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Among the signs of desperation that you're
starting to see from Democrats and that you're

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starting to see from Biden, is
this uh signaling the subtle signaling of support

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for some policy proposals that may come
out soon. Storing. The Washington Post

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reports on this that President Biden is
going to announce support for some major changes,

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major legislation to alter the terms of
service for the Supreme Court. And

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it's part of this narrative of like
there are several the Democrats whole strategy for

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winning seems to be focused around issues
that people don't care about, and that

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might be their fundamental problem with winning
this election. They don't have much success

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that's tangible to run on at all. As much as they want to keep

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saying that the economy is good,
people are not going to believe that the

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economy is good. People are going
to keep going to the grocery store and

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see that ground beef is four dollars
a pound and be angry and upset.

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And that's not going to change between
now an election day. It's not like

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the price of ground beef is going
to suddenly decrease to two dollars and fifty

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cents a pound. Inflation has happened. It doesn't matter if the rate of

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inflation slows down. Inflation has happened, So that's it. Unless deflation happens,

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which it's not going to. People
are going to be really ticked off

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about the economy and its state,
as well as the Afghanistan withdrawal was a

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disaster. Ukraine is still ongoing,
war in Israel doesn't seem to be moving

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towards any kind of peace, etcetera, et cetera. Now, the stuff

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that the Democrats are focusing on is
we need to defeat Donald Trump quote to

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save democracy, which I just think
is a very general sounding concept that I

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don't know how much it resonates with
people. I don't know how much people

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still today think of January sixth as
this signature dangerous event. So saving democracy,

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what are the things Democrats have to
run on? Saving democracy? Restoring

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Roe v Wade? Abortion a topic
that I think most Americans just don't want

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to think about. Project twenty twenty
five. That's their other biggie is how

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Project twenty twenty five is bad,
which I don't know how that is going

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to connect with like any voters at
all. Like Project twenty twenty five,

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which is a set of policy papers
published by the Heritage Foundation that Trump isn't

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even all that enthusiastic about. But
Democrats are convinced that this is the most

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evil and heenous thing that has ever
been produced by the hand of man.

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I'll talk about it a little later
in the show. But the other big

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thing they're trying to run on is
that the Supreme Court is corrupt. That's

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the other biggie. The Supreme Court
is corrupt, That there's corruption at the

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Supreme Court. That sam Alito's wife
was flying a flag upside down, that

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Clarence Thomas has a buddy who's a
billionaire, that you know this, that,

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and the other. Basically to try
to raise as much smoke as they

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can, as much phony, fake
smoke as they can, to sort of

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give the impression that there's a real
fire. I think we have a hard

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time appreciating how apoplectic a Republican appointee
takeover of the Supreme Court at the level

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that Trump accomplished, Trump slash McConnell
accomplished. I think we have a hard

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time appreciating just how insane that drives
most liberals. They really fundamentally controlled the

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Supreme Court for fifty sixty seventy years, and for Conservatives to have control of

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it for one nano second makes them
utterly apoplectic with rage. The idea that

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Rov. Wade was overturned is to
them the greatest wrong that has ever happened

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in the whole history of this country. So all of a sudden, all

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these innovative ideas come forth from the
Democrats about may, oh, well we

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should maybe we need to, and
very conveniently timed when Biden is in office

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and Democrats we're in control of Congress. Well, perhaps, you know,

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there are thirteen federal circuit courts but
only nine Supreme Court justices, and each

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Supreme Court justice sort of has some
administrative role for each of the circuits.

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We should, therefore, really think
about increasing the number of justices on the

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Supreme Court to thirteen so as to
match the federal circuits. Oh yeah,

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oh yes, this is just a
politically neutral argument, not an obviously partisan

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hack job argument that we just cooked
up because we want to add for Supreme

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Court seats and have Joe Biden pick
them all. You know. So,

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here's a story from the Washington Post
about President Biden talking about Court reform,

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and I think what it reveals is
Biden trying. Biden's trying to consolidate power

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right now because obviously everything's kind of
collapsing around him. His control on the

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Democrat Party is slipping. Pelosi,
I think, is his chief foe right

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now. I think Pelosi is actively
working to try to unseat him, and

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I think Biden is trying to run
out the clock so that she runs out

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of time. So he's trying to
do stuff to shore up support from various

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corners. And Biden was always kind
of when the topic of packing the Supreme

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Court came up, Biden was always
a little bit nervous about full throatedly saying

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yes, I want to expand the
number of seats on the Supreme Court.

