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Welcome back, everyone to a new
episode of You're Wrong with Molly Hemingway and

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David Harsani. Just a reminder,
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all of that. So so much always

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happens every week when we get together. It just seems I'm always like,

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did we talk about this, because
it seems like it happened a long time

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ago, But actually it did not, And I want to talk about the

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Over the past weekend, we had
this melt down by the media that reminded

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me very much of the Trump presidency
days, where the entire media melted down

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over something that was completely ridiculous.
And this was the blood bath comment Donald

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Trump made during a speech I believe
it was it in Michigan, whatever it

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was. He was talking about the
automotive industry and he was saying how it

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was going to be a bloodbath for
that industry and all others in the country,

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and everyone just ran with it.
Were you, uh, how'd you

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feel about that? I also don't
understand metaphors, so I was also very

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upset. No. I it was
almost like one of these things is too

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stupid to believe. There have been
so many of these as it relates to

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as they relate to Donald Trump,
that it shouldn't be shocking anymore. But

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this one was a little shocking,
if only because bloodbath is one of corporate

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media's favorite metaphors. They use it
constantly. They particularly use it in a

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political context, so use it for
a business context. They actually also do

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it for economic contexts. They do
it all the time, like every day

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you read about you know, it's
a way of saying, this is going

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to be a really bad situation for
X. And I noticed, for instance,

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Politico when they were participating in the
bloodbath info op of the weekend,

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where we were supposed to believe that
Donald Trump saying that four more years of

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Biden would be horrific for the car
industry, where we were supposed to pretend

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to believe that was a call for
a literal bloodbath, which is again insane.

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The Politico had something like when is
a blood bath not a blood bath?

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And it was an article about how
like sometimes people use these things called

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metaphors, you probably don't know what
they are, but this wasn't really a

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metaphor. So I just thought,
I'll see if Politico has ever used the

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term bloodbath. And literally the prior
week when the new leadership came into the

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RNA SEE and fired like fifty people, they called it a blood bath.

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Now, I don't think they were
arguing that Chris Losovita and Laura Trump were

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in there with machetes beheading people.
They were just referring to it in the

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way that we all referred to such
things metaphorically. As you know, the

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firing was like a lot of people
lost their jobs. They used it,

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you know, in economic articles a
lot and job losses, but also in

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sports. I've read bloodbath a ton
of times. I went through almost every

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major site to see how often bloodbath
was used. And it's like in the

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thousands, so New York Times,
Joe Biden used the word bloodbath when talking

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about I forgot what it was.
Some kind of primary in twenty twenty primary

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fight with Bernie Sanders and stuff like
that. Here's here's one of the worst

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of the headlines. Now political headline
read Trump says country faces bloodbath that Biden

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wins in November, which is so
out of context to be a complete lie.

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But the New York Times had Trump
says some migrants are not people and

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predicts a bloodbath if he loses,
which combines two completely separate thoughts, both

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of them misleading to make it sound
like he was talking about migrants and blood

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bats should he lose, which is
just insanely dishonest. Yeah, disinformation,

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it's propaganda, it's lies. I
do want to point out on these some

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migrants aren't people thing. Okay,
first of all, I feel extreme anger.

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I won't use any metaphorse here,
but I feel extreme anger anger when

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people are unwilling and unable, or
when they conflate intentionally legal immigration and illegal

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immigration. So the term migrant doesn't
like really work here. Most of our

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problem in this country. There are
people who would like higher or lower rates

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of immigration legal, but the real
drama here politically is with illegal immigration,

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where by the first act of joining
in this community, you break the law,

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you know, And it's a very
contentious fraud topic. And he was

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talking about not legal immigration, but
illegal immigration, and then specifically talking about

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MS thirteen, which is a notoriously
bloodthirsty and violent and murderous gang that has

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elements that have come here illegally from
other countries. And so when you're talking

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about violent acts taking place taking place
by some of these people and you say

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it's like animalistic or something like that, it's actually like an insult to animals

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in some of the cases, because
these groups can do really awful things like

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beheading children and whatnot. Yeah,
I mean, listen, I wish sometimes

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Trump was a little clearer and more
articulate, but he speaks off the coffin

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the way he does. I hate
to make excuses for it, but it's

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clear from the context that you were
right about that that he wasn't talking about

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any sort of real bloodbat That is
completely a metaphor. It's funny because by

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and use the word illegal and illegal
killed someone in the State of the Union,

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and that was what offended everyone deeply, not the murder of an innocent

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woman by by an illegal alien,
which is still a legalist legal term,

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a proper legal term for what people
enter this country legally are. And I

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people get so mad when I say
this, But Donald Trump just reminds me

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of it, like everyone who grew
up around me in Queens, in New

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York elsewhere the way he, you
know, uses words like blood baths.

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So I was thinking about this.
Colin Quinn, who's a comedian, has

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this skit about New York jew specifically, But how this language has been adopted

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by everyone. So like you asked, like, how is traffic murder?

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You know, how was this a
blood bath? Like everything is like over

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the top. And do people in
New York understand that when people say traffic

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was murdered, they don't actually mean
that there were murders in the traffic.

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Do people understand that? I think
people who are from New York to But

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all the people who are in like
the New York Times Building and from terrible

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places elsewhere, they do not understand
or pretend not to understand, right I

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just I can't. I feel like
there's this dichotomy going on right now where

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in the real world real people.
And I don't mean by that like real

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world like middle of the country,
I mean like kind of the whole country.

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People are extremely upset with the poor
management of the country by the president,

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but also by Congress. They are
frustrated with the economy, They're frustrated

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with the refusal to do anything about
the border other than encourage people to come

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here illegally. They're you know,
they're not happy with the foreign policy situation,

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the crime situation. Like that's the
real world, and that this fake

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world that corporate media are in of
pretending to care or pretending to worry about

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terms like blood bath that they use
all the time and pretending that they refer

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to something specific. It is infuriating, and particularly so because we have a

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very unique situation now that the candidates
are settled for the Republican and Democrat from

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the primaries of being able to compare
one presidency versus another. No, the

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first Biden term has not concluded,
but we've got more than three solid years

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to see what it's like to compare
with the Trump presidency. I had dinner

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last night with some people who said
that the thing they were most frustrated about

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with Donald Trump was that he didn't
pursue any legal action against Hillary Clinton.

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But it's true he didn't. You
know, he quite explicitly, when people

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are like you, said that if
you became president, Hillary Clinton would be

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in jail, and he was like, listen, that's politics. You have

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hard fought campaigns. Let's let bygones
be bygones. We're moving on, right,

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So he had we've seen what happens
when he's in office, which is

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too very much not go after political
opponents. And in fact, what happened

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while he was in office was that
Democrats went after him through the agencies and

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institutions that they can and government.
And then even when they defeated him in

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the twenty twenty election, they were
like, that was just child's play.

