Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of You're Wrong with Molly Hemingway and
David Harsani. If you'd like to reach the show, please do so at
radio at the Federalist dot com. We'd love to hear from you. How
are you, Molly, I'm doing great. I'm getting ready for summer.
Kids are finishing up school. Well that's great. Yeah, I'm in Texas
right now. In Texas do not seem like a good match. How is
that? I am an East Coaster. Yeah, but yeah, it's so
hot here already. I can't wait to get out of here. But I
went to a Lutheran youth gathering in San Antonio last summer, Higher Things,
Lutheran youth gathering, and I have never been so hot in my entire life,
and that includes Houston in twenty ten, which I remember being a particularly
brutal summer. But it's so hot outside. But whenever you walk inside anywhere,
you need a coat and like a hat because it's freezing. So it's
not my kind of thing. But I do like Texas in general. It's
a beautiful state. And I did visit the Alamo, which was very cool,
and yeah, I love the Alamo. I got to go to Masada
and then the Alma La last year. Awa, you have to go,
where was it Thermopyla in Greece? Where weren't you in Greece? Actually recently
it was, but not near there. Well, all three are like,
come and take it, like that flag in a malan labe or however you
pronounce it. Anyway, let's talk about politics. Let's start by talking about
Donald Trump's trial in New York, which I just quickly want to say,
above, above, and beyond all things we're going to talk about, has
kept them off the campaign trail already in the midst of a presidential race for
what two weeks? Three weeks? Yeah, Well, it's not just the
many weeks that the trial has been going on. It's all the preparation for
the trial, and you know, it's been quite the interference in the election.
There's also the expense of having to pay attorneys that takes away from and
this is the Biden campaign strategy is to put their opponent in prison, and
so it's a campaign issue. How these trials are going. So the jury
is out, correct, I think, well, like they're getting their jury
instructions today and they will begin their deliberations today. I loved this line that
Margot Cleveland, our senior contributor legal correspondent, said, which was he said,
Trump jury begins deliberations today. In New York, a guilty verdict could
be returned as soon as two months ago. So there's no hope that because
it was so weak, and because Michael Cone was such a bad witness and
key witness to the whole thing, that that one juror is going to say,
no, this is crazy. I don't think it's wise to assume that
there will be a single juror strong enough to move this show trial away from
its natural conclusion, which would be conviction. I guess it's possible. I
just really don't not that I don't think highly of New Yorker's no offense,
but like, I don't think there's anyone on I would just be really surprised
if there was anyone on the jury strong enough to withstand you know, the
President of the United States announcing he's going to hold a press conference once the
verdict is released or give a speech from the White House. You had the
Biden campaign out in front of the in front of the court yesterday, kind
of you know, saying that all of civilization hangs on the balance of a
guilty verdict. You had the judge running this trial, I think, worse
than any trial I've ever heard of in my lifetime. And I think we
forget how blessed we are to have so many judges who aren't Charlatan's, and
this judge has If there was a bad decision to make, he made it.
If there was a good decision to make, he didn't make it.
Every step of the way, he was biased in favor of the prosecution and
against the defense. And even when it came to jury instructions, you know,
just things like they don't have to agree on what the crime is to
find him guilty, which seems Unamerican, and yet is happening here. It
seems quite malleable. I wanted to quickly talk about the so Donald Trump's on
trial for election interference, which seems like a made up thing. But outside
of the event, as the judge was, I think maybe giving an instructions,
there was a campaign event by Biden Harris at a trial, which seems
more election interferency than anything Donald Trump is actually accused of doing. With as
you say, Smokey McDaniel or whatever her name is. Well, Joe Biden's
number three at the Justice Department, Matthew Colangelo, was the lead prosecutor in
this case. It's part of a string of indictments led by Democrat strategists around
the country to again imprison, we'll prosecute, keep off the campaign trail,
hurt the fundraising efforts of and imprison and bankrupt their political opponent, like were
some third world tinpot dictatorship. So the whole thing is kind of crazy,
and I just can't get away from how yes, they say that by having
a non disclosure agreement filed in one way that you could conceivably have a problem
with this, even though the federal government didn't after they looked into it.