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Yes, I think we should term
limit Supreme Court justices. Yes. I

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think he was always he was always
cagy and he didn't want to just flat

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out say it. So he'd say, oh, I set up a commission

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to study whether the Supreme Court should
be reformed. But he wasn't quite willing

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to come out out and say,
yes, I support packing the Supreme Court.

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Kamala Harris was more willing to do
so. Other Democrats were more willing

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to do so, but Biden was
always a little nervous about it, I

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think because he realized it's a very
radical, lefty, destabilizing proposal. It's

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also totally contradicts stuff that Joe Biden
himself has said repeatedly, including in twenty

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nineteen when he was running for president. So Biden's always been cagy about it.

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But now that his political support is
kind of crumbling around him, I

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think Biden is going to make a
pitch for some pretty radical reforms to the

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Supreme Court in order to get the
super liberal wing of the party back in

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his corner, because he needs people
to support him right now. If he's

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I mean, he's got the Congressional
Black Caucus, and that's always been African

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American voters have always been the basis
of Joe Biden's presidential power. Okay,

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how did he become the nominee in
twenty twenty. It was because Jim Cliburn

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from South Carolina endorsed him before the
South Carolina primary. He wins the South

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Carolina primary that vaults him to victory
on Super Tuesday. It takes his moribund

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primary campaign and he becomes the nominee
he becomes the president. Now, let's

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read this Washington Post story about what
Biden is proposing for the Supreme Court.

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President Biden is finalizing plans again.
This is Washington Post, finalizing plans to

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endorse major changes to the Supreme Court
in the coming weeks, including proposals for

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legislation to establish term limits for the
justices and an enforceable ethics code. According

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to two people briefed on the plans, he is also weighing whether to call

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for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad
immunity for presidents and other constitutional officeholders.

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That people said, speaking on the
condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.

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The announcement would mark a major shift
for Biden, a former chair of the

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Senate Judiciary Committee who has long resistant
calls to make substantive changes to the High

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Court. The potential changes come in
response to growing outrage among his supporters about

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recent ethics scandals surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas
and decisions by the new court majority that

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have changed legal precedent on issues including
abortion and federal regulatory powers. Biden previewed

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the shift in a zoom call Saturday
with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. I'm going

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to Ajor Hall upon Supreme Court because
I'm about to come out. I don't

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want to be prematurely announced. I
don't want to prematurely announce it, but

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I'm about to come out with a
major initiative on limiting the Court. I've

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been working with constitutional scholars for the
last three months, and I need some

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help, Biden said. According to
a transcript of the call obtained by the

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Washington Post, term limits in an
ethics code would be subject to Congressional approval,

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which would face long odds in the
Republican controlled House in a slimit democratic

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majority in the Senate. Under current
rules, passage in the Senate would require

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sixty votes. A constitutional amendment requires
even more hurdles. All right, now,

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will this also include packing the Court? I don't know. I think

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I kind of doubt it, especially
given the fact that Republicans might actually,

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you know, Republicans might actually retake
the Senate this election. So I think

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Biden would be leery about actually flat
out calling for an expansion of the number

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of seats on the Supreme Court.
Now, the problems Biden faces, first

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of all, term limits for Supreme
Court justices. The Constitution of the United

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States addresses the establishment of a Supreme
Court and the judges of both the Supreme

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Court and any courts that Congress may
establish. It says the judges both of

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the Supreme and inferior Courts shall hold
their offices during good behavior, and shall

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at stated times receive for their services
of compensation. So they hold their offices

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during good behavior, meaning it's a
lifetime appointment. The lifetime appointment of Supreme

