WEBVTT - How To Buy A Supreme Court 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:09.080 Chris Custodis ipsis Christodi is welcome to it could happen 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:11.159 here a podcast where the only person who actually took 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:13.440 Latin high school isn't here leading me to do this 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:16.479 Latin bit. I'm your host Mia Wong, and with me 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:18.720 is Garrison. Hello. Hello. 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.080 I'm not gonna try to speak Latin because if I did, 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.880 it'd be some like weird like esoteric incantation and then 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.040 it would open up a whole other canet worms. 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:29.120 So you know, this is this is this is the 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:32.800 most the most well known Latin. That's probably not the 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.640 most well known Latin is probably some bullshit from like 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.200 Latin mass or something. But one of the more well 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.199 known Latins, which is who watches the Watchman? Roughly, it's 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.440 not a test. The popular translation is who watches the Watchmen? 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:48.800 And by that I mean we are asking the question 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.760 who ensures that the American Supreme Court does not just 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.880 sort of collapse into a ball of pure corruption, And 0:00:55.920 --> 0:01:00.600 the answer was nobody. 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.760 So true, I always trust in the Supreme Court. 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.320 Yeah, it's great. I learned. I learned that we pay 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:09.959 these people two hundred and eighty five thousand dollars a year, 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:15.000 like we pay them two hundred eighty five thousand dollars 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:19.759 to like take our rights away. This is just insane. Well, 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.200 why why do we do this? 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:25.840 It's well, I mean, this is a very clear reason 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.240 why we do this. Actually that maintains the semblance of 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.840 order and civility. Yes, however, coma deeply fractured however. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.600 Coma, this is coming apart because these stupid assholes can't 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.040 even maintain the veneer of not being like the most 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.600 corrupt people in the history of mankind. So we're coming 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:49.800 off of like two, I mean not there wasn't really 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.800 a potential for this this session of the court to 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.360 be as bad as like last year's one where they 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.520 killed row, but they killed affirmative action, and they also 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.520 did this really really just sort of. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:08.639 Really weird ruling on queer stuff and the business's right 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:13.160 to discriminate and choose, the business's right to choose how 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.280 to use their creative expression, which has resulted in a 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.800 bunch of really funny things. I saw this morning. Actually, 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.760 there was this hair salon who was refer for to 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.640 serve LGBTQ clients, which now all of like all of 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:27.960 like the suppliers for the hair Sloan are no longer 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.080 sending orders to the hair salon because they're also allowed 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.200 to discriminate from this hair salod because of the same ruleing. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:38.040 So it's creating all these really complicated like supply chain 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.959 things with businesses choosing to be really homophobic and queer 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.920 phobic and then like type of like a supplier is 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.440 just not then just not giving these businesses the supplies 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.200 they need to operate their business, which is pretty funny. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.200 It's really amazing too. So the other thing about this 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.360 is like this is the actual ruling, where like any 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.280 pretense that this is like a functional court was just 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.800 sort of thrown out the window because Okay, so one 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.920 of the one of the like the fundamental principles of 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.600 and this is one of the fundamental principles of the 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:14.079 common law legal system, right of the legal system that 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.360 not only the US is based off of, but like 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.799 you know, I mean like like literally we're talking like 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.760 like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.720 of history that predate the American system arguably can traces 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.160 back to the Roman system. One of the things that's 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.880 fundamentally based on is that you cannot try a case 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.880 on a hypothetical. Something has to something has to actually 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.720 happen for you to have a case, and this case 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:40.000 has just thrown that shit out the window. So what 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.560 this case was is there's this woman who supposedly is 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.720 a wedding wedding website designer. And we'll get back to 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.520 that in a second, because oh boy, uh just straight 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.360 up lied to the court and claimed that a guy 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.720 had requested her make a wedding website for a gay wedding. 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.200 And this never happens, right, this like did not happen 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.680 the less like track down the guy who she said 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.520 had like requested a website, and that guy is a 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.800 straight b had already been married, and she is a 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:10.640 web designer. 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.400 The whole, the whole story is was just a fake. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.520 I think. I think like that's that's that's the part 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.040 of the story that I think got the most pressed. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.680 But the part of the story that thinks like funnier 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.400 is that she's not actually a wedding website designer. This 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:30.640 entire case, she set up this entire site. What appears 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.040 to have happened, She's not wedding website designer now, right, 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.720 what appears to have happened is that she and like 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.159 the sort of like one of the one of the 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.599 sort of like right wing like legal networks got together 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:44.240 and cobbled together this business like specifically so they could 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:45.280 get this ruling. 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.560 So which which which seems like that should be a 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:54.480 like illegal. It's this sounds illegal. It sounds like legal 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:59.320 fraudst on trial for perjury right now, her lawyers should 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.000 also be like her lawyers and her lied under oath 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:09.960 multiple times to multiple different courts. Like yes, that's what 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.200 we're seeing here, right is the sort of like thin 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.440 legal veneer that has always been sort of over the 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.599 Supreme Court that's supposed to make it seem legitimate. 