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We 27 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:35.480 got major Supreme Court decisions on mail in voting and 28 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:38.239 Donald Trump's right to fire agency heads he doesn't like. 29 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:41.079 It's decision time for Trump on the bipartisan Housingville, which 30 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:44.200 he has threatened to hold hostage until the Save Act passes. 31 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:47.359 And Democratic socialists are feeling the momentum after last week's 32 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:51.239 primaries in New York with big primaries in Colorado today. 33 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:55.239 Then Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, 34 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:58.640 stopped by to talk about breaking Republican trifectas and building 35 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:01.200 democratic ones in a bunch of key states and how 36 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:03.079 critical it is that you get involved in the down 37 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:06.439 ballot races happening wherever you are. But let's begin where 38 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:09.400 Trump kicked off his week, posting this at six thirty 39 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:12.919 am on Monday. Do you think people appreciate what a 40 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:16.280 fantastic job we did in building and operating the Great 41 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:19.360 American State Fair at the National Mall, packed with happy 42 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:23.520 people and everybody loving it. Question Mark, ask yourself this 43 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:27.080 simple question, and now we're in all caps. Do you 44 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:30.560 think that Obama he wants to say Obama, but he 45 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:33.639 spells it Obuma, so it's like o boomah. It just 46 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:36.199 looks like a type of a bummer, right, of course, 47 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:38.479 but he's shorthanding them. Yeah, he's not quite getting there. 48 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:40.960 Do you think that Obama or sleepy Joe Biden could 49 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:44.400 have done it? The answer is a no. President is 50 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:46.759 of course, referring to the sixteen day exposition on the 51 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:49.240 National Mall that will run through July tenth to celebrate 52 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.199 America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, an event run by 53 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:55.599 Freedom two fifty, which is the entity Trump created to 54 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:59.400 compete with America two fifty, which is the bipartisan entity 55 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:03.120 created by Ungress years ago. Why sixteen days, that's such 56 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:05.360 a weird number of days. Yeah, I don't know. I 57 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:08.360 don't know. It's a good question question I don't have answer. 58 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:12.280 Two weeks with an extra weekend okay, started last week. 59 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:14.159 Now week's really work. 60 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:16.960 Right, but it'll be a set you oh, Saturday to 61 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:18.000 a Sunday. 62 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:20.879 Yeah, two weeks, two weeks. This is the one thing 63 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:24.240 he got right, I guess. Anyway, the perception that Trump 64 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:27.120 turned America's two hundred and fiftieth into a partisan event 65 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:30.199 caused all the state fair musical acts to drop out, 66 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:34.360 with the exception of Floorida and Vanilla Ice. Ten states 67 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:37.199 have also decided not to participate, and the opening weekend 68 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:41.960 was plagued by extreme heat, rain, power outages, and sparse crowds. 69 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:44.800 You never know this if you listen to Maga World, 70 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:49.039 where everyone thinks it's going great. Happy early Birthday, America. 71 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:50.199 We're celebrating already. 72 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:51.000 Hit the great. 73 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:52.159 American state Fair. 74 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:52.680 Man. 75 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:55.719 We've got thousands of people celebrating this birthday with us. 76 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:58.000 You ever, in your wildest dreams think you may be 77 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:01.280 doing your Sunday show from a state fair on the 78 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:02.039 National Mall. 79 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:02.879 How great is that? 80 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:06.520 It's really it's really something and the weather not the 81 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:09.000 best today, but people are still coming out to help 82 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:12.560 me out. I want to be a part of this. Well, 83 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:15.400 it's a great day for Larry good afternoon. Perhaps now 84 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:17.439 the closing bell is here. We're gonna get more people. 85 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:21.279 That work is done. You mentioned the latest with the ron. 86 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:23.240 If you look behind us, you see, okay, there are 87 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:24.920 a couple of hundred people back there. But the truth 88 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:27.360 is when you make your way over here and you're 89 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:29.800 in this lot, you're in a wash of people. 