In the wake of the death of a crazed black homeless man on the New York subway system, what does it mean for interracial crime in the United States? What role does the criminal justice system play when it comes to interracial crimes? And what role does it play in the case of Daniel Penney and Jordan Neely, the crazed homeless man who was shot and killed by a white police officer on the subway system in New York City? In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the possibility that a black person should have been charged for Neely's death, and why it's not likely that a white person would ever be charged for a crime committed by another black person. We also discuss the two-tiered system of justice in the U.S. justice system, and the role of the military in providing support to law enforcement officers and other law enforcement agencies, and whether or not they should be held accountable for crimes committed by black and white citizens in interracial cases. In other words, what are the chances that a Black person will end up in jail for an Interracial crime? What is the likelihood that a White person will be charged in a case like this? Is it even a case at all? How likely is it even possible? We'll talk about that, and how it might impact the outcome of this case, and what we should do about it? This episode is brought to you by Alex Blumberg, the host of The Sentencing Project, a podcast that focuses on the intersection of race and justice in American law enforcement and criminal justice, and law enforcement, and policing, and our relationship with race, justice and the law enforcement in America's justice system. Music: Fair Weathersparring, by The Good Fight Project, courtesy of NPR's "The Good Fight" and The Badger Project, produced by Tall Tales by Kevin McLeod, produced and produced by Ian McKirdy, a former NYPD detective and former NYPD Special Agent in Charge of the NYPD Special Operations Unit and the NYPD Tactical Crime Scene Unit, and edited by Rachel Ward, and a former Marine, and an NYPD Tactical Unit Chief, and Chief of Investigations, and Special Agent at the NYPD Investigations Division, and Assistant Chief of the Tactical Unit . in this episode, we talk about the Neely case and the circumstances surrounding his death and the aftermath of the incident, and review of the investigation.
00:00:00.000Okay, if we really want to talk about the fact that there are two systems of justice in the United States, that splits in a wide variety of ways.
00:00:06.000People have talked for a long time about two systems of justice applying when it comes to the rich versus the poor, for example.
00:00:11.000If you can afford a really good lawyer, a really good lawyer makes it a lot easier to navigate the criminal justice system.
00:00:16.000People have talked about A disparity in the criminal justice system between Republicans and Democrats.
00:00:20.000And we'll get to that in a little bit with regard to Donald Trump's indictment versus the treatment of Hillary Clinton.
00:00:24.000But there is also a two-tiered system of justice when it comes to people who are accused of crimes in blue cities who are white versus people who are accused of crimes in blue cities who are black.
00:00:34.000And that is particularly true when it comes to interracial crime.
00:00:38.000When it comes to intraracial crime, well, then the disparity goes away.
00:00:42.000In the sense that if a black person victimizes a black person, pretty good shot that the victimizer will go to jail.
00:00:47.000And if a white person victimizes a white person, pretty good shot that the white person is going to go to jail.
00:00:51.000But, if a black person victimizes a white person, the chances that that person is going to end up indicted for a bad reason, as opposed to a white person victimizing a black person, that they will get an equivalent sentence, Those chances are just not the same and we all know it.
00:01:06.000That's particularly true if you're talking about a controversial circumstance in which it is unclear whether a crime was even committed.
00:01:11.000So take, for example, a case in which a crazed white homeless person is subdued by a law-abiding black American Marine who subdues him and then the white person dies.
00:01:22.000Do you think that black person is going to end up in the dock, indicted by a grand jury, and The answer, of course, is no.
00:01:30.000That is not a thing that would cross any prosecutor's mind.
00:01:34.000However, if a white person does it, and the person in question who died is a crazed homeless Black person who is threatening people on the subway system, then the white person may end up in jail for the rest of his life.
00:01:46.000And that is the case currently with Daniel Penney.
00:01:48.000So we all remember the video on the New York subway system of a crazed black homeless person named Jordan Neely
00:01:54.000who assaulted old women, abused people on the streets, routinely threatened people.
00:01:59.000There's an outstanding warrant for him.
00:02:01.000He was on the subway system and he was openly threatening people
00:02:03.000according to the other people on the subway system.
00:02:05.000And he was subdued eventually by US Marine Daniel Penny.
00:02:09.000Penny came up behind him and he put him in a submission hold.
00:02:11.000I call it a submission hold and not a choke hold because the notion of a choke hold,
00:02:15.000which is they're basically the same thing, but the idea of a choke hold
00:02:18.000is typically to cut off air supply, whereas a submission hold is very often
00:02:23.000Blood supply is meant to basically put you to sleep, it's a sleeper hold, whereas cutting off your air supply typically can kill you.
00:02:28.000So, not quite the same thing in terms of how we colloquially use these terms, even if legally speaking they are the same thing.
00:02:34.000There's no question that Daniel Penney did not mean to kill Jordan Neely.
00:02:39.000And Jordan Neely, in all likelihood, we haven't seen the toxicology report yet.
00:02:42.000I would be shocked if he was not high as a kite because, again, if you are a homeless person who's living on the streets of New York acting erratically, there's a very good shot statistically that you are high as a kite.
00:02:49.000We know that Jordan Neely also had a history of drug use and drug abuse.
00:02:53.000And so in this particular case, we also know from the video that there was a black man who was helping hold Jordan Neely down because he was thrashing about and still apparently attempting a violent.
