Speaker 1: Chris Custodis ipsis Christodi is welcome to it could happen
Speaker 1: here a podcast where the only person who actually took
Speaker 1: Latin high school isn't here leading me to do this
Speaker 1: Latin bit. I'm your host Mia Wong, and with me
Speaker 1: is Garrison. Hello. Hello.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna try to speak Latin because if I did,
Speaker 2: it'd be some like weird like esoteric incantation and then
Speaker 2: it would open up a whole other canet worms.
Speaker 1: So you know, this is this is this is the
Speaker 1: most the most well known Latin. That's probably not the
Speaker 1: most well known Latin is probably some bullshit from like
Speaker 1: Latin mass or something. But one of the more well
Speaker 1: known Latins, which is who watches the Watchman? Roughly, it's
Speaker 1: not a test. The popular translation is who watches the Watchmen?
Speaker 1: And by that I mean we are asking the question
Speaker 1: who ensures that the American Supreme Court does not just
Speaker 1: sort of collapse into a ball of pure corruption, And
Speaker 1: the answer was nobody.
Speaker 2: So true, I always trust in the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great. I learned. I learned that we pay
Speaker 1: these people two hundred and eighty five thousand dollars a year,
Speaker 1: like we pay them two hundred eighty five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: to like take our rights away. This is just insane. Well,
Speaker 1: why why do we do this?
Speaker 2: It's well, I mean, this is a very clear reason
Speaker 2: why we do this. Actually that maintains the semblance of
Speaker 2: order and civility. Yes, however, coma deeply fractured however.
Speaker 1: Coma, this is coming apart because these stupid assholes can't
Speaker 1: even maintain the veneer of not being like the most
Speaker 1: corrupt people in the history of mankind. So we're coming
Speaker 1: off of like two, I mean not there wasn't really
Speaker 1: a potential for this this session of the court to
Speaker 1: be as bad as like last year's one where they
Speaker 1: killed row, but they killed affirmative action, and they also
Speaker 1: did this really really just sort of.
Speaker 2: Really weird ruling on queer stuff and the business's right
Speaker 2: to discriminate and choose, the business's right to choose how
Speaker 2: to use their creative expression, which has resulted in a
Speaker 2: bunch of really funny things. I saw this morning. Actually,
Speaker 2: there was this hair salon who was refer for to
Speaker 2: serve LGBTQ clients, which now all of like all of
Speaker 2: like the suppliers for the hair Sloan are no longer
Speaker 2: sending orders to the hair salon because they're also allowed
Speaker 2: to discriminate from this hair salod because of the same ruleing.
Speaker 2: So it's creating all these really complicated like supply chain
Speaker 2: things with businesses choosing to be really homophobic and queer
Speaker 2: phobic and then like type of like a supplier is
Speaker 2: just not then just not giving these businesses the supplies
Speaker 2: they need to operate their business, which is pretty funny.
Speaker 1: It's really amazing too. So the other thing about this
Speaker 1: is like this is the actual ruling, where like any
Speaker 1: pretense that this is like a functional court was just
Speaker 1: sort of thrown out the window because Okay, so one
Speaker 1: of the one of the like the fundamental principles of
Speaker 1: and this is one of the fundamental principles of the
Speaker 1: common law legal system, right of the legal system that
Speaker 1: not only the US is based off of, but like
Speaker 1: you know, I mean like like literally we're talking like
Speaker 1: like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years
Speaker 1: of history that predate the American system arguably can traces
Speaker 1: back to the Roman system. One of the things that's
Speaker 1: fundamentally based on is that you cannot try a case
Speaker 1: on a hypothetical. Something has to something has to actually
Speaker 1: happen for you to have a case, and this case
Speaker 1: has just thrown that shit out the window. So what
Speaker 1: this case was is there's this woman who supposedly is
Speaker 1: a wedding wedding website designer. And we'll get back to
Speaker 1: that in a second, because oh boy, uh just straight
Speaker 1: up lied to the court and claimed that a guy
Speaker 1: had requested her make a wedding website for a gay wedding.
Speaker 1: And this never happens, right, this like did not happen
Speaker 1: the less like track down the guy who she said
Speaker 1: had like requested a website, and that guy is a
Speaker 1: straight b had already been married, and she is a
Speaker 1: web designer.
Speaker 2: The whole, the whole story is was just a fake.
Speaker 1: I think. I think like that's that's that's the part
Speaker 1: of the story that I think got the most pressed.
Speaker 1: But the part of the story that thinks like funnier
Speaker 1: is that she's not actually a wedding website designer. This
Speaker 1: entire case, she set up this entire site. What appears
Speaker 1: to have happened, She's not wedding website designer now, right,
Speaker 1: what appears to have happened is that she and like
Speaker 1: the sort of like one of the one of the
Speaker 1: sort of like right wing like legal networks got together
Speaker 1: and cobbled together this business like specifically so they could
Speaker 1: get this ruling.
Speaker 2: So which which which seems like that should be a
Speaker 2: like illegal. It's this sounds illegal. It sounds like legal
Speaker 2: fraudst on trial for perjury right now, her lawyers should
Speaker 2: also be like her lawyers and her lied under oath
Speaker 2: multiple times to multiple different courts. Like yes, that's what
Speaker 2: we're seeing here, right is the sort of like thin
Speaker 2: legal veneer that has always been sort of over the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court that's supposed to make it seem legitimate.
Speaker 1: It's just sort of like unraveling. And at the same time,
Speaker 1: so if you if you, if you think that makes
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court like like look illegitimate. Wait do we
Speaker 1: get to the corruption. This is the real reason we're
Speaker 1: doing this episode because oh my God, Jesus Christ, this
Speaker 1: is I oh God. And then you know, the thing
Speaker 1: I really learned from this is I didn't understand how
Speaker 1: rich Supreme Court justices are, like Clarence Thomas. And in
Speaker 1: all of the pieces about Clarence Thomas, right, it starts
Speaker 1: with like he is like the poorest Supreme Court justices
Speaker 1: and and his family makes eight hundred thousand dollars a Year's.
Speaker 2: That seems like a lot of money.
Speaker 1: What are you even talking about? Like, So, in terms
Speaker 1: of the sort of corruption stuff that's been happening, there's
Speaker 1: been a bunch of uh, there's a bunch of research
Speaker 1: now by Republica into a bunch of just like incredibly
Speaker 1: shady and corrupt things that a bunch of Supreme Court
Speaker 1: justices are doing. So we're gonna start with Bastard's podlum,
Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas. So, one of Thomas's close friends is this
Speaker 1: real estate mogul named Harlan Crowe, and he Harlan Crowe
Speaker 1: sucks ass. He and Harlan.
