WEBVTT - Shards of Justice 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.520 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to lok F Daily with 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.919 me your girl Danny Almody, recording from the home bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.439 we have made it through another fucking treacherous week in 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.799 these United States, and my god, I don't even know 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.960 where to start on this fucking Friday. Honestly, I don't know. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.199 My list is so fucking long, Like it's a list 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:36.200 that I have here, And let me just start off 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.360 with the obvious. For those of you who may be 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.120 one of the one hundred million people that were affected 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:51.160 this week by the wildfire, smog, smoke, hazardous, hazardous air 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.280 that had blanketed New York City for two days in 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:59.360 a row, making it the most hazardous air on the planet. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.480 To be briefing in, you know, I got to tell 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:08.319 you that I have been having so many like outer 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.640 body experiences. It feels like where I'm I'm like, is 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:16.000 this a novel? Like I know that I say this 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.240 often on the show. Are we the leftovers? Like did 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:23.200 the rapture already happen? Because when the sky turned the 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:28.200 apocalyptic shade of yellow that it did on Thursday and 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.959 on Wednesday, I swear to god, I was just like, oh, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.360 this is it like this is it, This is what 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.480 the Bible had talked about, This is what like, you know, 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.000 climate scientists had talked about, Like is this what the 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.640 sky look like right before the dinosaurs became extinct? Like 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.280 these are the things that are going through my mind 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:51.840 and the minds of millions of Americans because frankly, you know, 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:55.080 for those folks, and there were many that said, well, 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.480 welcome to California. You know, California has been experiencing this, 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.800 and I want people to understand that there is a 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:05.960 big difference between what happens in California during wildfire season 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.320 and what has been happening in New York and surrounding 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:19.359 regions downwind of Canada. So when these fires happen in California, one, 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:25.280 California is in some instances not into the extreme that 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:29.320 the wildfires have been occurring earlier and lasting longer and 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.840 coming into more populated areas, But in the mountainous regions, 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.920 in the forest regions, like this is not new, and 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:40.040 the issue is that the air quality was different and 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.000 it also wasn't affecting as many people because as the 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:47.200 wildfires were burning, they're kind of burning over less populous, 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:52.280 less densely populated places. That is not the case for 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:56.840 what we have experienced with the Canadian wildfires. One, it's 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.639 happening in a completely different region of Canada than is 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:04.359 used to having wildfires. Two, it's happening because Canada has 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:09.640 experienced the hottest spring on record, creating the conditions for 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:15.680 a very dry right foliage, very dry trees and ground, 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:20.800 making it fertile ground right for fires that happen with 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:25.280 lightning strikes that happen when it's too hot, and they're 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:29.040 burning earlier and longer and completely out of control. So 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.239 what has happened now because of the jet stream that 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.720 is going on? And I'm getting a little meteorological for you. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.120 Did I say that word right? Probably not meteor Nope, 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.240 I'm not going to say it because I can't say 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.880 it quickly. But the reality is that because of the 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:51.520 jet stream, because of climate change, because of the hotter weather, 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.800 the warmer climate, we are locked in. Over one hundred 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.560 million people are locked in to this pressure system that 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.000 is not going to be lifting for a few days. 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:06.080 And when folks are saying like, oh well, it's just 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.920 like a fireplace burning, like it's not a big deal, 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.240 it's just like a bonfire. Well, let me ask you something. 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.440 If you've ever lit a fireplace or have a fireplace 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.200 in your home, and one you check to make sure 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:24.120 that the shoot is actually cleaned out right, because why 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.520 you don't want that backed up smoke to be coming 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.120 inside of your house. You want it to be leaving 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.440 and going out of the house through the chimney. Well, 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.200 if that smoke were to come inside of the house, 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.640 what are you going to be doing. You're going to 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.480 open up windows, right, You're going to potentially leave, depending 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:46.800 on how much smoke is there. And with chimneys that 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.679 is burning wood. When we're talking about wildfires, you're talking 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.040 about pesticides, you're talking about chemicals, you're talking about rubber. