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Get 43 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:00.920 the facts be drink aware, visit drink where doty. 44 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:06.400 Meaning a live man like this man you letting butterfly 45 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:08.479 flapping his wing, dig down in a forest. 46 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:09.919 Man, it gonna cause a tree. 47 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:14.879 Fall, letting five thousand miles away. Man, nobody seen, nobody. 48 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:20.680 You don't need to know many. 49 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:24.159 Luck you a little story and you got directed like that. 50 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:25.280 I win. 51 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:26.960 Man, don't like to dang on the. 52 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:38.319 Panel, man man Man, All right, Mark, welcome to the 53 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:40.520 jay Bird and show. Hey doing that good? 54 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:41.639 Thanks for having me on. 55 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:46.199 Yeah, dude, I'm obviously happy to have you back on 56 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:50.520 as far as the conversation goes. But uh, you and 57 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:55.439 I on our last conversation talked about how uh Abigail 58 00:02:55.479 --> 00:03:00.439 Spanberger was going to win the Virginia gubernatorial race, and 59 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:03.840 much to my chagrin, we were completely and totally right 60 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:04.439 on that front. 61 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.719 Yeah, we were. We were more right than we thought 62 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:09.800 because not of this you win. 63 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:13.639 Not only was it not close, but it was an 64 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:18.800 incredible blowout. And the other races weren't even close either. 65 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:22.680 Right, even the the ag race, which is the one 66 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:25.680 where you'd think, you know, there would be ah, there'd 67 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:27.560 be a chance because you know what he was saying 68 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:31.759 about just fantasizing about killing the children of his political opponents, 69 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:34.960 which you know, you'd think would be a disqualifying gaff, 70 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:40.599 as they say, But dude, to go down the damage here. Uh, 71 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:47.199 I think the real story is the death of Republican 72 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:49.840 identity politics, right, the idea that, well, if we just 73 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:52.719 run our own then they'll all vote for her. Let 74 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:57.199 me let me pull this up. Uh So for context, 75 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:03.080 Spanberger won Black voters plus eighty six, Asian plus sixty, 76 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:07.520 Hispanic plus thirty four, and white people by I believe 77 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:10.479 plus six or plus eleven regardless across the board. Just 78 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:19.639 a astonishingly poor showing by the church lady. Yeah. 79 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:22.120 Who who could have thought it might be a bad 80 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:26.480 idea to run a Jamaican lady to be the governor 81 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.360 of Virginia during a time when the Republican Party is 82 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:32.120 all in on anti immigration politics. 83 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:36.240 Yeah. I mean when you say it like that, it 84 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:38.480 almost sounds like it was a bad idea, you know, 85 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:42.160 almost not sure maybe the next time we try it 86 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:42.639 at all work. 87 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:46.920 It's interesting, Yeah, that she, I mean, she got her 88 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.839 doors blown off everywhere. But I mean that's not surprising 89 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:52.639 because she was a terrible candidate. 90 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:55.519 But if you look at the lieutenant governor race. 91 00:04:56.319 --> 00:05:04.519 Also, she won every ethnicity except for white, which went 92 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:05.959 forty five fifty five. 93 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:12.360 Uh to mister Reid. That's even in Virginia. 94 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:17.079 That's that's a pretty uh, a pretty nasty number like 95 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:21.279 it in a year where you had, you know, I blow, 96 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:24.480 the first black woman to ever run for governor of Virginia. 97 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:27.560 At the top of the ticket, you had a Hispanic. 98 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:32.079 Age who, in fairness he did win Latino men, I suppose, 99 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:36.000 which I guess that's your your consolation prize. 100 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:40.639 Yeah, we didn't learn anything. We already knew. 101 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:43.040 You win elections in the twenty first century by getting 102 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:45.439 your base excited and getting them to come out to vote. 103 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:48.879 That's exactly what happened in twenty twenty one with Youngkin. 104 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:52.480 And if you don't do that, you get humiliated in 105 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:53.920 front of the entire country. 106 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:58.519 Well, and I think that's sort of an interesting thing. Uh, 107 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:01.680 I've been talking a lot about I'm no doubt you're 108 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:05.439 aware of Mark because this whole woke right debacle, I assume. 109 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:10.240 Yeah, oh, she was the James Lindsay right. 