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:22.360 It's just sort of like unraveling. And at the same time, 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.400 so if you if you, if you think that makes 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.719 the Supreme Court like like look illegitimate. Wait do we 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.800 get to the corruption. This is the real reason we're 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.719 doing this episode because oh my God, Jesus Christ, this 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:41.560 is I oh God. And then you know, the thing 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.880 I really learned from this is I didn't understand how 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:48.960 rich Supreme Court justices are, like Clarence Thomas. And in 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.640 all of the pieces about Clarence Thomas, right, it starts 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.760 with like he is like the poorest Supreme Court justices 0:05:55.200 --> 0:06:02.679 and and his family makes eight hundred thousand dollars a Year's. 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.120 That seems like a lot of money. 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:10.400 What are you even talking about? Like, So, in terms 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:14.039 of the sort of corruption stuff that's been happening, there's 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:15.920 been a bunch of uh, there's a bunch of research 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.520 now by Republica into a bunch of just like incredibly 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.760 shady and corrupt things that a bunch of Supreme Court 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.160 justices are doing. So we're gonna start with Bastard's podlum, 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:29.920 Clarence Thomas. So, one of Thomas's close friends is this 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:35.440 real estate mogul named Harlan Crowe, and he Harlan Crowe 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.440 sucks ass. He and Harlan. 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.520 Crowe sounds like what you would name like some like 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.919 weird like rich villain in like a pulpy seventies like 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:43.839 mystery novel. 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:48.720 I don't did you see when what like when people 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.600 figured out who this guy was and it went around 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.599 on Twitter? No Oh, I'm so excited for you. Okay, 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.680 this this is gonna be great. So okay. So, so 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:00.440 Harlan Crowe is he's one of the country's largest land lords. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.640 He has like a pro, he's a portfolio of twenty 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:07.599 nine billion dollars of assets. He he owns properties like 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.200 all over the US. He also, okay, so he has 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.880 a giant mansion, right, and in his giant mansion is 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.320 a bunch of Nazi memorabilia, including an autographed copy of. 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.120 This this guy. Yes, okay, now that now that you 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.440 mentioned the Nazi now so. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.720 So he has the things that like, stereotypically you would 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.320 assume that like a like a Nazi para familia guy has, right, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.320 Like he has like he has that sign, an autogap 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.200 copy of my comp He has like a bunch of 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.560 pictures that were drawn by a bunch of like actual 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.480 paintings that were drawn by Hitler. But he also has 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.200 weird shit, like someth I've never seen before, Like he 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:49.480 has like this these sets of like napkins that just 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.880 have swastikas on them because they were like official Nazi napkins. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.440 I feel like we probably shouldn't, like we can even 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.160 keep one copy of these, and like the Holocaust Museum 0:07:58.200 --> 0:07:59.920 and the rest of this stuff should be like burned, right, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.640 Like we shouldn't. Yeah, we shouldn't really have him to 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.080 this tough line around. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.240 You know, like, Okay, so I'm gonna circle back to 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.040 this because I think there's one there's another piece of 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:10.720 context that we need to get you. He also has 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.560 this thing called this he has he is this thing 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.520 he calls the Garden of Evil, which is this like 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:22.560 garden of statues of the garden he calls evil, Yes, 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.440 And it's a it's a statue guarded behind his house 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.920 that has like a bunch of like statues of dictators. 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.400 They're like almost all communists. He really hates Tito for 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.480 some reason. I don't know why. Well, I mean, she's 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.920 a billionaire, obviously, Like this is why he hates Tito. 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.880 But its funny thing is it's like almost all it's 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.960 like almost entirely communist. Like there's no like Mussolini or anything. 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.400 It's like it's all communists. There's no Husselini what. No, No, 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.000 there's like there's there's a host name Barick, and then 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.120 there's one of what what's the guy's name, I don't 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:56.520 remember his name, Uh, Prince of the the guy who 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.080 shot ar Street Ferdinand, which is weird because that guy 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.680 was not he wasn't he wasn't evil. No, Well, that's 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.959 I will not I refuse to take a position on that. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.480 That's not my position. My position like a dictator. Oh yeah, 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.560 that's like on the level of like evil on a 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.920 dictator level. He like he's not He's no maw, he's 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.439 no Hitler, Like come on, like he also like again, 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.280 he is not a dictator. He was just some fucking 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:28.520 random guy like you kill er streak for like okay, 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.480 but baffling stuff. But but okay, the important thing about this, well, okay, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.640 first of who would be your first five statues in 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.160 your own garden of evil? 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:44.000 The garden? Oh okay, this is this is gonna be 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:48.000 very biased because I'm ranking this by people I have 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:55.199 personal grudges against. Okay, well, so personal grudg ENTI year 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:59.720 air to one c C I what the fuck is 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:03.280 his name? Name? Paul Volker? Who else do I have? 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.600 Who else do I have a personal grudge against? Who's 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:10.080 a dictator? Mohammed Ben somebon because he bought my fucking 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:11.199 StarCraft league? 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.400 What the fuck are you talking about? 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:20.600 On that? One day? I'll put Okay, well, well we'll 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:26.560 put we'll put We'll put Maut number five. Fair fair Okay, now, okay, 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.280 So the reason the reason I bring up the the 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.560 the the the Garden of Evil, right is that. Okay, 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.160 so he has like a thing where he puts all 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.200 the stuff from the evil dictators. But then all of 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.319 the Nazi stuff is just like randomly strewed about his house, 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.600 like his living quarters. Yeah, like like they'll don't be 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.679 paintings by like actually he has like bush painting, seals, 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.200 Hillo paintings. It will be like bush, They'll be like like 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.480 a renoir, and then they'll just be a Hitler painting. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.640 It's like he's this guy all of his friends would 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.959 because this guy has like a bunch of like right, 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:04.120 we because he's one of I'm all be like, this 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.599 man is not a Nazi, and I'm like, I I 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.839 he hasn't he has. I don't know, man, Like, there 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.480 are not many non Nazi reasons why you would have 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.360 like multiple of Hitler's paintings hanging on your wall and 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.720 also the signed autograph copy. 