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being in loud, down and low. Greetings everyone from Austin, Texas,
where John You, I'm your host here, have fled. I have fled
the People's Republic of California for the week, and I've spent it at the
University of Texas at Austin, which is like a conservative paradise. Everybody,
even Austin, Texas, puts to shame any of these their cities in California.
It's so right wing compared to I thought, I think of it as
a want to be Berkeley. So sad. Actually, I think that's what
Trump would say, sad. But I'm oh, go ahead, sorry,
Well, I was gonna say. I'm joined here by my co hosts,
the irrepressible Intervening Steve Hayward and the International Woman of Mystery Lucretia. Steve You
are about to say, well, I did you're You've been gone a week
and I'm actually down in LA But I understand from Twitter that Berkeley Laws graduation
ceremonies were interrupted by hecklers and protesters who were trying to shout down the speaker,
who was Elizabeth Preligar, the solictener general for the So they're they're yelling
at, you know, the Biden administration, which is so shades of nineteen
sixty eight all over again. And apparently from what I read on Twitter from
a couple of our friends who were there, that she soldiered through it.
Adam disrupt her and doesn't surprise me. I mean, if you're used to
being heckled by Sam Alito and uh uh Neil Gorsetch, a bunch of you
know, scrawny protesters at Berkeley aren't going to bother you exactly. Meanwhile,
here in Austin, when I was walking by the College Green yesterday because their
graduation is today too, I saw the mounted Texas Rangers of You Battalion formation.
My draw shopped. Oh yeah, I suspect there will be no protests
here today. We had protests across the university, but none at my convocation.
Mine was was an absolutely wonderful affair with incredible didn't have a speaker A
certain congressman was supposed to be our speaker and canceled at the last minute.
So it was it was me, It was I am the students who took
the job, and it came off without a hitch noe protesters. That's because
we don't have any of those woke gender studies classes at my college, none
whatsoever. I do want to tell you, guys, I almost sent this
to you because some of the classes I teach are called writing emphasis courses.
Actually, all the courses I teach. I was invited, in the midst
of my university's huge financial crisis to join a fellowship for next year, for
which they would pay me and everyone else in one thousand dollars to learn how
to teach my students anti racism and linguistic social justice writing. Oh lord,
I want to come to Austin so bad. John Lucretia, I would do
that, but it would have to be several more zeros after the one.
No kidding. Think you could pay me enough, John, I don't think
so. But you know, for the for the for the Lucretia fans out
there, the legions of them, many of them probably perched on horseback right
now patrolling the College Green here at Texas. You might have seen photos at
the University to Austin where tear gas was onto the students University of Arizona.
Yeah, Universe, Arizona. I'm sorry, and I thought for sure I
saw a large, massive blonde hair throwing some of the projectiles, but Lucretius
said it wasn't her. I would man, oh man. And the other
thing is because I get I've had a lot of commentors, either privately or
sometimes in the comments, give me a hard time, and rightly so,
because my university not only hired but gave a huge award to little miss hot
Mess, who is this thing that dresses up like a woman and goes to
drag Queen's story hour and his was recognized by the university for its scholarship,
and the scholarship is writing children's books that encourage young children to get sex change
operations and transition and be who they want to be. It's just personal to
all my commenters out there, I apologize. I'm disgusted by it, and
I'm trying to figure out if I had gone to graduation and stood up and
said instead of saying kill the Jews, if I kill the transgenders. What
would have happened to me? Right? What do you think? Yeah,
that's what I want to do. I actually don't want to kill them.
I just got people. What the hell? Sorry, I'm done. I'm
coming to Austin. John Well, let me say it's not entirely paradise,
but it's the closest you're going to get in the United States except maybe the
University of Florida for conservative academic and the good thing, the one thing I
came away a sense of and we'll we'll talk about this later in the show
about the college protests and the responses, But seems to me Texas and Florida
and competition. Actually yes, to restore Western civilization in the curriculum, which
lining Tyler good thing. But speaking of restoring and saving Western civilization, seems
like President Biden's doing everything he can to stop the defense. So the breaking
news this week, which I thought we'd lead with, was President Biden's announcement
on CNN of all places, in an interview that he would stop certain kinds
of arm shipments to Israel if it were to attack Rafa. Rafa being the
last holdout of Hamas and Gaza. The large part of the Palestinian civilian population
is above ground in Rafa, and the remaining elements of Hamas, which apparently
still several thousand fight or strong, plus the hostages plus weapons supplies, are
all underground in Rafa. Israel has cleared most of the rest of the Gaza
strip, and so President Biden announced that if the Israelis go into population centers
in Rafa, he's going to cut off certain arms. These include not just
large bombs two thousand pound bombs, but also what are called jay dams,
which are the kind of modifications you make to dumb bombs to turn them into
smart bombs. So can we do that to students, Yes, but I
think actually too, that writing class you're talking about is an anti jay dam's
trying to take smart students and tournament to dumb bombs. Again, maybe my
question is can we do that to professors? So, Lucretia, why don't
you start us off? What do you think about President Biden's move? What
do you think the consequences will be, Will Israel still go in anyway?
What do you think? As many Conservators are claiming that this is and as
Steve referenced, this is part of Biden's two state solution, which is winning
Pencil and Michigan. In other words, blatantly turning foreign policy towards just winning
votes for the twenty twenty four election. If I don't even know where to
start, so let's start with the last thing you said. I'm not sure
that this is as a policy for winning votes, is it. I mean,
I think it's entirely misguided just from that point of view. I really
don't think that there are enough of those idiot pro Hamas. And I refuse,
by the way, to call them pro Palestinian, because we need to
stop pretending, hey, there's any such thing as a Palestinian that we care
about anyway, and be that such things that are Palestinians or anything but pro
Hamas. So let's change the nomenclature on that one sort of permanently. That's
what I've done. I got called out on it a couple of times at
the university, but I didn't care anyway. Back to I don't think it's
going to be a smart move for Biden because one of Biden's biggest weaknesses,
I think has been his weakness, his vacillating, his you know, the
whole Afghanistan thing and all of those sorts of things, and you know,
it's so obvious that he's just paindering. He's paindering to this young left wing
vote. Are there really that many of them out there, Steve, you
would know the answer to that question. I don't think that there are.
And you know, I've been actually staying on the whole election thing for just
a moment, interested to read a bunch of stuff lately about how it's pathetic,
overweight, mentally disturbed young women who are these pro Palestinian pro Hamas protesters,
and men young men are turning more and more and more conservative. Now.
