Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of You Were Wrong with Molly Hemingway
and David Harsani. Just a reminder, if you'd like to email the show,
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hear from you. Molly, do you know what this is? This show
right now? No? But is this show right? It's the hundredth,
one hundredth episode of you Well, look at us. Look what we've done.
That's actually surprising to me. I literally would have thought it was like
half that. Really, how long have we been doing this? I guess
about two years? Two years, something like two years. Yeah, a
little less than two years. Great. I mean we had we had we
had co hosted the the podcast, asked for you know, like once a
week. I think for a few years before. That's probably like our one
hundred and fiftieth episode together. I would say, Okay, that's a lot,
it's a lot of work. Those are a lot of words. Uh
your math on that was so bad, by the way, I like,
fifty is a nice round number. Sit clear it out there now. I
can't add or anything like that. Yeah, so thanks thanks to everybody who
listens. It's great, But go on Yeah, I wanted to share start
today's episode by sharing a one of my favorite stories of the week, And
here is the headline in the Wall Street Journal, Behind closed Doors, Biden
shows signs of slipping. And we learn, because this is a big surprise,
I'm sure to you and everyone else, that that sometimes Joe Biden like
falls asleep in meetings, speaks so at such a low tone that no one
understands what he's saying, and that occasionally he snaps that people and anyway,
so now we know that he's slipping. First of all, I'd like to
defend him on the snapping at people. All the time people claim or complain
that someone who's got the weight of the world on their shoulders has snapped at
someone. Joe Biden's problem is not that he's snapping at anyone. He's always
kind of been that way. You know, he's he's got highs and lows
when it comes to niceness. That's not the big problem we're dealing with it.
So that's my limited. When I read one of those stories about like
some congressoman throwing a shoe at an intern or whatever, I'm like, you
know, it probably deserved it. I mean, I have no problem with
that. We don't engage in such workplace practices here, dear listener, but
mostly because we're virtual, exactly. But the other stuff, I just thought
it was an amazing headline and even entire angle to the story. They're like
that thing that everyone in the world, the world can see every day on
the outside of the White House. Did you know it's also happening inside?
And I think most people are like, yeah, I assumed it wasn't just
on a global stage that he was slipping. I assumed it was also with
staff or with members of Congress, right, Like, what's even then?
They have to frame it like he said, she said, So it says
the subhead says, participates in participants in meetings say the eighty one year old
president performed poorly at times. The White House said, by and his sharp
and his critics are playing artisan politics. I listen, I'd like another defense
of him, but go on, sorry, I'll wait for you. I
mean, when I'm eighty one, I'm already slipping. I'm only fifty four.
It's sure, I just you know, I can't recall things as easily
as I used to, and we all slow down. I'm sure at eighty
one, I'm going to be much slower. So I think that that that
the age issue is something that matters and something that or should take into consideration.
I hate, actually when people talk about it in terms of age.
I have lots of people in my life at different ages, and some people
are actually kind of slowing down to the point that they shouldn't be taking on
large projects in their late sixties. And other people are you know, Henry
kissingering their way into one hundred and one. You know, So it's not
the age per se. Totally agree where you are, where you are in
your life journey. I totally agree everyone age ages differently, right, but
we can say that at eighty one, it's almost surely the fact that you
have probably slowed down from when you were in your fifties or forties. And
I should put it like this, nothing that's happening is like surprising, you
know, with with Joe Biden, who wasn't exactly the sharpest guy to begin
with, was not the brightest bulb in the senatorial chandelier. Oh that story
also was like he was known for being the brightest bulb in the senatorial chandler.
And I'm like, no, No, that's not true, not of
him. Yeah, there's such a revisionist history about how smart he was.
He was always kind of a goofball and treated that way, and he kind
of like but kissed his way into committees early on in his career, and
then he just kind of stayed there because you know, Senator I'm on those
committees particularly well, you know you remember the Clarence Thomas hearings for example.
He's kind of the laughing stock of those and also they were just unethically handled.
I saw to it from Joe Scarborough, who says that he is the
sharpest foreign policy mind that perhaps has ever existed. Okay, but I want
to do another limited defense here. As I was reading this Wall Street journal
piece, I just kept thinking, because it's all it's just full of stories
from different members of Congress and senators and stuff saying that he is alarming,
not functioning when you're meeting with him, and that is important news, I
guess, for Americans to be told, Like I always think about these echo
chambers where you got a lot of America that's actually somewhat informed, and then
you have a lot of America that like thinks they're informed, but they're watching
like CBS Evening News or something, and they're just kind of getting straight propaganda.