90 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:31.279 There's tons of people here. 91 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:34.279 It's a huge space and it's just gonna get more 92 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:34.680 and more. 93 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:36.120 God as the week goes on. 94 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:49.639 Take yo, I think we have to give a big 95 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:53.879 rod of applause for our military band in singers, way 96 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:56.240 better than those lip tards that canceled on us. 97 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:01.800 It's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy talking about the lib tards. 98 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:05.279 What do you guys think? Happy to fiftieth? Thanks? How 99 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:09.079 are you feeling about the festivities? Trump has organized the 100 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:13.000 Freedom two fifty America two fifty split in the ten 101 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:14.240 states that aren't participating. 102 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:16.399 I thought the performance by Manny was really good. Do 103 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:19.000 you guys catch that one? He didn't see Maga Manny 104 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:21.720 the live streamer who jerked off in front of the acrobat. 105 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:23.639 True forgot about the guy, forgot about the guy in 106 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:24.959 the Uncle Sam CAUs. 107 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:27.959 Fifty four year old right wing Maga streamer did not 108 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:31.360 think fifty four was the number arrested. Younger arrested by 109 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:35.000 park police for masturbating in front of an acrobat troop 110 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:36.519 called the Cirque Mechanics. 111 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:38.000 Can you blame him? 112 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:44.720 According to The Independent, fairly rearely, he was vaping recording 113 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:48.800 and then had a hand through the pocket of the overall. 114 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:50.639 So he's holding the face and. 115 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:55.000 I was going to say how many and then another 116 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:57.839 witness said he came back for round two later, and that's. 117 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:00.399 What I think. The park police got him. Not bad 118 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:02.959 for fifty four. That's a good point. Yeah, I love 119 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:05.720 that it did look it did look sparse. But now 120 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:10.600 that the closing bells. 121 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:12.279 The traders leaving the floor of the Stock Exchange where 122 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:14.920 in DC gonna run up to go check out the 123 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.040 latest quilting, I suppose. 124 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:19.199 Also, there's just something about. 125 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.279 All the like the thing that I was thinking about 126 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:23.120 is watching this all over the weekend, is just how 127 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:27.720 much like the whole Maga world is online. It just 128 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:32.040 exists online. It's a bunch of people complaining online, the 129 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:34.560 caricatures of the cities that are going to hell. Online, 130 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:36.759 just people talking to each other about how America's going 131 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:39.560 down the tubes on the Internet and on Fox News. 132 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:42.279 But like Larry. 133 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:44.319 Kudlow's like, oh, it looks like when's last time Larry 134 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:46.079 Cudlow at a fucking corn dog? When's the less time 135 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:47.680 he walked around to state fair? Like none of these 136 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:49.800 people look like they're at home in a kind of 137 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:51.680 outdoor event with their fellows sit. 138 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:55.079 It's so funny that Fox News State TV decided to 139 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:57.319 go all in on this event, and the net effect 140 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:00.199 is they have to do like sweltering live shots outdoor 141 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:01.319 in front of no one. 142 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.000 It's just green fields and then Manny jerking off. I 143 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:06.720 also loved that the comment like did you ever think 144 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:11.279 you'd be doing your live shot from a state fair? Hypothetical? 145 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.160 It's but that's what I mean. 146 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:16.680 It's like these are just people that seem like kind 147 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:19.079 of unfamiliar with the country on some level. 148 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:21.240 Like state fairs are great. They're all over the country. 149 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:23.519 There are a lot of different most states, it turns out, 150 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:26.040 yeah and there and you can go and there's like 151 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:29.160 actually the news were often broadcast from them and tell 152 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:31.199 you about the latest deep fried foods you can get, 153 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:33.639 Like that was the vibe you could have had if 154 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:36.160 this weren't taken over by Trump like he took. He 155 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:38.720 took something that was bipartisan and a decade in the making. 