Part of that is because they're not in college, or if they're in
college, they're in real disciplines as opposed to gender studies and so on and
so forth. But they're also not in college as much, and so therefore
they're not being brainwashed to the same extent. And you're starting to see this
weird divide between young single men and young single women of say about college age,
where more and more they're supporting Trump. Never mind our good friends at
the fraternities who are showing themselves to be pro American as opposed to pro Hamas.
I could go off on that, but Steve will probably have some much
more intelligent comments about the actual denial. Supposedly, it's not a denial,
it's a review. It's all bs. Come on. Either Israel is right
and it needs to be able to do everything it wants to do needs to
do in order to defeat Hamas, or it's not. You don't get to
play both sides here, you really don't. I'm sorry about innocent civilians,
but I promise you Hamas is much more responsible for the death or maiming or
anything of any innocent civilian than Israel will ever be. And I mean smart
people understand that, but not enough people are willing to say that to the
dumb pro Hamas protesters, to the you know, I guess there's no reasoning
with them, but still, look, it's frustrating. It's as if you're
living in an alternative universe when you talk to those idiots, right, is
it just me? Let's go, let's go to our expert alternative universes.
Steve, Well, well, I mean I didn't think of this. It
might have been our pal James LILYX. By the way, I saw that
you've been doing everybody else's podcast this week, John, including Ricochet this week.
Anyway, that's why you guys put me in the hole and maybe the
host well, you know cooler here. I think Lilex made the point.
I think it was a whole week ago said we've reached the John Gill phase
of the Biden presidency. That was the guy you know in the Star Trek
episode, who was you know, mindless and right and was papa they were
putting words in his mouth and or the other line I'd like is that we
actually have the Bernie Sanders administration. I mean, is there a single thing
that Biden has done and is doing that Bernie Sanders wouldn't have done? And
Biden was supposed to be the moderate candidate. Remember, look, I mean
this makes no sense from a larger point of view, which is this.
Before you go onund let me ask you a question. How many of the
people, the puppet mousters behind Biden are are affiliated in any way with Bernie
Sanders or do they just have the same ideological it's the ideological viewpoint, right.
They didn't end up with Biden, me Bernie Sanders, Stafford, oh
no, but they have a lot of Elizabeth Warren. I think they actually
have a lot of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders nominees throughout the administration. That's
right, yes, uh so, look, I mean, look, I
mean our government has been clear, and I think in the back of our
minds still know that you cannot root out Hamas unless you go into Rafa at
some point, because that's where their commanders and your last redoubt is. And
you know, I'm reminded of it. So this is going to make it
worse. I'm reminded of the line from the Munich chapter in Churchill's World Crisis,
which actually borrowed from Machi Velly. But he said, there's no merit
in putting off a war for a year if when it comes it is a
far worse war or one much harder to win. And that's where a policy's
gonna do. And by the way, if Hesbal decides to get frisky in
the North and we have this arms of bargo going on, lord knows how
that's going to go. So the and you know, you can quote I
said, you know, Biden is John gil You can quote Biden from just
a few years ago, as recently as twenty six, twenty fifteen, talking
about why Israel's right to route out Hamas, how awful hesbal is, and
now he seems to be abandoning all of that. Why he's doing by the
way, you may recall he said it right after October seventh. Yes,
that's right, right, there's a lot of them. There's a quote of
him being played all over the media where he said you have to let Israel
go into Gaza and utterly destroy Hamas. Yes, you're right. Well,
and Steve, let me interrupt for just a second and say that the one
good news about all of this is I complained when they passed the big appropriation
bill for Israel, Ukraine, et cetera, and Hamas that we were funding
both sides of the same world. The good news is we're only funding one
side of it right now. All that is or there's a great line I
can't remember who said it, said, Joe Biden opposes arms embargo on dot
Israel. Yeah, right, God is going to be Iran right now.
Time to Steve, go ahead with your point. The strange thing here is,
uh, what this is proving is that you know, Democrats, Biden,
whoever you want to single out, they have absolutely no immune system against
the radical left inside their own camp. And why is the strange is you
know, if you and I just wrote a piece comparing this to nineteen sixty
eight, and you know, everyone thinks the Democratic Convention is going to be
disrupted. You know, our population is almost twice what it was in the
sixties, and yet the number of people who are actually out protesting is a
fraction of what it was in the sixties. I mean, it's remembered that
the Great mobilization against the Vietnam War brought two hundred thousand people to Washington,
d c. In nineteen sixty seven, and so these are tiny numbers.
And yet the the you know, the media of the left, you know,
the Democrats are completely unnerved by it and capitulating left and right. And
I mean, have there been some surveys showing the overwhelming majority of students are
not down for all this and are annoyed by it. And yet you know,
we've seen university after university hesitate to clear out the encampments, make capitulations
to them. All. All that does, of course, as we know
has happened in the sixties, is it simply inflames the left to demand more
and to protest more. I mean, this gives a piece when a bad
name. It's so craven. So that's the part that astounds me. And
yeah, and then the State Department late in the day Friday putting out a
report without any specifics saying yeah, we think Israel's violated international law. This
is the anti Israel faction that's very strong in our state, our career State
Department lexing their muscles. And the fact that it was not stopped by Secretary
of State Blincoln or anybody in the White House tells you a lot. We're
now, we're completely betraying Israel to go where I started in exactly the same
way England and France betrayed Czechoslovakia in nineteen thirty eight. And this is a
bad, bad moment. Let me ask you both returned to Lucretia. It
sounds like we're all in agreement that it seems so obvious that this is a
foreign policy decision driven by domestic policy. Is there any real actual foreign policy
justification where this is actually a good idea, So that's one. And then
to play out the consequences for me if this decision, do you think Israel
will still go in any way? If Israel goes in any way, what
happens, I mean, what happens to Biden, what happens to a strategy,
what happens to our foreign policy? So go ahead, are all along
since they first started, you know, talking about doing this appropriation for Ukraine,
Hamas and Israel is that I won't revisit the whole thing, just that
we don't need to necessarily be sending this money. But what I've said about
Israel all along is that we need to be showing our moral support. We
need to be leading the propaganda campaign, We need to lead the narrative,
whatever you want. We need to make it clear that Israel is in the
right and everything it does to protect its own existence, to protect its citizens,
everything it deems necessary. We need to be supporting right. And I
said, what we decided to do about actually sending arms and weapons and money
and all those things is in my view, much more secondary. What the
Biden administration managed to do here was take the advice of Lucretia and do exactly
the opposite right. So they appropriated money and then they took it away.