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.400 Of I just want to remind myself that there's evil 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:22.120 in the world, you know. 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.719 Okay, Okay, this gets me pissed off. So my my 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.760 one of my grandpa's I took took a took a 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.080 Nazi sword off a dead officer and like brought it 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.560 home from the war and it should be like and 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.040 we like still have it, because what the are you 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.360 supposed to do with that? Right? So like that that's 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.400 like we we have one of those, right, But like 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.240 we didn't take an autograph copy of my cough. We 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:50.080 fucking killed a Nazi officer and took it from him. Like, 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.640 if we're gonna do this, you have to do it correctly. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.640 Yeah, I don't know. 0:11:55.880 --> 0:12:00.480 But this guy, this guy, okay, oh aso, she gets 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.920 really really he's like unfathomably mad that people wear shake 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:05.040 of our shirts. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.199 Like she's I mean, me too, mad, me too take 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:10.720 of our shirt? I'm usually not. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.360 I'm most almost circling back around on it, just because 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.720 it makes this guy so mad. Like this guy in 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.920 particular spears to be worse. 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.560 Most of the take of our shirts I've seen are 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:27.040 sold by disgraced white disgraced right wing commentator Stephen Crowder. 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.880 So oh god, what then we we we We've we've 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:35.120 truly entered hell world now, Okay, so why why why 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.440 am I talking about Harlan crow partially because he's really funny? 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:40.800 Doesn't it doesn't like give a lot of money to 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:41.680 like certain people. 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.960 So okay, we're we're yeah. So she he's one of 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:50.080 the people who runs a really really extensive network of 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:54.280 sort of like it's like right wing like think tank 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:59.679 dark money network that you know, buys judges, like pays 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:04.160 for people legal careers. And he's also very close friends 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.880 with Clarence Thomas. And so I'm gonna just run through 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.800 all of the ship that he's like all these just 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:16.800 like incredible corruption that he's doing. So okay, so I'm 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.760 gonna start with like this is like this is like 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:22.400 like the level one corruption, which is so Crow bought 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:26.160 Clarence Thomas's mom's house and then did quote tens of 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:30.400 thousands of dollars of improvements to the home and he 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:34.040 seems to have bought the house for like significantly above 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.720 market rate. And so this is this is a this 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.240 is I'm gonna I'm gonna be We're gonna do it. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.839 We're gonna do a corruption anatomy here because this is 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:48.720 a classic Chicago, uh corruption scam. Sore. There's like there's 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.440 like six revenue streams in this. Right, you have the 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.920 money from the sale which goes to like you know 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.040 that that that that's that's like, that's your level one bribe, right, 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.679 is you're selling you're selling, you know, you're you're selling 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.319 your ho to someone at above market value. The level 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.720 two bribe is, uh, you're not. You're now throwing in 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.120 the renovations because his mom is still living in this house. Right. 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.920 Oh so this is like it's like actual bribery. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.920 Huh oh yeah, yeah this is And again this is 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.240 like the mild stuff. So that that level level two 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.000 is you get that, you know, Okay, so now now 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:22.920 you have the contractors, and the contractors allow you to 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.000 throw in more money into the bribe because you're now 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.360 you're now doing all this renovation work like for free. 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.680 The level three of the bribes is that Okay, so 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.440 now now once you once you have a renovation contract, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.240 you now have a contract that pays out money and 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.200 you can use that to like reward your political allies. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:43.920 And so this is this is this is a classic 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:51.400 like absolutely classic like Chicago, uh like payoff scheme. Now. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.120 The other thing that's so so Harlan was contacted about 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.440 this and she claims that he's buying this house because 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.320 he wants to preserve it for plus austerity because Clarence 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:08.840 Thomas lived there, sure, which like she is very weird. 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.480 She did give one hundred thousand dollars to Harvard to 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.360 buy a portrait of like to get them to hang 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.240 up a portrait of Clarence Thomas, so you know, he 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.440 is a deeply weird guy. But this, uh, this reeks 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:27.000 of eye of oh boy, now, yes, yes, well Republica, 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.200 like pro Publica points out also that they they bought 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.720 two random vacant lots in the area from Thomas for 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:37.160 like unclear reasons, and you know, you can also you 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.880 can also ask why does the Supreme Court justice like 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:45.440 own a bunch of random vacant lots? And the answer 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.080 to this question is that these people are part of 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.960 the real boorgeois. They are like they they they are 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.800 like as alien to us US state scamming, right, this 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:58.120 is like yeah, like basically yeah, like they're they're they're 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.560 they're they're doing stuff, like they do stuff with their 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.040 money that like makes them like like they they are 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.640 like as dissimilar to us as like we are from 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.920 like a fucking Neanderthal. Like these people like the way 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.360 they think about money, the way they like just like 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:14.920 the way they act in the world, the way they 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:16.400 relate to other people, like the fact that they're just 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:20.640 buying random fucking lots, like across the street from their parents' house, 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.480 Like why who knows? 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:26.480 Ugh? 