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made fun of me last time well as a tack executive, a former tech
executive, of course, I think it's pronounced earl. So, Chris,
you have a story out today about attacks, mounting attacks, the pattern of
mounting attacks that are showing up in the place, in places like the New
York Times, no surprise there. On Supreme Court justices, particularly Thomas and
Alito, what are you making of all of this? What caught my eye
about that because we're kind of used to it, Like justice Thomas gets attacked
all the time, his wife gets attacked all the time. I mean,
we obviously saw it. I'm always written an entire book on the insane treatment
that Kevin I was put through. Right any Bunny Barrett didn't have a particularly
easy either. No, my gosh, I wish she was as right wing
as they claimed she was. Wouldn't that be great? You want her to
be a handmaiden. Well, they're all like, oh, she's the most
right wing person. It's like actual right wing Catholics don't shake hands in church.
What are you talking about? But what fuck me? Strange about Alito
in the whole incident, Like they're like, first he flew a flag and
the next day he's like it was upside down, and in the next day
it was like aoc is calling out for investigations. And then the next day
it turns out that he was flying this like revolutionary war nerd flag and on
to heaven. That is something that you would see in college dorm rooms of
nerds. Can you actually explain this to me? So this was in the
New York Times. He has a house on what Long Beach Island, New
Jersey, and flew a flag outside of it. This came after the story
in the New York Times about how he had flown a flag upside down the
week after January six correct me if I'm getting into details, run. I
think that's right so far. And Alitos explained that his wife had been in
a kind of location with a neighbor, yeah, over politics. Yeah.
The neighbor was vicious, used horrendous language, was threatening, and had a
big sign out front where the kids would play that had said like f Trump
or something like that, but it didn't actually spread out the word. It
was just a generally really awful person. Like we all know those people who
just got who felt like it was okay to scream at people over politics during
the Trump years and they're still around during the COVID years, that those types.
And she flew the side of the American flag upside down, which is
like a nerdy naval distress signal. Uh well, but I mean it's also
pretty simply like a America's in trouble. Yeah right. I wouldn't do it
because it seems kind of emo. Honestly, flag the flag down. I've
seen people do it. It seems disrespectful. Yeah, it's supposed to,
uh signify that the country is in distress. The the one that they're getting
even more bent out of shape out of which actually bugs me less is like
wayless is the appeal on the Heaven flag, which is it's quoting John Locke
who says that when you're forced by tyranny to submit, or he even just
talks about it, like if you're mugged in the street, then a person
gets to a point where they must appeal on to Heaven, which basically means
give them your best swing. And it was a common it's a it's an
Ierican, it's an early American Revolutionary War flag. It's like come and take
it, which is not American Revolutionary War, I know, but it's historic
flag. Or I guess it's more like the United Die flag or the Betsy
Ross flag, which we obviously know was extremely racist, or the don't tread
on Me flag right that you see on Virginia license plates. I mean,
during the cheap part of years, that don't tread on me flag. The
Gadsdon flag was called a racist, white nationalist, all kinds of stuff.
Yeah, And I guess because some of the people at JA six had an
appeal into Heaven flag, they tried to get him. And remember they tried
to get Speaker Johnson for having this flag in his office. The appeal onto
Heaven flag which honestly is kind of a cool flag. Yeah you your interest
is peaked. Yeah, you're impressed with the flag. But what was strange
about this is not that he was flying flags, but the Congress is going
to investigate. I'm like, investigate what what are they going to do?
It's not like he's got a lifetime apployment, right, So this is a
lado. So okay. So the New York Times story on the first flag
at his Virginia home comes out last week. Then this week they have this
bombshell scoop that he's flying an Appeal into Heaven flag at his beach house in
Long Beach Island, New Jersey, and Congress has said they're going to to
gate Samuel Leno should fly the comeout you Cuckold flag. Oh boy, I
know you want to explain to this. Yeah, sixteenth century English Civil War
flag that one of the Royalist cavalryes used against a Cromwellian lord who was rumored
to be a known cuckoled and this put comeout you Cuckoled on the flag.