And then you have the people who aren't even watching that. So the
more information the better. However, this guy who everyone's saying can't function in
meetings, you all sure adopted his policy agenda hook line and sinker, you
know, for a guy who you know, we're all sitting here and being
like, no, he's actually not so good on foreign policy. Well,
his foreign policy is ruling the world right now. So if you don't think
he's sharp, and you think he's struggling, maybe don't do everything the old
man mumbles his way into asking you to do. I think he's just always
been sort of a weak person with that principle. So I don't think they're,
you know, doing what he's mumbles. I think they're telling him what
to do. And I don't mean it in like a conspiratorial way where he's
like a puppet. I just think he's always sort of been a weak man.
Can I read you the line from the story about what you mentioned about
how smart he was? For much of his career, Biden enjoyed a reputation
on Capitol Hill for being a master negotiator of legislative deals, known for his
detailed knowledge of issues and insight into the other sides of motivations and needs,
and for hitting his stride when the pressure was on. I don't think that
that's true. But so the other day, I think, yesterday, Joe
Biden, this is going to be a segue. Are we done with old
timey Joe? So he called Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for the presidency,
a convicted felon for the first time, and said that he had snapped
after the twenty that Donald Trump had snapped after the twenty twenty elections. So
last time we spoke, the conviction of Donald Trump had not been had come
down yet. I think it was the next day what it was at thirty
five or thirty six count conviction for a crime or thirty four for a crime
that we do not exactly know, we do not have a handle on.
But the jury convicted him on thirty four council false fine business records with no
predicate crime involved. And for I guess what is it? Influencing an election?
I always laugh when I hear that, Like figure, that's the point
of a candidacy is to influence an election. But what do I know,
Well, particularly since one of the things they alleged was that by doing something
in twenty seventeen, he time traveled his way into affecting the twenty sixteen election.
Yeah, but Alex Soros and others have noted that the point of this
is to just continue to say Donald Trump is a convicted felon. That's the
point of the whole trial. And now Joe Biden has done that, and
you're going to keep hearing it over and over again. Right. So,
Alex Soros is a big Democrat funder, and he immediately came out and said,
guys, what we're all going to do is we're all going to say
convicted felon as much as possible. And it was interesting because so many people
in corporate media were like, sir, yes, sir, We're on it.
We're going to do it, and it's complete. You know, I'm
not pointing out the hypocrisy here so much as the hierarchy of the regime.
They have spent years saying that you should not mention if someone is a convicted
felon, George Floyd, stuff like that. In fact, you're supposed to
like downplay all of that and kind of question the system more than the individual,
and then as soon as it's bad Orange man, they're like, this
guy is a convicted felon. We shouldn't let convicted felons vote, or whole
jobs. What are you talking about? That's crazy. But I'll just point
out there's been a little bit of pulling on the situation. And one of
the polls showed that Donald Trump did not lose any support, but that Joe
Biden did. It was really small, probably statistical noise in that pool.
But any country that has a legitimate legal system that legitimately prosecutes and convicts someone
of thirty four felonies, if everything were legitimate, and if everything were running
well, and if the American people had faith in their institutions, it would
be the end of the campaign for that individual, not even close. It
would be worse than the end of the campaign. And nothing is happening because
people don't believe that what happened was legitimate, like they already baked it in
to their decisions. Yeah, I think. I mean, my position has
been that none of this will change anyone's mind. I mean, those who
believe these are are good cases and good trials or hate Donald Trump and they
don't care, and the others won't. I think possibly some independence can be
turned off by the lawfair, I do think that that's a possibility, But
like you said, the election is about getting your votes out and using all
these Ye. I do believe it very much is election interference, and I
believe it really does affect votes. You said some independence might be turned off
by the conviction who are on the fence. Yeah, I also think a
lot of people are turned off by the lawfair. I mean this is historic.
No, I'm sorry, that's what I meant. Yeah. We have
never in the history of this country attempted to put a presidential a major presidential
nominee in jail to keep them from winning re election or winning a second election.
Like this is historic, This is horrific, and they wouldn't be doing
it if it weren't going to make a difference. And I don't think people
are quite freaked out about this as much as they should be. The Democrat
Party, you know, Joe Biden is trying to jail his political opponent.
We ran a stupid impeachment over a phone call about looking into Joe Biden's corrupt
prime family. We did an impeachment over that, and we have right now
at this moment, Joe Biden calling his opponent a felony convicted felon and trying
to put him in jail through a series of other prosecutions, some of which
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to bring up one aspect of this that I think is amusing to some extent
is that are like or you know, also anti Trump types are like,
you know, this trial, you know, proves that the judicial system works,
and they're just like, even questioning the judicial system is an attack on
the you know, on the on the integrity of democracy and so on.
Whereas for decades I've heard the left talk about, you know, wrongly convicted
people and bad trials and bad juries. Democrats are literally, as we speak,
delegitimizing the top court in the country, attack personally smearing you know,
a bunch of justices they don't like. Then, on top of that,
when everyone's like, well, Donald Trump can appeal it, and there are
really good reasons to appeal this trial and overturn this conviction. They're like,
that is an attack on the system, you know as well, Like they
don't you know, it's such selective. Uh, I don't know what to
call it, just you know, it's just complete hypocrisy on their part.
