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the Welcome

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one and all to another day another episode here

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at the Damage War with me John DeRola and

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joining us for the second Thursday running Jasmine

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of the Akan. Welcome back to the show. Hi,

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happy to be here for my second Thursday in

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a row. That's fun. I

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think it's very exciting. I'm especially excited

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to have you not only once again

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walk us through some news, but give

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us a little tour of some of

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the craziness happening in your state of

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Texas. I'm excited about that. Yeah, you

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should be. It's very comprehensive. I'm

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exhausted, but yeah, already exhausted and you haven't

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even done it yet. But don't worry audience. We're not

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going to exhaust you. We're going to make it fun.

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We're going to make it light. We're going to have

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some fun little debates later on. We're going to make

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fun of some terrible people. We're

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going to talk about some terrible cops. And

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we're going to cap off the show. This

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is at the end of the aftermath. So if you're on

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the podcast right now, thank you so much for listening to

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the podcast. When you're done, go to

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the YouTube channel, you can watch the videos that

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aren't in the podcast. We're going to be talking

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about some of the revelations from a producer on

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The Apprentice who has now been released from his

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NDA. And he's spilling all

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the beans and spoiler alert, the beans

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are racist and sexist. So that's going

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to be a lot of fun. That's

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coming up later on. So stay tuned

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for that. Want to remind everyone that

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we are once again giving out our

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Blue Apron gift cards of

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the day for particularly either funny

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or insightful or awesome comments, super

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chats, those sorts of things. So

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look forward to that. And before we jump into the

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news, I do want to give you our, I don't

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know, second or third to last update

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on our first ever Dragona fun, which

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as if you've been watching or listening

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for a while, you know, has been

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super successful. People have been gifting memberships

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on YouTube, expanding the community, making it

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very welcoming. We blew

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past all the goals. We're just shy of 28

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unjuried gifted memberships in this month with two

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days left. It's

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just crazy. And here is your top 10, okay? I

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think it might be the same order although

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there has been some additional gifting in this.

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First place of course goes to Gabby Mappis

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as always. Thank you, 660 gifted memberships. In

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second place, the Poeticat is at 400. Thank

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you Poeticat. Third place Lady F and T is at 380.

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Thank you so much. Fourth place Joe Gutierrez

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at 145. Fifth place

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Enbronco with 130. Sixth

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place, Kide with 121. Seventh

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place, Anthony McClendon with

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108. Goes

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to Jen Welch with 84. Switane Dragon is

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a ninth at 81. And

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in 10th place, Moon Dragon with 55.

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Thank you to all of you for the

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gifting you've been doing. Those on the leaderboard,

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everyone else as well who's been gifting, that's

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how you've gotten losty

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numbers. It's crazy and I love

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to see it. Thank you so much. Okay,

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with that said, yes, you ready

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to talk some news? I'm ready,

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I'm ready John, let's do this. I

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too am ready, let's do it. Mother, Mr. Reese,

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I could not be a peace charger. Peace

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chargers are rigged. The whole thing is

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rigged. The whole country's a

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mess between the borders and fake

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elections. And you

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have a trial like this, where

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the church is so conflicted, he can't

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breathe. He's going to do his job.

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And it's definitely that I could tell you. It's

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a disgrace. He needed money to write

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everything he did to his church. But we'll see, we'll

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see how we do it. I don't

3:42

think Mother Teresa was ever up on charges of committing fraud

3:46

to cover up hush money payments paid to

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stop the story of you having an affair

3:50

with a porn star coming out before an

3:52

election. I don't think

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anyway. Admittedly, I've never read a

3:57

comprehensive biography of Mother Teresa, but

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Look, that was not just conspiratorial and

4:02

ridiculous. Did you notice

4:04

what else was true of that video?

4:07

That was low ass energy

4:09

Donald Trump. That was Mother

4:12

Teresa couldn't do it. There's border

4:15

stuff and the elections are being

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stolen, it's conflicted or whatever. I

4:20

think he might be getting a little bit depressed and

4:22

that's just the saddest thing ever. You hate to see

4:24

it. But you also hate to

4:27

see more misinformation coming out because we've been

4:29

cataloging all of the things that Donald Trump

4:32

either somehow doesn't understand about

4:34

court cases despite having been in so many

4:36

throughout his life or is actively misinforming his

4:38

base about. And we have another one of

4:40

those here and it's important that you know

4:43

what is true because it bears

4:45

on sort of the standard that

4:47

needs to be met by the jury

4:49

to actually convict Donald

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Trump of these crimes. Donald

4:54

Trump and Fox News are trying

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to convince people that it's easier

4:58

to do than it actually is.

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And Trump is misinforming people with

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messages like this saying, it

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is ridiculous, unconstitutional and un-American

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that the highly conflicted radical

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left judge is not requiring

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unanimous decision on the fake

5:14

charges against me. Rabbi

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Soros, back to you, Alvin

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Bragg, a third world election

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interference hoax. And

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then he goes on to say that it's

5:25

the most biased and unfair set of jury

5:27

instructions in judicial history. First of

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all, is there like a top 10? I don't

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know if people are really tracking this. I

5:34

feel like Marchelin did a pretty good job, but

5:36

that's not the part that's important. The part that's

5:38

important is, wait, you

5:41

don't need a unanimous decision.

5:43

That's a big development. I mean, I've

5:45

been saying this whole time that it has

5:47

to be unanimous. Have I been lying to

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you or is Trump lying? Which

5:52

do you think it is out of

5:54

those two? Trump is being, at the

5:56

very least, highly disingenuous

5:58

with the way he's this. And

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the particular way he described it makes it more than that. It's

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a lie. It does have to

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be unanimous on the fake charges

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brought against me. Those

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charges are charges of business fraud.

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You do require a unanimous jury

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to say he's guilty of those

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crimes. The only thing that

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doesn't have to be unanimous does

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not have anything explicitly to do with the charges.

6:24

It has to do with sort of a consequence

6:28

of the charges. So basically,

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and you know what, actually I could explain

6:32

it, but it'd be terrible. It would be as

6:34

bumbling and fumbling as if you had Alina Haber

6:36

teaching you the law. So instead, I'm going to

6:38

go to Bradley Moss, legal analyst who wrote, people

6:40

keep harping on this, but are missing the context.

6:43

They have to be unanimous that Trump falsified

6:45

the records and did so with the intent

6:47

to commit another crime, two parts to it.

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They do not have to be unanimous on

6:52

what the other crime was. That's

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the rule under New York law. And

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Donald Trump is not only lying about this, but

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also let's say that there's an element of truth,

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that he is actually surprised to find out that

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not every part of this has to be unanimous.

