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Make sure you hit the subscribe button. 8 00:00:23,399 --> 00:00:26,280 Get every episode for free right to your smartphone or tablet. 9 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,280 And again, thank you so much for your support. 10 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:30,719 Speaker 1: All right, so we. 11 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 2: Had the nationwide injunctions SmackDown ruling that came down from 12 00:00:36,679 --> 00:00:39,880 the US Supreme Court. We also had actually let me read, 13 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:42,600 there's one other piece on that ruling, and if you 14 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,560 want you want more on that, go back and listen 15 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:51,280 to the first hour podcast. There's a lawyer. He's actually 16 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:55,200 represented a lot of j sixers. He goes I forget 17 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:56,960 his real name, but on Twitter he goes by the 18 00:00:57,039 --> 00:01:01,600 name Shipwrecked Crew. I think his name his last name, 19 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:05,879 maybe ship or something. But anyway, he says the fact 20 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:11,799 that six justices were okay signing on to an opinion 21 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,640 where Justice amy Cony Barrett took a personal shot at 22 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:20,079 Justice Kotanji Brown. Jackson is a very strong indication that 23 00:01:20,239 --> 00:01:24,040 Jackson has alienated her colleagues and there is a growing 24 00:01:24,159 --> 00:01:29,439 lack of respect for her work. Justices circulate memos among 25 00:01:31,519 --> 00:01:34,159 among each other with their legal views on certain cases 26 00:01:34,599 --> 00:01:37,680 in order to try to bring others around to their 27 00:01:37,799 --> 00:01:40,799 way of thinking. Right, they write this stuff up, they 28 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,400 send it over. Here's my legal rationale, here's my arguing, 29 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:47,560 and they go around and they talk about this stuff. Right, 30 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,879 given what she has written in her dissent, imagine the 31 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,959 memos that Jackson must have sent around in. 32 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:57,959 Speaker 1: This case. 33 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 2: To to elicit this kind of a SmackDown from Amy 34 00:02:04,519 --> 00:02:09,080 Cony Barrett. Barrett boils it down to a single point 35 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:14,159 that Jackson would elevate the primacy of a single district 36 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:21,919 judge above the executive because they are the court. 37 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: That's it. 38 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,599 Speaker 2: That's her rationale, and that is appalling to all six 39 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:33,280 of the Republican appointed judges. And the fact that you 40 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:37,360 would write this in the opinion indicates that the memos 41 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:43,879 that were going around must have been fire. Oh my goodness, 42 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:46,680 what else. 43 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:50,479 Speaker 1: We have another ruling that came down. Let me see here. 44 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 2: This is from Daily Caller News Foundation. Their little blurb 45 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,599 about the case that they wrote up for this morning 46 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,000 before the ruling was handed down. This is a case 47 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:06,479 called Mahmoud versus Taylor. Okay, this is a school district 48 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:10,319 in Maryland. I think it's Montgomery County where Muslim and 49 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:16,680 Christian parents sued the Montgomery County Board of Educations refusal 50 00:03:16,759 --> 00:03:22,719 to grant a religious exemption to mandated elementary school storybook 51 00:03:22,759 --> 00:03:30,360 readings that involved Pride parades, gender transitions, and drag queens. 52 00:03:32,039 --> 00:03:38,120 So happy end of Pride month everyone, that's good job. 53 00:03:38,639 --> 00:03:41,400 See this is what I mean. The left can never 54 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:46,759 go too far in their minds. There is no end zone. 55 00:03:46,879 --> 00:03:49,360 This is why when I have debates about all sorts 56 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,599 of topics, I try to ask, like, what is the 57 00:03:51,639 --> 00:03:56,400 optimal dollar figure, for example, on per pupil expenditures? Right, 58 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:01,439 give me the number. Where's the end zone? Where's the destination? 59 00:04:01,759 --> 00:04:04,280 Because if you don't know the destination, how do we 60 00:04:04,319 --> 00:04:07,080 know if we got there, let alone if we're going 61 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,680 in the right direction. Because you can't just say fullward 62 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,840 all the time like all good commies do, because forward 63 00:04:12,879 --> 00:04:15,120 could mean right off of a cliff. I don't want 64 00:04:15,159 --> 00:04:17,680 to go forward if I'm going to be plunging down 65 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,279 a ravine. So please tell me where we are going, 66 00:04:21,319 --> 00:04:23,759 what is the destination, so I will know the direction 67 00:04:23,879 --> 00:04:27,480 we are headed. That there's no limiting principle here. And 68 00:04:27,519 --> 00:04:31,040 so the left went too far, as they do on everything, 69 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,399 they went too far. You started with gay marriage. They 70 00:04:35,519 --> 00:04:36,959 just want to be married. They want to, you know, 71 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,120 have the same sort of contractual rights. They want to 72 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,680 be able to go into the hospitals to be with 73 00:04:42,759 --> 00:04:45,480 their dying spouse, like all of that stuff. And those 74 00:04:45,759 --> 00:04:50,040 arguments worked to convince a lot of people who are 75 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,480 not personally impacted by gay marriage. They didn't care, and 76 00:04:53,519 --> 00:04:57,199 they were like, Okay, yeah, I agree with that. And 77 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,360 you had this sea change and then you you went 78 00:05:00,439 --> 00:05:05,879 too far. Then you went to yeah, actually I do 79 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,480 want to dress up like a woman and read to 80 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,360 your four year old. And if you say no to that, 81 00:05:11,519 --> 00:05:15,800 then you're a bigot. And then you start looking at 82 00:05:15,879 --> 00:05:19,199 the books that you're putting on the shelves in the library, 83 00:05:19,879 --> 00:05:25,240 and you've got cartoons of people having gay sex. You 84 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:29,439 would not show cartoons of people having heterosexual sex, no, 85 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,160 but you have gay sex because you're trying to make 86 00:05:32,199 --> 00:05:35,959 it okay. You're trying to indoctrinate, you're trying to normalize, right, 87 00:05:37,759 --> 00:05:41,399 you went too far. And when parents stood up and said, well, whoa, whoa, 88 00:05:41,519 --> 00:05:44,439 this is not appropriate material. No matter if it's you know, 89 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,879 homosexual or heterosexual, doesn't matter, it's this is not age appropriate. 