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Now we're going to steal your business. Now we're going to put everybody you

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know in prison. Now we're going
to go after freedom of speech and freedom

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of protests. Like what you're going
to look back at twenty sixteen to twenty

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twenty as a very nice, gentle
time, because we're coming and we're coming

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to destroy you. We want you
to die in prison. Right. And

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so that's the current presidency going after
political opponents, using unprecedented legal arguments to

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go after political opponents, having a
widespread and coordinated campaign to destroy the republic

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through removal from the ballot, stealing
of business, imprisonment, attempts, like

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all sorts of really corrupt things.
You have jailing of journalists, you have

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a tax on journalism, you have
the worst censorship regime in the history of

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the country. And our corporate media
are out there saying blood birth an economic

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bloodbath. We're going to pretend to
believe that's literal. And also we're going

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to claim that this guy that we're
running against is an authoritarian all while their

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guy is an authoritarian. And it's
infuriating. Yeah, I think we should

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get to the law affair stuff in
the second as well. But don't you

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think the whole bloodbath incident reeks of
desperation in a way because it is such

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an obvious lie, so easily disproven
that anyone who spends two minutes or a

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minute looking deeper into it or thinking
about it will know that this is a

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lie, and it only undermines any
kind of like legitimate criticism that they may

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have in the future. And you
know, what was her name, Susan

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Glasser? Is that her name?
I think you know she's on there saying

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this is the you know, she's
just this over the top hysterical scare mongering

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about fascism. I just it seems
to me like, there are a bunch

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of credulous partisans who believe that stuff, but that a normal person just simply

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doesn't believe that that's true because they've
actually lived through a Donald Trump presidency.

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He did not go after anyone,
He did not arrest anyone, there were

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no camps, there were no fascistic
you know, he did nothing like that.

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It's just a lot of it.
And do you know who do who

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Susan Glasser is married to. Yes, I do. The reporter at the

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Times is he? He is the
I think the chief White House correspondent for

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the New York Times, Peter Baker. Peter Baker, So you know these

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are people. Yes, they say
completely insane, unhinged, radical things,

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but they do hold positions of power. And you say, like, nobody

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believes this. I'm sorry. I
actually think there are a bunch of stupid

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people in the country who absolutely believe
it. They are not bright, they

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are not well read. They're motivated
by feelings and like worries about being liked

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by other people, and I think
they're looking for reasons why they can continue

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to support Joe Biden even though everyone
kind of knows he's been a disaster and

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so I think this is very clearly
orchestrated at stupid white women, just to

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be honest. I know, but
aren't those people already not Aren't those people

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are already going to vote for Biden? Meaning I don't know that this changes

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anything other than actually corroding trust in
the media even more, if that's possible,

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you know what I'm saying. I
don't know. I just I think

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it's just they hear the word bloodbaths, someone clips it, you know,

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dishonestly, probably online. All these
dumb reporters who don't do any reporting,

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who don't verify information, they run
with it. All the talking heads get

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it hysterical, and it's like,
we're going to see this over and over

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again. And I just I think
it's lost its I think it's lost its

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effectiveness, that's all I'm saying.
You know, it almost it has a

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bit of a more of a twenty
sixteen field than a twenty twenty field,

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so that you could be right on
that. I mean, remember when we

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used to be like, oh my
god, what's going on? You know,

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but then by maybe year one,
we were like, you got to

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wait a day or two to see
what actually happened. You know, look

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at the context whatever, and it
was always so over some hysterical reaction to

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something quite normal. And that's another
interesting part of this, is like democrats

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will take things that everyone does that
it's completely normal. And I'm not saying

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Donald Trump's completely normal, but what
you know, things that he does that

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are normal, like acting doing something
with the presidency that's completely within his power,

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for instance, all of a sudden
it becomes fascistic. But I saw

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what's his name, George Conway was
saying, how it doesn't even matter what

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the context is, because this is
a classic trade and technique of authoritarian demagogues.

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He catastrophizes, is that the right
way to say it. Catastrofiz pastrophizes

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everything to rile up his cultish supporters
and to bind them to him and make

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them wllnk to do his bidding.
Is he insane? This is such an

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act of projection. They're the ones
who make everything from a simple tax cut

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to deregulating the internet to to saying
blood bath in a speech into some kind

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of end of days event, you
know what I mean. It's just insane

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that they say that. Of course
politicians, you know, yeah, you

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know, exaggerate things, but I
mean, that's just insane and I'm sorry

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value with your purchase of seventy five
dollars or more. Okay, did you

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read the Politico story that said that
because Trump is so funny, he's just

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like Adolf Hitler. No wait,
no, I doesn't remember that one.

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Hold on, I want to read
from it. My favorite coach, just

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why you look? My favorite was
Senator mccast skill formas has. She said

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that he's worse than Hitler because he
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I was like trying to make sense
of this anyway, Wait, maybe this

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is what you were just referencing,
says Trump and Hitler share a rhetorical style.

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Experts say, humor. That's because
the humor is not a bug.

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It's a feature of demagogue. Ray. Laughter is going to be a weapon,

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because you laugh at something to diminish
it and as preparation for casting it

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down or destroying it. And so
he says this expert says, like Trump

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uses humor to do his evil deeds. But I'm like still stuck on the

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part where we're SUPs. We're supposed
to pretend that Hitler was funny, like,

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y, I know everyone else Hyler
was a cut up. You know

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who else is really funny and killed? Oh wait, that's a brong word

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use say killed? On the comedy
circuit was Benito Mussolini, right, was

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somewhat funny. I think actually he
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I don't know that he used that
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that when you're thinking of people like
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And it does speak to something you
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doing this in a frantic, panicked
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that when you laugh at something stupid
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that's a sign of demagoguery. And
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people who talk about all the things
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they didn't do in a first who
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and they ignore the constant attacks on
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constant attacks on the norms of journalism
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am not a Trump fan, but
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things that were helpful, you know, that help bolster constitutional order and bind

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none of that. So if that's
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work, you know, for me. And then then the argument was and

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I think that it you know,
if you weren't paying attention it might be

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an effective argument was that hey,
the competent people are coming back. There

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was all kinds of appy during the
Trump admssion. Now you're going to get

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competent, normal seeback. But the
opposite happened. As I wrote a few

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weeks ago, I think Trump,
in a weird way, represents normalcy.

