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Mystery Lucresia's Gotta give me that whiskey blow. Where you're being in lost,
down and low well, Well, listeners, you'll be happy to know that
I finally today went through my abusive conduct training mandated online session by the University
of California, better known to the wider world as Lucretia's how to Manual.
Hi Lucresia, Hi John, how are you guys? By the way,
John, Lucretia told me before we came on air that she has had her
three whiskies already, so she's going to be Oh my god, I've been
more one of those days, John. I did not get to spend my
evening with eighty delightful Korean women. I just I just saw Lucreasa drinks straight
from the bottle. I don't know what that was. Whiskies now looks like
it's just a mineral water or something. It is, It's too It was
my It is my mother's eighty fifth birthday, so I took her and eight
of her friends out to dinner tonight, all of whom are I think above
the age of seventy five, all of whom go to the same Episcopal church,
and I think all but one of them live in the same retirement home.
Altogether. It's so awesome. I think, like retire. I'm ready
to move into retirement home. I mean, I've been staying there the last
few days. It's like college, but just everyone's fifty years older. You're
you're in a dorm. There's food, there's like there's a dorm mess.
There's food, there's like a little gym. You're all roughly the same age,
you know, there's activities. It's I was like, where do I
sign up? I love. You don't have to clean anything. It's all
done for you. I love. It's just like going to college again.
Yeah, there was this little thing in college dorms like guys and girls.
You know. Oh, they don't have co ed dorms in the retirement home.
That's true, they don't. No, I don't. So we are
individual apartments there each separate individual apartments, no shared bathrooms like in college.
I will tell you that my best friend from Iowa, from Mason City,
Iowa, put her mom in an assisted living kind of place, and her
next door neighbor, her next door neighbor was her so her mom's there.
Her next door neighbor was a girl she went to kindergarten with. Wow,
for those of us who've lived so many different plays, says, that's just
isn't that the most amazing thing? That is amazing? Yeah, I can't
believe there isn't a sitcom of this, John, I mean, it's perfect
material for Okay, I never watched Golden Girls, but wasn't that Like I
don't know, I didn't either. I mean I never did either. Even
though you look, Picard has become like a retirement home in space because there
they still got the same actors from the next generation doing a series right now,
because they're all decrepit. It's they're all it's like the shuffle to the
Facer Banks, like watching like watching the Whore the Rolling Stones. Yeah,
yeah, right, you know Emerson, Laken and Balmer as I good,
well, it was too easy, all right? Back back to abusive conduct
training. You know what I have to say, I don't you haven't done
it yet, John, I didn't know that. Did you know that abusive
conduct is bad? I was informed this today doing this online training a unit.
I had no idea that abusive conduct was bad. Good news from Lucretia,
though. It turns out that making unpopular statements about controversial issues is okay.
So yeah, no, it's not well, yeah no, I was
just telling Steve right before you came on, John, that I started my
first, my very first meeting this morning by saying, oh, welcome to
the United States of Chikida. Nobody laughed except my good friend who's Scottish and
gay and conservative, and he thought it was hilarious that nobody else either got
it or laughed about it, because I'm sure they're When you get up to
speak at the fact, when means to people just start recording you on their
phone. Oh absolutely automatically, Are you kidding? Which actually is good for
me. It's all for me because everything I say is actually, you know,
legitimate, but they want to make it. Do you know how many
times I've been reported to the Diversity Inclusion and Equity Committee, aren't you No,
I'm not. I know I'm the title nine officer or you're the title
nine office, but I'm not on the committee. Um, and the committee
hates me, and they're anyway enough for that enough that I don't abuse anybody.
I'm a very kind person, as you all know, because of the
way I treat Steve. I'm a very kind person. Now. By the
way, there is some bad news for you, Lucretia in the abusive Training
conduct, which is uh, it is not allowed to make egregious comments about
a person's lifestyle. So we have to go easy on John for his whole
make rib fascination. Apparently I knew I was being abused. You make fun
of John. I don't if John wants to eat spam and his mcgribb sand
which is I don't care. Yeah, especially if you can. If you
can eat like John does and look like John does, and food relativist,
you're a food relative and I'm actually I'm just envious John. If I ate
like you do, I'd be five hundred pounds. You just look great,
no matter what you do. Ask because he's a young guy and we're old,
you know, Yeah, that's part of it. But even when I
was his age, I couldn't meet like that. Just one last observation about
this business, which is slightly more serious, is it's pretty clear that all
the I mean, I'm sure, Lucretia, you probably been through these two.
Maybe university where you are uses the Saint vendor. But obviously there's a
huge, thriving, probably high price consulting industry that prepares these online units.
One thing I noticed is I'm listening to I took the voice option because I
wanted to hear it's like a multitask and do other things while getting through the
time they require to sit there through these things, And I'm listening along and
the person saying and then suddenly they drop in University of California and the voice
is the same. But it was clear there was a discontinuity in the in
the tape. In other words, there was a placeholder to drop in the
local university which has paid big money for these things. It's such a racket,
that's all I want to guess. Now, why are we in that
racket? I No, we definitely could do this better, right, all
right, enough of that nonsense, and I've got three or four other ones
to do. There's the never mind, there is some whiskey news. You
know, we have been falling down on the job keeping up with whiskey news.
I learned this week that there, is, in fact, formed around
twenty fifteen, the American Single Malt Whiskey Commission. And I was worried that
this was like a you know, like the Orange Marketing Board goes back to
the New Deal. It isn't a government thing. It's entirely private, apparently
formed by the industry. I'm not sure how they can call themselves a commission
because that sounds like government, doesn't it, like, you know, form
a legal authority. And essentially what they're trying to do is have harmonized or
consistent standards for what counts as a single mult American whiskey has to be made
one place fireball John pre mixed cocktails, no, right, yeah, And
that all sounds fine. If the industry wants to do that, it's probably
mine. I did notice on their list, though, John, there is
a single Monk whiskey maker in Alameda, you know, not far from Oh
yeah, I've heard of this, Yeah, not far from us. Yeah,
And it makes something called Saint George lock twenty two aged and apple brandy
casks. They've been round since the year two thousands, so we might have
to give that a try. And something I propose from this two field trips
for me and Steve to visit the distillery in Alameda, and then we sneak
Lucretia into the annual Convention of Diversity Training video makers. Did you imagine undercover
undercover? It'll be like a Project Veritas. So the big thing in my
household has been the discussion of the fact that you can that there's now one
step beyond chat GPT where you can buy text, not not texting, but
text on your computer describe. I say, I want to describe my my
study here, and I want to describe the fireplace and this and that and
then my dog, and I can put that in text and that there is
this version of AI that is so sophisticated you can, in fact make that
turn into a total what's it called computer generated CGI CGI movie just by writing
text into your computer. This new artificial intelligence can do all of that.
So I think we should do that and make our own diversity inclusion and equity
instruction video. Don't you imagine what that would be like? I think I
should be very much along the lines of a more sophisticated version of that old
Tom Brady Um sexual harassment tape that sn now used to do, where you
know, the ugly guy says something innocuous to the girl and she files a
complaint against him, and then Tom Brady comes out in his underwear and sticks
his crotch and your face and oh, of course I'll go out with you.
