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Last week when the Supreme Court declared
that Donald Trump was not going to be

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taken off the ballot in Colorado.
And by the way, there's now some

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lefty reporters even who are getting viciously
ripped apart on Twitter because they've posted a

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map like an electoral college map.
So it's a map of all the states,

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and it's just showing based on the
polls, how everyone's it's showing based

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on the polls who's winning each individual
state, Trump or Biden, and it's

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basing it on the current polling.
And right now, based on the poll

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donald Trump is going to win.
Basically, they've divided each state into solidly

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Republican or solidly Democrat, Lean's Republican
or Lean's Democrat. And then there are

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only three toss up states Arizona,
Wisconsin, in Pennsylvania. Even if Biden

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wins all three toss up states.
Right now, just based on the polling,

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if the polling is accurate, Donald
Trump is gonna win. Trump is

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looks like he's winning Michigan, he's
winning Georgia, he's winning Eras, he's

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winning Nevada, which would be a
shocker. Well, I guess it wouldn't

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be a shocker. He lost Nevada
twenty sixteen, twenty twenty. He seems

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to be doing better in Nevada this
time. So yeah, that seems to

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be the outlook right now. And
Chris Salizza used to be at CNN is

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sharing this map, and all these
liberals are just so angry at him for

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daring to share this. And all
he's doing is sharing this is this is

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just what the polls say. Now. Basically, two weeks ago there was

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this. The Supreme Court wound up
deciding that Donald Trump should not be taken

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off the ballot in Colorado. The
Supreme Court heard, the Supreme Court heard

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an appeal from the Colorado State Supreme
Court. The Colorado State Supreme Court upheld

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the notion that Donald Trump should be
removed from the ballot in Colorado on the

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grounds that he is a quote insurrectionist, that he engaged in insurrection, and

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that therefore Section three of the Fourteenth
Amendment disqualifies him from holding office. And

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as I've said time and time again, I think that is a silly argument

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that is riddled with so many holes, any one of which will sink the

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boat. First of all, does
that section of the fourteenth Amendment even apply

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to the president. I don't know
that it does. It says in section

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three of the fourteenth Amendment that no
one can run for the House or Representatives,

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no one can run for the Senate, no one can serve as an

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elector for President of the United States, meaning like one of the party flunkies

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who you know. When Texas votes
for Donald Trump, donald Trump gets a

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certain number of Electoral College votes,
they actually send that many people as electors

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to actually cast their vote for Donald
Trump as part of a group of people

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called the Electoral College. Each state
sends a group of people, if a

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Republican wins the state, a bunch
of Republican Party flunkies, if a Democrat

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wins the state, a bunch of
Democrat Party flunkies to actually cast their votes

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on behalf of one person or the
other. So you're disqualified from being a

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member the House, a member of
the Senate, an elector for president or

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vice president. And then what sounds
like kind of a catchall, serving as

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a quote officer of the United States, which I think applies to military officers

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as well as other kinds of positions. But it never says the president or

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the vice president which you'd think if
you're listing out members of the House,

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members of the Senate, you're listing
out electors for president, but you don't

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list the president. That seems like
a big omission. I don't know that

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section three of the fourteenth Amendment applies
to the president. I don't know that

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what Donald Trump did qualifies even as
quote insurrection, given that when the Fourteenth

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Amendment was drafted and when they were
saying persons who engaged in rebellion or quote

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insurrection against the United States are disqualified
from office. Well, guess what it

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was right after the Civil War that
the fourteenth Amendment was ratified. That's the

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kind of thing they were looking at
the Civil War. That was the insurrection

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they kind of I had in mind
Donald Trump, since he has cannot actually

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be legally tied to the actual violence
that happened on January six, He can't

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be tied to, you know,
breaking onto the grounds of the Capitol or

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beating up cops, which are you
know, basically the only crimes that were

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committed at the Capitol were various kinds
of sort of various species of trespass,

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basically being on a bit of federal
property that you're not allowed to be on.

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So, like if I try to
walk onto you know, there's the

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Air National Guard base right by the
airport. If I just try to walk

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into the Air National Guard base without
like showing my ID or not having any

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reason to be there, I can
get in trouble. I can get some

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kind of criminal citation for being on
a piece of property that I'm not allowed

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to be on. That's what most
of the January sixth protesters who got prosecuted

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were prosecuted for some species of trespass
or some kind of assault or battery.