156 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:40.600 You can actually go online and read what the original 157 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:42.319 plan is. I don't think it would have you know, 158 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:44.360 what is going to change the country or anything, but 159 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:45.800 it would have been nice. There was like a lot 160 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:48.480 of events happening all across the country. There would have 161 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:51.680 been kind of like a kind of a national event 162 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:53.839 for craft makers. It would have been big concerts by 163 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:56.160 famous people. There's a lot of money set aside. Trump 164 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:59.040 took that money, gave it to Freedom two fifty, turned 165 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:02.199 it into a partisan boondoggle, and now nobody's showing. 166 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:04.879 Up and for even though it's a five oh one 167 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:08.879 c three. Apparently donors who donate a million dollars in 168 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:12.519 more can secure an invitation to a private reception hosted 169 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:15.319 by Trump himself. There's not a lot of transparency on 170 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:17.759 the finances of Freedom two fifty. 171 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:21.120 And even though they've taken most of the money that 172 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:23.279 was supposed to go to America from tax. 173 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:25.399 Bearers, and we do have some corporate sponsors as well. 174 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:28.720 Of course, your Northrop Grummans, your United Health Groups or 175 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:29.879 SpaceX's you. 176 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:32.960 See the little army or robot dog kind of marching 177 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:34.639 around like filming people and performing. 178 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:36.519 It's very dystopian there. 179 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:40.399 I was the ferris wheel, I was. I read Devil 180 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:42.159 in the White City. Recently, I'm an Eric Larsen kick, 181 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:44.159 which is about the World's Fair in Chicago in eighteen 182 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:46.159 ninety three, I believe, And that was when the first 183 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:48.399 farrest wheel was built. And it was this marvel because 184 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:50.759 they were trying to rival the Eiffel Tower, and all 185 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:52.639 the Europeans are like, oh, those Americans will never be 186 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:54.840 able to build a thing. And then we built a 187 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:59.120 ferris wheel that was basically a steel tower that moved. 188 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:02.759 It was amazing, like America is building an Eiffel Tower, 189 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:04.559 basically the size of the Eiffel Tower. And then you 190 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:07.320 would get on it and you would rotate. Freak people 191 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:09.240 to fuck out, and people like tried to jump off it. 192 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:11.080 They were freaking out because like we were saying, you 193 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:13.919 know what, each shiit, Europe, We're gonna make something awesome. 194 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.080 We're gonna build skyscraper. Is gonna be a cool country, 195 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:17.919 and wait till you see what America is gonna do. 196 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.360 And now here we are one hundred and thirty years later, 197 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:23.799 we got this jag Off, you know, doing his version 198 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:26.679 of a great American state fair quite literally jah and 199 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:29.159 with jags with jagofs despair and you see. 200 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.200 The ferris wheel was broken for hours because of generator 201 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:33.720 issues and also there were power outages that spoiled like 202 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:35.600 all the food and melted all the ice cream. On 203 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:38.519 the first day and last minute, Vanilla Ice canceled because 204 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:41.799 it did inclement weather, even though he had previously said 205 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:42.960 rain or shine he was going to be there. 206 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:44.720 Did you read the profile camp That doesn't sound like 207 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:46.480 the Vanilla Ice ig know? Did you read his profile 208 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:48.279 in The Atlantic? Fascinating? 209 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:51.080 He claims to have performed for the Taliban. Just one 210 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:52.519 little tidbit for to. 211 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:54.159 What your beak go read the rest here When he 212 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:55.639 said that I believe he said that this is a 213 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:59.240 government where he feels at home. Then yeah, that it's 214 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:00.320 kind of rulers. 