90 00:05:49,199 --> 00:05:51,680 And you said, shut up, bigot, and then you had 91 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,000 the doj sicked on you for going down to a 92 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,360 school board meeting and talking about it. You went too far. 93 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:05,199 And so parents up in Montgomery County they were like, 94 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:08,120 we would like to be able to not have our. 95 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 1: Kids exposed to this stuff at their age. 96 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:17,439 Speaker 2: And originally the Montgomery school board said okay, fine, and 97 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,040 then they dismantled that, but they never told the parents, 98 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,199 if I recall correctly the details of the case, they 99 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,480 never told the parents that they had changed it. So 100 00:06:25,639 --> 00:06:29,480 parents who had thought that they were defaulted to an 101 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,959 opt out and if you want your kids to be 102 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,360 exposed to the porn, you can opt them in. But 103 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,279 what the school district discovered was that there weren't a 104 00:06:39,319 --> 00:06:44,319 lot of kids opting in, which in a market system, 105 00:06:44,399 --> 00:06:47,879 that's a market signal telling you they don't want it, 106 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,680 they don't want to go into these drag queens story hours. 107 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,959 They don't want it, and so of course we have to, 108 00:06:55,600 --> 00:07:00,399 you know, re educate the bigots. So therefore they scrap 109 00:07:00,519 --> 00:07:03,079 the opt in and they turn it into an opt 110 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,680 out and they don't tell people, and so then all 111 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,800 of a sudden, junior comes home and they're like, I 112 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,360 want to be a girl, and like, where'd you hear that? 113 00:07:12,439 --> 00:07:14,120 Oh well, we had a drag queen come in and 114 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,959 tell me that I should be or something. And now 115 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,120 it's like wha wait a minute. So they go down 116 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,519 and they're like, this is objectionable. We want to return 117 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,319 to the old way, and they were in the Board 118 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,439 of Education was like no. The Fourth Circuit Court of 119 00:07:26,439 --> 00:07:29,319 Appeals back in twenty twenty four ruled against the parents, 120 00:07:29,839 --> 00:07:34,680 finding that their free exercise of religion rights were not 121 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:40,160 burdened because nobody compelled them to change their religious beliefs 122 00:07:40,279 --> 00:07:45,120 or conduct. That was what the Fourth Circus Court of 123 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:46,079 Appeals determined. 124 00:07:46,279 --> 00:07:48,079 Speaker 1: Well, nobody's making you convert. 125 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 2: Yeah no, but you are putting all these ideas into 126 00:07:52,759 --> 00:07:57,240 my impressionable, young five year old child's young skull of mush. Right, 127 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,839 you are putting it in their heads. They're not equipped 128 00:08:00,839 --> 00:08:03,120 to learn this stuff, so they're just going to take 129 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,399 what you say as true. Well, then you're just gonna 130 00:08:06,439 --> 00:08:11,639 have to parent harder. I guess right. And during oral 131 00:08:11,759 --> 00:08:16,480 arguments a majority of the justices seemed inclined to side 132 00:08:16,639 --> 00:08:20,879 with the parents. So here's how Axios reports it. Parents 133 00:08:20,959 --> 00:08:25,639 can opt their children out of school lessons with LGBTQ 134 00:08:25,879 --> 00:08:30,800 plus characters or themes. The big picture, the ruling is 135 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,360 a win for conservatives, as schools have become a major 136 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:40,639 partisan battleground. Yeah, why Axios? Why have schools become a 137 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:46,360 major partisan battleground? How did that happen? It wasn't conservatives 138 00:08:46,399 --> 00:08:49,399 taking over school boards over the last twenty years and 139 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:53,559 injecting this crap into the curriculum. It was the left, 140 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:59,840 exactly cause the left always goes too far. It can 141 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:05,120 never go far enough for themselves for the lefties. The 142 00:09:05,159 --> 00:09:07,720 school had initially offered parents a way to opt their 143 00:09:07,799 --> 00:09:09,919 kids out of those lessons, but then they dropped it 144 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:14,279 after it became too unwieldy to administer. They said, they 145 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,399 said that that was what the school district said. Oh, 146 00:09:16,399 --> 00:09:18,840 it's just too much of an administrative burden to keep 147 00:09:18,879 --> 00:09:22,159 track of all of this stuff. But parents must be 148 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,600 able to have their kids skip lessons to which the 149 00:09:24,639 --> 00:09:27,919 parents have a religious objection. The court ruled again six 150 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:31,960 to three. 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All right, 170 00:10:36,159 --> 00:10:38,720 let's jump over to the phones and chat with Bain. Hey, Bain, 171 00:10:38,799 --> 00:10:39,840 how's it going, man. 172 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,919 Speaker 3: Hey, keete, it's going good. About thirty years ago I 173 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,159 read a book by Frankie Schaefer called it The Time 174 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,480 for Anger, and within the book to do a social 175 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:53,440 commentary book, and it was written that freedom without form 176 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:57,639 results in chaos, and out of chaos always emerges a 177 00:10:57,759 --> 00:11:01,639 tyrant or five out an ninety four ruling in favor. 