1 00:00:17,399 --> 00:00:20,839 Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of You're Wrong with Me. David 2 00:00:20,879 --> 00:00:25,120 Harsani and my good dear friend Molly Hemingway. How's it going, Molly, 3 00:00:25,519 --> 00:00:30,559 It's going great. How are you doing. I'm doing very well. We 4 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:32,920 got to hang out a little bit last week, so that was fun. 5 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,920 We never really see each other in real life very often. It was awesome. 6 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:42,119 We had our annual staff retreat. We just hung out, talked, 7 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:48,600 shot some skeet, played some basketball. You played. You played basketball against 8 00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:56,119 one of the staff whom is like six foot eleven. It's not six foot 9 00:00:56,159 --> 00:01:00,679 eleven, but he looks that tall to me about college ball, and he 10 00:01:00,759 --> 00:01:04,319 played college ball, and he could have like vanquished everybody. But but in 11 00:01:04,359 --> 00:01:10,640 fact your team won. Yeah we did. We did. But I suspect 12 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,439 that he took it easy on us. I think he took it say yeah, 13 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:15,680 I have to say, like I told you at the time, I 14 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:19,959 think I had two heart attacks. I laid down on the floor after I 15 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:25,400 was beat red. Days later, I still felt it, and I thought 16 00:01:25,439 --> 00:01:27,239 I had like turned a corner and gotten back into good, really good shapes, 17 00:01:27,439 --> 00:01:30,879 you know, for the first time since COVID. But apparently that was 18 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:38,599 not the case um be in training for next year. I was telling your 19 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:42,400 husband Mark that I'm going to like show up and pretend that oh yeah, 20 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,200 you know, like it's some nonchalant game. But me all being to train 21 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,760 an all year just take three pointers that could show up like Michael Jordan. 22 00:01:49,799 --> 00:01:52,760 I don't think I can do that anymore. Anyway, it was fun, 23 00:01:52,799 --> 00:01:56,200 it was great. I loved I was you know, I loved seeing everyone. 24 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:04,599 So yeah, So today we have this breaking news that two high profile 25 00:02:05,599 --> 00:02:15,479 members of Congress are demanding information from the Department of Justice about a scandal involving 26 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:20,520 Joe Biden himself. So you have James Comer, who's on the House Government 27 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:27,400 Oversight and Accountability Committee, and then you have long time whistleblower hero Senator Chuck 28 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:36,919 Grassley saying that they have information that there is information within the FBI and Department 29 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:49,599 of Justice alleging criminal wrongdoing by then Vice President Biden involving a foreign person and 30 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,919 the Biden family business and so or that's what it seems to be. I 31 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:57,479 mean, it's like it's a little interesting because they're actually trying to get documents 32 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:05,439 preserved and get them into House and Senate oversight without revealing too much information, 33 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:10,719 but it sounds fairly explosive, right. The wording and the press release says 34 00:03:10,759 --> 00:03:19,319 that there's a form somewhere that's classified that describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then 35 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,919 Vice President Biden in a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy 36 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:29,719 decisions. Now, I haven't had time to sort of digest this. I 37 00:03:29,719 --> 00:03:32,319 mean, obviously, if the name on this or Donald Trump, this would 38 00:03:32,319 --> 00:03:37,039 be the biggest story ever, it would have blown up. I doubt this 39 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,240 is going to get much coverage, probably from the mainstream media. Oh my 40 00:03:40,319 --> 00:03:45,599 gosh, establishment media as yes, they're not mainstream, but go on. 41 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:55,719 And it's sort of a reaction that I say that with you it perfunctory way 42 00:03:55,719 --> 00:04:00,599 of describing them. But well, first of all, we don't know much 43 00:04:00,639 --> 00:04:03,360 about this yet, Like we don't know what it, which country it involves. 44 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,120 We don't know a lot. So I think that people always need to 45 00:04:06,159 --> 00:04:15,439 take it easy when something like this drops, and note not immediately assume that 46 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,040 we have some kind of smoking gun and stuff like that. I'm just saying 47 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:23,319 it's it's good to be vigilant and not overreact, right, disagree, I 48 00:04:23,319 --> 00:04:27,519 mean, we have I think here's the scenario we have. We have a 49 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:34,240 Department of Justice and it's FBI that will launch an investigation into any Republican who 50 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:40,000 is good at the drop of a hat, even if the predicate is preposterous 51 00:04:40,079 --> 00:04:44,639 and ridiculous. And we lived through that, We've experienced it in multiple ways, 52 00:04:44,959 --> 00:04:48,639 and we have seen this standard of justice that's applied to people who are 53 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:54,439 not allies of the Democrat Party. And then you have seen repeatedly, you 54 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:59,600 know, just to give a recent example, the investigation of Hillary Clinton's mishandling 55 00:04:59,639 --> 00:05:04,920 of fied information through the creation of an illicit secret server to manage her email 56 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:10,680 as she did as she was Secretary of State, involving you know, also 57 00:05:11,519 --> 00:05:15,959 the she was running a foundation that took large grants from foreign governments in exchange 58 00:05:15,959 --> 00:05:21,399 for favors to be named later presumably, and likewise you have this Biden family 59 00:05:21,519 --> 00:05:28,879 business. There's one theory that Hunter Biden is a business mastermind who everyone in 60 00:05:28,879 --> 00:05:32,199 the world wants to throw piles of money at just for morsels of his wisdom. 61 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:36,160 That's certainly a theory. The other theory is that people were giving Hunter 62 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:43,439 Biden bags of cash in exchange for and not just Hunter Biden, but James 63 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,040 Biden, the brother of Joseph Biden, and other family members, that they 64 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:51,560 were getting and securing bags of cash from foreign governments, foreign oligarchs, shady 65 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:58,160 figures in exchange for their proximity to Joe Biden. There's no reason to give 66 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:02,480 these Biden family members money other than the access to the person who actually handles 67 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:08,439 government policy. So, while yes, of course I'm curious what the actual 68 00:06:08,439 --> 00:06:14,720 details are, what I'm hearing already from this document alleging criminal wrongdoing involving then 69 00:06:14,879 --> 00:06:20,160 Vice President Joe Biden and the Biden family business is that it's just another example 70 00:06:20,199 --> 00:06:26,519 of how if that person even had the letter T in his name, much 71 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:32,720 less Trump, we would have had a massive special counsel going explosive reporting leaks 72 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,800 from the FBI, and instead, what happened in this case is apparently they 73 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:44,160 had reason to start an investigation or credible evidence of wrongdoing and it got buried. 