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happens every week when we get together. It just seems I'm always like,
did we talk about this, because it seems like it happened a long time
ago, But actually it did not, And I want to talk about the
Over the past weekend, we had this melt down by the media that reminded
me very much of the Trump presidency days, where the entire media melted down
over something that was completely ridiculous. And this was the blood bath comment Donald
Trump made during a speech I believe it was it in Michigan, whatever it
was. He was talking about the automotive industry and he was saying how it
was going to be a bloodbath for that industry and all others in the country,
and everyone just ran with it. Were you, uh, how'd you
feel about that? I also don't understand metaphors, so I was also very
upset. No. I it was almost like one of these things is too
stupid to believe. There have been so many of these as it relates to
as they relate to Donald Trump, that it shouldn't be shocking anymore. But
this one was a little shocking, if only because bloodbath is one of corporate
media's favorite metaphors. They use it constantly. They particularly use it in a
political context, so use it for a business context. They actually also do
it for economic contexts. They do it all the time, like every day
you read about you know, it's a way of saying, this is going
to be a really bad situation for X. And I noticed, for instance,
Politico when they were participating in the bloodbath info op of the weekend,
where we were supposed to believe that Donald Trump saying that four more years of
Biden would be horrific for the car industry, where we were supposed to pretend
to believe that was a call for a literal bloodbath, which is again insane.
The Politico had something like when is a blood bath not a blood bath?
And it was an article about how like sometimes people use these things called
metaphors, you probably don't know what they are, but this wasn't really a
metaphor. So I just thought, I'll see if Politico has ever used the
term bloodbath. And literally the prior week when the new leadership came into the
RNA SEE and fired like fifty people, they called it a blood bath.
Now, I don't think they were arguing that Chris Losovita and Laura Trump were
in there with machetes beheading people. They were just referring to it in the
way that we all referred to such things metaphorically. As you know, the
firing was like a lot of people lost their jobs. They used it,
you know, in economic articles a lot and job losses, but also in
sports. I've read bloodbath a ton of times. I went through almost every
major site to see how often bloodbath was used. And it's like in the
thousands, so New York Times, Joe Biden used the word bloodbath when talking
about I forgot what it was. Some kind of primary in twenty twenty primary
fight with Bernie Sanders and stuff like that. Here's here's one of the worst
of the headlines. Now political headline read Trump says country faces bloodbath that Biden
wins in November, which is so out of context to be a complete lie.
But the New York Times had Trump says some migrants are not people and
predicts a bloodbath if he loses, which combines two completely separate thoughts, both
of them misleading to make it sound like he was talking about migrants and blood
bats should he lose, which is just insanely dishonest. Yeah, disinformation,
it's propaganda, it's lies. I do want to point out on these some
migrants aren't people thing. Okay, first of all, I feel extreme anger.
I won't use any metaphorse here, but I feel extreme anger anger when
people are unwilling and unable, or when they conflate intentionally legal immigration and illegal
immigration. So the term migrant doesn't like really work here. Most of our
problem in this country. There are people who would like higher or lower rates
of immigration legal, but the real drama here politically is with illegal immigration,
where by the first act of joining in this community, you break the law,
you know, And it's a very contentious fraud topic. And he was
talking about not legal immigration, but illegal immigration, and then specifically talking about
MS thirteen, which is a notoriously bloodthirsty and violent and murderous gang that has
elements that have come here illegally from other countries. And so when you're talking
about violent acts taking place taking place by some of these people and you say
it's like animalistic or something like that, it's actually like an insult to animals
in some of the cases, because these groups can do really awful things like
beheading children and whatnot. Yeah, I mean, listen, I wish sometimes
Trump was a little clearer and more articulate, but he speaks off the coffin
the way he does. I hate to make excuses for it, but it's
clear from the context that you were right about that that he wasn't talking about
any sort of real bloodbat That is completely a metaphor. It's funny because by
and use the word illegal and illegal killed someone in the State of the Union,
and that was what offended everyone deeply, not the murder of an innocent
woman by by an illegal alien, which is still a legalist legal term,
a proper legal term for what people enter this country legally are. And I
people get so mad when I say this, But Donald Trump just reminds me
of it, like everyone who grew up around me in Queens, in New
York elsewhere the way he, you know, uses words like blood baths.
So I was thinking about this. Colin Quinn, who's a comedian, has
this skit about New York jew specifically, But how this language has been adopted
by everyone. So like you asked, like, how is traffic murder?
You know, how was this a blood bath? Like everything is like over
the top. And do people in New York understand that when people say traffic
was murdered, they don't actually mean that there were murders in the traffic.
Do people understand that? I think people who are from New York to But
all the people who are in like the New York Times Building and from terrible
places elsewhere, they do not understand or pretend not to understand, right I
just I can't. I feel like there's this dichotomy going on right now where
in the real world real people. And I don't mean by that like real
world like middle of the country, I mean like kind of the whole country.
People are extremely upset with the poor management of the country by the president,
but also by Congress. They are frustrated with the economy, They're frustrated
with the refusal to do anything about the border other than encourage people to come
here illegally. They're you know, they're not happy with the foreign policy situation,
the crime situation. Like that's the real world, and that this fake
world that corporate media are in of pretending to care or pretending to worry about
terms like blood bath that they use all the time and pretending that they refer
to something specific. It is infuriating, and particularly so because we have a
very unique situation now that the candidates are settled for the Republican and Democrat from
the primaries of being able to compare one presidency versus another. No, the
first Biden term has not concluded, but we've got more than three solid years
to see what it's like to compare with the Trump presidency. I had dinner
last night with some people who said that the thing they were most frustrated about
with Donald Trump was that he didn't pursue any legal action against Hillary Clinton.