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Now he's the normal candidate who will
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know what will stop all this craziness, these culture war battles and all of

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that. I mean, he's literally
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pretty moderate positions that Biden has,
you know, just extremist positions on including

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abortions. So I don't know,
I don't even know where I'm going with

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that, but it is it is
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argument, by the way. Bump. Yeah, Now, I just gonna

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say Biden's underlying numbers are so bad
right now. I still think he has

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a chance to win, but they're
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they need to grab onto this kind
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a dozen times on his Twitter account, this bloodbath hoax thing. You know

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what I mean, where the fact
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checkers? I think the fact checkers
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literal, genocidal bloodbath because they're also
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lot was I do. But I
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and even just people like I've been
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jokingly using the term bloodbath in ways
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all might we all might joke about
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I just noticed people using it ince
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of the media. Yeah, I've
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but I may have always used it. I don't know. Did you

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want to go onto law fair stuff? No, I want to talk about

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Christine lazi Ford. It's good that
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me of how angry I am with
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of the moments I very much remember
thinking that these people are not just like

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political opponents, They're kind of like
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Ball, So tell us what why
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So Christine Glasifd, just to remind
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that Brett Kavanaugh had tried to kill
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of people she said were there,
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recollection of anything like this happening,
and some of them said it seemed completely

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it would have seemed completely out of
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as he was about to be confirmed
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and now I guess you know.
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has a book that she's calling a
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which is weird because she never had
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where it happened, or how it
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memory of anything except she said she
was one hundred percent certain that she'd only

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had one beer, which is a
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to remember, that's an interesting thing
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I read the reviews of the memoir
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Post, and The Guardian, and
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but it definitely doesn't include any memories
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yet she's been getting you know,
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book and prominent publications, and yesterday
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getting like the full media rollout,
and whoope. Goldberg during the View yesterday

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said, you know, they were
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and they were so upset that there
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by the way, include her father
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like, well, we got to
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back for this love fest with Christine
blasi Ford, the best woman who ever

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lived. And it's just an interesting
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Carrie Severino and I wrote the book
Justice on Trial, the number one national

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bestseller, Justice on Trial, about
that confirmation, because we were old enough

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to remember the Clarence Thomas situation.
So it's basically the exact same thing except

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some minor detail changes. But when
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W. Bush to the Supreme Court, he was going through the confirmation hearings

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and everything was fairly normal, and
then right at the last minute, NPR

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and another outlet leaked a report that
the committee hadn't fully evaluated a claim of

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sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas, and
it came from a woman who, by

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all other reports, had spent quite
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success, and that they'd been kind
of longtime friends, and she'd moved,

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she'd followed him from one organization to
the next, and there was no evidence

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to support her claim, or there
was, you know, there was,

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there was a lot of evidence against
what she was saying. And he was

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confirmed in a very dirty, awful, you know situation led by President Joe

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Biden when he was the head of
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that he was confirmed, the vast
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male, female, all felt like
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They believed him and not not this
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Left just kept going to the present
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this sort of smear operation. There
were documentaries and movies and books and

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magazine articles. There's this fabulous Jane
Mayer, who has spent decades at The

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New York At The New Yorker kind
of like coming up with elaborate stories that

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are not based in fact, and
in case someone miss hurt anyone misshard she

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said, fabulous. Not she's not
fabulous. Yeah, she's not a good

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journalist, and she's at The New
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She also, by the way,
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most utterly bizarre stories. I've read
it like ten times and I still have

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no idea what she was trying to
say. She did it with Ron and

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Phero, but knowing that there would
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this problem where people who are victims
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through, they're kind of like,
thank God, that's over, We're done.

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appalling and ridiculous what was going on, we knew that we had to get

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the facts of the matter down because
there would be there would be books,

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and you know, there'd be an
attempt to rehabilitate this allegation and make it

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seem like it was more credible than
it was, and so it's all going

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according to plan, you know.
But like Kerry and I interviewed more than

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one hundred people. We interviewed contemporaries
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We interviewed ex girlfriends, ex friends
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good feeling for how both people were
in high school. We did not include

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the vast majority of what we learned
because we felt like people should put names

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with some of the allegations that were
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people were unwilling to do so,
so we just didn't include some of it.

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But I mean it was like really
interesting reporting, I'll just say that.

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And we also told the story of
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you know, from the White House
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outside groups, like all that kind
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did because memoirs like this or the
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journalists at the New York Times and
Washington Post are attempting to rewrite things.

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And I actually think, you know, not saying Brett Kavanaugh is my favorite

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justice whoever lived, or anything like
that, but what was done to this

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man who was a father of two
daughters, married father of two daughters,

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who has suffered assassination attempts since then. It's despicable, and I think like

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the media trying to roll this out
again, like like, oh, remember

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that time we falsely accused someone of
gang rape and we said that all these

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you know, like insane allegations of
him being on rape boats and rape trains

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and rape cartels and you know,
which is a completely insane Michael AVENAUGHTI led

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claims. They act like they didn't
do it, and I think they need

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to be reminded that they did it, that they're bad people, that the

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way that they managed this whole operation
was completely partisan and disgusting, and they

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should be made to remember. Yeah, I agree, and a couple of

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things. You know, Justice on
Trial. Your book is riveting reading,

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and not only because it goes through
the Kavanaugh stuff, but for people who

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haven't read it, it also gives
great background on Anita Hill and the whole

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sort of like process that Democrats engage
in these days to smear people. What

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they're doing now, I mean they're
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other you know smears and so on. But I just want people to recall

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that Anita Hill was completely was even
less credible, had no credit, but

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he can't be less credible than Blazing
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she had, which was zero.
The FBI investigated both of these her claims

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because they were potentially a criminal matter. They sent Affi Davids to the Senate

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saying that Anita Hill was not cooperating, like they couldn't find a single person

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to back up her accusations. And
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which she did. And so it's
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very similar. And I want to
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is obviously the problems with Anita Hill's
story, from which she benefited greatly our

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legion. But at least she met
Clarence Thomas. I'm just saying, there's

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no evidence that at this point that
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There's no evidence. So that's what
she wanted about Anita Hill. She

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did work with him for a long
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There's lots of evidence of her calling
him. You know. His secretary

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was like, yeah, she called
all the time, you know that kind

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of thing. There they at least
met. Is it not weird that both

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of them have not are terrible people? One of them is. It's basically

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smeared as a rapist all the time, and yet never another person has never

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come forward, a credible person too, with any kind of substantiation of this

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kind of behavior. So it was
with one person and then they were perfectly

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the rest of their lives. I
mean, Clarence Thomas worked has been obviously

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a justice, but he worked in
federal government for a long time and there's

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not another woman in the world who
is ever mistreated by him. Isn't that

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weird? I'll go further. Both
of them have armies of women who adore

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them and like stories to back it
up, like of how good he is,

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how good one or the other is
to work for as a woman.

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We interviewed a lot of people,
and I also just know a lot of

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CT clerks and people in his orbit, and they all are effusive with praise

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in a way that you don't hear
about a lot of men. I'm not

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saying that you hear bad things about
a lot of men. I'm just saying,

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like the these are people known for
being the opposite we I just I

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even remember we interviewed all these like
ex girlfriends of bred Scho and they were

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like, Yeah, this does not
this does not match in any way,

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shape or form with what it was
like to date. It's sort of like

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the opposite with the case. I
do want to remind people that the second

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of you a second accuser. There
were multiple accusers, and I think we

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should talk about who those were.
Kavanaugh and the second one, Julie Sweatnick,

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was someone who The Washington Post portrayed
in their story, announcing it as

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completely credible. She was represented by
Michael Abnati now in prison or maybe he's

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out of prison for now, he's
in prison from sixty more years. I

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think, whoa really okay? I
think sallyah nineteen year cent and something like

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that. I should write him a
note. So didn't see ann want him

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to run for president? Who wanted
to for president? I forgot Jake Tapper,

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maybe I forget a lot of people
and he and so. But she

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was presented as if she were really
credible. Her claim was that Brett Kavanaugh

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was the leader of a serial gang
rape cartel that was roaming the streets of

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suburban Maryland. There was the third
quote unquote accuser, which was Deborah Ramirez.