Yeah, And the punchline is, when it comes to sexual harassment,
don't be ugly um. Basically a week our video could just be Lucretia reading
the Declaration of Independence. Yes, yeah, don't get me started on revolution
tonight, John, you'll be sorry. Oh that's actually a possible item on
our list of topics tonight. I think we won't get to. So let's
actually turn to uh real issues. Uh, there's a whole lot of things
in the news. Obviously, there's the list them here, and get to
I think our first topic that's being somewhat neglected. Okay, there's a Trump
indictment. We talked about that last week, but there's more to say.
The shooting in Tennessee. A couple of observations have been made about that.
John, you mentioned that the Columbia Law School students seem to have a case
of Stanford Law and being or behaving badly. Um, that's where maybe bringing
up the sense why are you list these because we'll trying to get well,
we'll try to get to these after the main subject. I just want to
play them out there. And of course we have a new feature Listeners.
Starting this week, we're going to have Lucretia's Stupid Person of the Week awarded.
It's a tough one this week. I just want to tell you,
but look, I thought we ought to start off and spend a good deal
of time and well, I think is one of the biggest stories going on
right now that has gotten some attention, but deserves more, and I think
it deserves our concentrated analysis, and that is the fuss in Israel over judicial
reform. So Israel has a supreme court, they call it the High Court
of Justice. And I think there are two reasons, two broad reasons why
this is quite significant. One, there's the merits of the issue. The
constitutionalism of Israel is peculiar and I think defective, but it does have some
parallels to some defects of our own judicial politics in America. Second, the
politics of it not only internally to Israel, which we can break out into
its parts. But also there's an international demand. I mean, you know,
Joe Biden has stuck his nose in the middle of this, saying,
you know, Net and Yahoo in the ruling government is is raw and it
should change course. I mean, how often do we stick our nose into
the constitutional deliberations of another country like this when it comes to Israel and Democrats
very often? Quite well, all that just did. I mean, there's
talk about whether our State Department, whether certain American NGOs is they're called,
have been agitating for some of these massive street protests. So there's those two
parts are quite ominous, and I'm barely scratched the surface here on either one
of those. So let me add up. Let's see four aspects of the
background. On the substance of it. First of all, I don't sure
how many of our listeners know that Israel does not have a written constitution.
That's one of the only went three or four countries that doesn't. I was
gonna say, now, how many countries actually do have a written constitution?
Most they now, yes, yes, yeah, it. What Israel does
have is what they call basic laws, which is kind of the way Germany
stumbled their way to a constitutional order in postwar in the post war era West
Germany and but the basic law is simply parliamentary supremacy. It can be changed
by a majority vote in the Knnesset, their parliament. So it's kind of
a copy of the British system, except without the long chain of evolution of
the British concutions and the common law. Right, they'll say that they're kind
of based on common law, but in fact they don't. That that brings
the second point, which is their High Court of Justice has aggrandized its own
power over the years with doctrines, very expansive judicial doctrines that sound kind of
like the abuses of our fourteenth Amendment. It's very activist court. They decide
a lot of political questions. I mean, we, you know, getting
mad at our courts sometimes for getting into political questions. But the Israeli court
has gotten much more aggressive, and they have no case in controversy rule correct,
that's right. They have very expansive standing rules and they can sort of
take things up on their own. They have a what sounds like our version
of a compelling state interests doctrine accepted sort of whatever they feel like a third.
And this is the most amazing thing. The composition of the court.
You know, as everyone knows, our justices federal judges appointed by the President,
confirmed by the Senate. It's not how it works. In Israel,
the judges and judges of the High Court and the lower courts are self perpetuating.
They have a committee that is dominated by the existing judges who select their
successors with some outside input from a couple of legislators and a couple of executives,
but they dominate the proceeding. They have the votes. And I mean,
imagine if we let our Supreme Court justices pick their successors. I'm okay
with Clarence Thomas R. Yeah, I get that too. But in other
words, it's a largely self Sorry Steve, I know I interrupted it,
but I have to interrupt one more to say I wanted to be just like
the left in that regard. I want the the whole thing, the whole
institution of American government, to revolve around what it is I want to do,
and if it, if it destroys institutions, I'm okay with that as
long as I get what I want, Okay, Yeah, all right,
Right, Well, finally, for Now this links up to the first one.
The Israeli political system is pretty dysfunctional. You know, they have proportional
representation in the Knesset, but this is very different from the British system.
You know, first past the post means the two parties, major parties dominate
things in Israel. If you get you know, I forget the threshold,
John, it's four or five percent, you get seats in the Knesset.
You have these minor parties who have outsized influence in forming these coalitions. And
you know that makes the Cannesse. It's somewhat dysfunctional. It causes problems for
the cabinet, and the court has stepped in. I'm reminded a little bit
of Richard Neely's books in the nineteen eighties. I don't know ever came across
him. Johnny's forgotten now, but he was the chief Justice of the West
Virginia Supreme Court. Naturally I got to meet him if times. You wrote
a book in the mid eighties called Why Courts Governed America? And his basic
answer was because the rest of the other branches won't govern America. That you
can see the argument there, and there's some truth to that. But that's
really true. In Israel, the High Court of Justice essentially set themselves up
as the second branch or the second house of their legislature. Now that's the
sort of institutional excuse me, and constitutional structure of the and political structure of
the controversy. But then there's the political aspect of this. So we saw
these huge demonstrations in the streets, tens of thousands of people turning out.
You heard that some reservist in the Israeli military saying we won't show up for
our weekly reserved duty and other things that the Israeli military, as I understand
is really depends on for readiness and so forth. And behind all this is
conservative forces in demographic and other reasons are surging in Israel. This is why
the Labor Party has almost disappeared. The Labor Party which dominated Israeli politics for
what more than thirty years, and they're now almost extinct. And what's instead.
You have a lot of right leaning ultra orthodox traditionally religious people have a
lot of kids, and the reverse of the so called demographic trends that liberals
thought was going to deliver them majorities of the United States, it looks like
the right leaning parties, the demographic and voting strength is for them for the
future. And so part of what's going on here, only one part is
the Israeli left is digging in its heels to protect the court a little bit
like the Federalists in eighteen oh one. I think I think there is a
parallel there, right, Yeah, no, I think that's wait at that's
said point number one, point number two is. And so, by the
way, the argument they don't use the term court packing, but they're trying
to recreate that dynamic, because, by the way, what's being proposed to
change how the court has come posed and so forth entirely harmonious with the basic
laws of Israel. They're you know, unwritten constitution. But they're trying to
draw parallel to court packing with Roosevelt in thirty six. You know, Roosevelt's
proposal was entirely constitutional but unacceptable politically. They're trying to duplicate that. But
these protests are happening in the street um and the possible international involvement of including
the President Biden. I see this as the forces of the administrative states circling
the wagons against a quite justified attack on their presumptions on their power base and
so forth. So that's bo. There's a lot there, but I think
let's have another forty five minutes of setting up the question, all right.
Also, who wants to go first? John's been taking notes. I'm gonna
I'm not sure about the politics of it. There's two interesting constitutional questions.
At least. One is this shows how you can't have judicial review without a
written constitution. So that's the basic problem is that they have judicial review.
They have this idea that the court construct can strike down, but it goes
beyond unconstitutional. They even think that the Supreme Court that can stop what it
considers unreasonable quote unquote unreasonable actions of the government, including the appointment of people
to office, not just justices. The Supreme Court of Israels I understand it.
It can attempt to block the appointment of a cabinet mister, because they
find that candidate unreasonable. But the problem is not judicial review per se.
