into his 34 felony convictions.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_03: That leads us to the point of this ogre opinion.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_03: What happens if we win?
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_03: That's a big question, and it deserves a big answer.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_03: Hence, this deep dive.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_03: For starters, Democrats will finally be able to get rid of the filibuster.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_03: But wait, really?
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, yes.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_03: If we win the White House, we have a really good chance of winning the Senate.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_03: Because even though Republicans only need to win a single seat to tip the balance,
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_03: they keep picking shitty candidates.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_03: and undermining their own chances of flipping a seat.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_03: Combined with Trump's drag on the party,
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_03: there's a very real chance Senate Republicans are going to blow it again.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_03: Now, a continued Democratic Senate will have two key differences.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_03: One, no Joe fucking Manchin.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_03: And two, no Kirsten fucking Sinema.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_03: These were the two assholes blocking Democrats from ending the filibuster.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_03: Even Mark Kelly,
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_03: who is the most conservative member of the Democratic caucus,
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_03: is on board with taking away the GOP's ability to obstruct everything.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_03: After that, things get very interesting very quickly.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_03: Let's do the easy stuff first.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_03: Biden gets to keep appointing judges for another two years.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_03: We should all be familiar by now how big a deal that is.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_03: Trump poisoned the judiciary with hundreds of young and unqualified far-right
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_03: assholes from the Federalist Society.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_03: That's a cult of white nationalist fascists whose only goal is to abuse the law to
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_03: cement the power of the right wing.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_03: Biden has appointed almost as many judges.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_03: Two more years and he'll easily surpass Trump.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_03: Combined with Obama's appointments...
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_03: which was also a lot because he was there for full eight years,
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_03: Trump's poison pills will be vastly outnumbered,
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_03: at least two to one.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_03: They'll still be around to inflict damage, but not nearly as much as before.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_03: At the same time,
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_03: at the same time,
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_03: Biden's appointments have been the most diverse in history,
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_03: far more than even Obama's were.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_03: That kind of diversity of experience and perspective makes for a much more fair judiciary.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_03: He's appointed a ton of women,
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_03: a ton of women of color,
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_03: and he's appointed a lot of public defenders as opposed to prosecutors.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_03: It just changes how they approach the law.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_03: And we need that in the face of the GOP's assault on the rule of law.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_03: Next up,
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_03: There's going to be a federal law making Roe the law of the land that will protect abortion rights.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_03: Just to be clear,
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_03: if we keep the White House and Senate,
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_03: House Republicans have zero chance of holding on to the majority.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_03: They'll be lucky if they lose less than 30 seats.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_03: That's how badly they're doing in the House right now.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_03: Reproductive rights will be codified immediately.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_03: So will the right to contraception,
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_03: something else Republicans are planning to use the Supreme Court to get rid of.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_03: Remember, Republicans just voted against a law to protect contraception.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_03: And their excuse was, well, it's not illegal anywhere.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_03: We don't need to do that.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_03: It's a waste of a law.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_03: And that's how they do it.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_03: They won't vote for a law.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_03: They won't try to pass a law outlawing contraception.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_03: They'll let the Supreme Court do it.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_03: And that's the goal,
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_03: which is why they won't pass a law protecting it,
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_03: because they want the Supreme Court to do it for them,
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_03: just like they did with Roe v.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_03: Wade.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_03: That's how they work.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_03: That's the point of poisoning the judiciary.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_03: So the judiciary does the work for them.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_03: All they have to do is block all legislation and then they can just let the courts run the country.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_03: It's really quite disgusting.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_03: Now,
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_03: the Republican extremists on the court could strike down these laws that the
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_03: Democrats will be passing on the grounds of,
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_03: we felt like it,
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_03: so what are you going to do?
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_03: We're the Supreme Court.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_03: This is the legal theory that most of the decisions are based on now.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_03: But with a majority and no filibuster to stop them, there's a few things the Democrats can actually do.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_03: Like, for instance, expand a court by four seats.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_03: Suddenly that precious 6-3 majority that Republicans are enjoying becomes a 7-6 minority.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_03: And if Alito and Thomas drop dead or resign, 8-5 or 9-4.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_03: But it's not just fun with the courts.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_03: With the filibuster out of the way, Washington, D.C.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_03: and Puerto Rico have a clear path to statehood.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_03: Republicans have been standing in the way of that for years.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_03: That would be several more House seats for Democrats and four new senators that
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_03: will never,
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_03: ever have a Republican elected to those seats.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_03: That would go a long way to neutralizing the unfair advantage Republicans have in the Senate.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_03: But wait, there's more.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_03: Donald Trump's going to jail or he's going to flee the country.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_03: With Biden in the White House for another four years,
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_03: Trump will not be able to pardon himself or have his corrupt attorney general kill
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_03: the two federal investigations into his many,
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_03: many crimes.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_03: Judge Eileen Cannon may yet permanently derail the stolen documents case in Florida,
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_03: but at the rate she's going,
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_03: she's just as likely to get herself removed before she can.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_03: The Supreme Court might declare that Trump has presidential immunity,
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_03: but that seems unlikely because it sets a dangerous precedent with Democrats in office.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_03: And I don't see how they can give,
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_03: I don't see how they can rule that Trump has immunity,
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_03: but Biden doesn't.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_03: And the Georgia case, they can only delay that one for so long before it starts moving forward again.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_03: And that's a state case.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_03: So it's not a whole lot Republicans do about that anyway.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_03: Any one of these cases will see Trump in prison because...