The appeals process, for instance, is part of the it's part of due
process. If you have a batcher. That's why we have those kinds of
checks on the system. And I think that from what I've read, it
seems like he has a very good case to overturn it, though that will
probably take a long time. So yeah, I think everyone in the Democrat
Party that's running this effort to imprison their top political moment, they understand that
this is likely almost like very very likely to be overturned on appeal, but
they don't care so long as the conviction stands through the election, which it
will do. You think that when it's overturned, they're going to be like,
Wow, the system worked. We won't question the judicial system. Now
they're going to say it was you know, they're going to come up with
some conspiracy. It depends on who does it. Like, if the Supreme
Court is overturning it, they'll attack the court. If it happens after Joe
Biden wins reelection, they'll be like, oh, see the system works,
because that's all they actually need. So I do also want to point out
that this was such an egregious abuse of our court that even Republicans elected officials
knew it was and actually found a little bit of backbone to speak out against
the constitutional violations. And one of the things that's very frustrating for people in
America is to see just how stupid Republican leaders in particular can be. But
on this case, they actually all said varying degrees of the right thing.
You had strong defenders rule of law, like Susan Collins or Marco Rubio or
Mike Lee. You also had like people who could barely say anything, but
they still said it, like Mitch McConnell. John Dune actually came out with
something okay, met Romney came out with something really good. Like everyone kind
of was like, oh, this is bad, you know, so as
bad as you might think the Republican Party is, And you'd be right for
thinking that, Like, at least they did this part well. And the
only people I saw saying anything other than trying to imprison your political opponents is
bad and show trials are bad. We're Asa Hutchinson who's not very bright,
John Bolton, who just you know, wants to go to war, and
then Larry Hogan, who thought this would be a good way to win the
state of Maryland, or just like is so overcome with Trump Patrid that he
came out like ahead of the verdict and he was like, we should respect
the verdict of this show trial. You know, you're supposed to respect verdicts
of show trials, So do that. And that did not go over so
well with the whatever thirty percent of Republican voters in Maryland. He's got a
really tricky situation. He needs to get a ton of independence and even probably
some Democrats to win the Senate seat in Maryland. It's an overwhelmingly blue state,
so he really has to emphasize his independence, that he's a total left
wing, you know, Republican all that stuff, and that's fine, that's
just politics, right, but you can't do it at the expense of that
thirty percent base or thirty five base you're dealing with, right the Republicans in
the state. So he when he did that, that was exactly what corporate
media wanted, and they immediately began like amplifying it, and they said that
if you criticize him, it's suicidal. You need to have people who hate
the Constitution so long as they have an R by their name, and you're
you know, you can't be stupid about this. But I think he got
enough of a brushback pitch that hopefully he won't continue down that road too much,
or if he does, you can just sort of safely ignore him and
not support him with money or votes. What do you think I would want
him, no matter what he says, to win, because I think running
the Senate for the RS is a hugely important thing, especially when you think
about the judicial branch and the attack on it. So you know, I'd
be willing to, you know, forget anything. Literally nothing he could say
that would cause you to not support. He could say that he would not
support judicial appointments of the Donald Trump presidency or approve Biden judicial appointments, which
he may well do if he was in the Senate right billion percent to do
that. But you're saying, just if he gave the vote to put like
John Thune in, is Mitch mcconnald two point zero as long as he does
that, you're fine with him. Listen, as long as I think Republicans
having being able to stop. You know, I always talk about this with
people say Republicans do nothing, and I agree that they do very little.
But one thing they have done often, especially under the Obama administration when they
were running it is stop an alternative history, counterhi history that would have been
even much much worse than the reality we live now, and that to me
is pretty important. Yeah. Do I wish they were like complete constitution loving
conservatives all over the Senate? Of course I do. But you know,
Maryland, if you can win Maryland, that's a huge victory. I don't
care how bad that Republican is. I just want to say I personally called
on Larry Hogan to run for the Senate publicly in September of last year.
I am not one of these people who's like, oh, he's so bad
on Polo. He cannot be part of the Republican Party or anything. For
all the reasons that you just said, right, he could possibly win.
At the very least, he causes Democrats to spend a lot of money and
time to keep that seat. You can't do that if you're not like it
just there's there're the there's the principled reason why you should not support show trials,
and it's a very important one, and I would hope that regardless of
politics, people would oppose show trials. Okay, so he should he should
hold on. He should be principled on it, but he also politically should
be savvier. You know, if Mitt Romney can come out there and be
like, this is a atrocity, you can you can meet that standard.
If Mitch McConnell is like this, nuver should have helpened, this is bad.