All during an election where the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton secretly funneled money through
a law firm to cook up a conspiracy theory that Donald Trump was secretly a
Russian agent colluding with Russia to steal the twenty sixteen election, and nothing really
happened to them. But if Donald Trump had a campaign event at any kind
of trial, it would immediately be the biggest story that you've ever heard,
right, It would immediately be election interference in and of itself. Robert de
Niro was part of this event. Who's you know, Oscar Winning, very
famous actor. And I believe there were some US Capital officers, you know,
because everything's actually about January sixth. That seems so like completely out of
line. And I can't actually think of another trial for anyone or anything where
there was a campaign event tied to it, unless maybe someone was defending themselves,
do you know what I'm saying? So that alone, I think it's
just such a norm busting maneuver that it should render the trial itself. I
mean, there should be a retrial. You're having campaign events outside, there
are jurors inside, there are you know I'm saying. So anyway, I
don't know. I found that so rupt, but I also found it weird
that they would even do it. So anyway, So Jonathan Turley was in
the courtroom today listening to the jury instructions, and he has a long thread
about just how horribly they were done, like even somehow worse than people imagined
they would be. And his final note on it, he says, Marichon
just delivered the coup de gras instruction. He said, there is no need
to agree on what occurred. You can disagree on what a particular crime was
among three choices that he gave, and you could split with for saying it's
one crime, for saying it's another, and foresaying still yet an other,
and he will treat that as a unanimous jury verdict. That's a show trial,
my friends. I'm just going to say this. It's not even the
Devil's Advocate thing. I just I wonder if that's ever am if that's ever
used, if you can do that normally, or is that something that ever
happens. No, the Supreme Court has ruled that you cannot do that.
So like there's no question again that if this were appealed, you know,
directly to the Supreme Court or somehow made it to the Supreme Court, they
will overturn this. Like nothing about this has been done in a way that
upholds rule of law, nothing like the charges never should have been brought,
and every step along the way has been just a travesty, like a republic
threatening travesty. So it will be overturned, but it will be overturned after
the damage is done. The idea is not to withstand appeal. It's to
tarnish their primary political opponent. It's horrific. It is navolniesque. And anyone
who's in any way supporting this at all or speaking like is if it's not
a travesty, it's part of the problem. In my view. Yeah,
it's a show trial, but I I and it is a travesty and it's
norm breaking, as I said, But it's also I don't think harming Donald
Trump really in the way that they had hoped that it would. So what
do you think is going to happen? Because I do assume there will be
a conviction. I think Mark sch On has basically said, you have to
convict. The only way we're getting out of here is that if you convict,
and you can convict any way you want, but you got to convict.
So I think it'll be a conviction. Your instruction is you must convict
or you cannot leave. Basically, But what do you think will be the
result afterward? I mean, I'm not a legal expert. He can appeal,
right, No, I mean, like, literally, what do you
think the effect will be on the electorate? What do you think will he
be sent to prison? You know what's going to happen. I don't know
if he'll be sent to prison. I don't know. I doubt it it
just from what I've read before. But I will say that I don't think
it will matter to most voters. I think anyone who doesn't think this is
a show trial pretends not to think it was Hayd stald Trump already. Folks
who think it is a show trial don't care. I don't think there's so
much noise with all the It's almost like they have too many show trials going
on and too many cases going on, where it just becomes noise. I
think for a lot of independence, and I think most people realize that I've
said this from the beginning, there's nothing tangible here in this in a sense
like a crime that anyone can really you know, you know, get their
brains around and say, wow, I can't believe you did that, because
you know, it's an NDA, it's norm. I mean, they keep
calling it hush money because there really is no crime, so they have to
come up with this hush money phrasing in every single story. I think it's
going to make much of a difference as far as the election goes. In
fact, I think all this stuff kind of helps him a little bit as
far as like I've said, I know people who aren't crazy about him,
who say, who would vote for him, but aren't crazy about him,
who say, I can't believe they're doing this to him. You know,
I can't believe they're doing this to Donald Trump. He deserves another shot at
the presidency. I mean, that's just anecdotal, but that's what I see
going on at there. How about you, what do you think is going
to happen after I don't know. I think, you know, I do
think. I think the kangaroo court conviction is not going to save Biden,
but I'm not sure what the effect will be on Trump. Like, first
and foremost, this never should have happened. It's absolutely horrible for the country,
and it's horrible for him personally. And I'm just amazed that this man
knows he could walk away at any point in time and all of his troubles
would go away, and every day he gets up and just keeps fighting for
the country Like that is truly amazing heroism that we have not really seen among
most politicians, and certainly not among Republicans. It is a tribute to him,
and it explains why people are willing to vote for him even though every
institution in America is telling them they shouldn't be allowed to. But I do
think, you know, I don't know. I don't know if there are
Americans who are low information voters, Like the whole point is to secure a
quick and easy conviction, so they can say that he's a convicted felon.