But it's true he didn't. You know, he quite explicitly, when people
are like you, said that if you became president, Hillary Clinton would be
in jail, and he was like, listen, that's politics. You have
hard fought campaigns. Let's let bygones be bygones. We're moving on, right,
So he had we've seen what happens when he's in office, which is
too very much not go after political opponents. And in fact, what happened
while he was in office was that Democrats went after him through the agencies and
institutions that they can and government. And then even when they defeated him in
the twenty twenty election, they were like, that was just child's play.
Now we're going to steal your business. Now we're going to put everybody you
know in prison. Now we're going to go after freedom of speech and freedom
of protests. Like what you're going to look back at twenty sixteen to twenty
twenty as a very nice, gentle time, because we're coming and we're coming
to destroy you. We want you to die in prison. Right. And
so that's the current presidency going after political opponents, using unprecedented legal arguments to
go after political opponents, having a widespread and coordinated campaign to destroy the republic
through removal from the ballot, stealing of business, imprisonment, attempts, like
all sorts of really corrupt things. You have jailing of journalists, you have
a tax on journalism, you have the worst censorship regime in the history of
the country. And our corporate media are out there saying blood birth an economic
bloodbath. We're going to pretend to believe that's literal. And also we're going
to claim that this guy that we're running against is an authoritarian all while their
guy is an authoritarian. And it's infuriating. Yeah, I think we should
get to the law affair stuff in the second as well. But don't you
think the whole bloodbath incident reeks of desperation in a way because it is such
an obvious lie, so easily disproven that anyone who spends two minutes or a
minute looking deeper into it or thinking about it will know that this is a
lie, and it only undermines any kind of like legitimate criticism that they may
have in the future. And you know, what was her name, Susan
Glasser? Is that her name? I think you know she's on there saying
this is the you know, she's just this over the top hysterical scare mongering
about fascism. I just it seems to me like, there are a bunch
of credulous partisans who believe that stuff, but that a normal person just simply
doesn't believe that that's true because they've actually lived through a Donald Trump presidency.
He did not go after anyone, He did not arrest anyone, there were
no camps, there were no fascistic you know, he did nothing like that.
It's just a lot of it. And do you know who do who
Susan Glasser is married to. Yes, I do. The reporter at the
Times is he? He is the I think the chief White House correspondent for
the New York Times, Peter Baker. Peter Baker, So you know these
are people. Yes, they say completely insane, unhinged, radical things,
but they do hold positions of power. And you say, like, nobody
believes this. I'm sorry. I actually think there are a bunch of stupid
people in the country who absolutely believe it. They are not bright, they
are not well read. They're motivated by feelings and like worries about being liked
by other people, and I think they're looking for reasons why they can continue
to support Joe Biden even though everyone kind of knows he's been a disaster and
so I think this is very clearly orchestrated at stupid white women, just to
be honest. I know, but aren't those people already not Aren't those people
are already going to vote for Biden? Meaning I don't know that this changes
anything other than actually corroding trust in the media even more, if that's possible,
you know what I'm saying. I don't know. I just I think
it's just they hear the word bloodbaths, someone clips it, you know,
dishonestly, probably online. All these dumb reporters who don't do any reporting,
who don't verify information, they run with it. All the talking heads get
it hysterical, and it's like, we're going to see this over and over
again. And I just I think it's lost its I think it's lost its
effectiveness, that's all I'm saying. You know, it almost it has a
bit of a more of a twenty sixteen field than a twenty twenty field,
so that you could be right on that. I mean, remember when we
used to be like, oh my god, what's going on? You know,
but then by maybe year one, we were like, you got to
wait a day or two to see what actually happened. You know, look
at the context whatever, and it was always so over some hysterical reaction to
something quite normal. And that's another interesting part of this, is like democrats
will take things that everyone does that it's completely normal. And I'm not saying
Donald Trump's completely normal, but what you know, things that he does that
are normal, like acting doing something with the presidency that's completely within his power,
for instance, all of a sudden it becomes fascistic. But I saw
what's his name, George Conway was saying, how it doesn't even matter what
the context is, because this is a classic trade and technique of authoritarian demagogues.
He catastrophizes, is that the right way to say it. Catastrofiz pastrophizes
everything to rile up his cultish supporters and to bind them to him and make
them wllnk to do his bidding. Is he insane? This is such an
act of projection. They're the ones who make everything from a simple tax cut
to deregulating the internet to to saying blood bath in a speech into some kind
of end of days event, you know what I mean. It's just insane
that they say that. Of course politicians, you know, yeah, you
know, exaggerate things, but I mean, that's just insane and I'm sorry
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read the Politico story that said that because Trump is so funny, he's just
like Adolf Hitler. No wait, no, I doesn't remember that one.
Hold on, I want to read from it. My favorite coach, just
why you look? My favorite was Senator mccast skill formas has. She said
that he's worse than Hitler because he doesn't want to invade other countries. And
I was like trying to make sense of this anyway, Wait, maybe this
is what you were just referencing, says Trump and Hitler share a rhetorical style.
Experts say, humor. That's because the humor is not a bug.