Speaker 2: Crowe sounds like what you would name like some like
Speaker 2: weird like rich villain in like a pulpy seventies like
Speaker 2: mystery novel.
Speaker 1: I don't did you see when what like when people
Speaker 1: figured out who this guy was and it went around
Speaker 1: on Twitter? No Oh, I'm so excited for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: this this is gonna be great. So okay. So, so
Speaker 1: Harlan Crowe is he's one of the country's largest land lords.
Speaker 1: He has like a pro, he's a portfolio of twenty
Speaker 1: nine billion dollars of assets. He he owns properties like
Speaker 1: all over the US. He also, okay, so he has
Speaker 1: a giant mansion, right, and in his giant mansion is
Speaker 1: a bunch of Nazi memorabilia, including an autographed copy of.
Speaker 2: This this guy. Yes, okay, now that now that you
Speaker 2: mentioned the Nazi now so.
Speaker 1: So he has the things that like, stereotypically you would
Speaker 1: assume that like a like a Nazi para familia guy has, right,
Speaker 1: Like he has like he has that sign, an autogap
Speaker 1: copy of my comp He has like a bunch of
Speaker 1: pictures that were drawn by a bunch of like actual
Speaker 1: paintings that were drawn by Hitler. But he also has
Speaker 1: weird shit, like someth I've never seen before, Like he
Speaker 1: has like this these sets of like napkins that just
Speaker 1: have swastikas on them because they were like official Nazi napkins.
Speaker 2: I feel like we probably shouldn't, like we can even
Speaker 2: keep one copy of these, and like the Holocaust Museum
Speaker 2: and the rest of this stuff should be like burned, right,
Speaker 2: Like we shouldn't. Yeah, we shouldn't really have him to
Speaker 2: this tough line around.
Speaker 1: You know, like, Okay, so I'm gonna circle back to
Speaker 1: this because I think there's one there's another piece of
Speaker 1: context that we need to get you. He also has
Speaker 1: this thing called this he has he is this thing
Speaker 1: he calls the Garden of Evil, which is this like
Speaker 1: garden of statues of the garden he calls evil, Yes,
Speaker 1: And it's a it's a statue guarded behind his house
Speaker 1: that has like a bunch of like statues of dictators.
Speaker 1: They're like almost all communists. He really hates Tito for
Speaker 1: some reason. I don't know why. Well, I mean, she's
Speaker 1: a billionaire, obviously, Like this is why he hates Tito.
Speaker 1: But its funny thing is it's like almost all it's
Speaker 1: like almost entirely communist. Like there's no like Mussolini or anything.
Speaker 1: It's like it's all communists. There's no Husselini what. No, No,
Speaker 1: there's like there's there's a host name Barick, and then
Speaker 1: there's one of what what's the guy's name, I don't
Speaker 1: remember his name, Uh, Prince of the the guy who
Speaker 1: shot ar Street Ferdinand, which is weird because that guy
Speaker 1: was not he wasn't he wasn't evil. No, Well, that's
Speaker 1: I will not I refuse to take a position on that.
Speaker 2: That's not my position. My position like a dictator. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: that's like on the level of like evil on a
Speaker 2: dictator level. He like he's not He's no maw, he's
Speaker 2: no Hitler, Like come on, like he also like again,
Speaker 2: he is not a dictator. He was just some fucking
Speaker 2: random guy like you kill er streak for like okay,
Speaker 2: but baffling stuff. But but okay, the important thing about this, well, okay,
Speaker 2: first of who would be your first five statues in
Speaker 2: your own garden of evil?
Speaker 1: The garden? Oh okay, this is this is gonna be
Speaker 1: very biased because I'm ranking this by people I have
Speaker 1: personal grudges against. Okay, well, so personal grudg ENTI year
Speaker 1: air to one c C I what the fuck is
Speaker 1: his name? Name? Paul Volker? Who else do I have?
Speaker 1: Who else do I have a personal grudge against? Who's
Speaker 1: a dictator? Mohammed Ben somebon because he bought my fucking
Speaker 1: StarCraft league?
Speaker 2: What the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 1: On that? One day? I'll put Okay, well, well we'll
Speaker 1: put we'll put We'll put Maut number five. Fair fair Okay, now, okay,
Speaker 1: So the reason the reason I bring up the the
Speaker 1: the the the Garden of Evil, right is that. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he has like a thing where he puts all
Speaker 1: the stuff from the evil dictators. But then all of
Speaker 1: the Nazi stuff is just like randomly strewed about his house,
Speaker 1: like his living quarters. Yeah, like like they'll don't be
Speaker 1: paintings by like actually he has like bush painting, seals,
Speaker 1: Hillo paintings. It will be like bush, They'll be like like
Speaker 1: a renoir, and then they'll just be a Hitler painting.
Speaker 1: It's like he's this guy all of his friends would
Speaker 1: because this guy has like a bunch of like right,
Speaker 1: we because he's one of I'm all be like, this
Speaker 1: man is not a Nazi, and I'm like, I I
Speaker 1: he hasn't he has. I don't know, man, Like, there
Speaker 1: are not many non Nazi reasons why you would have
Speaker 1: like multiple of Hitler's paintings hanging on your wall and
Speaker 1: also the signed autograph copy.
Speaker 2: Of I just want to remind myself that there's evil
Speaker 2: in the world, you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, this gets me pissed off. So my my
Speaker 1: one of my grandpa's I took took a took a
Speaker 1: Nazi sword off a dead officer and like brought it
Speaker 1: home from the war and it should be like and
Speaker 1: we like still have it, because what the are you
Speaker 1: supposed to do with that? Right? So like that that's
Speaker 1: like we we have one of those, right, But like
Speaker 1: we didn't take an autograph copy of my cough. We
Speaker 1: fucking killed a Nazi officer and took it from him. Like,
Speaker 1: if we're gonna do this, you have to do it correctly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But this guy, this guy, okay, oh aso, she gets
Speaker 1: really really he's like unfathomably mad that people wear shake
Speaker 1: of our shirts.
Speaker 2: Like she's I mean, me too, mad, me too take
Speaker 2: of our shirt? I'm usually not.
Speaker 1: I'm most almost circling back around on it, just because
Speaker 1: it makes this guy so mad. Like this guy in
Speaker 1: particular spears to be worse.
