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Speaker 1: Welcome to show. I'm Michael Coska.
Speaker 3: We've got so much to talk about the night Trump
Speaker 3: and Elon go from BFFs to enemies for life, Republicans
Speaker 3: get caught not doing their summer reading, and Chuck Schumer
Speaker 3: finally learning how to be charismatic.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, he's not.
Speaker 3: But first Congress is busy wheeling and dealing over Donald
Speaker 3: Trump's legislative agenda. So let's get into it with our
Speaker 3: ongoing coverage of the big beautiful Bill.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 4: I Sleep with That, I wrapping I Kiss It at night.
Speaker 3: Washington is a lot like high school, and not just
Speaker 3: because all the politicians are trying to date high schoolers.
Speaker 3: It's also because when a friendship ends, it explodes, and
Speaker 3: right now we are drenched in the.
Speaker 5: Fallout breaking news war of words between Elon Musk and
Speaker 5: the GOP lawmakers. This comes after the tech bogul is
Speaker 5: speaking out again on the President's sprawling spending bill.
Speaker 6: He says, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore.
Speaker 7: This massive, outrageous, pork filled congressional spending bill is a
Speaker 7: disgusting abomination.
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, you can't just call this bill a pork
Speaker 3: filled abomination that's reserved for the new Tgi Friday's appetizer,
Speaker 3: n for a whole fried pig. I'm there, But this
Speaker 3: rift between Musk and Trump presents a credible opportunity for
Speaker 3: Democrats to go on the attack.
Speaker 1: Hit him with everything you got. Let's go Dems.
Speaker 8: I hear something happened while we were at lunch which
Speaker 8: led me to make some news here today and say
Speaker 8: something I didn't think was imaginable. I agree with Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is so lame, man. I feel
Speaker 1: so inspired when I hear Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 3: I just want to hit the streets and then keep
Speaker 3: walking and go a little farther until eventually I come
Speaker 3: to a body of water and then, you know, give
Speaker 3: up on democracy. Nice try Chuck Schumer any other Democrat
Speaker 3: want to take a shot breaking news?
Speaker 1: Elon Musk and I agree with each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Schumer already did that. That's the first rule
Speaker 3: they teach you in comedy college. A joke always gets
Speaker 3: funnier when you have to repeat it.
Speaker 1: And that's the first.
Speaker 3: Rule they teach you in comedy college. And jocos gets
Speaker 3: funnier when you have to repeat it. And even if
Speaker 3: Democrats can't take advantage of it, it's still shocking for
Speaker 3: Elon to turn on Trump like this?
Speaker 1: Why did he do it?
Speaker 3: The source and Trump World claiming that Elon was quote
Speaker 3: but hurt in part because the.
Speaker 9: Bill didn't include giveaways to his companies.
Speaker 10: Musk is upset that the spending bill cuts the electric
Speaker 10: vehicle tax credit. The White House denied his request to
Speaker 10: have the Federal Aviation Administration use his Starlink satellite system.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? He's upset about that.
Speaker 3: Let's review all that Elon Musk has gained from his
Speaker 3: two hundred and eighty eight million dollar investment into this presidency,
Speaker 3: one hundred million in NASA contracts, he got to freeze
Speaker 3: forty federal investigations against his companies, fired anybody who could
Speaker 3: regulate or tax him, and he got the President of
Speaker 3: the United States to plug his car company and Trump
Speaker 3: almost pronounced its name correctly.
Speaker 1: I love Tessler, but he's.
Speaker 3: Still pissed because he couldn't skim every last dollar from
Speaker 3: the treasury.
Speaker 1: There's got to be a better reason.
Speaker 11: Plus, we're learning Musk could hope to stay on with
Speaker 11: the White House as a special government employee beyond one
Speaker 11: hundred and thirty days, but apparently the White House didn't
Speaker 11: accommodate that.
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, the White House couldn't accommodate that.
Speaker 1: That does sound like bullshit.
Speaker 3: You know, Donald Trump is literally defying court orders as
Speaker 3: we speak, but with this, he's like, sorry, Elon, rules
Speaker 3: or rules you know, if I break Regulation four to
Speaker 3: six C of the Federal Employee Hnbook, what separates us
Speaker 3: from animals? No, Elon Musk got fired. Now I get
Speaker 3: why he's mad. It doesn't matter how rich you are,
Speaker 3: getting fired sucks. You never totally get over being fired.