It's a feature of demagogue. Ray. Laughter is going to be a weapon,
because you laugh at something to diminish it and as preparation for casting it
down or destroying it. And so he says this expert says, like Trump
uses humor to do his evil deeds. But I'm like still stuck on the
part where we're SUPs. We're supposed to pretend that Hitler was funny, like,
y, I know everyone else Hyler was a cut up. You know
who else is really funny and killed? Oh wait, that's a brong word
use say killed? On the comedy circuit was Benito Mussolini, right, was
somewhat funny. I think actually he had a good sense of humor, but
I don't know that he used that in his speeches. I just don't think
that when you're thinking of people like this, you're thinking of levity or humor.
And it does speak to something you just said, though, that they're
doing this in a frantic, panicked way up it shows weakness to be claiming
that when you laugh at something stupid and funny that Trump said that, really
that's a sign of demagoguery. And I I have a hard time dealing with
people who talk about all the things that Trump will do in a second term
they didn't do in a first who are supposedly real conservatives and principled conservatives,
and they ignore the constant attacks on the constitutional order by Joe Biden, the
constant attacks on the norms of journalism and so forth by the left. I
am not a Trump fan, but for me, he did a lot of
things that were helpful, you know, that help bolster constitutional order and bind
none of that. So if that's your argument, it's just not going to
work, you know, for me. And then then the argument was and
I think that it you know, if you weren't paying attention it might be
an effective argument was that hey, the competent people are coming back. There
was all kinds of appy during the Trump admssion. Now you're going to get
competent, normal seeback. But the opposite happened. As I wrote a few
weeks ago, I think Trump, in a weird way, represents normalcy.
Now he's the normal candidate who will bring back some kind of uh, you
know what will stop all this craziness, these culture war battles and all of
that. I mean, he's literally triangulated on some of those issues and staked
pretty moderate positions that Biden has, you know, just extremist positions on including
abortions. So I don't know, I don't even know where I'm going with
that, but it is it is just messed up. It's a messed up
argument, by the way. Bump. Yeah, Now, I just gonna
say Biden's underlying numbers are so bad right now. I still think he has
a chance to win, but they're so bad that now that you see why
they need to grab onto this kind of ridiculousness, like Biden repeated I think
a dozen times on his Twitter account, this bloodbath hoax thing. You know
what I mean, where the fact checkers, Molly, where are the fact
checkers? I think the fact checkers were all saying that he was for a
literal, genocidal bloodbath because they're also propagandists. But I have noticed that a
lot was I do. But I have noticed that a lot of my friends
and even just people like I've been meeting with on my travels, have been
jokingly using the term bloodbath in ways that they wouldn't have previously. So we
all might we all might joke about traffic being murder or whatever, but now
I just noticed people using it ince like just for fun because of the craziness
of the media. Yeah, I've been I've been using bloodbath quite a bit,
but I may have always used it. I don't know. Did you
want to go onto law fair stuff? No, I want to talk about
Christine lazi Ford. It's good that you bring that up, because it reminds
me of how angry I am with Democrats and where it like that was one
of the moments I very much remember thinking that these people are not just like
political opponents, They're kind of like my enemies in a real way, right,
And I think that that is the case for a lot of people.
Ball, So tell us what why is she in the news again? Okay?
So Christine Glasifd, just to remind everybody, was a woman who asserted
that Brett Kavanaugh had tried to kill her and rape her in high school.
And she didn't have any evidence to support her claim. She had a number
of people she said were there, and they all said that they had no
recollection of anything like this happening, and some of them said it seemed completely
it would have seemed completely out of character for Brett Kavanaugh. This was done
as he was about to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, and she testified,
and now I guess you know. However, many years later, she
has a book that she's calling a memoir about the incident. It's a memoir
which is weird because she never had any memory of when it happened, or
where it happened, or how it happened, or like, she had no
memory of anything except she said she was one hundred percent certain that she'd only
had one beer, which is a weird. Like, of all the things
to remember, that's an interesting thing to remember. And so her memoir.
I read the reviews of the memoir in the New York Times, the Washington
Post, and The Guardian, and I've just started going through her book,
but it definitely doesn't include any memories that would help support her claim. And
yet she's been getting you know, like I just mentioned these reviews of her
book and prominent publications, and yesterday she was on the View, so she's
getting like the full media rollout, and whoope. Goldberg during the View yesterday
said, you know, they were just cheering her on and praising her,
and they were so upset that there were people who didn't believe her, which
by the way, include her father and her best friend. But they were
like, well, we got to take a commercial break, but we'll come
back for this love fest with Christine blasi Ford, the best woman who ever
lived. And it's just an interesting thing, and it actually relates to why
Carrie Severino and I wrote the book Justice on Trial, the number one national
bestseller, Justice on Trial, about that confirmation, because we were old enough
to remember the Clarence Thomas situation. So it's basically the exact same thing except
some minor detail changes. But when Clarence Thomas was nominated by George H.
W. Bush to the Supreme Court, he was going through the confirmation hearings
and everything was fairly normal, and then right at the last minute, NPR
and another outlet leaked a report that the committee hadn't fully evaluated a claim of
sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas, and it came from a woman who, by
all other reports, had spent quite a bit of time pursuing Clarence Thomas without
success, and that they'd been kind of longtime friends, and she'd moved,
she'd followed him from one organization to the next, and there was no evidence
to support her claim, or there was, you know, there was,
there was a lot of evidence against what she was saying. And he was
confirmed in a very dirty, awful, you know situation led by President Joe
Biden when he was the head of the Judiciary Committee. And at the time
that he was confirmed, the vast majority of Americans, black, white,
male, female, all felt like what had happened to him was wrong.
