1 00:00:17,359 --> 00:00:20,519 We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Kashinsky, 2 00:00:20,559 --> 00:00:23,039 culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the show 3 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:26,199 at radio at the Federalist dot com, follow us on exit fd R L 4 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:29,079 s T. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts, and of 5 00:00:29,079 --> 00:00:32,439 course to the premium version of our website as well. Today I am joined 6 00:00:32,439 --> 00:00:35,679 by Christopher Bedford of The Blaze. You should sign up for his newsletter over 7 00:00:35,719 --> 00:00:39,880 at the Blaze dot com. Chris, slash ORL for you, because you've 8 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,960 made fun of me last time well as a tack executive, a former tech 9 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:50,359 executive, of course, I think it's pronounced earl. So, Chris, 10 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:55,840 you have a story out today about attacks, mounting attacks, the pattern of 11 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,520 mounting attacks that are showing up in the place, in places like the New 12 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,600 York Times, no surprise there. On Supreme Court justices, particularly Thomas and 13 00:01:02,679 --> 00:01:07,159 Alito, what are you making of all of this? What caught my eye 14 00:01:07,159 --> 00:01:08,959 about that because we're kind of used to it, Like justice Thomas gets attacked 15 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,120 all the time, his wife gets attacked all the time. I mean, 16 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,359 we obviously saw it. I'm always written an entire book on the insane treatment 17 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:22,439 that Kevin I was put through. Right any Bunny Barrett didn't have a particularly 18 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,799 easy either. No, my gosh, I wish she was as right wing 19 00:01:25,799 --> 00:01:27,480 as they claimed she was. Wouldn't that be great? You want her to 20 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,079 be a handmaiden. Well, they're all like, oh, she's the most 21 00:01:30,159 --> 00:01:34,920 right wing person. It's like actual right wing Catholics don't shake hands in church. 22 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:42,359 What are you talking about? But what fuck me? Strange about Alito 23 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:47,840 in the whole incident, Like they're like, first he flew a flag and 24 00:01:47,879 --> 00:01:49,959 the next day he's like it was upside down, and in the next day 25 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,280 it was like aoc is calling out for investigations. And then the next day 26 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:00,319 it turns out that he was flying this like revolutionary war nerd flag and on 27 00:02:00,359 --> 00:02:02,799 to heaven. That is something that you would see in college dorm rooms of 28 00:02:02,879 --> 00:02:06,640 nerds. Can you actually explain this to me? So this was in the 29 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,719 New York Times. He has a house on what Long Beach Island, New 30 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:14,039 Jersey, and flew a flag outside of it. This came after the story 31 00:02:14,039 --> 00:02:16,039 in the New York Times about how he had flown a flag upside down the 32 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,000 week after January six correct me if I'm getting into details, run. I 33 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,199 think that's right so far. And Alitos explained that his wife had been in 34 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:30,840 a kind of location with a neighbor, yeah, over politics. Yeah. 35 00:02:30,879 --> 00:02:35,159 The neighbor was vicious, used horrendous language, was threatening, and had a 36 00:02:35,159 --> 00:02:38,400 big sign out front where the kids would play that had said like f Trump 37 00:02:38,479 --> 00:02:42,120 or something like that, but it didn't actually spread out the word. It 38 00:02:42,159 --> 00:02:45,840 was just a generally really awful person. Like we all know those people who 39 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:50,800 just got who felt like it was okay to scream at people over politics during 40 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,199 the Trump years and they're still around during the COVID years, that those types. 41 00:02:54,199 --> 00:02:58,039 And she flew the side of the American flag upside down, which is 42 00:02:58,599 --> 00:03:01,879 like a nerdy naval distress signal. Uh well, but I mean it's also 43 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:07,560 pretty simply like a America's in trouble. Yeah right. I wouldn't do it 44 00:03:07,599 --> 00:03:10,879 because it seems kind of emo. Honestly, flag the flag down. I've 45 00:03:10,879 --> 00:03:15,280 seen people do it. It seems disrespectful. Yeah, it's supposed to, 46 00:03:16,039 --> 00:03:22,800 uh signify that the country is in distress. The the one that they're getting 47 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,599 even more bent out of shape out of which actually bugs me less is like 48 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:30,719 wayless is the appeal on the Heaven flag, which is it's quoting John Locke 49 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:38,319 who says that when you're forced by tyranny to submit, or he even just 50 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:42,159 talks about it, like if you're mugged in the street, then a person 51 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,719 gets to a point where they must appeal on to Heaven, which basically means 52 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:51,080 give them your best swing. And it was a common it's a it's an 53 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,120 Ierican, it's an early American Revolutionary War flag. It's like come and take 54 00:03:54,159 --> 00:03:58,479 it, which is not American Revolutionary War, I know, but it's historic 55 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:04,520 flag. Or I guess it's more like the United Die flag or the Betsy 56 00:04:04,599 --> 00:04:10,400 Ross flag, which we obviously know was extremely racist, or the don't tread 57 00:04:10,439 --> 00:04:13,159 on Me flag right that you see on Virginia license plates. I mean, 58 00:04:13,319 --> 00:04:15,159 during the cheap part of years, that don't tread on me flag. The 59 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,759 Gadsdon flag was called a racist, white nationalist, all kinds of stuff. 