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I think that's right. Who was
who who Jane Mayer and Ronan Pharaoh

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wrote about. Like I said,
I've read this story ten times. I

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don't even know what they're claiming.
She's claiming he did. I have no

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understanding because like it's written so unclearly
that it's unclear who's doing what or where

421
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or what's being in there. The
witnesses are weird and everything. And then

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even on that front, though,
like Deba Ramirez as a real person and

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in the friend set, she's a
real liberal person with lots of liberal friends.

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But in that friend set that Brett
Kavanaugh was in, and there's like

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decades of evidence that this is kind
of like not matching her interactions with him

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in the years afterward. And then
there was an there was a claim to

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Sheldon Whitehouse No no claim. I
think that went to Chris Coons that Brett

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Kavanaugh was on a on a rape
cruise or something like that that had no

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support of any kind whatsoever, or
I can't mean I can't remember who that

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went to, but there there were
like incredibly insane claims. Some of those

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people later admitted, In fact,
I think the boat person admitted that he

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had made that up or she had
made that up and face charges or something.

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There were a lot of criminal referrals, none of which were nobody did

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anything with. But it was after
some of these outlandish claims that the Democrats

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on the Senate Judiciary Committee called for
Brett Cavanaugh to resign or to step down

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from his nomination. It was not
They should not be allowed to forget what

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they did, what they pretended to
believe, what they were willing to put

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this man and father of young children
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And remember when he got mad about
it, Everyone's like, look at him.

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He doesn't have the temperament to be
in on the Like if someone was

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accusing you of gang rape, and
you got mad about that. That's not

460
00:35:04,679 --> 00:35:07,880
a normal way to react. Of
course, it is exactly Salem witch trials.

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00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:12,400
Right, if you float, you're
a witch, if you think you

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00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:19,599
weren't, like insane, And just
just a reminder that all these same news

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outlets that ran with any accusation like
they they would say they weren't verified,

464
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:28,000
but they would make sure everyone heard
about them. You know what I'm saying.

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00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,119
These are the same people who would
not run the Hunter Biden's story that

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00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:35,719
was meticulously reported, deeply reported where
they were on the record, sources,

467
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:40,440
where they had physical evidence in their
hands, and they would not report on

468
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:45,320
this, but yet they would mention
gang rape allegations. It's all over CNN,

469
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:49,800
all over the Washington Post, Kamala
Harris. In fact, I think

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put it in the congressional record.
You know, these are bad people like

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these are people who are corrupt.
And that was the moment. I mean,

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00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,199
it was certainly I hate using the
word, but it was a radicalizing

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00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,760
moment for me in a way.
And let me be honest with you,

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00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,719
I don't like politicians in general,
but I can't think of Republicans doing something

475
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:12,760
similar. Yeah, they stop Merrick
Garland through legal means. They did not

476
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,639
smear the man in any kind of
personal way. You know, you might

477
00:36:15,679 --> 00:36:21,079
disagree with their characterization of him or
whatever. But I can't think of a

478
00:36:21,119 --> 00:36:23,679
single instance. I can't. I
just can't see Mike Lee, let's say,

479
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:28,360
going up there and putting some kind
of smear into the congressional record the

480
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,920
way Kamala Harris did. So maybe
someone can write me and tell me I'm

481
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,320
wrong and show me how I'm wrong. But I just can't think of a

482
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:38,360
similar instance, can you. No, And in general that's been a little

483
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:45,159
bit of a problem. There's been
a you know, bipartisan shift toward more

484
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:52,719
contention in judicial nominations, but there
has never you know, it's always been

485
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based on actual views held by the
nominee that are content for people. And

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then also Democrats will do this thing
where like every single one of them will

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00:37:04,559 --> 00:37:08,119
vote against a perfectly qualified candidate who
they all would have voted for like twenty

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00:37:08,159 --> 00:37:14,239
years prior. Among Republicans, there's
a weakness there where there are a lot

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of people who are like, well, I don't like this person, but

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technically they fit the qualifications, and
I think presidents should get to a point

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00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,119
whom they want, so we will
go along with it. And so it's

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just this like mismatched war where Democrats
are much further along in terms of the

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00:37:31,079 --> 00:37:36,159
battle. I mean, it was
it was the case that most of the

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time presidents would get their Supreme Court
nominees through pretty easily scale I think went

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00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:44,719
through with almost unanimous vote or something
like that. Who the last nominee was

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00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:50,079
to be confirmed by a Senate controlled
by the opposing party of the president.

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No, Clarence Thomas. So that's
and that barely happened, right, I

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00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:05,320
mean, it was I think create
or something. So that's the game that's

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00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,719
being played, and that's the game
Republicans need to play. It's that simple,

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00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:12,880
you know. So on that note, who's this guy that they're trying

501
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,159
to get through right now to be
a federal judge? So I had not

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00:38:16,159 --> 00:38:20,000
been paying attention to this story,
but there was a piece in the New

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00:38:20,079 --> 00:38:27,159
York Times this week by a columnist
named Lydia Paul Green, Paul Green something

504
00:38:27,159 --> 00:38:32,599
like that. It's called the Islamophobic
smear campaign dividing Democrats. So a deal

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00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,679
mangi or mangi, I don't how
to pronounce it is Joe Biden's nominique for

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00:38:36,679 --> 00:38:40,159
the Third Circuit Court of Appeal as
a federal lifetime appointment. Right, And

507
00:38:40,199 --> 00:38:45,119
I think CNN reported Democrats had told
the White House off the you know,

508
00:38:45,159 --> 00:38:49,719
secretly, that there's trouble here,
and there might be trouble with getting this

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00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,880
guy through. So it's not Republicans
who are stopping him, essentially, it's

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00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:58,760
Democrats. Democrats can push through whoever
they feel like. So I was blown

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00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:00,679
away by how bad this guy is
and how he you know, and what

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he's done. So, just to
give you some background, there's a thing

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called the Rutgers Law School Center for
Security and Race and Rights. It's basically

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it's an anti Semitic academic group that
has people who are pro Hamas, not

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00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:22,719
critical of Israel, but pro Hamas
justifying terrorism on it. This guy was

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on the advisory board of that group. Now imagine if I told you that

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some federalist society you know, member
who's nominated for a lifetime appointment was part

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00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:35,920
of some white supremacist group. This
is the same thing. On the advisory

519
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,800
board. He pretends he doesn't know
what's going on, which means he shouldn't

520
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:44,400
be on the Federal Appeals court either, because then he's just a clueless nitwit.