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How could he possibly not know

7:08

that everyone has been talking

7:10

about the fact that the prosecution does not

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even need to say exactly what the crime

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is. They don't have to be explicit. They

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don't have to prove that crime. That's

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not some new twist that Soros bought

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or something. That's New York law

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and it has been for a very, very long

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time. So that is what's

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going on. The burden for the jury

7:30

to convict is still super high and

7:32

it still only requires one person. What

7:35

they want to pretend is that if

7:37

they have one MAGA person, it won't

7:39

be enough because it doesn't need to

7:41

be unanimous. But that's simply not true.

7:44

One crazy deranged MAGA cultist would totally

7:46

be able to derail this thing because

7:48

it wouldn't matter if they agree on

7:50

the crime. They could simply absolve him

7:53

of the fraud. But Yaz, what

7:55

do you think about this? Yeah,

7:57

first of all, Mother Teresa. So

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she wasn't perfect exactly. But even on

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her worst day, I don't think that

8:04

she's committed the kind of fraud that

8:06

Trump allegedly committed or was at least

8:08

complicit in committing. But as I've said

8:10

before, and I'll say it again, Trump,

8:12

even as a legal descendant, is still

8:15

a presidential candidate who is running a

8:17

campaign. And that is the insane

8:19

state of our nation right now. And it's kind

8:21

of funny because they're playing it like it's a

8:23

numbers game, just like they would a presidential election.

8:25

You know, if we have one person here, whatever,

8:28

you know. All of this

8:30

is great for his political campaign though. His

8:32

supporters already think that this is the witch

8:34

hunt. They already believe that Joe Biden is

8:37

trying to incriminate and imprison his political

8:39

opponent because Joe Biden is known for

8:41

being, you know, this criminal mastermind,

8:44

very corrupt. We all know that. You know,

8:46

this is all just going to help his

8:48

image in the long run, Trump's image with

8:51

his own base, right? And

8:53

then we're gonna solidify him as their

8:55

magma martyr, Trump in his most downtrodden

8:58

moment as we just saw him there. It's suffering

9:00

for all of us, John, for

9:02

America, for democracy or capitalism or

9:04

whatever. I don't know. Yeah,

9:07

look, it's also possible. Like I saw,

9:09

you know, if it was on CNN or MSNBC,

9:11

they were doing like a comparison of some

9:13

stat having to do with what people think of Trump.

9:16

And they had the number

9:18

before the trial began and then they had the newest

9:20

number now. And it was the exact same

9:22

number. And I

9:25

don't like that that's the case, but I can't

9:27

say that I'm super surprised by it. Because

9:30

the thing is, he has

9:32

been so overwhelmingly awful for

9:35

years in every way you can imagine.

9:38

Why would anything new break through?

9:41

Like honestly, if

9:43

this led you to finally be like,

9:45

no, I can't support Trump. I

9:47

don't know. I'd want to know why

9:49

did the COVID stuff not do it? Like

9:52

why is this, again, so I get that.

9:54

But still, justice matters. If he committed a

9:56

crime, he shouldn't suffer the

9:58

consequences so that. Maybe his approval

10:01

ratings will go down. He should

10:03

suffer the consequences because he committed

10:05

the crime, which he definitely, definitely

10:07

did. This

10:13

is a joke. We have another overwhelming

10:16

piece of evidence that Donald

10:18

Trump was doing this not for politics, but because

10:20

of his business. If you think about it, you

10:22

know better than anybody, Kevin. If you're running a

10:25

media conglomerate, you're running a hotel chain,

10:28

and you're running these companies all over

10:30

the world in Muslim countries in Europe

10:32

and Asia. Anything that's

10:34

bad news for you personally is

10:37

bad for the brand. Forget about

10:39

protecting your family. That's the obvious

10:41

concern. Secondary concern is

10:43

the business. You can't have some

10:46

porn star extorting you. 130

10:48

grand is nothing for Donald Trump. You

10:51

pay that, it's nuisance, make it go

10:53

away. That's common sense. Okay,

10:56

so I think that he's being honest that he

10:58

does think that that's how you should act. You

11:00

should just pay to make everything go away. And

11:03

for those of you who might be conservative, it's

11:05

important that you know that Jesse Waters, despite being

11:08

a host on Fox News, that will constantly tell

11:10

its audience that it's like right-wing populist or anti-elitist.

11:12

Jesse Waters could not be more comfortable with rich

11:14

people being able to make everything that

11:16

makes them look bad go away by just paying

11:19

people off. You don't get to find

11:21

out who these people are. You don't get the truth

11:23

because they're rich and that's more important than you knowing

11:25

what's really going on. That is what Jesse

11:27

Waters believes. That's the official position of Fox

11:29

News. But right there, I do want

11:31

to give him credit for pretending not to think that it's true.

11:35

She's extorting him. They slept together,

11:37

okay? They actually slept together. He points out

11:39

that it coming out would be bad for

11:41

him. The

11:43

way Jesse Waters said it was is that his main

11:46

concern is protecting his family. If his main concern was

11:48

his family, I don't think that he would have

11:50

had sex with her in the first place. I

11:52

don't think he would have forced himself on this

11:55

or the many other women that he apparently engaged

11:57

in extramarital affairs with. was

12:00

his family. Of course, I don't think Jesse Waters

12:02

really thinks that Trump cares much about his family.

12:05

I don't think that anyone in the Trump base

12:07

really thinks that he cares much about his family.

12:10

But I guess it's common sense. I'm

12:12

interested in your take, Yas, about like,

12:15

is this gonna be an effective way to message

12:17

the Trump base saying like, who cares if he

12:19

did it? Again, he's not, by the way, really

12:21

addressing the crime, which is the fraud, the cover

12:23

up. But what do you think about what he

12:25

did talk about? Yeah, I mean,

12:27

it is very telling. And it's like what you said

12:29

about the poll that you saw earlier. It doesn't matter

12:32

to them. They already know who he is and they're

12:34

gonna believe whatever they want to believe about him,

12:36

at least as far as, you know, why

12:38

he's doing the things that he's doing and

12:40

saying the things that he's saying. He's operating at

12:43

some level that they can't even comprehend because he's

12:45

so high above them. And yeah, to Jesse

12:47

Waters point, it's a really interesting point. You

12:49

know, what does it matter why he did

12:51

what he did? He's on trial for doing

12:53

the thing that he did. And the thing that

12:55

he did was falsify financial documents. And there was

12:57

plenty of evidence that was presented during the trial

12:59

to support the fact that he did

13:02

what he did or that it was at

13:04

least done on his behalf with his knowledge.

13:06

Also, Trump does not care about his family,

13:08

nor does his family care much about him.