74 00:06:44,959 --> 00:06:49,160 So I think my tolerance for having a wait and see approach so that 75 00:06:49,199 --> 00:06:55,120 the FBI, Department of Justice, other hacks the media can all like suppress 76 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,079 a story, my patience for that is just gone. So I will just 77 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,160 go ahead and assume, well, go ah, didn't assume if we even 78 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:05,240 have this type of information that the actual reality must be like a million times 79 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:12,199 worse. Well, I'm not saying this shouldn't be an investigation and we shouldn't 80 00:07:12,199 --> 00:07:14,959 know. I'm just saying we don't know what it's about yet. That's all. 81 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:16,519 Here's what I'd like to know. Obviously we should, we should see 82 00:07:16,519 --> 00:07:20,079 this document, and we should hear from the whistleblower. There's no reason why 83 00:07:20,079 --> 00:07:25,639 that shouldn't happen. A and you mentioned Trump. You know, if this 84 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,959 had been Trump, if there would be a tea in their name. Any 85 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,519 Republican? I mean you don't you know any Republican had this kind of document 86 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,399 existing, and a whistleblower, you know, in out there in the world 87 00:07:36,399 --> 00:07:40,879 who had quit, who had a claim that they had been involved in a 88 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:44,800 bribery scheme, this would be a front page, top of the fold, 89 00:07:45,399 --> 00:07:48,399 all the paper, New York Times piece, for sure. I can't even 90 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:53,800 believe we haven't heard about this since this is how long ago as a VP, 91 00:07:54,079 --> 00:08:00,839 like, so over ten years ago. Sure that is interesting. But 92 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,800 one thing that kind of impresses me about this rash of whistleblowers that are working 93 00:08:05,879 --> 00:08:11,079 with Grassley and other high caliber members of Congress. They're really doing everything by 94 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,839 the book. You saw this with the IRS whistleblower, who before he or 95 00:08:13,879 --> 00:08:20,920 she even gave information to his or her own attorney, made sure to get 96 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:28,839 that congressionally approved so that nobody could say that they violated IRS protocol or guidelines. 97 00:08:28,839 --> 00:08:35,039 Like they're really being careful, and Grassley has released a bunch of information 98 00:08:35,639 --> 00:08:41,440 that points to this significance and high caliber of these whistleblowers. There is also 99 00:08:41,519 --> 00:08:48,159 the situation that the media and the FBI are sort of if I've been reporting 100 00:08:48,159 --> 00:08:54,320 on this story a little yet to publish anything, but my reporting indicates that 101 00:08:54,320 --> 00:09:00,200 there's this sort of coordinated campaign within the FBI to completely take out any one 102 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:05,679 who's blowing the whistle. They're working with corrupt members of the media to disparage 103 00:09:05,759 --> 00:09:09,720 denigrate anyone who's coming forth with information. Now, the result of that is 104 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,919 that all of these whistleblowers are just being extremely, extremely careful and making sure 105 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:18,279 they're doing everything by the book. It's not just one whistleblower, it's a 106 00:09:18,279 --> 00:09:22,840 ton of whistleblowers, and they all have different levels of information and different aspects 107 00:09:22,879 --> 00:09:28,399 that are coming out sort of related to this. I think it's interesting that 108 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:33,679 we are getting more information about Hunter Biden's finances out of this like court in 109 00:09:33,919 --> 00:09:39,080 Arkansas that's hearing a custody dispute than we have from our own corporate media or 110 00:09:39,159 --> 00:09:46,240 any of the like years long investigations on this point. During the Trump era, 111 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:54,159 we had nothing but like NonStop leaks and innuendos from anonymous intelligence officials, 112 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:58,600 all of which came to nothing. We've had years of Hunter Biden investigations where 113 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:03,600 they're just handling it very responsibly and not letting anything get out and just like 114 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,080 not indicting, even though we all know that there are crimes ranging from like 115 00:10:07,399 --> 00:10:13,080 guns to drugs to tax issues, you know, and presumably like a lot 116 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:18,759 more that we that we get a little hints of. But Hunter Biden is 117 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,879 pleading poverty in this Arkansas court, which is, you know, either he's 118 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,559 lying, which would seem to be the case because we know that he's been 119 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:33,240 given bags of cash by all these people, or he's telling the truth. 120 00:10:33,759 --> 00:10:39,000 And what's interesting about that is he has some of the highest paid attorneys in 121 00:10:39,039 --> 00:10:45,480 America. So if he's poor, who's paying for those attorneys? Is it 122 00:10:45,639 --> 00:10:52,240 China, communist China, is it Ukraine? Is it corrupt oligarchs? Like 123 00:10:52,279 --> 00:10:58,480 who's paying for his high paying, highly paid attorneys? What do you think? 124 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,840 I don't know, I don't know paying for it? All? I 125 00:11:01,879 --> 00:11:05,120 know? You know this is I guess. I guess. I don't have 126 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,279 anything definitive to say so far in this podcast because I don't know what all 127 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:13,480 this stuff is really about. But I will say that the case against Hunter 128 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:18,120 Biden is oh. I read a story about every month about how indictments are 129 00:11:18,159 --> 00:11:22,559 coming any minute now they have never come. And we know so much about 130 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:28,879 his criminal activity from like you say, a clear and gun charge like that. 131 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,840 I haven't seen any disputed evidence for where he dropped a gun near a 132 00:11:31,919 --> 00:11:37,120 high school and led on his background check forms. These are the kind of 133 00:11:37,799 --> 00:11:41,480 criminal This is the kind of criminal behavior we should be focusing on if we 134 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:45,080 want to stop gun crime. So, which is a big, you know, 135 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,080 issue for Joe Biden. But I don't know who's paying for his lawyers. 136 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:50,919 How the hell should I know I was paying for his lawyers. I 137 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:54,639 don't know. The whole thing is extremely shady, and we you know, 138 00:11:54,759 --> 00:11:58,200 and those post stories and his laptop. It's clear that he's involved, and 139 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,919 you know, he's up to no good criminal behavior, and it's clear that 140 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,080 he was only able to engage in that behavior because of who his dad was. 141 00:12:05,279 --> 00:12:07,799 And it's clear to me at least that his dad helped him. He 142 00:12:07,799 --> 00:12:11,000 took him to China, he introduced him to people, he got Joe Bon 143 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:16,480 got involved in Ukrainian investigations that involved a company that was connected to his son. 144 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:20,320 So obviously this is corruption. I don't know what the you know, 145 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:24,440 how illegal it's going to be, but it is corruption, and it's you 146 00:12:24,519 --> 00:12:28,080 know, I just don't see how they get around indicting him. At some 147 00:12:28,159 --> 00:12:33,559 point, you do say that Joe was helping Hunter, but it seems also 148 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:37,000 that Hunter was helping Joe. You know, we all kind of like make 149 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:41,639 light of how people come to Congress and they're really poor and then they leave 150 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:46,080 multi millionaires. But part of the way that happens is through arrangements like this, 151 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:52,960 where family members serve on boards in exchange for their proximity to the powerful 152 00:12:52,519 --> 00:12:58,200 politician. And there is indication from the material that's come out thus far, 153 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:05,039 from emails of family members, that Hunter was paying for part of the Biden 154 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:09,240 family existence and so I think it was a mutually beneficial arrangement. And it's 155 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:16,279 kind of sick and sad that Joe Biden acts like he's this like wonderful father 156 00:13:16,919 --> 00:13:20,679 who loves his addict son without taking responsibility for the pressure he put on his 157 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,679 son to raise a ton of money so that the family could live high on 158 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:31,480 the hog. Yeah, sorry, since we're going Since I'm going off on 159 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:35,200 Joe Biden, I just want to say I think his refusal to acknowledge his 160 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:41,720 own granddaughter because of the circumstances of her birth is reprehensible and just horrific. 161 00:13:41,799 --> 00:13:45,559 And I do not say that as like a conservative who doesn't like Democrats, 162 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:50,000 but just as a human. That is so wrong. That is not that 163 00:13:50,039 --> 00:13:54,120 little girl's fault how her parents met or how they conceived her, and every 164 00:13:54,200 --> 00:14:00,799 child should be welcomed as a beautiful gift from God and particularly from the grandparents. 165 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,879 And he, you know, this week, was denying her existence. 