Speaker 2: Most of the take of our shirts I've seen are
Speaker 2: sold by disgraced white disgraced right wing commentator Stephen Crowder.
Speaker 1: So oh god, what then we we we We've we've
Speaker 1: truly entered hell world now, Okay, so why why why
Speaker 1: am I talking about Harlan crow partially because he's really funny?
Speaker 2: Doesn't it doesn't like give a lot of money to
Speaker 2: like certain people.
Speaker 1: So okay, we're we're yeah. So she he's one of
Speaker 1: the people who runs a really really extensive network of
Speaker 1: sort of like it's like right wing like think tank
Speaker 1: dark money network that you know, buys judges, like pays
Speaker 1: for people legal careers. And he's also very close friends
Speaker 1: with Clarence Thomas. And so I'm gonna just run through
Speaker 1: all of the ship that he's like all these just
Speaker 1: like incredible corruption that he's doing. So okay, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start with like this is like this is like
Speaker 1: like the level one corruption, which is so Crow bought
Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas's mom's house and then did quote tens of
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars of improvements to the home and he
Speaker 1: seems to have bought the house for like significantly above
Speaker 1: market rate. And so this is this is a this
Speaker 1: is I'm gonna I'm gonna be We're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a corruption anatomy here because this is
Speaker 1: a classic Chicago, uh corruption scam. Sore. There's like there's
Speaker 1: like six revenue streams in this. Right, you have the
Speaker 1: money from the sale which goes to like you know
Speaker 1: that that that that's that's like, that's your level one bribe, right,
Speaker 1: is you're selling you're selling, you know, you're you're selling
Speaker 1: your ho to someone at above market value. The level
Speaker 1: two bribe is, uh, you're not. You're now throwing in
Speaker 1: the renovations because his mom is still living in this house. Right.
Speaker 2: Oh so this is like it's like actual bribery.
Speaker 1: Huh oh yeah, yeah this is And again this is
Speaker 1: like the mild stuff. So that that level level two
Speaker 1: is you get that, you know, Okay, so now now
Speaker 1: you have the contractors, and the contractors allow you to
Speaker 1: throw in more money into the bribe because you're now
Speaker 1: you're now doing all this renovation work like for free.
Speaker 1: The level three of the bribes is that Okay, so
Speaker 1: now now once you once you have a renovation contract,
Speaker 1: you now have a contract that pays out money and
Speaker 1: you can use that to like reward your political allies.
Speaker 1: And so this is this is this is a classic
Speaker 1: like absolutely classic like Chicago, uh like payoff scheme. Now.
Speaker 1: The other thing that's so so Harlan was contacted about
Speaker 1: this and she claims that he's buying this house because
Speaker 1: he wants to preserve it for plus austerity because Clarence
Speaker 1: Thomas lived there, sure, which like she is very weird.
Speaker 1: She did give one hundred thousand dollars to Harvard to
Speaker 1: buy a portrait of like to get them to hang
Speaker 1: up a portrait of Clarence Thomas, so you know, he
Speaker 1: is a deeply weird guy. But this, uh, this reeks
Speaker 1: of eye of oh boy, now, yes, yes, well Republica,
Speaker 1: like pro Publica points out also that they they bought
Speaker 1: two random vacant lots in the area from Thomas for
Speaker 1: like unclear reasons, and you know, you can also you
Speaker 1: can also ask why does the Supreme Court justice like
Speaker 1: own a bunch of random vacant lots? And the answer
Speaker 1: to this question is that these people are part of
Speaker 1: the real boorgeois. They are like they they they are
Speaker 1: like as alien to us US state scamming, right, this
Speaker 1: is like yeah, like basically yeah, like they're they're they're
Speaker 1: they're they're doing stuff, like they do stuff with their
Speaker 1: money that like makes them like like they they are
Speaker 1: like as dissimilar to us as like we are from
Speaker 1: like a fucking Neanderthal. Like these people like the way
Speaker 1: they think about money, the way they like just like
Speaker 1: the way they act in the world, the way they
Speaker 1: relate to other people, like the fact that they're just
Speaker 1: buying random fucking lots, like across the street from their parents' house,
Speaker 1: Like why who knows?
Speaker 2: Ugh?
Speaker 1: And Okay, So the thing that's very important about this
Speaker 1: right is if you you know, okay, everyone in the
Speaker 1: government right from like starting from every court that is
Speaker 1: below the Supreme Court down to like a fucking astronomer
Speaker 1: who works for a national lab. If you receive a
Speaker 1: like a large gift over five hundred dollars, you have
Speaker 1: to report it to the government, and there's like an
Speaker 1: ethics process you have to go through. And this the standard.
Speaker 1: And again, this is the standard that holds from like
Speaker 1: like the fucking president of the United States down to
Speaker 1: again like a random astronomer. They are not allowed to
Speaker 1: have to do anything that has quote even the appearance
Speaker 1: of impropriety. Now do you want to do you want
Speaker 1: to know who? These standards don't apply to just the
Speaker 1: Supreme Course, yep, does not apply to them. They had
Speaker 1: there's only one thing they have to do right and
Speaker 1: aga again this amazing, Like so again everyone else has
Speaker 1: actual enforceable ethics standards. The Supreme Court has you have
Speaker 1: to report it. It doesn't have to go to an
Speaker 1: excess commission. You just have to report it. And yeah,
Speaker 1: do you do you? I'll give you three guesses as
Speaker 1: to how much of any of the ship that I
Speaker 1: just talked about that Clarence Thomas reported.
Speaker 2: Probably none of it?
Speaker 1: Nope, absolutely not zero, zero of it, like you over
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand, like probably like one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars of bullshit, no reporting at all.
Speaker 2: I'm sure the cops are gonna go arrest him for
Speaker 2: all these crimes, right yeah, yeah, right at any day now.
Speaker 2: Uh yeh yeah, it's gonna be bust down his door
Speaker 2: now that we've cracked this one wide open.
Speaker 1: A okay, do you do you know who else is?
Speaker 1: And I am not joking legitimately is bound by significantly
Speaker 1: stricter i I ethic ethics regulations than the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: It's the end.
Speaker 1: Plugging these products and services.
Speaker 2: I se see advertising guidelines that we have to follow.
Speaker 1: I am a podcaster every few months and guidelines of
Speaker 1: the Supreme every few months.
Speaker 2: We have to take like a like a ten minute
Speaker 2: training that just basically just plugs into our brains and
Speaker 2: uh it downloads all of these like terms and conditions
Speaker 2: that we then just robotically need to enforce. So yeah,
Speaker 2: do you know who else commits fraud.