What does that do that It helps It hurts Israel. But more than that,
it's a signal to the to Israel's enemies like Hesbala and so forth,
that the United States is weak, that the United States doesn't support Israel,
and that why not go after them? Because the United States, even though
we have supposedly helped out when the Iranians attacked, what's it been a month
ago? Now, maybe we're not going to this time. I mean,
I can't even imagine how you do something dumber than what the Biden administration is
doing now. I really can't. With respect to Israel, it's wrong on
every single level. They're They're the only ally we have in the Middle East,
and we've abandoned them in exchange for giving comfort to Hamas. Why are
we building a stupid floating whatever. You know what, if the people of
Palestine are starving to death, maybe they should figure out how they could not
be such awful people that other Arab countries will let them in. It's not
our problem. Let them starve to death or let them kick Hamas out.
I'm done. But you know what, that floating thing is actually not really
to distribute aid. It's of course Hamas will use it in every way to
their advantage if it ever actually gets operational. Sorry, but my really serious
point is could we have done anything worse? Is it possible for the Biden
administration to have done something more dumb, more stupid, more uh, harmful,
not only to Israel but to our reputation? Steve, what could have
done worse? There's one thing that they could have done worse. They could
have actually sent in US troops as peacekeepers to try and interpose themselves between Israel
and I mean not similar, not the same, but similar to what we
did in Lebanon in nineteen eighty two and eighty three, and then regretted,
right because we just became sitting ducks. But and I gathered that Hamas has
fired on the peer under construction from time to time, just for fun on
giggles. I guess I don't know you have troops there, right, Yeah,
no, no boots on the ground, but ground the ground is moving
with the ocean. I guess it's not boots on the ground, you know,
just off shore. Yeah, but Steve, tell me so Lucretia went
through the foreign policy consequences. Is this a turning point in our domestic Paul
too? Will this be in your piece? We're going to talk about you?
You look at what happened to LBJ when he caved. Yeah, right,
protesters, Is this a similar turning point for Biden? Not that it's
going to strengthen him in winning Michigan and Pennsylvania, but it's actually the start
of the downfall. Well, you know, to be perfectly cynical, Jews
or what two percent of the population, they are reliably democratic voting group.
You are hearing lots and lots of anecdotes, which at some point, what's
the old line. The pural of anecdote is data of a lot of Jews,
many of them very anti Trump, saying I'm voting for Trump. You
know. John Ponharden says he's getting dozens of calls and emails from people,
and other people are saying this. Now, that's not enough to tip New
York voting for Trump yet. Well, you know, it's funny, he's
being kind of quiet right now. It's it's kind of yeah, I mean,
he's attacking that in Yahoo. But that's the sport. So I mean,
you know, I mean Reagan won I think almost forty percent of the
Jewish vote to nineteen eighty because a lot of Jews then were shocked at how
hostile Jimmy Carter had been to Israel, including at the UN but now it's
much much worse and more open. So I think he's gonna lose a lot
of Jewish folks. And the question is is you know, supposedly people said
Richard Nixon was anti Semitic, because you know, on the tapes he would
say all really nasty things about Jews, but when it came to Israel,
he said nasty things about all race shock. I mean, he's a man
of the seventies. It was so much fun about the seventies. But you
know, he was always stalwart and supporting Israel. And in one of those
those gay to say, Steve, one of the isn't a historical parallels.
I think Richard Nixon is the receive the highest percentage of Jewish votes. I
think got something like forty four percent. That could be right, And was
that part of that because all the games. You know, the US was
not fully supportive of Israel in the sixty seven war, and that was under
dj or in all the way back in forty eight when a state department opposed
our recognition of Israel, and Truman went ahead and did it anyway, Nixon
said and I think this explains Truman to some extent. He said, no
American president can ever betray an abandon Israel. It would be unacceptable to our
country. He didn't mean unacceptable to Jews. He meant he understood that.
I think Nixon understood because he was a you know, smart and intellectual guy
in a lot of ways. He understood that for a lot of Americans.
And this explains Evangelical Christians certainly understand the civilizational bond between Israel and what it
represents and us. By the way, I mean, this should be an
obvious point, but apparently isn't. And this is a this is a neo
compoint everyone, well Neo Connellert, Well not really, I mean because because
of other countries. Well, all right, I mean it is, but
except the difference here is is Israel does not need our direct intervention. They're
happy to defend establish democracy there. That's the other thing. That good point.
Uh, I was well that I forget now, But I mean the
point is is that Americans, a lot of enough Americans understand this. And
uh, and of course the something left doesn't understand. Oh that's what I
was gonna say. Last point. Again, I think anybody with a lick
of sense, which would be not Biden and his people understand that. You
know, if Israel were defeated, which is the goal of the of the
you know, the larger Muslim radical world, we're next, right, I
mean, it's always death to America, death to Israel. America is the
great Satan, Israel is the lesser Satan. So what do people think's going
to happen? If you know Israel is our first line of defense in a
lot of ways, never buyd a philosophical and religious ties just as a matter
of you know, geostrategy that ought to be obvious to people. But Steve
themes, I want you to focus on the domestic political consequences because people may
forget this. I will never forget it. When I put on a panel
at Berkeley between Steve and Tom Man to predict what would happen in the twenty
sixteen election, and Steve was the only person I ever heard going into the
election you said Trump could win, that was a certain party, that he's
really just three points behind. None of the polls were saying that. And
you're the only one that I heard put their reputation online predicted that Trump could
win So what do you think is going to happen now, wellge of domestic
politics, Yeah, I mean, as of right now, I think Trump
is not only going to win, I think he might win big and and
now things could change between now November. But that's what I think right now.
That's the shape of the race, and this decision is going to make
it even bigger for Trump. Yes, as Steve likes to put it,
Trump's way ahead in Michigan. He's way ahead and getting more ahead all the
time. Right now it's one point two percent. But knowing what we know,
I think it was Sean trend from Real Clear Politics, who had a
piece the other day that that that that showed that they compared where we are
now state by state, or at least important state by state, with where
things were in twenty twenty, and every state where they predicted that that Biden
was going to win by say eight points, I'm going to make one up
because they don't remember the exact details. Michigan say he won by you know,
zero point three and over and over again. I mean they have It's
true that Biden won. They predicted that Biden would win in twenty twenty,
but the margins were tiny compared to what the polls were showing. I don't
know if you're going to still have what Remember we talked about this at some
lengths Steve long ago that pull that when people are called by pollsters, they
don't necessarily want to admit that they're voting for Trump. Yeah, that seemed
to be a factor, even though it wasn't a factor that caused Trump to
win. There are other reasons there, but we'll leave that one alone.
The but, but Biden didn't win by anywhere the expectations that the polls created.
And so if you look at the polls right now where he where.