215 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:02.799 That he hadn't taken under pressure. Wasn't that he had claimed, 216 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:04.960 like the Vanilla Ice thing, that he hadn't taken under pressure. 217 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:06.759 There was a great clip where he's like, no, that 218 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:08.840 one's doom, doom, doom to do doom, doom, and mine 219 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:11.159 is doom doom, doom to do doom doom. That's the 220 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:14.039 same thing, the same thing. It's also funny some of 221 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:16.480 them mailed it in, like Connecticut Maine, I think shared 222 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:18.799 a space, put up four chairs, and then Maine just 223 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:21.720 had lobster facts on the wall and they're like booth 224 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:23.360 and a tote cop. 225 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:25.879 State bird. 226 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:30.080 I believe, Yeah, I guess that. 227 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:33.440 I mean the North Carolina booth had a Confederate flag up, 228 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:35.679 so yeah, you're not far from. 229 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:36.799 Him because that was because that was take because North 230 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:39.080 Carolina didn't do it, so like a private somehow someone 231 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:41.000 others did it, even though, by the way, that was 232 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.159 never any That flag was not the North Carolina flag, 233 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:45.840 not associated with the state of North Carolina, so they 234 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:46.879 just wanted to throw one up there. 235 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:48.960 It's just kind of a bummer, like he said, it's 236 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:51.399 it's it's not the biggest deal of anything. But the 237 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:54.039 two hundred and fifty anniversary could have been a moment where, 238 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:56.559 you know, a president decided to try to at least 239 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:58.279 try to bring the country together, or didn't try to 240 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:01.039 bring the country together, but at least off entertainment that 241 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:05.279 anyone could welcome. Yeah, anyone could feel welcome, you know, participating. 242 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:06.519 He could have just done nothing. 243 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:08.799 He could have just let the group America two fifty 244 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:11.240 that existed, had bipartisan membership, had a lot of his 245 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:11.840 allies on it. 246 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:13.519 Come out to make a little speech on the fourth. 247 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:16.039 Yeah, that would have been offensive to us. He would 248 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:18.440 have come out there and said something terrible, but whatever. 249 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:20.799 He could have just let it happen, but instead he 250 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:23.360 got his his his mits on it. 251 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:26.720 I ruined it, I will say NBC. And then the 252 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:28.759 New Republic went out and interviewed a bunch of people, 253 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:31.120 and you know, even people that didn't like Trump were like, 254 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:33.639 it's fine, this is great, this is cool, and I 255 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:36.200 do like the one attendee named Scott said to the 256 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:39.200 New Republic, I like this. I don't really take Trump 257 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:41.679 into consideration. He's going to be gone in three years, 258 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:43.960 dead in ten. He's not going to take away my 259 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:46.240 joy of this event. He's the president, but he's not God, 260 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:47.879 even though he thinks he is. I wasn't going to 261 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:49.639 come to this, but then I thought, you know, I'm 262 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:51.240 not going to let him take it away. I like, 263 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:52.759 good for you, Scott, I like that. That is the 264 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:57.879 attitude I want to hear from all the libste don't 265 00:11:57.919 --> 00:11:58.720 let him take it away. 266 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:00.399 Yeah, well yeah, you know, to take and away. The 267 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:04.360 fireworks show in DC doesn't start until eleven pm Eastern. 268 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:06.039 Because he has to give a long speech, right, that's 269 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:06.440 what they're. 270 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:09.679 Maybe it's weather too, that's so late. It's so late 271 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:13.399 for fireworks. Weep, that's crazy. 272 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:16.480 No, the sun goes down. You look up when sunset 273 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:19.000 is whenever that is, I want five minutes later. 274 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:21.200 Explosions in the stock kids when I was a kid 275 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:22.840 used to yeah, we used to. Our town was like 276 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:28.080 nine pm. Yeah, nine, but that's eleven is a wild 277 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:30.320 starts masters as a late sunset. That makes a lot 278 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:31.440 of sense. Oh there we go. 279 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:34.039 Okay, I'm sorry, I'm getting on my my my high horse. 