110 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:13.680 Yeah, Yeah, I think I've been I think I've been 111 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:16.120 banned of a restraining order from talking about them because 112 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:20.319 I mentioned too much. But in all seriousness, right that 113 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:23.839 that sort of canard came up about a year and 114 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:25.639 a half ago, right, just as kind of a way 115 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:29.199 to smear people that liberals don't like. But what's been 116 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:32.680 interesting has been the conclusion of the losses in both 117 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:38.560 Virginia and New Jersey, which, look, man, there's a very boring, 118 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:42.959 normal nuts and boat bolts of politics explanation for these 119 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:47.839 two races, which is bad candidates astonishingly that in the 120 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:52.240 case of Virginia, the fact that Donald Trump rightly wrongly 121 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:54.759 was seen as threatening the jobs of roughly eight percent 122 00:06:55.279 --> 00:07:00.600 the working people at our state. And also, aunt, let's 123 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:03.800 not you know, very lead here, the fact that generally 124 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:08.639 whichever party is in power does poorly in off year 125 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:12.160 elections and midterms. Right, Like, this isn't some sort of 126 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:13.360 like secret science here. 127 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:15.000 Yeah. 128 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:17.959 I'd throw in a fourth one, which is that since 129 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:22.079 the rise of Trump, there's been a slow shift towards 130 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:25.040 Democrats killing it in off year elections. That used to 131 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:31.319 be something that Republicans performed well at. Now it's the opposite. 132 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:35.720 We're better in presidential year elections, and they're going to 133 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:38.639 have the advantage in off year, and that's just purely 134 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:41.839 a change of change of voter demographics. 135 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:45.279 Like like you said, you could also hang a little 136 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:45.519 bit of. 137 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:48.399 A blame on the on the big man here because 138 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:51.720 you had the shutdown, which does not seem to have 139 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:56.480 accomplished anything. I thought at the time maybe the goal was, well, 140 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:58.839 let them shut it down and then we'll just we'll 141 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:02.600 lay off a boatload of these federal not layoff, We'll 142 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:04.680 get rid of a boat load of these federal employees. 143 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:06.120 But they didn't do that. 144 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:11.199 Right after our election and did the Democrats in Congress 145 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:15.319 agreed to reopen the government, and the White House gotten. 146 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:15.639 Out there for it. 147 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:19.279 They rehired the few thousand people that they had they 148 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:22.680 had fired during the shutdown, and it seems to me 149 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:26.040 that they got exactly exactly what they want. They got 150 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:30.720 a boost in the election, and they successfully blamed the 151 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:34.639 Republicans in Congress for Obamacare, which is actually pretty impressive 152 00:08:34.679 --> 00:08:36.039 politically if you think about it. 153 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:41.120 Well, Mark, I've been reliably informed that the real people 154 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:44.559 we need to blame for this are the so called 155 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:50.559 woke right, which includes Tucker Carlson, really, anyone who wasn't 156 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:55.519 a liberal up until twenty sixteen, and most importantly, anyone 157 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:59.879 within two degrees of separation from one Nicholas JF. Windes 158 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:04.360 clearly right, that's a cynical ploy, Right, that's a cynical 159 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:07.200 take to say everyone I don't like is the reason 160 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:09.559 that we lost this election. That, let's be honest, we 161 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:11.879 were going to lose anyway. But it's been interesting. I 162 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:13.399 don't know if you picked up on this. There's been 163 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:18.639 a there's been a deliberate attempt to saddle JD. Vans 164 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:23.519 right the VP with the woke right and by extension 165 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:27.600 losses in twenty twenty five and then assumed losses in 166 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:28.480 twenty twenty six. 167 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:35.519 Oh yeah, that's very Obviously they're trying to do politicking 168 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:37.639 in advance of twenty twenty eight. 169 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:39.279 Because he is right. 170 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:42.120 I mean, it means very little twenty so far away 171 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:44.840 from the election, but he is the front runner right now. 172 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:48.039 He's got the name recognition, he is vice president, he 173 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:51.080 has a lot of support. He gets a lot of 174 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:56.240 people younger people, which is faint praise when you're talking 175 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:59.000 about the Republican Republican Party. That just means it's some 176 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:02.960 people under fifty. Because he's you know, he's a millennial. 177 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:07.000 They're just trying to decap him in advance so they 178 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:09.279 can shove like tag crews down our throat or something 179 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:11.399 like that. That was that's just my assumption. 