The problem is that the judicial review is not attached to a written constitutions,
so there's no anchor. Plus, and this goes to Lucretia's point. Don't
they have standing? Don't they have you know, don't they require certain questions
to be asked. It's also this idea of judicial review attached from courts deciding
cases or controversies between parties over the meaning of the written constitution. So what
you have instead, then is this kind of body of philosopher guardians who think
that they are protecting democracy trademark from whatever they think is a threat. But
since you haven't written down the constitution, there's no source of a legitimate authority
that undergird's judicial review. So I think that's worse than cooper versus erin you
know, at least even in coopery, we can have an argument about is
this the right meaning of right the equal protection Constitution? Yet? Right who?
And why does each branch of government get a right to interpret and enforce
it? The problem I think that the Supreme Israel and the lawyers don't want
the problem is they don't want to written constitution because if you've ever written constitution,
the judiciary cannot actually lay claim to supremacy over interpreting it as they are
here. So that's a major constitution issues in terms of design. I actually
think that what the yah Who's party wanted to do seems quite reasonable if you're
not going to have a written constitution. If all that the legist the courts
here are is interpreting basic laws which were passed as statutes, then why can't
Parliament overrule a Supreme Court decision? Because all they're doing is interpreting a statute.
They never had a founding moment where they adopted a constitution by a majority
of the entire Israeli people. And I don't see why it's unreasonable then to
also say, well, if all you're doing is interpreting statutes which we passed
and we can overrule, why can't we have a political process for picking the
judges too? Right, all they wanted to do, I mean the idea
that the judges and the Bar Association would be right the people who are and
law professors are on that committee too, I think that picks the judges.
Yes, so it's this weird. It's weird. This is weird combination where
the judges are openly political. So they try to make up with it by
pretending that they're sort of picking a bureaucratic judge based on merit in some way,
based on some kind of non political professional standards. So it seems to
me that until you have ever written constitution. Then it is politics and policy
they're doing. They should be subject to overworld by parliament, and that yahoo
and the rust of the political process should have the major saying who sits on
that bench. It seems perfectly for to use the Israeli Supreme Court's favorite word,
It seems perfectly reasonable to me. But of course, the point is
that the Israeli Supreme Court is very much a creature of the left. If
it were not, we would not see our own administration supporting the protests.
We would And as long as it remains a creature of the left, which
I think from our own experience, we have to see that whenever judicial true
judicial activism, however you want to define it, is involved, it's it's
progressive in nature, right, That's the whole point of activism is to be
progressive the living constitution or the living non constitution. We want to make sure
there is a body that is not constrained by institutions and constitutions, that can
see to it that our policy preferences are ideological preferences, are put into law,
put into practice, put into policy. And that's what I think is
most instructive about what's happening in Israel is how very very close it is to
what we are seeing happen today in the United States. And it's across the
board, not just our Supreme Court. Of course, everybody's upset now with
our own Supreme Court because of Dabs and a few other things, because it's
no longer a complete bastion of the left. And if it's not going to
be a bastion of the left, why on earth would we continue to support
it? Right? And I think Israel is in the same situation. They've
just got a much much more corrupt sort of system to work with, much
more easily to manipulate, and no option as the way at least you guys
described it for fixing it easily without uh, you know, short of outside
interference by Natanya who our parliament or whatever. You know, we fixed our
own constant Supreme Court by changing who was appointed to it. It took a
long time, and a lot of people committed to it. A very long
time, and a very lot of people committed to it. And we put
people on that court we thought would be good and they weren't and they made
things worse. And so I mean, it took a very long time in
America, it doesn't seem like in Israel there's any hope for that. So
the Kristia has your view that if we sent your favorite justice over to Israel,
Katangi Brown Jackson, there would be out of here. But Katangi Brown
Jackson was the leader of the Israeli Supreme Court. Now you're saying there wouldn't
be all this fuss and bother because the liberals are only upset because it's conservatives
are trying to contain a liberal judiciary. Flip it around, and then all
the media scholars of Bide administration perfectly happy, happy with a right a liberal
activist Israeli judiciary or American judiciary. Yes, but the moment it became if
we actually sent Clarence Thomas over to take over the Israeli Supreme Court, I
don't think he's Jewish. I actually believe he's Catholic like me. But if
he were Jewish and they sent him over to Israel and he took over the
Supreme Court, and then he chose the people who would follow him, I
don't imagine that the Biden administration we would be supporting the protesters. There's I
heard somebody today on the radio say, stop calling it hypocrisy on the part
of the left. Stop calling it hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is not hypocrisy is a
means, It is just part of the game plan. It is not the
goal. They are after power, power, simply speaking, and hypocrisy means
nothing to them. You can't do what Steve likes to do, and I
always kind of give him a hard time even though I agree with him.
Oh what if what if we substituted think about maybe the Tennessee instance, What
if we said that this was a white ring, white right wing proud boy,
probably right who had committed these We know what, how how very different
this all would be. That's I mean, it's trite, not that he's
not that when Steve says he didn't say that, but things like that,
he's not absolutely correct. But it doesn't even matter because the left is not
embarrassed by hypocrisy. It's just a method. The same way in Israel,
if if that was a conservative Supreme Court, there would not be those protests,
and our Biden administration wouldn't be supporting the protesters. It's nothing about institutions.
Well, in one other point of Christian made, which is something I've
thought about. I even wrote a book about it, like ten years ago.
There he ever paid attention to. No, it's no, you didn't
know. You don't even pretend I don't. I know there's this to me
there. I share her view that there's this kind of international progressive movement.
It's not just an American thing. In fact that you could say the genesis
of it comes from Europe and it's come here. It's also come to Israel.
Yeah, from you know, from Germany through Woodrow Wilson at al too.
But it is this idea and the book I read this was it was
just fundamentally inconsistent with American constitutionalism. But the idea is just like we see
domestically, you're seeing it Israel, you see it internationally. It's this idea
that modern life is too difficult, that questions are too hard to leave up
to the people, that we have to appoint experts. In this case,
he is really judiciary, not the condescent, which, for all all the
faults that has that Steve mentioned, is like a here parliamentary system, right
really, I mean it is a very dem majoritarian democratic system. And actually
the Israeli judiciary, being a progressive, doesn't want decision social policy and decisions
made by an elected body, because they're too crass and vulgar. They think
they know best, and so the progressive elites should answer all the questions.
And the further removed from the democratic check the better. So make sure it's
an international movement in a way. Yeah, many years ago, when I
was an undergraduate student, I had a professor who had been an admiral m
in the navy, you know, blah blah blah, and he was supposedly
a conservative, and he, I mean, I remember him saying that we
shouldn't be Why would we support Israel? Why? Why why would American foreign
policy support Israel all the all they bring to the table or oranges. So
I went to my mentor, who you both know, and I said,
this doesn't make any sense to me. Why you know, why why do
conservatives dislike dislike Israel? And then then bigger conversation was why are Jews liberal?
Why are they progressive? And that's getting to what this is how the
conversation went. What you just said makes so much sense, John, because
the answer is that there's something about traditional Jewish culture that prefers hierarchy and orthodoxy,
and because progressivism is in fact the reigning hierarchy, and the elites are
the hierarchy, and progressivism is the orthodoxy. You find many American Jews,
and now what we're seeing, of course, are more and more Israeli Jews
reaching out and finding comfort, not in what's actually in their interest, you
know, against Iran all these things, but looking for that comforting orthodox.