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Court justices stems from the Constitution,
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So I don't know that you can
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for the Supreme Court. I think
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And actually, this is kind of
an interesting thing because I think there's a

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lot of stuff about the Supreme Court
that people some that people assume is in

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the Constitution, but it's not.
If you want to spanned the number of

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justices on the Supreme Court, you
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law. Okay, majority in the
House, majority of the Senate, and

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the President signs it. The Supreme
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We've been stuck at nine justices since
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you could theoretically just pass a law
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the last time that an effort was
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FDR wins re election in I believe
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in nineteen thirty six. Democrats have
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FDR's new Deal proposals, various of
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Supreme Court. So FDR comes out
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to the Supreme Court, which presumably
he would fill all of those vacancies,

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and his own Democrats told him,
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that. That's manipulation of the court, that's politicization of the court. We

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will not go along with this.
And throughout history it's been deemed like trying

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to pack the Supreme Court. And
that's what that term of art means.

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Liberals have recently tried to redefine what
quote court packing means. Basically, liberals

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tried to make this argumentative point,
well, Donald Trump was packing the court.

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No, Donald Trump was aggressively filling
vacancies. He wasn't creating new judicial

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seats in order to shift the balance
of power in his favor. No,

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he had vacancies, he filled them. Ruth Bader Ginsburg died during his administration.

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He replaced her. End of story. So Biden is going to be

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proposing all So here's the We'll get
to this more after the break, but

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here's the summary. Biden's going to
propose a bunch of stuff that he's never

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actually going to accomplish. But it's
a sign of his desperation. I think

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it's a carrot that he is tossing. It's this bone that he is tossing

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to the ultra libs within his coalition
in order to shore up his support.

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When we return, how does Joe
Biden get away with encouraging term limits for

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Supreme Court justices? Next on the
John Girardi Show. I've been laughing my

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butt off at this proposal from these
rumblings. Anyway, I don't know that

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there are any formal proposals yet,
but there are these rumblings that Biden is

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going to come out with a set
of new proposals for reforming the Supreme Court.

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The Supreme Court an institution that has
far better approval ratings than Congress might

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be better approval ratings than Joe Biden
himself, because liberals have convinced themselves of

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this narrative that the Supreme Court is
hopelessly corrupt. Oh, Clarence Thomas has

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a friend who's a billionaire. Let
him who goes fishing with him, flew

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him around on a private jet.
Oh, Sam Alito, his wife flew

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an American flag upside down, which
is obviously a pro January sixth insurrection symbol.

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Is it? I don't know.
I've hung out with a lot of

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maga right wingers. I've never heard
of that. So liberals have so thoroughly

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convinced themselves. They've convinced themselves of
the Supreme Court. Is this so corrupt

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and it's a need of reform and
a real ethics code and blah blah blah

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blah blah. So there's this rumbling
that Biden is going to introduce a policy

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proposal for term limits for Supreme Court
justices, and that Donald Trump is calling

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up his buddy Lawrence Tribe. So
here's eighty how old is Biden? Eighty

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one year old Joe Biden calling up
eighty something year old Lawrence Tribe from Harvard

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Law School to talk about, Oh, we gotta put term limits on these

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old geezers on the Supreme Court.
These lifetime appointments, you'll get someone too

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old serving. Yes, what a
shock Joe. Also for Joe Biden,

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who served in the Senate for thirty
six years, to say that anyone needs

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term limits for anything, for any
kind of job is rich, to put

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it mildly. But again, I
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This is President Biden trying to shore
up support among liberals because a lot of

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the rumblings we're hearing is from Biden
Land is that they are sort of shrinking

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their circle of confidants and they are
basically just going to try and run out

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the clock. They're going to try
and stay in and resist calls for Biden

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to drop out long enough that Democrats
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him anymore. So I guess basically
the threshold is the Democrat convention is supposed

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to be in mid August, but
before that, before that they were going

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to actually do the formal nomination.
The formal nomination of Joe Biden was supposed

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to take place before that. Basically, all the Democrat delegates were going to

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get on like a massive zoom call
and cast their delegate votes for Biden earlier