60 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,480 Yeah, And I guess because some of the people at JA six had an 61 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,759 appeal into Heaven flag, they tried to get him. And remember they tried 62 00:04:24,759 --> 00:04:28,399 to get Speaker Johnson for having this flag in his office. The appeal onto 63 00:04:28,439 --> 00:04:32,240 Heaven flag which honestly is kind of a cool flag. Yeah you your interest 64 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,759 is peaked. Yeah, you're impressed with the flag. But what was strange 65 00:04:35,759 --> 00:04:39,399 about this is not that he was flying flags, but the Congress is going 66 00:04:39,439 --> 00:04:43,399 to investigate. I'm like, investigate what what are they going to do? 67 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,959 It's not like he's got a lifetime apployment, right, So this is a 68 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,560 lado. So okay. So the New York Times story on the first flag 69 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,759 at his Virginia home comes out last week. Then this week they have this 70 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,360 bombshell scoop that he's flying an Appeal into Heaven flag at his beach house in 71 00:04:56,399 --> 00:05:00,120 Long Beach Island, New Jersey, and Congress has said they're going to to 72 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,079 gate Samuel Leno should fly the comeout you Cuckold flag. Oh boy, I 73 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,839 know you want to explain to this. Yeah, sixteenth century English Civil War 74 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:15,079 flag that one of the Royalist cavalryes used against a Cromwellian lord who was rumored 75 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:19,319 to be a known cuckoled and this put comeout you Cuckoled on the flag. 76 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,879 And one of our friends brought this out to my attention yesterday. And it's 77 00:05:23,879 --> 00:05:26,680 like, apparently, according to the New York times this morning. The flag 78 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,720 poets I believe's house is now bear. It's like he should just raise that 79 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,560 one, just throw it up, two middle fingers in the air. But 80 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,800 what was strange about this is not but the lads have the last word? 81 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:45,360 Yeah, was not that his wife was political in her flagwaving or this or 82 00:05:45,399 --> 00:05:48,639 that or striking. Is that Schumer is talking about an investigation, AOC is 83 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:53,160 talking about an investigation. House Democrats joined in, and what do you mean 84 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:58,000 investigate? Like this is this is a real separation of powers thing. It's 85 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,560 not like they can firelo. They couldn't. Just they couldn't. Just it's 86 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:06,560 not like they could not confirm him. That's already over. So what was 87 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,920 it about? And then it's kind of obvious, I guess. But one 88 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:15,399 of our friends wrote back that the number one goal, the first one is 89 00:06:15,439 --> 00:06:20,439 to incentivize defection, which is basically to scare people to make it just like 90 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:25,199 you saw with the Obamacare vote, with a heavy pressure campaign from Obama and 91 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:30,360 the heavy pressure campaign from Congress, you see people afraid. And there's reason 92 00:06:30,519 --> 00:06:32,920 for Supreme Court just is to become afraid. I mean, during the Dobbs 93 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:40,480 Ruins, there was attempted home invasions, violence, picketers out in the streets, 94 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:46,360 angry mobs, actual threats, and these things are trying to get to 95 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,439 try to put pressure, to get people who are totally not immune from pressure 96 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:58,839 to change their vote. Just what the Constitution really tried to protect the Supreme 97 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,399 Court from being pressured. And also the Congress has denied and even the same 98 00:07:02,439 --> 00:07:05,920 governor seems to have denied the security that's necessary for the super Court justices, 99 00:07:05,959 --> 00:07:10,040 even though the left has made them famous in a way to scare them. 100 00:07:10,639 --> 00:07:13,759 And then the second thing they want to do is delegitimize what's coming out of 101 00:07:13,759 --> 00:07:15,800 the court. I mean the right tried to do this sixty years ago with 102 00:07:15,839 --> 00:07:19,680 the Warren Court. It was a big thing, Like the Warren Court really 103 00:07:19,759 --> 00:07:24,920 kind of remade a lot of American jurisprudence and it was a massive target for 104 00:07:24,959 --> 00:07:28,680 being called delegitimate by the American right. Same thing's going on right now from 105 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:30,120 the American left. Can you talk a little bit more about that, not 106 00:07:30,199 --> 00:07:35,000 too much because I'm not that nerdy. You were just talking about a Cromwell 107 00:07:35,079 --> 00:07:42,000 era flag, like very specific needs. Okay, My nerd interests are very 108 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:47,319 specific andfortunately for my wife. I've gotten our eight year old into painting warhammer 109 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:51,160 models and now he's obsessed. So that will be our Saturday. But that 110 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,879 doesn't mean I know no Supreme Court history that well, but I know. 111 00:07:55,920 --> 00:08:00,160 I mean Bretpozzel wrote a book bremp. Bezel Senior. Bill Buckley, his 112 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:05,160 brother in law, wrote a book about that, and it was a constant 113 00:08:05,759 --> 00:08:11,040 about the Warren Court being an illegitimate court. Yeah, they were completely remaking 114 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:16,480 a century of American jurisprudence to really justify the massive expansion of the welfare state. 115 00:08:16,519 --> 00:08:20,959 And what I wanted to say about that is just the distinction here is 116 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:28,959 that argument is rooted in substance and this argument is rooted in flags. Yeah, 117 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,639 but it like they had the flag at J six. I don't have 118 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,919 a problem with saying there's a new legal order emerging from the war In court. 