166 00:14:03,279 --> 00:14:07,960 They're denying her. The use of her family name is just awful. Children 167 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:13,039 need to have relationships with their mothers and fathers and the grandparents if they're around. 168 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:18,120 I have never thought Joe Biden was a good person at all because a 169 00:14:18,159 --> 00:14:20,559 person who acts the way he acts in politics is not a good person. 170 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,240 The way that the things that he said about Mitt Romney wanting to put black 171 00:14:24,279 --> 00:14:28,039 people into chains even just to talk, you know, as a sand he 172 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:33,320 ran the Clarence Thomas hearings. He is the one he had so much to 173 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:39,799 do with the degradation of that process and the smearing. He is not any 174 00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:43,039 kind of good person anything else. On this topic. I was a long 175 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,159 prepared. I was a long prepared because it just happened, and I don't 176 00:14:46,159 --> 00:14:50,279 know what to think. I'd like to take a day to mull it over. 177 00:14:50,639 --> 00:14:56,120 Actually, I was just doing TV and they usually give you a heads 178 00:14:56,159 --> 00:14:58,600 up about what you're going to be talking about. And one of the people 179 00:14:58,639 --> 00:15:05,279 that I was is like, on around he was given this topic, but 180 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,960 he learned he was given this topic when they asked him the question on live 181 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:13,159 national television and he was like, I don't know, but he did a 182 00:15:13,159 --> 00:15:18,519 great job. So I mean these are serious charges. Yeah, well yeah, 183 00:15:18,519 --> 00:15:24,120 and it is serious in like the most these would be the most these 184 00:15:24,159 --> 00:15:28,840 are you know, this is the bribery is bad enough, but bribery and 185 00:15:28,879 --> 00:15:31,000 a foreign national involved in US policy, you don't get worse than that. 186 00:15:31,159 --> 00:15:37,960 By the way, imagine if this involves bribery and Ukraine, given the first 187 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:41,919 impeachment sham thing we went through, and like, what if the FBI had 188 00:15:43,039 --> 00:15:50,120 knowledge prior to that of actual shenanigans involving Ukraine and a government official. Oh 189 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,879 boy, Weirdly, weirdly, I think that the Russia collusion hoax affects me 190 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,720 here or somewhat in that I just don't want to immediately do what they did, 191 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:03,080 get hysterical, you know, about something that I don't know, I 192 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:07,120 don't have the full picture on. And I'm not saying there's someone in the 193 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:11,519 FBI trying to undermine Joe Biden. That seems highly highly unlikely with you know, 194 00:16:11,879 --> 00:16:15,120 spurious stories whatever. But it does make me want to not get hysterical 195 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,519 like they did. Well, here's what I think you can reasonably surmise or 196 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:27,399 reasonably understand that our FBI will open investigations at the drop of a hat against 197 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:32,720 someone right of center who's a threat to the establishment, and they will go 198 00:16:32,879 --> 00:16:37,200 out of their way to not do the same for an ally of their preferred 199 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:41,600 political party. Now that doesn't mean that if you were to open a full 200 00:16:41,639 --> 00:16:48,679 fledged investigation you might find exonerating evidence for the Biden family business, but we 201 00:16:48,799 --> 00:16:53,960 can at least know that we have two standards of justice. That people who 202 00:16:53,960 --> 00:17:00,200 are friends of the regime are allowed to just basically get away with anything, 203 00:17:00,399 --> 00:17:06,400 and that people who look askance from the other side might end up in prison 204 00:17:06,519 --> 00:17:10,240 for like the silliest of process crimes. All right, I'm done with that. 205 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:15,240 I want to move on. Um, here's some what has really This 206 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:18,720 is what really grinds my gear. This has grinded my gears this week. 207 00:17:18,759 --> 00:17:22,519 This is I like to say, chap, chaps my hide. Did this? 208 00:17:22,759 --> 00:17:30,319 Chap your hide? This did the So this has been ongoing for a 209 00:17:30,319 --> 00:17:33,160 long time, the various degrees in different ways, but there is a coordinated 210 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:37,359 effort to undermine the Supreme Court and to undermine the rule of law. And 211 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:41,480 the reason that that that this Supreme Court, this iteration of the Supreme Court 212 00:17:41,559 --> 00:17:48,000 is being undermined, is because it is one that upholds some sort of constitutional 213 00:17:48,039 --> 00:17:52,319 governing principle. Right that it is the thing that stands in the way of 214 00:17:52,759 --> 00:17:56,039 progressivism. It's, in my view, maybe the only thing that stops them 215 00:17:56,119 --> 00:18:02,559 right now in many places. So there was a story about clou Clarence Thomas 216 00:18:02,559 --> 00:18:04,400 had been essentially had conflicts of interest because he has a rich friend. Then 217 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:11,079 there was a Neil Gorsuch story about how he had not reported the sale of 218 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:14,559 his house and it tried to hide it. Incidentally, that story is complete 219 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:18,440 junk person didn't know how to read a disclosure form or did and lied, 220 00:18:18,839 --> 00:18:23,480 probably the latter. And yesterday there was another story. I'm not going to 221 00:18:23,519 --> 00:18:29,680 get into the specifics too much, but it's about the Federalist Society and other 222 00:18:29,799 --> 00:18:37,240 groups like it who are interested in furthering let's just say originalist judicial philosophy that 223 00:18:37,319 --> 00:18:42,559 they were that this guy Leonard Leo was involved in raising money in a way 224 00:18:42,599 --> 00:18:47,720 that was sort of corrupt whatever. Another just idiotic story. But this is 225 00:18:47,759 --> 00:18:49,799 my This is what I just want to say. I was watching Chris Murphy 226 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:55,119 yesterday on MSNBC. I saw a clip I wasn't watching MSNBC. I think 227 00:18:55,160 --> 00:19:00,759 it was with Mecti Hassan, and he was just gleeful, gleeful and happy 228 00:19:00,799 --> 00:19:04,680 that the court had been delegitimized in the eyes of the American people, which 229 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:10,599 was what they wanted to do from the beginning. And he was basically laughing 230 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:15,160 that and claimed that conservatives make law through the court. He literally said this, 231 00:19:17,839 --> 00:19:23,799 and that He literally later brought up abortion, which was row was unilaterally 232 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:29,200 thrust on the American people. It caused this abortion debate to be the way 233 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:33,160 it is because a bunch of guys decided to invent a right and then force 234 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:37,079 the American people. Even gay marriage was thrust upon the American people unilaterally, 235 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:41,680 not democratically. What he's saying is completely ridiculous. But it's always cabin ball 236 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,039 with these people, and I think what they've done to the Court is an 237 00:19:45,039 --> 00:19:48,680 insurgency. As I read this, I can't Michael Smith is this guy's name. 238 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:52,160 He wrote this wonderful substack could look it up. It's called the real 239 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:57,039 insurgency, and he is right. Chris Murphy is an insurgent that is far 240 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:02,440 more dangerous than the Shaman of January sixth or any one of those people who 241 00:20:02,559 --> 00:20:07,000 acted, in my mind, despicably. But this is the worst attack on 242 00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:11,319 our institution that I can think of, worse than anything Donald Trump did anything. 243 00:20:11,759 --> 00:20:15,480 And I don't think there's any way back from this once they've destroyed the 244 00:20:15,519 --> 00:20:18,640 Court. I really don't, because once they start ignoring the Court, which 245 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:22,799 they will do, which we even have what's her name, Nancy May saying 246 00:20:22,839 --> 00:20:26,119 ignore courts if you don't like it, just ignore the court on abortion and 247 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,599 abortion pills and whatever you want. Then you don't have a country. Then 248 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,599 you just have anarchy, and then that's that's going to be the end of 249 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:34,839 it. I do want to know that makes sense. That makes sense. 