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.240 You're talking about a whole bunch of fucking particles going 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.920 into the air that get into our lungs and our 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.200 bloodstream that aren't good for our body. Just like you 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.640 wouldn't sit inside of a burning house and say, oh, 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.919 it's warm in here, you don't sit outside during a 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:12.480 time when the air quality index is reporting unhealthy and 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.240 or hazardous, And it doesn't matter whether or not you 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.200 have underlying conditions. They have told us that when the 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:23.200 air Index says unhealthy or hazardous. It is bad for everybody, 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:27.320 not just people with underlying conditions. And the worst part, folks, 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.120 is that the masks that we have, unless you have 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:35.800 a cane nineten five mask, are not helpful right for 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.479 the outdoors. And so I just want people to understand 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.720 that this actually is a big deal, right, that it 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.200 isn't something to laugh out. And I think that a 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.760 lot of us laugh because we're scared because we don't 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:50.800 actually know what the fuck else to do when the 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.360 sky turns orange and it feels like we are on 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:57.279 Mars and not on Earth. And in the conversations that 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:02.760 I've had as of late with climatologists and environmental scientists 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.479 and what have you, is the question that I'm asking, 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.120 is this going to be our new normal? Like are 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:14.240 we going to be entering into seasons in areas, geographical 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.640 locations of the country that don't normally experience these things 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.240 where we're going to be forced indoors because the air 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:25.599 is going to be that unsafe. And their response was yes, 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.919 And we don't know how long it will last, We 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.760 don't know when it will happen. It's not like there 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:37.120 were predictors for this, you're literally following the wind. And so, 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.839 you know, just this experience over the last couple of 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:46.080 days had led me to my feelings around my first fucket, 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.680 which is, fuck it to the Republican Party, fuck it 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:54.560 to these politicians that are making drag queens and trans 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.479 athletes a priority and not the fucking air we breathe 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.960 like you know all I imagine, And somebody had posted 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.000 this underneath the TikTok video that I did the other day, 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.000 when they said, you know, they won't do anything. They'll 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:13.640 just hand out respiratory mass, but only right to their donors, 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:15.920 that's what it will look like. And the rest of us, 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.360 they'll say, let them eat cake, let them chew the air, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.600 and send them off to work, right because the economy. 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.520 So it's just a wild fucking place that we are. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.280 When I was reading and read sci fi novels and 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.200 you know, watch sci fi movies, and I think to myself, well, 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:37.040 in reality, that would never happen because politicians and the 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:41.640 president and people would totally intervene in you know, before 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.320 we got to parable of the sower levels where it 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:49.360 never rains anymore, where like water is a commodity, and 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.679 you know where you have to go indoors certain times 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.000 of the day because of the sun, because of the heat, 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.240 because it's piercing. It's not just like oh, sun tanning weather. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:04.920 It's like you're skin could actually bubble up. I folks, 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.120 I gotta tell you some days it hits me worse 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:12.640 than others when I realize how far we have fallen, 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:18.280 just how much of a dystopia America has become because 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:22.720 of the Republican Party, and until enough of us decide 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.640 that this is not how we want to live, right, 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:29.880 like this is preventable. You can say, like, oh, well, 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:35.040 forest fires happen, and wild fires happen. Uhah, yeah they do, 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:39.320 but they don't spread as quickly, they don't burn as long, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.120 and they don't happen as early as they do now 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.840 because of our warming fucking climate. And I just want 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.080 to take again New York City as a microcosm because 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:55.360 I'm living here. You saw airport delayge, you saw school closures, 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.840 you saw games canceled, and consistent amount of reports coming 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:06.640 in to urge people to stay inside. Talk about what happens, right, 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.520 if you only care about the fucking economy, talk about 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:13.640 what happens when that becomes the norm, when travel becomes 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.640 almost impossible because you can't predict the type of turbulence 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.800 that is going to take a plane down because of 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.960 the jet streams that have gotten crazier, right, and more 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:28.839 unpredictable because of climate change, because of the heat. Now, 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:33.000 scientists have been saying air travel is going to get 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:37.640 increasingly dangerous because of what we are seeing. So this 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:43.200 is going to affect everyone, everyone, and everything. Kids are 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.600 not going to be able to go to school. It's 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.760 not even going to be about oh well, no outside activities. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.520 It's going to be about you can't leave your home 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.640 because it is that unsafe. Like imagine instead of tornado 0:09:55.800 --> 0:10:00.840 alerts or hurricane alerts that it's telling you, guess what, 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:06.000 you're locked inside. We're on quote unquote lockdown again, quarantining 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:11.520 inside for days, weeks on hand until the air changes 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.000 and is safe for people to go outside. Folks, it's 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.160 not a joke, and I know that those of you 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.960 that listen to the show and follow me recognize that. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.640 But I just want you to feel less alone if 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.640 you're the one in your family or in your home 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:29.760 that's like, don't go outside, wear a mask, like, you know, 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:34.160 let's be safe, and everyone else is looking at you like, oh, 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.640 it's not that big of a deal. I'm with you. 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.480 Next up on my list of fuck it's Lord Jesus. 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.920 Let's go to Mike Pence's announcement for president, shall we? 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:51.120 First of all, the man makes communion wafers look delicious 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:58.120 and exciting, and that's saying a lot. And he goes 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:02.559 and does his town hall after his horrible press conference 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.480 and his bullshit video that he puts out where he 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.840 has headlines attacking drag and trans people and talking about 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.880 a return to traditional values and what God wants. And 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.720 I believe that this United States were founded on, Oh 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:21.200 I don't know, religious freedom, not their freedom to oppress 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.360 other people with your Bible and your verses, but the 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.840 freedom for all people to live how they would like 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:31.520 to live. Right, that's not at all what Mike Pence's 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.000 understanding is of the constitution or of the values of 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.680 this country. And that was evident, and it was even 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:42.360 made clearer in his conversation with Dana Bash on CNN 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.960 where CNNs decided to platform all of these Republicans, which, 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.280 by the way, there is really no difference between them 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.840 and Donald Trump, not even they can discern what the 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.440 difference is between them and Donald Trump, except for the 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:57.560 fact that maybe they're not under indictment. Dana Bash asked, 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.360 you know, as Mike Pence is trying to distinguish himself 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.480 from his former boss, the man who tried to have 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.720 him killed by the constituents that Mike Pence now finds 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:13.079 himself trying to court. She says, well, if Donald Trump 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.880 becomes the nominee, even though you're saying here right now 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.320 that no one that puts himself above the Constitution or 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.600 ask somebody else to put themselves above the Constitution, should 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.480 ever be able to be president again. If he's in 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:33.840 fact the nominee, are you supporting him? And Pence was like, yes, 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.760 because I'll support the Republican nominee. So you've made you 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.400 opened up your entire presidential run on the fact that 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.560 you quote unquote kept your oath, but you're willing to 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.520 once again swear allegiance to a man that you're saying 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.120 broke his oath to the Constitution and to the American 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:55.280 people because he has an R after his name. So 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.520 that is what you call leadership, sir. I don't fucking 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:03.080 think so. And it's just like, it's amazing to me 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.760 when you look at the field of Nicki Haley, who 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.080 is a transphobe and a hate mongerer and a liar 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:14.080 in her town hall where she made up lies about 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:19.840 cisteen girls suicide rates having something to do with trans students, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.600 when in fact, there are about one hundred transathletes in 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:28.079 the entire fucking country and somehow that's what's sending sis 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.400 teen girls suicide rates through the roof. It's not. And 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.520 let us be clear, and we've talked about it on 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:37.920 this show that teen emotional health and well being is 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:42.160 actually declining at an alarming rate and is the silent 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.120 pandemic that we're not talking about. And so it's a 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:49.280 real issue. And the fact that Nicki Haley would use 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.960 her ninety minutes of fame to make up a lie 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.320 about something that is very real just shows you again 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:00.400 the character of these people. There is no daylight between 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:04.160 them and Donald Trump. So when the mainstream media wants 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.920 to say that a Chris Christie, who has shown the 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.679 only backbone so far in the bunch that is willing 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.360 to actually call Donald Trump by his name and call 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.440 him out when they say that, oh, these are the moderates. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.600 You have pulled us so far to the fucking right 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.200 that you think that Mike Pence is a fucking moderate? 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.120 Are you kidding me? You think that Nikki Haley is 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:33.600 a moderate? Are you fucking dumb? These people were inside 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.800 of the Trump administration support every single Trump policy, are 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:42.400 using right the copycat terms of being anti woke and 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.080 having a war on wokeism, and can't fucking define it. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:50.600 They are all right this same version of each other. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.080 There is no one that is moderate in this bunch 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.720 because they would not make it. And many of these 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.960 motherfuckers are not even going to make it to debates 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:04.720 stage because they're in single digits. Right. The only person 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:10.000 that may in fact have some place to challenge Donald 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:14.160 Trump for real for the Republican nomination is rond De Santis, 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.320 and stories just broke this week that he is fucking 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.160 trailing in the polls. Since his announcement, his poll numbers 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.880 have taken a fucking nosedive over the last two weeks. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.000 That's not what people want when they announce for president. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.640 It is probably the highest that your poll numbers will 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.760 be because people are now excited about what it is 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.840 that you have to offer. That's not the case for 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:38.760 Rond De Santis, who Donald Trump is leading by I 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.600 don't know thirty fucking points. So the only thing that 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.240 these motherfuckers can pray for at this point is that 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.360 the Department of Justice does drop their indictments and that 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.720 we see justice a lot quicker than the Republican nomination process. 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.000 So for that, I say fuck it to Mike Pennce, 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.920 fuck it to the entire Republican primary field, because you're 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.800 the same fucking clown right. You just don't have the 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.360 temerity to actually take on Donald Trump to his face 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:12.320 because your chicken shit of his fucking vile and violent supporters, 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.640 and you're worried about what they will do to you 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.680 if you go after their fucking king, which says more 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:21.280 about you, and it says a lot about the people 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.000 that you have been gassing up over the last seven 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.200 years to do your bidding. So for that, fuck it 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:34.040 to the entire Republican field. Next up, folks, I also 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.440 want to talk about, first of all, the Supreme Court. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.720 So the Supreme Court has come back with the decision 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:46.160 this week where they surprised everyone in holding up this 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.160 status quo. So again from mainstream media that wants to 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.400 hail this as a victory for the Voting Rights Act, 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:57.040 which they completely and totally hobbled right with gutting preclearance 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.560 in saying Chief Justice John Roberts saying that you know, 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.719 America is passed preclearance and apparently pass racism. And then 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.560 the minute that that came out, every single racist state 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:12.000 that was required to get pre clearance before creating new 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:16.520 voting rights laws, right went straight back to racism in 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.600 the blink of a fucking eye. So fuck you, Chief 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.240 Justice John Roberts, all the way to hell for that 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.119 and so many other fucking things that you've done during 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:28.199 your tenure. But more importantly, in this case that was 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:32.080 brought up by went through the lower courts in Alabama 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:38.320 because Alabama decided to change and jerry mander their congressional maps, 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:44.320 taking those seats for Democrats from to one and condensing 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:49.640 all black voters essentially into having one representative, essentially erasing 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.439 their voice and their power in the body politic. And 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:56.639 so this case was brought by the NAACP, LDF and 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:02.440 others right and basically stating that the decision was racist 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:04.919 and that it robs black people of their vote and 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:08.760 of their power. So, in a surprise five to four decision, 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:14.960 with Kavanaugh and Chief Justice Roberts siding with the progressive 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:19.080 side of the bench, they decided to uphold the lower 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.360 court's decision and basically tell Alabama you need to go back, 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.199 literally to the drawing board and try and leave your 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.960 racism and the wide out out. And so people are 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.920 hailing this like, oh my god, this is so wonderful. Folks, 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.280 don't fall for the fucking