See that's not a religious orthodoxy, now, of course, it's a secular
Orthodoxy. I don't know if there's anything to that, but I've thought about
it for forty years and a lot of times it provides an answer to me
that when I can't figure it out any other way. I know, we
have a lot of really excellent, very very intelligent Jewish listeners, so I'm
interested if they want to provide some comments. Not saying every Jew thinks it's
late, but so I'm not Jewish, although Koreans are sometimes called the Jews
of Asia. But yeah, I don't know if you've read that. It
really so, I know if you've read this book, you know, the
famous put Hearts book Wired Jews so liberal, And he doesn't attach it to
any of this. He think it's because Jews has still have a fear of
fundamentalist Christians, and so as in his arguments, as fundamentalist Christians became a
bigger part of the Republican Party, and I became very conservative. Jews moved
and he asked because he says something like Nixon got something like forty four percent
of the Jewish vote, So he was wondering, why has that fallen so
steeply? Uh, you know, I just as just I've always wanted to.
I've always talked with friends about writing a book called why are Asians so
stupid? Because because Asians are really good and lots of stuff. Asians are
right right, but they vote against their self interest, which is the American
interest all the time. Yeah. In fact, I believe in the last
polls I saw Asians voted more liberal than Jews. Asians are Um, yeah,
they actually showed the lowest movement. I think Black and Hispanics actually moved
more towards Trump in the last election than Asians did. I can't explain why
are they so dumb? Well, I'm not good at taking tests, but
yeah, which we're gonna get rid of. Well, I mean I think
that's changing. But we'll see um on certain particular issues, it's aging gray
fast like Prop sixteen to roll back affirmative action, Asians against it. They
crime crime against what's his name, the boutine. They're the ones who got
bootine we called boutine, that's right in Francisco. And and also to boot
out the three crazy members of the school board. So they're also more educated
in the universities are the most destructive force in society, I think right now.
So I think that might explain some of it. Yeah, I mean
that's what some people think. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what the
fallout is from the Harvard UNC cases if those cases go as we hope.
Look, the sort of you know, ethnic voting loyalty has long been a
puzzle. I mean it was more than fifty years ago, more than that
now. I think it was Milton himmel Farm, you know, Gertrude's brother.
I gather who's sad. I think it was him. Maybe it's pot
Hearts, but I think it was Meriton himmel Farm, who was supposedly sad
in the fifties. Jews live like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans. I
always thought was a great block. Yeah, that's some parts, that's part.
Yeah, so I wrote, I'll tell you sorry. I wrote a
piece for a newspaper about why the Asians vote Democratic, and I said,
to take off on the line. I said, uh, Asians are rich
like Episcopalians. Um, there they have the the there they have the morals
of Mormons. But they vote like Puerto Ricans. Yeah, And so the
editor of my piece maybe stripped that line out as too offensive. Of course,
although it's it's not entirely I don't think it's entirely true that that Asians
are all I mean a lot of them. There are a lot of sort
of you know, working class Asians around, a lot of the recent immigrants.
And also, again, what do we classifies Asians at one point thirty
or whatever it's called. Yeah that yeah, at one point. And this
is true. I think in the eighties, at one point in California,
somebody figured out that something like seventy five percent of the independent donut shops in
California were owned and run by Cambodians who arrived very recently. It was the
thing. They all independent and U and Chinese food shops. Yeah, okay,
to be like five of those in the little town I lived in California
by the way. But by the way. The other thing is a lot
of the motels in California were run not just by Indians, but Indians from
a single province in India because it was part of the dias for they all.
Someone came first and said, this motel business is a great business.
The rest of the people in the province probably hate that guy now and they
all know each other and fly. But let me go back to something John
said for just a mean I know you probably want to move on, see,
but the cares. Yeah. I know, the comment about Evangelical Christians,
whatever you want to say, being the enemies of Jews. I think
I could have understood that maybe thirty five forty year years ago, but I
don't think it's true today. Let me go back to thirty five. I
have a really good friend who is who's Jewish, who his first wife was
Catholic, and he and I were sitting laughing about it one day. He's
a great guy, and he said when he went to meet his future ex
wife's parents for the first time, he walked in the door, she introduced
him, and the mom says, honey, make sure you hide the nails
and the hammer. Oh God, what a great guy. My friend is
that he laughed about it and moved on and actually married the woman. But
anyway, so that was not necessarily uncommon a long time ago. What I
find today is the most support for Israel, for sure, in amongst very
right wing Christians. Am I wrong on that sentiment, No, it was
so. I mean, I've been around some it's been a few years ago
now, but some pretty left wing Jews who are strong historical Zionists, strong
supporters of the State of Israel. They all hate Net and Yahoo. So
they're deeply conflicted about things right and I think, and by the way,
they're usually then incoherent, didn't know what they were, didn't know what to
do. It was. It was really kind of startling. So, John,
you mentioned Nixon doing well. I don't remember the Nixon figures. Well,
Nixon did well with everybody in seventy two, But in nineteen eighty,
a close election some ways, Reagan got almost forty percent of the Jewish vote,
also very high. And that's because the Carter administration had been so openly
hostile to Israel. I'm wondering about the current moment. I mean, the
Democrats are so openly hostile the Israel. Well exactly. I say, I've
had a long head of theory that Joe Biden is a closet anti semit and
you can and this goes back a long way. So, first of all,
publicly you can find on YouTube Manacham began at a hearing in the Senate
sometime in the eighties and his Prime Minister and Biden's after him about you know,
you take all this American aid and yet you're you know, you're mean
the Palestinians and Bagan he was a tough guy. I mean, Reagan isn't
here for h much. Nobody did. But Bacon says, keep your money.
We don't need your money. You know, you know, I'm only
government a self interested you know, really publicly, Ah, now, behind
closed doors. I was told by someone who was a top aide to Bob
Dole about the same time they were a private meeting a handful of senators in
Bagon doesn't agree with you, what I don't agree with you? Oh you're
doing that whole business right. They're in they're in this meeting with uh And
it might have been one of those nice Senate cloak rooms of the fireplace going
and there's you know, six or eight senators and Biden gets into it again
with Bagan. I'm told by this aid to Dole and I forget exactly what
Biden said, but whatever it did is set off Bagan and something about the
Holocaust that maybe Biden. You can imagine Biden being the morony is even back
then saying, you know what you're doing the Palestinians in Lebanon and elsewhere,
is you know, a model to day Holocaust, and began snaps at him
and says, don't you talk to me about a Holocaust? Is you know
when my people were being you know, exterminated by the Germans, what were
you doing? You and you and your family were sitting around your fireplaces in
Pennsylvania doing nothing. I mean, he got right into his face about it,
and I kind of thought, you know, whatever else, Joe Biden,
maybe I'll but he didn't like all that, and I'll bet he filed
that away. And now it is his revenge and he doesn't like net and
Yahoo any better. And for him for Biden to say publicly what he's been
saying about this is absolutely outrageous. Talk about not respecting another country's sovereignty.
Aside from the merits of any of the issues, and the Obama administration interfering
with the Net and Yahoo election last time. I mean, they're all despicable
pieces of you know what. I'm so done with them. I'm so done
with them. I'm so done with them. I can't even tell you.