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.880 And Okay, So the thing that's very important about this 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:34.280 right is if you you know, okay, everyone in the 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.840 government right from like starting from every court that is 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.480 below the Supreme Court down to like a fucking astronomer 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.920 who works for a national lab. If you receive a 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.760 like a large gift over five hundred dollars, you have 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:50.160 to report it to the government, and there's like an 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.240 ethics process you have to go through. And this the standard. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.640 And again, this is the standard that holds from like 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.880 like the fucking president of the United States down to 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.880 again like a random astronomer. They are not allowed to 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.600 have to do anything that has quote even the appearance 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:10.280 of impropriety. Now do you want to do you want 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.600 to know who? These standards don't apply to just the 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:18.119 Supreme Course, yep, does not apply to them. They had 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.359 there's only one thing they have to do right and 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.280 aga again this amazing, Like so again everyone else has 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:28.320 actual enforceable ethics standards. The Supreme Court has you have 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.679 to report it. It doesn't have to go to an 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.760 excess commission. You just have to report it. And yeah, 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.119 do you do you? I'll give you three guesses as 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.359 to how much of any of the ship that I 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.240 just talked about that Clarence Thomas reported. 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:42.080 Probably none of it? 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:46.240 Nope, absolutely not zero, zero of it, like you over 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.600 one hundred thousand, like probably like one hundred and fifty 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.320 thousand dollars of bullshit, no reporting at all. 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.119 I'm sure the cops are gonna go arrest him for 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.120 all these crimes, right yeah, yeah, right at any day now. 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:00.840 Uh yeh yeah, it's gonna be bust down his door 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.119 now that we've cracked this one wide open. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.760 A okay, do you do you know who else is? 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:10.280 And I am not joking legitimately is bound by significantly 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:15.760 stricter i I ethic ethics regulations than the Supreme Court. 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:16.760 It's the end. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:18.360 Plugging these products and services. 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.080 I se see advertising guidelines that we have to follow. 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:25.119 I am a podcaster every few months and guidelines of 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:26.359 the Supreme every few months. 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:27.920 We have to take like a like a ten minute 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.280 training that just basically just plugs into our brains and 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.200 uh it downloads all of these like terms and conditions 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:38.560 that we then just robotically need to enforce. So yeah, 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:40.400 do you know who else commits fraud. 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:44.840 Were legally ed say that. 0:18:46.520 --> 0:19:01.600 These products and services? Oop's okay, Well I'm gonna have 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:06.360 to do another one of those FCC trainings after this one. Well, well, 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:07.399 here's here's the thing. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.280 Crime, crime is just legal now like this, this is 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.919 what I'm getting out of this free court stuff. So 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.720 all right, I started with this housing scam because A 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:19.280 It's like, okay, this is this is like, this is 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.399 like a classic level scam. Bbe this is because this 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:25.160 is like absolute brush league shit compared to like everything 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:26.359 else that's about to happen. 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:27.520 Here are you telling me? 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:27.760 This is? 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:29.280 This is this is gonna get worse. 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.399 Oh okay, So all right, I'm just gonna I'm just 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.520 gonna start reading this from pro publica because I don't 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.760 I cannot think of a funnier way to just do this. 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.080 In late June twenty nineteen, right after the US Supreme 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.200 Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:50.040 Thomas born in a large private jet headed to Indonesia. 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.400 He and his wife were going on a vacation nine 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.520 days of island hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.200 super yacht staff by a coterie of attendance and a 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.240 private chef. If Thomas had chartered the plane in the 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.600 one hundred and sixty two foot yachts himself, the total 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.960 cost of the trip could have exceeded five hundred thousand dollars. 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.480 Fortunately for him, that wasn't necessary. He was on vacation 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.520 with real estate mogul and Republican mega donor Harlan Clohe 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:19.800 who owned the jet and the yacht too. 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:27.440 Ah. I see this just sounds like a friendly vacation, right, 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:33.800 I need to read another another like really just genuinely 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:35.639 from one of the most brutal. 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:38.199 Polls I've ever seen anyone do is later on this 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:42.800 republic article quote. In Thomas's public appearances over the years, 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.880 he has presented himself as an everyman with modest tastes. 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:48.639 I don't have a problem with going to Europe, but 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:50.879 I prefer the United States, and I prefer seeing the 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:53.840 regular parts of the United States, Thomas said in a 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:56.680 recent interview for a documentary about his life, which Crow 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.960 helped finance. I prefer the RV parks prefer the Walmart 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:03.640 parking lots to the beaches and things like that. There's 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.560 something normal about it, doubt, doubt. 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:09.600 You know, I don't think he's gonna be getting a 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.760 chartered to oats all the Walmart parking lots. Honestly, I 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.080 don't really see that one happening. 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:20.280 Five hundred thousand dollars. And the thing about this, it 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:23.720 seems like he does something like this every fucking year. 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:29.200 That nice doesn't like because I wish I could take 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.360 I wish I could take a Supreme Court justice out 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:35.040 to the open waters of the sea about once a year. 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:40.320 You know, wouldn't that be fun for everybody involved? 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:42.800 Well, I mean, here's the thing. We're gonna have to 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:44.919 pull our money into rent the submarine. 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:46.760 That's true, that's true. 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:52.760 But we look, we will persevere, we will achieve submarine. 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:58.600 There's no laws on the ocean international waters. Baby is 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:06.040 legal as as as as are regrettably off doing actual journalism. 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:09.000 Colleague James constantly reminds us it is legal for him 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.879 to fight the seal international waters. 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:17.680 Just as legal as me disparaging all of our advertisers. 