You know, you can meet that standard. You don't have to be
you don't have to be Mike Lee, you know, talking about the Constitution
and really being bold about it. You don't have to be that level of
you know, principled. But you have to at least come up with a
little something or else you start losing the whole point, which is building together
a coalition of Republicans, independents and maybe even a few Democrats like you have
to. You can't sabotage the biggest part of your base and expect to do
this plan of winning Maryland. It's a heavy lift for him. You know,
Maryland does have rural areas where people are very conservative, you know what
I mean. So I hear what you're saying. I'm not saying it was
the right way to go. I'm just saying if I was a voter and
I lived in Maryland, I would probably vote for him no matter what he
said, just so that Republican control the Senate. For me, that would
be the key. But I agree with you. I also think there's a
way to balance this. You can say, listen, you know whatever,
I hate Trump, but you know we have a judicial system and has to
be upheld, and we can't have show trials. I mean, it's not
that big a lift, right. I wanted to say, even some Democrats
I think are a little put off by this. I saw David axel Rod,
for instance, say this is not the sort of thing that we should
be putting a presidential candidate in jail. He wants to have the convicted felon,
you know, the words in front of Donald Trump, but he does
not actually want to follow through on it in any real way because I think
he realizes, as a bit of an old timer, right, he realizes
this corrodes the system in a way that we can never come back from probably,
but also that it's kind of it's kind of crazy, especially on this
kind of trial, at least that's what he says. I well, also
want to say, Eugene Debs was thrown into jail by the Wilson administration,
said major major party, I know, I know, and and so yeah,
and Wilson was basically a fascist. So I just wanted to point that
out. And but what I'm saying is, if Donald Trump is convicted and
has to serve time, he can still run. I think he could still
win. I can still win from jail. I think he can. In
fact, that might be the point where a lot of independence are like,
this is nuts. I think it's been interesting to see some global leaders react
to the decision negatively. And I raised this point on Friday on Special Report.
But one of the reasons why the US has had such moral authority internationally
is that we do hold ourselves to a higher standard. You know, imprisoning
your political opponent, running show trials against your political opponent, nothing about that
is even like remotely weird in human nature. People do it all the time
all over the world, particularly in Venezuela and Russia, and you know,
third world dictatorships and bascist kind of like it just happens all the time.
But what made us special was that we didn't do it. And so when
we would say, hey, you can't cancel an election just because you're you
can't remove this guy from the ballot just because you're afraid he's going to win,
and you can't run show trials against this guy just because you are afraid
of how popular he is, that meant something. I mean, would not
world leaders laugh in our face if we tried that with any of them.
Doesn't help, that's sure. I mean, I forgot to say one thing
though, if I quickly could about you know, Democrats saying, you know,
we have to respect the judicial system and the judicial process and this,
and that I do. That's why I'm against what happened here, because Alvin
Bragg ignored what the judicial system is for. He politicized the system. He
you know, he the jury ignored the law. The judge ignored the law.
I just should have said that backwards. The judge ignored the law and
then told the jury to ignore the law. And so yeah, I care
about the judicial system. That's why I think this trial is ridiculous. And
there's nothing wrong with saying that. You know, we respect the Constitution,
not a judge. We respect a judge because he upholds the Constitution. If
he doesn't, I don't have to respect that judge, and I don't have
to like treat him with any respect at all, you know what I mean.
It's just they have it all at backwards. Yeah, is that a
curse? That's why my mom My mom always said that, and I felt
that meant it wasn't a curse because she's not a cursorus. Do you want
to turn the turn the page here? There were two congressional hearings I think
that over our interest to us. One was with doctor Anthony Fauci and the
other was with Merrick Garland. I think we should start with Merrick Garland because
I think that kind of has something to do with this. Obviously, you
know, he runs the Justice Department. The Justice Department is completely corrupt.
So before the day of his I think it was Tuesday, I'm not sure
whatever. The day of his testimony, the Wall Street Journal had this glowing
story about how Merrick Garland is basically hated and distrusted by both sides because he's
such just solemonic figure. Who who you know, helps you know, who
puts the administration in a bad spot, who puts you know, goes after
Trump, et cetera, cetera. I don't believe any of that's true.
I don't think that. I think it's fair to say that on occasion,
because when he has zero choice, he will do something that upsets the Biden
administration, who views the Justice Department as a partisan, you know, agency,
and that he has completely corroded the integrity of the Justice Department by going
after political opponents. And I'm not just talking about Donald Trump. I'm talking
about anthro life protesters. I'm talking about people who protest school board authoritarian school
boards. And I'm talking about, you know, his attacks on institutions that
he doesn't like, his fake, constant fear mongering over MAGA extremism, and
his the way he ignores leftists violence. So am I wrong about that?