But I think I do want to move on. I think I think what
has happened though, is a defeat for Net and Yahoo and the reformers this
week. I think they're well, let's have discussions, and I suspect that's
going to mean they've lost. Is my unfortunate prediction and things. Oh well,
this is bad, too bad, not good. Yeah, they have
a lot of forces a raid against them right now, yes, yeah,
yeah, okay, all right, any last words on this? No,
all right, no move on, Steve. Well, okay, so,
uh, you know, somebody said I thought it was brilliant Trump really should
have shot somebody on Fifth Avenue because Alvin Bragg never would have indubted in for
that. You know, I'm a look like a point that I can't laugh
about this anymore. I mean, it's this is serious, John. You
know, we've had we've jokingly talked about whether or not we should be at
the point of revolution. But a couple of weeks ago, when this was
or whatever it was a week ago, when this is sort of starting to
bubble up to the surface, you did have Democrats who are willing to come
out and say this would be a bad idea, etc. Etc. Since
yes, well, this will be on set. So since Thursday, when
this announcement came out, you haven't seen a single prominent Democrat willing to come
out and say this is this is banana republic stuff, this is ridiculous,
this is you know, you don't have to like Trump. You've heard a
lot of Republicans with that kind of wishy washy I don't like Trump, but
this is bad, you'd think Democrats. But they can't do that anymore.
They simply cannot. And the fact that we're actually talking about this ridiculous indictment
and what is it, thirty charges and you know what I hear all the
time, I'll finish this and then you guys can come in, you know,
all the time twenty four hours of coverage of this. At least now
that you know this is good for Trump. Let's see, he made one
hundred million dollars since the announcement of the indictment. Hold on, I got
to get the right. The windfall for the stock price of Digital World Acquisition
Corps, which closed at thirteen oh six on Thursday, was trading as high
as fourteen forty four today or Friday, excuse me. During Wall Street session,
Trump and his Technology Media Technology Group owned seventy three point three million shares
at thirteen dollars a share, ticking up to fourteen forty four a share,
the value as Trump's steak jumped more than one hundred million dollars overnight. Okay,
but all you know, and then there was an entire thing all day
long about how does this affect the twenty twenty four election. I get it,
it does, It's obvious. But what we really should be talking about
is what we used to know as a country committed to the rule of law
has turned into Chiquita Banana Republic. And there's no doubt about it. I
mean, when I make that joke, I'm yes, Well, you know,
as a sort of a dabbler and game theory, I think we need
some district attorney in Idaho to bring charges right away against Hunter Biden, maybe
Joe Biden. I mean, I don't know. I mean the point is
go ahead. Sorry, So here's here's your I'm gonna shock the both of
you by this. I am absolutely conflicted. There's nothing I despise worse than
the Mitt Romney gentleman of the world who are just a little too squishy and
nice to want to bring the fight where it needs to be. But we
are so far beyond this being just a political battle where you do get out
under under cover of the institutions, and we are we have destroyed the institutions.
Do we want our side to come out and say, Okay, all
all bets are off. We're gonna indict Hunter. We're gonna indict Nancy Pelosi.
We're gonna indict Joe Biden. We're gonna indict every single one of the
We're gonna indict Mitch McConnell. We're gonna indict on and on and on right,
and we're gonna do it. We're gonna put every single one of those
people in jail, and we are going to we are going to turn politics
into We're going to turn the judicial system into a political tool against our enemies,
and we are going to fight it just as much as the left does
I'm not prepared to do that, guys, and I want to fight more
than anybody, you know. I don't know what even to say about it.
It's so awful the position we're in. So John, you're always my
squish on this. What do you think? Well, first, my hope
is that the federal courts. Oh my god, is that a real AR
fifteen one of her weapons? Yeah? Okay, that's any badger from Yes,
it's real. For what for my friends out there who know about guns?
And it's right next to me. In case when my call for revolution
on this podcast actually ends up with the FBI and the ADF at my door,
I'm not going easy kidding the FCC sending people after you after I will
not go gently the night. So here's my hope. My hope is that
the federal courts actually will intervene either the Supreme hopefully the Supreme Court to put
a stop to this. And here's why. Is because because it's so political,
because the case is so weak, and we can have an argument where
there are other investigations and the trump which are more deserving or more weighty in
the reserves around work, more important and weighty. But this is so a
little bit of evidence. Right, Yeah, this is so frivolous and trivial
that Bragg is I think the DA in New York. Bragg has got to
twist the law so far that he's violing the Constitution. So I wrote a
piece this week about this, saying there's actually within all this, I think
a Trump get out of jail free cart, which is remember, Bragg has
already missed the two year time clock he had on bringing this case. You
only have two years after the commission of a misdemeanor in New York to bring
the case. He missed that by five years. But he supposedly so yeah,
no, not outvating it. But he's also arguing that because Trump was
out of the jurisdiction, um that allows him to extend, extend the statue
of limitations. Of course, Trump was out of the jurisdiction because he happened
to be in Washington, d C. Command. Also, he came back
to the jurisdiction all the time. I mean, it wasn't like he didn't
come back to New York City. Yeah. So, you know, but
to try to elevate it into a federal felony, you know, because it's
a campaign finance violation, it's actually unconstitutional my view, I think the Supreme
Court has said only federal prosecutors can enforce federal law. State prosecutors like Bragg
are not allowed to enforce further law because they can't be controlled by the executive
branch. You can't fire Bragg for misinterpreting and misapplying federal law. And that's
the only way the executive branch makes sure that they interpret and enforce federal statutes
in a uniform manner. If Justice Scalia took a case about this called Prince
and he made this clear in the opinion, and then to put the flip
side on it, I mean, I think the three of US don't like
the outcome of this case Arizona versus US, where Arizona made it a state
crime to violate federal immigration law, right, they made it a misdemeanor in
fact, and the Court said, no, states can't try to enforce federal
law by dragging it in to state law because that undermines executive control over federal
So it seems to me Bragg's prosecution actually violates that fundamental principle. Maybe Trump
will have to take a year or longer to get that issue to the US
Supreme Court. But God seems to me that the federal courts will will have
to stop this prosecution and then but right like, but what it has done
is it does provide Trump with the golden opportunity because he's correct in this moment
that all these prosecutions are politicized against him, and that we're huns and they're
not really prosecutors fairly and equally enforcing the law. They're just like um,
the guy Barria who was the head of the Secret Service under Stalin, who
said show me the man and I'll show you the crime, rather than what
a prosecutor. That's fundamentally against the norms of prosecution. Remember what Nancy Pelosi
said. I know Steve wasn't way in, but just really quickly, Nancy
Pelosi tweets out, well, at least Trump has a chance to prove his
innocence in court. Was that amazing? Yeah? Look, the deep cynic
in me thinks there's two two sides. Having just said game three a minute
ago, the deep synic in me thinks that who knows whether bag was consulted
or advised by Democrats up the food chain. This is a good idea.
It's a bad idea, but the cynic in me says a lot of Pelosi
they're hoping for, I think riots, violence, bad behavior, so they
can say CC it's January sixth all over again. It's those mega extremist insurrectionists.
And it wouldn't surprise me if you know, some ANTIFA cells are ginned
up to try and make that happen on the other side of the street.