280 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:37.679 So one DC event that will undoubtedly be packed crooked 281 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:39.679 kind of November, and it's fine to crank went out 282 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:42.000 in front of the main stage. There, Yes, it's fact 283 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:44.519 because then Tommy feel like, you know, yeah, he's got 284 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:46.879 you back. Yeah, you know what I mean, He's not 285 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:50.240 the only one doing letter rip. You can still get 286 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:53.559 tickets for that, and you can get discounted tickets if 287 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:55.519 you become a cricket subscriber. You also get ad free 288 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:58.279 episodes of all your favorite Cricket Pods, subscriber only shows, 289 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:01.559 substack newsletters, and much more. Or sign up at crioka 290 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:04.840 dot com slash friends. So with his fair getting rained 291 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:08.279 out on Sunday, Trump spent the morning moticating around the Capitol. 292 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:12.000 He's busy rebuilding as a monument to himself. He toured 293 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:15.720 the East Potomac golf Links, and we'll start renovations on 294 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:19.320 that federally owned public course September first, despite a federal 295 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:23.919 judge threatening quote serious consequences if he moves ahead without approval, 296 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:26.440 which he seems to be doing. The President is also 297 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:28.960 planning to redesign Lafayette Park, which is the one right 298 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.080 in front of the White House, so that it contains 299 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:36.519 exactly forty seven maple trees in honor of Trump. That's 300 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:39.759 according to the Washington Post. If you're in town visiting 301 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:43.080 and hop on over to the Washington Passport Agency, you 302 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:45.279 might be able to pick up a limited edition US 303 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:48.799 passport featuring a photo of Trump at the Resolute Desk 304 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:52.919 in front of the Declaration of Independence, which Trump described 305 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:56.679 as saying, quote, welcome, but be good. Even though those 306 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:00.519 words don't actually appear on the passport or make any sense. Yes, 307 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:03.159 that's not what passports are for. I did when I 308 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:03.600 saw this. 309 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:05.759 He because he said this passport says this, and a 310 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:07.480 lot of people are like, but that's not what passports 311 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:09.919 are for. You're a citizen. It's not a welcoming document. 312 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:10.879 You can only get it here. 313 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:13.480 It's to leave. It's not a green car. Right to leave, 314 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:15.679 they come back. I think he's a little confused. 315 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:18.080 But I think he was describing his own portrait in 316 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:19.720 a way. I think he was his way of saying, 317 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:23.840 because my angry face here saying welcome, but be good. Well, 318 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:25.639 because we could take your pap he was, it's a 319 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:27.360 citizenship thing. We could take your citizenship. 320 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:31.759 Dick anyway, interpretation limited edition Act now while supplies last 321 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:35.759 Closer to home, The Atlantic's Michael Cher found out that 322 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:39.600 the new White House colonnade walkway made of quote, polished 323 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:43.080 African granite carved in Italy. The Trump said he paid 324 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:48.080 for himself, was actually paid for by US about six 325 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:51.720 hundred and ninety thousand dollars charged to the taxpayers. I 326 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:55.480 didn't even know that had happened. I didn't either replaced 327 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.639 there's apparently another couple hundred thousand dollars spent on the 328 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.000 wall next to the colonnade, because remember he put up 329 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:03.279 the pictures, all the pictures, and you had to like 330 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:05.240 do something to the wall. I don't know why it 331 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:06.759 cost that much money, but to do something to the 332 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:10.039 wall in order to put up all those pictures, and 333 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:12.120 so that costs money as well. Have you guys said 334 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:13.720 thank you yet? Have you even said thank you? 335 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:17.200 Just a math scores in the schools are continuing to slide. 336 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:20.279 It's kind of flag some problems that are getting worse. Well, 337 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:21.159 he's been president. 