Trump has moved in front of Biden and all of the battleground states, and
he's moving up at places like New York. For God's sake, maybe we
will Maybe Steve's right, Maybe it's gonna be a blowout. It's gonna need
to be a blowout so the Democrats don't cheat. John. But anyway,
I knew that was coming in sooner or later. I knew that we should
actually just think we should have a sound effect. One would be that Clackson
alert for neo cons and your near come. But then we got to have
the tinfoil conspiracy alert too. You've got to have two different kinds of alerts.
Anyway, Actually, have you have you paid any attention? Probably not
because it's not in the Wall Street Journal of the New York Times. But
there's been a lot of articles lately, John about the what they've actually found
out about actual fraudulent voting practices, Lots and lots of articles. I mean,
it's three and a half years later, four years later almost, but
uh, appreciate you're starting to sound like Trump. Did you see him at
the end of the last At the end of the I'm just saying, just
a joke. It's just a joke. It's just a joke. He came
out at the end of the trial. He says, there's lots and lots
of articles, lots of scholars saying this is a ridiculous trial. And he
took out this huge fistful of print outs and was shaking him see the articles,
see the articles. And then he went through them, start going through
them one by one and showing and what became clear is he doesn't read anything
on email or the internet. Everything is printed out for him. He had
this great say Turley, this Turly guy, and he was hoping. Guy
the camera, he says, trial sham see see okay, I'm sorry,
I couldn't resist. Oh that was great. No, but seriously, there
have been more and more the whole thing down in Georgia. Have you paid
any attention to that, not the not the funny big Fanny Willis stuff,
but the actual finding out about how much election mishaps there were, how many
election mishaps there were down in Georgia, and oh gosh, wow, we
didn't know that three hundred thousand votes shouldn't have been counted, and you know
that kind of thing. Anyway, we'll see, we'll see. Uh.
You know what, if Republicans let them let it happen again, Steve,
we deserve to lose, right, Yeah, something to that. Yeah.
Well, I mean, seriously, we know now what some of the things
that they did stole the election, fair and square, as Steve likes to
put it, agree or don't agree, We know that that many of the
practices that they that they implemented because of COVID et cetera, they'll try to
do again. And if we let them get away with that, it's our
own fault. That's all I'll say on that one. I won't even go
in conspiracy theory. Hat. We'll move on to agree with you fully.
I agree with you. So yes. Even while Biden was ruining our policy
towards Israel, the leading candidate, and as Lucretia pointed out, right now,
the candidate ahead in the polls, Donald Trump was stuck in a courtroom
all week where he was reduced to only speaking when he was walking into the
courtroom and walking out of the courtroom, and he had to seduce yeah,
and could not speak about the trial itself other than saying the judge was corrupt
and had to sit there and listen to two days of testimony from Stormy Daniels.
Stormy Daniels described in lurid detail her sexual encounter with Donald Trump, and
this is the first I'd heard her. She actually escalated the story in the
sense that she is now claiming it was non consensual. It was consensual,
but she didn't want to do it. But I mean in some states what
she described would be considered raat right. I mean, it's a so this
was, uh, this is you know, dominated the news this week.
Uh what do you think about this? Uh? Steve was since we know
it was just Wan Lucretia, Steve, do you think that this is harmed
Donald Trump. I can talk about the legality stuff if you want, but
let's start politically. Is this hurting Trump? Is it, strangely maybe helping
Trump. I mean, as Lucretia point out, during these last few be
his POULT numbers are going up, not down, even though he's on trial
for a felony in New York where one of the star witnesses for the prosecution
just accused him of forcing himself on her and then paying her to keep quiet
about it. Well, so look, I mean, uh, you know,
there's that line, and they're using the stock market that this information is
priced in, and I think that I think one thing this reveals, and
this is not original with me. I think maybe Jonathan Turley or somebody said
it it's or maybe any McCarthy who who's not sympathetic to Trump as a general
matter, say ah, Now, it is clear that the object of this
trial was not just to try and get a conviction, but to humiliate Trump
because an awful lot and even the judge admitted that some of that testimony was
really not relevant to the issue at hand. I think, by the way,
the cross examination. I mean, I just read accounts of it may
have been effective at the very end because the it was one of those Columbo
moments. Oh yeah, one more thing, miss Daniels or whatever. Uh,
what do you know about Trump's business records and how the business records are
handled? She had to say nothing. That's the charge in this case.
It's falsification of business records. So these they're talking about this underlying and I
think an awful lot of people are gonna say, especially once you just hear
she testified, Well, she went to his room. Let's assume it's all
true. I mean, he's denying it whatever, and she may be embellishing,
but she went to his room. Think was gonna happen? Oh I
know that. And then I know I don't want to I don't want to
up, but I want to ask John how to How is she just not
on the stand saying she's she's a she's what's the word when you lie on
the stand, perjuring? Perjuring yourself. She's signed two pieces of paper that
say this didn't happen, And now how does that even work? That's totally
I mean, that's totally so two things. One is uh, the judge
I think made a mistake and laning near testified. All Trump's lawyers I think
they actually moved to have her testimony totally stricken, and they were willing to
say, just tell the jury, you're will, let you tell the jury
that Trump and she had this meeting, right like, we'll concede the facts.
We just don't want the testimony. But the second thing, Lucretia is,
yeah, that's true. Once the judge makes a mistake and lets her
go on and on about this on the stand, then the only thing you
can do is Trump's lawyers have to go out and destroy her credibility, which
they tried to do, and they should be bringing out this point at some
point. You just made, Lucretia, you know, hold this. What
you would do is say, give her the agreement where she signed she said
this didn't happen, and have her read it out loud in court in her
own words. Right, that's that's what How do you would destroy credibility?
They didn't do that. The Trump s lawyers didn't do that. It has
bad lawyers, No, he has pretty good lawyers. But it's a it's
a touchy thing. I mean, right, this is essentially how do you
cross examine a rape victim? Is the problem? Well, go Steve,
go ahead, Yeah, I mean, I you know, I don't know.
I think an off lud. I've said this before. I'll just say
it again. Once we crossed the bar in the nineteen nineties that we don't
care about politicians' personal lives. In the case of Bill Clinton, I think
that still holds now. I don't like it helps Trump at all, but
I think, yeah, well, I mean, does anybody remember the e
Gene Carroll trial at this point not really doesn't seem to right, and uh
and so and now Michael Cohen will come to the stand, and boy does
he have all kinds of credibility problems. Again, other people pointed out,
maybe it was you the other day when you were on the What the Hell's
going On? Podcast? Is no one would bring this case against anybody else
because the evidence of the witnesses and the legal charges are so effective. Right,
so, but this is the only case a couple of comments, quick,
this is the only case left that could actually convict Trump before the election,
Right there, Georgia, something's happening that I don't know about. He's
not actually some fat let me get us some context. So the classified documents
case definitely not getting to trial there, definitely, Yeah, and the Lucretian
and I knew this right, because how do you produce classified information in a
trial? Right, you have to do a document by top, page by
page. It would have been taken for it, so that she actually lifted
her trial date. The Georgia one, the appeals courting Georgia said it will
review whether Fanny Willis has to be removed. So that's going to take time,
and if she does get removed, then that case is over because whoever
they transfer that case to is going to drop it. And then so the
only one that has wiggle room is a January sixth trial because we're waiting for
the Supreme Court to give us the word on the immunity decision issue. If
the immunity issue comes down, if I were Jack Smith and I really wanted
to get it to trial, I would just not try him for anything that.