13:10

Both his wife and his daughter were missing

13:13

from the trial. They weren't around. So

13:15

yeah, and I get it. I

13:18

don't know why they would be there. They

13:20

know that he definitely did that. Them

13:24

being there would just

13:27

lend a false concept that they

13:29

think that he's innocent. And

13:31

I don't think he deserves that. So- Yeah,

13:34

they're trying to get Melania to show up

13:36

for the trial specifically for that reason, just

13:38

to be like, well, she believes that he's

13:40

innocent, that he didn't do anything wrong. So

13:42

everyone else should also believe that, but she

13:44

never shows. I think that's asking

13:46

way too much of her. I think that he

13:49

should consider himself lucky if she shows up for

13:51

the funeral, let alone the trial. But

13:53

anyway, that's Jesse Waters

13:55

lending support to Trump. They've all been lining

13:58

up to tell him what he wants. wants

14:00

to hear if you go to his true social,

14:02

which you shouldn't. And apparently not that many people

14:04

are recently because their numbers are down. He's

14:07

just like machine gun

14:09

tweeting person's name,

14:12

deferential thing they said, person's name,

14:14

fawning thing they said over and

14:17

over and over. Laura Ingram,

14:19

there was no crime that was committed. Lawrence

14:21

Jones, the crime has still not been presented

14:23

before the court. I have

14:25

to wonder, should they be allowed to comment on this

14:27

when they clearly haven't watched any of the trial? I

14:29

feel like you should have to watch a little because

14:32

the actual crime

14:34

was presented. But they're acting as

14:36

if it hasn't even been asserted what the crime was, business

14:38

fraud. It was, you pretended that a

14:40

payment was for one thing when it wasn't. That

14:44

was fast. Can you take back the

14:46

thing you said now that asserted that that has not

14:48

been said? Anyway, they don't really care.

14:50

But I want to turn now to this because this

14:53

is, I don't know, this is an amazing

14:55

thing for this guy Todd Starnes, who's

14:57

like a total toady, a total weenie.

15:01

He tweeted, President Trump needs to

15:03

get out of New York City

15:05

right now, fly back to Mar-a-Lago

15:07

or another state that will

15:09

provide him safe harbor. Jeez,

15:12

this guy really thinks he's gonna be found

15:15

guilty, but also that he should be a

15:18

fugitive on the run. Because bear

15:20

in mind what would have to happen for this to be true. A

15:23

jury of his peers would have to

15:25

have decided that he committed this crime,

15:27

that he violated New York law. And

15:30

he thinks it's fine. The president shouldn't

15:32

give a damn about the law or

15:34

abiding by it. He should

15:36

just flee to a different part of the country

15:38

and run for president from there. That

15:41

is what Todd Starnes believes. Now, the Lincoln Project

15:43

had a little bit of fun with their reply

15:45

to him saying he won't get far with the

15:47

bone spurs. And I get it. It's

15:49

fun to remind people of that. The joke is

15:51

on us. He didn't actually have to serve in

15:53

Vietnam, which is annoying. But anyway, any final thoughts

15:55

before we move on? Yeah, it's just

15:57

hilarious to me how insecure this man is.

15:59

Who does it? Who, like all the retweets,

16:01

it's really, it's kind of embarrassing. I know that

16:04

he's probably just trying to reinforce his

16:06

standing with his base, or maybe that's what it'll say, but

16:08

we all know that it's him. It's for his own

16:10

ego. We know what kind of guy he

16:12

is. And honestly, New York has probably been

16:14

a little too nice to Trump in the

16:17

past. He's been this guy for a long,

16:19

long time, for decades, right? He's always had

16:21

really, really shady business dealings within the state.

16:23

Now it's all kind of coming back to

16:25

him. So, and he's gotten away with a

16:27

lot already. But yeah, if he wants to

16:29

go to Florida, fine. I already don't like

16:32

Florida, so. Yeah, and also, like you're

16:34

right, he's gotten away with a lot.

16:36

But he's also, he's gotten away with

16:38

a lot, even in the cases where

16:40

he has ostensibly suffered consequences. Like,

16:43

we know that he committed business fraud in

16:45

New York to the tune of literally

16:47

hundreds of millions of dollars. You'll give or take

16:49

a half billion dollars. And

16:52

that's a fine he has to pay. And

16:54

that's it. But the

16:56

reason that he only has to pay

16:58

a fine that you can commit half

17:00

a billion dollars in fraud, and

17:03

you just write a check, okay? You

17:05

steal cigarettes or something, you could potentially be locked

17:07

up, but you commit a half billion dollars in

17:10

fraud, it's just a fine. That's

17:12

because the system is set up to benefit

17:14

rich people. It could easily be

17:16

something that throws you in jail. It certainly should

17:18

be, but it's not because rich people have had

17:20

the laws written in a way that protects them.

17:23

That's it, he should already be in jail. He

17:25

should be in jail for what he did to Eugene

17:28

Carroll. He's already gotten

17:30

to pass jail, go

17:32

directly to go or whatever to

17:34

invert monopoly a couple of times

17:36

already. And they're coming

17:38

out of all of that and saying that there

17:40

is a two-tier justice system. Not realizing that they're

17:42

right, but in the exact opposite way that they

17:45

mean. Anyway, we're gonna be

17:47

like- I think they know. Yeah,

17:49

well, yes, it's lying more than ignorance.

17:51

I will grant you that. And

17:54

with that, we're gonna take a short break, but come back for

17:56

a lot more. I

18:03

was shocked by how many people told me

18:05

they were no longer Republican. Why?

18:08

Because we're not focused on the things that matter

18:10

to them. I

18:13

ask them what matters to you. It's the things that

18:15

all these people have been telling you to focus on,

18:17

the border, security, election

18:20

integrity, education, judicial

18:22

accountability. Nobody

18:24

told me that they wanted stricter

18:26

abortion laws. Every time

18:28

we talk about abortion, we are putting gas

18:30

in the tank of the Democrats. That's

18:33

their one winning issue. I'm up here begging

18:35

you not to make it one of our

18:37

priorities. We've already won on this. What

18:40

are we pushing for? There was a guy in there

18:42

saying, make morning

18:44

after pills illegal and

18:47

prosecute anybody who uses them as

18:50

per murder. Murder. What

18:52

are we going to do? We're going to stone women next? Funny,

18:58

she should ask that. That was

19:00

Texas County precinct pair Gilda Beygan, who

19:02

was warning her party to stop making

19:04

abortion their focus as they will continue

19:07

to lose. But Republican

19:09

attendees at the conference clearly did

19:11

not care. Here's how they responded. Do

19:14

you believe that a child in the room is a human

19:16

being? You know what? It doesn't

19:18

matter what I believe. What matters is what the people out

19:20

there believe and what they're going to vote for. And

19:23

if we lose this election, I want you all to

19:25

think about the reality of what this country will become.