119 00:08:37,399 --> 00:08:41,000 Christopher Caldwell wrote a book about how the Court's changed so much of this, 120 00:08:41,639 --> 00:08:46,639 So I don't have a problem with that. But the was a hero 121 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,919 saying that whatever decision comes out of the Supreme Court about Trump. Because Samuel 122 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:54,879 Ledle's wife flew a flag upside down, a flag which symbolizes Chase six and 123 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,919 violent overthrow of Joe Biden. It's like, no, it doesn't, yeah, 124 00:09:00,039 --> 00:09:03,159 story warflag. So they want to they want to scare them. They 125 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,360 want to delegitimize the decisions that they make and say and say that they're not 126 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,360 something needs to be followed. Essentially at this court is just partisans try and 127 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:16,960 painting like that. They want to provide some political cover for the reforms that 128 00:09:18,399 --> 00:09:20,120 they've been pushing for in the Supreme Court, and some of those are kind 129 00:09:20,159 --> 00:09:22,679 of obvious. I mean, we've talked about this, the ethics reforms that 130 00:09:22,759 --> 00:09:26,840 really probably needs to be done. Yes, yes, And they want to 131 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:31,559 try to probably create the political conditions that allow them to pack the court if 132 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,320 they get half of the country to honestly believe in a way, the fder 133 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:39,120 couldn't even do that. The Supreme Court is just a right wings stitution, 134 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:43,799 by the way it stands out, because it's the only functioning institution in the 135 00:09:43,799 --> 00:09:48,799 American life that's resisting the American left, the only one at this point. 136 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,159 And most people would say it's well, no, I shouldn't say most people, 137 00:09:52,159 --> 00:09:56,279 but a lot of conservatives would say, in some ways it's not that 138 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,279 conservative. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say, and it may be 139 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,000 conservative in the sense that yer right wing. Why they said you couldn't kill 140 00:10:03,039 --> 00:10:05,559 babies in the Constitution, or they want, you know, some of them 141 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:09,080 want to take power away from the CFPB. But even in decisions like that, 142 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:13,240 we have seen them be completely splintered. They haven't been like this full 143 00:10:13,399 --> 00:10:18,279 corporate rubber stamp. That hasn't been remotely what you would get if you had 144 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:22,759 this many Democrat nominees. We should be in line left ring voting. Yeah, 145 00:10:22,759 --> 00:10:26,360 that's true. And another friend of ours in the Senate pointed out that, 146 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:31,120 I mean, in the Colorado cakeshop case, you mean it sounds like 147 00:10:31,159 --> 00:10:33,600 we have a lot of friends I know, right, This is not this 148 00:10:33,639 --> 00:10:37,240 is a false impression. Yeah. And the New York gun case is that 149 00:10:37,399 --> 00:10:43,440 the States are already kind of persecuting people in direct defiance Supreme Court, and 150 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,639 that sort of thing is probably going to continue the more they delegitimize it. 151 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:52,000 So what seems like a stupid story because it is, and what seems like 152 00:10:52,039 --> 00:10:58,679 an investigation that's far outside of Congress's purview because it is actually serves a purpose, 153 00:10:58,919 --> 00:11:03,559 which is trying to delegitimize scare and put pressure on the court, and 154 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:09,399 honestly, I got to respect the game. Right, the left doesn't care 155 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:11,879 their honey badger. They don't care at all. They're going to go for 156 00:11:11,919 --> 00:11:15,480 it. They're going to scare the court in a way that the UH. 157 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,360 I can't imagine the chiding that you would get from conservative pundits if you were 158 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:22,200 to try to do that to liberal justices. Well, but this is the 159 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:28,279 thing that for saying that one of the what's your name plays softball? Elena 160 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,440 Kagan, Yeah, it's like pictures of softball, Like, how dare you 161 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:37,200 published pictures of her playing softball? Coller love those pictures. I don't doubt 162 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,720 that. In fact, I remember it now that you mentioned that. So 163 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:45,200 the media, though, is making this thing because it's a left wing top 164 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,519 of Playbook, top of the New York Times Morning of everything. I've gotten 165 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:50,639 like alerts from the New York Times about the flag updates, seriously I have. 166 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:56,519 And it's it's a totally as you just said, the left is going 167 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:01,919 to go for it, right. So like the coordinated nonprofit media campaign that's 168 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:07,600 happening behind closed doors where you have obviously opposition research going on that's then being 169 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:13,759 packaged and pitched to The New York Times by people who obviously listen. I 170 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:16,639 don't know this for sure, but it's pretty You can when you work in 171 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:22,000 media. You can smell opposition coordination when you see it. It's not that 172 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,799 hard to figure it out. So you have the media, though, responding 173 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,639 to it and basically running the talking points. And that's what I think is 174 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:37,159 crazy. Is one thing for a political partisan operation to try and oh they're 175 00:12:37,159 --> 00:12:39,960 one and the same. Okay, So the media has to be an important 176 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:46,000 part of the conversation because they're not treating any of this with skepticism or any 177 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:52,919 sense of like, well maybe so Manor and I never watch it, but 178 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,039 I bet if you were to watch like the basic like ABC Good Morning Shows 179 00:12:56,039 --> 00:13:01,360 and stuff this morning, you would probably come away with the imprere that Aldo 180 00:13:01,799 --> 00:13:07,159 flew a January sixth insurrection flag and support of overthrowing the government. 