250 00:20:34,559 --> 00:20:41,480 It did. Oh, since I'm sometimes critical of Mitch McConnell, I will 251 00:20:41,519 --> 00:20:45,960 note that he also made this point that the Left is always claiming that they're 252 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:51,960 in defensive institutions, but they're besieging of the Supreme Court and the in federal 253 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:56,960 courts in general, shows that they are They have no regard for institutions. 254 00:20:57,079 --> 00:21:02,240 Can you imagine Dick Durby and sitting up there lecturing the Core, trying to 255 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:06,240 get John Roberts to come down for this clown show hearing he had the other 256 00:21:06,319 --> 00:21:11,839 day a guy who I listed it in a piece if anyone's interested, but 257 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,400 I listed went through the Judiciary Committee and listed some of the things that these 258 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,559 these senators have done in the way they you know, speaking of the way 259 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:26,400 they make money while in office. This is definition insider trading. I will 260 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,640 say when I when I wrote the Cabinet Book with Kerrie Severino, we interviewed 261 00:21:30,759 --> 00:21:37,440 several justices and one thing that was very common among those we spoke with was 262 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:41,400 the how offensive it is to be sitting in front of a group of completely 263 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:49,519 corrupt senators having your ethics challenged in confirmation hearings, and they just have to 264 00:21:49,559 --> 00:21:52,000 kind of sit there and take it, even though they know that these people 265 00:21:52,039 --> 00:21:57,599 are some of the most corrupt people on corrupt and unethical people in society. 266 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:06,720 But I do want to say that nothing about these attacks are meaningful except as 267 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:11,160 a way to see that the Left feels that it has gotten control of every 268 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:15,759 single institution except for the Supreme Court, and so they are doing their best 269 00:22:15,839 --> 00:22:22,079 to seize control one way or the other, delegitimize it in the case that 270 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:27,119 they can't, and that includes lying. And to put a fine point on 271 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:33,359 what you said about the Dabs ruling. Rov. Wade was legislation from the 272 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,759 bench. It was seven men dictating to the country that even though abortion was 273 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,640 nowhere mentioned in the Constitution, that you could have no say in it. 274 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,640 You had to just accept that it would be legal and there was nothing you 275 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:51,000 could do about it. Dabbs Alito's decision is the one that says, actually, 276 00:22:51,079 --> 00:22:56,880 since it's not mentioned in the Constitution, it can be it can be 277 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,400 handled by the people at the state, local, federal level. It returns 278 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:07,440 to the people the right to decide how to do their abortion law. So 279 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:14,279 Chris Murphy and others are just straight up lying or completely ignorant, and neither 280 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,799 is good. No, it's it's because listen, I would love for one 281 00:23:17,839 --> 00:23:21,079 of these guys to sit down with me or anyone who will ask them a 282 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:26,400 tough question and then answer this one. What is democracy? Define what democracy 283 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,319 in your mind means, because I can't understand because it's just Calvin Ball. 284 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,759 Really everything I like is democracy. I think it just means things that match 285 00:23:34,839 --> 00:23:40,039 the Democrat agenda. Yes, Like, can you believe that they have the 286 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:44,279 goal to say that someone who wants to ask a voter for an idea to 287 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:48,960 make sure that they're the person who's actually voting, is an enemy of democracy 288 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,039 because it's so sacred that you can just have anyone do it and you know, 289 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:57,319 without any kind of laws dictate governing it. And then it's fine to 290 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:03,680 say, as Richard Blueman Paul did that Clarence Thomas should be investigated by the 291 00:24:03,759 --> 00:24:10,079 DJ for criminal activity because he failed because he had to amend a disclosure form. 292 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:11,559 And I'm not even sure he actually really had to amend it. I 293 00:24:11,599 --> 00:24:17,640 mean, it is an attack on one of the go on. I think 294 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:18,559 he did have to. He does have to amend it. But the thing 295 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:23,119 is that's actually common occurrence anyone who covers judges no, like Katanji Brown Jackson 296 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:27,920 had to amend like twelve years of forms because she forgot to mention her husband's 297 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:36,039 employment or some such people amend forms all the time, and it's a pretty 298 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:42,640 regular thing because of how complicated these issues are. But this is not about 299 00:24:44,759 --> 00:24:49,039 actual concern over Clarence Thomas, who's one of the most frugal members of the 300 00:24:49,079 --> 00:24:55,400 court in history, having a wealthy friend who he sometimes goes to his house 301 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,359 or goes on his boat. This is just about what it's always been, 302 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,119 which is a belief that Clarence Thomas does not have the right to be an 303 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:11,440 originalist justice and a black man. Such amur are also amended her filings and 304 00:25:11,559 --> 00:25:17,200 Justice Stephen Bryer had traveled paid for by I forget the family's name. Some 305 00:25:17,319 --> 00:25:19,799 real some billionaire family. Oh yeah. Also, like they're all upset about 306 00:25:19,839 --> 00:25:25,880 these trips that Clarence Thompson, there's nothing compared to what Stephen Bryer took, 307 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:29,720 something like two hundred and fifty trips. Ruth Bader Ginsberg was taking trips all 308 00:25:29,759 --> 00:25:36,240 the time. But with Ruth Bader Ginsburg was giving signed copies of her abortion 309 00:25:36,319 --> 00:25:44,000 decisions as fundraisers for pro abortion groups. None of these jerks had a problem 310 00:25:44,039 --> 00:25:48,119 with that because they actually don't have a problem with the underlying issue. They 311 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:53,519 have a problem with people not towing the line on leftist jurisprudence. I mean, 312 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,880 I'm all over. But you had Donald Trump on January sixth. I 313 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:03,960 think it was cless speech. But does any of everyone remember Chuck Schumer threatening 314 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,599 the Supreme Court justice is in front of the building. I forgot the words 315 00:26:07,599 --> 00:26:10,319 to use something. You reaped the whirlwind, or you're going to rape the 316 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,400 whirlwind. You sewed the wind, You're going to reap the whirlwind. He 317 00:26:12,559 --> 00:26:19,559 threatened, threatened justices that if they did not follow his pro abortion philosophy in 318 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:26,319 contradiction to the actual Constitution, that they would face physical repercussions. And by 319 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:32,200 the way, they have justice Kavanaugh has had assassination attempts. All of the 320 00:26:32,279 --> 00:26:37,680 justices physical, all of the justices who were not on the left side of 321 00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:41,920 things on abortion law have to have massive amounts of security. They can't really 322 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:47,960 go anywhere they like, just this week, have had their houses threatened by 323 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,480 protesters by the way, you know, since it's illegal to do this in 324 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:57,480 attempts to change judges or justices ruling. There are all sorts of things that 325 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:02,039 the Department of Justice could do to go after these people. They have gone 326 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:07,039 out of their way to not do anything. Like moms at school board meetings. 