19:28

Former years of Democrats. All right. This

19:30

answer is non-responsive to the question. Are there

19:32

any further questions? Sensor roll is mine. Anybody?

19:36

Do you believe it matters what God believes in us or

19:38

do you think it just matters to win elections? Yeah,

19:43

things are going really well here in Texas. I

19:45

also like that tornado warning that came up in

19:47

the middle of the video. It's

19:49

been great. In fact, we

19:52

just had a GOP primary earlier

19:54

this week. And just to give you

19:56

an idea of how well things are going down

19:58

here, the Republican speaker Texas House,

20:00

Dave Phelan just secured his sixth

20:03

term, beating out his quote unquote

20:05

right wing challenger, David Covey. Again,

20:08

they're both Republicans, they're both right wing,

20:10

but Phelan is considered by many around

20:12

here to be a rhino. He

20:15

made national headlines a little while

20:17

back for having the audacity as

20:20

a Republican to impeach our oft

20:22

incriminated Attorney General and fellow Republican

20:25

Ken Paxton. After he

20:27

defied Republican Governor Greg Abbott by

20:29

not passing private school vouchers, that

20:31

would have had long lasting and

20:33

damaging effects on public school districts

20:36

across the state. So

20:38

Phelan eat out a win despite

20:40

Paxton Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan

20:42

Patrick all attacking him every step

20:45

of the way, saying that he's

20:47

not conservative enough to lead Texas.

20:49

Covey in comparison was backed by

20:51

all of those guys and he

20:53

had a Trump endorsement. But

20:56

the fact that Texas Republicans see a

20:58

guy like Phelan as a traitor is

21:00

one not surprising and two extremely telling.

21:03

If the Texas GOP wasn't already

21:05

transparent enough about their efforts to

21:07

secure a cristo Trumpian rule

21:09

in Texas, then there's this. The

21:13

Texas GOP is proposing an amendment

21:15

that would require candidates for statewide

21:17

races to win in a majority

21:19

of the state counties in order

21:21

to win the election. And

21:24

you might be thinking, why would they want to do that? Well,

21:26

let's take a look at this map of Texas. This

21:29

is the electoral map from the 2020 presidential

21:32

election, and it's pretty much what you

21:35

would expect to see plenty of red

21:37

rural areas, areas that tend to be

21:39

sparsely populated with smaller but more heavily

21:42

concentrated areas of blue. Those

21:44

blue dots are Texas's major metropolitan

21:46

areas. Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas,

21:48

El Paso, and then there's also

21:50

the border region. So

21:52

here is what proposal 21 actually says. The

21:57

state legislature shall cause to be

21:59

enacted. a state constitutional amendment

22:01

to add the additional criteria for

22:03

election to a statewide office to

22:06

include the majority vote of the

22:08

counties with each individual county being

22:10

assigned one vote allocated to the

22:13

popular majority vote winner of each

22:15

individual county. A lot of words.

22:18

John, I want to get your thoughts

22:20

in a minute, but just for some

22:23

quick context, there are 254 counties in

22:25

Texas. The last gubernatorial race, Beto O'Rourke

22:27

won 44% of the vote,

22:30

but because of the way the population is

22:32

distributed across the state, he only secured a

22:34

majority in 19 counties. So that's 19 counties

22:36

out of 254. That's only 7% of

22:41

the counties. So John, I don't

22:43

think I need to explain any further

22:46

why the Texas GOP would want to

22:48

pass an amendment like this. I feel

22:50

like the map speaks for itself, but

22:52

this all speaks to a much larger

22:54

issue surrounding our electoral process and how

22:56

well certain populations are represented in government.

22:58

But as a non-Texan or I guess

23:00

a former Texan really, what do you make of

23:02

this? Yeah, I

23:04

actually lived for about five years. Every

23:07

aspect of that I thought was

23:09

fascinating. I loved the woman being

23:11

very pragmatic about the topic of

23:14

abortion. And I think very

23:16

wise about the potential

23:18

electoral toll that continuing

23:21

to push even past the death of Roe

23:23

v. Wade would have. I think,

23:28

do you care what God thinks about this

23:30

or just elect? First of all, dude

23:32

in that very sparsely filled

23:34

room, you don't know a

23:37

damn thing about what God thinks about this.

23:39

Spoiler alert, thinks nothing because it doesn't exist.

23:41

But have you read the Bible? Do

23:44

these people know what the Bible actually

23:46

says about abortion? They're super interested in

23:48

the Bible, super interested in abortion. They've

23:50

never thought about sort of like cross

23:52

referencing those two things. Look into it.

23:54

It's actually interesting. But anyway, I

23:56

think it is wise to back off a little

23:58

bit. Now in terms of

24:00

like, caring about elections and caring about what

24:03

the people think, these two stories that you

24:05

talked about are sort of two ways of

24:07

approaching the same thing. You have that first

24:09

woman who's like, some of our positions might

24:11

not be that popular, maybe we don't focus

24:13

on them. And then you have this,

24:15

which by the way, we don't know if is actually gonna become

24:17

law. I would imagine the Supreme

24:20

Court would strike this down, but the Supreme Court

24:22

are insane, so who knows? This

24:24

is what I'm sure in the mind

24:26

of the right that's proposing it a

24:28

power move. I think it's the ultimate

24:31

political bitch move, because it signifies that

24:33

they do not think that they can

24:35

win elections. You would not set up

24:37

effectively an electoral college for the

24:39

counties of Texas if you thought your

24:41

ideas were popular or your candidates were

24:43

popular, and you could win on the

24:45

issues, you could win by campaigning. You

24:47

would instead set up something like this,

24:50

that advantages not Texans who vote, but

24:52

acres of land. That's

24:55

all it is. And I know, by

24:57

the way, Yas, that the right has

24:59

had a massive political hard on for

25:01

just tracts of land that technically a

25:04

right winger is next to. They

25:06

love after every presidential election showing that

25:08

map that shows the geography is vote

25:11

as if that has anything to do with anything.