Speaker 3: I got fired from Chuck E. Cheese in nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 3: and I still have dreams about going up to the
Speaker 3: manager and saying, no, Bruce, you're the one that ate
Speaker 3: pizza scraps instead of throwing them out.
Speaker 1: I hope you're watching, Bruce. But whatever the.
Speaker 3: Reason for Elon's butt pain, it seems to have opened
Speaker 3: the floodgates, and now it's giving life to a growing
Speaker 3: Republican backlash against the bill. What I'm concerned about is
Speaker 3: they didn't cut enough spending.
Speaker 1: We've got to have sim fiscal sanity here.
Speaker 12: We're running two trillion dollar deficits.
Speaker 13: We need to try to reduce spending as much as
Speaker 13: we possibly can.
Speaker 1: It's hugely concerning to me.
Speaker 5: This is immoral what us old farts are doing to
Speaker 5: our young people.
Speaker 1: This is grotesque. What we're doing.
Speaker 3: Yes, this bill is doing to young people is grotesque. Now,
Speaker 3: it's not as bad as what this bill is doing
Speaker 3: to young people, but it's still pretty gross.
Speaker 1: You didn't see that one coming, did you.
Speaker 3: In fact, the bill is getting so big that even
Speaker 3: Republicans who already voted for are.
Speaker 14: Backlashing Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. Even though the congresswoman voted
Speaker 14: for the bill in the House, she now says in
Speaker 14: full transparency that she wasn't aware of a section that
Speaker 14: would strict states of their ability to regulate artificial intelligence
Speaker 14: for the next decade.
Speaker 6: Here's a lesson for us all. No matter what political
Speaker 6: party holds office and is in charge, we should all
Speaker 6: watch carefully the bills that we passed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no shit, I mean.
Speaker 1: Smart, I mean congrats.
Speaker 3: I'm coming out against a crazy thing in this bill,
Speaker 3: but you weren't aware of what was in it.
Speaker 1: That's your job. This isn't Book Club.
Speaker 3: You can't just read the first seven pages and then
Speaker 3: be like, I love it, Linda more Rose. And here's
Speaker 3: what's really unbelievable about this story. We can shit on MTG,
Speaker 3: and we will because it's so fun too. But she
Speaker 3: isn't even the only Republican who's admitting she didn't read
Speaker 3: the whole bill before voting for it.
Speaker 9: Some voters in Nebraska confronted their congressman, Republican Mike Flood,
Speaker 9: and he admitted that he voted in favor of the
Speaker 9: bill without reading a provision that would make it harder
Speaker 9: for judges to whole parties and contempt for defying court orders.
Speaker 13: I do not agree with that section that was added
Speaker 13: to that bill. This provision was unknown to me when
Speaker 13: I voted for the bill.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, hey, why are you guys booing me? I'm
Speaker 3: just telling you I didn't do the bare minimum of
Speaker 3: my job. Feels like you should be applauding me for
Speaker 3: my honesty. Come on, I know reading a one thousand
Speaker 3: page bill is boring.
Speaker 1: I get it. Reading sucks.
Speaker 3: I can't even get through the birthday cards my kids
Speaker 3: give me.
Speaker 1: I love you so much, blah blah blah. Wrap it
Speaker 1: up already. But you got to read these bills.
Speaker 3: It's not like a twenty three and meters terms of
Speaker 3: service agreement where you can just blindly sign it.
Speaker 1: And now there's a clone.
Speaker 3: Of you who's a sex slave for an Uzbek Oligard.
Speaker 1: Unlike that. These bills are important anyway.
Speaker 3: At this point, there's basically an open revolt against the bill,
Speaker 3: and this must really piss off House speaker Mike Johnson.
Speaker 3: He's busted his balls for months putting this thing together,
Speaker 3: and after one tweet from Elon Musk, everybody's churning on it.
Speaker 3: Don't take that shit, Mike, all right, tell that pasty
Speaker 3: South African belly flash and sperm fountain, absent baby daddy,
Speaker 3: friendless ziploc bag full of.
Speaker 1: Jizz, ketamine.