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For the few guys who you beat
up or who hit police officers. There's

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also the issue that Donald Trump has
not been charged with insurrection. One of

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the things that subsequent Supreme Court decisions
after this part of the fourteenth A Memo

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was ratified, Supreme Court decisions said, well, there has to be some

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kind of statute. A subsequent Supreme
Court decision said that Congress has to have

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some kind of statute where you can
charge this person with insurrection or find them

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civilly liable or something for insurrection.
And that's what Congress did. They created

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an insurrection statute. There was a
civil provision and a criminal provision. The

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civil provision went away, so now
there's only the criminal provision. Donald Trump

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was not charged with insurrection. He's
been charged with a whole bunch of other

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stuff in connection to January sixth,
but insurrection, critically, is not one

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of the things he's been charged with. In fact, he hasn't been charged

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with anything that's connected to the actual
violence on January sixth. The only stuff

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he's been charged with is with various
kinds of theories of inappropriately trying to pressure

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Mike Pence to not certify the election
results, but none of the stuff,

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which, by the way, would
Donald Trump be charged with that stuff if

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the violent things hadn't happened on January
sixth. No, if there hadn't been

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a riot and all that had happened
was Donald Trump trying to go to Mike

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Pence to convince him not to certify
the election results, there's no way Trump

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would have been charged with anything,
which is I think one of the fundamental

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sillinesses of the charges against Trump is
that he's not actually being charged with anything

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like inciting a riot or anything like
that. So he hasn't been charged with

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anything like insurrection. He's been charged
with other stuff relating to what happened on

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January sixth, but he hasn't been
convicted of a dang thing. And then

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lastly, there's this that can Colorado
just on its own as one state,

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say no, we are disqualifying this
person who's running for the one truly national

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elected office. We ourselves are just
going to disqualify him. We the members

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of the Colorado Supreme Court, are
going to disqualify this person running for a

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federal office in a way that could
impact people way outside of Colorado. Okay,

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this isn't the Colorado Supreme Court ruling
on the eligibility for office of someone

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running for the governorship of Colorado.
It's not the Colorado Supreme Court ruling on

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eligibility to serve in Colorado's state legislature. It isn't even Colorado's a Supreme Court

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ruling on the fitness to serve of
someone running for a federal office that is

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whose representation is limited to Colorado,
like being one of the two US Senators

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representing Colorado or a member of the
House representing a portion of Colorado. No,

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it's the president. Can Colorado on
its own impact the whole rest of

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the country in their choice of president, and ultimately that was the grounds on

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which the Supreme Court ruled, No, Colorado can't do that on its own.

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Okay, Colorado is not allowed to
do that on its own. All

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nine justices agreed to that that Colorado
cannot disqualified Donald Trump on its own.

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Now, one of the things I
thought was funny as a lawyer is the

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confidence that lawyers have. And I
don't know what this is. It must

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be something about the job. I
think you spend your whole life as a

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lawyer defending a position. You get
a certain position, you defend it,

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and you work so hard in building
up the case that you believe it.

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And I realized this a little bit
when I was practicing, was like,

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I'm so convinced of this one side. Would I be equally convinced of the

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other side if I was just representing
the other side? I think I might

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be lawyers, you know, to
represent your client vigorously, you wind up

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believing your own bs. Sometimes you
really do. I mean, you really

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do wind up believing the side that
you're defending, and I think they're with

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that. There can be this problem
for lawyers of feeling like whatever you want

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to defend is therefore the thing that
is obviously right, and you just talk

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yourself into believing how obviously right your
position is. That is what has happened

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for Michael Lutdig, J. Michael
Lutgig, who has a big piece in

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the Atlantic, which is a very
prestigious publication. I know because people tell

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me it's prestigious. Supreme betrayal A
Requiem for Section three of the Fourteenth Amendment

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written by J. Michael Lutgig and
Lawrence Tribe. Lawrence Tribe, longtime very

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liberal professor at Harvard Law School,
kind of like you know, like Pete

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Best was the famous Fifth Beadle,
the guy who was like almost going to

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be in the Beatles and never actually
joined the band. Lawrence Tribe was that

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for like Democrat, but actually both
Michael Lutgig and Lawrence Tribe were like that.