I saw that story in the Wall Street Journal. The news section has become
much more opinionated and left wing in the last decade or so. For people
who don't read the Journal, it can be As a subscriber to the Journal,
it can be horrific actually to read the paper there. So yeah,
the story was all about how Merrick Garland is beyond reproach. I mean,
he's just he's almost Jesus Like basically was the angle taken by the Wall Street
Journal. And to do that it ignored, you know, just all sorts
of things or just like accepted things that nobody should accept. This is a
guy who personally authorized the raid on Mara Lago, right, Like, that's
a guy who has no judgment at all unless the judgment is totalitarianism, you
know, or authoritarianism. He's been a disaster. The Department of Justice has
had no restraint on itself under his watch. You know, Bill Barr was
going to war against the entire leadership of the of the DOJ when he was
overseeing it, but he at least was, you know, trying to fight
it back on some of it. With Garland, there's been no restraint and
it's horrific. Like we live in the country with a DJ that's completely out
of control. And when he went to Congress to talk about it, he
was basically like, I don't care what you people think, I don't care
what you have to say. He was like oozing with disdain for them.
He was he felt like he controlled them rather than him being responsive to Congress,
and it showed, you know, he was basically like, Yeah,
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ago he was in front of Congress and when they asked him about the task
force he had set up to investigate domestic terrorist parents and they were like,
well, the Biden administration is the one that told the I forget what the
educational institution was that complained in a letter to use the term domestic terrorist so
you could send people there. But yet you have no real terrorists here,
and he's like, no, we're not going to dissolve this task force.
He just ignores Congress, he ignores reality, and he just does whatever helps
the Biden administration. Yeah, I'm sorry. I just want to say I
think he lied about you know, when they started targeting Roman Catholics and he
was like, oh, that was just like one guy in one office,
which was a lie. Turned out to involve several offices. Many people know
it was coordinated. So like you, when you start lying to people about
things you got caught doing, it makes it really hard to believe anything you're
saying. But go on, well, yeah, I mean also think about
this as he you knows, as you know, there was an assassination attempt
on a Supreme Court justice. There were people picketing right in front of the
house trying to which was against the law because they were trying to affect an
outcome of a case. Right, he did nothing about that. But yet
he will send SWAT teams into pro life protesters homes who have children to arrest
them. Didn't a woman who I think she was a seventy five year old
woman who was praying in front of a of a abortion clinic just get like
two years in jail for praying. I mean, so the disparity in how
he goes after political you know, people who are involved to politics. It's
just it's my bossy. I said this after the oral arguments on the Supreme
Court case dealing with the way that Merrick Garland has added this like sarbainez Oxley
provision to make sure that people can you know, be forced into prison for
whatever they did on January sixth, But I was imagining, if you're one
of these Supreme Court justices who's been terrorized by you know, attempted assassins,
you know, you can't go out to dinner, you can't leave your house.
Your family's targeted with the help of corporate media and other Democrats, you
know, with Chuck Schumer on the steps of the Supreme Court saying I tell
you Justice Kavanaugh, I tell you Justice Gorsage, We're coming for you if
you don't vote the right way on cases, you know, and the Merrit
Garland was like, gosh, there's just nothing we can can do to that,
while also trying to get the Supreme Court to okay the use of sarbainz
Oxley to go after you know, eighty year old grandma's who are walking around
the Capitol on January six. He also ignores the Supreme Court, So when
Roe v. Wade was in force, you know, he would you know,
the federal government when Democrats were in charge with sue states who they've believed
or undermining that you know, fake constitutional right. But when Dobbs fell,
there was no more pretend constitutional right to an abortion, and doj under Garland
ignores that it is no longer a right, and sue takes like Texas to
try to stop the people. You know, these are the other day Garlands
that he was defending democracy and nothing was going to stop. And but yet
literally he has a bunch of suits that are trying to undermine the votes and
the policies of states that he doesn't like. But I wanted to who's the
guy who you you often mock who took over for Brian Stelter. Oh guy,
I forgot's name. I think it's Oliver Darcy. So he had a
piece where he says, how could anyone say that, you know, I
don't exactly know the wordy, but I could anyone say that justice Aparliament is
biased? When they're going after Hunter Biden. Which listen, Garland allowed the
statute of limitation on Hunter's foreign dealings laps, right, he did not go
after him. And let's not forget he put David Weiss in charge of that
investigation illegally, you're not supposed to have a special, an independent or whatever
it's called, counsel who has worked in government. But more than that,
they tried to give Hunter Biden an immunity deal, not only for things he
has already been charged with, but for future and other crimes that he was
not even yet charged for. It was the most ridiculous. If it weren't
for the whistleblowers at the IRS, if it weren't for a judge I believe
in Delaware who's like, what are you nuts? This is the craziest immunity
deal ever. Garland would have given Hunter Biden a complete pass on all his
criminal activity. Right. So, the idea that there's some kind of he
had no choice there, the idea that there's some you know, equal justice
here is just preposterous. They went after Hunter, they they ended up charging
him. They're basically forced into charging him for something not you know, nothing
to do with the corruption of his family right, nothing to do with the
foreign influence peddling, And they went for the one thing that could be least
connected to Joe Biden, and that could you know, foreseeably be pardoned and
framed in a very sympathetic light about addiction, nothing about corruption, which they
let that all go away. And yeah, they tried very hard to make
even that go away, so total false equivalency to be like, oh see,
we're willing to go after Hunter Biden. No, they weren't willing.