521
00:39:44,599 --> 00:39:47,960
Right, So let me just give
you a quick rundown of some of

522
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:52,519
the people that have been on featured
speakers for this group. Russiat Khalidi,

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00:39:52,559 --> 00:39:57,440
who is a former PLO spokesman's now
with Columbia University. Samye Al Arianne,

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00:39:57,639 --> 00:40:00,639
who was who pled guilty to helping
the Islamic she had about ten years ago

525
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:06,320
a designated terror group that participated in
October seventh. All right, so this

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00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,559
guy is helping that group. Okay, so that's bad enough. Right,

527
00:40:10,159 --> 00:40:14,440
then we learn because he didn't mention
this, he omitted this. You know,

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the Senate asks you like to sort
of tell them all the organizations you're

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00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:22,320
you've participated with. He's also on
the board of what's it called Alliance of

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00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:28,679
Families for Justice, which is which
is a group started by the Marxist terrorist

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00:40:29,079 --> 00:40:36,960
murderer Kathy Bowden, who is the
mother of what's Hissa Chaser. So she

532
00:40:37,639 --> 00:40:40,880
was like, ah, she kind
of like lured two cops in, she

533
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,880
played like a decoy and then they
killed the two cops. So she didn't

534
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:46,800
shoot them, but she like was
part of the plan, you know,

535
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,199
So she was I think she got
second degree murderer, was in jail for

536
00:40:50,199 --> 00:40:53,599
twenty three years. But this group
is a pro cop killer group that celebrates

537
00:40:53,639 --> 00:40:58,320
cop killers as freedom fighters and things
like that. Just a far left wing

538
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:02,679
group, and he's also on their
war Like So, Lawrence Thomas is supposed

539
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:07,159
to step down and just retire because
he has a rich friend that he goes

540
00:41:07,199 --> 00:41:13,000
on vacation with. But this guy
who is literally helping two extremist groups,

541
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,880
which is his right to do it. If you say one word about that,

542
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:21,280
you're islamophobic. I just it is
mind boggling that Republicans aren't being I

543
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,400
mean, Ted Cruz has gone after
this guy pretty hard. But it's kind

544
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:30,159
of mind boggling that this isn't like
headlining. If it was in the reverse,

545
00:41:30,679 --> 00:41:34,320
this would be headlining every outlet.
It would be a huge story,

546
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,440
and yet it's not. And are
you telling me so? Because I'm saying

547
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,320
this, I'm sure someone's going to
call me islamophobic. But I think that

548
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:45,800
people who say that the only is
like, the only qualified Muslim candidate that

549
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:50,000
can be found, has to be
part of these extremist groups, that's Islamic,

550
00:41:50,079 --> 00:41:53,119
phob islamophobic. I am sure that
there were other because this is all

551
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:57,679
you know, everything's about diversity and
so on. But if that, there

552
00:41:57,679 --> 00:42:01,320
are many muzzlfar left Muslim judges out
there that you can find who have not

553
00:42:01,679 --> 00:42:07,440
been on the advisory board of groups
that celebrate terrorism. Also, he's involved

554
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:14,519
with CARE, who was a so
for American Islamic Relations. Yeah who?

555
00:42:14,599 --> 00:42:17,840
The guy? The executive director said
on October eighth that he was pleased with

556
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:22,679
what happened. So, I don't
know. I mean, I am Jewish,

557
00:42:22,679 --> 00:42:24,480
so maybe I'm a little sensitive.
But all that seems pretty freaking bad

558
00:42:24,519 --> 00:42:27,719
to me. You know, I'm
saying, like I don't care who you

559
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,480
are. I do want to say, it's not just Ted Cruz. Actually,

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00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:36,679
the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee
have been raising this issue and highlighting

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00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,440
it. The reason why, the
reason why it hasn't gotten major media coverage

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00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:45,519
is because it makes Democrats look horrific
and awful, and at a time when

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00:42:45,559 --> 00:42:52,039
they are experiencing problems with their left
wing base and their other bases like the

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00:42:52,159 --> 00:43:01,119
conflict in Israel right now, is
a political problem for Democrats. Yeah,

565
00:43:01,159 --> 00:43:05,440
I mean that's another whole story.
I mean, you had we haven't talked

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00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,440
about it. But Truck Schumer's out
there telling Israel to top its duly elected

567
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:14,199
government, like, that's pretty nuts. It's listen, if the administration wants

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00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,880
to pressure Israel because they aa give
a to Israel, I think they're wrong,

569
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,800
but they can do it. But
for a Senator to stand up in

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00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,840
front of the floor and say,
whoa that democratic government over there, the

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00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:27,440
only democratic government in the whole entire
Middle East, Well we need to topple

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00:43:27,519 --> 00:43:30,039
that government. It's not even something
they would ever say about Iran or Saudi

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00:43:30,039 --> 00:43:36,400
Arabia or any other country. But
how about this. Israel doesn't have regularly

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00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:38,920
called elections, So for when Chuck
Schumer is saying, I want you guys

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00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:44,280
to call elections, you can oust
it and Yahoo. That's different than what

576
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,599
you've seen in a lot of other
countries where there are regularly held elections that

577
00:43:47,639 --> 00:43:53,000
happen in a particular time and place. We are also supporting Ukraine as they

578
00:43:53,119 --> 00:43:58,400
are fighting against Russia, and during
the time that Ukraine has been at war

579
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:06,079
with Russia, they have stopped having
elections. And it's just really interesting to

580
00:44:06,119 --> 00:44:10,840
me that Chuck Schumer has no problem
with Ukraine not letting people vote during times

581
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,800
of war, and I think you
know, there are arguments for why it's

582
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:20,599
too unstable. I'm thankful that we've
never had that happen here for national elections.

583
00:44:20,599 --> 00:44:25,320
But they're saying nothing about Ukraine other
than it is the best country in

584
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:30,280
the history of the world, and
it's a fight for democracy, even as

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00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:35,159
they're refusing to hold democratic elections.
And then with Israel, they're going out

586
00:44:35,159 --> 00:44:38,840
of their way to call for elections
in the middle of very heavy fighting.

587
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:45,119
Yeah, I mean they're pressuring Israel. Let me give you an example what

588
00:44:45,119 --> 00:44:50,800
they're doing Israel would be like and
then not exactly right, but like asking

589
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:57,119
Ukraine to say cease fire right now, create some Russian ethnic state right on

590
00:44:57,159 --> 00:45:00,239
your border, a new one that's
never existed. And that's the only way

591
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:05,039
you can have peace and get nothing, get nothing in return. That's what

592
00:45:05,039 --> 00:45:07,000
they're doing. The problem with all
this, by the way, I just

593
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:12,199
want to mention is that Benjamin Netanna, who is wants to finish Hamas.