180 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:13.960 I don't have any insider information or anything like that. 181 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:18.000 All right, Well, I mean, look, uh, that's what I 182 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:19.679 think is gonna happen, So I think we can just 183 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:22.360 confirm it, right, based off of my hunch. That's how 184 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:24.799 podcast works, I guess. But it is one of those 185 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:28.240 things where it's is sort of disappointing to see the 186 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:32.120 GOP learn absolutely nothing because you know, we mentioned this 187 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:36.720 last time, right, the consequences of failure have never been higher. Right, 188 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:39.960 you have the so called Seditious six literally saying we 189 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:43.440 will send Pete Hegseth to jail, we will ship him 190 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:49.320 off to the Hague, right for war crimes. And it's like, okay, well, remember, 191 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:52.159 like I don't know, not that long ago, when they 192 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:55.759 ship Donald Trump off to jail and got a mug shot, 193 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:58.799 like you think they aren't gonna give it a shot. 194 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:02.399 People did take the you know, to all to talk 195 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:05.320 about the war crimes in the Hague. And it's like 196 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:08.399 this is violating international law because oh will the United 197 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:11.679 States isn't subject to international law that which is. 198 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:13.840 That's true, our service members are not. 199 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:18.519 And yeah, you're not going to be forcibly extradited to 200 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:21.960 the Hague while Donald Trump is president. But what can 201 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:25.720 happen is if I don't even know who's going to 202 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:28.159 be at this point, Gavin Newsom is president in twenty 203 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:31.600 twenty nine, that absolutely can happen. In fact, it happens 204 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:35.720 successfully to the former president of the Philippines who was 205 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:39.360 arrested in the Philippines and shipped off to the Hague 206 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:44.559 and is currently on trial there for essentially for killing 207 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:49.120 drug dealers. So you know, the president is already there. 208 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:52.720 It's a very easy way for the Democrats to do 209 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:57.720 something to punish somebody without having the blood on their hands, 210 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:00.559 like they say, Okay, hey, he's over, he's he's in 211 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:04.039 Europe and he's been tried by a council of all 212 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:06.840 the nations of the world. I have no control over it. 213 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:09.840 I'm just the poor little, you know, lib president of 214 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:13.240 the United States. I think people aren't taking that threat 215 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:14.559 as seriously as they should. 216 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:19.759 You didn't deserve what happened, and it doesn't have to 217 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:26.519 define you. You don't have to carry it alone. 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Search AIB Goal 227 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:06.879 Mile to see where you, your family and your friends 228 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:11.519 can find your local Goal Mile event AIB for the 229 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:12.600 life you're after. 230 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:20.080 Well, it sucks too because it's like having Charles Bronson 231 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:22.639 be the president of your country. It's kind of a 232 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:26.759 cool idea, right, just having a president who's like, yeah, 233 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:30.559 drug dealers, I personally as he is alleged to have done, 234 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:34.039 am going to shoot them. You can too if you want. 235 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:37.200 It's very least. It's a novel idea. And you know, 236 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:40.679 in this kind of like got awful Francis Fukuyama future 237 00:13:40.840 --> 00:13:44.519 right where every government is basically exactly the same, you 238 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:47.559 just want some novelty, right, like we should have more. 239 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:51.639 I guess you could say like eighties action movie themed governments, 240 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:54.120 you know, like we've we've tried the whole you know, 241 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:57.120 death wish thing. I guess we could probably substitute some 242 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:59.559 others in there. I think we've not given this idea 243 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:00.399 enough sideration. 244 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:07.559 You know, this is I mean, I. 245 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:14.559 Agree, I agree with all that. I would like to 246 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:18.159 subscribe to your newsletter. But also yeah, I mean they 247 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:22.279 have to. They have to punish this behavior because the 248 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:25.600 mean that going around now is to fix everything easily 249 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:30.120 switch like when it comes to like these drug traffickers 250 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:33.759 and pretty much criminals in general. Yeah, there is an 251 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:36.720 easy button, just like to be nice thum in jail 252 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:40.759 and throw away the key or you know, more kinetic options. 253 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:43.759 They have to make it impossible for you to do 254 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:47.960 that because anybody who does it immediately becomes incredibly popular, 255 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:52.679 like like Deutte was initially. I'm I'm not super familiar 256 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:58.720 with Filipino politics, but I imagine like he he became less popular, 257 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:02.840 you know, because of economic problems or whatever, but people 258 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:06.639 were very happy to watch him go judge dread on 259 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:08.240 drug traffickers in this country. 