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than the actual Democrat convention, I
think because the state of Ohio has a

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filing deadline that is earlier than the
actual Democrat convention. So the actual Democrat

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conventions dates or August nineteenth through twenty
second. The idea was, let's have

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the formal nominating process be sooner.
So Democrats have like a month, not

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even a month possibly to get to
convince Biden to drop out, and their

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only options are convince him to voluntarily
drop out or the other options get real

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ugly, real fast. Okay.
The other options are try to set up

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some kind of civil war during the
convention itself. Now, to do that,

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whoever wants to be the Democrat nominee
needs one nine hundred seventy six delegate

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votes at the Democrat convention. Biden
has already secured about thirty nine hundred delegate

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votes. There are about seven hundred
and forty non committed delegate votes. Those

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are the so called super delegate votes, which is basically they represent like individual

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Democrat lawmakers and party officials. So
for Biden to actually lose at the convention.

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I mean, now, Biden won
all those states. They Democrats technically

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had primaries in all those states.
Biden won all those states. So all

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those delegates, he's like, he's
got enough delegates to be the nominee plus

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another two thousand. All those delegates
are committed to him. But there is

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a possibility within the DNC rules that
those delegates can vote quote in good conscience,

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to represent the best interest of the
state that elected them, that sent

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them there of the Democrat voters from
the state that sent them. So the

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California Democrat voters come, the California
Democrat delegates come as a big group.

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Biden won California, so all those
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Maybe they can say, well,
in good conscience with the party,

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what the people who voted for me
want is actually to do X, loy

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and Z. So I think the
odds of getting you know, something like

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two thousand. You know, let's
say all seven hundred and thirty nine of

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the uncommitted delegates decide to vote against
Biden. He would have to convince twelve

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hundred delegates to change their minds and
decommit and I don't think that's going to

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happen, and it would lead to
a very messy, very chaotic, a

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near train wreck of a Democrat convention
if there was an actual civil war at

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the convention to unseat him. And
I just don't see that happening, especially

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given that Biden likely controls a lot
of the levers and mechanisms within the Democrat

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convention itself. I just don't I
don't see it happening. Now. The

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only other option to get rid of
Biden is even more destructive. That's invoking

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the twenty fifth Amendment, where under
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for the vice president and the president's
cabinet to declare that he is unfit for

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office and basically depose him. That
would be enormously destructive and destabilizing, and

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Biden is probably mentally with it enough
to protest that act, and that you

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know, could lead frankly, even
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know, is was this legally done? And I just don't see that actually

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happening. So I think the path
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I think Biden is going to be
the guy. I don't think I don't

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think he's going to be convinced to
drop out. He seems committed to not

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dropping out, and I think his
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for another month until the Democrats can't
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is indeed what we're going to face
when we return. Governor Newsom signs AB

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nineteen fifty five banning schools from telling
parents when their kid is having a gender

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transition at school if the kid does
not want their parents to know. We'll

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talk about that next on the John
Girardi Show. Governor Newsom signed AB nineteen

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fifty five, which is a bill
that says schools may not tell a kid's

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parents that the kid is engaging in
a social quote gender transition at the public

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school if the kid doesn't want the
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is that this only impacts public schools, just after the y to the Eye

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only impacts public schools. So your
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kid tells someone at the school the
administration, my name is not John,

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my name is now Joan. I
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I will dress like a girl.
I will use the girl's bathroom. You

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will put me on a girls sports
team. You will let me on school

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trips, sleep with girls in their
hotel rooms. You will let me use

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girls' locker rooms. My name is
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This will be reflective in your school
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The school officials will then have to
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sir, Joan, Yes, ma'am
excuse me, yes, ma'a'm that was

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an honest mistake there, Yes,
Joan, We will call you Joan.

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You will wear a dress. You
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sleep with other girls on overnight trips. You will use the girl's locker room.