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That's zapmydebt dot com, 198 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:30,840 zapmidebt dot com. If someone had sent me that picture of the New 199 00:14:30,919 --> 00:14:33,960 York Times ran of the upside down flag outside of Alito's house. I would 200 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,240 not have run a picture of his house, that's for sure. But if 201 00:14:37,519 --> 00:14:41,879 I could have confirmed just the detail that the flag was upside down outside his 202 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:43,960 house in the week after January sixth, that's a scoop. That's newsworthy, 203 00:14:45,799 --> 00:14:50,440 giving us breathless updates on all of the flags at every illegal property. When 204 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:56,320 the what does it call the the other flag? The Yeah, okay, 205 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,960 that's not a news story. It's just not a news story. Mean's incredible 206 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:05,519 Christian, he's openly Christian. Also, even a news story about it. 207 00:15:05,039 --> 00:15:11,960 It was a point about a Republican president. It's fine. The uh the 208 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:18,679 congressional investigations or what's strange? Yeah, investigate what his wife is clearly conservative 209 00:15:20,399 --> 00:15:22,879 and this is something else, of course, I mean, he's clearly conservative. 210 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:30,360 Yeah. I hate talking about double standards, but uh, RBG mayshe 211 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:35,240 rip was uh. He used to give interviews during the Trump election years where 212 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:37,279 she was talking about how she doesn't know, she couldn't imagine what would happen 213 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,960 to this country. I think the Washington Post called her how open she was 214 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:46,120 about how much she hated Trump, refreshing from a normally stayed court. So 215 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:50,000 you sure it's because it seems kind of this like old and battie to me 216 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:56,440 to be that up. And she did not recuse herself from any cases involving 217 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:00,159 the President after openly saying I hate this guy. I can't imagine what the 218 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:03,600 country would be like with him. I can't imagine what the court would look 219 00:16:03,639 --> 00:16:07,519 like with him not recusing. And then they want so this is here's why 220 00:16:07,519 --> 00:16:10,960 it's a big target now. I mean, how many ACLU pro abortion things 221 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,559 did she speak out over the years without zero incident? She was best friends 222 00:16:14,559 --> 00:16:19,000 with what Nina Totenberg and all of the ladies who cover the Supreme Court at 223 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:25,679 corporate media. I wonder what flag's scalia flew outside of his house. It 224 00:16:25,679 --> 00:16:33,600 would have been awesome, just a big Italian flag. So there's a couple 225 00:16:33,639 --> 00:16:36,320 of course cases in front of the Supreme Court, which is probably why they're 226 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,519 so so what they're doing right now. And I wrote about this in the 227 00:16:38,559 --> 00:16:44,600 newsletter earlier this week is Democrats have shifted from let's get our agenda done to 228 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,919 let's sabotage what they fear as an incoming Donald Trump administration in every way they 229 00:16:48,919 --> 00:16:53,200 can. And one of the things that they really need is the Supreme Court 230 00:16:52,799 --> 00:17:00,200 to rule in their direction on two different cases. Supreme Court's already knocked down 231 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,240 on the case for like a Colorado state official says, you're an insurrectionist, 232 00:17:03,319 --> 00:17:07,759 you can't be on the ballot. Of course, they didn't really actually knock 233 00:17:07,759 --> 00:17:08,720 it down. They just kind of punted it and said, no, you're 234 00:17:08,759 --> 00:17:12,160 not allowed to do that. Someone else is supposed to do that, which 235 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:15,079 sets up a whole bunch of other dangers of whether or not a Democratic House 236 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:21,759 representatives could do that now, but I think they probably maybe could. And 237 00:17:21,799 --> 00:17:23,279 the other one that I've really on right now is or what's coming up, 238 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,559 is the immunity case of whether or not actions that a president takes while in 239 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:34,640 office take a special immunity. Essentially, it's about the speech that Trump gave 240 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:38,559 on January sixth, and if that if he can be held liable for January 241 00:17:38,599 --> 00:17:41,839 sixth over that. The kind of interesting thing that keeps on coming up is 242 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:49,079 that time that Barack Obama assassinated an American al Quaeda's support al Qaeda propagandish and 243 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:52,279 he killed his kid in a car. Yeah, And I'm like, yeah, 244 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,680 obviously he's not going to be prosecuted for murder here already the assassination of 245 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:00,440 his opponents, of