260 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:08.919 They loved it. 261 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:13.039 Well, I mean that's the success story of bucele right, 262 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:18.879 the fix Everything switch. And it's been interesting to see 263 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:24.519 the sort of hysterical reaction to Trump's comments. Admittedly, these 264 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:28.440 are comments where he seems to be getting increasingly fed 265 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:31.960 up with violent crime in the judiciary. And I think 266 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:36.240 that's sort of an interesting question of the Trump presidency, right, 267 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:39.320 which is who is in charge? Is it the executive 268 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:44.840 or some judge somewhere? And I think that there's a 269 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:47.039 lot of political hay to be made there because people, 270 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:51.240 myself included and just other normal people are incredibly fed 271 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:56.159 up with this routine story of XYZ, thirty five time 272 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:01.480 offender out on bail for setting someone on fire, decides 273 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:03.559 to kill someone else, you know what I mean. You 274 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:07.600 can even look back at you know, country music from 275 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:10.759 the seventies right to see the same thing. Right, you 276 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:12.799 see this mentioned in like if the South Wold have won, 277 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:15.320 as well as other kind of like you know anthems 278 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:17.759 right that this is this is a way to motivate 279 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:21.159 people now. Obviously look like when criminals are a client 280 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:23.919 group of your party, that sort of changes things. But 281 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:26.559 it seems to me that that's a that's winning, winning 282 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:27.559 messaging there. 283 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:34.200 Right, Yeah, it's kind of an intractable problem because as 284 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:37.279 we've we've discovered the other I guess it. 285 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:39.039 Was a day or two ago at this point. 286 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:45.639 Justice Jackson in arguments about what's what the what the 287 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:50.799 Solicitor General about long story short, technocracy in the administrative state. 288 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:53.000 She just came out and said, Hey, I think that 289 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:55.720 actually the control of the government should be in the 290 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:59.919 hands of experts, not in in the presidency or elected official. 291 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:01.960 That we have to have these. 292 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:05.920 This learned tribe of scholars to make all their decisions, 293 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:10.920 and like that is what judges effectively are today in 294 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:15.000 the United States. And the constitutional remedies for this would 295 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:18.680 be impeach the individual judges, which is impossible because you 296 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:21.519 need this you need a super majority in the set 297 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:25.759 and the Congress to do that. Or you could have 298 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:30.400 Congress completely eliminate the circuit of the Circuit Court, which 299 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:34.720 I which ironically would probably be easier than impeachment, but 300 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:38.359 it's also not gonna happen. So at that point there 301 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:44.240 is no legal recourse for the executive, legislative for the 302 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:48.920 people at all. I I really, without. 303 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:50.240 Saying fed post these things. 304 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:55.000 I don't know how you how you deal with these problems. Obviously, 305 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:57.759 the judges do not They do not care. They release 306 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:02.359 these people out to rape and murder their fellow citizens, 307 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:05.759 and they don't feel a bit sorry about it. What 308 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:08.480 can you really do to stop that? 309 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:10.519 You can't. You can't really. 310 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:14.359 Change the laws because it doesn't really matter what someone's 311 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:17.440 charged with if the judge bangs the gavel and releases 312 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:21.480 them without bail or they get suspend a sentence. If 313 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:25.640 you're in a blue state, which by the way, we're 314 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:28.839 about to be, we're about to become an even blue, 315 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:32.839 restate them and were before. You have absolutely no protection 316 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:38.839 from these repeat offenders. And I'm not sure what the well, 317 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:41.599 I'm sure what the solution is, but I'm not sure 318 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:43.039 realistically what's going to happen. 319 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:47.200 Yeah, I mean, and to that point, I think one 320 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:50.880 of the other major institutions that has been been crumbling 321 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:55.519 is is trial by Jerry. You're probably telling the swapping screens. 322 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:58.160 I have a piece coming out soon, right. I mentioned 323 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:00.680 this example. That's why I'm pulling it up. Are you 324 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:06.480 familiar with the case of of one Gary O. Edwards 325 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:07.279 from Portland? 