178 00:11:02,039 --> 00:11:05,039 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, no, that's a great, that's a great. 179 00:11:06,279 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 3: And so there's no form with what Katanji Brown was saying. 180 00:11:08,759 --> 00:11:11,399 That's what Amy Coney was saying, what's the basis? What's 181 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:16,240 your stipulations mean? Well, what are you connecting this to nothing? 182 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:17,519 Speaker 1: Right? 183 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 2: Well, and that's the I've been saying this on a 184 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,320 whole host of different issues for a long time, which 185 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:22,399 is that chaos. 186 00:11:22,039 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: Is the point, that's the purpose. 187 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 2: It's to create the chaos, and from that chaos, as 188 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:32,799 you just mentioned, there arises a tyrant because somebody comes 189 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,519 and oftentimes the people who create the chaos are the 190 00:11:35,519 --> 00:11:38,399 ones that then assert themselves as the solution to the 191 00:11:38,519 --> 00:11:40,879 very chaos they have created. You see it in our 192 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:45,080 language as well. We covered this yesterday when Democrats in 193 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:50,000 the Raleigh General Assembly they were arguing over this, you know, 194 00:11:50,159 --> 00:11:55,279 sexual exploitation of children and women. Yet they objected to 195 00:11:55,399 --> 00:11:59,159 the definitions of what a woman is in the legislation, right, 196 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,720 which is just chaos. Like you, how do you even 197 00:12:01,799 --> 00:12:05,759 legislate if you cannot agree upon mutually acceptable definitions. 198 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,799 Speaker 3: And sometimes leaders in positions, certain positions, even I've seen 199 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:14,600 it in business too, they create problems so that they 200 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:15,720 can solve problems. 201 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,919 Speaker 2: Yep, I've heard. So have you ever heard of the 202 00:12:19,039 --> 00:12:25,240 seagull manager? No, no, no, no, so like like the 203 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:30,080 like the bird, the seagull, whereas they they they swoop in, 204 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:33,600 they make a lot of noise. Uh, they crap on everything, 205 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:37,840 and then they leave. So like yes, and so like 206 00:12:37,879 --> 00:12:40,080 I've had managers that are like that. I've had bosses 207 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:43,679 that are like that. And now sometimes I think Trump 208 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:45,519 is actually a pretty good example of one of these 209 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:49,480 types of characters, these chaos agents. They come up, they 210 00:12:49,519 --> 00:12:52,279 come in, they disrupt. I think Elon Musk also would 211 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,639 do something along these lines. Right, You you shake things up, 212 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:59,279 you create the chaos, and then you're able to then 213 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,720 get people to move and do things that you may 214 00:13:01,759 --> 00:13:03,799 not otherwise have been able to make them do. 215 00:13:04,879 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, the only difference with them was is there was 216 00:13:07,279 --> 00:13:10,000 a principle behind what they were doing. We've got to 217 00:13:10,039 --> 00:13:14,080 shake this up because we want to save money, for example, right, 218 00:13:14,519 --> 00:13:18,440 or we want to keep a rand from obliterating Israel. 219 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:23,200 There was a principle behind it. But I'm still amazed. 220 00:13:23,399 --> 00:13:26,480 And just one last thing is I heard this also 221 00:13:26,519 --> 00:13:28,960 from Neil Postman that a lot of people, if there's 222 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,320 a problem on a way that you're going down the road, 223 00:13:32,759 --> 00:13:35,519 you should put up a road closed, you know, because 224 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:38,000 we can all make mistakes in the direction that we're heading. 225 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,840 But some folks say, no, no, no, keep the road open, 226 00:13:40,879 --> 00:13:43,240 because at the bottom of the cliff, we've got a 227 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,000 nice hospital, we've got helicopters, we have some of the 228 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,039 best care people that there are, and so we want 229 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:53,080 to use our gizmos and management to take care of 230 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,559 the problem that we created when we simply could have 231 00:13:55,639 --> 00:13:57,039 just put up a road clothes sign. 232 00:13:57,159 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, find another way to get there if getting there 233 00:14:00,279 --> 00:14:03,639 requires going off a cliff, right, Yeah, No, I got 234 00:14:03,639 --> 00:14:03,919 your ban. 235 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. That's good stuff. Thanks, thank you all. 236 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 2: Right, buddy, you have a great weekend. This is from 237 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:12,919 Fox News. This is Shannon Breem. She used to work 238 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,120 down the hall here at WBTV back in the day 239 00:14:15,159 --> 00:14:17,600 when I was a reporter with her, and she has 240 00:14:17,639 --> 00:14:19,080 been in Fox News for a long time. 241 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:21,919 Speaker 1: She is also a lawyer. People don't realize that. 242 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,679 Speaker 2: I think she's a Fox News host, but she's also 243 00:14:24,799 --> 00:14:27,480 super smart, one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, too. 244 00:14:27,799 --> 00:14:30,720 But she is covering their Supreme Court decisions. And here 245 00:14:30,799 --> 00:14:35,600 is her report on the Supreme Court backing the parents 246 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:41,480 in this Montgomery County, Maryland parental rights case. 247 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:46,159 