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:21.439 So all right, you know, okay, So like obviously what 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:27.240 is happening, Like Harlan Crowe, like this is a level 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:32.920 of like bribery where it's like the wheels kind of 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:37.199 fall off of the word bribery because like, how do 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:41.960 you even I don't know, I don't even I don't 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:44.560 have a way to adequately describe what this is. What 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:46.800 I'm going to do instead is to remind everyone that 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:49.520 Thomas was one of the justices who decided Citizens United, 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:52.080 the twenty ten case that made it legal to bribe 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:55.800 politicians through campaign donations and allowed corporations to directly involve 0:22:55.840 --> 0:23:00.280 themselves in legal campaigns, leading like directly to the hell 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:04.400 hole we now I'll live in. Now once again, Thomas 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:07.680 was required to report this as a gift to the government, 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:12.720 and he simply did not. And you know, this is 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:16.639 one of those things where okay, so like if a 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:20.679 normal person does this right in in the government, you 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:24.600 would take them to court. But we've now returned to 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:27.399 our problem of who watches the watchers because it's Supreme 0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:30.720 Court right, they've established themselves as a dictatorial ruling council 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:34.320 based on a power grab, and you know, I'm gonna 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:36.800 I'm gonna do my the Supreme Court rant I do 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:38.639 every time. But the Supreme Court does not have the 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:41.520 power of judicial review. They do not have the power 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:43.720 to strike down laws. They don't have it. They fucking 0:23:43.720 --> 0:23:45.720 get invented it out of whole cloth in eighteen o two. 0:23:46.240 --> 0:23:48.680 It doesn't exist, it's not real, it's never been real. 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:51.640 You can just fucking ignore them. But in the meantime, 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:54.160 while everyone believes it's real, they get to do this bullshit. 0:23:55.320 --> 0:24:01.040 And you know, so, yeah, so that that Indonesia trip 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:03.240 is like the big one that we know of. He 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:07.159 took another one to like Moscow and another. But the 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:09.919 other thing that that see, he seems to have been 0:24:09.920 --> 0:24:13.040 doing a lot is basically like he like just uses 0:24:13.160 --> 0:24:19.640 Harlan Crowe's private jet as like his own jet. Republica 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:23.639 calculated that like one, just like one flight that he 0:24:23.760 --> 0:24:27.760 took in twenty sixteen would have cost seventy thousand dollars, 0:24:27.760 --> 0:24:29.880 which is more than I make in a fucking year. 0:24:30.359 --> 0:24:32.520 Yeah, why why why did that cost so much? 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:37.480 It's really expensive to to lease those kind of like 0:24:37.520 --> 0:24:39.080 that specific kind of private jet. 0:24:39.640 --> 0:24:42.200 Oh yeah, okay, if it's for a whole private jet, 0:24:42.240 --> 0:24:45.159 that makes sense, Yeah, I say, slightly, wouldn't lease a 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:47.159 whole private jet, but I'm just built different. 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:51.359 Well, Claras Thomas has built even more different because instead 0:24:51.359 --> 0:24:53.040 of leasing it, he just has a friend who has 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:55.719 the jet who just lets him take this Like like 0:24:56.560 --> 0:24:58.520 one of the Republican was doings. They were just tracking 0:24:58.600 --> 0:25:01.919 the jet and they they could match the jet showing 0:25:02.000 --> 0:25:04.240 up to the airport where Clarence Thomas was gonna be 0:25:04.359 --> 0:25:07.199 and then and the jet would mysteriously then appear in 0:25:07.240 --> 0:25:12.280 a location where Clarence Thomas appeared, and it was like hmm, 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:15.280 and and this onother thing we should specifically know. So Okay, 0:25:15.280 --> 0:25:17.720 the the reason the Supreme Court has to do any 0:25:17.720 --> 0:25:19.359 of this at all is that the stream is that 0:25:19.440 --> 0:25:23.480 like someone finally had a good idea right after Watergate 0:25:23.600 --> 0:25:25.800 that was, like we should actually make everyone in the 0:25:25.800 --> 0:25:30.200 government disclose their gifts and this and this law actually 0:25:30.600 --> 0:25:32.560 like included the stream Court, although I feel like it 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:35.240 won't in like two years when they strike that law 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:38.240 down or some shit. But you know, but again, like 0:25:38.520 --> 0:25:41.680 one of the things fit like specifically in this law 0:25:41.800 --> 0:25:43.320 is if you take a private jet, you have to 0:25:43.359 --> 0:25:47.560 report it. And Thomas has been just like jetting around 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:53.119 in this fucking jet for like a like many like 0:25:53.200 --> 0:25:57.520 at least like at least seven years that we know of, 0:25:57.720 --> 0:26:02.240 and has never reported it. So let's sure. 0:26:02.400 --> 0:26:04.399 I'm sure the FBI is going to be busting down 0:26:04.480 --> 0:26:05.800 his doors any day now. 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:08.560 Oh yeah, and again like let let less you less 0:26:08.600 --> 0:26:10.960 you think we've reached the end of the Claire's Thomas corruption. 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:15.240 Crow also like, okay, so you know how Claire's Thomas's 0:26:15.280 --> 0:26:17.800 wife is like a qan on person yeh, tried to 0:26:17.800 --> 0:26:22.280 overstow the government. Yes, so she has like a she 0:26:22.320 --> 0:26:26.360 has like a like a it's like a basically bullshit 0:26:26.480 --> 0:26:30.520 like political lobbying group. But it's like so it's a 0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:32.720 lobbying group, but like the actual thing that it does 0:26:32.800 --> 0:26:35.359 is reverse lobbying, which is you can go to the 0:26:35.440 --> 0:26:38.240 lobbying group and use it for like to get access 0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:45.800 to Clarence Thomas. And that group funded God, I didn't 0:26:45.800 --> 0:26:48.240 write down the number of mount but like that group 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:52.399 got like two hundred thousand dollars that again his wife 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:55.720 works for, got like two hundred thousand dollars from Crow. 0:26:56.920 --> 0:26:58.360 There was another story. 0:26:58.080 --> 0:27:00.959 That which which just now, I no lawyer, these are 0:27:01.000 --> 0:27:03.880 not actual, these these are these claims have no basis. 0:27:03.880 --> 0:27:07.840 This is just an uneducated opinion. But to me, if 0:27:07.840 --> 0:27:10.399 I saw this in a movie, I would call this 0:27:10.480 --> 0:27:11.320 money laundering. 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:17.879 Oh yeah, like oh god, okay, so Lily, just let 0:27:17.920 --> 0:27:20.080 me just go to the next one, because there's fucking more. 0:27:20.320 --> 0:27:27.439 There's more, Like so all right. Clarence Thomas has like 0:27:27.480 --> 0:27:31.119 a grandnephew that he like adopted as his son. Basically, 0:27:32.040 --> 0:27:34.800 like he like went to the family of this kid. 0:27:34.920 --> 0:27:36.840 It was like, I can give this kid everything in 0:27:36.880 --> 0:27:38.520 the world, so you should like give him to me. 0:27:38.920 --> 0:27:40.320 I'm sure this is all above board. 0:27:40.880 --> 0:27:43.320 I I don't know. 0:27:43.800 --> 0:27:46.840 This is uh what about this man has proved to 0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:49.360 you that he's untrustworthy? What do you mean? 0:27:50.440 --> 0:27:50.680 Okay? 0:27:50.800 --> 0:27:51.080 To me? 