327 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,519 That's the threat to the republic, you know, moms expressing their views 328 00:27:10,599 --> 00:27:15,160 that are in contradiction to what Merritt Garland's views are. That's something where you 329 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,960 need to bring the full force of the FBI against them. But people making 330 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:25,440 assassination attempts against sitting justices or threatening them and their children, but it's a 331 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:29,880 free country. They can protest. I give you another example. Across the 332 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:34,799 country there are state legislatures and they're trying to pass laws, and a bunch 333 00:27:34,839 --> 00:27:38,920 of leftist goons, which is what they are, shut down those proceedings. 334 00:27:40,079 --> 00:27:44,279 In the same way the insurgents of January sixth did and no one has a 335 00:27:44,279 --> 00:27:47,640 problem with it. I hope you're using air quotes for insurgents there. No, 336 00:27:47,799 --> 00:27:49,440 I always have disagreed with you on that. I think there are some 337 00:27:49,519 --> 00:27:52,799 people who were not and there were some people who acted violent. No, 338 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,960 I'm just but yeah, I am. I'm saying it's sarcastic. I'm not 339 00:27:57,079 --> 00:28:02,920 I'm not defending anyone taking over any capital. I'm just saying the overheated rhetoric 340 00:28:03,599 --> 00:28:07,079 is silly. So like I would not have called them insurgents before before right, 341 00:28:07,559 --> 00:28:11,279 um, I would have called them, you know, thugs and idiots 342 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,720 and people who are shutting you know who are who who should be arrest Oh 343 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:21,240 my gosh. Shutting Shutting down capitals is a leftist specialty going too decades. 344 00:28:21,599 --> 00:28:23,960 Exactly, you can't go to a if you're a conservative and you go to 345 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,400 a college, you're going to be screamed at and shut down. This is 346 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,960 this is the leftist way of mode of operation and it's been happening forever. 347 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,960 Or they're shut down highways or during the BLM thing, they would shut down 348 00:28:36,039 --> 00:28:38,920 cities like I mean, or just set up in tense city in the middle 349 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:45,039 of Seattle or Portland or wherever. Um? How many? How many is 350 00:28:45,119 --> 00:28:48,920 anyone? And yet when you see this happening like you didn't in Um in 351 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:55,720 Tennessee or was it Nashville in Tennessee? Uh? How does the how does 352 00:28:55,759 --> 00:29:00,839 the press um frame these people? They frames them as protesters, as heroes, 353 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:06,680 not as villains as they did with these as January sixth Folk. Now, 354 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,039 okay, but David, it's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They never 355 00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:17,880 believed the arguments that they were using against conservative protests. They just don't like 356 00:29:18,039 --> 00:29:22,640 threats to leftist power and leftist policies. And so if you're in favor of 357 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:23,920 those, you're good. If you're opposed to them, you're bad. So 358 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:30,960 they're actually not being hypocritical. They're just believing quite strongly that the right doesn't 359 00:29:30,039 --> 00:29:34,759 have the right to exist. That's exactly right. So let's then let me 360 00:29:34,799 --> 00:29:40,680 go back to the story on the Federal Society or others who raise who you 361 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,240 know, who are written about the conservative legal movement, who are written about 362 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:48,920 as if they're somehow corrupt. The wording is constantly dark dark money groups, 363 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:53,079 dark money networks, dark money, this, dark money, that, and 364 00:29:53,119 --> 00:29:57,480 then I went and I looked at the same reporters have they reported dark money 365 00:29:57,519 --> 00:30:02,240 groups on the left, and they never mention those words. It's always activist, 366 00:30:02,839 --> 00:30:04,920 you know whatever kind of used even to use an example, we're in 367 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,640 the midst with quickly, sorry, one quick quick word. The point is 368 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:14,559 conservatives aren't allowed to raise money. That's what bothers them. The existence of 369 00:30:14,599 --> 00:30:17,720 these groups bothers them, not anything they actually did. Just like you said 370 00:30:17,759 --> 00:30:21,720 about you know, these protests. Sorry, no, just that we are 371 00:30:21,759 --> 00:30:26,559 in the midst of a dark money operation. Like obviously, anybody with an 372 00:30:26,559 --> 00:30:33,359 IQ over room temperature understands that there's a coordinated attempt to attack the Supreme Court. 373 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:40,920 They are coordinated attempt to go after the non leftist justices on the Court. 374 00:30:41,319 --> 00:30:45,680 So different media outlets are used as willful co conspirators in this operation. 375 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:52,519 Sometimes it's the exact same hack reporters who ran the anti Kavanaugh smere such as 376 00:30:52,599 --> 00:30:57,720 Heidi Prisbella, and they are all working together in the latest anti Supreme Court 377 00:30:57,759 --> 00:31:03,599 operation. The dark money funded groups will like Demand Justice and fix the Court 378 00:31:03,839 --> 00:31:08,559 are being quoted in this but rather than you know, when someone comes to 379 00:31:08,559 --> 00:31:11,160 a reporter and says like, hey, I want you to take part in 380 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:15,440 this operation. A good reporter would be like, tell me more about this 381 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,480 operation and then expose it. But that's not what we have. We have 382 00:31:18,599 --> 00:31:22,519 people just being look, sure, I'll help you with Kavanaugh two point zero, 383 00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:26,160 and it's infuriating. Also, here's another infuriating thing. Really quickly, 384 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:30,559 Ruth Marcus ran the anti Kavanaugh smir for The Washington Post. It was a 385 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:37,440 despicable, disgusting, reprehensible operation just because they love abortion so much, and 386 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,759 even for people who love abortion. Ruth Marcus is special because she once said 387 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,519 that not only does she think that people who children who weren't perfect should be 388 00:31:45,559 --> 00:31:49,480 killed, she would have killed her own kid if her kid had been determined 389 00:31:49,519 --> 00:31:55,880 not to be perfect in utero, so like her bloodthirstiness is intense. Anyway, 390 00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:00,599 while she thought that the Kavanaugh smir meant that justice, then Judge Kavanaugh's 391 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:04,799 life should be overturned and he should be investigated to within an inch of his 392 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,720 life, and that she believed these allegations despite the fact that there was not 393 00:32:07,799 --> 00:32:12,880 one scintilla of evidence in support of them, and like a million pieces of 394 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:19,599 evidence against them. She says this week that she's really upset at Justice Alito 395 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,960 because he says he thinks he knows who the leaker was, and yet he 396 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:29,039 offered no evidence in support of it. Are you bleeping kidding me right now, 397 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,480 Ruth Marcus, are you kidding me? You who thought that it didn't 398 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:37,480 matter that there was no evidence in support of destroying the life and threatening the 399 00:32:37,559 --> 00:32:40,839 life of a really respectable federal judge, Like, that's okay. Now you 400 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:45,480 want evidence before someone can say simply, I think I know who the leaker 401 00:32:45,599 --> 00:32:47,680 was. He didn't even like say I think it's this person. He just 402 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,400 said he believes he knows who it is. That's a good point. I 403 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:57,279 saw that. Now that's a righteous rant there. But I have to go 404 00:32:57,319 --> 00:33:01,200 back a little bit and just say you mentioned how listen, I've been in 405 00:33:01,279 --> 00:33:06,440 journalism a while. People try to sell you APO research all the time. 406 00:33:06,839 --> 00:33:09,480 Most of it is risible, most of it is laughably thin. You would 407 00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:14,279 never attach your name to it because you would immediately be called out and embarrassed 408 00:33:14,359 --> 00:33:17,559 to do it. These days, well let me let me let me read 409 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:22,759 from my own piece the other day. These days, though with a little 410 00:33:22,799 --> 00:33:27,480 quality control, virtually no consequences for spreading false partisan attacks. A person without 411 00:33:27,519 --> 00:33:31,400 any journalistic ethics can probably build a career on this stuff, which brings me 412 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:37,440 