Speaker 1: We were Dana. 248 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 4: So this brought together a coalition of parents of different 249 00:14:48,759 --> 00:14:51,759 religious faiths and backgrounds who said there used to be 250 00:14:51,799 --> 00:14:54,240 a rule in this particular school district that would let 251 00:14:54,279 --> 00:14:56,679 them know when there were books that dealt with issues 252 00:14:56,679 --> 00:14:59,000 that may be in conflict with their religious faith. Well, 253 00:14:59,039 --> 00:15:01,480 so many parents were of out that the school board 254 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,720 and the school district quit doing it. Well six to 255 00:15:03,799 --> 00:15:06,360 three today, in a Justice A decision by Justice Alito, 256 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,960 they said these parents have been earned at least a 257 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,600 preliminary injunction. So while this case plays out, they said 258 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,639 the board has to notify them about a book that's 259 00:15:14,679 --> 00:15:17,919 in question or anything similar, so that their kids can 260 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,320 be excused if it's in conflict with their faith. He says, 261 00:15:20,799 --> 00:15:24,120 as we've explained, Without that, parents are left this choice 262 00:15:24,159 --> 00:15:26,799 either risk their child's exposure to burden some instruction, or 263 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:30,840 pay substantial sums for alternative educational services. Because at one 264 00:15:30,879 --> 00:15:33,559 point Justice Jackson, during the arguments is said, had said, 265 00:15:33,879 --> 00:15:35,279 why don't they just go to a different schoo Why 266 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:37,240 don't you put them in private school or homeschool them, 267 00:15:37,519 --> 00:15:40,399 Justice Alitos and others saying that's not practical for a 268 00:15:40,399 --> 00:15:40,720 lot of. 269 00:15:40,639 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: People unless you have vouchers. 270 00:15:44,039 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 2: This was the most hilarious part in this oral argument 271 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,360 was that you had the liberals saying, well, just go 272 00:15:49,399 --> 00:15:53,840 to a different school. So like making a school choice 273 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:58,639 argument inadvertently, because the issue is never the issue, right, 274 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,159 The issue is always the revelation. So that's why they 275 00:16:01,159 --> 00:16:04,759 get these inconsistent arguments that they have to reach into 276 00:16:04,759 --> 00:16:07,240 the bag, pull out this silly argument, make it right 277 00:16:07,279 --> 00:16:09,039 now because it helps advance the revolution. 278 00:16:09,159 --> 00:16:09,639 Speaker 1: Right now. 279 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 2: But you've been talking for all these years before about 280 00:16:13,559 --> 00:16:15,840 no school choice and shutting all of that down and 281 00:16:15,919 --> 00:16:19,960 taxpayer funds for private institutions and blah blah blah. But 282 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,759 now you need the argument the other direction, So I 283 00:16:22,759 --> 00:16:24,919 will use it in any other direction, because right now 284 00:16:25,039 --> 00:16:28,080 is all that matters. This particular argument is all that 285 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:29,279 matters for me right now. 286 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,639 Speaker 4: The descent by Justice Sotomayer, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, 287 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:36,759 says today's ruling threatens the essence of public education. She says, 288 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,279 it's not about bringing kids together to learn about a 289 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,039 particular faith, but a range of concepts and views that 290 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,960 reflect our entire society. Exposure to new ideas has always 291 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:48,519 been a vital part of that project. Until now. She 292 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:50,720 didn't think the dissenters didn't think that the parents should 293 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:52,879 get the opt out, Justice Alito, when the majority say 294 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:53,600 they should. 295 00:16:55,879 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 2: So they should be exposed to genitals, don't you know 296 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,000 lots of different ideas? You know, your six year old 297 00:17:03,039 --> 00:17:05,200 needs to see this stuff. Otherwise they may not know. 298 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,400 And that's not what a good education is all about. 299 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,880 Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to 300 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,400 a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 301 00:17:15,519 --> 00:17:17,680 Just a quick drive up the mountain and cabins of 302 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:22,079 Asheville is your connection. 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What else? 322 00:18:24,079 --> 00:18:26,519 Speaker 2: We had another US Supreme Court ruling that came down 323 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:31,920 in a case over a Texas law that was challenged 324 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:37,480 by an adult entertainment industry trade group that calls itself 325 00:18:37,519 --> 00:18:45,759 the Free Speech Coalition. Imagine, uh yeah, imagine some uh, 326 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,079 you know, First Amendment activists just. 327 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:49,799 Speaker 1: Oh, look at that. 328 00:18:49,839 --> 00:18:52,519 Speaker 2: There's a local meeting of the Free Speech Coalition. I'm 329 00:18:52,519 --> 00:18:54,799 going to show up to that meeting, and oh, my gosh, 330 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:58,599 who are these people. It's a bunch of porn industry people, 331 00:18:58,799 --> 00:19:03,960 the Free Speech coal Listen anyway, In January, the Supreme 332 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:08,079 Court heard a challenge to this Texas law that required 333 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:14,000 porn sites to verify users' ages. And you may think 334 00:19:14,039 --> 00:19:16,200 to yourself, well, what's the problem with that? 335 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:16,839 Speaker 1: Right? 336 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,839 Speaker 2: You want to make sure that whoever's logging onto your 337 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:23,440 porn site is of age? Right, because you wouldn't be 338 00:19:23,519 --> 00:19:25,599 able to go to the store and buy one of 339 00:19:25,599 --> 00:19:29,000 the NUDI mags unless you were Is it eighteen years 340 00:19:29,039 --> 00:19:30,720 old or twenty one years old? I get maybe it 341 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:31,559 dependent on the state. 