And so when they say that like a thousand million times in the propaganda press,
will that have an effect or not? Will the limp limp weak Republican
response to all of this also cause problems? I don't know. There was,
oh my gosh, John Thunne, who would like to be Mitch McConnell's
clone replacement, was asked if he would still vote for Trump if he were
convicted in a show trial, and he was like, I don't know.
We got to look into that like that that's a question that you could you
could be really really dumb and answer well, and he failed that test.
So I get a little nervous about all of these things. Yeah, I
mean, it's it's such an eat. I would say not, you know,
if he's convicted on any of the trials going on now, No,
that will not affect me in any way because they're show trials. I mean,
you know, who knows what's going to happen in the future. I
don't know, but these are show trials. It's very easy to say.
I will say this though, if for some reason they can't get an easy
conviction. I think that is devastating for Democrats. If they can't get a
conviction in New York. I just want to say everyone's basically saying that.
Given the judges instructions to convict, regardless of if they can agree on a
crime like we're Venezuela, I think I think you should just start planning for
the conviction, like who can withstand this they? You know, have you
served on I forget I was a foreman on a jury. Well, you
know, like the jury instructions they're basically like if two plus two is or
you know, two BLUs two is five, and if two BLUs two is
five, you must convict. It takes incredible strength to overcome that, like
they're just going to convict, right. I think jury again, anecdotally,
I would say that juries are very easily led by a judge to wherever the
judge wants them to go. Most of the time, you know, the
juries I've seen, the jury I was on was ready to, like,
you know, move forward simply on their feelings and not the law itself.
So I'm not going to say it was like a twelve Angry Men's situation with
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So not to jump the line, but the Hemingway family watched Twelve Angry
Men this weekend. Oh really coincidence, which I'd never seen before. It
was absolutely fantastic. Just wonderful. That's the one right where one of them
first doesn't one of them stands up and then commit has to convince the rest
of the jury. Right, Henry Fonda is the loan holdout for conviction in
a capital murder trial, and then slowly over the course of the film,
they all vote not guilty. I was Henry Fonda on my jury. To
give it away, that was a spoiler alert. I was Henry Fonda on
my jury, but I wasn't. I was defending a gigantic corporation. These
people just wanted to donk on for no reason. They hadn't done what I
think, you know, they'd been accused of. So anyway, so I
was on a jury and I was in this situation, but I was the
one who was convinced the other way. So unsurprisingly, I voted not guilty
on a conspiracy to commit mail fraud really complicated trial, and it was It
was weird because I was like, pretty darn sure the guy had done it,
but there were in my mind a few holes in the in the government's
case, and I I feel like the government really has to do their job
well. So I voted not guilty along with a couple other people on the
jury, and then our foreman just did a masterful job of you know,
he basically told everybody, sit tight, We're going to be here as long
as it takes. Let's just talk it out. And everyone was really reful,
truly very respectful to a unanimous verdict of guilt. I'm going to say
this to you. I was sitting there and we were deciding who should be
foreman, and woman said, you you're wearing glasses. You look smart,
and uh, then I was the forum became very yes. Was she joking
or was she serious? I'm I'm going to tell you this is a long
time ago. And her name was Doris, and she was not joking.
There's a lot of like laid off government workers on that jury I was on,
I would say, and was this in d C, New York?
Because I did mine in d C, And like, there are so many
trials and grand juries in d C for you know, the DJ to play
games with that you're just constantly called for jury duty. So anyway, but
so you not only need someone who's like voting not to convict in a show
trial, you need someone who's willing to withstand the pressure of all of his
or her jury colleagues. That sounds awesome to me. I mean that sounds
like I would love to be in that situation. But you also have to
stand up to the judge in a way. Here, you also have to
stand up and worry what happens to you after a trial if you live in
New York and you've, like you know, stopped a jury from convicting Trump.
I think all of that probably plays into it. But we'll see.