They believed him and not not this woman who made this accusation. But the
Left just kept going to the present day, they will never let it go,
this sort of smear operation. There were documentaries and movies and books and
magazine articles. There's this fabulous Jane Mayer, who has spent decades at The
New York At The New Yorker kind of like coming up with elaborate stories that
are not based in fact, and in case someone miss hurt anyone misshard she
said, fabulous. Not she's not fabulous. Yeah, she's not a good
journalist, and she's at The New Yorker and gets this very high profile.
She also, by the way, went after Brett Kavanaugh with one of the
most utterly bizarre stories. I've read it like ten times and I still have
no idea what she was trying to say. She did it with Ron and
Phero, but knowing that there would be this unrelenting attack. I think there's
this problem where people who are victims of such attacks, once they make it
through, they're kind of like, thank God, that's over, We're done.
But when they went after Brett Kavanaugh, even though it was like completely
appalling and ridiculous what was going on, we knew that we had to get
the facts of the matter down because there would be there would be books,
and you know, there'd be an attempt to rehabilitate this allegation and make it
seem like it was more credible than it was, and so it's all going
according to plan, you know. But like Kerry and I interviewed more than
one hundred people. We interviewed contemporaries of Christine blasi Ford and Brett Kavanaugh.
We interviewed ex girlfriends, ex friends of both people. We got a pretty
good feeling for how both people were in high school. We did not include
the vast majority of what we learned because we felt like people should put names
with some of the allegations that were being made against Christine blasi Ford, and
people were unwilling to do so, so we just didn't include some of it.
But I mean it was like really interesting reporting, I'll just say that.
And we also told the story of like how the confirmation was achieved,
you know, from the White House perspective, the Senate perspective, all the
outside groups, like all that kind of stuff. And I'm really glad we
did because memoirs like this or the other books that came out from left wing
journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post are attempting to rewrite things.
And I actually think, you know, not saying Brett Kavanaugh is my favorite
justice whoever lived, or anything like that, but what was done to this
man who was a father of two daughters, married father of two daughters,
who has suffered assassination attempts since then. It's despicable, and I think like
the media trying to roll this out again, like like, oh, remember
that time we falsely accused someone of gang rape and we said that all these
you know, like insane allegations of him being on rape boats and rape trains
and rape cartels and you know, which is a completely insane Michael AVENAUGHTI led
claims. They act like they didn't do it, and I think they need
to be reminded that they did it, that they're bad people, that the
way that they managed this whole operation was completely partisan and disgusting, and they
should be made to remember. Yeah, I agree, and a couple of
things. You know, Justice on Trial. Your book is riveting reading,
and not only because it goes through the Kavanaugh stuff, but for people who
haven't read it, it also gives great background on Anita Hill and the whole
sort of like process that Democrats engage in these days to smear people. What
they're doing now, I mean they're doing it now to Clarence Thomas again with
other you know smears and so on. But I just want people to recall
that Anita Hill was completely was even less credible, had no credit, but
he can't be less credible than Blazing Ford, but the same level of credibility
she had, which was zero. The FBI investigated both of these her claims
because they were potentially a criminal matter. They sent Affi Davids to the Senate
saying that Anita Hill was not cooperating, like they couldn't find a single person
to back up her accusations. And yet she's still treated like a hero.
They bring her up all the time, you know, like she hadn't lied,
which she did. And so it's worth remembering that the two incidences were
very similar. And I want to say one thing about that though, which
is obviously the problems with Anita Hill's story, from which she benefited greatly our
legion. But at least she met Clarence Thomas. I'm just saying, there's
no evidence that at this point that Christine Blasi Ford and Brett Cavanaugh ever met.
There's no evidence. So that's what she wanted about Anita Hill. She
did work with him for a long time, followed him from job to job.
There's lots of evidence of her calling him. You know. His secretary
was like, yeah, she called all the time, you know that kind
of thing. There they at least met. Is it not weird that both
of them have not are terrible people? One of them is. It's basically
smeared as a rapist all the time, and yet never another person has never
come forward, a credible person too, with any kind of substantiation of this
kind of behavior. So it was with one person and then they were perfectly
the rest of their lives. I mean, Clarence Thomas worked has been obviously
a justice, but he worked in federal government for a long time and there's
not another woman in the world who is ever mistreated by him. Isn't that
weird? I'll go further. Both of them have armies of women who adore
them and like stories to back it up, like of how good he is,
how good one or the other is to work for as a woman.
We interviewed a lot of people, and I also just know a lot of
CT clerks and people in his orbit, and they all are effusive with praise
in a way that you don't hear about a lot of men. I'm not
saying that you hear bad things about a lot of men. I'm just saying,
like the these are people known for being the opposite we I just I
even remember we interviewed all these like ex girlfriends of bred Scho and they were
like, Yeah, this does not this does not match in any way,
shape or form with what it was like to date. It's sort of like
the opposite with the case. I do want to remind people that the second
of you a second accuser. There were multiple accusers, and I think we
should talk about who those were. Kavanaugh and the second one, Julie Sweatnick,
was someone who The Washington Post portrayed in their story, announcing it as
completely credible. She was represented by Michael Abnati now in prison or maybe he's
out of prison for now, he's in prison from sixty more years. I
think, whoa really okay? I think sallyah nineteen year cent and something like
that. I should write him a note. So didn't see ann want him
to run for president? Who wanted to for president? I forgot Jake Tapper,
maybe I forget a lot of people and he and so. But she
was presented as if she were really credible. Her claim was that Brett Kavanaugh
was the leader of a serial gang rape cartel that was roaming the streets of
suburban Maryland. There was the third quote unquote accuser, which was Deborah Ramirez.