If I'm Trump, I think to your point, John, that this is
all politicized prosecution. It's it might be in his cynical and short term interest
to play along with it rather than appeal right away to whatever the first supposedly
going to show up on Tuesday, right showing up to surrender himself. Yeah,
I think he likes to play that out rather than because I mean,
I don't know. I could see a federal judge this weekend doing what you
say, John, striking down this and then it has to go up to
and I think, by the way, the appeal sports would hear it very
fast. For the obvious reason that you wish to be gore in two thousand.
There's an urgency to it. You want to get this cleared away before
an honest to god presidential election campaign starts. But I think Trump might want
to play it out for his own reason. Yeah, can I add this?
Two mochia valiant thoughts occurred to me. One is Trump may not mind
this, right, it might be a golden opportunity because he's done well when
he's the victim, as he's been here, the subject of two and failed
impeachments, the subject of the failed Muller probe, this subject of the failed
Russia hoax. Right, this is another opportunity. If you guys were saying
last podcast episode, he's back around fifty percent now of the primary Republican primary
voters. He's gained like ten points or something in the last week or two
or the last month because of all this. The other machiavellian pointy, I
wonder what you guys think about this is what if Bragg or as advisors are
being very machiavellian. They think that if Trump wins, Biden will win.
If Trump becomes a nominee, that means Biden. So me, is this
not some kind of secret double jiu jitsu by the Democrats to basically make sure
that Trump wins the nomination. So because they're confident they can beat them.
They'd rather run against Trump than against a Sanus. It seems to me an
other, But I think that there might be a slightly less comprehensive way to
look at that. I guess it might be the way to say it,
and that is that what are we talking about right now? We're not talking
about how pathetic Biden is, How is foreign policy as an unmitigated disaster,
how his economic policy is an unmitigated disaster. How you know there's all of
these problems at the Biden administration, the border on and on and on,
another trained derailment in Minnesota, which is not a flyover state. It is
a flyover state, but it's not a left it's not a right wing state.
There's all of these problems that if people were actually paying attention end to
what was going on in the Biden administration, it's coming out, how it's
coming out about hunters, coming out about Biden Comber's investigations in the House.
The CDC said today that they're not going to force little children to get the
COVID vaccine. People start to realize that this whole thing has been a skim
There's just everything. But what are we talking about we're talking about Trump.
Yeah, so Trump seven. This is a this is a good point.
I wonder if this will reach a point of diminishing returns. But right now,
Biden's poll ratings have fallen back to the lowest ever as a general approval
and on specific issues, they're just in the basement, you know, immigration,
economy, all the rest. And it's true that the Marlago raid last
summer got the heat off of Biden for a while. That was not accidental,
I think in a lot of ways. So how long can you keep
doing all that, especially if, as I think, we're going to have
a recession here in six months. So, yeah, that's right. I
think they want to. You can tell by reading excuse me, I'm still
fighting off a bug. You can tell by reading the leftist press, the
New Republic, the Nation, the Washington Post. They're terrified of the Santists
because they recognize that, you know, he's a competent guy, he's young,
he's vigorous, you can serve two terms, et cetera. Okay,
Well, the worst thing that could happen, though, would be for Trump
and de Santists to stop being enemies and at least to be cooperative like happened
today when descantists came out in support of Trump. So so it just shows
you how stupid the left is really when it comes down to it. But
I do think that, you know, they assumed that they could get people
to stop thinking about everything that's bad the problem I have. I'll be honest
with you though, guys, I don't want to talk about the politics of
it. I want to talk about how truly evil this whole thing is.
Um And maybe the other thing I'll mention that the Trump indictment took off of
the national news was the the Democrats reaction to the Tennessee shootings. I was
just going to bring our tell you, but I wanted to make sure that
you saw that connection. I mean, when when the Democrats come out and
say, let's feel sorry for transgender people who are being whatever after they've killed,
after a transgender freak, mental mentally ill freak decides to go into a
Christian school and kill children, and what does the stupid mop head piece of
you know what, what's her name again, John Paulsier whatever, sarta what's
her name? Never mind? She says, you know, we trans Yeah,
that's it. Transgender people are under attack everywhere. Well, first of
all, transgender people should be under attack. Let's stop praising these people.
They're mentally ill freaks. Let's stop encouraging them. Let's stop doing all of
those things. Let's get the entire country behind a movement that says no more
transgender celebration and worship and feel sorry for the poor, pathetic things that can't
seem to get beyond it. That's where we ought to be, That's my
opinion, and that's the last thing they want. Well, I think there's,
first of all, two observations. One, you'll notice that for the
media, the biggest dilemma of all this wasn't the gun issue again, it
was what gender do we use for this person? They use either none or
they bury it to the twentieth paragraph in New York Times. Second, a
bunch of activists, I'm not sure how transgender. I'll just put to a
transgender activists storm to Tennessee State legislature late in the week because they were debating
something germane to all this, and they talked about seven victims in the school
shooting. In other words, they were counting the shooter as a victim.
Yea brother, Yeah, so now you know, I don't know. I
oh, I know. I keep wondering if we have not possibly seen a
turning point here in this whole business. Scarce the left more than you can
imagine. Of course, this is this is, of course, I'd like
to say, it's the epitome of everything they've been working for. But but
as soon as we've become completely accepting of transgenders and celebrating them and insisting that
every child has to have the option of becoming transgender without their parents' knowledge,
we will then move on, I'm sure, to bestiality. Oh well,
you know, well you remember from the eighties, I guess this brief flurry
about the I think they still exist. The Man Boy Love Association never called
nas Namba. Yeah, the enamel these are yea. They made the ex
flash in the eighties about you know, we got to get rid of the
age of consent, and this is coming back here and there right for real,
here and there, Steve, what are you talking about? It is
If you are not embracing it, you are a bigot. Yeah, of
course, I mean there was I know I talked about this once before,
but that professor from wherever I mean, I shouldn't be surprised, because professors
are the most despicable peace pole on the planet next to leftist governmenting people.
But anyway, who says, why do we why? Why do we think
there's something wrong with an adult forcing a child to have sex with him or
her? Yeah, if he or she doesn't want to. We make children
do things all the time. We make a brother go visit, go to
his sister's dance recital. Yeah, I know that wasn't what was forcing them
to have sex with you? Yeah. John doesn't even have a John.
John's frozen. He has no comment to that. I think he's been oblivious
to that. There really are serious people trying to mainstream pedophilia. Yeah,
yeah, I never heard of this before. It's crazy, really, And
you live in the Bay Area, which I know. And that's part of
my theory on that. The way that the left gets away with this stuff
is that they actually keep it from most people who have common sense and good
judgment. They you know that unless you really are willing to dig and find
this out, or I guess look at the new things I do, you
will never see it. I do think, I think, well, I
do think we should draw a distinction that has been erased between you know,
I talk about because because you know, I know three or four people who
are many years ago before this became a big thing. Who did They went
the whole what do you say, the full monty, They had gender reassignment
surgery. They went to Bangkok to do it right, well, Belgium or
Denmark in the nineties, right. One of them, of course, is
the famous economist, dear Dr McCloskey. And the point is, I like
to make a joke, except there's a serious point behind it. This whole
business today reminds me of the joke about the the bag in an egg's breakfast.
The chicken is involved, but the pig is committed, right you So,
you know you had the swimmer Leah Thomas who shows up in the girl's
locker room with a penis still attached to him, right at least JAREDR.
McCloskey and Trere For other transgender people I know, actually they didn't call themselves
transgender. They switched sexes. Yeah. Right, And so now we're saying,
oh, if you think you're a girl, you can be a girl.