Speaking of New York, can we move on to a new topic? Sure,
speaking of New York, I might be a little late to this,
but I saw that Trump had his Bronx event in the South Bronx. Now,
I think they exaggerated in the number of people who were there, but
it's still an interesting place for him to go, especially when you look at
a lot of the polls and you see that black voters are not enamored with
Joe Biden in the way that a Democratic presidential candidate needs black voters to be
in amored with him if he wants to win. So I find that pretty
interesting that I saw He's giving some kind of speech today to you know,
aimed at black voters, shoring up groups that are that are you know that
you need that are foundational to your you know, you know your consensus on
the left. That's not a good sign for Joe Biden. Do you agree
with that? So I got to watch because I was doing a ton of
TV last week, I would find myself in a room watching speeches from President
Biden or President Trump, former President Trump. So I actually got to watch
the Morehouse speech and the Bronx speech. So the Morehouse speech was from President
Biden. It was it actually made me feel just very badly for the men
who were graduating from Morehouse. I didn't go to my own commencement, but
I understand they're supposed to be very uplifting, like congratulatory kind of things,
where you say, like go out and seize the day, and you got
this. And Joe Biden's was like America hates you, has lied to you.
They're going to kill you in the streets. They're going to hunt you
down and kill you and erase your history. I mean, it was just
like so dark, and I was really shocked. And then of course he
also has trouble articulating his thoughts and so it was just very painful and dark.
And then the Trump speech in the Bronx. There have been a few
speech like he has a standard speech, which is its own thing, and
people love, you know, love to go out to these events and have
fun at them. But there have been a few speeches he's done that actually
stood out, and I would say this Bronx speech was definitely one of his
best. It was weird because he's in New York, because you know,
the city and state of New York are trying to imprison him and destroy his
life and his business and his family, so he has every reason to hate
the area. And he gave this beautiful speech about how New York was,
this land full of opportunity, and how much it had meant to him,
and how much he loved the place, loved growing up there. He gave
tips on how to be successful in life. He was funny, he was
self deprecating. It was a joyous affair, and it was very optimistic,
and at one point he says something like, I don't care if you're black,
brown, white, or whatever the hell you are. We're going to
make America great again and we're going to get it back on track. And
it was just this unifying, uplifting, optimistic message compared with the just like
everything is evil and everyone's trying to kill you kind of speech that Biden had
been giving the previous week to graduates. Yeah, I would quickly say I
thought the more House speech was one of the worst residential speeches I've ever heard.
He was first of all, he repeats ernicious lies, like he says
that black people have to work ten times as hard for success in America,
which is simply not true. I'm not saying it's a utopia here for black
Americans, but the but almost every corporation, every institution America goes out of
their way to become more diverse. People have tons of chances in this country.
He just told them that they were going to have this the hardest time
making it, you know. Then he told them that they were going,
like you say, they We're going to be hunted on this down and killed
in the street by cops, where every statistic tells you that that is not
true. It is not true. Cops are not shooting, you know,
black Americans in the way that you know, I saw a poll where they
ask democrats or let people on the left like how many you know, how
many unarmed black men do you think are shot here and they're like saying they're
like ten thousand, a thousand, like they're giving these massive numbers, and
it was something like, you know, I don't know what it was.
I think it was like twelve or something last year. And most of them
are dangerous, you know, they have a knife or there's something like very
few innocent people anyway, So these are lies and they're cynical, and they're
meant to shore up votes with fear. And yeah, I as you know,
I don't love everything Trump says, but he has always has sort of
a positive message about being American. Shout out, Eddy's scary. So so
yeah, that Morehouse speech was just despicable and it's you know, it was
worse than anything any speech Obama and Obama did a lot of let's blame America's
speeches, but he always kind of like couched it in a kind of positivity
that Biden can't. I don't think he's capable of pulling off, you know
what I mean. So I don't know. I wonder if that paranoid is
going to work. Yeah, I don't know. I know that negative campaigning
actually does work. You know, people claim they don't like it, but
they actually do like it. Fear Mongering has been a tried and true method
for Democrats to get black people in particular to vote for them, but there's
also kind of a limit to it. I even was reading something from some
left wing journalist who was talking to a black Democrat political leader, and he
was like talking about how Democrats act like certain issues are going to appeal to
black voters that deal with like incarceration or drugs, and he's like, it's
so patronizing to think that black Americans want that and not like capital investment in
their small businesses. We're not living in eighteen sixty and to act like we
are is really just it just can be offensive to mean, this is the
guy who said that Romney was going to put black people back into chains.