342 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: I don't know. 343 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 2: Do they even sell those things in convenience stores anymore? 344 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,720 I will you could never tell because they had the 345 00:19:37,759 --> 00:19:40,519 black thing on the front of it, right, they had 346 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,400 like the front cover was always blacked out. It was 347 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,599 because it was in like a comic book wrapper, you know, 348 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,240 like a plastic wrapper, and the whole front of it 349 00:19:50,319 --> 00:19:51,720 was black, so you could never tell. 350 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: You couldn't see what was on the cover. 351 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 2: So I don't even know if those things do they 352 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,559 do they even make magazines anymore? 353 00:19:58,599 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 1: I don't even know. 354 00:20:00,839 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 2: But I know that you had to be a certain 355 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,359 age to buy that stuff, right, So it kind of 356 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:07,319 makes sense that you would have to have some age 357 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:12,240 verification on the websites, right. Of course, problem nobody wants 358 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:13,599 to give their driver's. 359 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:18,079 Speaker 5: License to the website in order to prove it's them, right, 360 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,640 They don't want to create a user profile. They don't 361 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,839 want to, let alone give over personal information, because far 362 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,559 be it from me to suggest that a porn website 363 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,839 might not be the most secure website with your data. 364 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 2: But yeah, so, by the way, North Carolina has this 365 00:20:38,559 --> 00:20:42,720 law too. So Text has passed this law, and the 366 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:48,279 Free Speech Coalition they sued. 367 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 1: Now, I'll hang on a second. 368 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 2: My live my live update here, just scrolled down to 369 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,279 do so. I was reading from two different pieces. Anyway, 370 00:20:58,279 --> 00:21:00,400 that's fine, I'll go back to the here it is 371 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:01,359 eleven twenty five. 372 00:21:04,319 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, but they keep they keep shifting it away. 373 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 2: Here it is okay, because it's a live update feed 374 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,200 from the Associated Press, so it keeps bumping stuff out 375 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:13,920 of my screen. 376 00:21:14,759 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 1: So I'll read. 377 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 2: Let me finish this first, then, So they say, the 378 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:21,440 group said that the law puts an unfair free speech 379 00:21:21,599 --> 00:21:26,119 burden on adults by requiring them to submit personal information 380 00:21:26,519 --> 00:21:28,759 that could be vulnerable to hacking or tracking. 381 00:21:28,839 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 1: Well, that's on you guys. 382 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 2: Wait a minute, you're suing because you're like, you cannot 383 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:37,160 trust our websites to protect your information. Okay, that is 384 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:42,119 an undue burden on the free speechers that are just 385 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,000 coming to look at porn, right, Like, we have terrible security, 386 00:21:46,039 --> 00:21:48,519 don't you know where porn sites we got terrible security. 387 00:21:48,759 --> 00:21:51,559 So like, that's a burden on the users. 388 00:21:51,599 --> 00:21:51,839 Speaker 1: Man. 389 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:58,039 Speaker 2: Surprisingly, the Supreme Court did not buy this argument. Nearly 390 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:01,960 half of all states have now passed similar age verification laws, 391 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,000 as smartphones and other devices make it easier to access 392 00:22:05,039 --> 00:22:13,759 online porn, including hardcore obscene material. This was the case 393 00:22:13,799 --> 00:22:17,480 called Free Speech Coalition versus Paxton as I said, it 394 00:22:17,519 --> 00:22:23,079 came out of Texas and the Free Speech Coalition represented 395 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:27,680 online porn distributors who argue the law burdens adults First 396 00:22:27,759 --> 00:22:33,319 Amendment rights. By the way, did you know that if 397 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,839 you try to go down to speak at the city 398 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,079 council meetings, if you sign up to speak, did you 399 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,319 know that you have to give your name and address? 400 00:22:44,079 --> 00:22:47,240 Is that a burden on free speech that you have 401 00:22:47,279 --> 00:22:48,960 to give your name an address because they want to 402 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:54,400 make sure that you are actually a Charlotte City resident, right, 403 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:58,559 because they don't need people from other cities, other counties, 404 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,559 other countries. You know, they are okay with people from 405 00:23:01,559 --> 00:23:03,799 other countries coming in as long as you are like resident, 406 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,359 as long as you have like a local address. But otherwise, 407 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,359 if you live outside of the city limits, they don't 408 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:10,720 want to hear what you have to say because you're 409 00:23:10,759 --> 00:23:11,240 not local. 410 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:16,599 Speaker 1: You're not one of their constituents, you know. So there 411 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:17,160 was that. 412 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,079 Speaker 2: Let's see here, what else? There was another case because 413 00:23:20,079 --> 00:23:23,640 they had six rulings. Oh, I have not seen how 414 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,200 they've determined this one yet, but there was a there's 415 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:34,000 another case. This was a congressional redistricting case out of Louisiana, Louisiana. Sorry, 416 00:23:35,079 --> 00:23:37,640 I kid, I kid, Louisiana. I've never even been there. 