594
00:45:12,599 --> 00:45:15,679
He gave it this excellent speech somewhere
online I saw the other day about why

595
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:22,719
it's necessary the United States is standing
in the way of that happening. Hamas

596
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:29,679
killed American citizens has American citizen hostages
right now, and they're busy going after

597
00:45:30,039 --> 00:45:31,960
Nettaya, who is the duly elected
prime minister. But more than that,

598
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:37,880
no party in Israel, they have
a unity government now, no major party

599
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,199
in Israel opposes going after Hamas,
do you know what I'm saying. So

600
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:45,679
they they're blaming Netanyahu the same way
they need some straw man. Like I've

601
00:45:45,679 --> 00:45:49,719
said this before, like they blame
the NRA instead of going after gun owners,

602
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,360
or they blame the Federalist Society instead
of going after conservative voters, because

603
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:57,760
they're you know, it's just a
cowardly way to go about it. So

604
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,360
I don't know, it's about situation. I just you know, I think

605
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:06,320
that Israel is now part is an
issue completely everything. Donald Trump was pro

606
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,119
Israel in every way you can be, and I think that's because those are

607
00:46:09,159 --> 00:46:15,480
the correct moral and good you know, in American positions as well, and

608
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,599
Joe Biden is not. So if
you're you know, if you care about

609
00:46:17,639 --> 00:46:23,079
Israel, it's something to consider anything. Okay. So Democrats are going after

610
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:29,440
Natanna, who Chuck Schumer is calling
for his oust this type of really strong

611
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:37,199
pushback. Do you remember in the
days after the horrific October seventh attack when

612
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:43,760
it was reported that his Bola was
like attacking from the north while Israel was

613
00:46:45,119 --> 00:46:50,920
distracted by what was happening in Gaza, and Trump said something about how that

614
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:54,039
would be like smart of his Bola
to take advantage of this, not saying

615
00:46:54,079 --> 00:46:58,079
it in like a favorable way,
but just kind of an analysis of the

616
00:46:58,159 --> 00:47:02,639
situation kind of way. And he
also said that he thought that net Naho

617
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:08,320
had had like a horrible intelligence failure
by not being able to prevent this from

618
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:14,239
happening. Now you can and maybe
even should say that that is not the

619
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:21,400
right time to make such statements as
a country is reeling from the horrific attack

620
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:29,320
on it. Everyone in the media
were apoplectic with rage and saying that this

621
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,760
is like the most horrific thing that
Trump has ever done, criticizing netan Nyaho

622
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:37,119
for allowing October seventh to happen.
It was like the war. He's like

623
00:47:37,039 --> 00:47:45,000
passed a line that is unpassable and
it's horrible. Okay, fine, where

624
00:47:45,039 --> 00:47:49,159
are they right now with Democrats like
sabotaging net Yahoo? You know? Meanwhile,

625
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:51,519
Trump is like, yeah, I
think I would, I would do

626
00:47:51,559 --> 00:47:54,760
what I could to help net Nyaho
finish what he needs to finish here.

627
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:00,960
That's a very good point. I
take that even further. The other day,

628
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:04,800
Donald Trump said, if you vote
for Democrats, you hate Israel,

629
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,360
and you hate your Jewis, you
hate your religion to Jewish Summoters, which

630
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:12,480
is way over the top and not
something he should be saying. But I'm

631
00:48:12,519 --> 00:48:15,800
supposed to be just deathly offended by
that comment. You know what offends me

632
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:21,159
that there is an Iran asset in
the Pentagon. That offends me more than

633
00:48:21,159 --> 00:48:25,440
Donald Trump's you know, hyperbole,
or that Donald Trump moved the embassy to

634
00:48:25,519 --> 00:48:30,239
Jerusalem and Biden didn't want to do
it, that he you know, he

635
00:48:30,079 --> 00:48:36,000
stopped funding Hamas through the UN,
and Biden gave money to the UN.

636
00:48:36,079 --> 00:48:39,599
That he stopped allowing Iran to just
be flush with cash so they can plow

637
00:48:39,639 --> 00:48:44,320
it into these proxy wars. Trump
didn't allow that to happen as much,

638
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,199
but Biden did. Those things are
much more offensive to me as a as

639
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:53,360
a bit strong supporter of Israel than
Trump saying something, you know whatever,

640
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:57,239
dumb whatever, I mean. I
don't think he's that wrong, honestly,

641
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,920
So I'm just gonna say I think
that a lot of Jews. Israel is

642
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:04,360
that the center of Jewish faith,
but Jewish culture in a way, And

643
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,679
if you don't think there should be
a safe space for Jews after what's gone

644
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:09,400
on, that's a problem for me. I think a lot of Jews are

645
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:14,960
just happy wallowing in victimhood. That's
how they're comfortable. And when Jews fight

646
00:49:15,039 --> 00:49:17,000
back, that makes them uncomfortable.
So I don't know. I think Trump

647
00:49:17,039 --> 00:49:21,079
as sometimes he does, got to
a truth there that people don't very much

648
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:24,360
like. But the point is that
I'm supposed to be so, you know,

649
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:29,480
I'm supposed to have a meltdown when
someone says George Soros is a major

650
00:49:29,559 --> 00:49:34,199
funder of Marxist you know efforts,
which he is, just because he's Jewish.

651
00:49:35,119 --> 00:49:38,280
Dear Lord, I'm having a breakdown, so worked up, but you

652
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:42,519
know, I care more about what's
happening on the ground. I'm not saying

653
00:49:42,519 --> 00:49:45,679
you should ignore what people say if
it's wrong, but there are things,

654
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:47,000
there are more. This is what
I was trying to say at the top.

655
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:52,119
I am more concerned about what our
government has done to destroy our auto

656
00:49:52,199 --> 00:49:55,159
industry than I am about someone noticing
that our government has done a lot to

657
00:49:55,199 --> 00:49:59,559
destroy our auto industry. Fact,
I'm not upset about that second thing at

658
00:49:59,559 --> 00:50:04,840
all. I'm happy someone's noticing.
And our media are all about caring more

659
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,880
about the way their political opponents say
something than about the actual destruction of the

660
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,440
country. I mean, I was
deeply offended by that Trump speech because he

661
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:14,480
said he was going to raise auto
tarists one hundred percent. I was like,

662
00:50:14,559 --> 00:50:16,679
what, that was much worse than
any kind of bloodbath comment for me.

663
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:21,519
But no, no one agrees with
that. I think it's a big

664
00:50:21,559 --> 00:50:24,480
mistake. But yeah, I hear
what you're saying. Let's move on to

665
00:50:24,559 --> 00:50:29,079
culture. I really wish, you
know, Trump would just pull pull in

666
00:50:29,159 --> 00:50:32,800
his Trump isn't just tadfit. Actually
annoys me when people say that, like

667
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:37,960
I hear that. It's not that
I disagree, in fact I agree.