Speaker 1: Were legally ed say that.
Speaker 2: These products and services? Oop's okay, Well I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to do another one of those FCC trainings after this one. Well, well,
Speaker 2: here's here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Crime, crime is just legal now like this, this is
Speaker 1: what I'm getting out of this free court stuff. So
Speaker 1: all right, I started with this housing scam because A
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, this is this is like, this is
Speaker 1: like a classic level scam. Bbe this is because this
Speaker 1: is like absolute brush league shit compared to like everything
Speaker 1: else that's about to happen.
Speaker 2: Here are you telling me?
Speaker 1: This is?
Speaker 2: This is this is gonna get worse.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So all right, I'm just gonna I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna start reading this from pro publica because I don't
Speaker 1: I cannot think of a funnier way to just do this.
Speaker 1: In late June twenty nineteen, right after the US Supreme
Speaker 1: Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence
Speaker 1: Thomas born in a large private jet headed to Indonesia.
Speaker 1: He and his wife were going on a vacation nine
Speaker 1: days of island hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a
Speaker 1: super yacht staff by a coterie of attendance and a
Speaker 1: private chef. If Thomas had chartered the plane in the
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two foot yachts himself, the total
Speaker 1: cost of the trip could have exceeded five hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Fortunately for him, that wasn't necessary. He was on vacation
Speaker 1: with real estate mogul and Republican mega donor Harlan Clohe
Speaker 1: who owned the jet and the yacht too.
Speaker 2: Ah. I see this just sounds like a friendly vacation, right,
Speaker 2: I need to read another another like really just genuinely
Speaker 2: from one of the most brutal.
Speaker 1: Polls I've ever seen anyone do is later on this
Speaker 1: republic article quote. In Thomas's public appearances over the years,
Speaker 1: he has presented himself as an everyman with modest tastes.
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with going to Europe, but
Speaker 1: I prefer the United States, and I prefer seeing the
Speaker 1: regular parts of the United States, Thomas said in a
Speaker 1: recent interview for a documentary about his life, which Crow
Speaker 1: helped finance. I prefer the RV parks prefer the Walmart
Speaker 1: parking lots to the beaches and things like that. There's
Speaker 1: something normal about it, doubt, doubt.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't think he's gonna be getting a
Speaker 2: chartered to oats all the Walmart parking lots. Honestly, I
Speaker 2: don't really see that one happening.
Speaker 1: Five hundred thousand dollars. And the thing about this, it
Speaker 1: seems like he does something like this every fucking year.
Speaker 2: That nice doesn't like because I wish I could take
Speaker 2: I wish I could take a Supreme Court justice out
Speaker 2: to the open waters of the sea about once a year.
Speaker 2: You know, wouldn't that be fun for everybody involved?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, here's the thing. We're gonna have to
Speaker 1: pull our money into rent the submarine.
Speaker 2: That's true, that's true.
Speaker 1: But we look, we will persevere, we will achieve submarine.
Speaker 1: There's no laws on the ocean international waters. Baby is
Speaker 1: legal as as as as are regrettably off doing actual journalism.
Speaker 1: Colleague James constantly reminds us it is legal for him
Speaker 1: to fight the seal international waters.
Speaker 2: Just as legal as me disparaging all of our advertisers.
Speaker 1: So all right, you know, okay, So like obviously what
Speaker 1: is happening, Like Harlan Crowe, like this is a level
Speaker 1: of like bribery where it's like the wheels kind of
Speaker 1: fall off of the word bribery because like, how do
Speaker 1: you even I don't know, I don't even I don't
Speaker 1: have a way to adequately describe what this is. What
Speaker 1: I'm going to do instead is to remind everyone that
Speaker 1: Thomas was one of the justices who decided Citizens United,
Speaker 1: the twenty ten case that made it legal to bribe
Speaker 1: politicians through campaign donations and allowed corporations to directly involve
Speaker 1: themselves in legal campaigns, leading like directly to the hell
Speaker 1: hole we now I'll live in. Now once again, Thomas
Speaker 1: was required to report this as a gift to the government,
Speaker 1: and he simply did not. And you know, this is
Speaker 1: one of those things where okay, so like if a
Speaker 1: normal person does this right in in the government, you
Speaker 1: would take them to court. But we've now returned to
Speaker 1: our problem of who watches the watchers because it's Supreme
Speaker 1: Court right, they've established themselves as a dictatorial ruling council
Speaker 1: based on a power grab, and you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my the Supreme Court rant I do
Speaker 1: every time. But the Supreme Court does not have the
Speaker 1: power of judicial review. They do not have the power
Speaker 1: to strike down laws. They don't have it. They fucking
Speaker 1: get invented it out of whole cloth in eighteen o two.
Speaker 1: It doesn't exist, it's not real, it's never been real.
Speaker 1: You can just fucking ignore them. But in the meantime,
Speaker 1: while everyone believes it's real, they get to do this bullshit.
Speaker 1: And you know, so, yeah, so that that Indonesia trip
Speaker 1: is like the big one that we know of. He
Speaker 1: took another one to like Moscow and another. But the
Speaker 1: other thing that that see, he seems to have been
Speaker 1: doing a lot is basically like he like just uses
Speaker 1: Harlan Crowe's private jet as like his own jet. Republica
Speaker 1: calculated that like one, just like one flight that he
Speaker 1: took in twenty sixteen would have cost seventy thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: which is more than I make in a fucking year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why why why did that cost so much?
Speaker 1: It's really expensive to to lease those kind of like
Speaker 1: that specific kind of private jet.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, if it's for a whole private jet,
Speaker 2: that makes sense, Yeah, I say, slightly, wouldn't lease a
Speaker 2: whole private jet, but I'm just built different.
Speaker 1: Well, Claras Thomas has built even more different because instead
Speaker 1: of leasing it, he just has a friend who has
Speaker 1: the jet who just lets him take this Like like
Speaker 1: one of the Republican was doings. They were just tracking
Speaker 1: the jet and they they could match the jet showing
Speaker 1: up to the airport where Clarence Thomas was gonna be
Speaker 1: and then and the jet would mysteriously then appear in
Speaker 1: a location where Clarence Thomas appeared, and it was like hmm,
Speaker 1: and and this onother thing we should specifically know. So Okay,
Speaker 1: the the reason the Supreme Court has to do any
Speaker 1: of this at all is that the stream is that
Speaker 1: like someone finally had a good idea right after Watergate
Speaker 1: that was, like we should actually make everyone in the
Speaker 1: government disclose their gifts and this and this law actually
Speaker 1: like included the stream Court, although I feel like it
Speaker 1: won't in like two years when they strike that law
Speaker 1: down or some shit. But you know, but again, like
Speaker 1: one of the things fit like specifically in this law
Speaker 1: is if you take a private jet, you have to
Speaker 1: report it. And Thomas has been just like jetting around
Speaker 1: in this fucking jet for like a like many like
Speaker 1: at least like at least seven years that we know of,
Speaker 1: and has never reported it. So let's sure.