to Heidi Principala's new piece at Politico. I was literally gonna be like, 413 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:42,480 and you're talking about Hidi Pricipal by the way, we eviscerated her Kavanaugh reporting 414 00:33:42,559 --> 00:33:45,400 Injustice on Trial, and you can look that up in like chapter ten, 415 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,759 I think, But go on, yeah, she'll She'll repeat anything that they 416 00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:52,599 tell her to you. She's just terrible. She's at Politico now, so 417 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,880 anyway, she was the I don't even want to it's I have to be 418 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:59,599 honest with this last hit piece of hers. It couldn't even decipher what the 419 00:33:59,599 --> 00:34:02,799 action accusation was like. It was so difficult to understand. It was just 420 00:34:02,839 --> 00:34:07,559 a bunch of words that sounds scary cobble together to try to insinuate something, 421 00:34:07,719 --> 00:34:14,519 but it was just vacuous, David. That reminds me of the second phase 422 00:34:14,599 --> 00:34:19,440 of the anti Kavanaugh operation, which was the New Yorker had rowan pharaoh and 423 00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:23,840 Jane Meyer telling a story that I have read literally like thirty times, and 424 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:30,039 I cannot tell you what the problem was like if you actually tried to nail 425 00:34:30,079 --> 00:34:34,119 it down like what the allegation was, It was impossible, but like it 426 00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:37,920 was supposed to be really explosive, all because they used like salacious words and 427 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:43,400 salacious scenarios and they kind of put them one after the other, but ultimately 428 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:47,400 came up to like a woman thinks, but isn't sure that maybe someone who 429 00:34:47,559 --> 00:34:52,599 might have been Brett Kavanaugh might have done something. I was like, this 430 00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:55,559 isn't this is not journalism, and yet everyone went wild with it, and 431 00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:00,639 Senate Democrats said that it was a reason why he should he should step down. 432 00:35:00,639 --> 00:35:04,239 Yeah. I struggle to come out with a name for that. I 433 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,559 call it like Petempken. Journalism is just kind of dressed up with all this 434 00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:14,800 journalistic verbiage and like words that sound very you know, damning, but actually 435 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,679 don't mean anything. Let me just read you the lead of that story by 436 00:35:19,119 --> 00:35:22,400 Heidi Prisi Well. Leonard Leo, who helped to choose judicial nominees for former 437 00:35:22,519 --> 00:35:27,559 President Donald Trump, obtained a historic one point six billion dollar gift from his 438 00:35:27,679 --> 00:35:31,880 conservative legal network via an introduction through the Federalist Society, whose tax status for 439 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:38,400 bids political activism. That is one sentence and it makes zero sense. Oh 440 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:43,800 wait, can I just read chilling components Donald Trump one point six billion and 441 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,920 Federalist Society, and that's all you need to know. This reminds me of 442 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:52,559 something I would like any of our listeners, particularly those with money, to 443 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:54,840 know, which is sometimes people will come up to me and be like, 444 00:35:54,920 --> 00:36:00,960 oh, congratulations on the one point six billion dollars. There is no relationship 445 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:07,719 between the Federalist Society and the Federalist other than a shared love of founding documents, 446 00:36:07,159 --> 00:36:10,920 and we certainly publish people who might be members of the Federalist Society, 447 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,599 and you know, I wrote a book on the Kavanaugh confirmation. But there 448 00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:20,519 is no relationship. So if anyone out there has one point six billion dollars 449 00:36:20,519 --> 00:36:24,199 and wants to invest it in quality journalism, please give me a call. 450 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:28,719 Or even if it's just a tiny fraction of that, please give me a 451 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:37,280 call. Okay, commercial one point six million dollars one point six thousand dollars 452 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,159 one hundred and sixty thousand would be great. I could hire a reporter two. 453 00:36:42,039 --> 00:36:45,039 But yes, sorry that that got me off track there, But yes, 454 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,599 yeah, I know everyone always thinks we're the Federal Society lesson. I 455 00:36:47,599 --> 00:36:51,400 don't get too mad over that. Because of our name. But yeah, 456 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,519 we are not connected with them in any way other than we were fans generally 457 00:36:54,519 --> 00:37:00,280 of I think they're legal philosophy. So another thing that was big this week 458 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:06,239 involved the or it actually happened last week, is that Kevin McCarthy, against 459 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:10,719 all odds, got the House to pass an increase in the debt limit in 460 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:15,039 the debt sailing. And this is just like a fascinating story because the entire 461 00:37:15,119 --> 00:37:20,639 calculus in Washington, DC, or the one that Joe Biden was operating under, 462 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,719 was that there was no way the Republicans could come together to pass an 463 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:29,440 increase on the debt limit, And so when Kevin McCarthy was asking him for 464 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:34,559 months to negotiate with him, Biden just kept saying, I'm not going to 465 00:37:34,639 --> 00:37:38,880 negotiate with you because you're not worthy of negotiating with All of this hinged on 466 00:37:39,159 --> 00:37:45,039 the Republicans not passing an increase, and then they did. It destroyed the 467 00:37:45,079 --> 00:37:51,559 media slash Democrat argument against negotiating with Kevin McCarthy. Now, all of a 468 00:37:51,639 --> 00:37:55,079 sudden, the only person who has passed something or who has done anything to 469 00:37:55,159 --> 00:38:00,559 save the country from default is Kevin McCarthy. And now the Senate has to 470 00:38:00,599 --> 00:38:05,719 go along or be responsible for the failure there, or Biden has to go. 471 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,480 You know, it's like it's actually kind of a hilarious turn of events, 472 00:38:07,639 --> 00:38:12,079 and it really does point to how wise it was to have that fight 473 00:38:12,159 --> 00:38:19,559 about speaker early on, where the Conservatives demanded some some things in exchange for 474 00:38:19,599 --> 00:38:23,559 their vote for Kevin McCarthy. Thereby bonded them together very closely. And now 475 00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:29,760 they're actually working together under really difficult circumstances, like the margin they have is 476 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,559 so small, and yet they managed to do stuff like this. That's a 477 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,559 good that's a good point and a good story. And I have to say 478 00:38:36,559 --> 00:38:40,159 a couple of things. There was a Wall Street Journal story on this fight, 479 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:45,400 and they literally again I'm using the word literally correctly, did not mention 480 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:50,239 the House bill had passed, like they spoke about like the disagreement, but 481 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,280 not mentioned that the has a bill passed during the Obama years. If the 482 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,760 House pass if the Democrats passed something and the Senate didn't move forward, it 483 00:38:55,760 --> 00:39:00,039 was called obstructionism or vice versa. Now they don't even mention it. They 484 00:39:00,079 --> 00:39:04,519 don't even mention it in their coverage, just like it doesn't matter, do 485 00:39:04,559 --> 00:39:07,519 you remember Chuck Schumer every day going where's your plan? Republicans, It's like, 486 00:39:07,639 --> 00:39:10,440 show us your plan. Well, they have a plan now, and 487 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,320 you know it's it's amazing to me. The death seal, Like, I 488 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:17,920 just want to put out that you said that about the Wall Street Journal, 489 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:22,199 which is the only paper I subscribe to, and I do acknowledge that it's 490 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,840 better than most other papers, but stuff like that happens all the time, 491 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,920 and it's infuriating. I think they just have a bunch of like leftists working 492 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,719 in the news side, and it's really delegitimizing the paper in ways that are 493 00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:37,079 not cool. I do also read