Here we're giving some drugs. We have done these bruthome surgeries. And
you know, I can think of the case of the young think of the
young actress Ellen Page has become Elliot Page. How many roles has Elliott Page
gotten since she he did that? I think zero. Okay, now we're
now we're in this through a netherland where you can just declare yourself to be
a woman without committing to actually or vice versa, without committing to actual technologies
of modern medicine, and make it possible to actually, as I put it,
switched teams. I do think that's the problematic. But you know,
the three or four that I know, or by the way, or conservatives
or libertarians at least um and by the way, the ones I know and
I have talked to, they hate all this stuff. They hate the ide
politics of it, they hate the bathroom with certainness of it. And they
all say, no, these people are crazy, and they're making my life
more difficult because you know, okay, enough of a sermon, all that.
We're in a no man's land about that, literally, but we're not
in. What this is is a further attempt by the left to deny that
nature has anything to tell us about how we ought to live our lives and
and you know, um, we can be God's we. We are not
tied to whatever it is that we were born to be. We can be
anything we want to be. We don't, we are not even we are
not even limited by our physical bodies that we were born with, that that
have always been under stood to be tied with our identity as human beings and
then as members of a sex mother's women, fathers men. Sure, there
have always been people who've fallen outside of those and I'm not the person who
says we should hate those people, we should discriminate against those people, none
of that. But where we are now is celebrating and encouraging every person,
especially those who are mentally disturbed already, to think about what your gender identity
is, and then encouraging that whole pathway down mental illness and celebrating it.
I mean, even think about Fetterman. Fetterman, instead of being the subject
of ridicule for not sort of saying I have severe depression, I'm going to
resign. Oh, what a brave human beings. There's something brave about him.
You shouldn't be in power if you're mentally ill, you should resign.
And it's not that we're going to get anybody better than fetterman because you know
about that. But but why are we celebrating people being mentally ill? Well,
maybe that's just another form of human existence. It's say what's normal?
It all sorts of nonsense. I don't I don't think it's necessary to default
damarily to mental illness or something. Sure, but you know, I mean,
I don't know. I thought Bill Maher of all people, at a
good take on this a few months ago where he said, you know,
when I was ten years old, I wanted to be a pirate. Thank
god nobody pulled out an eye and cut off a leg because I could be
a pirate. But that leads to a second and related point, which is,
uh, no one seems to notice how it is a curious thing we
now no longer can define what a woman is. We don't say that about
a man, right. Why is it that it's that the confusion about definitions
and understanding of gender roles is overwhelmingly weighted to one of the biological sexes and
not to the male side. We don't we don't have a confusion about what
a man is, only maybe because the question hasn't come up. Well,
I'm raising it right now. Today I heard that they asked some some archaeology
professor at Pittsburgh, Yes, at Universe at Pittsburgh's John if if a hundred
years from now they'd be able to dig up human beings and tell the difference
between men and women. And he said, of course, not well by
their bones, by their moment their bones. Yeah right, he said,
no, there's no difference. There's no skeletal difference between men and women.
And he knows that from one hundred and fifty years of one hundred and from
studying one hundred and fifty years of archaeological digs. Apparently the audience they just
laughed. His students just laughed, and he was very offended by it.
Right, that's what that Yeah, that's what you have to do in order
to buy into this nonsense. You're right, Steve. I know I know
people who are I guess you would call it transgender. Um transsexual used to
be the word sexual. Yeah right, People people who put I know people
who dress up. You know, Okay, I don't hate any of those
people. I don't want to see them stone to death, nothing like that,
but I don't want to celebrate that as a normal lifestyle. I'm sorry
because once we do. I mean, it's just I sent you guys the
bishop's statement on it. Look, we love everybody. Everybody's a sinner,
everybody, nobody's perfect. But what we don't do is embrace the sin,
which is what they're asking us to do. Yeah, we accept people for
who they are. We don't celebrate what's wrong with them. All right,
Sorry, we're about we're about to run long. Let's just try and do
one or two more things. One is John you mentioned and I took note
of this too. The Census Bureau under Biden is thinking of asking question and
next census as to whether someone is a descendant of slaves. Now, I
don't know. I like data and stuff, but it's self reporting. People
can lie or not know. But the other thing is, wasn't take me
back here. Didn't the Trump administration get in all kinds of alboth for wanting
to ask a census question about citizenship status and the court said they couldn't do
it. Remind me about this, Yeah, no, no, that's right.
There was a question about whether the Census Department under Trump could add this
question about citizenship and I don't know, Well, the courts said they tried
to do it too quickly and they didn't and so yeah, mystery procedures.
I don't really see why, as you say, Steve, I don't see
why the government shouldn't want to know things. If there are facts, why
can't you ask. That's why I've always thought conservatives went too far when they
said, well, color blind constitution, the government shouldn't he been able to
ask your race on you know, things like driver's licenses, census forms and
so on. I don't see why we shouldn't have more data if we could
find it. But I think the reason why this is a weird and concerning
question is for putside all the verifiability issues, is why does the government want
to know? And it's easy they want to know because they're, you know,
gearing up for some kind of reparations. Oh well, I'm coming to
that idea, right, or some kind of you know, trying to target
remedies in some way, even though right this is generations ago, and the
Supreme Court has said trying to cure jet you know, discrimination acre generations ago
does not justify to being conscious of race to give out benefits now, But
then why else does the government really want to know the answer to this question.
Well, okay, so let me separate two questions here. I'm an
old fashioned original and ten fundamentalists. The Census should be a half a page
long where do you live? So you can count up how many people live
in that area for enumeration purposes and stop there. If you want data,
And I'm a data may even too. We have all kinds of other survey
techniques to get good data. There's the American Housing Survey done twice a decade.
There's other surveys the government does, probably more accurate in some ways because,
by the way, talk to someone who's ever been a census worker,
you know, goes door to door to try and get the people out responded.
I think the data error in the Census is massive. Okay, I've
lied on the Census a few times just to script their data because I'm honory
about it. Is. When I've gotten a long form, I've gotten a
long form a couple of times. The right um a question about that?
Sure, So if they ask actually asked the question about whether or not your
your ancestors who were a slave, do I have to answer honestly and say
that my ancestor was Robert E. Lee. Oh, let's see, that
would be the follow up question. See, so John mentioned, isn't this
I might have ancestors that were slaves too, that would be interesting. Huh
yeah, Well, you know we turned out that was it. Is it
Camela Harris? Oh no, it was Angela Davis who had ancestors who came
over on the Mayflower and who and then Kamela Harris has got ancestors who owned
slaves. It's just a god awful mess, right, as you'd expect in
like real human life. Mentioned that question too. Did you are you descended
people owned slaves? Yeah? Yeah, just you you walked away, John,
But I am, in fact a descendant of Robert E. Lee.
Yeah, that's her middle name. That's my middle name, like my mother's,
my grandmother's, my great grandmothers, and my great great grandmother's. So
you mentioned the reparations question, John, I'll just say this for now.
Let's see how this unfolds in California. So the latest development for listeners who
may not follow this is California's some of the advocates saying, hey, you
know, it should be eight hundred billion dollars for blacks in California at the
Yeah, no, it's a ridiculous number. Meanwhile, I happen to notice
an article in the Atlantic this week by Emma Maris, who's an environmental writer
I know slightly. I think she's pretty. She's a liberal, but a
smart one descents in the party anyway. She raised an interesting question, says,
you know, for almost twenty years now, the rich Western countries have
been promising and developing world one hundred billion dollars a year in climate aid climate
reparation. She called him, Yes, how much have we actually delivered?