So it's you know, it's not anything new for him, though it is.
It always makes me laugh that he was an ally of segregationist when he
first got into Congress and now he's he lied over and over in the speech
where he was like, I left, you know, a law firm to
work in the civil rights movement. Like he just makes stuff up completely,
and it's not because he's old anyway. I don't I think you're I don't
think it will work as well, especially with the voting, Like how long
can you keep pretending that black people have no agency and cam vote? You
know, I mean it, anyone who sees reality, anyone who lives in
the world knows that that's not true. I would just say until it doesn't
work anymore. You know, people have started to realize that there's something to
be said for transactional politics, like less about messaging that you're with someone and
more about like what are you giving this particular group of people or this movement,
you know, when they want when they want something. I mean,
there's a lot of different factions within the Democratic Party, so it's hard to
keep all those people satisfied and keep promising them things. But I guess you
can. So let's talk about the continuing story of sam Alito's flags and neighbors.
I don't really know if there's it's not that's not even an accurate description.
It's the continuing story about sam Alito's life's flags and how that means,
despite the fact that there's no problem with having First Amendment rights in this country,
that for reasons no one can quite articulate. Samuel Alito should be recusing
himself from his work. Well, I feel like the story was so crazy
that a lot of people, like normal saying Americans, were like, well,
this story is so stupid and unnecessary that I'm not going to pay attention
to it. Meanwhile, the entire left wing media apparatus New York Times,
Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, like everybody, CBS, everyone's all in
on this story that, even by stupid story standards, is like too ridiculous
to believe is going on. And there was a new update last night by
Jodi kantor the quote unquote reporter who has broken this story wide open. So
the story is so she like has written. First story was that there was
a neighborhood dispute and Missus Alito hung a flag upside down and then took it
down. The second story was that Missus Alito flew an appeal to Heaven flag,
which is an awesome flag that all Americans should fly, and that,
as you all know, this is a symbol a violent insurrection. Not true,
and therefore Sam Alito should recuse from cases, even though he wasn't even
the one flying this flag. The latest story talks to the woman who was
the source of the neighborhood dispute, and it is amazing, Like the woman
comes off bat Guano insane. She's a forty year old sort of failed want
to be actress whose mother is a PBS executive. And during the pandemic,
the failed actress and her live and lover who might be your husband now move
into the family home and they put up a sign that says f Trump but
spelled out. And the neighbors didn't like this because there are children in the
neighborhood and that's really inappropriate for this PBS executive's daughter to put up a sign
like that. And so the sign goes away one day and missus Alita was
like, thanks for taking that down, you know children, and they were
like, oh no, we didn't take it down. It blew over and
it's going right back up, lady. And by the way, you're a
see you next Tuesday. I mean, just like horrific behavior from the neighbors.
There's so much more to it, but like they move away, and
then after Dobbs is released, they come back to hold up signs calling for
killing Supreme Court justices at the Alito home and some and how these are the
victims, Like the whole story is written by Jodie Canter as if like these
poor, poor, super sweet people who just put up signs saying f Trump
and kill all Republicans and we hate everybody, Like there are these innocent victims
in this, you know, who can't tolerate some stuff like that in the
neighborhood. And how dare anyone in any way look askance at these types of
behaviors. I mean, you're reading it and you're like, wait, we
did this whole story because of these crazy people, and they're the victims.
It's insane. I didn't get a chance to read it. Was it framed
to make them seem like the victims? I mean, how was it?