25:14

They love that idea. It's like

25:16

the ultimate dumb donkey way to

25:18

approach voting. But if you take

25:20

that national level and you apply it to a state, why

25:22

not do something like this? You

25:25

could do this like in California or something. You

25:27

could do this in New York. You could do

25:29

this in other blue states. I don't

25:31

know if they wanna open up that can of worms. What

25:33

do you think? Yeah, it just just

25:35

flames on the side of my face. That's

25:38

what I think. And this is why it's

25:40

exceedingly frustrating when you see people from outside

25:42

of Texas blaming Texans for our troubles because

25:44

we elected these state leaders, right? We did

25:47

this to ourselves. I'm not kidding when I

25:49

say they make it very, very difficult to

25:51

vote them out and they continue to make

25:53

it more and more difficult. It all gets

25:55

worse because if you can't win with an

25:58

ideology, if you don't have a... platform,

26:00

which is what that woman acknowledged earlier, you

26:03

have to kind of gain the system, which brings

26:05

us back to the abortion issue. So

26:08

we saw earlier that Texas GOP is

26:10

at least somewhat self-aware of

26:12

the fact that they could lose big

26:14

in Texas if they keep infringing on

26:17

women's rights to healthcare. But as of

26:19

getting pregnant in Texas wasn't already a

26:21

very terrifying prospect, I would

26:23

know, Republicans don't think that we're

26:25

scared enough. Now they're

26:27

trying to equate abortion with homicide,

26:29

which in Texas is punishable by death because

26:31

this place is terrible and backwards and I

26:34

need to move. I feel like I say

26:36

that at least once a day. By

26:39

the way, this isn't the first time that

26:41

they tried to do this. They tried to

26:43

do this most recently. I think it's 2021.

26:45

I don't need to get into all the

26:48

reasons why this is terrible, but I will

26:50

say that aborted rights, at least in some

26:52

circumstances, are widely supported by Texas voters across

26:54

party lines. We have some poll results

26:56

that were taken from February of this

26:59

year. The poll was conducted by

27:01

the University of Texas and the results found

27:03

that up to 85% of voters

27:05

support abortion in cases where the mother's

27:07

health is seriously endangered. And that is

27:09

a big, big number, especially in a

27:12

state that everyone around the country keeps

27:14

hearing that we're so far right. The

27:17

death penalty for abortion movement is,

27:19

as I mentioned, not new around

27:21

these parts. But last week, Texas

27:23

delegates voted on a 50 page

27:25

platform proposal that included the

27:27

death penalty for abortion, but

27:29

also criminalizing in vitro fertilization,

27:31

declaring gender affirming care as

27:34

child abuse, and making Bible

27:36

stories required reading for elementary

27:38

school children. Now,

27:40

the reasoning behind the Bible stories

27:42

is that there are plenty of

27:44

biblical allusions in classical literature. And to

27:47

be fair, I have a

27:49

degree in literature and I can confirm that

27:51

knowledge of the Bible is super helpful when

27:53

analyzing historical texts. I know the Bible probably

27:56

better than my fiance and he grew up

27:58

going to church and Sunday school. It's

28:00

a good book. I like it. I enjoy the

28:02

stories. They're fun. But it only

28:04

makes sense in a secular setting to be

28:07

taught as a secular book,

28:09

as a book, just like you would teach any

28:11

other book, not as a religious text. And

28:14

forgive me for not being confident that

28:16

that's what will happen, especially when our

28:18

lieutenant governor here in Texas has described

28:20

himself as being, quote, Christian first and

28:22

conservative second. That's terrifying. Okay, John, I

28:25

feel like I packed in as much

28:27

text as stuff as I could into this

28:29

segment. And now I am tired and sad. I'll

28:31

let you wrap up your final book. Take a

28:33

trip to Austin or something, have a little bit

28:35

of fun. I appreciated that.

28:37

Like I can be a little bit aggressive

28:39

towards religion. And I know you were not

28:41

intending to, but I love the low key

28:43

shade of it's a good book. I like

28:45

the stories. They're fun. It's

28:48

devastating, isn't it? A certain may think

28:50

that that was written by the creator

28:52

of the universe, you know? But

28:55

anyway, yeah, no, it's look, yeah, you

28:57

should learn a little bit about what's in the Bible

28:59

as part of school and other seminal religious

29:02

texts. And if you take

29:04

your education seriously, you already do. That's

29:06

not what this is about. This is about

29:08

replacing schools with church. They already have church.

29:10

You can take your kids to church. You're

29:12

legally allowed to do that, particularly in Texas.

29:14

That's not good enough. They're not interested in

29:17

what their kids learn, because their kids are

29:19

of course going to learn about the Bible.

29:21

They're interested in what your kids will be

29:23

forced to learn. That's why they're so aggressive

29:25

in going after, they think

29:27

people are going to try to like gave

29:29

their kids or something with a book about

29:32

gay penguins. It's because they know

29:34

what their approach to education is. They do

29:36

want to propagandize about life. I'm not interested

29:38

in that. I want kids to learn about

29:40

all sorts of different life experiences, all

29:42

sorts of different points of view and

29:44

ways of thinking and ideologies and all

29:46

of that. But they're not interested in

29:49

that. They're interested in their identity and

29:51

forcing it on everyone else. When

29:53

it comes to like the locking up, sorry,

29:55

not locking people up for having abortions, literally

29:58

killing them. I know that over

30:00

the the last decade or so, people have thrown

30:02

around a lot of illusions to the Handmaid's Tale.

30:05

I did not watch the last season of the

30:07

Handmaid's Tale, admittedly, I need to get around to

30:09

it. I'm pretty sure that

30:11

this is more extreme than the Handmaid's Tale.

30:13

I don't think they kill people for having

30:15

abortions. They might like take out their eye

30:17

or turn them into a handmade or something,

30:20

but I don't think they kill them, do they?

30:22

I think Texas might have eclipsed Gilead in this

30:24

case. I could be wrong about that. I've never

30:26

watched that show because I think I live in

30:29

Texas and I can't

30:31

watch that. I feel like I

30:33

can't stomach something like that. Okay, I get that. That's

30:35

all I got. Good

30:38

though. Elizabeth Moss is an awesome actress, so

30:40

I do recommend it. I like her and

30:42

I'm sorry I won't watch her show. I

30:44

apologize. All of my apologies to Elizabeth Moss.

30:47

Go watch The Invisible Man or The Hollow Man or whatever she

30:49

did. She was good in that too. Anyway,

30:57

thank you for that roundup of Texas news.

30:59

I do appreciate it. We're gonna turn now

31:02

to other news, but with a

31:04

little bit of ideological overlap, actually, with what

31:06

we're talking about with the Texas GOP, let's

31:08

launch into this. The

31:10

Democrats have launched this

31:12

absolutely dangerous, I

31:15

think, propaganda campaign to take down

31:17

Clarence Thomas, to take down Samuel

31:19

Alito, because their goal is to

31:21

try to make sure that they

31:23

can have Joe Biden pick

31:26

the next justice. And that's what

31:28

it is. And you've seen a

31:30

coordinated attack on the conservative

31:32

justices coming from the left. I

31:34

wanna know, are there private investigators

31:37

following these justices? I

31:39

wanna know who's paying for it

31:41

because this is dirty tactics coming

31:43

from the left. We're seeing it across the board. Let's

31:47

say, hypothetically, there were investigators following

31:49

them around. What the

31:51

investigators she hypothesized exist have found is

31:53

that Clarence Thomas has been wildly corrupt

31:56

for literally decades, taking millions of dollars

31:58

in gifts. acknowledge what

32:00

the report has found because it's damning to even

32:02

say it. So I'll fill in the gaps for

32:04

you. And then Samuel Alito

32:07

or at least his wife on two

32:09

different occasions has taken flags

32:11

associated with radical political

32:13

movements and have flown them obviously breaching

32:15

the sort of decorum or ethics that

32:17

we expect of Supreme Court justices.