Speaker 15: Rap ketamine, rasputant, dead eyed, deadbeat doge, donkey hitler waving
Speaker 15: semn and distributor where he can shove his tweets come up.
Speaker 2: With all due respect, my friend Elon is terribly wrong
Speaker 2: about the one big beautiful bill.
Speaker 1: Oh oh my God, none of them are good at this.
Speaker 3: For more on the Republicans backing away from their own
Speaker 3: big Beautiful Bill, we go live to Washington with the
Speaker 3: actual big beautiful bill.
Speaker 1: Bill Bill.
Speaker 3: Wow, these Republicans have some pretty harsh words for you.
Speaker 7: Well, I have some harsh words for them, Michael, how rude.
Speaker 7: First of all, they were gassing me up, calling me beautiful.
Speaker 7: They spent all night passing me. But after they ran
Speaker 7: me through the house, now they act like they weren't
Speaker 7: into it.
Speaker 3: Please, Well, to be fair, they're finding out a lot
Speaker 3: about you.
Speaker 1: You ban regulations on AI, you allow the presidents to
Speaker 1: ignore court orders. You kick millions of people off their healthcare.
Speaker 7: They passed me, okay, they're the ones who voted for
Speaker 7: me without getting to know me.
Speaker 16: They say they regret it now, but you should have
Speaker 16: seen them on the house floor. It was wild.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 7: They're trying to stuff their amendments into me, all two
Speaker 7: hundred and twenty of them.
Speaker 16: They're screaming, screaming.
Speaker 11: Iye aye, I thought nothing favor say I.
Speaker 1: What a bunch of pervs.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, but Ryana, but a lot of your amendments
Speaker 3: were at it at the last minute.
Speaker 1: Not everyone got to read them, like Marjorie Taylor Green.
Speaker 16: You say that like she can read Marjorie.
Speaker 7: Marjorie, you sweet sweet girl. Uh you think you lowered
Speaker 7: yourself for me? I am so far above you. I
Speaker 7: can see the Jewish space lasers you love so much. Okay,
Speaker 7: sorry if I'm being too honest, but you know me
Speaker 7: the BBB.
Speaker 16: I tell it like it is. I can't really snap,
Speaker 16: but you get it.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, well what now? All right? You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to face these people again. You want to become law
Speaker 1: I know I have to.
Speaker 16: Be the bigger bill.
Speaker 7: I'm just done with these boys in the house, you know.
Speaker 7: I think I'm going to take some time to do
Speaker 7: some self care, do some light reading, light reading of myself,
Speaker 7: and then I'll be ready. I'll be ready to go
Speaker 7: to the Senate, where the mature politicians are.
Speaker 1: I don't think senators are really any more mature.
Speaker 16: Yeah they will, They're all like ninety five.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, I don't know if senators are going
Speaker 3: to read all of you either. Politicians just don't take
Speaker 3: their job seriously.
Speaker 7: I know, Michael, they're not responsible like you journalists are.
Speaker 7: I'm sure you've read all of me, right.
Speaker 1: Of course, I mean I'm a professional.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have talked about the bill for the whole
Speaker 3: headline without reading it, of course.
Speaker 7: Like okay, yeah, okay, then what's your favorite provision? Yeah,
Speaker 7: without looking at me.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know what, the big beautiful bill. Everyone.
Speaker 17: When we come back, we find out the next generation
Speaker 17: of So don't go round, I don't.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Hallow show.
Speaker 3: Every year there's more and more reporters in the news media.
Speaker 3: So to find out who some of them are, we
Speaker 3: go to Jordan Klepper in our segment news to Meet You.
Speaker 18: Ever since President Trump took office, he's been attacking the
Speaker 18: establishment press harder than Elon's face by his own kids.
Speaker 1: And now the.
Speaker 18: Trump administration is welcoming a crop of new media reporters
Speaker 18: to the White House. In fact, they're not just replacing
Speaker 18: old media, they're great replacing them.
Speaker 19: Starting today, this seat in the one of the room,
Speaker 19: which is usually occupied by the Press Secretary's staff.
Speaker 12: Will be called the new Media seat.
Speaker 16: We have an individual in our new media seat today.
Speaker 16: His name is Tim Poole.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, lovely to meet you.