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:54.840 Fair Clarence Thomas makes the argument that like he did 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:57.040 this because like he was abandoned by his father as 0:27:57.040 --> 0:27:58.800 a kid and was raised by his grandfather, and so 0:27:58.880 --> 0:28:00.520 he was like, Okay, I'm gonna raise this kid like 0:28:00.600 --> 0:28:03.960 I'm gonna steal the better life. His parents need to 0:28:03.960 --> 0:28:07.240 have a gride to I don't know, I you you 0:28:07.240 --> 0:28:09.359 you can you can read into that the level of 0:28:09.400 --> 0:28:12.080 sketchiness that you want to The part that I'm gonna 0:28:12.080 --> 0:28:14.199 I want to talk about is that this kid. Okay, 0:28:14.240 --> 0:28:17.800 So a thing, a thing that I didn't understand until 0:28:17.800 --> 0:28:21.879 I got to like college, is that like okay, So 0:28:21.960 --> 0:28:25.640 like I knew intellectually that private schools existed, I did 0:28:25.640 --> 0:28:28.960 not understand that private schools there are like like there's 0:28:28.960 --> 0:28:33.240 like because I was used to like like Christian private schools, right, yeah, yeah, 0:28:33.600 --> 0:28:37.720 I did not, like I didn't like get how rich 0:28:37.880 --> 0:28:43.040 people could be, and I didn't understand that that they were. 0:28:43.160 --> 0:28:46.120 Like I like walk in there and there's like nine 0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:48.440 kids who all speak Latin, and every single one of 0:28:48.480 --> 0:28:51.440 them went to a private school that was like fifty 0:28:51.520 --> 0:28:54.640 at least fifty like somewhere between fifteen one hundred thousand 0:28:54.640 --> 0:28:59.160 dollars a quarter. Yeah, it is like what the fuck? 0:28:59.600 --> 0:29:05.160 What the ship? So claras Thomas isn't so his the 0:29:05.200 --> 0:29:10.920 schools he's going to aren't quite that expensive, but the kid, 0:29:10.960 --> 0:29:16.719 the ones he sends this this kid to, So for 0:29:16.800 --> 0:29:20.080 two years, the estimate is that it was one hundred 0:29:20.080 --> 0:29:24.240 and fifty thousand dollars per year. That was for two years, 0:29:24.240 --> 0:29:27.000 So seventy five dollars a year, which again more than 0:29:27.040 --> 0:29:27.640 I make it a year. 0:29:27.720 --> 0:29:29.600 That's reasonable, that's fine, that's fine. 0:29:29.800 --> 0:29:33.440 That is more that is more than like that that 0:29:33.560 --> 0:29:36.920 is more expensive than my fucking college. That is more expensive, 0:29:37.000 --> 0:29:38.680 Like I I like that. 0:29:39.040 --> 0:29:42.720 It is it is a ludicrous amount money. And guess 0:29:42.760 --> 0:29:52.760 who paid that. I'm guessing Harlan Kruw just why, I 0:29:52.800 --> 0:29:54.320 don't know. It's gonna just gonna pick it, just gonna 0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:56.200 pack like a random name off the top of my head, 0:30:00.240 --> 0:30:06.120 this Hitler's number one fan, harding crowded. It's so amazing 0:30:06.160 --> 0:30:08.560 because like again, all of these people have this. Like 0:30:08.600 --> 0:30:13.640 every single like conservative like every conservative journalist, like every 0:30:13.680 --> 0:30:16.800 conservative judge and every conservative politician, are they all have 0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:17.920 one of these guys? 0:30:18.120 --> 0:30:20.800 Yeah, well it's this guy. This is the guy and 0:30:20.840 --> 0:30:23.000 so and every so like everything. 0:30:23.400 --> 0:30:26.240 Like the Koch Brothers fund a whole bunch of like 0:30:26.280 --> 0:30:31.040 content creators. But every almost every big like right wing 0:30:31.120 --> 0:30:34.640 dude has one of these guys, which is totally unfair 0:30:34.800 --> 0:30:38.000 because the entire left has to share one of these guys. 0:30:38.280 --> 0:30:41.040 We only get one, and he has to fund everything 0:30:41.040 --> 0:30:43.600 on the left. Meanwhile, the right has like has like 0:30:43.640 --> 0:30:46.920 a dime a dozen of these you know, like. 0:30:47.160 --> 0:30:50.600 Like legitimately, like like this was actually legitimately the thing 0:30:50.640 --> 0:30:52.320 that caused Soros to get into politics. You looked at 0:30:52.400 --> 0:30:54.000 us and he was like, what the fuck is going on? 0:30:54.440 --> 0:30:58.480 Like this is insane? Like why what what do you mean? 0:30:58.680 --> 0:31:02.360 Like the American enterprise that you just like creates Supreme 0:31:02.400 --> 0:31:04.840 Court justice like what? And you know, but like so, 0:31:05.040 --> 0:31:07.560 But the funniest part about this is, again, whenever any 0:31:07.600 --> 0:31:11.120 of these pieces come out, like every single conservative like 0:31:11.240 --> 0:31:14.400 pundits like in Unison and like like all of their 0:31:14.440 --> 0:31:17.320 fucking newspapers, all of their magazines, they're all funded by 0:31:17.360 --> 0:31:20.040 these people, so they all like publish like identical things 0:31:20.080 --> 0:31:23.520 going like how dare you criticize like the noble friendship 0:31:23.640 --> 0:31:27.120 of hard of this billionaire and the Supreme Court justice 0:31:27.560 --> 0:31:30.720 or just pals. They're just extending hospitality like you would 0:31:30.800 --> 0:31:33.480 to any other friend by taking them on a half 0:31:33.480 --> 0:31:39.480 a million dollar cruise around on your yacht. It's it's 0:31:39.600 --> 0:31:46.360 it's it's like incredible stuff. All right, we should do 0:31:46.800 --> 0:31:48.800 we should, we should we should do one more ads 0:31:49.120 --> 0:31:53.480 because you know who's so these are advertisements that we 0:31:53.520 --> 0:31:55.920 are being paid to promote. 0:31:56.360 --> 0:31:59.600 These are not our personal opinions, these are these are 0:31:59.720 --> 0:32:03.960 as there. I followed the SEC guidelines. Here's the fucking ads, 0:32:15.080 --> 0:32:18.560 and we're back totally totally not gonna get in trouble 0:32:18.600 --> 0:32:19.080 for that one. 0:32:19.400 --> 0:32:21.720 Let let lest you think, and I kind of emphasize 0:32:21.760 --> 0:32:23.920 this enough. This is something that was like when these 0:32:23.960 --> 0:32:27.480 stories first started coming out, the way it was framed 0:32:27.680 --> 0:32:31.200 was like, like, Clarence Thomas is like a uniquely corrupt 0:32:31.440 --> 0:32:35.959 Supreme Court justice. And then people did literally any digging, 0:32:36.040 --> 0:32:38.160 and it turns out that Clarence Thomas is not a 0:32:38.240 --> 0:32:41.440 uniquely corrupt Supreme Court like all of the like Supreme 0:32:41.440 --> 0:32:44.240 Court legal justice like experts were like, this is like 0:32:44.280 --> 0:32:46.080 a unique situation the history of the court. And then 0:32:46.120 --> 0:32:51.560 like like literally two months later, so Samuel Alito, who 0:32:51.600 --> 0:32:55.720 is a Supreme Court justice I in and this is in. 0:32:55.760 --> 0:32:58.360 This is two thousand and seven, appears on a a 0:32:58.520 --> 0:33:03.720 two hundred thousand dollar fishing trip in Alaska with billionaire 0:33:03.760 --> 0:33:07.200 hedge fund manager Paul Singer, who is Singer is like 0:33:07.240 --> 0:33:09.240 one of the most like Okay, as much as I 0:33:09.280 --> 0:33:12.080 don't like Harlan curowe like Singer is like one of 0:33:12.120 --> 0:33:15.680 the most evil people who's ever lived. Do you know 0:33:15.720 --> 0:33:16.400 who Singer is? 0:33:17.440 --> 0:33:20.960 No, but I'm sure this opinion is is Singers same 0:33:21.000 --> 0:33:22.680 opinion as all of our advertisers. 0:33:22.840 --> 0:33:25.240 Probably our advertisers probably don't like him. It would not 0:33:25.240 --> 0:33:29.840 surprise me. So Singer is just like incredibly unbelievably relentlessly 0:33:29.880 --> 0:33:33.960 aggressive like hedge fund guy, and his thing is he 0:33:34.080 --> 0:33:38.000 like goes into companies and like like makes really embarrassing 0:33:38.080 --> 0:33:41.680 like slideshows about their CEOs and then like deposes them 0:33:41.680 --> 0:33:43.160 and then takes them over and the trip's on for 0:33:43.160 --> 0:33:45.360 assets and sells them all. So that's like the one 0:33:45.440 --> 0:33:47.440 that's like one thing that he does. The other thing 0:33:47.440 --> 0:33:50.200 that he's cool, Well yeah, I mean it sucks because 0:33:50.400 --> 0:33:52.600 like every single person who would work they lose their drop. 0:33:52.640 --> 0:33:54.600 But this is that's the less bad thing that he does, 0:33:54.680 --> 0:33:56.480 right Like like this this is what I'm talking like, 0:33:56.480 --> 0:33:57.960 this is like legitimately one of the worst people in 0:33:58.000 --> 0:34:02.040 the world. Like for like any like Mitt Romney, right 0:34:02.400 --> 0:34:05.080 like that was the worst shit that he ever did. 0:34:05.760 --> 0:34:08.200 Was was like just destroying a bunch of people's lives 0:34:08.200 --> 0:34:11.520 by like annihilating these companies. For Singer, that's that's like 0:34:11.560 --> 0:34:13.440 the fuck, that's the bullshit stuff like that, that's like 0:34:13.480 --> 0:34:17.880 that's the fucking brush league shit. Singer's actual game is 0:34:19.800 --> 0:34:22.840 so one of the things that happens over the course 0:34:22.960 --> 0:34:25.800 of the seventies and eighties is you get a bunch 0:34:25.840 --> 0:34:28.879 of uh I've talked about this at length of many 0:34:28.920 --> 0:34:31.200 liberalist and episodes, but you get a bunch of these 0:34:31.200 --> 0:34:35.440 economies that basically like across the Global South, that just implode. 0:34:35.520 --> 0:34:38.800 And they implode because there's this combination of like commodity 0:34:38.880 --> 0:34:41.520 prices drop, and then they have all these adjustable rate 0:34:41.719 --> 0:34:44.640 like loans that they're taken out, and when Paul Volker 0:34:44.680 --> 0:34:47.640 hot like hikes interest rates, all of these like loans 0:34:47.640 --> 0:34:49.920 suddenly have like twenty percent interest. And so you have 0:34:50.000 --> 0:34:51.960 all these economies all over the world that just fucking 0:34:52.000 --> 0:34:54.920 are imploding because they suddenly have this like unbelievable that 0:34:54.960 --> 0:34:58.640 they can't pay off. And so over the course of 0:34:58.680 --> 0:35:02.080 the nineties, this kind of like like anti IMF revolts starts, 0:35:02.800 --> 0:35:05.600 and I have the International Monetary Fund are the people 0:35:05.920 --> 0:35:08.800 who you're borrowing money from who also destroy your economy 0:35:08.840 --> 0:35:12.640 to like you know, like pay the IMF back the money. 0:35:13.400 --> 0:35:15.959 By the time you get into like the two thousands, 0:35:16.440 --> 0:35:19.040 it's gotten less bad. Well, I guess bad again, tails Nate. 0:35:19.120 --> 0:35:21.799 But there had been this process of debt restructuring where 0:35:21.800 --> 0:35:24.080 these countries were allowed to like only pay like a 0:35:24.120 --> 0:35:26.360 small percentage of the debt because they just literally couldn't 0:35:26.360 --> 0:35:28.400 pay it because their economies have been destroyed. Or and 0:35:28.440 --> 0:35:31.920 this is another very common thing. You get a country 0:35:31.920 --> 0:35:33.600 where like a bunch of loans were taken out by 0:35:33.640 --> 0:35:37.280 like a dictator and he would just like buy plans 0:35:37.360 --> 0:35:40.799 with them and then he get deposed. But you know, 0:35:40.840 --> 0:35:43.200 the IMF and like the World Bank was still hold 0:35:43.239 --> 0:35:44.960 them liable for the loans, and it's like, well, okay, 0:35:44.960 --> 0:35:48.520 like that's like the money's gone right, Like it's in 0:35:48.640 --> 0:35:51.359 like a bunch of gold bars. This guy like drove 0:35:51.400 --> 0:35:58.680 across the border when he like fled Singer. Singer is 0:35:58.719 --> 0:36:01.120 like the last guy who league goes in for like 0:36:01.160 --> 0:36:03.840 to buy this debt and the result is this, So 0:36:03.840 --> 0:36:05.600 for example, like he buys a bunch of the debt 0:36:05.640 --> 0:36:09.120 of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the result 0:36:09.120 --> 0:36:11.400 of this is that he turns like the entire Congoese 0:36:11.480 --> 0:36:15.080 economy into this debt servicing machine. We're like just like 0:36:15.160 --> 0:36:17.440 every like there's they're like they're