They were not willing. But also, you know, it kind of annoys
me that this is all about you know that trials has become all about the
Hunter Biden gun trial has become all about his addiction and stuff. Like the
first of all, addiction is not an excuse for criminality. No one forced
him to be an addict. I get that it's a you know, people
think it's a disease and so on. But a lot of the things that
Bind did that he was in charge for happened after his addiction. He keeps
pretending that it's all about his addiction, but it wasn't. And in any
event, I can get here very much about Hunter. Yeah, even one
of the things I keep thinking about too, is there was a lot of
human trafficking that Joe Biden's son was involved in, you know, according to
the information on the laptop, which the government just this week you know said
again was real and not Russian disinformation as Joe Biden had falsely claimed, and
as fifty one corrupt intel officials falsely claimed. That would be something you know,
that would be less sympathetic to go after than drug or gun crimes.
You know, when you're actually trafficking humans in sex, slavery, like,
that's not so sympathetic, right, Yeah, I think you're right. Also,
the DJ tried to give Hunter immunity on all those things, on his
foreign dealings, on all any kind of other crimes that he was involved in.
I wish I had the list here, Ribery, corruption, failn to
register as a foreign agent, these things were all preemptively given immunity if of
course he had his way. But it was for the if it wasn't for
those two irs agents, that's where we'd be in the judge in any event,
I you know, Garland will be made out to be a hero and
he's just over you know, he's just a completely corrupt guy. Speaking of
corruption, can we move on to doctor Anthony Fauci. Let's do it actually
have a distaste for going back to the COVID or I think it was it
It showed us that, you know, people are too willing to allow authoritarians
to rule their lives in the way that we just acquiesced to churches being shut
down, to our businesses being shut down, to our schools being shut down.
It is really, I think, just one of the saddest episodes in
American history. But doctor Fauci was in front of Congress and the you know,
we already know he lies all the time, but he admitted, I
think it was released in congressional testimony this week, that he had no scientific
evidence for the six foot social distancing that everyone was impelled basically to take on
societally by him. Now I'm not saying he had an edict, but we
were supposed to follow the science. We were supposed to follow whatever he said.
And that was one of the kind of ridiculous rituals we were involved in
during COVID. What do you do about a guy like Fauci, Like,
there are people now in government. Next time we have an emergency, they'll
pretend to be experts. The media will, i should say, pretends to
be an expert. He'll be an expert who uses science as to give him
a patina of authority that makes the rest of us act in a certain way.
I mean, do you think things will be different next time we have
a COVID or are we just going to end up doing the same thing?
Is that a too broad question? Yeah? I just want to kind of
like take a real quick step back with Anthony Fauci. So, Anthony Fauci
is a longtime government bureaucrat. I think he's the highest paid, was the
highest paid person in government after decades of service. Very controversial figure for how
he handled the AIDS crisis and a variety of other things that people think he
has not handled well. But he's very good at playing the bureaucratic game,
very good at funneling money to allies and government and taxpayer money to allies for
different research projects. And that's important because when this happened, it was a
huge, hugely scary moment for a few people in the government, including Anthony
Fauci. They knew that they had been involved in gain and function research,
and they knew that the COVID virus was almost certainly a result of gain of
function research. Just yesterday the New York Times published they had to do it
in their opinion section. But it's absolutely like exhaust of like here are all
the reasons why it was almost certainly out of the lab, Like it's the
way that makes sense. So the problem is that Fauci and you know,
Francis Collins and other like high high profile federal scientist types had been funneling money
to EcoHealth and to other groups that do gain and function research, some of
them even doing gain of function research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. You
know, President Obama had spoken out and acted against gain of function research for
fear that maybe one of these things would lead to a global pandemic. So
Fauci and other people were kind of skirting Obama's changes to what was allowed to
still be involved in gain of function, but not be doing it, you
know, be doing it in a way this a little bit harder to track
American tax dollars for. So when this came out, they were like,
oh crap, this is us, Like this this was our kind of mess
up. So they began to be moving into self protective mode. So anyone
who was threatening to expose their role became an enemy, and they used anti
Trumpist hatred from corporate media to help accomplish their goals. So they would go
on TV, very good on TV, very very good on TV. You
have like a lot of older white media women who actually say they found Anthony