668
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:42,800
It's just like wishing for things that
aren't going to happen at some point is

669
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:46,960
very counterproductive. You just have to
accept the way things are accepted. I

670
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:53,239
accept it. Where have all the
Friday jobs reports gone? The Washed Out

671
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:58,400
on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. Every day Chris helps unpack the connection

672
00:50:58,519 --> 00:51:01,039
between politics and the economy and how
it affects your wallet. The White House

673
00:51:01,119 --> 00:51:06,360
used to gloat about their incredible job
numbers. The latest report was off by

674
00:51:06,599 --> 00:51:09,320
forty percent. They are lying to
you. What's the real truth about the

675
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:14,079
jobs reports? It's all fake.
Whether it's happening in DC or down on

676
00:51:14,119 --> 00:51:16,199
Wall Street, it's affecting you financially. Be informed. Check out the Watchdot

677
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:20,679
on Wall Street podcast with Chris mccowski
on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you

678
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:27,159
get your podcasts. Yeah, let's
talk about culture. Can I make one

679
00:51:27,199 --> 00:51:30,719
quick correction or I like to just
clarify something I said last week. Someone

680
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:36,800
sent me an email. I had
said that I'd seen that Cabrini movie,

681
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:39,960
which remember I said that my wife
had said at least that there wasn't enough

682
00:51:40,039 --> 00:51:44,360
God in it. And apparently that's
a big critique of many Catholics because I've

683
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,559
seen reviews now and it's like a
big debate going on. But I said

684
00:51:46,559 --> 00:51:52,679
that Cabrini, Francis Cabrini was the
first American saint, and someone told me

685
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:57,199
that Mother Seaton was the first American
saint. So I looked into it and

686
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:01,480
it's a little complicated. Other Seaton
was born before Cabrini, but she was

687
00:52:01,559 --> 00:52:07,800
sainted at you know she canonized after
meaning she was canonized in nineteen forty six,

688
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,119
Cabrini was canonized. I don't know
when, so I don't know who's

689
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:13,880
first. Then who would be first? The person who lived first, of

690
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:15,599
the person who is the saint first? You, as a Lutheran must know

691
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:22,320
I would not. Yeah, so
not not a Lutherans. Neither of those

692
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,719
women are Lutheran saints, although Lutherans
actually believe that all Christians are saints,

693
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:30,840
but we do a hold sum up
for special for special honor, so don't

694
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:34,599
I don't know enough, and I
will just refer to our Roman Catholic readers

695
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,760
anyway, letting us. So if
I got that wrong, I apologize.

696
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:42,960
I am not Catholic myself, just
I'm in the vicinity of one. So

697
00:52:43,039 --> 00:52:46,480
what did you do for a culture? I didn't. Okay, So we

698
00:52:46,559 --> 00:52:52,119
had a very active weekend. It
was kind of like unfortunate timing because we

699
00:52:52,199 --> 00:52:54,480
don't like to do very many things, but we did a lot this weekend.

700
00:52:54,599 --> 00:52:59,360
So the first thing is that we
went to see this comedy show in

701
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:05,559
DC, this guy named Chris Fleming, and I find him hilarious and every

702
00:53:05,559 --> 00:53:09,320
time I show him, I show
Mark a clip of him. He does

703
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:13,480
not seem to like him as much
as I do. He's very, very,

704
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:16,519
very weird. But first off,
I'll say that we went to the

705
00:53:16,599 --> 00:53:21,880
show, and the show, you
know how Donald Trump talks about Mexico not

706
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,760
sending us their best. That's kind
of what I felt about the audience,

707
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:29,440
Like, whoever was sending this group, it was not our best. It

708
00:53:29,519 --> 00:53:36,119
was people who seem to like visually
represent not being healthy physically or otherwise.

709
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:43,400
And you know, more more trans
people that I've seen in a long time

710
00:53:43,639 --> 00:53:52,400
in one location with not very convincing
presentations, work in lots of lots of

711
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:58,039
thigh tattoos or tattoos on the neck. Just didn't you know? I want

712
00:53:58,039 --> 00:54:01,400
to be a tattoo consultant for America
where I just sit down with people and

713
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,760
say, what if we didn't?
You know, what if we didn't?

714
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:07,280
You're a beautiful person. Let's I
ask you a quick question. Was this

715
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:13,840
comedian politically inclined more like non woke
or like why are there so many people

716
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:15,840
there like well? And then also
like you kind of realize when you're at

717
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:20,440
a show of someone you like and
that's what you see, You're like,

718
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:23,440
what does this say about me,
like these are my people, essentially,

719
00:54:23,679 --> 00:54:28,519
and it didn't feel very Mark one
point leaned over to me and said,

720
00:54:28,559 --> 00:54:31,920
there is zero risk of you being
recognized here, absolutely true, Like you

721
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:37,199
know, in the middle of DC, nobody would have any idea very white

722
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:39,880
crowd, by the way, I
think maybe an entirely white crowd, which

723
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:45,000
is also kind of weird because DC
is chocolate city. But the comedian,

724
00:54:45,119 --> 00:54:50,920
yeah, he's a left leaning person
from I think Massachusetts. He's really good

725
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,840
at physical comedy. By the way. Mark loved the show, and he

726
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:57,480
did not expect to. He was
doing this as a favor to me,

727
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:01,440
and it was a really, really
good show. I noticed that Conan O'Brien

728
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:05,800
had recommended people go to see it, and that made me feel a little

729
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:08,639
less bad about making my husband or
you know, begging my husband to take

730
00:55:08,679 --> 00:55:15,679
me, because I like Conan O'Brien
too. So And what I found interesting

731
00:55:15,679 --> 00:55:19,440
about the show though left leaning guy, left leaning crowd, and the political

732
00:55:19,519 --> 00:55:23,119
humor was of the type to make
fun of boomers for believing what Rachel Mattow

733
00:55:23,159 --> 00:55:27,519
tells them about Trump and the walls
closing in, and I was like,

734
00:55:27,559 --> 00:55:30,920
well, that's interesting, you know, that that's where we are in the

735
00:55:30,079 --> 00:55:36,119
humor landscape for this crowd, and
it went over really well. He was

736
00:55:36,159 --> 00:55:39,440
sort of accepting as fact that Trump
would win reelection and that he was very

737
00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:44,719
worried about how the boomers would take
it because they all listened to Rachel Maddow

738
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:50,119
and because the show was not that
long. We then went to see this

739
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:54,199
Oh man, Mark's gonna get mad
at me for not remembering this Canadian band

740
00:55:54,960 --> 00:56:00,440
called the Sam Roberts Band. You
know who that is? I do not.