And one of our friends brought this out to my attention yesterday. And it's
like, apparently, according to the New York times this morning. The flag
poets I believe's house is now bear. It's like he should just raise that
one, just throw it up, two middle fingers in the air. But
what was strange about this is not but the lads have the last word?
Yeah, was not that his wife was political in her flagwaving or this or
that or striking. Is that Schumer is talking about an investigation, AOC is
talking about an investigation. House Democrats joined in, and what do you mean
investigate? Like this is this is a real separation of powers thing. It's
not like they can firelo. They couldn't. Just they couldn't. Just it's
not like they could not confirm him. That's already over. So what was
it about? And then it's kind of obvious, I guess. But one
of our friends wrote back that the number one goal, the first one is
to incentivize defection, which is basically to scare people to make it just like
you saw with the Obamacare vote, with a heavy pressure campaign from Obama and
the heavy pressure campaign from Congress, you see people afraid. And there's reason
for Supreme Court just is to become afraid. I mean, during the Dobbs
Ruins, there was attempted home invasions, violence, picketers out in the streets,
angry mobs, actual threats, and these things are trying to get to
try to put pressure, to get people who are totally not immune from pressure
to change their vote. Just what the Constitution really tried to protect the Supreme
Court from being pressured. And also the Congress has denied and even the same
governor seems to have denied the security that's necessary for the super Court justices,
even though the left has made them famous in a way to scare them.
And then the second thing they want to do is delegitimize what's coming out of
the court. I mean the right tried to do this sixty years ago with
the Warren Court. It was a big thing, Like the Warren Court really
kind of remade a lot of American jurisprudence and it was a massive target for
being called delegitimate by the American right. Same thing's going on right now from
the American left. Can you talk a little bit more about that, not
too much because I'm not that nerdy. You were just talking about a Cromwell
era flag, like very specific needs. Okay, My nerd interests are very
specific andfortunately for my wife. I've gotten our eight year old into painting warhammer
models and now he's obsessed. So that will be our Saturday. But that
doesn't mean I know no Supreme Court history that well, but I know.
I mean Bretpozzel wrote a book bremp. Bezel Senior. Bill Buckley, his
brother in law, wrote a book about that, and it was a constant
about the Warren Court being an illegitimate court. Yeah, they were completely remaking
a century of American jurisprudence to really justify the massive expansion of the welfare state.
And what I wanted to say about that is just the distinction here is
that argument is rooted in substance and this argument is rooted in flags. Yeah,
but it like they had the flag at J six. I don't have
a problem with saying there's a new legal order emerging from the war In court.
Christopher Caldwell wrote a book about how the Court's changed so much of this,
So I don't have a problem with that. But the was a hero
saying that whatever decision comes out of the Supreme Court about Trump. Because Samuel
Ledle's wife flew a flag upside down, a flag which symbolizes Chase six and
violent overthrow of Joe Biden. It's like, no, it doesn't, yeah,
story warflag. So they want to they want to scare them. They
want to delegitimize the decisions that they make and say and say that they're not
something needs to be followed. Essentially at this court is just partisans try and
painting like that. They want to provide some political cover for the reforms that
they've been pushing for in the Supreme Court, and some of those are kind
of obvious. I mean, we've talked about this, the ethics reforms that
really probably needs to be done. Yes, yes, And they want to
try to probably create the political conditions that allow them to pack the court if
they get half of the country to honestly believe in a way, the fder
couldn't even do that. The Supreme Court is just a right wings stitution,
by the way it stands out, because it's the only functioning institution in the
American life that's resisting the American left, the only one at this point.
And most people would say it's well, no, I shouldn't say most people,
but a lot of conservatives would say, in some ways it's not that
conservative. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say, and it may be
conservative in the sense that yer right wing. Why they said you couldn't kill
babies in the Constitution, or they want, you know, some of them
want to take power away from the CFPB. But even in decisions like that,
we have seen them be completely splintered. They haven't been like this full
corporate rubber stamp. That hasn't been remotely what you would get if you had
this many Democrat nominees. We should be in line left ring voting. Yeah,
that's true. And another friend of ours in the Senate pointed out that,
I mean, in the Colorado cakeshop case, you mean it sounds like
we have a lot of friends I know, right, This is not this
is a false impression. Yeah. And the New York gun case is that
the States are already kind of persecuting people in direct defiance Supreme Court, and
that sort of thing is probably going to continue the more they delegitimize it.