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For the Supreme Court. Luttig was
mentioned as a possible conservative like Republican

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appointee to the Supreme Court for years
and years and years and years, just

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like Lawrence Tribe was mentioned as a
possible Democrat appointee to the Supreme Court for

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years and years and years and years
and years. Clinton and Obama never wound

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up appointing Tribe George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush or

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W. Bush never wound up appointing
Michael Lutgig to the Supreme Court as a

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Republican. And there are some people
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Cruz used to clerk for Luttig,
and Cruz has argued even until recently that

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Ludig would have been a better Chief
Justice than John Roberts. I don't know.

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Luddig, though, hates Donald Trump
so much and that basically he's started

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to embarrass himself by taking on these
legal opinions that just are him again doing

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this I think kind of lawyery thing
where you believe you want a certain position

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to be true, and you spent
your life kind of defending positions, although

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he's spent a lot more of his
life being a judge, which is a

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different kind of thing from just representing
people. Nonetheless, Luddig so despises Trump

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that he's sort of willing to kind
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And Luttig was very, you know, eighty thousand times the lawyer I'll ever

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be. He's you know, incredibly
distinguished federal judge, all these great accomplishments,

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you know, brilliant man, blah
blah blah. You know, he's

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a giant, and I'm a dwarf, and I'm the little dwarf with the

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microphone on the local radio who gets
to make fun of him. So here

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we go. He so despises Trump
that he's sort of beclowning himself to sort

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of say, oh no, he
beclowned himself to say, first, the

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Supreme Court would obviously disqualify Trump from
holding office, to now flipping to the

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opposite saying, how dare the Supreme
Court not disqualified Trump? And that's the

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thing I guess I don't get,
Like it's one thing to think the Supreme

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Court should rule something like I think
all nine justices of the Supreme Court should

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rule that unborn children have you a
right to life under the fourteenth Amendment and

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that all abortions should be illegal on
the basis of the Constitution. I think

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that's true. I think that's correct. I recognize that there's maybe one out

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of nine justices who actually agree with
me on that point, maybe one.

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I don't even know that there's one, but I guess Ludig can't. We'll

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dig into this next time. How
lawyers who do political analysis sometimes can't discern

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between what they think should happen versus
what will happen. That's next on the

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John Jerardy Show. I'm reading this
piece in the Atlantic which I retweeted.

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You can find it at my Twitter
account at Fresnojohnny twitter dot com slash Fresno

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Johnny where he's talking about he and
Judge Michael Lutgig and Lawrence Tribe Ledig,

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longtime Federal Circuit Court judge, the
peak best of conservative Supreme Court appointees.

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Lawrence Tribe, longtime Harvard law professor, the peat best of liberal Supreme Court

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appointees are complaining that the Supreme Court
did not disqualify Trump from the Colorado ballot

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or uphold Colorado's state supreme courts disqualifying
Donald Trump from the ballot. And it's

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this thing where it's this thing I
see a lot when people are reviewing the

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Supreme Court. You go from this
is what this is what I want the

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court to do, but I recognize
it might be the wrong legal outcome.

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I would love it if this happened, but I recognize the law is not

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really on my side. You go
from that to I think this is what

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the law requires. I think this
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But I recognize that I'm really in
the minority here and or that most of

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the Supreme Court justices or most of
American jurisprudence doesn't agree with me. From

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there to deluding yourself into thinking,
yes, what I think is both what

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is right and is what the Supreme
Court will do. That's where Luttig and

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Tribe had been, and this sort
of anti Trump because I think that and

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this anti Trump lawyer mindset had gotten
all the way to there. Anti Trump,

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that is what I mean. I
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Michael Lutgog's a very smart man.
He's a brilliant federal judge. You

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know. I keep making fun of
him on this show, even though he's

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twenty times the lawyer I'll ever be. Lawrence. Tribe is a brilliant man,

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brilliant lawyer, twenty times the lawyer
I'll ever be. Okay, but

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I think they are so animated by
their despising Donald Trump that basically they cannot

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get out of this mold of just
wanting to take every position, that is,

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every legal position that is most harmful
to him, and they're sort of

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beclowning themselves. And that's why again, I just want to make this point.