Speaker 2: I'm sure the FBI is going to be busting down
Speaker 2: his doors any day now.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and again like let let less you less
Speaker 1: you think we've reached the end of the Claire's Thomas corruption.
Speaker 1: Crow also like, okay, so you know how Claire's Thomas's
Speaker 1: wife is like a qan on person yeh, tried to
Speaker 1: overstow the government. Yes, so she has like a she
Speaker 1: has like a like a it's like a basically bullshit
Speaker 1: like political lobbying group. But it's like so it's a
Speaker 1: lobbying group, but like the actual thing that it does
Speaker 1: is reverse lobbying, which is you can go to the
Speaker 1: lobbying group and use it for like to get access
Speaker 1: to Clarence Thomas. And that group funded God, I didn't
Speaker 1: write down the number of mount but like that group
Speaker 1: got like two hundred thousand dollars that again his wife
Speaker 1: works for, got like two hundred thousand dollars from Crow.
Speaker 1: There was another story.
Speaker 2: That which which just now, I no lawyer, these are
Speaker 2: not actual, these these are these claims have no basis.
Speaker 2: This is just an uneducated opinion. But to me, if
Speaker 2: I saw this in a movie, I would call this
Speaker 2: money laundering.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like oh god, okay, so Lily, just let
Speaker 1: me just go to the next one, because there's fucking more.
Speaker 1: There's more, Like so all right. Clarence Thomas has like
Speaker 1: a grandnephew that he like adopted as his son. Basically,
Speaker 1: like he like went to the family of this kid.
Speaker 1: It was like, I can give this kid everything in
Speaker 1: the world, so you should like give him to me.
Speaker 2: I'm sure this is all above board.
Speaker 1: I I don't know.
Speaker 2: This is uh what about this man has proved to
Speaker 2: you that he's untrustworthy? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: To me?
Speaker 1: Fair Clarence Thomas makes the argument that like he did
Speaker 1: this because like he was abandoned by his father as
Speaker 1: a kid and was raised by his grandfather, and so
Speaker 1: he was like, Okay, I'm gonna raise this kid like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna steal the better life. His parents need to
Speaker 1: have a gride to I don't know, I you you
Speaker 1: you can you can read into that the level of
Speaker 1: sketchiness that you want to The part that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I want to talk about is that this kid. Okay,
Speaker 1: So a thing, a thing that I didn't understand until
Speaker 1: I got to like college, is that like okay, So
Speaker 1: like I knew intellectually that private schools existed, I did
Speaker 1: not understand that private schools there are like like there's
Speaker 1: like because I was used to like like Christian private schools, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did not, like I didn't like get how rich
Speaker 1: people could be, and I didn't understand that that they were.
Speaker 1: Like I like walk in there and there's like nine
Speaker 1: kids who all speak Latin, and every single one of
Speaker 1: them went to a private school that was like fifty
Speaker 1: at least fifty like somewhere between fifteen one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a quarter. Yeah, it is like what the fuck?
Speaker 1: What the ship? So claras Thomas isn't so his the
Speaker 1: schools he's going to aren't quite that expensive, but the kid,
Speaker 1: the ones he sends this this kid to, So for
Speaker 1: two years, the estimate is that it was one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars per year. That was for two years,
Speaker 1: So seventy five dollars a year, which again more than
Speaker 1: I make it a year.
Speaker 2: That's reasonable, that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 1: That is more that is more than like that that
Speaker 1: is more expensive than my fucking college. That is more expensive,
Speaker 1: Like I I like that.
Speaker 2: It is it is a ludicrous amount money. And guess
Speaker 2: who paid that. I'm guessing Harlan Kruw just why, I
Speaker 2: don't know. It's gonna just gonna pick it, just gonna
Speaker 2: pack like a random name off the top of my head,
Speaker 2: this Hitler's number one fan, harding crowded. It's so amazing
Speaker 2: because like again, all of these people have this. Like
Speaker 2: every single like conservative like every conservative journalist, like every
Speaker 2: conservative judge and every conservative politician, are they all have
Speaker 2: one of these guys?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's this guy. This is the guy and
Speaker 1: so and every so like everything.
Speaker 2: Like the Koch Brothers fund a whole bunch of like
Speaker 2: content creators. But every almost every big like right wing
Speaker 2: dude has one of these guys, which is totally unfair
Speaker 2: because the entire left has to share one of these guys.
Speaker 2: We only get one, and he has to fund everything
Speaker 2: on the left. Meanwhile, the right has like has like
Speaker 2: a dime a dozen of these you know, like.
Speaker 1: Like legitimately, like like this was actually legitimately the thing
Speaker 1: that caused Soros to get into politics. You looked at
Speaker 1: us and he was like, what the fuck is going on?
Speaker 1: Like this is insane? Like why what what do you mean?
Speaker 1: Like the American enterprise that you just like creates Supreme
Speaker 1: Court justice like what? And you know, but like so,
Speaker 1: But the funniest part about this is, again, whenever any
Speaker 1: of these pieces come out, like every single conservative like
Speaker 1: pundits like in Unison and like like all of their
Speaker 1: fucking newspapers, all of their magazines, they're all funded by
Speaker 1: these people, so they all like publish like identical things
Speaker 1: going like how dare you criticize like the noble friendship
Speaker 1: of hard of this billionaire and the Supreme Court justice
Speaker 1: or just pals. They're just extending hospitality like you would
Speaker 1: to any other friend by taking them on a half
Speaker 1: a million dollar cruise around on your yacht. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's it's like incredible stuff. All right, we should do
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Speaker 1: Let let lest you think, and I kind of emphasize
Speaker 1: this enough. This is something that was like when these
Speaker 1: stories first started coming out, the way it was framed
Speaker 1: was like, like, Clarence Thomas is like a uniquely corrupt
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice. And then people did literally any digging,
Speaker 1: and it turns out that Clarence Thomas is not a
Speaker 1: uniquely corrupt Supreme Court like all of the like Supreme
Speaker 1: Court legal justice like experts were like, this is like
Speaker 1: a unique situation the history of the court. And then
Speaker 1: like like literally two months later, so Samuel Alito, who
Speaker 1: is a Supreme Court justice I in and this is in.