So what seems like a stupid story because it is, and what seems like
an investigation that's far outside of Congress's purview because it is actually serves a purpose,
which is trying to delegitimize scare and put pressure on the court, and
honestly, I got to respect the game. Right, the left doesn't care
their honey badger. They don't care at all. They're going to go for
it. They're going to scare the court in a way that the UH.
I can't imagine the chiding that you would get from conservative pundits if you were
to try to do that to liberal justices. Well, but this is the
thing that for saying that one of the what's your name plays softball? Elena
Kagan, Yeah, it's like pictures of softball, Like, how dare you
published pictures of her playing softball? Coller love those pictures. I don't doubt
that. In fact, I remember it now that you mentioned that. So
the media, though, is making this thing because it's a left wing top
of Playbook, top of the New York Times Morning of everything. I've gotten
like alerts from the New York Times about the flag updates, seriously I have.
And it's it's a totally as you just said, the left is going
to go for it, right. So like the coordinated nonprofit media campaign that's
happening behind closed doors where you have obviously opposition research going on that's then being
packaged and pitched to The New York Times by people who obviously listen. I
don't know this for sure, but it's pretty You can when you work in
media. You can smell opposition coordination when you see it. It's not that
hard to figure it out. So you have the media, though, responding
to it and basically running the talking points. And that's what I think is
crazy. Is one thing for a political partisan operation to try and oh they're
one and the same. Okay, So the media has to be an important
part of the conversation because they're not treating any of this with skepticism or any
sense of like, well maybe so Manor and I never watch it, but
I bet if you were to watch like the basic like ABC Good Morning Shows
and stuff this morning, you would probably come away with the imprere that Aldo
flew a January sixth insurrection flag and support of overthrowing the government. Be right,
because that's how the Times in Political I have really phrased this, and
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York Times ran of the upside down flag outside of Alito's house. I would
not have run a picture of his house, that's for sure. But if
I could have confirmed just the detail that the flag was upside down outside his
house in the week after January sixth, that's a scoop. That's newsworthy,
giving us breathless updates on all of the flags at every illegal property. When
the what does it call the the other flag? The Yeah, okay,
that's not a news story. It's just not a news story. Mean's incredible
Christian, he's openly Christian. Also, even a news story about it.
It was a point about a Republican president. It's fine. The uh the
congressional investigations or what's strange? Yeah, investigate what his wife is clearly conservative
and this is something else, of course, I mean, he's clearly conservative.
Yeah. I hate talking about double standards, but uh, RBG mayshe
rip was uh. He used to give interviews during the Trump election years where
she was talking about how she doesn't know, she couldn't imagine what would happen
to this country. I think the Washington Post called her how open she was
about how much she hated Trump, refreshing from a normally stayed court. So
you sure it's because it seems kind of this like old and battie to me
to be that up. And she did not recuse herself from any cases involving
the President after openly saying I hate this guy. I can't imagine what the
country would be like with him. I can't imagine what the court would look
like with him not recusing. And then they want so this is here's why
it's a big target now. I mean, how many ACLU pro abortion things
did she speak out over the years without zero incident? She was best friends
with what Nina Totenberg and all of the ladies who cover the Supreme Court at
corporate media. I wonder what flag's scalia flew outside of his house. It
would have been awesome, just a big Italian flag. So there's a couple
of course cases in front of the Supreme Court, which is probably why they're
so so what they're doing right now. And I wrote about this in the
newsletter earlier this week is Democrats have shifted from let's get our agenda done to
let's sabotage what they fear as an incoming Donald Trump administration in every way they
can. And one of the things that they really need is the Supreme Court
to rule in their direction on two different cases. Supreme Court's already knocked down
on the case for like a Colorado state official says, you're an insurrectionist,
you can't be on the ballot. Of course, they didn't really actually knock
it down. They just kind of punted it and said, no, you're
not allowed to do that. Someone else is supposed to do that, which
sets up a whole bunch of other dangers of whether or not a Democratic House
representatives could do that now, but I think they probably maybe could. And
the other one that I've really on right now is or what's coming up,
is the immunity case of whether or not actions that a president takes while in
office take a special immunity. Essentially, it's about the speech that Trump gave
on January sixth, and if that if he can be held liable for January
sixth over that. The kind of interesting thing that keeps on coming up is
that time that Barack Obama assassinated an American al Quaeda's support al Qaeda propagandish and
he killed his kid in a car. Yeah, And I'm like, yeah,
obviously he's not going to be prosecuted for murder here already the assassination of
his opponents, of of the American opponents in his capacity as president, and
Trump's actually his team alludes to that case. I don't think it's specifically mentioned,
but it's in they've talked about hypothetical where a president has to do.