The numbers close to zero? So I think we would help being I would
hope it be negative. Yeah, well, yes, yeah, yeah,
I mean I'm right now, I'm laying down a marker that you know,
Newsome and California and other places are going to say, yes, we all
these reparations, we think the figure should be X, will pay it when
we can, and that when we handled her out to be never, which
is gonna make the whole problem worse. That's my expectation right now. It's
gonna be like the climate racket, only worse. I still don't see how
California, which was the most racially progressive state in the Union, for many
decades was free northern state where if you read this, Jesus sounds like blacks
came to America. I came to California during the periodist segregation to get away
from segregation to a place was a much more stree open How the hell is
California? Yeah, responsible anyway for reparations for sleep. You are giving credence
as if there's some logic or rationality to any of this by by making that
argument. Just stop right now, all right, we we're gonna draw to
the end here. We're gonna have to skip over Columbia law students, and
being Stanford law students, we're gonna to skip over. I would love to
do this, but Lucretia will be board and annoyed with me if I bring
up the baseball rules changes as a metaphor for failed government regulation. And what's
that Lucretia showing us on the screen about? You know, the make baseball
more exciting. Pitchers who violate the pitch clock will be dropped into a pit
of alligators. It's down here. This should be a really exciting new wrinkle
to the game. Major League Baseball Commissioner Bob whatever's name is every Major League
Baseballpark has been retrofitted to feature an alligator pit located directly underneath the pitchers mound.
If the pitch clock reaches all zeros, an MLB official position in the
press box will pull a comedian a comedically large lever, opening up a trapdoor
and sending the offending picture directly into the waiting jaws of the gators for the
delight of the spectators. Now, then I'd watch baseball under those circumstances.
Well, I have long said that if baseball were any slower, it would
be farming. But it's not the pitch clock that bothers me. It's some
other rules. But I'm gonna skip over that because even though I never heard
of it, he just says everybody should pitch like Bob Gibson. But you
have to be an old timer to remember Bob Gibson. All right, all
right, John, you have to have your Camela Harrisism of the Week.
But first, our new feature is Lucretia's Stupid Person of the Week because you
know so many people that. I mean, my nominee was Joe Manchin for
his stupid op ed in the Wall Street Journal that shows what a fool and
the nave he is, but that would be my nominee. But but but
you're the you're the official, stupid designated lucretia because John told me I was
gonna there were gonna be sanctions and limits on my choices, including ever choose
one Biden administration official. So I have to you couldn't make it, McConnell.
No, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go parochial here and actually go
with Governor Hobbs press secretary who after the Tennessee the tragic shooting in Tennessee,
published a picture. I think it's Gina Rowlands holding a couple of pistols right
and left hand, and the caption said, us when we see transphobes.
Yeah. Now, the best comment I forget who said it was Okay,
So this is Katie hobbs number one spokesperson, but she's the she's the measured
moderate person. And Katie Hobbs was a crazy one. I will tell you
that this disgusting excuse for a human being actually did resign because there really wasn't
much choice, but they tried to keep her around for a while. So
she gets my moron of the Week because, first of all, I am
not afraid of a single damn trans person. I am not a phobe.
I don't that's such a stupid term, homophobic, transphobic. We're not afraid.
We just don't want to embrace and celebrate your choices. Leave us alone.
We'll leave you alone. Okay, So that's my first moron of the
week. There were so many choose from Nancy Pelosi's um now wait, no,
sorry, sorry, I just have to say second place for Nancy Pelosi's
propose innocence. But yeah, Nancy Pelosi's like shooting fish in a barrel.
Everything she says is stupid and moronics. So that's not really fair. This
one came out of you know, this one was at least a little obscure.
So go ahead, don't let me. I get to finish with my
Bible Ambia the week too, But i'ma let jog go first. Yeah,
do what your campbell is an Africa, isn't she? So I don't know,
go ahead, and John, So at first, I think we're gonna
keep doing this new feature. Lucretia has to put put together a list of
people who she would always pick every week if we didn't exclude them, who
she could always go to exactly Okay. So the second thing is she Harris
was in Africa and actually didn't see any good quotes from her, although there
were. There was a great story in the post of quotes by other Democrats
saying, how can we recreate this great Africa atmosphere back in the United States
where Kamala Harris has been doing so well? Of course, obviously I think
one reason why is because no one's been paying any attention over what she's doing
in Africa. But anyway, so I actually found good commualism. Yeah,
nobody cares, so she's so I found a pretty good communism. I can't
believe escape my notice before. And so this one comes from a quote from
last year after she was done touring a high school in Louisiana. Quote,
the governor and I, we were all doing a tour of the library here
and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right, the significance
of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there was
great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do
to lay these wires, what we need to do create these jobs. And
there are such great significance too. You guys did the passage of time when
we think about a day in the life of our children. Wait a minute,
didn't you already make that same stupid thing in another context of a year
ago. I think that's the passage, but we just haven't. We haven't
used it in the show yet, so I had to bring up this is
considered by some the best stuff. Can I also make one small comments,
So people compare Kamal Harris to the TV show Veep, which I haven't watched,
but which I didn't realize is that TV show VIEP was based on this
British show which I've just finished watching, which is hilarious called The Thick of
It. Have you I have watched several episodes. Yeah, it's genius.
Oh my god, this is one of the best political comedies I ever seen.
So this, I guess, was the twenty first century version of Yes,
Minister. Yes. Oh my god, I can't believe how funny this
was and how I didn't know about it. Say the name Agin Johns of
The Thick of It, and it's kind of like a modern version of Yes
Minister, and Lucresia appears in it. In the guise of the number one
political consultant who his name is Malcolm Tucker. Just remember that. Yeah,
Crisa as Malcolm Tucker. I mean no, but this was like, oh
my god, they nailed Lucresia in this show. She is in anyways the
star of the show. But Malcolm Tucker I really like being best done and
better. Yeah, well, there's true. I think by the way,
John, I think some of that show is done improv style. Yes,
that's right. I think any percent of it is written and in the rest
of which. So there's a guy who's the basically the head enforcer, the
Lucretia figure, who goes on the most epic rants, filled with cursing and
abuse of people for being politically stupid. It's just it's beautiful. Watch it.
Oh yeah, you should, absolutely if it is genius stuff. Yeah.
So John has the tough task of trying to find a decent commualism every
week because they have been keeping her under wraps by the absolutely have even Biden.
They've been keeping under wraps because why would they let either one of those
two out there to make the usual idiots out of themselves when the whole thing
is dominated by the Trump indictment. But so so I have the opposite problem,
which is the Morons of the Week and the Babylon Bee headline of the
week. It's impossible to choose the best one, but probably my favorite is
the new Chinese military training video where the Chinese military just learns how to shout
the wrong pronouns at American soldiers. I guess sounds good, all right,
Which one of you guys is going to send us out with the official salutations?
Always drink your whiskey, neat. Yeah, let's go Brandon, I
was pointing at John for him to finish. Oh, and let's go Brandon.
Oh random, have a wonderful week by everybody. We'll see you next
week, and hopefully I will be stop my hacking in coffee. Ricochet joined
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