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When you're hearing people on the news
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So has this whole essay about how
all we've eviscerated the fourteenth Amendment. And

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look, I think there were actually
some decently interesting arguments. So the court

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ruled nine to nothing, Colorado can't
do this on its own. A majority

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of the justice is five of them, basically all the Republican appointees except interestingly

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for Barrett ruled that no, the
only way you can disqualify someone is that

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Congress has to write legislation about it, and that person has to be prosecuted

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pursuant prosecuted or have some sort of
proceeding pursuant to that legislation. Barrett said,

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nah, I don't think. I
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question. We're only called upon to
answer this question right here. Kagan disagreed

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with that notion. Now, Kagan
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own, but Kagan, I thought, asked some very interesting questions So why

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doesn't the Fourteenth Amendment enforce itself?
Why does there's a bunch of other provisions

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of the Fourteenth Amendment that we think
don't need a law passed by Congress in

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order to be enforceable. The Equal
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enforce without specific laws that Congress passes
to enforce it. Why isn't the disqualification

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provision for insurrection enforceable just immediately?
I actually thought Kagan made a pretty decent

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argument, and a kind of an
originalist argument, saying, yeah, just

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because the Supreme Court decided, you
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point that yes, you need some
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the Fourteenth Amendment doesn't mean well,
maybe the Court got it wrong then.

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So I think Kig and I thought
Kagan and Barrett made some decent points.

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Now, the five justices in the
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Gorsuch in Kavanaugh, I think one
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forestall was, look, well,
what if someone tries to bring a federal

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lawsuit after let's say Donald Trump wins
this election. What if someone brings a

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lawsuit to stop the certification of the
election results. Then on the grounds that,

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well, this would be federally enforced, not just one individual state,

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this would be federally enforced to stop
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I think they I think this was
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future sort of challenges that would be
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is fair. But I again,
I just find it funny, like there's

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a lot of stuff where I think
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I think Supreme Court decisions over generations
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things. I think the way they
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Amendment does not make sense. I
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protect fair processes and procedures. If
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that have been sort of created out
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silly. I think it's silly to
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I think a procedural guarantee of the
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was the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment. We're trying to say, you know,

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Thirteenth Amendment abolish slavery. Fourteenth Amendment
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Fifteenth Amendment gave them the right to
vote. Fourteenth Amendment was saying, hey,

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equal protection clause because the due process
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have separate court you can't have separate
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You can't have separate judicial processes for
white people. You can't take their life,

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liberty, or property without due process
of law. The focus was not

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on life, liberty, property,
it was on due process. That was

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the point of it. That's why
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there's a lot of things where I
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But I'm smart enough if I'm predicting
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what the Court should do, I'm
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I'm not going to convince all nine
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And that's why I think so much
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mainstream media is based off of like
ultra, It's based on like the John

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Girardis of the left, Like people
with extremely left wing views that don't have

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much purchase with the Supreme Court right
now, even with the liberal justices trying

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to act as though that's the norm
or that that's obviously the norm, and

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how dare the Supreme Court not agree? When we return, I want to

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talk about the tragedy of former Packers
current Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, how he

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became a media pariah. Next on
The John Girardi Show, I have been

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loving It's a Friday. I'm going
to talk about some wacky topics today.

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So my first wacky topic was a
federal judge writing a don article in The

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Atlantic. Oh. The Jude Girardi
Show so wacky. I want to talk

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about Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers,
the current currently quarterback for the Jets.

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Whether he's gonna play very many snaps
for the rest of his career. I'm

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not sure. He got signed by
the Jets last year and immediately in the

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first game had a season ending injury, So I don't know how much he's

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gonna play this year. He's supposedly
he's back. Oh, Aaron Rodgers coming

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back. I don't know. Not
crazy about thirty eight year old or however

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old he is. He's in his
late thirties, quarterbacks coming off of really

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serious season long injuries. Not exactly
sure that that's got a great track record,

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but anyway, we'll see. So
I want to take you back in

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time to say the Obama era.
You know, let's say it's twenty fifteen.