That was most annoying right wing outrage moments he was upset. No, there
was a lot of right wing outrage about how dare Obama He's targeting his opponents
with robots in the sky and it's like, this guy's out kainda, but
his kid was in the car. It's like, well, maybe his mom
shouldn't a signed the permission slip to take a kid to work day when dad's
a terrorist. Like, I don't, what's the problem here? Okay,
Well, I'm not going to rehash that debate right now, because this is
what's frustrated about some of these debates. On the one hand, it's like,
oh my gosh, like, clearly these people are overreacting, but they're
not wrong. Fundamentally, they're not wrong. So, like, I really
disagree with how they're reacting. I don't necessarily disagree with what they're reacting about.
I feel like that happens every day within with one case or another.
And actually Clarence Thomas is a good idea or is a good example. It's
like some of these Clarence Thomas at the Coal things that have been raised.
It's like, well, it's not just a Clarence Thomas problem. There are
other justices that have had these problems. So let's be honest about that.
But no, I think we should probably have disclosure and like more ethics to
govern behavior among Supreme Court justices, pay them more as well. I'm totally
fine with that. But if you're carrying on as though this is a scandal
conspiracy theory for the ages like of the century, you are doing way more
damage than Clarence Thomas. You're so much worse than Clarence Thomas. Yeah,
they want to cause institutional damage. And the other cases coming in from the
Supreme Court is whether or not they can use that two thousand and one or
two thousand and two en run law that was designed to stop enrons from happening.
They can use that to put trespassers and rioters from January sixth in prison
for the rest of their lives. And those are the things that the left
really needs Supreme Court to say, Yes, we can put people in prison
for the rest of their lives with this law, and no, Trump cannot.
Trump must be held to different standards. Essentially that Trump doesn't get the
presidential immunity, and I think that's probably where this pressure campaign's coming from.
And it just feeds into a lot of the flurry of activity that we've seen
on Capitol Hill recently as say, prepare for Joe Biden to lose, not
that that's remotely guaranteed, but there's definitely a panic in DC over it.
Well. I think we've talked about this before. I'm pretty firmly in the
camp that no matter what happens in October so ahead of the election, because
you're flying that flog upside down, no, no matter what, no,
but whatever happens in October, with whatever information is dumped on the eve of
the election, whatever happens in the election, and whatever happens Inauguration Day,
there's going to be strife. Whether it's Trump or Biden, there's going to
be strife. I hope it's not on the level of January sixth, and
I hope it's not worse than January sixth. January six was a small riot
compared to a lot of the other riots that went down. Yeah, it
happened to be in the Capital building, but yes there were members surrounded.
But yes, didn't see you down there. But seriously, I think it's
going to be bad no matter what. So I just think people are being
really cavalier with stories like this. I don't think they understand what they're doing
the gravity of what they're doing. Actually, yeah, we're getting through a
point. We're conservatives and liberals don't agree on much of anything. I don't
even want to live next to each other anymore. And it's getting bad.
I mean, you know, if Trump wins, is going to be violence.
Although I also do get the feeling of fatigue from a lot of folks.
Oh go on. I mean so Bill Maher was talking about this the
other day when he did his podcast with Jerry Seinfeld, which is kind of
funny and awkward at some points because Bill mar kept one kind of suggesting that
he and Seinfeld hang out sometime, and he's like, yeah, Jane,
I don't call him. Earlier today, and he's like, oh yeah,
He's like, yeah, maybe we should all hang out. I was like
yeah, and at one point in the podcast says, yeah, I really
would hang I can really hang out with any comic at all for work for
work. Yeah. He was pretty clear like I don't want to hang out
with people outside of my hang out with my wife outside of work for work.