32:20

What's dirty about uncovering all of that? Both

32:23

of those stories are true, by the way, she

32:25

declined to acknowledge that there's been

32:27

nothing that was asserted by media that

32:30

turns out to be false. So

32:32

what exactly is the problem of people doing reporting?

32:35

And the cause the link there between

32:37

they're trying to take down these conservative

32:39

justices. So they can have Joe Biden

32:41

choose the new ones like, do

32:44

they think that like, what are people

32:46

asking for Alito to do they're asking

32:48

for him to recuse from January

32:50

6 cases. Nobody is even

32:52

asking him to step down, let alone nobody

32:55

would be crazy enough to think that he

32:57

would. Nobody thinks that any of these

32:59

Supreme Court justices is going to be

33:01

bound by literally any ethical or legal obligation.

33:04

She's perfectly content with that. Again, like

33:06

so many right wingers, she believes that

33:08

the rich and powerful are better than

33:10

you and I, she's super comfortable with

33:12

that, she doesn't want that to change,

33:15

she doesn't want us to even ask them to

33:17

step down and then be denied it. But

33:19

it's definitely not going to happen and I sort of have

33:21

evidence of that. Not only will Alito

33:23

not be stepping down, he's not even

33:25

going to recuse himself from cases that

33:27

he can directly bear on the sort

33:30

of radical political movements that his wife

33:32

supposedly put up the flags to signal

33:34

some sort of ideological affiliation with. He

33:36

sent a letter to democratic leaders

33:39

in the House and Senate, saying that the

33:41

flag and a second religious food flag, also

33:44

embraced by January 6 riders, were flown by

33:46

his wife without his knowledge. And that the

33:48

incidents do not meet the conditions for recusal

33:51

outline in the Supreme Court's code of conduct.

33:53

Well, as soon as I saw it, I

33:55

asked my wife to take it down. But

33:57

for several days, she refused. My wife was

33:59

fine. of flying flags. I

34:01

am not. My wife was solely responsible

34:04

for having flag poles put up at

34:06

our residence at our vacation home and

34:08

has flown a wide variety of flags

34:10

over the years. Oh yeah, I'm sure.

34:12

Oh yeah, probably had like the pride

34:15

flag and like a BLM flag or

34:17

something like that. Just spanning the ideological

34:19

spectrum, not like flags that

34:21

have become really relevant exactly at the point that

34:23

she was putting them up that have to do

34:25

with the belief that the election was stolen. But

34:29

anyway, we're going to show you pictures of the

34:31

flags in case you missed it. And look, he's

34:33

been blaming the whole thing on his wife for

34:35

a really long time saying that

34:37

she may have mentioned the history of, for

34:39

instance, the religious one. But

34:42

we didn't know anything about the stop the

34:44

steal. We didn't know anything about the appeal

34:46

to heaven. Sure, sure.

34:48

By the way, he didn't want

34:50

it up. He wanted her to take it

34:52

down and she didn't. If

34:54

he didn't know what the flags meant, why

34:57

did he want her to take it down? They're

35:01

perfectly fine. They're just historic flags of

35:03

which she flies a wide variety. Then

35:06

why did you ask her to take it down? Look,

35:08

I'm not buying any of this. And we're

35:10

not really supposed to buy any of this.

35:12

All of this is a placeholder. It's a

35:14

time waster to get him past when people

35:17

will no longer ask questions about this. Which

35:19

by the way, unfortunately, the joke is on

35:21

us because that time is rapidly coming. Does

35:23

anyone think that come Monday people are still

35:25

gonna be talking about this? No,

35:27

we're gonna forget necessarily because nothing will happen

35:29

as a result of it. And he will

35:31

eventually go on in the absolute immunity case

35:34

that they're taking up in the January

35:36

6th case. And he will likely do

35:38

some bat s crazy conservative

35:40

stuff. And we're gonna have to go back

35:42

to pretending that, well, there's conservatives on the

35:45

court and there's libs on the court

35:47

and we can't question their politics or anything.

35:50

Many people will have forgotten that it was very clear what

35:52

their political thoughts were. Yeah, that's why you make of this.

35:55

Yeah, the incessant victimhood

35:57

must be a lot to live with. get

36:00

caught doing a bad thing is

36:02

a level of guiltlessness that I

36:05

find simultaneously aspirational and like

36:07

wretched, you know, just the worst. And

36:10

his excuse of my wife is fond

36:12

of flying flags. Wow, what is with

36:15

these Republican men blaming their political shortcomings

36:17

on their wives and daughters, Ted Cruz.

36:19

Can you explain that for us, Ted

36:21

Cruz? It's really a sad

36:24

state of affairs that we're in, right? This

36:26

is a Supreme Court justice. He's supposed to

36:28

be one of the most just in all

36:30

the land, all across America. He was supposed

36:32

to have earned that seat because he is

36:34

so just and because he's so balanced and

36:36

fair. And then like his

36:38

excuses are, well, it was my wife, not

36:41

me. So he's not even taking any kind

36:43

of responsibility, which is not a very

36:45

just thing to do. And then on top of

36:47

that, he's claiming to be

36:49

ignorant of a lot of these issues and

36:51

why something like this would be bad, which

36:53

is also a very, very bad take or

36:55

a stance for a guy who's supposed to

36:57

be on the highest court in the land.

36:59

So either way, it's not a good look.

37:02

And as he pointed out, no one is

37:04

asking him to step down from the Supreme

37:06

Court. I think even Democrats know that that's

37:08

not a likely possibility. It's not going to

37:10

happen. Clarence Thomas has not stepped down from

37:12

his position. It's

37:14

unreasonable to expect that Alito would either. But

37:17

a recusal is more than reasonable, I

37:19

think. Yeah, I definitely think so.