I would just say, Okay, I'll concede he has immunity, and
I'm going to try him for things which are not official acts. And maybe
so that could squeak in under the wire. I think it's unlikely because Jack
Smith has really screwed everything up today. So I think Lucretia's right. Of
the four trials, Trump is lucky, the worst, the weakest one is
the only one that might yield a verdict. So let me say first about
the whole Stormy Daniels thing. The best thing I saw on probably it was
Twitter, is that do you really expect people who are thinking about this seriously
to look at Trump, who who allegedly had relations with a grown woman with
a very large chest, or a guy who showered and didn't god only knows
what with his own daughter, right? I mean, come on it,
do people Steve's right when he says, we really don't get upset about those
things as much anymore. And I have to admit that watching Hillary Clinton trying
to make some hay out of this whole situation with Trump, the bimbo eruptions
and all, you know, I mean, anybody that remembers any of that
stuff has to look at that old hag and think, just shut the hell
up? Would you? Come on? Right? Let me make one point
is that the people who created this whole pay money for non disclosure agreements to
people alleging they had sex with former presidents was Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton?
Right, they invent right, did this whole move. And if you go
back and look at all those people, and they're probably others we don't even
still know about who are paid off, right, they're just as bad as
worse as what happened with Stormy Daniels. Yeah, I mean, but yeah,
I mean, be crass about it. Okay, Let's Trump bangs a
porn star. Okay, that's embarrassing. Biden sniff's a little girls. Well
okay, but but but look, I mean, I think the average person
looks at the way Biden behaves and says, well, maybe he's maybe he's
not literally a pedophile, but there's something deeply weird about the guy. There's
nothing weird about Trump. This is I mean, okay, it's especially rich,
right, yeah, but you know, god, I know. Okay,
So but the problem John that we're talking about this and not necessarily about
how I can't even call it a weak case. It's there's no case at
all. Yes, and this really is, this really is just in a
tempt to keep Trump off the campaign trail. The good news about that is,
as Steve was pointing out, I think it's backfiring. A bit.
I mean, who's we're not talking about Biden? And I know that that's
part of their strategy, is not to be talking about Biden. But at
some point any press is good press, right, And you know, so
Trump gets out of the courtroom and he's speaking in Ohio today and literally tens
of thousands of people were camped out in the fifty degree weather overnight for a
campaign rally that's taking place at five o'clock today in Ohio. They've been out
there for more than twenty four hours waiting to get into Trump's campaign event.
And Biden can't fill up a high school gymnasium. Let me let me amplify
that point and put it to Steve, and then we'll move on to the
next topic, which is is this stream helping Trump in disrespect? He only
speaks when he walks into the courtroom, and he comes out of the courtroom
every time he does carried live on every network simultaneously. Right, he attacks
to judge a little bit, but he spends most of the time attacking Biden,
and then he has to go in there and he's quiet the rest of
the day, which means he can't say something really stupid. You can't.
It's almost like he's really it's actually likes carefully managed the focus to stick to
message and so cause he's not, you know, they're not saying, oh,
Trump just said this, can you believe it? Trump just said that.
Instead, it's turning the focus onto the incumbent, which is isn't this
what you want the election to be about, is about how bad a job
Joe Biden is doing, not what crazy thing did Donald Trump just say?
Yeah. I mean, you know our pal Victor Davis Hansen talked about how
back in twenty sixteen and in between, you know, he talked to these
Hispanic farm workers out in the valley that he deals with and interacts with a
lot, and they love Trump. Why do you like Trump? He's a
leader? Point is that. Never mind what he says, but the fact
is he comes out every day. What is clear is that reinforces the image
for a lot of people. This guy can't be rolled, This guy can't
be turned or intimidated. He is a strong, tough guy and people like
that. And I think that's uh so, yeah, I mean you maybe
can speculate that, well, he's not gonna say, you know, blood
bath or some of these things that sometimes get spun out of control by the
media. But I think that he is absolutely mastering the scene. I mean,
it's it's not quite as Nelson Nelson Mandel act, but it's he's you
know, it's I'm making him look like a stronger person. So I want
to ask the legal questions before you move on, John, I don't understand
how the judge is getting away with this. How I mean, gag orders
are not against the defendant. Defendants get to say anything they want. We've
seen defendants in you know, some of those crazy, kooky people that are
you know, serial killers that defend themselves in quarter whatever. I mean,
the protections of the constitution are there to protect the criminal defendant and the court
and the courts, the judge's slimy daughter, and the slimy judge himself,
and the slimy prosecutors that have been brought in. All of those people.
They don't deserve protection under our constitution. They're the enemy under our constitution.
They're the tyrannical government. Our constitution is supposed to protect us. Again,
So how does a judge even get away with this stupid gag order? And
now you know, the stupid people on What was it the view or one
of those dumb things. No, I guess it was and Andrea Mitchell.
How what you know? Why can people that support Trump to speak up when
Trump isn't allowed to Why doesn't the judge put a gag order against them too?
I mean, these people more morons, like I don't even know what
to do. My head wants to explode. Sorry, So no, no,
no, So this is a very interesting and difficult actually institutional problem.
But we do allow judges to place gag orders when the speech of the defendant
outside. I have never agreed with this, but this is what the courts
have said when the speech outside the of the defendant outside the courtrooms are meant
to interfere with the working of the trial. So if you so the typical
and this is what this is why this judge is totally out of his depth.
What he's doing is using the playbook you use on a mafia don right.
So if a mafia dons and the defendant and he's like it really intimate,
you know, comes out and said about a witness, gosh, I
wouldn't want to be his family or something like that. You don't want the
defendant engaging and actual threats to intimidate the witness. But LUCRESI, you're completely
right, is applied to this the facts of this case, that makes no
sense, right because all those witnesses are out there attacking Trump every day.
You know they're making money off him. Right. That must drive Trump even
more crazy that they're making money off attacking Trump while you can't say anything back.