326 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:12.839 Oh, I've heard the name? Which which which one was? 327 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:13.039 He? 328 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:13.960 Uh? 329 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:19.759 So? So Gary is a homeless schizophrenic and uh he 330 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:23.640 stabbed another man incidentally, who also seems to be an 331 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:30.799 unhoused person. Uh. And unfortunately the man that he stabbed, uh, 332 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:34.880 Gregory A. Howard Junior, Uh set a gamer word while 333 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:40.279 being stabbed. You know, Okay, Uh, maybe a poor choice 334 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:43.880 of words, but you know, understandable perfs given the circumstances 335 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:49.440 of being stabbed by a schizophrenic. And uh So this 336 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:52.119 goes to trial and the jury equits the guy who 337 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:56.720 stabbed him because of the word he used, which like, look, man, 338 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:00.480 you know, I believe you should generally attempt to be polite, 339 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:04.880 but I feel like getting stabbed, you might there might 340 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:07.319 be some mitigating circumstances there, right. 341 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:10.279 Yeah, you can. 342 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:13.279 You can either stab someone or you can request an 343 00:20:13.319 --> 00:20:14.680 apology for them. 344 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:16.480 Saying a slur. You don't get to do both. You 345 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:17.720 got to pick one or the other. 346 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:21.640 Flur was after the fact, Yeah, exactly. 347 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:28.279 I mean obviously the temporal distortion of racism that he 348 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:32.279 detected it in the air, the racist miasma, and. 349 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:34.039 That's how I knew that he needed to need a. 350 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:41.680 Yeah. Uh, the thing is, it's this in Portland. The 351 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:46.000 trial happened in Portland. I assume right it did. Yes, 352 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:48.720 It's not like the trial happened in Detroit, where you 353 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:51.119 can say, well, they got a jury of people who 354 00:20:51.319 --> 00:20:53.640 like they are all in the same ethnic group. I 355 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:59.000 mean probably not in Portland. That jury was probably extremely Caucasian. 356 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:01.640 So these are people who just are doing it for 357 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:04.079 love of the game. Yeah. 358 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:07.279 As someone who's recently been to Portland, I can confirm 359 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:09.839 several things. One, the story does not surprise me in 360 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:12.440 the least any part of it, you know, the stabbing, 361 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:16.720 the result in court. But to your point, it is 362 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:20.599 like you were stepping back into a weird like mc 363 00:21:20.839 --> 00:21:24.359 escher version of Newberry, right where it's like it's the 364 00:21:24.400 --> 00:21:28.640 same demos, albeit expressed slightly differently. I guess we could say. 365 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.079 But yeah, I mean that's that's another thing, right, And 366 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:34.319 this has been a big, you know, talking point in 367 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:36.960 the UK because it's seeming that the government is just 368 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:40.519 getting rid of the system of jury trial, right. But 369 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:43.119 that was that was a social technology that depended on 370 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:46.599 you know, most people being your peers right on the 371 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:50.279 same page. And when that collapses, and you know, you 372 00:21:50.279 --> 00:21:52.680 can look into the data of exactly how that is collapsed, 373 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:56.319 and along what lines all of a sudden, you can't 374 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:01.519 really count on you know, the Southerners favor jury nullification, 375 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:03.119 right to come to your rescue. 376 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:08.559 Yeah, the you know, the entire legal common law, legal 377 00:22:08.599 --> 00:22:11.279 principles like the And this goes back to what we 378 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:12.680 were talking about with the judges before. 379 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:14.079 It's the idea that. 380 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:18.799 There the law is neutral. Obviously, it never it never is. 381 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:21.079 Human beings are never neutral about anything. 382 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:24.839 But if you have a mostly homogeneous society, then you 383 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:27.960 do have a jury of your peers. There there might 384 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:32.000 be there might be reasons good or bad where the 385 00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:36.200 jury already dislikes you before you before you sit down 386 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:38.319 and they hear any evidence. But for the most part, 387 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:41.559 we expect that a judge will be impartial and a 388 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:46.480 jury will be impartial. Obviously judges are not Judges are 389 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:50.279 essentially employees of the administrative state at this point. 390 00:22:50.440 --> 00:22:51.240 Most of them are. 391 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:57.960 Remember adherence to the progressive religion, and juries are a 392 00:22:58.039 --> 00:23:01.960 rolla dice. Maybe you'll get the the jury that, oh, shoot, 393 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:04.640 the I'm going to bog bee here, the blonde guy 394 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:06.039 at the mustache in New York. 395 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:08.799 Penny Daniel Penny. Yeah, maybe you get. 396 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:09.960 The Daniel Penny jury. 397 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:15.240 Or maybe you get the Portland jury where the gamer words. 398 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:17.880 A death sentence. You don't know. 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