I think that's right. Who was who who Jane Mayer and Ronan Pharaoh
wrote about. Like I said, I've read this story ten times. I
don't even know what they're claiming. She's claiming he did. I have no
understanding because like it's written so unclearly that it's unclear who's doing what or where
or what's being in there. The witnesses are weird and everything. And then
even on that front, though, like Deba Ramirez as a real person and
in the friend set, she's a real liberal person with lots of liberal friends.
But in that friend set that Brett Kavanaugh was in, and there's like
decades of evidence that this is kind of like not matching her interactions with him
in the years afterward. And then there was an there was a claim to
Sheldon Whitehouse No no claim. I think that went to Chris Coons that Brett
Kavanaugh was on a on a rape cruise or something like that that had no
support of any kind whatsoever, or I can't mean I can't remember who that
went to, but there there were like incredibly insane claims. Some of those
people later admitted, In fact, I think the boat person admitted that he
had made that up or she had made that up and face charges or something.
There were a lot of criminal referrals, none of which were nobody did
anything with. But it was after some of these outlandish claims that the Democrats
on the Senate Judiciary Committee called for Brett Cavanaugh to resign or to step down
from his nomination. It was not They should not be allowed to forget what
they did, what they pretended to believe, what they were willing to put
this man and father of young children through and are continuing to try to put
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And remember when he got mad about it, Everyone's like, look at him.
He doesn't have the temperament to be in on the Like if someone was
accusing you of gang rape, and you got mad about that. That's not
a normal way to react. Of course, it is exactly Salem witch trials.
Right, if you float, you're a witch, if you think you
weren't, like insane, And just just a reminder that all these same news
outlets that ran with any accusation like they they would say they weren't verified,
but they would make sure everyone heard about them. You know what I'm saying.
These are the same people who would not run the Hunter Biden's story that
was meticulously reported, deeply reported where they were on the record, sources,
where they had physical evidence in their hands, and they would not report on
this, but yet they would mention gang rape allegations. It's all over CNN,
all over the Washington Post, Kamala Harris. In fact, I think
put it in the congressional record. You know, these are bad people like
these are people who are corrupt. And that was the moment. I mean,
it was certainly I hate using the word, but it was a radicalizing
moment for me in a way. And let me be honest with you,
I don't like politicians in general, but I can't think of Republicans doing something
similar. Yeah, they stop Merrick Garland through legal means. They did not
smear the man in any kind of personal way. You know, you might
disagree with their characterization of him or whatever. But I can't think of a
single instance. I can't. I just can't see Mike Lee, let's say,
going up there and putting some kind of smear into the congressional record the
way Kamala Harris did. So maybe someone can write me and tell me I'm
wrong and show me how I'm wrong. But I just can't think of a
similar instance, can you. No, And in general that's been a little
bit of a problem. There's been a you know, bipartisan shift toward more
contention in judicial nominations, but there has never you know, it's always been
based on actual views held by the nominee that are content for people. And
then also Democrats will do this thing where like every single one of them will
vote against a perfectly qualified candidate who they all would have voted for like twenty
years prior. Among Republicans, there's a weakness there where there are a lot
of people who are like, well, I don't like this person, but
technically they fit the qualifications, and I think presidents should get to a point
whom they want, so we will go along with it. And so it's
just this like mismatched war where Democrats are much further along in terms of the
battle. I mean, it was it was the case that most of the
time presidents would get their Supreme Court nominees through pretty easily scale I think went
through with almost unanimous vote or something like that. Who the last nominee was
to be confirmed by a Senate controlled by the opposing party of the president.
No, Clarence Thomas. So that's and that barely happened, right, I
mean, it was I think create or something. So that's the game that's
being played, and that's the game Republicans need to play. It's that simple,
you know. So on that note, who's this guy that they're trying
to get through right now to be a federal judge? So I had not
been paying attention to this story, but there was a piece in the New
York Times this week by a columnist named Lydia Paul Green, Paul Green something
like that. It's called the Islamophobic smear campaign dividing Democrats. So a deal
mangi or mangi, I don't how to pronounce it is Joe Biden's nominique for
the Third Circuit Court of Appeal as a federal lifetime appointment. Right, And
I think CNN reported Democrats had told the White House off the you know,
secretly, that there's trouble here, and there might be trouble with getting this
guy through. So it's not Republicans who are stopping him, essentially, it's
Democrats. Democrats can push through whoever they feel like. So I was blown
away by how bad this guy is and how he you know, and what
he's done. So, just to give you some background, there's a thing
called the Rutgers Law School Center for Security and Race and Rights. It's basically
it's an anti Semitic academic group that has people who are pro Hamas, not
critical of Israel, but pro Hamas justifying terrorism on it. This guy was
on the advisory board of that group. Now imagine if I told you that
some federalist society you know, member who's nominated for a lifetime appointment was part
of some white supremacist group. This is the same thing. On the advisory
board. He pretends he doesn't know what's going on, which means he shouldn't
be on the Federal Appeals court either, because then he's just a clueless nitwit.