Fauci sexually attractive, you know, and they would oh, my gosh,
Anthony Fauci said this and that, Oh it's so amazing, and so they
would just kind of say, you know, accept whatever he said. And
if he said it was a conspiracy theory to believe that that the gain of
function had had escaped the lab he's you know, he said that, he
said it was a conspiracy theory. When people started to say this probably came
from the lab right, he had he what was it? You know,
how would you say prompted people to come up with Nope, it was a
zoological whatever what do they call it? Biozenetic I definitely when people questioned,
you know, when people even just talked about where it came from, they
were accused of being racist. The idea was that it's less racist to say
that disgusting dining practices of Chinese where they eat you know, raw bats or
whatever. That was like not racist, but to say I think that Wuhan
Institute of Virology, which is world famous for doing gain of function research,
might have on bats and coronaviruses might have had something to do with this thing
that was deemed you know, racist to accuse scientists of having an accident when
the great bearing to Decoration came out saying that since older people and the compromised
are like more vulnerable to coronavirus than healthy young men, and that our reaction
should put that into account, protect the most vulnerable and not shut down society
for everybody else. Fauci worked to delegitimize and censor those people, and yes,
two censor scientific debate about these things. And so can I quickly just
interject here if you read the Great Barrington Declaration, now it is right about
almost all things, whereas Fauci was wrong about all things. And yet Fauci
is still regarded as this, you know, great man who got us out,
you know, by certain people got us out of COVID. Sorry,
So when I think of like things that should happen to Anthony Fauci spending the
rest of his life in prison is the nicest thing I can think that should
happen to him. The amount of destruction caused by this person, you know,
And he said if you questioned him, you were questioning science. I
mean, that's dilusional talk that he said stuff like that all the time.
But you asked if things would be different, and I would say no.
So, first off, I think a lot of people are embarrassed by how
willing they were to go along with the shutdowns of everything. I wish people
would understand that censorship played a huge part in that. So I think a
lot of people maybe did have an instinct that what Fauci and other government leaders
were trying to do to the world to cover up their crimes was really bad.
But they would look around and they'd be like, but I'm the only
person who seems to be thinking this is bad. And that's because they were
engaged in widespread, oppressive censorship of public opinion. So if you know we
understood this at the Federalist, if you hosted a debate about whether you should
follow Fauci's brand new ideas about how to shut down a pandemic or time tested
ways we had done it for hundreds of years you got censored off of social
media, not just that article, but every article ever written by your publication.
Like the censorship was so extreme it killed a distribution of certain media outlets
across the board. I mean, they were really good at sensoring and they
were targeting, and Fauci himself was working with Facebook. You know, we
have these emails. We also know that Fauci and his team were evading FOIA
requests, you know, Freedom of Information Act requests by deliberately misspelling words or
using private communications. Like what happened was really awful, But I think people
are motivated by fear a lot, and so I don't know if anything will
change next time they run this operation on us. Can I say something really
funny? The Federalist page on Wikipedia, which is turned into just one of
the worst sites for many reasons that will to get into right now, has
a section on us the Federalist about COVID nineteen pandemic misinformation, and one of
the main things at the top is that the Federalists publish are articles denouncing social
distancing, which we now know has no scientific basis. The whole misinformation part
of our page. There all of the things have turned out to be true
that we at the Federalist I was actually here at the time published. Yeah.
Yeah, Now I want to say, first off, you should be
able to say things that are not true in America. Should you were right
to do that? So censorship is wrong. Censorship is wrong, no matter
what right agreed. But it does hurt, particularly when you are censored for
speaking the truth boldly in an age where everyone else are just cowardly losers,
and you know, it causes real it causes real pain. I will just
go ahead and say it, you know, right now too, because we
were courageous and bold on that story and other stories where we have been proven
to be right. Censorship does, you know, materially affect your ability to
sell ads and generate revenue and hire other reporters to continue to expose very bad
things. And so good time to re up, you know, subscriptions,
donations whatever to the Federalists. Sorry, go on, no, yeah,
I mean listen, I give people a break. At the very beginning of
this thing, they didn't know what it was. The media was scaring everyone
people, we have ten set up and people are dying and all that stuff.
But as we got into it, and people started to question it.