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_03: The New York case was allegedly the weakest of the four.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_03: The other three have 100 times more evidence, and they're much easier to understand.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_03: Not that the New York case was complicated or lacking in evidence,
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_03: but the other cases are much more airtight.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_03: And he still may yet face jail time for the 34 felonies he's guilty of in New York.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_03: Is Donald Trump willingly going to walk into a jail cell if the sentence is more than a few weeks?
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely not.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_03: He will 100% flee the country if he's looking at six months or a year or more in prison.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_03: Russia will welcome him with open arms where he can declare himself a president in exile.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_03: That's a whole different kind of worms for another day.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_03: But
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_03: Trump will not be the only Republican facing prison.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_03: With an uncorrupted Department of Justice,
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_03: the investigations will continue and more and more Republicans will be swept up.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_03: Not because of a deep state plot,
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_03: but because so many of them were involved in the attempt to overthrow the election.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_03: Remember, there's at least eight of them asked for a pardon.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_03: And that's just the ones we know about.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_03: This is why they spent the last three years and change during everything they have
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_03: at stopping the investigations,
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_03: not just to protect Trump,
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_03: but also themselves.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_03: Remember, this is the first coup in modern American history.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_03: It's certainly in my lifetime.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm 50 years old, so it's been half a century.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_03: This is the first time they've tried this.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_03: And Republicans have not had to contend with legal consequences for their criminal activities in decades.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_03: Certainly not in this century.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_03: They did little or nothing to cover their tracks because they thought they would win,
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_03: so it wouldn't matter.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_03: And even if they didn't, history told them it still wouldn't matter.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_03: The fact that people are going to jail has them in a complete panic,
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_03: and they're ready to embrace violent terrorism to prevent the wheels of justice
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_03: from grinding them to paste.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_03: Fucking traitors.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_03: Other fun things that will happen if we win.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_03: Again...
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_03: No filibuster means we can pass boring little laws like the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_03: The John Lewis Voting Rights Act has all sorts of goodies in it.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_03: It will basically restore the Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court has struck
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_03: down because,
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_03: you know,
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_03: they don't want people voting,
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_03: especially black people.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_03: It will... Let's see.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_03: I believe it will also undo gerrymandering.
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_03: So, you know, wouldn't that be nice?
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, excuse me.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_03: But...
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_03: It will absolutely advance voting rights in this country, which is the last thing Republicans want.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_03: It will keep them from suppressing the vote.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_03: It will stop them from interfering with...
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_03: It will stop them from closing down voting precincts in Black communities.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_03: And, oh boy, do they love doing that.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_03: And what they don't get to fix with that...
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_03: Democrats will be able to restore the original Voting Rights Act.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_03: And again, no gerrymandering, no voter ID.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_03: All of that stuff can go bye-bye.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_03: And that will be a crippling blow to Republicans.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_03: Breaks my heart.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_03: Very sad.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_03: Another fun thing that gets to happen.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_03: The labor revolution continues.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_03: The press does not talk about this enough because they don't like unions,
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_03: and they certainly don't like workers getting all up on themselves.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_03: But the Biden administration has been the best thing to happen to American workers,
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_03: again,
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_03: in my lifetime.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_03: I'm going to be 51 next month.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_03: It's been half a century, and this is the best thing that's ever happened for American workers.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_03: There has been an explosion in labor activity in the last couple of years because
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_03: the Biden administration has smoothed the way for them to do it.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_03: Trump went out of his way to make life difficult.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_03: Obama did not help.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_03: Bush absolutely did not help.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_03: So...
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_03: this is a huge honking deal.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_03: Now, technically, labor participation, union participation rate has gone down.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_03: But that's only because the labor force has grown faster than unions have.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_03: So, I mean, that's actually kind of a good thing that you have the labor force growing that rapidly.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_03: Remember, we're in a really strong economy.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_03: The labor force is growing.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_03: Unions are not quite keeping up, but they're still growing.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_03: And this is one of those things that snowball.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_03: The more people see unions and their success,
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_03: the more people are going to want to unionize,
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_03: which is why Republicans have been fighting tooth and nail.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_03: Not just Republicans, of course.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_03: Big corporations have been fighting tooth and nail.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_03: They've been doing all sorts of illegal shit to keep unions out of their shops.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_03: But if a warehouse unionizes,
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_03: other warehouses are going to see and say,
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_03: hey,
• 43:55
  SPEAKER_03: why are they getting paid more?