Right, So let me just give you a quick rundown of some of
the people that have been on featured speakers for this group. Russiat Khalidi,
who is a former PLO spokesman's now with Columbia University. Samye Al Arianne,
who was who pled guilty to helping the Islamic she had about ten years ago
a designated terror group that participated in October seventh. All right, so this
guy is helping that group. Okay, so that's bad enough. Right,
then we learn because he didn't mention this, he omitted this. You know,
the Senate asks you like to sort of tell them all the organizations you're
you've participated with. He's also on the board of what's it called Alliance of
Families for Justice, which is which is a group started by the Marxist terrorist
murderer Kathy Bowden, who is the mother of what's Hissa Chaser. So she
was like, ah, she kind of like lured two cops in, she
played like a decoy and then they killed the two cops. So she didn't
shoot them, but she like was part of the plan, you know,
So she was I think she got second degree murderer, was in jail for
twenty three years. But this group is a pro cop killer group that celebrates
cop killers as freedom fighters and things like that. Just a far left wing
group, and he's also on their war Like So, Lawrence Thomas is supposed
to step down and just retire because he has a rich friend that he goes
on vacation with. But this guy who is literally helping two extremist groups,
which is his right to do it. If you say one word about that,
you're islamophobic. I just it is mind boggling that Republicans aren't being I
mean, Ted Cruz has gone after this guy pretty hard. But it's kind
of mind boggling that this isn't like headlining. If it was in the reverse,
this would be headlining every outlet. It would be a huge story,
and yet it's not. And are you telling me so? Because I'm saying
this, I'm sure someone's going to call me islamophobic. But I think that
people who say that the only is like, the only qualified Muslim candidate that
can be found, has to be part of these extremist groups, that's Islamic,
phob islamophobic. I am sure that there were other because this is all
you know, everything's about diversity and so on. But if that, there
are many muzzlfar left Muslim judges out there that you can find who have not
been on the advisory board of groups that celebrate terrorism. Also, he's involved
with CARE, who was a so for American Islamic Relations. Yeah who?
The guy? The executive director said on October eighth that he was pleased with
what happened. So, I don't know. I mean, I am Jewish,
so maybe I'm a little sensitive. But all that seems pretty freaking bad
to me. You know, I'm saying, like I don't care who you
are. I do want to say, it's not just Ted Cruz. Actually,
the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have been raising this issue and highlighting
it. The reason why, the reason why it hasn't gotten major media coverage
is because it makes Democrats look horrific and awful, and at a time when
they are experiencing problems with their left wing base and their other bases like the
conflict in Israel right now, is a political problem for Democrats. Yeah,
I mean that's another whole story. I mean, you had we haven't talked
about it. But Truck Schumer's out there telling Israel to top its duly elected
government, like, that's pretty nuts. It's listen, if the administration wants
to pressure Israel because they aa give a to Israel, I think they're wrong,
but they can do it. But for a Senator to stand up in
front of the floor and say, whoa that democratic government over there, the
only democratic government in the whole entire Middle East, Well we need to topple
that government. It's not even something they would ever say about Iran or Saudi
Arabia or any other country. But how about this. Israel doesn't have regularly
called elections, So for when Chuck Schumer is saying, I want you guys
to call elections, you can oust it and Yahoo. That's different than what
you've seen in a lot of other countries where there are regularly held elections that
happen in a particular time and place. We are also supporting Ukraine as they
are fighting against Russia, and during the time that Ukraine has been at war
with Russia, they have stopped having elections. And it's just really interesting to
me that Chuck Schumer has no problem with Ukraine not letting people vote during times
of war, and I think you know, there are arguments for why it's
too unstable. I'm thankful that we've never had that happen here for national elections.
But they're saying nothing about Ukraine other than it is the best country in
the history of the world, and it's a fight for democracy, even as
they're refusing to hold democratic elections. And then with Israel, they're going out
of their way to call for elections in the middle of very heavy fighting.
Yeah, I mean they're pressuring Israel. Let me give you an example what
they're doing Israel would be like and then not exactly right, but like asking
Ukraine to say cease fire right now, create some Russian ethnic state right on
your border, a new one that's never existed. And that's the only way
you can have peace and get nothing, get nothing in return. That's what
they're doing. The problem with all this, by the way, I just
want to mention is that Benjamin Netanna, who is wants to finish Hamas.
He gave it this excellent speech somewhere online I saw the other day about why
it's necessary the United States is standing in the way of that happening. Hamas
killed American citizens has American citizen hostages right now, and they're busy going after
Nettaya, who is the duly elected prime minister. But more than that,
no party in Israel, they have a unity government now, no major party
in Israel opposes going after Hamas, do you know what I'm saying. So
they they're blaming Netanyahu the same way they need some straw man. Like I've
said this before, like they blame the NRA instead of going after gun owners,
or they blame the Federalist Society instead of going after conservative voters, because
they're you know, it's just a cowardly way to go about it. So
I don't know, it's about situation. I just you know, I think
that Israel is now part is an issue completely everything. Donald Trump was pro
Israel in every way you can be, and I think that's because those are
the correct moral and good you know, in American positions as well, and
Joe Biden is not. So if you're you know, if you care about
Israel, it's something to consider anything. Okay. So Democrats are going after
Natanna, who Chuck Schumer is calling for his oust this type of really strong
pushback. Do you remember in the days after the horrific October seventh attack when
it was reported that his Bola was like attacking from the north while Israel was
distracted by what was happening in Gaza, and Trump said something about how that
would be like smart of his Bola to take advantage of this, not saying
it in like a favorable way, but just kind of an analysis of the
situation kind of way. And he also said that he thought that net Naho
had had like a horrible intelligence failure by not being able to prevent this from
happening. Now you can and maybe even should say that that is not the
right time to make such statements as a country is reeling from the horrific attack
on it. Everyone in the media were apoplectic with rage and saying that this
is like the most horrific thing that Trump has ever done, criticizing netan Nyaho
for allowing October seventh to happen. It was like the war. He's like
passed a line that is unpassable and it's horrible. Okay, fine, where
are they right now with Democrats like sabotaging net Yahoo? You know? Meanwhile,
Trump is like, yeah, I think I would, I would do
what I could to help net Nyaho finish what he needs to finish here.