Speaker 1: This is two thousand and seven, appears on a a
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollar fishing trip in Alaska with billionaire
Speaker 1: hedge fund manager Paul Singer, who is Singer is like
Speaker 1: one of the most like Okay, as much as I
Speaker 1: don't like Harlan curowe like Singer is like one of
Speaker 1: the most evil people who's ever lived. Do you know
Speaker 1: who Singer is?
Speaker 2: No, but I'm sure this opinion is is Singers same
Speaker 2: opinion as all of our advertisers.
Speaker 1: Probably our advertisers probably don't like him. It would not
Speaker 1: surprise me. So Singer is just like incredibly unbelievably relentlessly
Speaker 1: aggressive like hedge fund guy, and his thing is he
Speaker 1: like goes into companies and like like makes really embarrassing
Speaker 1: like slideshows about their CEOs and then like deposes them
Speaker 1: and then takes them over and the trip's on for
Speaker 1: assets and sells them all. So that's like the one
Speaker 1: that's like one thing that he does. The other thing
Speaker 1: that he's cool, Well yeah, I mean it sucks because
Speaker 1: like every single person who would work they lose their drop.
Speaker 1: But this is that's the less bad thing that he does,
Speaker 1: right Like like this this is what I'm talking like,
Speaker 1: this is like legitimately one of the worst people in
Speaker 1: the world. Like for like any like Mitt Romney, right
Speaker 1: like that was the worst shit that he ever did.
Speaker 1: Was was like just destroying a bunch of people's lives
Speaker 1: by like annihilating these companies. For Singer, that's that's like
Speaker 1: the fuck, that's the bullshit stuff like that, that's like
Speaker 1: that's the fucking brush league shit. Singer's actual game is
Speaker 1: so one of the things that happens over the course
Speaker 1: of the seventies and eighties is you get a bunch
Speaker 1: of uh I've talked about this at length of many
Speaker 1: liberalist and episodes, but you get a bunch of these
Speaker 1: economies that basically like across the Global South, that just implode.
Speaker 1: And they implode because there's this combination of like commodity
Speaker 1: prices drop, and then they have all these adjustable rate
Speaker 1: like loans that they're taken out, and when Paul Volker
Speaker 1: hot like hikes interest rates, all of these like loans
Speaker 1: suddenly have like twenty percent interest. And so you have
Speaker 1: all these economies all over the world that just fucking
Speaker 1: are imploding because they suddenly have this like unbelievable that
Speaker 1: they can't pay off. And so over the course of
Speaker 1: the nineties, this kind of like like anti IMF revolts starts,
Speaker 1: and I have the International Monetary Fund are the people
Speaker 1: who you're borrowing money from who also destroy your economy
Speaker 1: to like you know, like pay the IMF back the money.
Speaker 1: By the time you get into like the two thousands,
Speaker 1: it's gotten less bad. Well, I guess bad again, tails Nate.
Speaker 1: But there had been this process of debt restructuring where
Speaker 1: these countries were allowed to like only pay like a
Speaker 1: small percentage of the debt because they just literally couldn't
Speaker 1: pay it because their economies have been destroyed. Or and
Speaker 1: this is another very common thing. You get a country
Speaker 1: where like a bunch of loans were taken out by
Speaker 1: like a dictator and he would just like buy plans
Speaker 1: with them and then he get deposed. But you know,
Speaker 1: the IMF and like the World Bank was still hold
Speaker 1: them liable for the loans, and it's like, well, okay,
Speaker 1: like that's like the money's gone right, Like it's in
Speaker 1: like a bunch of gold bars. This guy like drove
Speaker 1: across the border when he like fled Singer. Singer is
Speaker 1: like the last guy who league goes in for like
Speaker 1: to buy this debt and the result is this, So
Speaker 1: for example, like he buys a bunch of the debt
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the result
Speaker 1: of this is that he turns like the entire Congoese
Speaker 1: economy into this debt servicing machine. We're like just like
Speaker 1: every like there's they're like they're they're there's they're stripping
Speaker 1: the copper wires out of the buildings in order to
Speaker 1: like fucking pay for or metaphorically. So metaphorically they are
Speaker 1: stripping the copper wires to pay this debt off. Uh,
Speaker 1: not metaphorically, they are taking food from the mouths of babies,
Speaker 1: because the way this stuff is paid for is they
Speaker 1: cut a bunch of government assistance programs and they're like,
Speaker 1: you know, they don't build fucking hospitals, they don't staff hospitals,
Speaker 1: and so like a lot, like he has killed a
Speaker 1: lot of people, and his his most famous version of
Speaker 1: this was this battle that he waged against Argentina. So
Speaker 1: in two thousand and one, there is this massive like
Speaker 1: basically like the the last twentieth century, like the last
Speaker 1: twentieth century, communist revolution happens in Argentina in two thousand
Speaker 1: and one, and they lose, but it's they they lose
Speaker 1: like pretty it like only pretty narrowly doesn't work, Like
Speaker 1: there is a there is a timeline that is not
Speaker 1: that different from this one where like like a bunch
Speaker 1: of anarchists basically have taking control of Argentina, and the
Speaker 1: result of this is that Argentina defaults on its debt.
Speaker 1: And you know, they default in this debt, so they
Speaker 1: enter this restructuring program and all of the rest of
Speaker 1: the like people who are like holding this debt are like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: in order to let the Argentina economy recover and get
Speaker 1: like some of this money back, we'll just like let like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: we'll like write off most of our debt. But Singer
Speaker 1: like looks at this and is like, oh shit, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna buy all this debt that I know is
Speaker 1: junk and can't be repaid, and then I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to the courts in the US and like just force
Speaker 1: Argentina to repay it. Now, this is not how debt
Speaker 1: is supposed to work. Right. Thing about debt, right, and
Speaker 1: think about like lending someone money or you know, this
Speaker 1: is what essentially what buying someone's debt is. Right. The
Speaker 1: thing about that, right is if the person can't pay
Speaker 1: you back you're supposed to, you're out of the money,
Speaker 1: right like that That's that's that's you know, this is
Speaker 1: this is the theoretical economic justification for why you can
Speaker 1: charge interest because there's risk. But what Singer figured out
Speaker 1: is that you could just use the US court system
Speaker 1: and you know the threat of the the the implicit
Speaker 1: and explicit threat of the US military to just like
Speaker 1: force people to pay you whether they have money or not.