741
00:56:00,159 --> 00:56:04,159
So it was a show at a
very small venue down on the water

742
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:08,119
in d C. I mean not
a large crowd, but a clearly very

743
00:56:08,159 --> 00:56:13,440
Canadian and enthusiastic crowd for the band. And they were really good, like

744
00:56:13,519 --> 00:56:17,199
good, good songs, good guitars
like all that. Sorry, this is

745
00:56:17,519 --> 00:56:23,599
I'm just going off on my weekend. Yeah, one more things. So

746
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:30,760
our last thing we did this past
weekend was go to Ryan Long at the

747
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:35,079
DC Improv. He had two shows
in d C. There was like the

748
00:56:35,159 --> 00:56:38,440
sold out seven pm show and then
the Stragglers at ten pm, And we

749
00:56:39,199 --> 00:56:43,519
didn't get in in time to go
to the earlier show, so we went

750
00:56:43,559 --> 00:56:46,079
to the later show and it was
it was good. There were He was

751
00:56:46,119 --> 00:56:50,239
great, Actually, he's really funny, and I enjoyed the show great deal.

752
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:57,239
The two warm up people who were
not great, I kind of noticed

753
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:02,159
they also had some humor that was
more poking fun at the left, and

754
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:07,320
that takes some amount of bravery in
a DC crowd, but it was We

755
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:10,400
were really glad. We never go
to comedy shows, or hardly ever go,

756
00:57:10,639 --> 00:57:13,800
and to go to two in one
weekend was a bit much, but

757
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:17,679
we enjoyed it. What did you
do? I haven't been able to do

758
00:57:17,719 --> 00:57:21,440
a lot. I've had some personal
things I've had to attend to, so,

759
00:57:21,519 --> 00:57:23,800
but I was reading a book that
I'm really enjoying, so I want

760
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:30,440
to mention it. It's called Why
the Bible Began, an Alternative History of

761
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:34,079
Scripture and its Origins. It sounds
like it's going to be all anti faith

762
00:57:34,119 --> 00:57:37,000
and stuff like that, but it's
actually not. It's this guy is a

763
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:44,559
professor of biblical studies or somewhere I
forget, and it's just fascinating sort of

764
00:57:44,599 --> 00:57:51,119
investigation into why the Jewish people and
then Christians and Muslims were different than everyone

765
00:57:51,159 --> 00:57:53,760
else, and why this book existed
and why the story was told the way

766
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:58,679
it was and why they were monotheistic, and it uses sort of you know

767
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:02,360
history but our you know archaeology and
all you know. It's just just fascinating,

768
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:07,480
fascinating books. I really strongly recommend
it for people who are interested in

769
00:58:07,519 --> 00:58:12,400
that. And the other thing I
wanted to mention was Neil Young is back

770
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:16,599
on Spotify now. A little bit
of a disagreement with some of my colleagues

771
00:58:16,639 --> 00:58:22,000
on the signal Federalist Signal chat about
this. Not your husband who agrees with

772
00:58:22,039 --> 00:58:25,400
me, But I'm a massive Neil
Young fan and I think he's a goofball,

773
00:58:27,079 --> 00:58:30,199
but he's also a genius. So
I think every album from everyone knows

774
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:34,559
This is Nowhere through the seventies to
Russ Never Sleep, every single one of

775
00:58:34,599 --> 00:58:37,639
the albums he made are just and
I'm not a big classic rock guy,

776
00:58:37,719 --> 00:58:42,000
but they're all I think classic albums, and people should listen to Neil Young,

777
00:58:42,119 --> 00:58:44,639
and I just wanted to put that
out there in the world. So

778
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:49,000
I will admit that I am not
a huge Neil Young fan. But my

779
00:58:49,119 --> 00:58:51,840
husband, you know, we go
we do a lot of record collecting or

780
00:58:52,719 --> 00:58:57,199
someone collecting. We just listen to
music on vinyl and he always insists on

781
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,800
getting various Neil Young albums, and
I always complain, But then when I

782
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:02,800
listened to them, I'm like,
ah, this is really good. I

783
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:07,320
just got an old copy of Zuma, which is one of my favorite albums

784
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:12,239
of his on vinyl. I just
I'm also like eh, And then when

785
00:59:12,239 --> 00:59:15,519
I listen, I'm like, this
is amazing. So I just wanted to

786
00:59:15,519 --> 00:59:16,840
put that out in the world.
I also wanted to put a little music

787
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:20,760
into the conversation so I have something
to end the show on. Oh,

788
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,039
I was going to mention. So
I'm in Oklahoma, Oklahoma City right now,

789
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:28,559
and next to me on the plane
coming out here were these three young

790
00:59:29,239 --> 00:59:34,199
like i'd say teenagers, who were
flying out for the Drake concert in Oklahoma

791
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:37,800
City last night, and they have
totally figured out how to game the concert

792
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:43,519
industrial complex. He worked. This
kid worked like at the airport, so

793
00:59:43,559 --> 00:59:49,559
he gets to fly stand by for
cheap. She saying like literally, I

794
00:59:49,559 --> 00:59:52,599
think it was like twenty bucks or
something ridiculous. He and his sisters,

795
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:57,639
and so they were coming out.
The tickets in Oklahoma City for Drake are

796
00:59:57,719 --> 01:00:01,360
much cheaper than they are in your
cities, and you can just like have

797
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:06,800
a nice little trip with better access
and better seats. And I was like,

798
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:09,440
these kids are smart. I love
them. And also I'm kind of

799
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:14,079
loving Oklahoma City. And I'm hoping
it's not that I'm just here at a

800
01:00:14,079 --> 01:00:15,960
particularly beautiful time of year, but
I'm like, I could live here.

801
01:00:16,039 --> 01:00:21,039
This is a great place. I've
heard good things. I've heard good things.

802
01:00:21,199 --> 01:00:22,760
They needed professionals to wait, did
they have a professional sport team?

803
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:27,519
They have an NBA team for Yeah, they do. Isn't it the Thunder

804
01:00:27,639 --> 01:00:30,320
or something like? I just make
that up. I follow the end.

805
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:32,880
It's what I met. Yeah,
they needed a hockey team, is what

806
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:37,000
I met. Anyway, that's great. You know who knows why City Thunder

807
01:00:37,159 --> 01:00:43,760
is exactly thunder Thunder Thunder And oh, there's a there's like a ballpark right

808
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:45,320
near here too. I don't know
what the minor league team is, but

809
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:50,039
it's a nice ballpark. It's on
Mickey Mantle Way, so apparently he's from

810
01:00:50,039 --> 01:00:53,000
here. And it intersects with Flaming
Lips Alley, So oh, they're from

811
01:00:53,039 --> 01:00:57,719
there too. Yeah, are you
serious about that flaming thing? Yeah?

812
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,360
I had no idea that they're from
there. Yeah, they're from Oklahoma City.

813
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:05,159
That's interesting. Learn a little bit
about Oklahoma City next week. I

814
01:01:05,199 --> 01:01:07,920
was about to say, when we
speak, who knows where you'll be in

815
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:10,039
America, and we'll learn about that
city as well. Right you know,

816
01:01:10,159 --> 01:01:22,840
Okay and belovers of Freedom. I
think i'd like to go takees. There's

817
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:25,360
a woman that I like to get
to know.