Yes, But mar was saying like, hey, no, it's just
I just I'm not going to freak out anymore. I have friends I go
out to dinner and they're freaking out. The country is going to hell.
I'm going to move to Singapore. And it's like, is it I mean,
you just paid three hundred dollars for dinner without even blinking. You took
your credit card out and you paid for it, and we drove home in
your nice car to your nice house. I think he was the saying I'm
tired of the outrage and these stories like this, the Leader story remind me
of all the outrage we saw in twenty sixteen to twenty twenty that don't stick.
And the reason for Trump's rising popularity amongst swing voters is because no one
can remember why they hated Trump so much. Because almost almost everything was fake,
and the things that weren't fake people now wished we did, which is
like put more people, like a crackdown on the rider. He saw the
DA in Portland kicked out, literally Portland kicked out, or secure the border.
The things that are actual supposedly scandals people want to do now, and
everything else no one can remember because it was stupid, like this Reich,
this Reich video what Donald Trump So True Social account retweeted a Trump as President
video that someone has synked into the headlines like a It was just faded in
the back and just goes by quickly. America now a United Reich or something
like that. There's obviously a troll job in The person who did it got
it tweeted and then sent it to the newspapers, and everyone talked about how
Donald Trump secretly wants to unified Reich and he put it in his campaign.
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You just touched on something though, kidding aside that I think is really terrifying,
which is, on the one hand, it's true that a lot of
people in the United States aren't doing really well, and that a lot of
communities are still functioning just fine. The trains might not be running on time,
but they're running, like people are going places. You're looking. You're
giving me a really weird look right now. No, I think that's right.
I think that's right. I was I was resisting. Oh, I
was like pulling myself back. Don't from a joke. Okay, yeah,
but it is like, you know, our bridge is collapsing, Yes,
but are is everything largely fine? Sure? But in the long term,
like from the thirty thousand foot view even Scotting is bad. Actually, I
think I was just gonna sa say this is the the country has completely rotted
out and Americans hate each other. But I think they're also just tired of
the Basically, I feel like we've been addicted to the news since nine to
eleven. It's just rage, watching constantly and getting anger and anger and anger.
You know something, It's interesting. I was talking to some radio people
yesterday and I've heard from folks that you can go on back in the day
Tucker Carlson Tonight at the top cable program and plug your organization and you get
a trickle of donations. You're going to see Vantage Warim. You get like
a massive influx of donations. You go and you plug your book on Tucker
Carlson Tonight back in the day, you get a couple of book sales.
You go on Glummbax radio show, it explodes. And there's something about the
readers in the view viewers who choose those programs, and how much more engaged
they are than this the passively watching Fox News until, like Shane Gillis says,
like his dad every night just watches Fox News until he's so angry he
can't and he goes to bed. He doesn't know what's going on in this
country, just turns it off. But it's kind of a passive thing,
but it just it does also impact your thinking and your rage in a way
that's interesting, and it seems to be national. We sound have it.
We've clustered into these niches that have been pretty you know, like Bannon obviously
has an activist niche, glene Back obviously has an activist niche. And so
yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense to me. And if you
watch CNNL day, you probably think that Aldo took the severed head of a
Capitol police officer and roared from the sayers and more people are getting something closer
to what they want. So people who used to have to watch Fox but
would have always preferred to be watching Bannon can now watch Bannon. They're just
not sharing Bannon with other people in the way that you had moderates and hardcore
conservatives sharing Bill O'Reilly back in the day. And so it does create a
really different sharf no I mentioned sharing the viewership. You know, you can
go and say, like, oh, that Bill O'Reilly guy had a really
good point this week, or you know what I mean, Like there were
touchstones because we had to share more. There was less clustering and niches.