Speaker 18: Tim Poole a YouTuber and I'm assuming former Game Stop employee.
Speaker 18: Now his head might be cold, but he's in the
Speaker 18: hot seats. Let's hear him. Hold this administration's feet to
Speaker 18: the fire.
Speaker 20: Many of the news organizations that are represented in this
Speaker 20: room have Martin lockstep on false narratives such as the
Speaker 20: very Fine people hopes, the Covington smear, and now what's
Speaker 20: being called the Maryland Man hoax. I'm wondering if you
Speaker 20: comment on that on professional behavior?
Speaker 18: Wow, Wow, that's a great question.
Speaker 1: Everyone in this room sucks. Do you care to comment?
Speaker 16: Okay?
Speaker 18: Okay, So the Trump administration has brought in the perfect weapon,
Speaker 18: someone who can attack the media from within the media.
Speaker 18: He's like a wolf in sheep's clothing. If that clothing
Speaker 18: came from hot topic, you know what, you know what
Speaker 18: looks can be deceiving. If he has White House credentials,
Speaker 18: I'm sure he brings the dignified, well sourced positions that
Speaker 18: we expect from qualified journalists.
Speaker 19: You've got stories of migrants drilling cats and slaughtering mammals
Speaker 19: in the street.
Speaker 1: The laughter like.
Speaker 4: Women only get paid seventy three cents on the dollar
Speaker 4: for what a man makes by At the same time,
Speaker 4: you have been a friend of ladies' nights where at
Speaker 4: bars women get discounts when they buy drinks, so spare
Speaker 4: me toot.
Speaker 19: Because of trans issues, we must refer to the vagina
Speaker 19: as the front hole.
Speaker 18: Wow, what I can't believe, But my upper side holes
Speaker 18: are hearing.
Speaker 1: My middle face hole is a game. My hole is clinched.
Speaker 1: We all caught up here on how we're doing. You
Speaker 1: know what.
Speaker 18: This is just how new media talks. If you're offended
Speaker 18: by that, you're stuck in the old legacy media world
Speaker 18: and don't understand what an alpha this guy is. He's cool, tough,
Speaker 18: and you know what, the ladies love him.
Speaker 19: We're gonna end up with a generation of women who
Speaker 19: view almost all men as inadequate. I think it's crazy
Speaker 19: that I'm about to be thirty four and I have
Speaker 19: no family. You know what, you know what the problem is,
Speaker 19: though it's definitely not me. I think it's to everybody else.
Speaker 18: I'm gonna I'm gonna play this hand blind and say
Speaker 18: it's definitely you, Tim Hello. In fairness, I'm sure it's
Speaker 18: hard out there for guys who look like Joe Peshi's
Speaker 18: home alone, stunt, double fair, fine, Fine, He's not great
Speaker 18: at analyzing his love life. But that doesn't mean he
Speaker 18: isn't great at analysing the political landscape and telling us
Speaker 18: not just what's happening, but what's going to happen next,
Speaker 18: Like the predictions he made about January sixth, two days.
Speaker 19: Prior, Newsweek says exclusive threat of pro Trump violence in
Speaker 19: Washington overshadows inauguration security plans. Oh, I just love the
Speaker 19: depravity of these news outlets. When did Trump tweet go
Speaker 19: get violence and instigate violence? Trump said, be there, it'll
Speaker 19: be wild. What does it mean, I'm having to party
Speaker 19: everybody about if you gotta be that's gonna be wild.
Speaker 16: What does that mean.
Speaker 19: Does it mean we're gonna bring guns and it's gonna
Speaker 19: be violent. No, it means we're gonna have a party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, bro.
Speaker 18: You know what they say, It ain't a party until
Speaker 18: somebody drops aduce at Nancy Pelosi's desk. Fine, Fine, So
Speaker 18: New Media's Timpoole was wrong about January sixth. He's not
Speaker 18: a mind reader, even though he dresses like a street magician.
Speaker 18: Still still Tim can promise you this. He brings you
Speaker 18: the unbiased and unfiltered truth.
Speaker 19: The news you're getting comes straight from me and straight
Speaker 19: from the source. I don't have a political agenda, bringing
Speaker 19: real news and not narrative to all of you.