417 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,880 Following a winding journey through the lower courts, the Supreme 418 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:47,640 Court is slated to resolve a conflict over Louisiana's congressional map. 419 00:23:49,319 --> 00:23:51,839 I don't know the details of this case either, but 420 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,680 I'm going to assume, based on what I'm about to 421 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,559 read to you, that this was a bunch of Mark 422 00:23:56,599 --> 00:24:01,480 Elias type lawyers of the left suing over congressional drawn 423 00:24:01,519 --> 00:24:04,079 districts in order to try to get more Democrats into 424 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,759 the US House. So here's the rite of from the 425 00:24:06,839 --> 00:24:11,640 Daily Caller News Foundation. After a federal district judge rejected 426 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:18,599 Louisiana's congressional map including only one black majority district, Okay. 427 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,559 So I don't know how many districts they've got down 428 00:24:20,559 --> 00:24:23,720 there in Louisiana, but the legislature drew the maps and 429 00:24:23,759 --> 00:24:30,160 they made one majority black district, Okay, So fifty I 430 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,880 don't know, five percent of the voters in the district 431 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:37,000 are black, Okay, And so that would theoretically ensure that 432 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:41,759 a Democrat wins the seat, a black Democrat wins the seat, right, Okay. 433 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 1: So They said. 434 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,759 Speaker 2: Though in the in their lawsuit that that's a violation 435 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,839 of the Voting Rights Act. They sued in twenty twenty two, 436 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:55,680 the state legislature redrew the map and they created another 437 00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:01,559 black majority district in twenty four Okay, so you think 438 00:25:01,599 --> 00:25:02,680 then problem. 439 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: Solved, right, Haha. 440 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:04,279 Speaker 3: Wrong. 441 00:25:05,039 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 2: A three judge panel then ruled that the new map 442 00:25:09,319 --> 00:25:15,680 unlawfully made race the predominant factor in its creation. So 443 00:25:16,599 --> 00:25:21,039 you got sued because you only had one black majority district. 444 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,759 So you draw another set of maps, and this one 445 00:25:23,799 --> 00:25:27,440 has two black majority districts, and you get sued again 446 00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:31,000 by the same people who say, now you used race 447 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,519 as a factor. But if you didn't use race as 448 00:25:34,519 --> 00:25:38,240 a factor, as North Carolina did not, they used party identification, 449 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:43,880 They too got sued by the left, saying that the 450 00:25:45,079 --> 00:25:48,799 impact was the same and that you didn't use race enough. 451 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:53,319 This is what years ago sam Alito pointed out in 452 00:25:53,319 --> 00:25:55,960 one of these rulings in the North Carolina Redistrict in case. 453 00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:00,559 He was like, you guys keep changing the rules, Supreme Court, 454 00:26:00,599 --> 00:26:03,880 these lower courts, you guys keep changing the rules when 455 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,000 it comes to drawing maps, and no legislature in North 456 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Carolina can conceivably comply with you, because when you tell 457 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,359 them to use race and then they do, you say 458 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,880 you shouldn't have used race, and then they don't. You're like, oh, 459 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:16,240 you should have used it a little bit more than 460 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,039 you didn't, and then oh, maybe you should have used 461 00:26:18,079 --> 00:26:20,799 it not so much or whatever. You're all over the place. 462 00:26:21,559 --> 00:26:24,160 This is why I mock the left for their their 463 00:26:24,319 --> 00:26:26,920 you know, we want fair maps argument. You don't want 464 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,799 fair maps to a democrat. Fair maps are maps where 465 00:26:29,839 --> 00:26:32,720 they win. That's what a fair map is for the left. 466 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:33,279 Speaker 5: All right. 467 00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:35,160 Speaker 2: If you're listening to this show, you know I try 468 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:36,920 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 469 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,039 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 470 00:26:39,079 --> 00:26:43,319 say get your news from multiple sources. 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I started using ground News a few 478 00:27:05,759 --> 00:27:08,480 months ago, and more recently chose to work with them 479 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,279 as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how 480 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,400 stories get covered and by whom. 481 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:14,680 Speaker 1: The blind spot. 482 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 2: Feature shows you which stories get ignored by the left 483 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:18,000 and the right. 484 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,079 Speaker 1: See for yourself. 485 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,839 Speaker 2: Check dot Ground, dot News slash Pete. Subscribe through that 486 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,839 link and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. I 487 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,279 use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. 488 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,240 Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it 489 00:27:33,279 --> 00:27:36,440 also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape 490 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:37,359 more transparent. 491 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: Here's a question. 492 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:46,680 Speaker 2: When Joe Biden nominated KBJ to the Supreme Court, Katanji 493 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,359 Brown Jackson, who doesn't know what a woman is because 494 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:55,400 she's not a biologist, was that actually his nominee? 