the Wall Street Journal and like the Wall 494 00:39:37,079 --> 00:39:39,280 Street Journal and subscribe to the Wall Street Journal because I think it's serious, 495 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:44,199 a serious place with serious journalists. But yeah, there are plenty of left 496 00:39:44,199 --> 00:39:46,400 wingers and there's plenty of bias in the news pages. I don't know if 497 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:51,320 people realize that. I think because a lot of investors and stuff read it, 498 00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,760 they're they're more I don't know, anchor to factual reporting the New York 499 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:59,760 Times, but yeah, it's problematic. But yeah, anyway, I think 500 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,679 you know you have the you have the debt ceiling, and basically Democrats argument 501 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:07,280 is that you ignore it, pretend it doesn't exist. You're not allowed to 502 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,440 make any demands, You're not allowed to do anything. And then there, 503 00:40:09,519 --> 00:40:13,559 you know, and then they pose, they say, like, we pay 504 00:40:13,599 --> 00:40:15,559 our debts. We're Americans, we pay Yeah, but if you don't do 505 00:40:15,599 --> 00:40:20,719 anything to lower your debt moving forward, you're never going to be able to 506 00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,000 pay it that they don't want to. You do have to pay your debts, 507 00:40:22,039 --> 00:40:25,920 but you do have to also be responsible. I mean, it was 508 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:30,639 a good move because usually Republicans lose this vote. I know, I know 509 00:40:30,679 --> 00:40:35,000 the Republicans in the House are going to disappoint us mightily very soon. But 510 00:40:35,079 --> 00:40:38,719 just like, it is May and they have done all right, so they 511 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:44,000 should get that credit. I don't wonder if anyone really cares about cutting spending. 512 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,599 But anyway, um yeah boiler alert, they do not. Okay, 513 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:52,159 um, I mean if you do, but okay, uh yeah. Any 514 00:40:52,199 --> 00:40:59,760 have you been watching anything or reading anything interesting? I have? I might 515 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:01,519 have I mentioned this last week, but I don't think so. Or I 516 00:41:01,559 --> 00:41:07,079 finished watching Better Call Saul the last season, which I thought it was excellent. 517 00:41:07,599 --> 00:41:10,639 You know, I disagree with people say it's better than Breaking Bad. 518 00:41:10,639 --> 00:41:15,800 I don't think it comes close, frankly, but the last season was it 519 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:20,679 really was fun to watch and just to see what happens to Saul. So 520 00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:24,800 I think you are not a Breaking Bad fan. Really it was I want 521 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:30,760 to be. And it took me like six weeks of recovery after each episode 522 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,440 I watched because it was so intense. So like, I recognize that it's 523 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,559 great, it's just way too intense for my little heart to him. I 524 00:41:38,599 --> 00:41:43,039 am usually not affected by things I watched on TV. I couldn't care less, 525 00:41:43,079 --> 00:41:46,199 but when that show ended, I was like emotionally affected, like for 526 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:52,000 days. So yeah, it's super intense show. I think that's all I 527 00:41:52,079 --> 00:41:55,000 really watched. I would mention one other other thing. Last week I had 528 00:41:55,400 --> 00:42:00,199 mentioned to Martin Scorsese documentary about David Johansson, and someone wrote us a letter 529 00:42:00,559 --> 00:42:05,679 reminding me or we're suggesting that I watched this thing called New York Doll, 530 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,559 which is about the basis from from the from the New York Dolls original basis 531 00:42:10,079 --> 00:42:14,760 who fell into drugs and alcohol and will say what, became a Mormon and 532 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:22,119 moved out to Utah and it's an interesting and then he got very sick and 533 00:42:22,159 --> 00:42:25,800 the New York Dolls reformed I think this was like in the early twenty tens 534 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,679 or something like that, and had a concert and kind of helped him. 535 00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,280 And it's just an interesting story of redemption and stuff. And it's just a 536 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,400 super interesting documentary. It's called New York Doll. I actually have seen it. 537 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,679 I own it on DVD, and I would just if people are interested 538 00:42:38,679 --> 00:42:42,519 in that kind of music and that kind of story, that's a pretty good 539 00:42:42,519 --> 00:42:47,480 documentary. That's it. Okay, Well, I don't really have much because 540 00:42:47,519 --> 00:42:52,760 we had our retreat, which was fun. I did finally. I've never 541 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:57,199 been able to shoot ski at all, and I made contact, like I 542 00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,199 did it. I can. I like to shoot targets, but not I 543 00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:05,679 can't do the like moving target. Isn't it gray when sid explodes or whatever 544 00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:07,559 it's called. But yeah, it finally happened. And the guy who helped 545 00:43:07,559 --> 00:43:13,599 me was like a zen master. He just spoke in my ear weird things 546 00:43:13,599 --> 00:43:16,000 that got me to think the right thought and it was beautiful. I did 547 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,760 not go with you guys shooting, by the way, Oh no, I 548 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:23,119 went. I tried to go fishing instead. How'd that go? Not well? 549 00:43:23,119 --> 00:43:28,360 Because it was raining like crazy. Also, our six foot eleven staff 550 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:32,800 are also caught multiple fish I think. By the way, speaking of impressive 551 00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:39,440 people on staff, Kylie Zempele excelled at every sport she did, whether it 552 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:49,000 was shooting, football, baseball, or whiffleball basketball. It was pretty the 553 00:43:49,039 --> 00:43:53,679 most fun one axe throwing. Oh yeah, okay, he is our best 554 00:43:53,679 --> 00:43:59,079 athlete by far. I was very impressed. Yeah, super competitive. I 555 00:43:59,199 --> 00:44:02,639 just love rewe on our team and say something about our team here. Yes, 556 00:44:04,079 --> 00:44:07,679 it is interesting to see you really get a person to a person's I 557 00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:12,119 don't know core when you watch them play sports. And when we started playing 558 00:44:12,119 --> 00:44:15,559 basketball, you could see that we were like that. John Davidson and I 559 00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:19,679 the older people on stuff. I'm much older than him probably, but I 560 00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,599 would rather have died than not get him. My wall and trying to look 561 00:44:22,639 --> 00:44:25,760 at John was the same way, even though I know our six foot eleven 562 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:30,760 basketball hero could have beaten us if he really wanted to. John's like almost 563 00:44:31,039 --> 00:44:36,119 dying and he's just grabbing onto him, like done his back, like fouling 564 00:44:36,199 --> 00:44:38,559 him, trying to win. But and then of course yeah, oh yeah, 565 00:44:38,559 --> 00:44:43,719 she's Oh she was impressive. Um, I liked that Sean Davis and 566 00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,960 I were playing table tennis, but there were no ping pong balls, so 567 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,320 we just used a variety of other balls to do it, and it all 568 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:55,239 like totally worked and including whiffootballs and tennis balls. And I liked that idea 569 00:44:55,280 --> 00:45:00,000 that like, we will just make something work if we're committed. Yeah, 570 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,000 oh, it's interesting. Anyway, he just said a lot about us. 571 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:07,280 One of the people I was talking to said, you know, because he 572 00:45:07,599 --> 00:45:10,480 hadn't met everybody, and he said that when you get a group of our 573 00:45:10,559 --> 00:45:14,639 size together, there's going to be someone you don't like, and he was 574 00:45:14,679 --> 00:45:20,360 just blown away that he liked everybody. Interesting. I like maybe fifty percent 575 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,320 of the people. Well, I also feel like I should mention that beverything. 