How can they be the victims? Like? And what what did the Alitos
do? They didn't know it's up? They missus Alito. By the way,
if you know anything about Sam Alito, you know he's about the quietest
and most shy and non confrontational person in the history of the world. And
his wife not so. She was making her mind known. She's kind of
a colorful person who does that, but like not in a you know,
they called the cops on her, and the cops were like, you're calling
to report that someone didn't like your sign. Sorry, lady, there's nothing
we can do. And then there was one other thing. Oh, it
ends with you're supposed to think it's very bad that missus Alito sent Christmas cards
to everyone in the neighborhood wishing them peace. And it ends like and then
she wished them peace at Christmas. It's like, yeah, there's a bad
person in this story, and it is definitely not Martha Ann Alito. I
saw there was another story somewhere about that. Uh oh, I forget the
guy's name. He used to be like at the Federalist Society and now you
know he's in the legal Leonard Leo. Yeah, that he was flying an
appeal to have in flag as well in Maine, and it's like, I
think it was the main state flag at one point the San Francisco Communist City
Council was flying it. Last year, the Idea and Jerald Beier wrote this
great piece at his substack about how The New York Times his own reporting,
refused Jody Canter's allegation. So the headline on the original piece was just as
Samuel Alito personally hoists a January sixth Insurrection flag or whatever. None of that
was true. And he was pointing out that shortly after the January sixth protest,
the New York Times did like a listing of all the flags that were
seen at the protest, and they didn't mention this flag, which they're now
claiming is the signature flag of the j six protest or whatever. It's just
like unbelievable. The pine Tree appealed to Heaven flag is very cool. I
think George Washington commissioned it maybe for some naval stuff or whatever originally. And
Ron Swanson had it on his desk and parks and rec and tons of people
have. Mike Johnson had it in front of his office. I don't know
if you remember that Rolling Stone story where you know it was a big deal
there. But just because someone uses a flag, and even if they did
at January sixth, first of all, not everyone out there went into the
White House. Not everyone broke the law. No one went into the White
House. But I mean they went commress. Someone should have gone into the
White House a better spot, but oh no, actually so anyway, but
the point is that just because someone uses a flag doesn't mean they now own
that flag forever. I mean, it is just insanity. I've had this
with historical figures, like if you talk about like someone who you know who
like white supremacists, also like you're not allowed to mention that kind of philosopher
again or whatever it is. I mean, it's just so insane. So
you know, I don't think putting up upside down flag is a good idea,
by the way, for a number of reasons. If you're a Supreme
Court justice wife, it's just not worth your time and it just gets you
in trouble. But the idea that Sam Alito has done anything wrong or has
undermined the twenty twenty election or will undermine the twenty twenty four election or anything
like that, everyone knows it's nonsense. This is about dobbs, and this
is about destroying diligitala Supreme I wonder if it's very bad news for the Alito's
that they are having to go through a propaganda state media assault on them.
Very bad, and I feel badly for them, But I do wonder if
it's not good news for the country. And what I mean by that is,
does it not indicate that like people in Sodo mayor Kagan and Tanji brun
Jackson's off chambers have leaked to their buddies at The New York Times that there
are some bad decisions coming out, meaning good decisions. I just assume that's
the case, because, like it's pretty hard to go after Sam Alito.
He's beyond reproach and it is not true. I just want to say,
you can say whatever you want, but the ultimate issue here is do you
lose your constitutionally protected rights if you are married to a Supreme Court justice and
you do not. And that's the only issue. So, like that's what
they're going after this woman for. They're saying that she does not have the
right to express her own opinion if she is married to a Supreme Court justice.
It's just not true. She can say whatever the h double hockey sticks
she wants. And that's because this is America. You know. They did
the same thing to Clarence Thomas's wife, but I would say this I have.
They don't do it to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who publicly said that she
thought that Donald Trump, you know, shouldn't be elected, that he had
to release his taxes. Then a case came before the Court on whether to
release his taxes and she didn't recuse, and Jodie Canter her mouth was zipped
shot, like they are such liars and frauds and evil people, and I'm
just so sick of it. I mean, Elena Kagan helped, you know,
to right the Obamacare sort of legalities and stuff, and then and argued
for it, and then you know, listen to arguments against it while she
was on the Supreme Court. Anyway, I hope you're right about those like
Chevron deference or something like something's coming down the line. It's gonna be terrible
for the left, I hope. Well, there's that one, although I
wouldn't be surprised if that were written by like Gorcitcher Kavanaugh, because they seem
to be, you know, really into that. But there are a couple
other cases, like presidential immunity that they would probably like to delegitimize, and
most importantly the J six case about whether you can use a narcane provision of
Sarbane Oxley to add like twenty years to sentences of grandmothers who peacefully walked into
the capital. That's what I bet they're upset about. I mean, I'm
hoping that I'm not wrong. I have no idea. I mean, I
don't have a ton of sympathy for the J six people. I don't.