37:21

And look, I'm not, I don't think you should step

37:23

down as a result of this. I think you should

37:25

step down as a result of having lied to senators

37:27

about his support for killing Roe v. Wade. He lied

37:29

to them and then he killed it. He should step

37:31

down for that reason. He has no ethics, he has

37:33

no integrity, he has nothing. Clarence

37:36

Thomas definitely should step down. He's utterly

37:38

corrupt. He's been bribed for years. He

37:40

loves it. He doesn't care. And

37:42

by the way, they're not going to say

37:45

this. But in

37:47

telling us that we shouldn't care, that you could

37:49

fly whatever radical flag you want. You

37:51

could put up a Confederate battle flag. You could put up a Nazi flag. It

37:54

doesn't matter. They are revealing what

37:56

they actually believe, which is there

37:58

is not supposed to be anything objective

38:01

or ethical about them. It's just another political

38:03

venue. It's like taking control of the House

38:05

or the Senate or the executive branch. If

38:08

you can do it, do it and then just put your ideologues on

38:10

there and just use it as a way to get what you want.

38:13

Well, if that's the case, then let's just pack the court.

38:15

Let's just do it. Like it's

38:18

just another place to exercise political

38:20

power. So if you can do it, just do

38:22

it. Now, of course, Biden is not going to do

38:24

that. But I will say this and this is what I'll close on.

38:27

We are not going to get Clarence Thomas to step

38:29

down. We're not going to get Justice Alito to step

38:31

down. We're not going to get them to recuse himself.

38:33

We're not going to get them to abide by any

38:36

code of ethics. We're not going to get any of

38:38

that. But there is one thing

38:40

or actually two things that we could get

38:43

replacements for them. If

38:45

Joe Biden wins, there is a pretty

38:47

good chance that one or both will

38:49

have to step down over those next

38:51

four years. They're in their mid, early

38:54

to mid 70s. Clarence Thomas

38:56

is going to be nearly 80 years old by the end

38:58

of it. They'll know for sure

39:00

that we can replace them, but it's our

39:02

best bet. And I do know this, if

39:04

Donald Trump wins reelection, they will step down

39:07

while he is president and he'll replace them

39:09

with even worse people. They might put literally

39:11

Martha and Alito on the court. Ginny might

39:13

get a spot or whatever. It

39:15

would at least be an honest

39:17

court. But anyway, let's have the

39:19

last laugh. Let's win the presidency.

39:21

Let's get some rational people in

39:24

the Supreme Court. Maybe not the progressives that we'd

39:26

like necessarily, but better by far

39:28

than Alito and Thomas. And

39:31

with that, let's take a short break. We're going to

39:33

end the hour with some fun stories. Okay, everybody,

39:35

let's jump into a couple more

39:37

stories to close out the hour starting

39:40

with this. And New York

39:42

deserves so much better than this. And I cannot wait

39:44

for the day that

39:46

we win. We will. We're right. The

39:48

entire country knows this is nonsense.

39:52

Okay, there's something a little bit out of

39:54

the way. I'm

39:56

going to say something. I'm going to say

39:58

something. video. Now you may not

40:00

have caught it, but we're going to help you to understand.

40:03

What you need to know is the

40:05

questionable thing is resulting in a lot

40:07

of pushback against this. There's a controversy,

40:09

a brouhaha perhaps, and clearly someone needs

40:11

to adjudicate, which makes this the latest

40:13

case in the damage report court. Okay,

40:24

so we're going to play the tape

40:26

again. And like in CSI, we're going

40:29

to zoom in and enhance

40:31

and try to figure out what Eric Trump was

40:34

actually saying there. Take a look. We're

40:46

white. Okay,

40:49

so it's

40:51

probably clear from now. People are

40:53

saying that he said, we will,

40:56

we're white. And

40:58

they're saying basically that he either intentionally pointed

41:00

out that he's white as if anyone could

41:02

look at Eric Trump's face and come to

41:04

any other conclusion or that it's

41:07

some sort of racist Freudian slip

41:09

or something that how dare we

41:11

be like found on charges or

41:13

something when we're white. That is

41:15

what people are saying. Yes, you've

41:17

seen the evidence now as a

41:19

justice of the damage report court. How do you

41:22

rule? A brouhaha

41:24

you say perhaps a hullabaloo even. Yeah,

41:27

I didn't watch this video because I wanted to react

41:29

to it live. I wanted to see it for the

41:31

person. And that was really funny that he did say

41:33

that. It sounds like he said it. I don't know

41:35

if he meant to say it. We can

41:37

call it some faulty filled-hind

41:40

alliteration coming off

41:42

of what else he was saying. We can call

41:44

it a slip of the tongue, Freudian or otherwise.

41:46

Maybe a tongue twister. We all

41:49

know he's white. We see how

41:51

white he is. So I don't think he

41:53

needs to point that out. I really hope he wears

41:55

a sunblock though. I will say that. All white people

41:57

should wear sunblock. I mean, I don't know.

42:00

I think a lot of people should wear

42:02

that sunblock, but thank you for the advice.

42:04

I do appreciate it. So wait, is he

42:06

guilty or innocent of having said we're white?

42:09

He said it. He said we're white.

42:13

Whether or not he meant to is the

42:15

question. Okay, see, this is why I'm glad

42:17

that we have multiple justices on the court

42:19

because I'm almost

42:21

ready to rule. Can we hear the zoomed

42:23

in version one more time? I just want

42:26

to make sure. I'm tear it. I

42:28

cannot wait for the day that we

42:30

win. We will. We're right. The entire

42:32

country knows this is nonsense. We win.

42:35

We will.

42:38

We're right.

42:42

Okay, so I keep going

42:44

back and forth on this because depending on how much

42:47

you slow it down, it sounds one way or the

42:49

other. Look, I am going to give a

42:51

nuanced opinion, okay?

42:55

I do think that he said

42:57

white, but I don't think

42:59

that he in any way intended to.

43:01

I don't even think that

43:04

it's a Freudian slip. I don't think any

43:06

of the arguably conspiratorial

43:08

stuff. I think that

43:10

it's the alliteration. I think he had a

43:12

couple of W words and it led to

43:14

him going off the rails. And

43:16

that can happen when you speak a lot, particularly

43:18

when you speak a lot without having a particularly

43:21

significant brain like Eric Trump. I was

43:23

recording a dramatic reading of one of my short stories

43:25

yesterday, and I went to read

43:27

the word incense, and I read

43:29

the word incest. And in particular, it was

43:31

the smell of incense. And so that wasn't

43:34

good the way that I said it. It

43:36

happens. So for two

43:38

reasons, I'm going to rule

43:40

that he is guilty of saying

43:42

it, but I think that his punishment

43:44

should be time served. It does sound

43:46

like he said it, but

43:49

I don't think that he meant it.

43:51

And more importantly, normally the tiebreaker on

43:53

the David report court goes to our

43:55

Twitch audience. But I forgot to

43:57

ask for a poll so we don't have that ready to

43:59

go. So it's important that we agree on this.