of the American opponents in his capacity as president, and 246 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,720 Trump's actually his team alludes to that case. I don't think it's specifically mentioned, 247 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:07,480 but it's in they've talked about hypothetical where a president has to do. 248 00:18:07,599 --> 00:18:11,279 That was most annoying right wing outrage moments he was upset. No, there 249 00:18:11,279 --> 00:18:15,440 was a lot of right wing outrage about how dare Obama He's targeting his opponents 250 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,359 with robots in the sky and it's like, this guy's out kainda, but 251 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,119 his kid was in the car. It's like, well, maybe his mom 252 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:22,920 shouldn't a signed the permission slip to take a kid to work day when dad's 253 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,720 a terrorist. Like, I don't, what's the problem here? Okay, 254 00:18:26,839 --> 00:18:33,000 Well, I'm not going to rehash that debate right now, because this is 255 00:18:33,039 --> 00:18:36,240 what's frustrated about some of these debates. On the one hand, it's like, 256 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:41,559 oh my gosh, like, clearly these people are overreacting, but they're 257 00:18:41,599 --> 00:18:47,039 not wrong. Fundamentally, they're not wrong. So, like, I really 258 00:18:47,079 --> 00:18:51,279 disagree with how they're reacting. I don't necessarily disagree with what they're reacting about. 259 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,799 I feel like that happens every day within with one case or another. 260 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,039 And actually Clarence Thomas is a good idea or is a good example. It's 261 00:18:57,079 --> 00:19:00,319 like some of these Clarence Thomas at the Coal things that have been raised. 262 00:19:00,319 --> 00:19:03,599 It's like, well, it's not just a Clarence Thomas problem. There are 263 00:19:03,599 --> 00:19:06,319 other justices that have had these problems. So let's be honest about that. 264 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:11,240 But no, I think we should probably have disclosure and like more ethics to 265 00:19:11,319 --> 00:19:15,599 govern behavior among Supreme Court justices, pay them more as well. I'm totally 266 00:19:15,599 --> 00:19:18,880 fine with that. But if you're carrying on as though this is a scandal 267 00:19:19,039 --> 00:19:25,799 conspiracy theory for the ages like of the century, you are doing way more 268 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:30,000 damage than Clarence Thomas. You're so much worse than Clarence Thomas. Yeah, 269 00:19:30,079 --> 00:19:33,880 they want to cause institutional damage. And the other cases coming in from the 270 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:37,720 Supreme Court is whether or not they can use that two thousand and one or 271 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:45,319 two thousand and two en run law that was designed to stop enrons from happening. 272 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,759 They can use that to put trespassers and rioters from January sixth in prison 273 00:19:48,799 --> 00:19:52,599 for the rest of their lives. And those are the things that the left 274 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,720 really needs Supreme Court to say, Yes, we can put people in prison 275 00:19:55,720 --> 00:20:00,599 for the rest of their lives with this law, and no, Trump cannot. 276 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,440 Trump must be held to different standards. Essentially that Trump doesn't get the 277 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:07,920 presidential immunity, and I think that's probably where this pressure campaign's coming from. 278 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,160 And it just feeds into a lot of the flurry of activity that we've seen 279 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:18,400 on Capitol Hill recently as say, prepare for Joe Biden to lose, not 280 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:22,839 that that's remotely guaranteed, but there's definitely a panic in DC over it. 281 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,720 Well. I think we've talked about this before. I'm pretty firmly in the 282 00:20:26,759 --> 00:20:32,079 camp that no matter what happens in October so ahead of the election, because 283 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,279 you're flying that flog upside down, no, no matter what, no, 284 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:40,440 but whatever happens in October, with whatever information is dumped on the eve of 285 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:45,240 the election, whatever happens in the election, and whatever happens Inauguration Day, 286 00:20:45,759 --> 00:20:49,200 there's going to be strife. Whether it's Trump or Biden, there's going to 287 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,799 be strife. I hope it's not on the level of January sixth, and 288 00:20:52,839 --> 00:20:56,240 I hope it's not worse than January sixth. January six was a small riot 289 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:57,839 compared to a lot of the other riots that went down. Yeah, it 290 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:03,960 happened to be in the Capital building, but yes there were members surrounded. 291 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:12,640 But yes, didn't see you down there. But seriously, I think it's 292 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:17,200 going to be bad no matter what. So I just think people are being 293 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:21,920 really cavalier with stories like this. I don't think they understand what they're doing 294 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,400 the gravity of what they're doing. Actually, yeah, we're getting through a 295 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:27,160 point. We're conservatives and liberals don't agree on much of anything. I don't 296 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:32,039 even want to live next to each other anymore. And it's getting bad. 297 00:21:32,319 --> 00:21:34,200 I mean, you know, if Trump wins, is going to be violence. 298 00:21:34,279 --> 00:21:38,720 Although I also do get the feeling of fatigue from a lot of folks. 