495 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:56,319 Speaker 1: Was that his decision? 496 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 2: Now I think the case can actually be made pretty 497 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,960 effectively that he did know that, because remember he said 498 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,640 that he promised that he would appoint a black woman 499 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,599 to the US Supreme Court, And the left went swoony 500 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,240 swoony nuts. Right, they just love that so much, and 501 00:28:14,279 --> 00:28:17,400 this is why she will forever be sort of tagged 502 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,960 as a dei higher, which I having known nothing about 503 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,880 her before she was nominated, I thought, that's so unfair 504 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,799 for her because she could be very highly qualified, brilliant jurist, 505 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:35,839 you know, And now she's got this label because Joe 506 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,480 Biden went out and said, I'm only looking for a 507 00:28:38,519 --> 00:28:45,319 black woman judge. And now you read her rulings and 508 00:28:45,359 --> 00:28:47,680 her opinions and it's like, oh my gosh, she is 509 00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:51,839 really bad. Like now that tag that's going to calcify. 510 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:57,799 There's no way around it. So I think Joe did 511 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,640 know that she was. Now I don't believe he knew 512 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,160 anything about her, probably, but I don't know. And the 513 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,319 reason I don't know this is because I don't know 514 00:29:06,359 --> 00:29:08,799 what Joe knew for most of his presidency, if not 515 00:29:08,839 --> 00:29:12,799 the entire presidency, maybe even into his vice presidency. But 516 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,279 there are members of the House who are trying to 517 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:21,400 figure out who knew what and when, and so they 518 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:26,000 have been inviting all love it devy at first. Of course, 519 00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:31,200 they've been inviting members of Joe Biden's staff to come 520 00:29:31,759 --> 00:29:36,559 and sit for some questioning with their Congressional committee, and 521 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:40,480 if they don't, they will subpoena your butt. A top 522 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:46,079 aide to former First Lady Doctor Joe Biden suddenly refused 523 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,160 to testify this week for a congressional investigation into the 524 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,200 cover up of former President Joe Biden's mental decline during 525 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,759 his tenure in the White House. Anthony Bernal, who I 526 00:29:56,799 --> 00:30:01,839 believe worked for dunder Mifflin Paper Company before arriving at 527 00:30:01,279 --> 00:30:05,680 the White House, but he he was long known for 528 00:30:05,839 --> 00:30:14,359 being doctor Jill Biden's quote unquote work husband. There are 529 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,839 so many, so many things I can say, but I 530 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,279 will not say them. I'm better than that most times. 531 00:30:21,079 --> 00:30:25,359 So Bernal is now declining to appear for the closed 532 00:30:25,359 --> 00:30:29,440 door interview before the House Overside Committee after previously agreeing 533 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,960 to go and talk to the committee. So now the 534 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,720 committee has issued him a subpoena, like you don't want 535 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,680 to come voluntarily, we will now drag your butt here. 536 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:44,480 Comer attributed Bernal's flip to the Trump White House decision 537 00:30:45,279 --> 00:30:49,359 to waive executive privilege for the Oversight Committee's investigation into 538 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,720 the actions that Joe Biden's inner circle took to hide 539 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,640 the extent to which his mental faculties declined throughout his presidency. So, okay, 540 00:30:56,759 --> 00:31:03,400 I was not aware that a current administration can waive 541 00:31:04,119 --> 00:31:11,480 executive privilege for previous administrations? 542 00:31:11,759 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 1: Did you know that? I thought it was like you're. 543 00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 2: In my administration and then we're done and somebody subpoena 544 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,319 as you and you're like, I'm not going to talk 545 00:31:22,359 --> 00:31:24,400 about what Pete and I talked about, because that would 546 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,799 be privilege. That's executive privilege, like you know, like attorney 547 00:31:28,799 --> 00:31:31,720 client privilege kind of thing. I did not think that 548 00:31:32,559 --> 00:31:34,480 a new white ass could come in and say, yeah, 549 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,799 we're gonna wave all that privilege. You got to talk now, 550 00:31:37,279 --> 00:31:39,680 because honestly, like, why haven't we been doing this for 551 00:31:39,799 --> 00:31:43,640 much longer? The White House has been going back and 552 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,559 forth Republican to Democrat and all that, Like why not 553 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,599 waive all of the privilege? I guess maybe because like 554 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,480 you don't want the next guy to wave it on you. 555 00:31:54,559 --> 00:31:59,240 So if a Democrat gets into office next, they could 556 00:31:59,319 --> 00:32:01,799 wave privilege and now you're going to drag every Trump 557 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:07,039 advisor before congressional committees to testify and they won't have privilege. 558 00:32:09,359 --> 00:32:11,400 And honestly, like, part of me is okay with this, 559 00:32:12,279 --> 00:32:17,279 part of me is like, yeah, I don't. I mean, well, 560 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,240 I'm thinking it through right now. I can see where 561 00:32:20,559 --> 00:32:23,599 some conversations would definitely need to be privileged, you know, 562 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,200 But when it comes to things like is the president 563 00:32:29,359 --> 00:32:34,039 feeble minded and out to lunch, you know, like twenty 564 00:32:34,039 --> 00:32:36,960 hours out of the day. I think, I don't know. 565 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,000 I think that might be a different kind of scenario. 