That's a very good point. I take that even further. The other day,
Donald Trump said, if you vote for Democrats, you hate Israel,
and you hate your Jewis, you hate your religion to Jewish Summoters, which
is way over the top and not something he should be saying. But I'm
supposed to be just deathly offended by that comment. You know what offends me
that there is an Iran asset in the Pentagon. That offends me more than
Donald Trump's you know, hyperbole, or that Donald Trump moved the embassy to
Jerusalem and Biden didn't want to do it, that he you know, he
stopped funding Hamas through the UN, and Biden gave money to the UN.
That he stopped allowing Iran to just be flush with cash so they can plow
it into these proxy wars. Trump didn't allow that to happen as much,
but Biden did. Those things are much more offensive to me as a as
a bit strong supporter of Israel than Trump saying something, you know whatever,
dumb whatever, I mean. I don't think he's that wrong, honestly,
So I'm just gonna say I think that a lot of Jews. Israel is
that the center of Jewish faith, but Jewish culture in a way, And
if you don't think there should be a safe space for Jews after what's gone
on, that's a problem for me. I think a lot of Jews are
just happy wallowing in victimhood. That's how they're comfortable. And when Jews fight
back, that makes them uncomfortable. So I don't know. I think Trump
as sometimes he does, got to a truth there that people don't very much
like. But the point is that I'm supposed to be so, you know,
I'm supposed to have a meltdown when someone says George Soros is a major
funder of Marxist you know efforts, which he is, just because he's Jewish.
Dear Lord, I'm having a breakdown, so worked up, but you
know, I care more about what's happening on the ground. I'm not saying
you should ignore what people say if it's wrong, but there are things,
there are more. This is what I was trying to say at the top.
I am more concerned about what our government has done to destroy our auto
industry than I am about someone noticing that our government has done a lot to
destroy our auto industry. Fact, I'm not upset about that second thing at
all. I'm happy someone's noticing. And our media are all about caring more
about the way their political opponents say something than about the actual destruction of the
country. I mean, I was deeply offended by that Trump speech because he
said he was going to raise auto tarists one hundred percent. I was like,
what, that was much worse than any kind of bloodbath comment for me.
But no, no one agrees with that. I think it's a big
mistake. But yeah, I hear what you're saying. Let's move on to
culture. I really wish, you know, Trump would just pull pull in
his Trump isn't just tadfit. Actually annoys me when people say that, like
I hear that. It's not that I disagree, in fact I agree.
It's just like wishing for things that aren't going to happen at some point is
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get your podcasts. Yeah, let's talk about culture. Can I make one
quick correction or I like to just clarify something I said last week. Someone
sent me an email. I had said that I'd seen that Cabrini movie,
which remember I said that my wife had said at least that there wasn't enough
God in it. And apparently that's a big critique of many Catholics because I've
seen reviews now and it's like a big debate going on. But I said
that Cabrini, Francis Cabrini was the first American saint, and someone told me
that Mother Seaton was the first American saint. So I looked into it and
it's a little complicated. Other Seaton was born before Cabrini, but she was
sainted at you know she canonized after meaning she was canonized in nineteen forty six,
Cabrini was canonized. I don't know when, so I don't know who's
first. Then who would be first? The person who lived first, of
the person who is the saint first? You, as a Lutheran must know
I would not. Yeah, so not not a Lutherans. Neither of those
women are Lutheran saints, although Lutherans actually believe that all Christians are saints,
but we do a hold sum up for special for special honor, so don't
I don't know enough, and I will just refer to our Roman Catholic readers
anyway, letting us. So if I got that wrong, I apologize.
I am not Catholic myself, just I'm in the vicinity of one. So
what did you do for a culture? I didn't. Okay, So we
had a very active weekend. It was kind of like unfortunate timing because we
don't like to do very many things, but we did a lot this weekend.
So the first thing is that we went to see this comedy show in
DC, this guy named Chris Fleming, and I find him hilarious and every
time I show him, I show Mark a clip of him. He does
not seem to like him as much as I do. He's very, very,
very weird. But first off, I'll say that we went to the
show, and the show, you know how Donald Trump talks about Mexico not
sending us their best. That's kind of what I felt about the audience,
Like, whoever was sending this group, it was not our best. It
was people who seem to like visually represent not being healthy physically or otherwise.
And you know, more more trans people that I've seen in a long time
in one location with not very convincing presentations, work in lots of lots of
thigh tattoos or tattoos on the neck. Just didn't you know? I want
to be a tattoo consultant for America where I just sit down with people and
say, what if we didn't? You know, what if we didn't?