576 00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:24,920 I liked everyone. Yeah, no, yeah, I totally just blew 577 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:30,360 over. The Bedford got married this weekend to an awesome lady, Sarah Westwood, 578 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:35,000 and that was awesome as well. So we wish them our best. 579 00:45:35,119 --> 00:45:37,079 I'm going to the yea, yeah, yeas tonight. Are you familiar with 580 00:45:37,119 --> 00:45:40,119 that band? I am familiar with that band. They've been around a while, 581 00:45:40,199 --> 00:45:43,679 right, and they were a New York band, I believe. Yeah, 582 00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:45,639 actually, yeah, yeah. One of my best friends went to college 583 00:45:45,639 --> 00:45:49,199 with one of the people in the band, so I saw him play like 584 00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:53,400 in college. And then I have seen the Yaayas before and Karen Oh is 585 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:58,400 like a revelation live, so I'm really looking forward to it. But tonight 586 00:45:58,559 --> 00:46:04,039 is their opening night on their tour this year, so I wasn't sure if 587 00:46:04,079 --> 00:46:07,280 that means that they'll be like getting their kinks out or whether it'll be really 588 00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,760 good, but I'm working for it. I'm sure they practiced before the tour 589 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,840 will be fine, okay. And then my other update is that I made 590 00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:20,920 it through Exodus and I'm already in. I'm into Leviticus. We got some 591 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,400 mail on that that was interesting. Yeah, oh such, Yeah it was 592 00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:28,199 good, and recommendations of things to watch or read that I will do. 593 00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:31,639 But I'm really committed to just this. Is that like Joshua just killing it 594 00:46:31,679 --> 00:46:37,079 and King I haven't don't spoil for me. I want to just experience this. 595 00:46:37,159 --> 00:46:42,239 So right now we are just on like processes for sacrifices, and I 596 00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:46,159 think we'll get to the you know, food and sex stuff later, um 597 00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:52,360 whatever. I think I recall Aaron's kids get in trouble for something but I 598 00:46:52,679 --> 00:46:55,360 just I want to read it with fresh eyes. So I really question a 599 00:46:55,440 --> 00:47:00,880 theological question, do you have any qualms when you're reading the Old Testament about 600 00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:06,960 all the violence that is that God commands the juice to participate in, including 601 00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:12,320 the genocide of certain ethnic minorities and things like that. It just doesn't seem 602 00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:16,159 very compatible with Jesus's message in the New Testament. Is this a good question 603 00:47:16,159 --> 00:47:21,760 for this podcast? It's too big at this moment of the podcast where we've 604 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,800 got like a few seconds to have up. But no, That's one of 605 00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:29,280 the things I like about it is thinking about the parallels between the Old and 606 00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:36,440 New Testament and the consistency between it, even about how sin requires sacrifice and 607 00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:40,360 how that is understood by the ancient Hebrews, and how that is understood when 608 00:47:40,559 --> 00:47:45,960 Jesus talks about the New Covenant, even just that whole thing covenants and how 609 00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,599 they operate and how, oh, I do have to say, one of 610 00:47:47,639 --> 00:47:52,960 my favorite things is, so you know, Moses does all this work to 611 00:47:52,079 --> 00:47:58,039 get the Israelites out of Egypt, and literally within hours they're grumbling about how 612 00:47:58,079 --> 00:48:01,119 this wasn't worth it. But I also how God is grumbling back at how 613 00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:05,159 loser all these people are, and how he just wants to kill them all. 614 00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,280 And then they're grumbling back, and then Moses is like, could everyone 615 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,119 please calm down, We're gonna be okay. You know, It's just like 616 00:48:10,159 --> 00:48:17,360 a very real situation. And I like the the personal nature of the relationship 617 00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:23,440 between God and the Israelites, like Moses is mediating between the masses and God 618 00:48:23,519 --> 00:48:28,199 himself, like you know us, especially with the golden calf story and all 619 00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,079 that, right, is that that's what you're mostly talking by the way that 620 00:48:30,119 --> 00:48:35,079 blew me away. Think about all that Aaron has done up until that point. 621 00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:39,440 And then the moment the people get ye get a little like, where's 622 00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:43,480 Moses, what's going on? And then he's like, well, let's let's 623 00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:45,880 build a golden lf and worship it. It's like, what are you? 624 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:50,920 You've done so much? Why are you He was like, yea, let's 625 00:48:51,039 --> 00:48:52,159 he was like, yeah, let's do this thing, like everyone give me 626 00:48:52,159 --> 00:48:58,559 your earrings and stuff. It's kind of doesn't mesh with what you've heard about 627 00:48:58,639 --> 00:49:01,679 him earlier in Exodus, right, I don't know, But I also like 628 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:06,840 how it shows that God is faithful even when his people are not, and 629 00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,440 then to your question about like all the I mean, it's we've got a 630 00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:15,360 lot of blood at this point, particularly where I am in Leviticus. But 631 00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:20,480 I think again, it conveys the seriousness with which God takes this relationship with 632 00:49:20,519 --> 00:49:25,000 his people, and also that He really is protecting them for this greater thing 633 00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:30,800 which is revealed in the New Testament, with the incarnation of Christ, his 634 00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:36,719 life, his ministry, his death, and his resurrection. But reading it 635 00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:38,920 as a salvation history just makes a lot of sense. And that's what I'm 636 00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:44,639 really enjoying and getting out of it right now. Thinking Aaron's kind of like 637 00:49:44,639 --> 00:49:46,960 a pr professional, so he'll just do whatever he's told. Kind of Variety's 638 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:52,199 just a spokesperson. Oh, interesting way to think of it. Yeah, 639 00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:57,920 No, I like that. If anyone has any kind of suggestion on this 640 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:04,480 topic or wants to send us a maybe book book suggestions on how to think 641 00:50:04,519 --> 00:50:07,360 about the Old Testament violence in Christian ended and how they're compatible. Well, 642 00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,679 yeah, and that's good. Sorry. Yeah. At Radio at the Federalist 643 00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:15,920 dot com. Radio at the Federalist dot Com thinks this reminds me that my 644 00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:21,000 friend that I've made through this podcast, the one who told me that I 645 00:50:21,079 --> 00:50:25,079 had experienced a Lenten fast by getting sick, and who thereby inspired me to 646 00:50:25,159 --> 00:50:30,599 do this project sent a note this week about how great Luther's commentary on Genesis 647 00:50:30,679 --> 00:50:34,320 is and how like deeply Luther gets into it, and how what a fun 648 00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,360 read it is. It's like eight volumes, it's verse by verse, and 649 00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:38,280 I do want to read that. And I told him I want to read 650 00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,360 it, but I really want to just like read straight through for now, 651 00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:43,719 and he said, yeah. Every time I make a suggestion like that, 652 00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,159 it's like saying to someone, hey, nice swim you're having, would you 653 00:50:46,199 --> 00:50:52,199 like to carry this heavy rock on that swim? Like I just I want 654 00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:55,639 to. I do want people's thoughts on Genesis and Exodus, but I can't. 655 00:50:55,679 --> 00:51:00,239 I just have to keep a file of what to read afterwards. Right. 656 00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,079 Our co worker, our colleague, John Davidson, recommended a book because 657 00:51:04,199 --> 00:51:07,719 this is the kind of conversation we get into on retreats after a few drinks. 658 00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,400 And the book's name was called. It was called The Religion of the 659 00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:15,480 Apostles Orthodox Christianity in the first century. And this sort of thing interests me. 660 00:51:15,599 --> 00:51:22,239 Historical dimensions of of of of of religion Anyway, I think we've we've 661 00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:27,559 gone way off track here, but these are interesting topics. Perhaps will we 662 00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,000 visit them next podcast, But until then, the Lovers of Freedom and Chios 663 00:51:30,119 --> 00:51:30,679 for the play