Uh. And then the second dimension, as you say, the point
of the free speech clause is for us to engage in political speech to elect
people to office and discuss policy. So he's not a mafia don, He's
just candidate Don and candidate Donald Trump has to be able to speak right in
public. And so I think I actually think this is a case of first
impression because we've never had a president prosecutor before. But I would think the
Supreme Court would actually reverse this gag order, but on appeal. So I
actually admired this part of Donna Yees. The problem is on appeal, so
it was remarkable. But I think Trump's so he's so you know, clever.
He wants the judge to throw him in jail for violating the gag order
and then he can say I am in jail for the First Amendment. It's
like, I mean, it's going to be like Martin Luther King. I
would never compare them to otherwise, but right, Martin Luther King notes from
a Birmingham jail because he's in jail for violating unjust laws. And Trump could
say notes from wrikers, yep, and so indeed, you know, I'm
in jail because of an unconstitutional gag order, and he would be right.
Yeah. Do you think that the judge, Manhattan judge is in so much
of a bubble that he believes a that even if this is a little bit
sketchy about whether or not it'd be constitutional. I am. You know that
my Manhattan cocktail party friends all the way to the view ladies fantasizing about Donald
Trump being sent to rikers. You know, it's is it possible that these
people really are so deluded in their bubble that they think this is a good
thing. It's hard for me to imagine Steve's shaking his head. Yes,
well, I mean, let their fantasy has been to see Trump in an
orange jumpsuit to match the orange hair, right, And you know they're so
single minded about that that they can't think straight no, I mean I think
this is a Judge without judgment. I mean maybe there's our podcast episode title.
I don't know, but yeah, I mean, look, this is
not new. I mean you go through the there's lots of well, the
most famous expression, of course, goes back to nineteen seventy two, with
Pauline Kal saying, I don't see how Nixon could have won. I don't
know anybody who voted for him. That's the most perfect encapsulation of the Manhattan,
especially Upper West Side viewpoint. And you know, you talk to anybody
who's sort of a closet conservative in Manhattan about how dinner parties happen in New
York, and it's just impossible to concede that anybody could think or that anybody
outside their very narrow viewpoint could possibly have any merit on their side. So
yeah, I think it's entirely possible that the judge is in a very tight
bubble. Okay, let's move on to a last, equally large topic.
I mean, any of these topics we're coming today could be an entire show
all by themselves. But let's turn to the college protests. You know,
we're all seeing them are else up front close and personal. I would say
factually, the protests are escalating, they are spreading. They've even made it
to England. I don't know if you guys saw the story I sent you.
They're even having encampments at Oxford and Cambridge. I wonder whether when you
get the tent at Oxford they have a little space for the butler you bring
from the family of state with you while you're in there to serve you your
tea at three pm every day, with the little cucumber sandwiches and so on.
So they're spreading wider, or you're seeing them go to more campuses.
You're seeing other universities now canceling graduations, as Steve said at Berkeley Law,
apparently you saw the disruption of graduation already. I think you're seeing differences to
diversity the good kind, whereas I think Texas and Florida are not having the
same kind of problems you're seeing at the schools in California and New York.
So you see that. I think that's actually so let's talk about one the
responses. What do you think is the right response the wrong response some of
the things that have happened, And just as ress, there's a bill now
in Congress that cut off funds of the kind that we were talking about last
weekend and cut off federal funds to campuses that are not protecting Jewish students.
The president of Cornell just resigned. You've seen there's another wonderful sorry about how
the labor union representing the janitors at Columbia are now suing Columbia because some of
the protesters tried to take two janitor's hostage during their takeover Hamilton Hall. It's
it's hard to know where to stop. I mean, this is spreading and
it's metastasizing all kinds of different directions. But maybe we could just start with
actually Lucretia, where Lucretia woke up to the smell of tear gas in the
morning, just like Robert Duvall in Apocalypse. Now with Nia, maybe the
actually and they used something called pepper bullets. Do you know what those are?
No? I have no idea, but they sound good. Yeah,
they sound good. Yeah. Maybe you should tell us your field, which
school has done the best job, which school has done the worst job?
What's the right thing? I think University of Florida is probably the best.
And why Well, because you know, I think we talked about it briefly
last time too. Ben Sasse's UH communications person, a spokesperson came out and
said, this is not a daycare. This is not a daycare. We
told them this is what would happen if you do X, Y and Z.
We believe in free speech, we allow free speech, but if you
break university policies, if you do X, Y and Z, you will
be arrested. And they arrested them, and you know, they're all crying
and wanting amnesty because they got arrested, and well, I think what we've
seen every single time is that when you stand up to these people, it
makes a difference. Now, at my university, they had two separate incidents.
They had one a week ago they shut it down with tear gas and
rubber bullets. They had one two nights ago which they shut down with tear
gas and pepper bullets. Whatever that cool thing is, I'm gonna have to
find out. So high velocity, high velocity jalapeno. There we go.
And of course the faculty from the Humanities department and the School of Social Behavioral
Sciences came out and you know, decried the the violence used against students and
all this other. But the right thing to do is to stop it,
and stop it immediately, stop it before anything gets going saying you have a
right to talk. You can talk all you want, but you start bringing
in contraptions and tents and all those other things. This is not your place
to go camping. If you want to go camping, go rent a place
at a campground. Right. You just need to stop it before it starts.
And I here's the real point. We haven't even brought up before.
I know, we're all aware of it. This is not some grassroots thing.
This is a combination of a lot of money being spent by certain groups
to organize this with outside professional protesters and then taking advantage of again the let
me see if I can get this right. What are they called fatties for
a free Palestine? She's not making it up? Well, okay, it's
for real. It's overwhelmingly white mentally wheat. I don't know what else to
call them. They're pathetic, these people that have to have their safes faces
and so on, with their cafes and their their masks on out there screaming.
They've been told that you know, to do this by their gender studies
professor, And so between the money that's going into this and organizing it and
then the the right for the taking moron, female, pathetic. H I
don't know, there's not enough adjectives for me to describe these women. Oh
God, they're just their foul. But that this, that's where most of
it's coming from. You know, you're not seeing the frat boys out there.
They're out there defending the flag. God bless them, right, and
and they're getting a lot of a lot of support. Now, there was
the guy in Mississippi who, speaking of overweight, he started making King Kong
noises at this very large black woman with nappy hair. I don't know how
else to describe it, and he started making fun of her, making King
Kong noises, and some of the other frat boys were calling her Lizzo,
which I thought was supposed to be Lizo. Was beautiful, so therefore that
would be a compliment, But instead he got kicked out of the fraternity by
the national fraternity and they've got a civil rights investigation against him. I mean,
they're really trying to make sure that these counter protesters don't gain any ground,
but it's not going to work. So that's my thought on that steep.