299 00:21:38,839 --> 00:21:41,599 Oh go on. I mean so Bill Maher was talking about this the 300 00:21:41,599 --> 00:21:47,119 other day when he did his podcast with Jerry Seinfeld, which is kind of 301 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:48,960 funny and awkward at some points because Bill mar kept one kind of suggesting that 302 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,640 he and Seinfeld hang out sometime, and he's like, yeah, Jane, 303 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:53,359 I don't call him. Earlier today, and he's like, oh yeah, 304 00:21:53,559 --> 00:21:56,599 He's like, yeah, maybe we should all hang out. I was like 305 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:02,240 yeah, and at one point in the podcast says, yeah, I really 306 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:06,640 would hang I can really hang out with any comic at all for work for 307 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,640 work. Yeah. He was pretty clear like I don't want to hang out 308 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,960 with people outside of my hang out with my wife outside of work for work. 309 00:22:12,279 --> 00:22:17,680 Yes, But mar was saying like, hey, no, it's just 310 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,960 I just I'm not going to freak out anymore. I have friends I go 311 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,519 out to dinner and they're freaking out. The country is going to hell. 312 00:22:22,559 --> 00:22:26,440 I'm going to move to Singapore. And it's like, is it I mean, 313 00:22:26,519 --> 00:22:29,680 you just paid three hundred dollars for dinner without even blinking. You took 314 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:30,400 your credit card out and you paid for it, and we drove home in 315 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,279 your nice car to your nice house. I think he was the saying I'm 316 00:22:34,319 --> 00:22:38,359 tired of the outrage and these stories like this, the Leader story remind me 317 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:45,039 of all the outrage we saw in twenty sixteen to twenty twenty that don't stick. 318 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,000 And the reason for Trump's rising popularity amongst swing voters is because no one 319 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,119 can remember why they hated Trump so much. Because almost almost everything was fake, 320 00:22:52,319 --> 00:22:56,960 and the things that weren't fake people now wished we did, which is 321 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:00,400 like put more people, like a crackdown on the rider. He saw the 322 00:23:00,519 --> 00:23:06,880 DA in Portland kicked out, literally Portland kicked out, or secure the border. 323 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:11,720 The things that are actual supposedly scandals people want to do now, and 324 00:23:11,759 --> 00:23:15,680 everything else no one can remember because it was stupid, like this Reich, 325 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:22,440 this Reich video what Donald Trump So True Social account retweeted a Trump as President 326 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:29,400 video that someone has synked into the headlines like a It was just faded in 327 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:33,799 the back and just goes by quickly. America now a United Reich or something 328 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,440 like that. There's obviously a troll job in The person who did it got 329 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:41,640 it tweeted and then sent it to the newspapers, and everyone talked about how 330 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,920 Donald Trump secretly wants to unified Reich and he put it in his campaign. 331 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,839 But it was actually just a video someone else made that he reposted on True 332 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,759 Social That's my understanding of though he loves to repost stuff. Man, he 333 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:59,880 is a he is a generous reposter. He is I also love the endivors 334 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,599 great books. Hm. Yes, he did tweet highly respected author I haven't 335 00:24:03,599 --> 00:24:07,279 framed him. Mind, someone got it for me. So there used to 336 00:24:07,319 --> 00:24:11,279 be the service where you could buy tweets probably still can and have them framed 337 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,480 through Twitter and they would send it and he got like this big gold, 338 00:24:14,799 --> 00:24:18,000 overdone frame. Oh that's awesome. I love it. Yeah, that's that's 339 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,319 pretty great. So there was kicking all that stuff out of her house since 340 00:24:19,319 --> 00:24:22,799 she removed. So I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have have to have a 341 00:24:22,839 --> 00:24:25,279 lot of pictures in my new office. Did you see what he said about 342 00:24:25,319 --> 00:24:29,359 Molly this week? Yeah, you know. I actually didn't see the tweet 343 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:30,160 because he doesn't know he's on his Twitter anymore, and I don't get the 344 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:34,359 alert. But he said it outside the courtroom. Oh yeah, I got 345 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:40,319 the email from the Federal saying Donald Trump loves Molly Hemingway and you should love 346 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,599 Molly too. He was a very smart woman. Everyone knows a very smart 347 00:24:42,599 --> 00:24:48,000 woman. Molly Hemingway wrong, very smart. We love her, We love 348 00:24:48,039 --> 00:24:53,359 it, real lucky. Don't let these people think you're a moron. The 349 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,519 Watchdout on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. Every day, Chris helps unpack 350 00:24:57,559 --> 00:25:02,200 the connection between politics and the economy and how it affects your wallet. Biden 351 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:07,480 claims he brought inflation down from nine to one percent, blaming corporate greed and 352 00:25:07,519 --> 00:25:11,440 stringflation. He says that people like you actually have money that they don't want 353 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:15,400 to spend. Whether it's happening in DC or down on Wall Street, it's 354 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,839 affecting you financially. Be informed. Check out the Watchdot on Wall Street podcast 355 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,240 with Chris Markowski on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. 