You're a beautiful person. Let's I ask you a quick question. Was this
comedian politically inclined more like non woke or like why are there so many people
there like well? And then also like you kind of realize when you're at
a show of someone you like and that's what you see, You're like,
what does this say about me, like these are my people, essentially,
and it didn't feel very Mark one point leaned over to me and said,
there is zero risk of you being recognized here, absolutely true, Like you
know, in the middle of DC, nobody would have any idea very white
crowd, by the way, I think maybe an entirely white crowd, which
is also kind of weird because DC is chocolate city. But the comedian,
yeah, he's a left leaning person from I think Massachusetts. He's really good
at physical comedy. By the way. Mark loved the show, and he
did not expect to. He was doing this as a favor to me,
and it was a really, really good show. I noticed that Conan O'Brien
had recommended people go to see it, and that made me feel a little
less bad about making my husband or you know, begging my husband to take
me, because I like Conan O'Brien too. So And what I found interesting
about the show though left leaning guy, left leaning crowd, and the political
humor was of the type to make fun of boomers for believing what Rachel Mattow
tells them about Trump and the walls closing in, and I was like,
well, that's interesting, you know, that that's where we are in the
humor landscape for this crowd, and it went over really well. He was
sort of accepting as fact that Trump would win reelection and that he was very
worried about how the boomers would take it because they all listened to Rachel Maddow
and because the show was not that long. We then went to see this
Oh man, Mark's gonna get mad at me for not remembering this Canadian band
called the Sam Roberts Band. You know who that is? I do not.
So it was a show at a very small venue down on the water
in d C. I mean not a large crowd, but a clearly very
Canadian and enthusiastic crowd for the band. And they were really good, like
good, good songs, good guitars like all that. Sorry, this is
I'm just going off on my weekend. Yeah, one more things. So
our last thing we did this past weekend was go to Ryan Long at the
DC Improv. He had two shows in d C. There was like the
sold out seven pm show and then the Stragglers at ten pm, And we
didn't get in in time to go to the earlier show, so we went
to the later show and it was it was good. There were He was
great, Actually, he's really funny, and I enjoyed the show great deal.
The two warm up people who were not great, I kind of noticed
they also had some humor that was more poking fun at the left, and
that takes some amount of bravery in a DC crowd, but it was We
were really glad. We never go to comedy shows, or hardly ever go,
and to go to two in one weekend was a bit much, but
we enjoyed it. What did you do? I haven't been able to do
a lot. I've had some personal things I've had to attend to, so,
but I was reading a book that I'm really enjoying, so I want
to mention it. It's called Why the Bible Began, an Alternative History of
Scripture and its Origins. It sounds like it's going to be all anti faith
and stuff like that, but it's actually not. It's this guy is a
professor of biblical studies or somewhere I forget, and it's just fascinating sort of
investigation into why the Jewish people and then Christians and Muslims were different than everyone
else, and why this book existed and why the story was told the way
it was and why they were monotheistic, and it uses sort of you know
history but our you know archaeology and all you know. It's just just fascinating,
fascinating books. I really strongly recommend it for people who are interested in
that. And the other thing I wanted to mention was Neil Young is back
on Spotify now. A little bit of a disagreement with some of my colleagues
on the signal Federalist Signal chat about this. Not your husband who agrees with
me, But I'm a massive Neil Young fan and I think he's a goofball,
but he's also a genius. So I think every album from everyone knows
This is Nowhere through the seventies to Russ Never Sleep, every single one of
the albums he made are just and I'm not a big classic rock guy,
but they're all I think classic albums, and people should listen to Neil Young,
and I just wanted to put that out there in the world. So
I will admit that I am not a huge Neil Young fan. But my
husband, you know, we go we do a lot of record collecting or
someone collecting. We just listen to music on vinyl and he always insists on
getting various Neil Young albums, and I always complain, But then when I
listened to them, I'm like, ah, this is really good. I
just got an old copy of Zuma, which is one of my favorite albums
of his on vinyl. I just I'm also like eh, And then when
I listen, I'm like, this is amazing. So I just wanted to
put that out in the world. I also wanted to put a little music
into the conversation so I have something to end the show on. Oh,
I was going to mention. So I'm in Oklahoma, Oklahoma City right now,
and next to me on the plane coming out here were these three young
like i'd say teenagers, who were flying out for the Drake concert in Oklahoma
City last night, and they have totally figured out how to game the concert
industrial complex. He worked. This kid worked like at the airport, so
he gets to fly stand by for cheap. She saying like literally, I
think it was like twenty bucks or something ridiculous. He and his sisters,
and so they were coming out. The tickets in Oklahoma City for Drake are
much cheaper than they are in your cities, and you can just like have
a nice little trip with better access and better seats. And I was like,
these kids are smart. I love them. And also I'm kind of
loving Oklahoma City. And I'm hoping it's not that I'm just here at a
particularly beautiful time of year, but I'm like, I could live here.
This is a great place. I've heard good things. I've heard good things.
They needed professionals to wait, did they have a professional sport team?
They have an NBA team for Yeah, they do. Isn't it the Thunder
or something like? I just make that up. I follow the end.
It's what I met. Yeah, they needed a hockey team, is what
I met. Anyway, that's great. You know who knows why City Thunder
is exactly thunder Thunder Thunder And oh, there's a there's like a ballpark right
near here too. I don't know what the minor league team is, but
it's a nice ballpark. It's on Mickey Mantle Way, so apparently he's from
here. And it intersects with Flaming Lips Alley, So oh, they're from
there too. Yeah, are you serious about that flaming thing? Yeah?
I had no idea that they're from there. Yeah, they're from Oklahoma City.
That's interesting. Learn a little bit about Oklahoma City next week. I
was about to say, when we speak, who knows where you'll be in
America, and we'll learn about that city as well. Right you know,
Okay and belovers of Freedom. I think i'd like to go takees. There's
a woman that I like to get to know.