ropodote. Why do you think 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:40.359 that Justice Kavanaugh and Chief Justice Roberts decided to side 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:45.000 with the liberal side of the court. Maybe it has 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.080 to do with the fact that their poll numbers and 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:53.000 people's you know, sense of the Supreme Court is in 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.840 the fucking toilet. Maybe it's because every time that we 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.639 have uttered the word the Supreme Court these days, and 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.399 it's followed by Arence Thomas, and we're thinking about just 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:06.160 how fucking criminal and grifting that court is and how 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.199 it has been bought and sold by Republican and conservative 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.119 billionaires over the last few decades, and that there is 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.399 no check and balance for the court. And so guess 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.000 what in the perception of the people's eyes in this country. 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.919 The Supreme Court no longer should have the kind of 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.520 power that it does. And so in order to do 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:29.280 a little pr spin and give the perception, not the reality, 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.280 that this court is being dictated by the law and 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.920 the law alone, I think that Chief Justice Roberts and 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:39.160 Justice Kavanaugh decided to throw the American people a bone. 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:42.600 You see, we're not that bad. We won't gut everything 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.919 because now people are hipped to their fucking tricks. So 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.879 if we think that somebody had a change of heart 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.840 or that this is signaling a new path for the 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:56.239 Supreme Court, wake the fuck up. That ain't it. This 0:19:56.480 --> 0:20:00.800 was a cya move right and so so, as Melissa 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:04.640 Murray said to me on Twitter, and you see her 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.840 as an MSNBC legal analyst and has joined this program 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:12.240 many times, she said that we shouldn't have to settle 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:16.400 for shards of freedom, right, we shouldn't have to settle 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.800 for chards of justice. And that is exactly what the 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:23.240 Supreme Court just doled out. So for them, and for 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.679 Chief Justice Roberts and all of the grifting motherfuckers that 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:30.600 are on the bench, I say fuck you and fuck 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:35.040 them for this week. To round it out, my dear friends, 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:37.560 let's turn to sports for a minute, which I never 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:41.440 really talked about on this show at all, unless it 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.320 has to do with politics, which in this case, of course, 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:49.680 it does. Saudi Arabia, a Saudi backed sports company, Live, 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:55.840 has decided to merge with the PGA, and there was 0:20:55.920 --> 0:21:01.800 incredible backlash to that on social media that the PGA 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:08.840 would dare to enter into a partnership with this authoritarian 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:13.080 and fascist regime that we know, you know, kills journalists 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:19.160 like Jamal Kashogi, you know, Rob's women of their bodily autonomy, 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.240 civil liberties, and you know, hates the gays, and the 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.159 list goes on and on and on. But you know, 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:29.879 their pockets are deep, so our values go out the 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:34.800 window because we're capitalists and fucking greedy. So the PGA 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:39.280 is now linking arms. And you know, all I can 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:43.480 say is, you know all of the things that I 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:47.720 listed out, and the human rights violations and the murders 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:51.399 of journalists, and you know all of those things. I 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.680 think that the Saudis not only are playing the long 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:57.840 political game in the United States, I also think that 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:01.480 they no longer see the United States. I think that, 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:05.960 based on the movements of the Republican Party, that they 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:10.960 see America these days more aligned with their values than 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:14.720 with our founding values. Right, we are sitting around here 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:21.919 persecuting gay people, criminalizing transgender folks, erasing black people, taking 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:25.240 away the body, the autonomy of women and people with uteruses, 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:30.960 overturning voting rights, instituting fascist book bands. We have more 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:35.960 in common with our supposed enemies in terms of how 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:40.080 our policy and our politics have been moving, then we 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.760 have differences. And I think that the Saudis see that 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:47.280 if they come in and they start to buy up wrestling, 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:51.040 buy up golf, and probably buy up you know, the 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:54.760 NFL and other American pastimes, then they're going to be 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:59.920 able to, little by little, right gain real clause into 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:04.480 our political system, into our American system, right by using 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:08.480 sports as a way to sports wash their fucking bad policies. 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:13.119 But again, their policies seem more aligned with today's Republican 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:15.560 Party and what they're doing around a majority of the 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:19.600 country than anything else, and that should scare the shit 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:23.600 out of us. 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