Speaker 18: Exactly. It's truth to table journalism, immune to propaganda and
Speaker 18: outside influence. Tim Poole is an honest man who cannot
Speaker 18: be bought.
Speaker 11: Popular far right American influencer Tim Poole, unwinningly paid by
Speaker 11: Russian state media company RT, is part of an operation
Speaker 11: to influence American politics.
Speaker 7: POOL promoting pro Russian narratives on a host of issues.
Speaker 18: Are you saying I shouldn't trust a man who dresses
Speaker 18: like a divorce ghost hunter?
Speaker 1: What whoa whoa no know what?
Speaker 18: These these these news reports can say whatever they want
Speaker 18: to say. But I'm sure he's not blatantly shilling for Russia.
Speaker 19: Ukraine is the enemy of this country. Ukraine is our
Speaker 19: enemy being funded by the Democrats. I will stress again
Speaker 19: one of the greatest enemies of our nation right now
Speaker 19: is Ukraine. We should rescind all funding and financing, plot
Speaker 19: all military support, and we should apologize to Russia.
Speaker 18: Wow, now that is customer service. I mean, come on, Tim,
Speaker 18: You're better than this. These allegations are true.
Speaker 1: I'm outraged.
Speaker 18: You can't be pushing Russian propaganda. It doesn't matter how
Speaker 18: much they're paying you.
Speaker 16: A new report claims that during the twenty twenty four campaign,
Speaker 16: Russian state media fineled one hundred thousand dollars per episode
Speaker 16: to Timpoole one hundred thousand dollars for me in my
Speaker 16: front goal.
Speaker 18: Whoa, whoa, whoa?
Speaker 1: All right, all right? So what have we learned here today?
Speaker 18: We learned that Tempoole has been compromised by Russian interests. However,
Speaker 18: the good news is I have not give me a
Speaker 18: call of lad for the right price. This facehole can
Speaker 18: be all yours.
Speaker 1: Dots, Verdonia, comrades. I'm Jordan Klapper.
Speaker 16: Good night and seriously, good clock.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jordan.
Speaker 17: Let me come back. Leahiptman will be joining me on
Speaker 17: the show. Don't Go Away Dot, Welcome back to show.
Speaker 15: My guest tonight was a University of Michigan law professor,
Speaker 15: co host of the.
Speaker 3: Strict Scrutiny podcast, and author of the New York Times
Speaker 3: bestseller Lawless.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Leah Lippman.
Speaker 3: Some of these people are so excited about constitutional law.
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on the show.
Speaker 3: Your book How the Supreme Court runs on conservative grievance,
Speaker 3: fringe theories, and bad vibes.
Speaker 1: Explain vibes to me, Okay.
Speaker 21: So by vibes, I kind of mean feelings and the
Speaker 21: political talking points of the Republican Party that the justices
Speaker 21: are laundering into the law or sometimes just declaring to
Speaker 21: be the law. So when they invalidated Joe Biden's student
Speaker 21: debt relief plan, they announced foot indeed, they announced they
Speaker 21: didn't exactly have to follow the law like what Congress enacted,
Speaker 21: because student debt relief raised questions that were personal and
Speaker 21: emotionally charged, i e.
Speaker 12: It triggered them, and so that just became the law.
Speaker 3: Are you saying the Supreme Court is can have feelings
Speaker 3: and is acting on those feelings.
Speaker 12: I'm saying they are a bunch of snowflakes.
Speaker 22: Oh there's a lot of that in this and it
Speaker 22: is very refreshing to read.
Speaker 3: And here on your podcast Strict Scrutiny. Here here people
Speaker 3: just talk about the Supreme Court, And uh, is that
Speaker 3: okay to do that?
Speaker 12: I think it's more than okay.
Speaker 21: So one is I wanted to put this in a
Speaker 21: language that even Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsich could understand.
Speaker 21: So I needed to make it accessible and whatnot. But
Speaker 21: second is, I think the Supreme Court is this incredibly
Speaker 21: powerful and not well understood institution, and I wanted to
Speaker 21: make information about the Supreme Court accessible. I wanted to
Speaker 21: energize people to get involved in learning more about the
Speaker 21: Supreme Court and wanting to do something about it.