That's when the censorship regime really started. That's when Facebook said you can talk
about China, you know what I mean, And driven by the way by
government officials like Fauci. Like Fauci didn't have the power to have an edict,
but basically he did because everyone listened to him literally, you know,
because he's been there a long time. Anyway, Wait, one thing I
want to say about it too. Yeah, he is admitted now that there
was no scientific basis for his repeated assertion that the best thing you could do
was stay six feet away from someone else. He's admitted that. But that
six feet rule that was adopted widely by federal, state, local governments in
different ways. That also was the reason why we were able to accomplish something
Democrats had fought for for a very long period of time, which is massive
mail in balloting, which is the means by which they were able to secure
their twenty twenty election victory. And so this twenty twenty election was decided by
like forty three thousand votes across three states, and Democrats spent you know,
so much money on harvesting, trafficking mail in ballots to secure that victory,
and they would not have been able to do it without Fauci and other people
lying about the science behind what should happen pandemic response. It was world altering,
Like if you don't like the situation that the entire world is in right
now, with everything on fire and with everything bad in the country, you
know, it all kind of dates back to what Democrats were willing to do
to in response to a global pandemic. Yeah. I was actually reading reading
up, you know, to prepare for this episode, and I was reminded
that Fauci was defending people like Cuomo in New York, who, you know,
I don't even know how to put this. I mean, he basically
send people to their deaths and nursing homes and attack people like Rond de Santis
for wanting kids to go back to school. When Rond de Santis had said
that no one under twenty five had died from coronavirus, if Fauci went up
to Elector and and said that basically attacked him for making the staggering, you
know, unscientific claim. But as it turned out, at the time,
one person in the whole country, only four Americans between age fifth to twenty
four and one. Between one and four were known to have died of COVID
in the country of three hundred and fifty million or whatever. People like Fauci
was lying. DeSantis was right, Florida was right, and that's that's that's
what history should show. But I agree with you. I think you could
scare people pretty easily in this country and any event. So do we have
anything else? Is that it on news? Nope? Let's talk about what
you watched, read or listened to. I watched the best movie this weekend,
really, I think. I mean it was simple, but it was
really well done. It's Godzilla minus one. Really, did you see it?
No, I want you to watch it and then tell me what you
think about it. I definitely. I see it's on Netflix. I just
yeah, yeah, So it's a Godzilla movie. Is it Sappenies movie?
Yeah? So you have to if you do not speak Japanese, you need
to have the subtitles on. But I don't mind that. And it was
I think. My husband told me it was done on a budget, like
a very small budget of like fifteen million. But it looks really great.
Even the fact that it looks a little low budget kind of works. Given
that it's Godzilla. Yeah yeah, but it's got great like human interest backstories
and it was really fun. I liked that. Wow, all right,
I'll watch it for sure. Yeah, I'm all in on those kind of
movies. Anything else, No, I just kind of prayed for my country.
So great, and you watch Godzilla and one yep. I had two
things I watched. I watched Dune two. Oh was it? Listen?
It's the director if I was named Dennis something French. He's great. He
looks on a good movie. But I did think this one was not as
good as the first one. And I've read Dune. I like Dune.
It was just a little choppy as far as telling the story. I think
it actually could have been a longer movie. I think it was like three
hours, but he used another half an hour to smooth out the segues from
one character to another. So I didn't love it as much as the first
one, but I still would recommend watching it. That actor who played Elvis
isn't it and he's he's like a bad guy and he's I think he does
a pretty good job there. And then I watched just yesterday a new show
called The Acolyte, which is a Star Wars show about Jedi. Oh yeah,
I've heard about it on the twitters. I know what a vig fan
you are. And yeah, I thought it was okay. I thought it
was I expected it to be worse. It wasn't that terrible. So far,
I've only seen two episodes. I think that's all that's released, and
it was pretty good. I've also I want to just because I need to
inject some music in here so I have something to play at the end of
the show. I wanted to note that I got myself some Tom Waits' albums
early Tom Waite, so I'm a huge family. Sorry. I also watched
that, so not Tom Waits. I watched a documentary on Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
I watched it thinking it was going to be a documentary on Leonard Cohen,
right, and I'm you know that song? Is that like the Marianne
song by Leonard Cohen? Is it Goodbye Marianne? I am not. I'm
not really a fan of his, so I don't know. I'm sorry.
I I do like, yeah, Goodbye marian I do like Leonard Cohen a
lot, and I am shocked to hear that you're not a fan, seem
kind of similar to me. I like, he's one of these people I
like. Frank Zappa is another one who I like, but I don't actually
enjoy their art that much, but I sort of like as a person and
I'm interested in them. Does that make sense? It does. But you
know, he's like on a lifelong spiritual struggle journey whatever that takes, cross
Judaism and Buddhism and stuff, and I love his poetry and his voice and
everything, and I wanted to learn more about his life, like that's what
I'm actually curious about. This was more just a very long documentary about the
song. And I know everyone loves that song Hallylujah for very good reasons,
but I don't really like it as much as some of the other songs.
So it was it was fine. I had recently learned and saw a picture
of him during the nineteen seventy three surprise attack on Israel. He actually flew
to Israel and like sang to the troops and stuff, so obviously I like
to hear that kind of thing, so it sort of piqued my interest in
a bit more. But yeah, I know, maybe I'll listen, Maybe
I'll like it if I listen, okay, all right, well then we
have some music. Thank you great, well, I hope everyone will be
back next week. We will be too. Until them be lovers of freedom
and anxious to be yo