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We will call you Joan. All
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you as Joan the girl, but
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still refer to John. You will
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Maybe you're at you know, Clovis
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thousands of kids walking around here.
Yes, all these thousands of kids know

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you as Joan. Thousands of kids, teachers, the janitor knows you as

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Joan. But your own parents,
Nope, we won't tell him. We

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won't tell them. A darn thing. That is what Abe nineteen fifty five

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does. Now, this is insane, obviously, but this is a fight

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that conservatives already lost, and it's
this fight over. It's this fight over

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basically, when do parents need to
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parents need to give their consent for
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Historically in America, kids cannot consent
to various kinds of activities that involve

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long term and long range consequences,
And we don't sort of view children as

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having a kind of legal independence from
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governing the child's legal rights impacting the
child's long term benefit, financial benefit,

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physical well being we put into the
hands of parents kids. Traditionally, in

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common law countries, kids were not
able are not able to sign contracts.

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Kids cannot legally sign contracts. Kids
cannot agree to waivers, to legal waivers

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or things like that. You need
your parents to sign. If you're going

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on a school trip and there's a
liability waiver, well, the kid can't

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sign it. The parent has to
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into the NBA, he came right
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seventeen years old. His mom and
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Also cannot traditionally consent to medical care
for themselves. Their parents have to

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consent. This is why the school
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she gives the kid a tilinol.
This extends to things like sex statue,

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the whole theory of statutory rape as
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establishing what is the legal age of
consent for agreeing to sexual conduct in some

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states at sixteen, some states at
eighteen, and basically states have to draw

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some kind of red line to divide
between you know, when you're legal,

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when you are old enough and have
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But the basic idea is children lack
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judgment, the short the ability to
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They lack judgment to such an extent
that having sex with a child is

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basically having sex with a person who
is incapable of consenting. The consent that

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a child can give to sexual activity
is basically so inadequate because children lack judgment,

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and so we don't deem it if
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with a fourteen year old, we
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she really thought about it really hard, and she talked with her friends about

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it, and she, you know, she was really you know, she

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really considered it, and she's a
very mature fourteen year old, and you

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know, she decided that, you
know, maybe it would be this would

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be a healthy, loving relationship,
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No, we don't do stuff like
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incapable of consenting to this kind of
activity, and so we deem sexual activity

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between a fourteen year by any child
in California, it's anyone under the age

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of eighteen, and the basically the
penalties just get worse for younger and younger

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children, and the larger the age
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But any sexual activity by someone who
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to be statutory rape. It is
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But liberals want kids to engage in
certain kinds of activities. There are certain

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kinds of activities that are lefty codd
where the left cares more about that activity

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happening than anything else. And what
they hate most of all is the idea

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of a conservative parent intervening to say
no, this is not right on behalf

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of a kid. They hate that. They hate the idea that there are

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conservative parents out there whose idea of
the good is different from theirs, who

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would make different decisions for their child
than they would make for themselves. They

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see in conservative parents out there,
their own conservative parents that many of these

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liberals are still rebelling against. And
so the idea of a fourteen year old

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being pregnant and a conservative parent saying, honey, we love you, but

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we sincerely and deeply believe that abortion
is wrong. We're going to do everything

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in our power to help you and
love you and take care of this child.

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They see that a conservative parent would
want to do that, and they

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view that as monstrous because it's not
what they would do, and they think

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it's not what they would want for
themselves, or maybe you know, they

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they view that as e and so
they can't call such a thing flat out

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child abuse because it would be ridiculous, it would be insulting to millions of

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Californians. They don't flat out do
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abortion? And now for gender transitioning
social gender transitioning. I'm not talking about

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surgeries, I'm not talking about hormone
therapies. I'm just talking about being at

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school and saying, you will treat
me like a boy when biologically i'm a

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girl. You will treat me as
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For both abortion and now for gender
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we know that kids are dumb,
but the default will be that the child

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keeps this from the parents if the
child wants, the kid holds the privacy

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privilege. I think this is monstrous
in the realm of abortion. I was

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just talking, in fact with a
school nurse earlier this week about this very

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topic that you have. Some poor
fourteen year old at a junior high school

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finds out she's pregnant. School nurse
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and the nurse says, well,
here's your options, and here's this fourteen

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year old who's supposed to navigate a
pregnancy, A fourteen year old who might

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not really understand what health insurance is, whether she has it, what her

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health insurance plan is, where's her
insurance card? Hey, fourteen year old,

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make your own decision about your abortion, go to an obgyn and when

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they ask, hey, fourteen year
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I don't know. Do you have
any family history of this that or

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the I don't know. They don't
know. What's your social Security number?