Speaker 3: This audience seems to know a lot about the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3: But let's assume let's assume that our viewing audience and
Speaker 3: maybe even the host, needs a refresher on what's actually.
Speaker 1: Happening right now in the Supreme Court. And talk to me,
Speaker 1: not like a child, talk to me like a blob.
Speaker 21: Okay, okay, So here's the basic rule of Supreme Court
Speaker 21: fight Club right now.
Speaker 1: That's a movie. I understand that reference. There you go.
Speaker 12: Okay.
Speaker 21: So the basic rule is there is no discrimination against women,
Speaker 21: racial minorities, gays and lesbians.
Speaker 12: And trans people.
Speaker 21: But there is discrimination against white wingers or white right wingers.
Speaker 21: And that kind of discrimination is everywhere, and it's so
Speaker 21: prevalent that gives them the right to discriminate against everyone else.
Speaker 21: But you're not allowed to call it discrimination because that's
Speaker 21: to mean to them.
Speaker 1: Right, that's that's basic vibe. Yes, well, look Roe v.
Speaker 1: Wade was overturned, and we're all reacting. We're all we're
Speaker 1: all reacting to that.
Speaker 3: But I wonder, besides just reacting that, should we be
Speaker 3: looking forward?
Speaker 1: And what else could they do?
Speaker 12: They could do so much?
Speaker 21: I mean, I worry that the next several decades might
Speaker 21: look like a hunger games for liberal constitutional democracy. So
Speaker 21: after abortion, I think they are likely to come after contraception.
Speaker 21: I think they're likely to come after what remains of
Speaker 21: the Voting Rights Act. I think they are likely to
Speaker 21: come after what remains of campaign finance regulation. And so
Speaker 21: I think that they are in a position to really
Speaker 21: undo a lot of what is foundational and important about
Speaker 21: our current democracy.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about what we can do eventually,
Speaker 3: but I want to keep digging into this and some
Speaker 3: of the bleakness that.
Speaker 1: Exists, and you talk about that in the book.
Speaker 3: I feel like that's maybe a struggle you've had as
Speaker 3: an author, is like I have to share with you
Speaker 3: the bleak shit, and we'll talk about later maybe what
Speaker 3: we can do. Let's talk a little bit about the
Speaker 3: three zero three creative case. And that was something that
Speaker 3: you illuminate really well. And I think all of us
Speaker 3: could use a resummary of what exactly happened there and
Speaker 3: how that case was almost manufactured to get a result
Speaker 3: that they wanted.
Speaker 21: Yes, so this is a super wild case where the
Speaker 21: justices basically feel entitled to create a bunch of rules
Speaker 21: and indeed to make up cases. So the case really
Speaker 21: went back to Obergefell versus Hodges, which was the marriage
Speaker 21: equality decision that invalidated laws that prohibited marriage licenses for
Speaker 21: same sex cups. And in that case, Justices Alito and
Speaker 21: Thomas and the other Republican appointees throw a hissy fit
Speaker 21: about how marriage equality was so unfair to people who
Speaker 21: didn't think that gays and lesbians should be able to
Speaker 21: get married. You know. Justice Alito said it would facilitate
Speaker 21: the marginalization of people with traditional views about marriage and
Speaker 21: even said it called to mind the harsh treatment of
Speaker 21: gays and lesbians in the past, as if marriage equality
Speaker 21: was like the same thing as not allowing gays and
Speaker 21: lesbians to get married. But anyways, so in that case,
Speaker 21: they said, marriage equality is going to facilitate First Amendment
Speaker 21: violations of those with traditional views about marriage. And so
Speaker 21: when the justices announced that they are basically inviting people
Speaker 21: to file First Amendment challenges to civil rights protections for
Speaker 21: the LGBT community. And that's what happened in three or
Speaker 21: three creative there you had this organization, the Alliance Defending Freedom,
Speaker 21: get involved in this case where they found a website
Speaker 21: designer that became a wedding website designer that then became
Speaker 21: a religious wedding website designer who then all of a
Speaker 21: sudden was very afraid she was going to have to
Speaker 21: make a wedding website celebrating same sex weddings. And so
Speaker 21: that was the case that kind of was sort of
Speaker 21: before the Supreme Court, even though she hadn't actually been
Speaker 21: asked to design a website for a same sex couple.