they're there's they're stripping 0:36:17.440 --> 0:36:19.200 the copper wires out of the buildings in order to 0:36:19.280 --> 0:36:25.239 like fucking pay for or metaphorically. So metaphorically they are 0:36:25.239 --> 0:36:27.640 stripping the copper wires to pay this debt off. Uh, 0:36:27.880 --> 0:36:30.840 not metaphorically, they are taking food from the mouths of babies, 0:36:31.160 --> 0:36:33.239 because the way this stuff is paid for is they 0:36:33.239 --> 0:36:35.120 cut a bunch of government assistance programs and they're like, 0:36:35.120 --> 0:36:38.400 you know, they don't build fucking hospitals, they don't staff hospitals, 0:36:39.080 --> 0:36:41.239 and so like a lot, like he has killed a 0:36:41.360 --> 0:36:47.040 lot of people, and his his most famous version of 0:36:47.080 --> 0:36:51.120 this was this battle that he waged against Argentina. So 0:36:51.280 --> 0:36:54.319 in two thousand and one, there is this massive like 0:36:55.239 --> 0:37:00.000 basically like the the last twentieth century, like the last 0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:03.520 twentieth century, communist revolution happens in Argentina in two thousand 0:37:03.520 --> 0:37:07.719 and one, and they lose, but it's they they lose 0:37:08.080 --> 0:37:12.319 like pretty it like only pretty narrowly doesn't work, Like 0:37:12.680 --> 0:37:14.560 there is a there is a timeline that is not 0:37:14.760 --> 0:37:18.120 that different from this one where like like a bunch 0:37:18.160 --> 0:37:21.840 of anarchists basically have taking control of Argentina, and the 0:37:21.880 --> 0:37:25.920 result of this is that Argentina defaults on its debt. 0:37:26.600 --> 0:37:28.120 And you know, they default in this debt, so they 0:37:28.200 --> 0:37:31.000 enter this restructuring program and all of the rest of 0:37:31.040 --> 0:37:34.520 the like people who are like holding this debt are like, okay, well, 0:37:34.600 --> 0:37:37.839 in order to let the Argentina economy recover and get 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:40.839 like some of this money back, we'll just like let like, okay, well, 0:37:40.920 --> 0:37:43.600 we'll like write off most of our debt. But Singer 0:37:43.719 --> 0:37:45.480 like looks at this and is like, oh shit, I'm 0:37:45.480 --> 0:37:47.520 just gonna buy all this debt that I know is 0:37:47.640 --> 0:37:50.960 junk and can't be repaid, and then I'm gonna go 0:37:51.000 --> 0:37:53.399 to the courts in the US and like just force 0:37:53.560 --> 0:37:58.360 Argentina to repay it. Now, this is not how debt 0:37:58.400 --> 0:38:01.120 is supposed to work. Right. Thing about debt, right, and 0:38:01.200 --> 0:38:03.759 think about like lending someone money or you know, this 0:38:03.800 --> 0:38:06.360 is what essentially what buying someone's debt is. Right. The 0:38:06.440 --> 0:38:08.799 thing about that, right is if the person can't pay 0:38:08.840 --> 0:38:11.360 you back you're supposed to, you're out of the money, 0:38:11.680 --> 0:38:14.440 right like that That's that's that's you know, this is 0:38:14.480 --> 0:38:16.840 this is the theoretical economic justification for why you can 0:38:16.960 --> 0:38:21.919 charge interest because there's risk. But what Singer figured out 0:38:22.040 --> 0:38:24.760 is that you could just use the US court system 0:38:25.040 --> 0:38:27.040 and you know the threat of the the the implicit 0:38:27.120 --> 0:38:29.680 and explicit threat of the US military to just like 0:38:29.800 --> 0:38:32.160 force people to pay you whether they have money or not. 0:38:34.200 --> 0:38:35.680 And so and this is what so, this is what 0:38:35.719 --> 0:38:37.640 he does. He's he's like the one he's the one 0:38:37.680 --> 0:38:40.520 creditor because he buys like an enormous amount of this 0:38:40.640 --> 0:38:44.800 debt and he's the one creditor who refuses to negotiate. 0:38:44.800 --> 0:38:47.800 And so he like starts running around the US trying 0:38:47.800 --> 0:38:50.919 to like steal Argentinian assets, Like he tries to have 0:38:51.040 --> 0:38:55.960 like Argentina's Central bank reserves seized. There's other like the 0:38:56.000 --> 0:38:59.160 most famous incidence, he tries to steal an Argentinian worship 0:39:00.120 --> 0:39:03.799 in order to pay down the debt. There's another one 0:39:03.840 --> 0:39:05.720 where like he tries to like he tries to steal 0:39:05.840 --> 0:39:10.440 Argentina's entire pension fund. And this causes this like series 0:39:10.760 --> 0:39:14.359 of of like lawsuits that sort of like run their 0:39:14.360 --> 0:39:18.480 way through the courts. And in twenty fourteen, one of 0:39:18.520 --> 0:39:21.839 these cases finally makes it to this reviewing court. And 0:39:22.160 --> 0:39:25.240 this is where Singer's two hundred thousand dollars Alaskan fishing 0:39:25.239 --> 0:39:29.319 trip pays off because Samuel Alito rules that Argentina has 0:39:29.320 --> 0:39:32.960 to play Singer two point four billion dollars, and eventually 0:39:33.000 --> 0:39:38.000 they do so Alito like like he's also he also 0:39:38.040 --> 0:39:40.880 has another guy who just like pays for his vacations, 0:39:41.680 --> 0:39:45.160 who's the uh I don't know if I want to 0:39:45.160 --> 0:39:49.279 say incredibly named or disturbingly named, but this guy's name 0:39:49.440 --> 0:39:55.200 is Robin Arkley, the second Wait, Robin Robin Arkley the 0:39:55.320 --> 0:39:59.040 second second God Okay, Yeah, and he's a also like 0:39:59.080 --> 0:40:02.400 a genuinely terror person, like these are these are all 0:40:02.880 --> 0:40:06.920 like you read Hitchhickers. Have you read Hitchhiker's Guide to 0:40:06.920 --> 0:40:07.440 the Galaxy? 0:40:07.960 --> 0:40:08.360 No? 0:40:09.080 --> 0:40:12.600 Okay, So my favorite bit from that is there's a 0:40:12.600 --> 0:40:15.560 bit where like the encyclopedia from the Foundation series, like 0:40:15.600 --> 0:40:18.319 from the Future, like falls down and it falls open 0:40:18.360 --> 0:40:20.640 onto a page and someone had just made a joke 0:40:20.680 --> 0:40:22.240 about how these people are gonna be the first against 0:40:22.239 --> 0:40:24.239 the wall when the revolution comes. And the Encyclopedia for 0:40:24.320 --> 0:40:26.480 the Future drops down and they open it and it 0:40:26.480 --> 0:40:28.160 says that these two people were first against the wall 0:40:28.200 --> 0:40:31.520 when the revolution came. And that's like all of these people, 0:40:31.600 --> 0:40:33.840 these are like the worst people in the fucking world 0:40:34.160 --> 0:40:39.960 or like in the US. So this guy Arcley makes 0:40:40.000 --> 0:40:43.640 his fortune like buying distressed mortgages and then for closing 0:40:43.640 --> 0:40:46.880 on people's houses and flipping them, so he. 0:40:46.800 --> 0:40:50.120 Is seems like a valuable contributor to the detail, like 0:40:50.320 --> 0:40:51.359 I you. 0:40:51.320 --> 0:40:53.640 Know, I mean this is like this is literally like 0:40:53.719 --> 0:40:56.520 literally one of the old like crime think jokes was 0:40:56.719 --> 0:40:59.560 when the bank seizes your house, the GDP GDP goes up. 0:41:00.520 --> 0:41:02.480 Like that's literally this guy, this, this is the guy 0:41:02.520 --> 0:41:04.400 who makes the GDP go up by seizing it, by 0:41:04.400 --> 0:41:09.719 stealing your house. And so this guy takes Alito on 0:41:09.760 --> 0:41:15.160 a bunch of trips. So when when Republica like reaches 0:41:15.239 --> 0:41:19.759 out to Aledo about this, he gets so mad that 0:41:20.600 --> 0:41:26.080 she the Wall Street Journal editorial board allows him to 0:41:26.280 --> 0:41:29.520 publish a like an op ed that is just him 0:41:29.640 --> 0:41:31.839 yelling about how this article that hasn't come out yet 0:41:31.920 --> 0:41:35.839 is fake. And one of the specific things that he's 0:41:35.880 --> 0:41:37.960 really mad about is part of this article is talking 0:41:38.000 --> 0:41:41.759 about how the wine at this met at this like 0:41:41.920 --> 0:41:44.040 lodge that he's staying at that's being paid for by 0:41:44.440 --> 0:41:47.080 by the fucking mortgage slipper guy has a thousand dollars 0:41:47.120 --> 0:41:50.160 a bottle wine, and Clarience Tyer was just like, no, 0:41:50.280 --> 0:41:52.680 the wine is not was not a thousand dollars a bottle. 0:41:52.719 --> 0:41:55.040 You can check the website, and then Republica was like, well, yeah, 0:41:55.040 --> 0:41:58.960 but that's because the lodge, like the quality of the 0:41:59.000 --> 0:42:03.080 lodge was downgrade after Alito had like one of the 0:42:03.200 --> 0:42:07.319 like just just just a truly incredible meltdown that he 0:42:07.400 --> 0:42:10.360 was just allowed to have in the op ed section 0:42:10.719 --> 0:42:13.880 of the Wall Street Journal in like in response, not 0:42:13.960 --> 0:42:17.920 even in response, like before this article came out. And 0:42:17.960 --> 0:42:19.799 the other thing that we learned from this is that 0:42:19.880 --> 0:42:26.440 also apparently former Justice Antonin Scalia also was taking trips 0:42:26.480 --> 0:42:28.759 from this guy. So this is just like every conservative 0:42:29.400 --> 0:42:33.440 like justice in the last like twenty years has just 0:42:33.480 --> 0:42:36.800 been doing this. They've just been getting like flown around 0:42:36.880 --> 0:42:40.120 the world on fancy vacations by their billionaire friends. Well, 0:42:40.200 --> 0:42:42.200 I don't actually know if I actually might merely be 0:42:42.239 --> 0:42:44.440 a millionaire. I'm not toither sure, but he may might 0:42:44.440 --> 0:42:45.480 be a billionaire. I don't know. 0:42:45.640 --> 0:42:50.080 The other two definitely are wait millionaire a billionaire because 0:42:50.160 --> 0:42:52.840 those are two very difficult Okay, I I. 0:42:53.120 --> 0:42:54.880 Han let me let me, let me, let me google. 0:42:55.000 --> 0:42:58.399 Is this is this guy a billionaire? Yeah, Arkley doesn't 0:42:58.440 --> 0:43:03.799 seem to be a billionaire. He'd seems to merely be Well, no, 0:43:03.920 --> 0:43:06.920 I've seen other places that he is a billionaire. I 0:43:06.920 --> 0:43:09.480 don't know. There's some dispute at the guy there's like 0:43:09.560 --> 0:43:12.920 dispute over what's his net worth? Oh, we don't know, 0:43:13.480 --> 0:43:16.600 it's unclear. What does there's there's dispute over. 0:43:16.400 --> 0:43:19.720 It dispute disputed net. 0:43:19.560 --> 0:43:23.840 Worth, yeah, unclear. The other two guys definitely billionaires. This 0:43:23.880 --> 0:43:28.600 guy maybe a billionaire unclear. But like, literally like all 0:43:28.640 --> 0:43:30.759 of these literally all these jestices have just been like 0:43:31.280 --> 0:43:34.000 taking just like and again, any other thing I forgot 0:43:34.040 --> 0:43:35.520 to mention that I should have mentioned is that like 0:43:35.560 --> 0:43:37.640 all of these people have had cases appear before the 0:43:37.640 --> 0:43:43.040 Streme Court, hmm, curiously. And then this is another amazing thing. 