Yeah, so I think I mean, first of all, we saw
Black Lives Matter protests spread to Europe back in twenty twenty, even though they
don't have the kind of racial history that the aket does. But I think
the two most significant things of the week were not that you've got tense cities
at Oxford and Cambridge. But first of all, well, let me put
it this way. Suppose you're one of these just stop oil climate action protesters
and you get up in the morning and you're going to go block the road
to O'Hare Airport, and you show up only to find that the pro homoau
people are already there and in bigger numbers. Right, But there's a broader
point there, which is this is pushing Black Lives Matter and some of the
other premier issues like climate off the front page. Yeah, there we are.
Listeners won't see this, but I'll put the picture in the show notes
of Fatties for a Free Palestine. Okay, I know, send me that
picture, Lucretia. So two things happened this week. One you may have
caught it. So there's the the Eurovision Song Contest, which showed lampoon wonderfully
by that Will Ferrell mover about the story of fire Saga. And there's an
Israeli intrigue and there is a huge demonstration and was it Malmo, Sweden where
the competition goes down and and you know the the Israeli singers had to be
confined to the hotel with heavy security. Oh who shows up at that protest
Greta Thunberg wearing her cafea you know, uh, showing that you're trying to
merge these issues together. But I think it's not working. And one proof
of this is around Wednesday of the week black Lives Matter sued the Tides Foundation,
claiming that thirty million dollars that should have gone to Black Lives Matter is
going to Students for Justice in Palestine instead. So this is pushing the other
left wing causes off the front page and the front burner, and it's making
them mad, and so they're fighting with each other. And that's when you
step back and say, let's pop some popcorn with some of those pepper bullets.
My response to the Black Lives Matter thing, Steve was corrupt racist grifters
eat their own Yeah, well right, yeah, which you're in the popcorn
let them do it. It's your point that this is just opportunism, that
the Gaza war is just being used by the regular collection of cultural Marxists.
Of course, we're highly concentrated on campuses just to cause trouble, and they
don't really care about what's happening in Gaza. What they're using. They're just
using this as an opportunity to press for on their you know, intersectional agenda.
This is this goes back to, you know, one of the sensible
or revelatory things that what's his name, the you know, the Salolenski said
years ago, the issue is not the issue. The issues the revolution.
And you know, clearly what administrations have been hoping is, gosh, these
protests are happening in April now early May. School's about to the out of
the summer, and if we just can muddel our way through, things will
calm down. I don't think so. This reminds me and I'm actually going
back and reading some of the old Berkeley professors from the free speech movement sixty
four, like Nat Glazer and John Searle and you know, some of the
other professors who said, wait a minute, this, this is not over.
This has released a wave of energy. And that's what the protest left
wants is if you can reach a critical mass of people who are worked up
about something, you know, mix in some of your money and professional protesters,
appeal to the naive students, just get a wave of energy going.
It's going to keep going. And I think, depending on what happens also
in the war, I think it's going to spring back to life in the
fall. And then of course the Democratic Convention this summer. We'll see how
that goes. But I think this is now with us for a while.
And so anyway, expectation to the little just side tangents about the story,
and then we can turn to Steve's article. Oh, because we're ending about
this about this issue, because we're ending each episode with an article. Is
one little tidbit is that a bunch of federal judges have now declared they will
hire no one who goes to Columbia at all college or law school starting I
guess in a year. It's the same judges who said they would not hire
from Yaler Stanford after they both law schools allowed conservative speakers to be shouted down
and attacked. So that's a new development. And then the other one is
I'm curious what you both think since we're in the demographic. I initially read
the headlines of college professor hired A arrested. College professors are now showing up
and standing trying to stand in between the police and protesters, and are being
arrested and claiming police brutality. Now, when I first saw the headline,
I thought Lucretia had been arrested to try to stop or from getting at the
student protesters. But in fact, our colleagues are actually putting their bodies on
the line right standing in front of the students to try to block police from
reaching them to move them. Aside, I think our colleagues is a little
bit offensive, by the way, But I don't consider those people, of
course. I mean, this is their whole life. They have no they
have no genuine intellectual bona fides. They have this whole Marxist however you want
to call it, oppression ideology is all they have. And so they've got
to stand in front of these students. Most of the time. They're not
quite as brave as they just write their stupid letters, you know, and
publish them and make us read them. And but of course we saw the
same thing happen by the way back in with the George Floyd's stuff. Remember
that god awful thing from wasn't it Missouri who said we need some muscle out
here? The problem is, again, there's not that much muscle. They're
mostly these if there are any men at all, they're effeminate, and they
weigh ninety five pounds, soaking wet, and they couldn't lift a sign much
less, you know, bring some muscle. Sorry, I just I really
do like these stereotypes. They make it so much more fun to discuss,
so I'm gonna go with them. But yeah, you know, most of
the prophesauria these days, John, Well, you know, you're fortunate.
Unfortunate, Steve is fortunate that we actually know people who aren't those people.
We know faculty who are decent human beings who care about the pursuit of truth,
and they're not there to propagandize their city. But that's not that's not
the majority of faculty anymore at most colleges. You need to understand that that's
just the way it is. And the few that aren't outspoken, like the
three of us and some of our good friends are, if they are conservative,
they keep it mostly to themselves. I got the impression actually that they
were very excited to relive their youth. But it's not the same when you're
rushing to the protest line and a walker and artificial well that was woman badly
members smacked a cop. Yes, it was upset because she got arrested for
it. Yeah, I'm a professor and someone's a tenured or adjunct. Yeah,
well, let's let's take this opportunity to move to you know, this
show just flows like water because the article of the week is actually Steve's latest
contribution to City Journal, which I assume he will post in this notes.
That's an article for discussion, which is an examination of comparing today tonight teen
sixty eight. You've seen a lot of I think Democrats are worried that this
is going to turn into nineteen sixty eight. With the at the Democrat National
Convention. They conveniently located it in the same city so that the elderly protesters
can find their way back to the exact same spot where they were beaten by
the police, right by Mayor Daily's plice. So you've got the same combustible
situation. You got a Democrat national Convention. You've got a president who's faltering
under anti war protests, you have college campuses everywhere in chaos, have a
mayor daily that's right, So Steve, that's going to make a difference.
Steve, present your argument and let Lucretia tear it apart. Your argument is
that it's like sixty eight, but it's like sixty eight, but in some
ways worse than sixty eight. He was saying, I kept asking Steve to
make those analogies for us. It was like the only time I gave him
permission, and he wouldn't do it. But now I well ahead, Steve,
defend yourself. I mean, we know, and strategy is a preemptive
attack, but go ahead. See yeah, well there, I mean are
two things. At least one is my point was that the left has once
again turned to president. Now they're not going to drive Biden from the nomination.