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_03: Why are they getting more vacation time?
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_03: Why are they getting more sick time?
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_03: I want that.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_03: We're doing the same job.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_03: That's crazy.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_03: And then they're going to unionize.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_03: The same thing with factories and individual stores.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_03: And it snowballs and it snowballs and it snowballs.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_03: And this is what Republicans have been afraid of because workers who understand
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_03: their power are workers who won't let themselves be abused.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_03: And then what happens after that is those workers look around and be like, hey, wait a minute.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_03: We've stopped letting ourselves be abused.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe we can help other people stop being abused.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_03: And that is the entire core of the Republican Party is abusing people.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_03: And there's a reason unions tend to vote Democrat,
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_03: because they know Republicans are the party of the billionaires and the oligarchs.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_03: And unions are like the antidote for that.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_03: So this is why they go out of their way.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_03: They've been trying to make unions illegal for years.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_03: The Supreme Court has been trying to make unions illegal and they can't quite reach that point yet.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_03: But they're trying and Biden has been turbocharging this movement.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_03: So another four years of that, please.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_03: The last thing I'm going to get to.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_03: It's not as splashy, but the electric vehicle revolution gets to continue as well.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_03: It's a huge deal, even though you don't hear about it that much because it's cars.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_03: Everyone drives cars.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_03: Cars are everywhere.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_03: It's not that big of a deal, but it is.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_03: It's a huge, honking deal.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_03: Cars produce a massive amount of pollution.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_03: And going electric or even hybrid will cut billions of tons of CO2.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_03: And it makes us that much less dependent on oil, which that in and of itself is a good thing.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_03: And Biden has done a huge amount more than any other president before him to make
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_03: sure the EV revolution continues.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_03: Now,
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_03: As much as I don't like Elon Musk,
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_03: and most of you,
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_03: I'm assuming,
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_03: also do not like him,
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_03: the one thing he did was,
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_03: by hook,
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_03: by crook,
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_03: through lying through his teeth,
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_03: he made electric cars cool.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_03: And he really kicked that off.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_03: And he was he was a lying shit to get it done, but he got it done.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_03: And now the other car companies are are fighting tooth and nail to catch up with
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_03: him to catch up with Tesla,
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_03: even though Musk is slowly or maybe not that slowly.
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_03: But he's killing Tesla because he's a really terrible businessman, apparently.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_03: But.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_03: It needed to be done.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_03: It just wasn't very nice about it.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_03: But whatever.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_03: It is what it is.
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_03: We are very close to a tipping point.
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_03: And the car companies see there's a huge market.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_03: There's money to be made.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_03: And they are very, very close to the point where they are not going to go back.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_03: Trump can force them to go back or at least slow it down by a decade or more.
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_03: And we can't afford that.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_03: We need to electrify our cars.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_03: We just, it has to happen.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_03: You don't need, I mean, hybrid, I loved my Prius.
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_03: Loved it.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_03: Could have been a little bigger, but I loved my Prius.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_03: It was great.
• 47:50
  SPEAKER_03: I had to fill up my tank once every other week, sometimes once every three weeks.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_03: It was heaven.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_03: I miss having a hybrid.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_03: I couldn't afford it.
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_03: When I had to trade in,
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_03: when my Prius finally gave up the Ghost because it was over 10 years old,
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_03: there are still cars,
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_03: EV or not,
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_03: or hybrid or not,
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_03: it's still a car.
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_03: They do die just like every other car does.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_03: And I was very, very sad.
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_03: to lose it but and i couldn't afford and i couldn't afford another um because i
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_03: need to get a bigger car and i couldn't afford a hybrid uh suv and it killed me on
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_03: the inside my next car is going to be either fully electric or a hybrid guaranteed
• 48:33
  SPEAKER_03: i am absolutely never going to get another fully gas car because god damn it's
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_03: expensive so anyway aside from my personal rant
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_03: we're really close to the tipping point with the ev with ev revolution and trump
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_03: will get in the way of that but biden has poured hundreds and hundreds of millions
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_03: if not billions into making this a reality getting charging stations in places
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_03: where they need to be and making sure the manufacturers have the incentives to keep
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_03: going and once they get to that point
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_03: That's it.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_03: It's a done deal and nothing Republicans can do can stop it.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_03: And can it happen in another four years?
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_03: Possibly.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_03: We're super close to it.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_03: And I want to find out because, God damn it, it needs to happen.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_03: And we can't have these fucking guys get in the way of it.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_03: There's a whole lot of other stuff.
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_03: That could happen if we win.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_03: All sorts of other good things.
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_03: But I can't keep talking for another two hours.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_03: We're already coming up on 50 minutes, which is long for this podcast.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_03: There are 145 days left to the 2024 election.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_03: Vote blue like your life depends on it.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_03: And if you want all of this good stuff to happen...
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_03: vote for biden because trump will make sure none of it happens and make it worse all right bye