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I don't know. My mom has
my Social Security card? Do you see

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how cruel this is? How cruel
it is to allow children to navigate the

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healthcare system by themselves, and under
what theory? Under the theory that if

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a child is pregnant and needs st
is pregnant and wants an abortion, or

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is sexually active and wants treatment for
an STD, that a parent might overreact,

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that a parent might get abusive,
and that the child knows best to

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gauge the child's own safety, and
that therefore the child should hold the privilege.

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It's asinine. It takes a legal
California takes this legal default posture that

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a parent might be an abuser just
because the parent might disagree with the child's

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conduct or be upset with the child's
conduct, which is insane. Short of

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actual evidence of child abuse in the
home, there is no reason to adopt

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such a posture, whether it's for
a pregnant teenager, whether it's a sexually

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active teenager who has an STD.
Oh, we're not going to tell the

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parent that this sexually active teenager has
an STD. The kid needs to do

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it, this kid who's well,
my mom will be upset at me.

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No, it is an act of
cruelty not to tell that kid's parent about

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what's going on, because guess who's
gonna have to pick up the pieces when

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it all goes bad. It'll be
the parent. It won't be the school

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nurse, it won't be the losers
over at planned parenthood. It'll be the

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mom and the dad. Within schools. Now, we're just going to say

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that the privilege should be yours child. So so that that has been the

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case with abortion for all this time. But now what we're going to say

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is in school for the decision of
who you are, your fundamental identity,

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your name, who you are as
a man or a woman. We're not

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going to tell your parents that you
are fundamentally altering your conception of who you

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are. When we return Elon Musk's
reaction to all of this, which I've

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found curious. Next on The John
Girardi Show, Governor Knwsom signed ab nineteen

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fifty five. This is a bill
that says that if a student decides to

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socially gender transition at a California public
school, everyone at the school can know

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about it. Thousands of kids and
teachers and administrators at the school are allowed

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to know about it, but if
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then the school can't tell the parents. Elon Musk, of all people,

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reacted very negatively to this and said, that's it. I'm drawing a

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bunch of business out of California.
We're gonna have X head Twitter's headquarters now

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X. I guess I still hate
the name. I can never call it

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X. Anyway, We're removing Twitter's
headquarters, SpaceX's headquarters out of California.

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We're going to move a bunch of
stuff to Austin. I'm sick and tired

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of California. Musk's posture in this
presidential campaign is really kind of this looming

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sort of sleeping giant for Trump.
So after Trump's assassination attempt, Musk announced

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that he was endorsing Trump. And
given that he's the richest man in the

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world of like, well, the
richest man in the world just said he's

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supporting Donald Trump, is it?
I mean, could he just give Donald

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Trump five hundred million dollars for his
campaign? I mean, give give five

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hundred million dollars to a superpack or
something and lo and behold. As I

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was, I was texting with my
buddy Jonathan Keller about this, and I

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raised the possibility, Gosh, this
seems like an enormous thing if Elon Musk

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is actually endorsing Trump, Like what
if he could he totally shift? And

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then yes, About three hours after
I said this to Jonathan Wall Street Journal

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story, Elon Musk has committed he's
going to give the Trump certain Trump superpacks

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forty five million dollars a month from
now until election day, which is,

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you know, going to add up
to about a quarter of a billion dollars.

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That's huge. Okay, that's a
game changer for Trump financially. And

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I sort of wonder about if Musk
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That's a guy who could have a
kind of impact on the right, maybe

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for good, maybe for ill,
in a way similar to Bill Gates and

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Warren Buffett have had on the left. It's a big thing and it's something

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to watch. That'll do it,
John di already show see next time on Power Talk