356 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:29,200 You just touched on something though, kidding aside that I think is really terrifying, 357 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,160 which is, on the one hand, it's true that a lot of 358 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,359 people in the United States aren't doing really well, and that a lot of 359 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,880 communities are still functioning just fine. The trains might not be running on time, 360 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:44,400 but they're running, like people are going places. You're looking. You're 361 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,200 giving me a really weird look right now. No, I think that's right. 362 00:25:47,519 --> 00:25:49,920 I think that's right. I was I was resisting. Oh, I 363 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,559 was like pulling myself back. Don't from a joke. Okay, yeah, 364 00:25:53,599 --> 00:25:57,440 but it is like, you know, our bridge is collapsing, Yes, 365 00:25:59,039 --> 00:26:03,480 but are is everything largely fine? Sure? But in the long term, 366 00:26:03,519 --> 00:26:07,119 like from the thirty thousand foot view even Scotting is bad. Actually, I 367 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:11,440 think I was just gonna sa say this is the the country has completely rotted 368 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,119 out and Americans hate each other. But I think they're also just tired of 369 00:26:15,319 --> 00:26:19,400 the Basically, I feel like we've been addicted to the news since nine to 370 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:25,720 eleven. It's just rage, watching constantly and getting anger and anger and anger. 371 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:27,920 You know something, It's interesting. I was talking to some radio people 372 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,279 yesterday and I've heard from folks that you can go on back in the day 373 00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:41,200 Tucker Carlson Tonight at the top cable program and plug your organization and you get 374 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,079 a trickle of donations. You're going to see Vantage Warim. You get like 375 00:26:45,079 --> 00:26:49,839 a massive influx of donations. You go and you plug your book on Tucker 376 00:26:49,839 --> 00:26:52,240 Carlson Tonight back in the day, you get a couple of book sales. 377 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:57,559 You go on Glummbax radio show, it explodes. And there's something about the 378 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:03,200 readers in the view viewers who choose those programs, and how much more engaged 379 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,480 they are than this the passively watching Fox News until, like Shane Gillis says, 380 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,079 like his dad every night just watches Fox News until he's so angry he 381 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,200 can't and he goes to bed. He doesn't know what's going on in this 382 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,400 country, just turns it off. But it's kind of a passive thing, 383 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:22,319 but it just it does also impact your thinking and your rage in a way 384 00:27:22,319 --> 00:27:26,119 that's interesting, and it seems to be national. We sound have it. 385 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:32,880 We've clustered into these niches that have been pretty you know, like Bannon obviously 386 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,200 has an activist niche, glene Back obviously has an activist niche. And so 387 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:38,599 yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense to me. And if you 388 00:27:38,599 --> 00:27:42,759 watch CNNL day, you probably think that Aldo took the severed head of a 389 00:27:42,799 --> 00:27:48,880 Capitol police officer and roared from the sayers and more people are getting something closer 390 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,000 to what they want. So people who used to have to watch Fox but 391 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,519 would have always preferred to be watching Bannon can now watch Bannon. They're just 392 00:27:56,559 --> 00:28:00,640 not sharing Bannon with other people in the way that you had moderates and hardcore 393 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,039 conservatives sharing Bill O'Reilly back in the day. And so it does create a 394 00:28:04,039 --> 00:28:07,920 really different sharf no I mentioned sharing the viewership. You know, you can 395 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,319 go and say, like, oh, that Bill O'Reilly guy had a really 396 00:28:11,319 --> 00:28:12,400 good point this week, or you know what I mean, Like there were 397 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:17,359 touchstones because we had to share more. There was less clustering and niches. 398 00:28:17,559 --> 00:28:22,000 Yeah, which is interesting, But that's I think the duality of modern America 399 00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:26,160 or America in this moment right now is that even Scott Winship at AI or 400 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:33,359 in casts was going to battle with him over this at American Compass, so 401 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:37,599 was Dunk and Praid over. I mean, there have been all kinds of 402 00:28:37,599 --> 00:28:42,839 debates on tariffs whenever recently. But Scott Winship had a paper about how you 403 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:51,640 if you even look at men's wages that you see clearly stagnation over the last 404 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,519 several decades, if you're actually like accounting for it. Like so, I'm 405 00:28:55,559 --> 00:29:00,839 just saying even for AI to concede that there's been a stagnation men's wages, 406 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:06,119 that everything is not fine, that people are actually not improving, certain people 407 00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:10,480 in this country not improving. Obviously women's wages on paper a couple of weeks 408 00:29:10,519 --> 00:29:18,160 ago, but obviously, well he'll disagree completely with the cast takeaway and all 409 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,160 of that, but you know, certain people are doing are are improving. 