Speaker 21: But why decide the case and in front of you
Speaker 21: when you can just play a little fantasy football. And
Speaker 21: so in that case, the justices just declared that well, obviously,
Speaker 21: refusing to make a wedding website for a same sex couple,
Speaker 21: that's not discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Speaker 12: Right, Okay, I can explain that if you want explain.
Speaker 1: But I stopped listening like six minutes ago. No, No,
Speaker 1: that's not true.
Speaker 3: That's not true, well not, but I mean this is
Speaker 3: the challenge of the subject you're in. Yes, we as
Speaker 3: Americans can't tune out, right, we have to be paying attention.
Speaker 1: And you said fantasy football, and I thought, today may
Speaker 1: my trades?
Speaker 21: Well, if we could trade some Supreme Court justices, that
Speaker 21: would be great.
Speaker 12: So yeah, let's do them.
Speaker 3: What level of justice do we lose if we're artificially
Speaker 3: manufacturing cases.
Speaker 21: I think we lose all justice whatsoever, because in that case,
Speaker 21: the justice is just declared that some set of people
Speaker 21: have a right to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
Speaker 21: But we don't know what set of people that is
Speaker 21: because the case involved an imaginary wedding website designer, and
Speaker 21: so we don't know exactly what group of people now
Speaker 21: has you know, all of their prejudices protected by the Constitution.
Speaker 21: And so that case has created this spillover where now
Speaker 21: a bunch of people are asserting the right to discriminate.
Speaker 3: Right, let's switch gears for a sec and talk about
Speaker 3: the code of ethics that either does or does not
Speaker 3: exist within the Supreme Court. I mean, some crazy stuff
Speaker 3: coming out with Clarence Thomas flying on private jets and yachts,
Speaker 3: and having an RV A nineteen thousand dollars Bible owned
Speaker 3: by Frederick Douglas. Gorsich and Kavanaugh were paid thirty thousand
Speaker 3: dollars to teach a two week course.
Speaker 1: Over and over. There's all of these things.
Speaker 3: What exactly is the code of ethics for the Supreme Court?
Speaker 1: Do they have one?
Speaker 21: It's a code of like non ethics, So they don't
Speaker 21: really have an actual code of ethics.
Speaker 1: They wrote something.
Speaker 21: They wrote the binding guidance document and then wanted a
Speaker 21: big party to be thrown for them because they fixed
Speaker 21: the entire problem. But then not all of them even
Speaker 21: a bide by that non binding set of principles. So
Speaker 21: basically they just kind of do whatever they want and
Speaker 21: they feel pretty entitled to be kept men.
Speaker 12: And so this is like what I said.
Speaker 1: In high school that Mom and Dad, I think I
Speaker 1: should be in charge of my.
Speaker 21: Curfew, right, get to make up the rules that apply
Speaker 21: to themselves as they go along.
Speaker 3: Are the are the courts underneath the Supreme Court?
Speaker 1: Is it the same for those courts?
Speaker 21: No, those courts actually have some rules that can be
Speaker 21: enforced against them. But you know, when you're a Supreme
Speaker 21: Court justice They just apparently let you do it.
Speaker 12: As someone once said.
Speaker 1: Kind of you.
Speaker 3: You you were a clerk at the Supreme Court.
Speaker 21: I was.
Speaker 3: I always assumed as an American that this was kind
Speaker 3: They were the adults in the room, that this is
Speaker 3: where things finally ended and.
Speaker 1: Justice was served right or wrong.
Speaker 3: Uh, it's alike in there. So I think I know
Speaker 3: how you're going to answer.
Speaker 21: Part of the goal the book is to socialize people
Speaker 21: in a different picture of the Supreme Court. And you know,
Speaker 21: we have a guy taking a literal chainsaw to the
Speaker 21: federal government and electoral politics.
Speaker 1: He's not the Supreme Court.
Speaker 21: Well, but here's the thing he's allegedly doing so on
Speaker 21: like bladder damaging levels of ketamine.
Speaker 12: They're doing its stone cold sober.
Speaker 1: They are just.