But the amount of time and that the punished they're getting are absolutely insane,
especially when you compare them to the punishments that people who actually engage in violent
criminality get all the time. I mean, it's just mind boggling. And
so yeah, I don't know. I mean, I just feel like it's
been a years long, maybe you know, five six years since there's just
like the republica Is that the name of that. Yeah, that's the propaganda
outlet that is financed by foreign billionaires and others to destroy the one remaining institution
that works in this country, which is the Supreme Court. So Politico does
it all the time, and you know, it's just one after the next.
So I just kind of think it's Alito's turn in a way. But
by the way, do you remember that van Halen album for Unlawful Carnal Knowledge?
What is it? Do you not remember that van Halen album which one
for Unlawful Carnal Knowledge? Yeah? That was that, Sammy Hagar? Why
you why? Because I was trying to think of ways to not say the
F word, and I wasn't sure. Oh, I think I think F
word spelled out. I think everyone got what you were talking about. You
know. I had a similar thing in Denver. I lived in a like
a townhouse there, and someone parked their car constantly in front of my house,
and it just said F. Bush on their car, like on the
side of their car. And I had little kids at the time, and
I wasn't particularly a big fan of George Bush anyway, but I found it
really off putting. And you just know the kind of crazy person that woman
is, like, you know, the type, you know, the PBS
tope bag, the whole. You know, just like unable to live in
a world where anyone is conservative, especially socially conservative. It's got to be
the abortion dry. You know, I'm saying that issue that really drives that
person. Maybe I'm just maybe I'm just project so so just real quickly in
my neighborhood, which is overwhelmingly left wing. Although you know, I love
my neighborhood. I love my neighbors, but they all during the hysteria of
June twenty twenty, they all put up these Marxist signs that say ending racism
starts here, with a map to their own house, because that's part of
critical race areas that you have to like admit that you are corrupt, like
you have to own your own sinful racism if you want to make things better.
Right, it sounds almost religious, like a religious the kneeling that you
saw Nancy Pelosi and the FBI do, Like that's all part of this right.
And so every time I walk by one of these houses, many of
which still have these signs up, I stop. I loudly say to whoever
I'm with, these people are racist. Don't ever be racist. I say
to my kids, like, these people are racist. Here they're saying that
they're racist. Don't be racist, because I just think it's so stupid.
And then they also have all the like virtue signs, like we're better than
you because we, unlike you, believe women are real people, you know,
like all that obnoxious to this house. We believe in science. This
house, we believe in science, like wearing masks into the year twenty twenty
four, despite all evidence that they are a good idea or that they're not
a good idea. But some of my neighbors told another neighbor who was defending
Brett Kavanaugh not being convicted without like fairness that she sounded like me. So
she and I became friends. She didn't know who I was, and she
sought me out, and now we're friends. So I just mentioned all this
because, like, it is kind of weird to be a non leftist in
a left wing neighborhood. They all think they're they're all like think that just
by letting us live here that they are doing some really amazing thing. I've
lived a ton of left wing neighborhoods in my life, and I've always noticed
in places like newspapers and elsewhere I worked, that it's always the conservatives who
like whisper to each other, who have to be quiet, who have to
not offend anyone. But the leftists never really feel that way. I do
wonder, though, is it the opposite, say, in some Texas neighborhood,
you know, is it the opposite? I don't know, but I
do know in my life, you know, conservatives, like when I was
at the newspaper at the Denver Posts, people would come up at like the
urinal you know, college, like I also voted for George W. Bush
or whatever they do it. They would never say like I am a conservative,
they'd say, like, you know, I enjoyed what you had to
say there. Yeah, exactly. I like what you had to say there.
Anyway, that's just life. I I and you, You and I.
I don't think we feel that shy about voicing who we are or opinions,
though, you know I'm pretty quiet. Also say though, that one
of our children thinks that Mark and I are dangerously left wing. They're that
hardcourt and so that child keeps on wanting to put up like right wing signs
in the yard. And Mark just hates yard signs. He thinks they're obnoxious.
I agree, and so they keep on getting like slipped out into the
yard over his objections. He doesn't realize that when you like limit expression from
your children that it makes them like it. Even dig in deeper. What
are you going to pull up to your house and there's going to be a
giant appeal to Heaven flag draped over the roof. That'll be me. I'm
actually what I want to do is I want to get in like a cool
appeal to Heaven T shirt, like on white, just crisp. I think
that's going to be It's a really cool flag. I really it's it's I've
always liked it. Anyway, let's stop to I mean, I do wonder
what's next. I do wonder what's next for Aldo? Did you see any
movies other than Twelve Angry Men? This week? One of my kids went
to prom and I was waiting for that child to come home, so I
just watched like a bunch of stupid stuff like I was done, you know,
like I couldn't work or anything like that. So I watched a There's
this female comedian. She's an older lady. Do you know what I'm talking?