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Aaron Rodgers was the darling of sports
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sports media, the only thing more
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If you are a conservative who exists
in sports media, you will probably get

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hunted down and fired. There are
so few conservatives who still exist in sports

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media. Like one of the few, I mean Sage Steele, who was

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like an ESPN anchor, she got
canned. I think there's some like football

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commentators who kind of maybe they're you
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They kind of keep things under wraps. Chris Broussard, who I think he

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got canned from ESPN. I think
now he works for Fox Sports. He

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was pretty conservative. Anyway, sports
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unbelievable. And that there are a
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be normal left wing media figures or
who think of themselves that there's been this

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sort of trend of like sports media
figures so full of their opinions about sports

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that they think that they should have
opinions about everything. And that was you

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know, the Keith Olberman track,
who went from you know, an ESPN

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Sports Center anchor who became fam Oh
it's Olberman and Dan Patrick. Oh,

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they were so incredible. I don't
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things it was mostly just Dan Patrick
was great. Patrick is the one who

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went on to a very very successful
careers post Sports Center, whereas Olberman has

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bounced around and gotten fired pretty much
everywhere he went. Now, sports journalists

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in the twenty tens loved Aaron Rodgers
for basically the whole Obama administration. They

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loved loved, loved, loved,
loved, loved, loved Aaron Rodgers.

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And Aaron Rodgers was a very good
quarterback. Aaron Rodgers was perennially in the

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Pro Bowl. Aaron Rodgers won a
couple of MVPs. He only won one

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Super Bowl, which is, you
know, if you're trying to say that

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he's an all time great quarterback,
like, you know, one is not

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very many. When we're talking about
this super duper ultra elite pantheon of you

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know, the Tom Brady's, the
Joe Montana's, the Terry brad Shaw's,

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Johnny Unitas, you know that that
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more than just one championship. But
Rogers was thought of for most of the

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Obama administration and into the Trump years. It was very often people would say

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that the quarterback ranking was Tom Brady
and Aaron Rodgers and then everyone else,

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and often it was Rogers won a
and Brady one b. Over a lot

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of individual seasons, there were people
who were saying, in spite of the

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fact that Brady was often having more
team success with the Patriots, that Rogers

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was a little better. And these
liberal media people loved Aaron Rodgers. Oh

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my gosh, I remember, like
there was this guy on ESPN Radio,

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this Dan Patrick, Dan Levittard and
Levatard is super liberal. He loved Aaron

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Rodgers, Oh, just fond over
him and would have him on the show

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and thought he was so funny.
And there was this sense Rogers was different

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from all the other football players.
There's always this sense that football players were

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kind of more conservative leaning, that
they were meatheads, jocks, They didn't

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want to say anything too interesting.
I think a lot of PR the PR

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machine for NFL teams is always just
be boring, don't say anything interesting,

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say cliches. And that's why interviewing
coaches is often terrible radio for sports radio.

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Like you'd interview a coach and he
just said, oh yeah, we

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gotta take this one game at a
time, and you know the good guys,

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we got to the developmental toughness and
blah blah. It's a bunch of

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like, not interesting stuff. And
most football players were like that. Rogers

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was a little willing to be a
little different, and he projected this sort

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of image of being a little transgressive. You know, yeah, I know

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all those sort of you know,
meathead conservative football players think like that,

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but you know, hey, I'm
cool. He projected this image, whether

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he explicitly said anything or not,
that like he was cool. He was

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with it. He was a little
more liberal, he was a little more

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progressive. He was willing to kind
of hang out with these media, and

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he was He played the media game
very well. Media members liked him.

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Media members were like, he's the
coolest guy ever, and he wants to

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talk to me. So everyone loved
Aaron Rodgers everyone, and then COVID happened,

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and oh my gosh, Aaron Rodgers
didn't want to get vaccinated with the

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COVID vaccine. That was it.
The love affair between Aaron Rodgers and the

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media ended that day, the day
when Rogers said he Rogers actually made some

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kind of public statement that he was
Ah, what was the specific wording he

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used. He didn't say vaccinated.
He said he was like inoculated or that

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he was immunized, which basically was
him trying was him saying, I already

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got COVID, so I've got immunity. Yeah, I think he said immunized.