Speaker 21: Saying, you can't have the Clean Power Plan because there's
Speaker 21: a debate about climate regulation. You can't have student debt
Speaker 21: relief because that would be like the French Revolution, and
Speaker 21: it triggers me. You can't have the Voting Rights Act
Speaker 21: because that's too popular. And so they're doing the same thing.
Speaker 21: It's just not getting the same kind of attention.
Speaker 3: I mean, are it almost sounds like we as a
Speaker 3: society have gotten soft, but also so is our Supreme Court.
Speaker 12: I think they have gotten soft.
Speaker 21: They've also just gotten kind of lazy, like they're not
Speaker 21: even trying.
Speaker 12: They're not even trying anymore, you know. They just declare
Speaker 12: things to be the law.
Speaker 21: They make up new made up theories with new made
Speaker 21: up exceptions, because why not, you know, with six Republican
Speaker 21: justices on the Court, I think they feel like they
Speaker 21: have to try a little bit less, especially with Donald
Speaker 21: Trump taking so much of the attention away from them.
Speaker 3: I respond really well to your passion, in your enthusiasm
Speaker 3: and your drive, and I wonder where that comes from.
Speaker 21: Inner rage and inner pettiness is some of it.
Speaker 1: But there's something, there's something behind that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, So I had a candas Parker WNBA basketball
Speaker 3: Champion on yesterday and I feel the same energy, and
Speaker 3: I ask her the same question, But I'm curious where
Speaker 3: it comes from.
Speaker 20: You.
Speaker 21: Yes, So, I grew up in a family where the
Speaker 21: women in my family spoke very openly about what it
Speaker 21: was like to grow up in a world where women
Speaker 21: didn't have control over their own bodies, experienced sexual violence,
Speaker 21: had to drop out of school, and so seeing that
Speaker 21: world come back is very makes me filled with incandescent rage,
Speaker 21: you know, to hear that I don't get to have
Speaker 21: rights because apparently it's really hard for some men to
Speaker 21: live in a world with feminism and women's rights, which
Speaker 21: is basically what Justice Alito said when he overruled ROVERSUS way.
Speaker 21: He said, well, that case declared a losing side and
Speaker 21: a winning side. And it's like, my guy, you literally
Speaker 21: just described how cases are decided.
Speaker 12: There is a winning side and a losing side. But
Speaker 12: I guess it's illegal when women win.
Speaker 3: Well, one of it's really fun watching you talk shit
Speaker 3: to Justice Alito and listen to it.
Speaker 1: And read about all right, all right, hey damn.
Speaker 3: I want to try to steer this in a positive
Speaker 3: and somewhat.
Speaker 1: Solution based conclusion. What can we do?
Speaker 3: I mean, one of the things you talk about in
Speaker 3: the conclusion is just start talking about this when you
Speaker 3: go to the dog park. Don't be afraid to share
Speaker 3: with people that you think the Supreme Court isn't working
Speaker 3: right now?
Speaker 1: What else can we do?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 21: So, I do think public information and education is a
Speaker 21: big part of this. I don't think that the Democratic
Speaker 21: already is going to lead on this, So I think
Speaker 21: we need to build a movement of people who understand
Speaker 21: what the Supreme Court is and how it has changed
Speaker 21: and how it is changing the country. More concretely, you know,
Speaker 21: I actually believe in the power of talking shit and memes.
Speaker 12: That's part of why I'm here.
Speaker 21: But no, like, seriously, these guys are so triggered when
Speaker 21: they're criticized. And Elon Musk was basically shamed and name
Speaker 21: called out of the federal government. So sometimes that stuff works,
Speaker 21: and I feel like we should try it here too, right.
Speaker 1: Well, Si Leo Littman.
Speaker 17: They'll look likely like.
Speaker 1: I not shut it.
Speaker 16: But then here it is.
Speaker 1: You're let's go back to this Musk Trump the thing.
Speaker 1: This is a bromance that appears to perhaps be buckling
Speaker 1: a bit.
Speaker 12: This romance seems to be coming to a bit of
Speaker 12: an end.
Speaker 1: Could it be?
Speaker 10: Could the bromance be over?
Speaker 1: A bromance turned a bro off? Is the bromance over now?
Speaker 1: Politically speaking?
Speaker 18: I think the probably the fun candlelight dinner part of
Speaker 18: the bromance is over, but they're still friends.
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