566 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,400 So Comer is investigating the Biden White House's use of 567 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:48,799 the presidential auto pen. The autopen is typically used in 568 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,680 ceremonial letters and non official documents, but the Biden administration 569 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,200 appears to have used it for executive orders and other 570 00:32:55,279 --> 00:32:59,000 official actions. According to National Review piece by James Lynch, 571 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,720 Biden and himself dismissed concerns about suspected autopen usage in 572 00:33:03,799 --> 00:33:10,519 a statement earlier this month when he said, ah, which 573 00:33:10,559 --> 00:33:15,359 translates to I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, 574 00:33:15,759 --> 00:33:20,440 legislation and proclamations, and a suggestion that I didn't is 575 00:33:20,519 --> 00:33:23,680 ridiculous and false. But of course we don't know who 576 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:28,720 wrote that statement on behalf of Joe Biden. Bernal was 577 00:33:28,759 --> 00:33:32,079 said to be the second former senior Biden administration aid 578 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:37,440 to testify for Comer's investigation. The first one was Nira Tanden. 579 00:33:38,759 --> 00:33:43,039 She's a long time Democrat operative and currently the president 580 00:33:43,079 --> 00:33:47,119 and CEO of the Center for American Progress, a Democrat 581 00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:55,319 think tank which I know sounds oxymoronic. Ms Tanden testified 582 00:33:55,319 --> 00:33:58,640 that she had minimal interaction with President Biden, despite wielding 583 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:03,200 tremendous authority. She explained that to obtain approval for autopen signatures, 584 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,279 she would send decision memos to members of the presidents 585 00:34:06,279 --> 00:34:09,039 in her circle and had no visibility of what occurred 586 00:34:09,079 --> 00:34:12,639 between sending the memo and receiving it back with approval. Now, 587 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,639 her people, her lawyer, and then there's some Democrat on 588 00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:24,920 the committee that has spoken anonymously to Fox News. They 589 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,039 say that characterization that she was in the dark when 590 00:34:28,039 --> 00:34:30,199 it came to who was giving the final approval. She's like, 591 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:36,239 that's a lie, that's a lie. Former White House staffer 592 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,519 received written sign off from Biden on every executive action 593 00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:43,440 she presented him with, right, but to whom did she 594 00:34:43,559 --> 00:34:49,280 present it? Any characterization is a distortion of the testimony. 595 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,400 The unnamed official said to intimate that near A Tanden 596 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,719 said President Biden did not approve every single presidential decision 597 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,840 and sign off on every executive action coming out of 598 00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,719 the White House as a lie. Well, that's not what actually, 599 00:35:00,039 --> 00:35:02,760 that's not what they said. They said that she never 600 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,719 had direct interaction that's what they were saying. So your 601 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,079 argument is that Biden did sign off on this stuff, 602 00:35:10,119 --> 00:35:14,239 but we don't know that because we can't talk to 603 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,920 Biden about all of these things that he signed off on. Right, 604 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:18,880 they haven't called him yet, although they. 605 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,840 Speaker 1: Have subpoened doctor Jill. 606 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:27,039 Speaker 2: Who else, doctor who's actually a doctor, Kevin O'Connor, the 607 00:35:27,159 --> 00:35:32,320 personal physician, along with Ashley Williams, Annie Thomasini. These are 608 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,119 the people that comprised what you'll recall Jake Tapper and 609 00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:37,039 Alex Thompson in their book Original Sin. 610 00:35:37,119 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 1: They called this the pollt Buro. 611 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,280 Speaker 2: These were the people around Joe Biden that protected him, 612 00:35:42,559 --> 00:35:46,039 kept everybody else away And yeah, okay, yeah, probably we're 613 00:35:46,119 --> 00:35:50,400 running the country. And what Comer has said is that 614 00:35:50,599 --> 00:35:52,920 y'all need to come and testify to this stuff because 615 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:58,719 we are. We're exploring, we're investigating whether or not the 616 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,880 Congress needs to do something thing regarding the twenty fifth Amendment. Right, 617 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,880 do we need to do something to build some some scaffolding, 618 00:36:08,039 --> 00:36:12,360 you know, policy wise around exercising the twenty fifth Amendment, 619 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,840 Because if you have a cabinet that is staffed with 620 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,639 people that refuse to do their constitutional duty under the 621 00:36:19,679 --> 00:36:23,119 twenty fifth Amendment and remove the president because he has 622 00:36:23,159 --> 00:36:27,599 become mentally infirmed or physically infirmed. But if they refuse 623 00:36:27,679 --> 00:36:29,920 to do it, there isn't any other apparatus by which 624 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,480 to remove him. So Congress is now exploring this. You 625 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,800 guys need to come in and talk about this. So 626 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:39,960 there's your update on President auto pen. All right, that'll 627 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:41,199 do it for this episode. 628 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,639 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. 629 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:44,880 Speaker 2: I could not do the show without your support and 630 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,639 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, 631 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,079 so if you'd like, please support them too and tell 632 00:36:50,119 --> 00:36:51,840 them you heard it here. You can also become a 633 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:56,519 patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetekallanershow dot com. 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