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had COVID, so I have natural
immunity, so I don't need to be

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I don't see why I need to
be vaccinated. Also, I don't want

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to get a vaccine. He didn't
want to get vaccinated. And because he

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publicly said he was immunized but he
hadn't been vaccinated, Oh my gosh,

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the media was so freaking mad at
him, just furious. And there's one

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kind of popular ESPN show now currently
in ESPN property that he kept appearing on

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very very frequently and making all these
comments and public statements, and then all

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the stuff about Rogers where I had
sort of thought Rogers was a jerk for

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a while. He was always kind
of subtly ragging on his coach. You

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could tell he was always leaking negative
things about his old coach, Mike McCarthy

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to the media. He was always
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He would never say it outright,
but all these media members who were

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really tight with Rogers, they were
always slamming Mike McCarthy, his coach in

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Green Bay, McCarthy who went with
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only Super Bowl Rogers one was with
him. And you could tell Roger was

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constantly just slamming his coach, slaming
his coach, slam and his coach,

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uh, slamming the organization, slamming
the organization, slamming the organization. Has

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all these like drama, all this
drama between him and the organization, blah

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blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Where the media carried water for him,

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but now the media is like,
we're not carrying water for you. So

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now Rogers is being portrayed as this
toxic personality. Oh, just a team

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killer. Oh just you know,
he was so spoiled in Green Bay.

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He had all these great players around
him. The team was doing so right

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by him. Actually, was McCarthy
actually that bad? Oh? I don't

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know all these media members who were
slamming McCarthy left right in center. But

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because Rogers had one wrong opinion about
one thing done, Aaron Rodgers is no

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longer cool. Aaron Rodgers no longer
hip. We had never even liked Aaron

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Rodgers to begin with. So now
that he's like talking about which I'm I

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highly doubt it's even serious. He's
talking about like running as RFK Junior's vice

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presidential candidate, which I think is
hilarious. I highly doubt he's going to.

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But now that he's doing that,
oh my gosh, this is like

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the last straw. Like the idea
that he would cause Joe Biden to lose

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the election by teaming up with RFK
is Oh my gosh. The media is

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just having an utter, absolute cow
over him. I just for for any

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of you anyway. I just want
to bring this up because I'm guessing a

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lot of you don't really pay as
much attention to sports media as I do.

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And it's so freaking funny how the
entire sports media has gone from uron

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Rome like a bunch of nerds.
Who got to hang out with the cool

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the quarterback of the football team who
just loved him and he wants to hang

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out with us. Oh my gosh, he's so cool. Oh he's so

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lefty and transgressive. Oh he's he's
cool. Like to just a viciously turning

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on him because again he had a
wrong opinion in their view on one thing,

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on ah thing, getting a COVID
vaccine. He'll never get in their

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good graces again. He's always going
to be a pariah from here to eternity

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when we return the massive expansion of
utility fees that will probably have to come

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with the mandate for all electric cars
for new car sales in twenty thirty five

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in California. That's next on the
John Grardy Show. This big story and

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cover of the bee of the big, big old lead story on frisdob dot

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com. Pgenie utility bill is about
to soar again in central California. Here

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are the reasons why. And it
looks like for various reasons. I mean

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pgene rates are going up. They're
always going up. They never go down,

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up up up, up, up
up up. Let me tell you

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a couple tree things. As Phil
Liotado said on The Sopranos, California has

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all these grand plans to have one
hundred percent of all new vehicle sales be

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electric cars by twenty thirty five.
Two, we don't have the infrastructure to

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do that. If you're gonna put
twelve million new electric cars on the road,

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the current electrical grid cannot sustain it. Three, we're not going to

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be able to build enough capacity to
sustain it all by twenty thirty five because

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one, we ain't building any nuke
power plants, which would be the obvious

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solution. Two, we're not even
building more hydro power plants. We have

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to build only wind and solar.
So the idea is, let's develop offshore

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wind and solar farms, which are
not even in the planning phase. I

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mean they're not even started. So
the idea that in eleven years we're gonna

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have all this up and running in
time for one hundred percent of new cars

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to be electric boggles the mind.
Also, no one in California will therefore

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be allowed to have like five or
six kids, because hey, guess what,

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there are no electric cars that fit
that many people, certainly none that

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a family can afford, or very
few families. So with all that being

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said, we're gonna have a lot
of demand, not gonna have a lot

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of supply. You know what happens
when there's high demand and low supply,

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Know what happens to price skyrockets.
It goes up, up, up,

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up, up up up up economics
one oh one, baby. So if

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you think your PGE bill is high
right now, just wait till they're about

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twelve, you know, just wait
till pgn's grid is supporting you know,

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two million more electric cars. Yeah, that's gonna be great. If you

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think it's high now, it's gonna
be wildly unsustainable. I mean, I

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don't know how it's gonna work other
than California realizing twenty thirty five is a

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ridiculous goal and that's not what we're
gonna shoot for. That'll do it for

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