410 00:29:22,279 --> 00:29:25,319 Things have gotten better, you know, ourn' casters from my hometown. I 411 00:29:25,359 --> 00:29:27,920 didn't know that you get. It makes sense. It makes sense. And 412 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:33,039 I went to like the weird liberal school where you tall people by their first 413 00:29:33,079 --> 00:29:34,759 names because I didn't I got I didn't get along with the kids at the 414 00:29:34,839 --> 00:29:41,640 Jack school not to play with me. And he went to like the even 415 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,400 weirder school in the woods from my school, like the weirdest. Like it's 416 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,960 like, we're kids from my school. If they had a debilitating over by 417 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,839 one and we were laughing about that we met around the corner of the day. 418 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,759 It turns out you're a married kid. Yeah, that is wild. 419 00:29:57,119 --> 00:30:03,119 And you guys had a Sam Adams and it chose a coffee shop. Okay, 420 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:10,920 But moving on from your interesting little tangent, it is true that in 421 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,799 this in some senses, you look around the country and you're like, things 422 00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:18,720 are still functioning. Some people are doing really well. Report out today about 423 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,960 the amount of med school graduates who don't know the basics of medicine. Okay, 424 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,759 so that's a great example. The story today about how there's three hundred 425 00:30:26,799 --> 00:30:30,759 Boeing jets in the American and United fleets that are risk of exploding mid air. 426 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,359 Mass obesity on a level that we like no society has ever seen before, 427 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,960 like just a completely different level. I'm trying to zone out processed foods 428 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,319 in my diet. How difficult that is borderline impossible even if you wanted to 429 00:30:44,319 --> 00:30:47,960 do it. It's it's crazy everything's processed. Yeah, no, this is 430 00:30:48,279 --> 00:30:51,880 I was talking to some about this recently because there's a conservative group that's proposing 431 00:30:52,079 --> 00:30:56,680 using the Americans with Disabilities Act to make it so that the government has to 432 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,359 provide options for people who don't have smartphones, which I think is I don't 433 00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:02,599 know if ada is the right way to do it, but I do think 434 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:07,240 the default shouldn't be smartphones. If you're trying to get into a basketball game, 435 00:31:07,319 --> 00:31:07,799 or if you you know what I mean, Like you're trying to get 436 00:31:07,799 --> 00:31:11,480 on an airplane, you shouldn't have to have a smartphone to do that. 437 00:31:11,519 --> 00:31:14,880 Because people are increasingly going toy you need a smartphone to order a beer at 438 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,000 the brig around the corner. Yeah. Yeah. My friend actually accidentally left 439 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,079 with my phone a couple of years ago from my house because he was using 440 00:31:21,079 --> 00:31:25,680 to control the music. And I went over there when I was picking some 441 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:26,599 stuff up, I was like, can I have a beer? Not without 442 00:31:26,599 --> 00:31:30,119 a smartphone? Dude? Really? I got cash, you got a credit 443 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:34,759 card, No except the US tender. And I read a story I study 444 00:31:34,839 --> 00:31:41,279 yesterday that said that when they did a study an animal and human testicals, 445 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,000 oh boy, every single one of them had microplastics in them. Yeah. 446 00:31:45,759 --> 00:31:48,519 I went home and I'm going crazy. Now, obviously I'm going crazy. 447 00:31:48,559 --> 00:31:52,599 I moved out to the suburbs and losing my mind. I went home and 448 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,920 I threw out all the plastic like little dishes and bowls and water bottles that 449 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:57,839 were given we're packing lunch in a bit of rage, like what you did 450 00:31:57,839 --> 00:32:00,400 with the plastic cover on the books in the office. I was like, 451 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:04,720 I kept babe, we're just trying our son sperm. You should have seen 452 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,799 this, you should. I wish everyone could see this. He walked into 453 00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:12,119 our office when we were moving offices and just ripped all of the plastic covers 454 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,079 off of the books, and he was like the Tasmanian double. There was 455 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,559 just like whirling covers around him, falling on the ground, and you were 456 00:32:19,599 --> 00:32:22,519 red faced and angry. I wasn't angry. But now you look at our 457 00:32:22,519 --> 00:32:27,240 bookshelf and it's color coded with colors earlier, if you walked in there, 458 00:32:27,279 --> 00:32:29,480 it's just took like a bunch of free books you got from seapack, which 459 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,759 it almost certainly were, and now it doesn't because I got rid of like 460 00:32:31,799 --> 00:32:35,559 the covers. But it's the same thing with foods, like there should be 461 00:32:35,599 --> 00:32:39,599 a like it should be easy for you to exist without stuffing yourself with processed 462 00:32:39,599 --> 00:32:44,799 food or you know whatever. We're not we're not scientists, so we should 463 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:49,319 leave it at that. Probably don't trust the science. Don't the capital s 464 00:32:49,319 --> 00:32:52,920 science, the lowercase s science. That's fine, Christopher Bedford. That was 465 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,640 such an abrupt and weird note to leave it on. But it is true. 466 00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:00,559 There's duality. It's unsettling. There's a duality to amer right now, 467 00:33:00,559 --> 00:33:04,799 where it's like, yep, we've got uber eats, but we also have 468 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:12,079 mass fentanyl overdoses, terrifying suicide rates western SIEV. Don't cry because it's sober, 469 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:17,279 Smile because it happened. That's so depressing. Christopher Bedford of the Blaze 470 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,519 Blaze dot com slash Bedford. I'm em like Trashinski clture editor here at The 471 00:33:22,519 --> 00:33:23,960 Federalist. We'll be back soon with more. Until then, because the lovers 472 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:35,920 of freedom and anxious for the fray I heard the famevoice, the reason. 473 00:33:37,839 --> 00:33:39,240 Then it away,