Is she from like Tennessee or something? Yes, Oh, she's hilarious.
Uh what is her name? Hold on, I'll pause. So it's
Leanne Leanne Morgan. And my mom and my sister really like her, and
so does one of my really good friends. So I decided I would check
her out. She's pretty funny. My wife wrote me into watching her,
and I thought she was hilarious when she says and I took to the bed
whenever her son doesn't makes me laugh. She's very she has a real so
she used to be like a VH one VJ or something. She had a
very different look when she was young. Yeah, but her her husband sells
like mobile homes or something like. She's funny. Liked her. I had
no idea about that, but yeah, I also like when she's talking about
like how she has no skills but she was fun in college and that was
what she brought to the table, and how she's a fun mom and all
that. So I liked that. And then I watched, say, a
surprisingly good Netflix romance, so don't make fun of me, and I know
it's I know that it's like being like it's a low bar. But it
was called like love at First Sight or something like that, and it was
about these two young people who meet at an airport before a flight to London,
and it was really well done, I thought, for being a stupid
Netflix romance, I don't even have anything to say about that, Oh you
were I thought you were better than that. Me too, but someone's I
like to watch really trashy stuff. And on that line, I also was
like, oh, I never saw The First Wives Club, so I'll watch
that. But then the kid came home, you know, twenty minutes into
that. So that's all the further I get, And that's all you needed.
I bet I don't really notice in that I'm gonna say, is Diane
Keaton in that that seems like a something? Yeah? She is? Yeah.
And I realized that my my girlfriend Kate reminds me a lot of Diane
Keaton. And my girlfriend Kate is from Connecticut, as is Diane Keaton in
this movie. So well. I mean, I you know, because she
was in all those Woody Allen movies. I like her for that. But
okay, that's it. I don't know much. I only watched. I
watched a show called Tires with It's Shane Gillis's Yes show. I saw that,
I saw the previous for it. How was it? Uh? I
wish it was better, I guess is how I would put it. I
mean, it's fine, you know, it's fine. It's just I wish
it was better. I wish it was more Shane Gillis. I would wish
it was funnier. That's all of my expectations were too high because he's made
me laugh so much. I just remember to add two other things I wanted
to mention in our culture segment. One is that I think I've mentioned one
of my kids likes to play tourists in DC on the weekends, and so
we went to the Carlisle House in Alexandria, which was the home of this
like really wealthy trader trader before before the founding of the country. Well,
he was kind of like intending to go back to Great Britain, but he
ends up becoming American and he hosts the meeting where they hatched the plan for
Braddock to go do a direct offensive in the I guess French and Indian War,
and the failure of that leads to George Washington commanding those troops, him
becoming more esteemed, and also just realizing that the British could be taken on.
And then also I think something maybe like the there was more stuff that
was there that was interesting. I really liked that. And then on Memorial
Day I went to Alexandria National Cemetery, which was started by Abraham Lincoln quickly
ran out of space, so that's when they looked for Arlington to take over
the grounds of Arlington for a national cemetery. But there are you know,
thousands of people buried there, including four people who were trying to find John
Wilkes Booth who drowned in the Potomac as part of that effort, and they
are honored there, and it was I was really glad to go cool.
Well that's unfortunate for them. Well they're you know, they're in heaven.
Now, is it too soon to make fun of them? I I they
got hit They got hit by like a barge while they were sleeping at night
while while they were like posting watch. But they got hit by a barge
and they drowned. So it's not the most wonderful story around. Way to
make fun of them, David, I don't know why it's left. It's
horrible. It's a long time. Oh it's okay, Yeah, all right,
that sounds good. I just quickly want to say again, you know,
I went to the album, but I also went on the riverwalk.
Did you do that when you were here? Nope? Never done it.
So it is. I did go to Lafonda, and I highly recommend you
do that, but go on with the riverwalk. I thought it was just
gonna I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a it's touristy and everything,
but it was much nicer than I had anticipated. It was really really
something I think people should do. Come visit here. It's my first time
in the city. I don't know where I'll be next week, but we
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