Yeah, which is interesting, But that's I think the duality of modern America
or America in this moment right now is that even Scott Winship at AI or
in casts was going to battle with him over this at American Compass, so
was Dunk and Praid over. I mean, there have been all kinds of
debates on tariffs whenever recently. But Scott Winship had a paper about how you
if you even look at men's wages that you see clearly stagnation over the last
several decades, if you're actually like accounting for it. Like so, I'm
just saying even for AI to concede that there's been a stagnation men's wages,
that everything is not fine, that people are actually not improving, certain people
in this country not improving. Obviously women's wages on paper a couple of weeks
ago, but obviously, well he'll disagree completely with the cast takeaway and all
of that, but you know, certain people are doing are are improving.
Things have gotten better, you know, ourn' casters from my hometown. I
didn't know that you get. It makes sense. It makes sense. And
I went to like the weird liberal school where you tall people by their first
names because I didn't I got I didn't get along with the kids at the
Jack school not to play with me. And he went to like the even
weirder school in the woods from my school, like the weirdest. Like it's
like, we're kids from my school. If they had a debilitating over by
one and we were laughing about that we met around the corner of the day.
It turns out you're a married kid. Yeah, that is wild.
And you guys had a Sam Adams and it chose a coffee shop. Okay,
But moving on from your interesting little tangent, it is true that in
this in some senses, you look around the country and you're like, things
are still functioning. Some people are doing really well. Report out today about
the amount of med school graduates who don't know the basics of medicine. Okay,
so that's a great example. The story today about how there's three hundred
Boeing jets in the American and United fleets that are risk of exploding mid air.
Mass obesity on a level that we like no society has ever seen before,
like just a completely different level. I'm trying to zone out processed foods
in my diet. How difficult that is borderline impossible even if you wanted to
do it. It's it's crazy everything's processed. Yeah, no, this is
I was talking to some about this recently because there's a conservative group that's proposing
using the Americans with Disabilities Act to make it so that the government has to
provide options for people who don't have smartphones, which I think is I don't
know if ada is the right way to do it, but I do think
the default shouldn't be smartphones. If you're trying to get into a basketball game,
or if you you know what I mean, Like you're trying to get
on an airplane, you shouldn't have to have a smartphone to do that.
Because people are increasingly going toy you need a smartphone to order a beer at
the brig around the corner. Yeah. Yeah. My friend actually accidentally left
with my phone a couple of years ago from my house because he was using
to control the music. And I went over there when I was picking some
stuff up, I was like, can I have a beer? Not without
a smartphone? Dude? Really? I got cash, you got a credit
card, No except the US tender. And I read a story I study
yesterday that said that when they did a study an animal and human testicals,
oh boy, every single one of them had microplastics in them. Yeah.
I went home and I'm going crazy. Now, obviously I'm going crazy.
I moved out to the suburbs and losing my mind. I went home and
I threw out all the plastic like little dishes and bowls and water bottles that
were given we're packing lunch in a bit of rage, like what you did
with the plastic cover on the books in the office. I was like,
I kept babe, we're just trying our son sperm. You should have seen
this, you should. I wish everyone could see this. He walked into
our office when we were moving offices and just ripped all of the plastic covers
off of the books, and he was like the Tasmanian double. There was
just like whirling covers around him, falling on the ground, and you were
red faced and angry. I wasn't angry. But now you look at our
bookshelf and it's color coded with colors earlier, if you walked in there,
it's just took like a bunch of free books you got from seapack, which
it almost certainly were, and now it doesn't because I got rid of like
the covers. But it's the same thing with foods, like there should be
a like it should be easy for you to exist without stuffing yourself with processed
food or you know whatever. We're not we're not scientists, so we should
leave it at that. Probably don't trust the science. Don't the capital s
science, the lowercase s science. That's fine, Christopher Bedford. That was
such an abrupt and weird note to leave it on. But it is true.
There's duality. It's unsettling. There's a duality to amer right now,
where it's like, yep, we've got uber eats, but we also have
mass fentanyl overdoses, terrifying suicide rates western SIEV. Don't cry because it's sober,
Smile because it happened. That's so depressing. Christopher Bedford of the Blaze
Blaze dot com slash Bedford. I'm em like Trashinski clture editor here at The
Federalist. We'll be back soon with more. Until then, because the lovers
of freedom and anxious for the fray I heard the famevoice, the reason.
Then it away,