0:43:43.320 --> 0:43:45.360 This is the thing that came up like really prominently 0:43:45.400 --> 0:43:48.400 when there was a case that you know, there was 0:43:48.440 --> 0:43:50.400 a case about the attempt to like overthrow the government 0:43:50.400 --> 0:43:53.520 in twenty twenty or in twenty one that like well 0:43:53.520 --> 0:43:55.719 in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one that Thomas like 0:43:55.800 --> 0:43:58.560 objectively should have recused himself from because his wife tried 0:43:58.560 --> 0:44:01.040 to overthrow the government and he's didn't. And this and 0:44:01.080 --> 0:44:03.000 this is a this is a really important thing, which 0:44:03.000 --> 0:44:06.560 is that Supreme Court justices it's like your fucking daughter 0:44:07.360 --> 0:44:09.560 like could be one of the plaintiffs in a case, 0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:13.480 and you don't have to recuse yourself. Is recusing yourself 0:44:13.520 --> 0:44:17.760 is completely voluntary, m which is not how this works 0:44:17.760 --> 0:44:21.120 for fucking anything else. Right, But again, the Supreme Court 0:44:21.200 --> 0:44:23.160 is not like it's not actually a court. It's just 0:44:23.160 --> 0:44:25.880 like a fucking it's just this like weird dictatorial tribunal 0:44:26.320 --> 0:44:31.600 that is subject to like absolutely no authority whatsoever. And Okay, 0:44:31.600 --> 0:44:33.719 So it also turns out that there's like there's like 0:44:34.000 --> 0:44:37.880 yet another layer of fuckery with this, which is that 0:44:38.600 --> 0:44:42.800 universities use Supreme Court used Supreme Court justices to solicit 0:44:42.840 --> 0:44:45.719 donations by like so, so they'll they'll have like a 0:44:45.800 --> 0:44:48.279 don invite a justice to like give a talk at 0:44:48.320 --> 0:44:50.160 the university, and they'll pay them a bunch of money, 0:44:50.640 --> 0:44:54.200 and then they'll they'll have them like go to a dinner, 0:44:54.719 --> 0:44:56.879 and then they'll advertise to all their donors like, hey, 0:44:56.880 --> 0:44:58.239 if you give us a bunch of money, you can 0:44:58.280 --> 0:45:00.440 go to this dinner with Supreme Court justice. And so 0:45:00.600 --> 0:45:02.879 a bunch of like like a bunch of people who 0:45:02.880 --> 0:45:04.839 have cases in front of the Supreme Court like use 0:45:04.920 --> 0:45:06.439 this to go get access to a bunch of Streme 0:45:06.440 --> 0:45:11.000 Court justices. So it's great. Uh, this is this is 0:45:11.040 --> 0:45:14.040 really fun. Uh Oh did I did I do the 0:45:14.160 --> 0:45:18.000 Venmo thing? No, it's not the Venmo thing. Okay, okay, 0:45:18.080 --> 0:45:21.520 here's the Veno thing. So two days after I started, 0:45:21.560 --> 0:45:24.080 like like two days ago, like from the time of writing, 0:45:24.080 --> 0:45:25.880 this will be like like this will actually be like 0:45:26.000 --> 0:45:29.920 almost exactly. Wow, It'll be like almost a week from 0:45:30.000 --> 0:45:33.480 when when this comes out. Uh. There was another thing 0:45:33.560 --> 0:45:35.600 of this that came out, which is that a bunch 0:45:35.640 --> 0:45:38.520 of lawyers had just been sending money on Venmo to 0:45:39.160 --> 0:45:47.840 one of Claren's Thomas's aids. And these okay, like the 0:45:47.239 --> 0:45:50.000 the these these are like these are not just people 0:45:50.040 --> 0:45:52.279 who have like active cases. These are like like one 0:45:52.320 --> 0:45:56.080 of the guys who venmoed h Thomas's aid is the 0:45:56.120 --> 0:46:00.440 guy who won the affirmative action case. And another one 0:46:00.440 --> 0:46:01.960 of the one of the other lawyers who ven met 0:46:02.000 --> 0:46:04.279 him is the guy who I don't know if you 0:46:04.280 --> 0:46:07.399 remember this, like like in like the last like term 0:46:07.440 --> 0:46:10.840 of the court, there was a case where the Supreme 0:46:10.880 --> 0:46:14.200 Court like fucked the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gases, 0:46:14.760 --> 0:46:18.080 so that lawyer also paid a bunch of money on Venmo. 0:46:19.040 --> 0:46:24.960 Clarence Thomas's aid. So this is this is the level 0:46:25.000 --> 0:46:27.640 though of corruption that we're working at, right, which is 0:46:27.680 --> 0:46:31.840 like people sending public Venmo transactions to the aids of 0:46:31.880 --> 0:46:35.319 Supreme Court justices who's about who are about to hear 0:46:35.360 --> 0:46:43.920 their cases. Uh, that's so good. Now. The reason this 0:46:43.960 --> 0:46:45.879 is happening that the right has built like just an 0:46:45.880 --> 0:46:50.560 extensive and incredibly extensive network to seize control of the judiciary. Uh. 0:46:50.960 --> 0:46:54.200 Liberals have produced no such network because they're fucking hacks 0:46:54.239 --> 0:46:55.680 and this and this is not it's not just the 0:46:55.719 --> 0:46:58.319 sort of like there's only one like liberal billionaire, Like, no, 0:46:58.360 --> 0:47:01.120 there are liberal billionaires. The actual a real problem with 0:47:01.120 --> 0:47:03.239 a liberal attempt to like take control of the judiciary 0:47:03.360 --> 0:47:07.520 is that like liberal like liberal lawyers are hacks instead 0:47:07.560 --> 0:47:12.440 of actually like trying to hold on to like judicial positions, right, 0:47:12.480 --> 0:47:13.920 and you know, to have to like move their way 0:47:13.960 --> 0:47:16.160 up through like circuit courts in order to like like 0:47:16.239 --> 0:47:20.320 seize control of like large, like increasingly large portions of 0:47:20.320 --> 0:47:22.719 of the court system, which is the Republicans did. Uh, 0:47:23.120 --> 0:47:27.560 the Democratic lawyers, they'll they'll get like like they they 0:47:27.800 --> 0:47:30.080 do the even lazier corruption, which is like they'll just 0:47:30.120 --> 0:47:31.759 they'll be a judge for like three years, and then 0:47:31.760 --> 0:47:33.680 they'll just leave the private practice because they're all just 0:47:33.719 --> 0:47:36.520 fucking greedy shits. And you know, the result of this 0:47:36.640 --> 0:47:39.319 is that all these like fucking liberal lawyers, uh, you know, 0:47:39.360 --> 0:47:41.239 they go into private practice and make a quick buck 0:47:41.239 --> 0:47:42.800 and they leave us to fucking burn a death in 0:47:42.800 --> 0:47:44.600 the smolder and keep while they spend their vacations in 0:47:44.680 --> 0:47:49.640 Bali and you know, and and again. So the only 0:47:49.719 --> 0:47:53.279 the only thing that like could conceivably slow down the 0:47:53.320 --> 0:47:56.440 Supreme Court is the fact that like, technically speaking, although 0:47:56.480 --> 0:47:59.880 it's never actually gone through, it is possible for like 0:48:00.400 --> 0:48:05.240 Congress to impeach Supreme Court justice. But the Democrats don't 0:48:05.400 --> 0:48:07.320 want to do that because. 0:48:08.600 --> 0:48:10.920 Because then the right we'll be able to impeach all 0:48:10.960 --> 0:48:12.840 of the liberals Court justice. 0:48:13.280 --> 0:48:16.160 No, it's worse than that. There the actual Biden's actual 0:48:16.160 --> 0:48:17.520 state of reason for why he didn't want to do 0:48:17.560 --> 0:48:20.359 it is because it would undermine the legitimacy of the court. 0:48:22.960 --> 0:48:24.560 And you know, and the result of this is that, 0:48:24.680 --> 0:48:27.200 like for all their they're fucking screaming about lawlessness and 0:48:27.320 --> 0:48:30.040 rising crime rates, the fucking biggest criminals in the entire 0:48:30.080 --> 0:48:33.640 goddamn country are just literally sitting in their stupid ass 0:48:33.760 --> 0:48:36.480 robes taking the biggest bribes in the history of the 0:48:36.520 --> 0:48:39.160 fucking Republic. And the Democrats are just like, well, if 0:48:39.160 --> 0:48:41.799 we do anything, it'll undermine the faith in our institutions. 0:48:42.680 --> 0:48:47.560 So I gad fuck them. But also like, we don't 0:48:47.560 --> 0:48:50.279 fucking need these people like you could, Like you could, 0:48:50.320 --> 0:48:52.640 you can fit all of these people in one submarine 0:48:53.320 --> 0:48:54.839 and we could just be fucking dumb with it. 0:48:55.040 --> 0:48:56.760 And then we get a whole bunch of new Supreme 0:48:56.800 --> 0:48:59.719 Court justices picked by Joe Biden, and they would save America. 0:49:00.480 --> 0:49:02.480 So that's why we need to vote for Joe Biden 0:49:02.560 --> 0:49:05.919 twenty twenty four. Save America. Yeah, yeah, this is thanks 0:49:05.960 --> 0:49:11.360 for the submarine. This is the submarine plot. It'll go great. 0:49:11.600 --> 0:49:15.839 We have to mandated submarine vacations for all Supreme courtousice. 0:49:15.960 --> 0:49:19.200 The submarine is now the only vehicle you're allowed to 0:49:19.239 --> 0:49:22.919 travel on Supreme cour Justice. 0:49:25.920 --> 0:49:29.880 Taxpayer funded Titanic explorations for all Supreme Court justices. 0:49:30.440 --> 0:49:32.880 We're already giving them two hundred and eighty five thousand 0:49:32.920 --> 0:49:35.799 dollars a year. It's not actually that it wouldn't We 0:49:35.840 --> 0:49:38.839 would save money if we just both salary. I put 0:49:39.520 --> 0:49:41.640 my position on this is clear. This is this is 0:49:41.640 --> 0:49:44.120 a this is a fiscally conservative position. 0:49:45.040 --> 0:49:49.759 Most of my budget can be interpreted as fiscally conservative. 0:49:50.120 --> 0:49:52.520 It's cheaper to put all the people at houses than 0:49:52.560 --> 0:49:56.839 do what we're doing now. Anyway, Well, glad we could 0:49:56.880 --> 0:50:00.120 learn about how the Supreme Court is good and just well, 0:50:00.160 --> 0:50:00.319 you know. 0:50:01.000 --> 0:50:03.080 The second thing you can learn is if you some 0:50:03.280 --> 0:50:06.920 if you one day somehow are like a semi minor 0:50:07.000 --> 0:50:09.520 Chicago politician, you now know how. You now know how 0:50:09.520 --> 0:50:10.640 to launder money. 0:50:11.760 --> 0:50:13.160 Which which does sound exciting. 0:50:13.640 --> 0:50:16.319 Yeah, you never know, you never know. 0:50:16.560 --> 0:50:22.879 Well, thank you for this insightful look at at at 0:50:22.920 --> 0:50:27.279 at at nineteen seventies mystery villain Harlan Crowe who has 0:50:27.280 --> 0:50:29.319 a mansion full of Hitler paintings. 0:50:30.800 --> 0:50:32.239 This feels like. 0:50:32.200 --> 0:50:34.239 It's like the it's it's like the location of like 0:50:34.239 --> 0:50:36.480 a like of like of like an Agatha Christie like 0:50:36.600 --> 0:50:42.640 book or something. Let's all investigate the murder of Harlan Crowe. 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