44:01

So I think, yes, he did say it. I

44:03

don't think he should suffer any penalties. Do you

44:06

think that he should suffer some sort of penalties?

44:08

No, I wouldn't penalize him for this. And

44:11

yeah, maybe because we do this for a living,

44:13

maybe we're a little bit more forgiving because it

44:15

is easy to just say

44:17

something will just fly out of your mouth. You're like,

44:19

that's not what I meant to say. That's not what

44:22

I wanted to say. Your words get lost in your

44:24

mouth and then by the time they come out, it's

44:26

something else. And I hated that example that you gave,

44:28

by the way, from your

44:30

audio recording. I hated

44:32

that. So if you're

44:35

okay, then in this very

44:38

particular instance, Eric

44:40

Trump is okay, I think. Okay,

44:42

time served. Right now. Or

44:44

I'll say this, his punishment is time served as

44:46

a member of the Trump family because that has

44:49

got to have been its own uni-kel anyway.

44:52

Yeah, and he knows what that's done to

44:54

him. I mean, we know what it's done

44:56

to him. Or what he could have been as

44:58

a non-Trump. We'll never know. We'll never

45:00

know. We'll never know. Okay, let's turn

45:02

to something arguably worse. Sorry about this. I

45:05

live in Arizona. Arizona is the

45:08

final superhighway. There's no cleaning that up. There's

45:11

no cleaning up the fact that you

45:13

welcome these people in and you welcome

45:15

the crime, you welcome the terror,

45:17

you welcome the weapons of mass

45:19

destruction, and now you wanna recognize

45:21

there's a problem. As

45:23

far as I'm concerned, Alejandro

45:25

Mayorkas is a traitor

45:28

and he needs to be tried

45:30

for treason. He not only needs

45:32

to lose his job, he needs to be

45:34

hung in a court in front of

45:37

the entire country to see. Well,

45:41

that escalated fast. So

45:43

that's Newsmax, of course. You have not

45:45

necessarily, of course, but that's Rob Schmidt,

45:47

the guy that looks to be both

45:49

made out of plastic and miming plastic

45:52

during that segment. And that's Josephine Dunn,

45:54

who admittedly has experienced something very difficult

45:56

to do. imagine having to go through.

45:59

She lost a child, her daughter died

46:01

as a result of an overdose, apparently

46:03

on some sort of Pergocet that had

46:05

been adulterated or something like that. It's

46:07

unbearable. I can't imagine going through that.

46:09

I have a daughter. So I hate

46:11

that she went through that. That

46:14

doesn't necessarily mean that you get to just choose

46:16

whichever government officials you've been told by right-wing media

46:18

are bad and then say that they should be

46:21

publicly executed. I don't think that that's

46:23

fair. And I do think that if you're going to bring

46:25

on a person who is advocating for things like that, you

46:27

have to push back at least a little bit. So just

46:29

to make sure that you know that he didn't, here

46:32

is how he responded to her calling for

46:34

him to be publicly executed on live TV.

46:37

He has harmed, there's so much blood on

46:39

his hand. He has harmed so many people

46:41

in this nation. So many people,

46:44

so many families like mine have been destroyed. And

46:46

then they lie to your faces when you question

46:48

them. They lie and say we're doing everything that

46:50

we can for three years. They told you they're

46:52

doing everything that they can as people died as

46:55

chaos ensued in this country. And then right before

46:57

an election, as I said, you're right, they can't

46:59

clean it up. But they can try and they're

47:01

trying right now. And they're showing us that it

47:04

was all intentional and they could have changed it

47:06

at any point and they didn't. Okay,

47:09

two quick points there. One is that guy

47:11

like on a permanent tilt, what is going

47:13

on there? Is the building like falling apart

47:15

as they're doing the show? More importantly though,

47:17

you might think since you don't have the

47:19

full context, what he's talking about at the

47:22

end there is they had an opportunity to

47:24

fix this, but then they prove that they're

47:26

not going to, that it's all for show.

47:28

You might think he means they had this

47:30

incredibly hardcore right-wing border bill that they could

47:32

have passed and shows not to. No, he's

47:34

not talking about that. He's fine

47:37

with that. Neither him nor the grieving

47:39

mother of someone who died to fentanyl

47:42

seemed to care about the fact

47:44

that the Democrats gave the GOP

47:46

a GOP border bill to lock

47:48

down the border. And the GOP

47:51

was like, no, we don't care. They're

47:53

literally gonna turn around and say that

47:55

the Democrats are playing politics when the

47:57

GOP transparently took marching orders from Trump

47:59

who I don't want you to pass this

48:01

bill before the election because it'll hurt me. So

48:03

keep letting the fentanyl in, keep letting the adulterated

48:05

drugs in. I don't care how many people die,

48:07

I need to win this election.

48:09

And they're both perfectly fine with that, which seems weird

48:12

to me. Yaz, what do you make of it? Yeah,

48:16

what was she even talking about? She was

48:19

just throwing out all kinds of buzzwords that

48:21

don't really make sense whenever they're strung together.

48:23

They don't even string together into an existing

48:25

right wing talking point like the Mexicans are

48:27

terrorists, I guess, and there are weapons of

48:30

mass destruction in Arizona. Are we invading Arizona?

48:32

I don't know. And no

48:34

one is denying that fentanyl is a problem

48:36

in this country. And it's completely tragic what

48:38

happened to her and her family and so

48:41

many other people and families across this country.

48:43

But as we pointed out, this isn't about

48:45

lives being lost. This isn't about protecting

48:47

people. This is about politics. And

48:50

we know that both parties do this.

48:52

Both parties are guilty of this. They will

48:55

drag out issues. Whenever he was talking

48:57

about how they could have done something about this,

48:59

but then they didn't, the first thing that I

49:01

thought about was Roe v. Wade and how we

49:04

couldn't have done something about it, but we didn't

49:06

because they wanted to keep it as an election

49:08

topic. They

49:10

wanted it to, it's something that people are going

49:12

to vote based on. And it's

49:14

really sad because in the meantime, people are suffering

49:16

and these people are just playing some game like

49:18

it's a sin. I

49:22

love that's the game that you chose. Like

49:26

a game like fall guys. I love that

49:28

anyway. But yeah, you're 100% right. I

49:30

have more to say about this. I'm actually going to

49:32

save my further thoughts for the aftermath though. Thank

49:34

you to everybody who joined us for the first hour

49:36

of the show. Thank you to, especially for leading us

49:39

through that big Texas round up block. I really do

49:41

appreciate that. We have more to come though in the

49:43

aftermath. I don't go anywhere. We'll be right back.