338 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:22.559 I just I think that the. 339 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:26.639 Lafayette Park forty seven tree tribute to mand is actually 340 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:29.720 quite instructive because for those who've never been to Washington, 341 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:32.840 DC or gone to Lafayette Park, it is nothing. I 342 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:35.720 can't I can't overstate how underwhelming and shitty of a 343 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:37.360 little park it is. I've been through it a thousand times. 344 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:38.919 I'm sure you guys have too, because like you get 345 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:40.279 off the bus or you get off the metro, you 346 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:42.279 walk a block and you walk through it to get 347 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:44.000 to the White House, and. 348 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:48.600 It's like usually there's just a lot of squirrels. 349 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:50.080 And like a couple crazy people, and then that one 350 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:51.919 protest that's been there for like thirty years, the anti 351 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:54.720 war protest. But the fact that like he needs that 352 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:56.960 to be a tribute to himself means that like, no 353 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:00.480 narcissistic stone will go unturned by this man. 354 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.600 It's also no one knows if he wants to add 355 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:05.840 trees or subtract trees, because no one knows how many 356 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:07.600 trees there are in lafay At Park because who would 357 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:10.480 count such a thing. It's just a park with a 358 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:12.360 bunch of trees. And now we're going to go figure 359 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.440 out whether we have to add more trees or maple. 360 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:18.279 That's his favorite. Oh yeah, it's got to go with 361 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.039 his favorite. Everything's everything's about him, his favorite trees, his favorite, 362 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:23.159 his picture everywhere. 363 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:26.159 I gotta say, though, you know, at this point they 364 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:28.960 are great. I want him in as many fucking tree 365 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:33.840 meetings and arc meetings and pool meetings as possible. He 366 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:36.440 is not busy enough if he wants to plant a 367 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:38.679 couple of trees, We're just three chop trees away from 368 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:42.879 being the Obama Lafay Park tribute. So whatever, have at it, park, 369 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:48.919 plant your fucking trees. Fucking asshole, but the absurd you imagine. 370 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:51.639 Could you imagine if if in the last year of 371 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:55.480 his administration, Joe Biden was wandering around the various grounds 372 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:57.240 talking about the renovations he was going to be doing, 373 00:16:57.360 --> 00:16:59.720 what kind of reaction you would be hearing right now 374 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:02.679 from from from the right of you've been. 375 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:06.519 Hearing it from us. You'll be here from us. Yeah, 376 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:09.200 oh boy, all right, plant away, buddy, plant away, yea. 377 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:11.799 Enjoy those trees. Let's get to some more consequential news. 378 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:14.880 The Supreme Court handed down a few big decisions on 379 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:17.960 Monday as it closes out its term. The Court declined 380 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:20.720 to throw out the twenty twenty three jury verdict finding 381 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:24.839 Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Egene Carroll, meaning 382 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:27.640 he has to pay her that five million dollars in 383 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:30.839 a six' three ruling where three conservatives joined the. Liberals 384 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:33.920 The court also held The Fourth amendment covers your cell 385 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:36.880 phone location history even when you've agreed that a third 386 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:39.480 party Like google Or apple can record, it meaning police 387 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.000 now need a specific warrant to get, it rather than 388 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.799 a so called geofence warrant that sweeps up the movements 389 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:47.559 of every phone in a particular, Area so that seems. 390 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:49.119 Good both of those seem, good, Right we have some 391 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:51.279 other ones to get, through but we'd start With Egene 392 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:55.720 carroll and the and the. Geofencing, yeah did you Have vinzy? 393 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:56.119 One is just. 394 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:58.240 Interesting it's also interesting that it's like it's a non 395 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:02.119 ideological it has a kind of a ideologically mixed, ruling 396 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:03.680 and part BECAUSE i do think it's like a novel. 397 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:06.839 Question and if we are going to have kind of 398 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:09.680 allowing these companies to track us, digitally including in ways 399 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:12.839 that in a previous era would have been only private, 400 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:16.000 information then it's still being Like google has already changed 401 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:18.480