Something else might His sinility will become so obvious. But they drove Johnson
out of the race and made Johnson abandon his Vietnam War policy. And that's
the last thing, is what's happened now with Biden. They've driven him out
of his previous ironclad commitment Israel. Now the protest thing is, you know,
things have changed since sixty eight. There's much better convention security. There'll
be a wider perimeter, they're better the police are probably better trained and tactics
to handle it. Governor Pritsker might call out the National Guard. Well,
I think there's some yet you're raising your hand. I mean, it's possible
the Chicago police won't cooperate. That's a subtext. But the other thing is
the major media, because they're in the bag, will want to say mostly
peaceful protests like they did with Black Lives Matter. The problem is we now
live in the age of social media. So if the protesters can gin up
some spectacular scenes of violence, if they set fire to some things, that's
going to be all over social media, and they'll go around the mainstream media
that will try and sugarcoat it. So that's what I'm looking for. I
mean, you know, the sixty eight protests were sort of put together hastily
by the yippies, and it was easy for them to get a crowd up.
And now there have been meetings going on for weeks or longer trying to
plan a protest. So I think, let me finish well, I think
there's a chess game going on here with both sides trying to figure out how
to game this out. And I don't know how it's going to turn out,
but I could still see it being quite a disaster. And I've got
my popcorn ready. Sorry, Lucretia, I tell you is I read this
morning before we got on this that they've already decided to move big portions of
it to online. The convention Yeah. Really, well, but see that
won't that mean? But people forget that at the Big the Big Francas in
sixty eight was actually quite a ways away from the convention hall. It was
out there in Grant Park, you know, near the lake. So it
actually doesn't matter if they're you know, on scene the convention hall, which
will be cordoned off at quite a distance. All they want is a spectacle.
And you know that that that Grant Park area or whatever it is there
in Chicago, that is an ideal place to put on a protest spectacle.
Yes, okay, Lucretia, I don't I actually didn't disagree with anything other
than the one. The other article we didn't have time to get to was
one that that Steve sent us to read and I didn't think it was.
I thought it was I thought it was impenetrable because of the pretentious language in
it. Was the one about Biden's testimony to her where he where Actually the
important thing about it was he claimed that he was right. It's it's too
complicated to get into now we're out of time. But basically he was right
about the whole surge thing when he was vice pre and how he almost almost
resigned signed his vice presidency because the Obama went along with the military industrial complex,
people represented in that cabinet, war room and so on. The one
thing I would have not disagreed with, but maybe challenged you a little bit
about. And I can't believe I'm going to say this, but you know,
in hindsight, that may have been the one thing that Biden was right
about. Well, except that Biden's answer was to have half the number of
troops, not to not do it at all. Well see my point about
why there's an article in the American Conservative. I'll link to it. Well,
I thought it was interesting was all the attention in the her report was
about his senility, and we missed the point that he made clear that Biden
has always been this weak, Dubvish person. And I thought that's an interesting
point. I mean, in other words, there's never was any there there.
All this guy's tough talk when he's made it in the years past was
all a lie. And this goes back to the seventies and you can chet
And I thought that was an interesting revelation about the merits of the Afghanistan insurgeon
all the rest of that, I mean, that's arguable matter. But the
fact that Biden is such an outlier even in his own party, I think
was the revelation of her report that everyone skipped over because the civility stuff was
just too irresistible. Part of it is also you want to glean from it
what's most important, which is, yes, he may be screwing things up,
but the most important thing is we have to decide whether to re elect
the guy. But yes, I mean I wasn't actually surprised by that point.
Remember, Biden is so old and had been in office so long that
he actually is one of the senators who vote Senators to vote to cut off
South Vietnam correct nineteen seventy five. So I mean he started his whole career
as an anti war Democrat. His very first votes were to commit a grave
foreign policy the error that took us decades to live down in reverse, which
was selling out Vietnam. After things, it's actually stabilized, and he's just
this is just more of the same. So let's finish by going to Babylon
BE headlines, and before we get to Lucretia's, my favorite Babylon B headline
this week was parasite eats RFK. Oh No, wait, actually that's a
real headline. Our story out this week, which I actually thought was a
Babylon B slash onion headline that RFK Junior has a brain parasite that's still in
there eating parts of his brain. And the first thing I thought of was,
well, has this been the one? Did he catch it from Biden?
So it was in Biden's brain first, but found nothing worth eating,
so had to jump to another host and is now an rfk's bring what is
the story with Well, Lucresian, what is this story with this? You're
the RFK fan on the podcast. I mean, is it the less brain
matter makes for a better president. What's your explaination for? Well, you
know, here's the thing. If we so you can look at actually two
different politicians here. One is RFK, and after the story about his brain
worm came out, he gave some interview wherein he said he supported abortion until
up until the moment of birth. And I think, I actually think that
those two things have probably killed his candidacy, because I really do, because
the only well at least it's it's killed whatever hope he had of taking votes
away from Trump, because you know, come on, Trump voters may some
of them may may not be avid pro life people, but they're not gonna
so anyway, I think that's destroyed him. Let me go. If so
he had a brain worm. John Fetterman had a stroke. I haven't disagreed
with anything that guy's posted on Twitter now in two months. I like everything
he puts on Twitter. It's not just his support for Israel, it's also
his attitude about immigration borders. What the heck? I mean. I think
the best thing to do would be to have every Democrat have a stroke,
not a brainworm, because obviously a brain worm does a wrong thing to you,
but the stroke does the right thing. That's that's my take on the
whole thing. Well, my original observation, I think originally with the observation
on Kennedy's brainworm is that I always thought that Kennedy's preferred a whiskey over tequila,
but apparently not. So that leads me to my first. My first
Babylon b RFK Junior says he supports a mother's right to drown her newborn at
chap equittic oh or worm disgusted to find itself in a politician's right. I
like, all right, so let's go onto some some stormy. This one's
my favorite, actually encapsulates everything Trump assures jury Stormy Daniels was way hotter back
then. You know that one's not even John. You know that true Biden
strikes deal where Hamas gets to keep American hostages in exchange for fifteen votes in
Michigan. Yeah, that's too great. Sometimes they're not even funny. Police,
You like this one, John Police storm Columbia University after report protester questioned
integrity of twenty twenty election because because you are in Texas, John, Texas
criminalizes wearing a cowboy hat in a prius. Oh yes, I think that
is a violent a law down here and should be and should be so I
always I'll tell myself to lead us out, so always drink your whiskey.
Need Let's go Brandon and Steve God save the Queen Man. Pause. See
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