Speaker 1: And so and this is what so, this is what
Speaker 1: he does. He's he's like the one he's the one
Speaker 1: creditor because he buys like an enormous amount of this
Speaker 1: debt and he's the one creditor who refuses to negotiate.
Speaker 1: And so he like starts running around the US trying
Speaker 1: to like steal Argentinian assets, Like he tries to have
Speaker 1: like Argentina's Central bank reserves seized. There's other like the
Speaker 1: most famous incidence, he tries to steal an Argentinian worship
Speaker 1: in order to pay down the debt. There's another one
Speaker 1: where like he tries to like he tries to steal
Speaker 1: Argentina's entire pension fund. And this causes this like series
Speaker 1: of of like lawsuits that sort of like run their
Speaker 1: way through the courts. And in twenty fourteen, one of
Speaker 1: these cases finally makes it to this reviewing court. And
Speaker 1: this is where Singer's two hundred thousand dollars Alaskan fishing
Speaker 1: trip pays off because Samuel Alito rules that Argentina has
Speaker 1: to play Singer two point four billion dollars, and eventually
Speaker 1: they do so Alito like like he's also he also
Speaker 1: has another guy who just like pays for his vacations,
Speaker 1: who's the uh I don't know if I want to
Speaker 1: say incredibly named or disturbingly named, but this guy's name
Speaker 1: is Robin Arkley, the second Wait, Robin Robin Arkley the
Speaker 1: second second God Okay, Yeah, and he's a also like
Speaker 1: a genuinely terror person, like these are these are all
Speaker 1: like you read Hitchhickers. Have you read Hitchhiker's Guide to
Speaker 1: the Galaxy?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, So my favorite bit from that is there's a
Speaker 1: bit where like the encyclopedia from the Foundation series, like
Speaker 1: from the Future, like falls down and it falls open
Speaker 1: onto a page and someone had just made a joke
Speaker 1: about how these people are gonna be the first against
Speaker 1: the wall when the revolution comes. And the Encyclopedia for
Speaker 1: the Future drops down and they open it and it
Speaker 1: says that these two people were first against the wall
Speaker 1: when the revolution came. And that's like all of these people,
Speaker 1: these are like the worst people in the fucking world
Speaker 1: or like in the US. So this guy Arcley makes
Speaker 1: his fortune like buying distressed mortgages and then for closing
Speaker 1: on people's houses and flipping them, so he.
Speaker 2: Is seems like a valuable contributor to the detail, like
Speaker 2: I you.
Speaker 1: Know, I mean this is like this is literally like
Speaker 1: literally one of the old like crime think jokes was
Speaker 1: when the bank seizes your house, the GDP GDP goes up.
Speaker 1: Like that's literally this guy, this, this is the guy
Speaker 1: who makes the GDP go up by seizing it, by
Speaker 1: stealing your house. And so this guy takes Alito on
Speaker 1: a bunch of trips. So when when Republica like reaches
Speaker 1: out to Aledo about this, he gets so mad that
Speaker 1: she the Wall Street Journal editorial board allows him to
Speaker 1: publish a like an op ed that is just him
Speaker 1: yelling about how this article that hasn't come out yet
Speaker 1: is fake. And one of the specific things that he's
Speaker 1: really mad about is part of this article is talking
Speaker 1: about how the wine at this met at this like
Speaker 1: lodge that he's staying at that's being paid for by
Speaker 1: by the fucking mortgage slipper guy has a thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a bottle wine, and Clarience Tyer was just like, no,
Speaker 1: the wine is not was not a thousand dollars a bottle.
Speaker 1: You can check the website, and then Republica was like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's because the lodge, like the quality of the
Speaker 1: lodge was downgrade after Alito had like one of the
Speaker 1: like just just just a truly incredible meltdown that he
Speaker 1: was just allowed to have in the op ed section
Speaker 1: of the Wall Street Journal in like in response, not
Speaker 1: even in response, like before this article came out. And
Speaker 1: the other thing that we learned from this is that
Speaker 1: also apparently former Justice Antonin Scalia also was taking trips
Speaker 1: from this guy. So this is just like every conservative
Speaker 1: like justice in the last like twenty years has just
Speaker 1: been doing this. They've just been getting like flown around
Speaker 1: the world on fancy vacations by their billionaire friends. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't actually know if I actually might merely be
Speaker 1: a millionaire. I'm not toither sure, but he may might
Speaker 1: be a billionaire. I don't know.
Speaker 2: The other two definitely are wait millionaire a billionaire because
Speaker 2: those are two very difficult Okay, I I.
Speaker 1: Han let me let me, let me, let me google.
Speaker 1: Is this is this guy a billionaire? Yeah, Arkley doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be a billionaire. He'd seems to merely be Well, no,
Speaker 1: I've seen other places that he is a billionaire. I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's some dispute at the guy there's like
Speaker 1: dispute over what's his net worth? Oh, we don't know,
Speaker 1: it's unclear. What does there's there's dispute over.
Speaker 2: It dispute disputed net.
Speaker 1: Worth, yeah, unclear. The other two guys definitely billionaires. This
Speaker 1: guy maybe a billionaire unclear. But like, literally like all
Speaker 1: of these literally all these jestices have just been like
Speaker 1: taking just like and again, any other thing I forgot
Speaker 1: to mention that I should have mentioned is that like
Speaker 1: all of these people have had cases appear before the
Speaker 1: Streme Court, hmm, curiously. And then this is another amazing thing.
Speaker 1: This is the thing that came up like really prominently
Speaker 1: when there was a case that you know, there was
Speaker 1: a case about the attempt to like overthrow the government
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty or in twenty one that like well
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one that Thomas like
Speaker 1: objectively should have recused himself from because his wife tried
Speaker 1: to overthrow the government and he's didn't. And this and
Speaker 1: this is a this is a really important thing, which
Speaker 1: is that Supreme Court justices it's like your fucking daughter
Speaker 1: like could be one of the plaintiffs in a case,
Speaker 1: and you don't have to recuse yourself. Is recusing yourself
Speaker 1: is completely voluntary, m which is not how this works
Speaker 1: for fucking anything else. Right, But again, the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: is not like it's not actually a court. It's just
Speaker 1: like a fucking it's just this like weird dictatorial tribunal
Speaker 1: that is subject to like absolutely no authority whatsoever. And Okay,
Speaker 1: So it also turns out that there's like there's like
Speaker 1: yet another layer of fuckery with this, which is that
Speaker 1: universities use Supreme Court used Supreme Court justices to solicit
Speaker 1: donations by like so, so they'll they'll have like a
Speaker 1: don invite a justice to like give a talk at
Speaker 1: the university, and they'll pay them a bunch of money,
Speaker 1: and then they'll they'll have them like go to a dinner,
Speaker 1: and then they'll advertise to all their donors like, hey,
Speaker 1: if you give us a bunch of money, you can
Speaker 1: go to this dinner with Supreme Court justice. And so
Speaker 1: a bunch of like like a bunch of people who
Speaker 1: have cases in front of the Supreme Court like use
Speaker 1: this to go get access to a bunch of Streme
Speaker 1: Court justices. So it's great. Uh, this is this is
Speaker 1: really fun. Uh Oh did I did I do the
Speaker 1: Venmo thing? No, it's not the Venmo thing. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: here's the Veno thing. So two days after I started,
Speaker 1: like like two days ago, like from the time of writing,
Speaker 1: this will be like like this will actually be like
Speaker 1: almost exactly. Wow, It'll be like almost a week from
Speaker 1: when when this comes out. Uh. There was another thing
Speaker 1: of this that came out, which is that a bunch
Speaker 1: of lawyers had just been sending money on Venmo to
Speaker 1: one of Claren's Thomas's aids. And these okay, like the
Speaker 1: the these these are like these are not just people
Speaker 1: who have like active cases. These are like like one
Speaker 1: of the guys who venmoed h Thomas's aid is the
Speaker 1: guy who won the affirmative action case. And another one
Speaker 1: of the one of the other lawyers who ven met
Speaker 1: him is the guy who I don't know if you
Speaker 1: remember this, like like in like the last like term
Speaker 1: of the court, there was a case where the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court like fucked the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gases,
Speaker 1: so that lawyer also paid a bunch of money on Venmo.
Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas's aid. So this is this is the level
Speaker 1: though of corruption that we're working at, right, which is
Speaker 1: like people sending public Venmo transactions to the aids of
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justices who's about who are about to hear
Speaker 1: their cases. Uh, that's so good. Now. The reason this
Speaker 1: is happening that the right has built like just an
Speaker 1: extensive and incredibly extensive network to seize control of the judiciary. Uh.
Speaker 1: Liberals have produced no such network because they're fucking hacks
Speaker 1: and this and this is not it's not just the
Speaker 1: sort of like there's only one like liberal billionaire, Like, no,
Speaker 1: there are liberal billionaires. The actual a real problem with
Speaker 1: a liberal attempt to like take control of the judiciary
Speaker 1: is that like liberal like liberal lawyers are hacks instead
Speaker 1: of actually like trying to hold on to like judicial positions, right,
Speaker 1: and you know, to have to like move their way
Speaker 1: up through like circuit courts in order to like like
Speaker 1: seize control of like large, like increasingly large portions of
Speaker 1: of the court system, which is the Republicans did. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Democratic lawyers, they'll they'll get like like they they
Speaker 1: do the even lazier corruption, which is like they'll just
Speaker 1: they'll be a judge for like three years, and then
Speaker 1: they'll just leave the private practice because they're all just
Speaker 1: fucking greedy shits. And you know, the result of this
Speaker 1: is that all these like fucking liberal lawyers, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they go into private practice and make a quick buck
Speaker 1: and they leave us to fucking burn a death in
Speaker 1: the smolder and keep while they spend their vacations in
Speaker 1: Bali and you know, and and again. So the only
Speaker 1: the only thing that like could conceivably slow down the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court is the fact that like, technically speaking, although
Speaker 1: it's never actually gone through, it is possible for like
Speaker 1: Congress to impeach Supreme Court justice. But the Democrats don't
Speaker 1: want to do that because.
Speaker 2: Because then the right we'll be able to impeach all
Speaker 2: of the liberals Court justice.
Speaker 1: No, it's worse than that. There the actual Biden's actual
Speaker 1: state of reason for why he didn't want to do
Speaker 1: it is because it would undermine the legitimacy of the court.
Speaker 1: And you know, and the result of this is that,
Speaker 1: like for all their they're fucking screaming about lawlessness and
Speaker 1: rising crime rates, the fucking biggest criminals in the entire
Speaker 1: goddamn country are just literally sitting in their stupid ass
Speaker 1: robes taking the biggest bribes in the history of the
Speaker 1: fucking Republic. And the Democrats are just like, well, if
Speaker 1: we do anything, it'll undermine the faith in our institutions.
Speaker 1: So I gad fuck them. But also like, we don't
Speaker 1: fucking need these people like you could, Like you could,
Speaker 1: you can fit all of these people in one submarine
Speaker 1: and we could just be fucking dumb with it.
Speaker 2: And then we get a whole bunch of new Supreme
Speaker 2: Court justices picked by Joe Biden, and they would save America.
Speaker 2: So that's why we need to vote for Joe Biden
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Save America. Yeah, yeah, this is thanks
Speaker 2: for the submarine. This is the submarine plot. It'll go great.
Speaker 2: We have to mandated submarine vacations for all Supreme courtousice.
Speaker 1: The submarine is now the only vehicle you're allowed to
Speaker 1: travel on Supreme cour Justice.
Speaker 2: Taxpayer funded Titanic explorations for all Supreme Court justices.
Speaker 1: We're already giving them two hundred and eighty five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year. It's not actually that it wouldn't We
Speaker 1: would save money if we just both salary. I put
Speaker 1: my position on this is clear. This is this is
Speaker 1: a this is a fiscally conservative position.
Speaker 2: Most of my budget can be interpreted as fiscally conservative.
Speaker 2: It's cheaper to put all the people at houses than
Speaker 2: do what we're doing now. Anyway, Well, glad we could
Speaker 2: learn about how the Supreme Court is good and just well,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: The second thing you can learn is if you some
Speaker 1: if you one day somehow are like a semi minor
Speaker 1: Chicago politician, you now know how. You now know how
Speaker 1: to launder money.
Speaker 2: Which which does sound exciting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you never know, you never know.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for this insightful look at at at
Speaker 2: at at nineteen seventies mystery villain Harlan Crowe who has
Speaker 2: a mansion full of Hitler paintings.
Speaker 1: This feels like.
Speaker 2: It's like the it's it's like the location of like
Speaker 2: a like of like of like an Agatha Christie like
Speaker 2: book or something. Let's all investigate the murder of Harlan Crowe. Spoilers.
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