00:03:04.000It was like a cross-racial crew of people attempting to stop this person from threatening people on the subway system.
00:03:10.000And eventually, Jordan Neely goes non-responsive.
00:03:12.000When he goes non-responsive, the three of them turn him into the prone position on his side so he doesn't choke on his own phlegm or his own spit or his own tongue.
00:03:18.000And by the time EMT arrives, he's already essentially dead.
00:03:23.000Well, in any normal circumstance, when a person gets threatening to women, children, other people on a subway system, and then is put into some sort of submission by a person who actually knows what they are doing physically, and Daniel Penney had actually trained people in terms of takedowns.
00:03:38.000When that sort of thing happens, you don't prosecute the person who's responsible for defending the life and limb of innocent citizens from a crazed homeless person on the subway.
00:03:46.000And yet, that is precisely what's happening in New York.
00:03:48.000And the reason that's happening is because Daniel Penney is white.
00:03:50.000There's just no other way to read this.
00:03:51.000If Daniel Penney were a black man, this would not be in court.
00:03:54.000According to ABC News, a grand jury has now indicted former U.S.
00:03:56.000Marine Daniel Penney in connection with the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard a subway train.
00:04:00.000The exact charges will not be unsealed until Penney appears in a court at a later date.
00:04:05.000Penny was initially arrested on a second-degree manslaughter charge.
00:04:09.000Some witnesses told police that Neely was yelling and harassing passengers on the train, according to authorities.
00:04:12.000Now, the media immediately went into spin mode after this incident, and they released old tape of Jordan Neely dancing like Michael Jackson.
00:04:19.000And, ah, this innocent Michael Jackson impersonator.
00:04:21.000This innocent Michael Jackson impersonator.
00:04:23.000He was just dancing his life away when he was accosted and attacked by this evil white person.
00:04:29.000But, of course, the reality is that Jordan Neely Had a long history of arrests.
00:04:35.00042 prior arrests on charges ranging from evading fares and theft to assaults on three different women.
00:04:40.000He had pled guilty to assaulting a 67-year-old woman leaving a subway station just back in 2021.
00:04:46.000And yet the media do what they typically do in a case in which the alleged perpetrator is white and the alleged victim is black.
00:04:53.000Very often, they will find you a picture of the most innocent that the person who's black has ever been, right?
00:04:59.000This is what happened with Michael Brown.
00:05:00.000When Michael Brown was shot by an officer in Ferguson, Missouri after attempting to grab the officer's gun.
00:05:06.000The pictures that you saw were not of Michael Brown in any sort of thug pose or him beating up a store owner five minutes before.
00:05:15.000What you saw was his graduation photo.
00:05:44.000Now, typically, when you say that somebody's death is ruled a homicide, that doesn't mean it was a murder.
00:05:49.000A homicide just means you didn't die of quote-unquote natural causes.
00:05:53.000Okay, but again, this is a perfect example.
00:05:55.000What is the picture that ABC News uses in order to promote this story?
00:05:59.000It's a picture of Jordan Neely from 2009.
00:06:01.000Okay, from 2009 where he's dressed up as Michael Jackson seeing This Is It outside Regal Cinemas.
00:06:07.000That's the picture that they use, not the picture of him screaming and yelling at people or the picture of him punching an old lady.
00:06:13.000Apparently, Steinglass said prosecutors conducted a thorough investigation that included interviews with eyewitnesses, 911 callers, and responding officers before moving forward with a criminal charge.
00:06:23.000Neely had a long documented mental health history and his family has of course come out of the woodwork with the help of Benjamin Crump apparently.
00:06:30.000to try to sue because this is typically the way that this works.
00:06:33.000The family that was nowhere to be found when this unfortunate homeless crazed person was alive suddenly emerges from the woodwork when tragedy occurs.
00:06:41.000In a second, we'll get to Daniel Penny's account of the incident.
00:06:45.000First, this Father's Day, it's time to grill.
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00:08:50.000And this is the reason Derek Chauvin is currently in prison.
00:08:52.000I'm about to say a very unpopular thing, but this is what I do because the thing happens to be true.
00:08:57.000George Floyd is not dead because Derek Chauvin put a chokehold on him.
00:09:01.000Or because he was putting pressure on his neck.
00:09:03.000There was no damage to George Floyd's neck.
00:09:05.000George Floyd was in a state of excited delirium by the medical evidence.
00:09:08.000He was already saying he could not breathe when he was in the car.
00:09:11.000He was begging to be let out of the car.
00:09:12.000And the best available footage, as the prosecution itself admitted, involved Derek Chauvin on his shoulder, not on his neck.
00:09:19.000But the fact is that Derek Chauvin was a white man, and George Floyd was a black man, and the video was ugly, and therefore, Derek Chauvin will now spend the rest of his life in prison, even though in any normal situation, if there was a black officer and there was a black man on the ground, that officer would not be in prison right now.
00:09:31.000If there were a white officer and a white man on the ground, that officer would not be in prison right now.
00:09:36.000But this is the way that our justice system works.
00:09:37.000And talk about a two track justice system.
00:09:39.000If it fits the narrative, you may find yourself in jail for the rest of your life.
00:09:42.000Daniel Penney described the situation on the New York City subway.
00:09:46.000He said, Jordan Neely was in fact threatening a lot of people.
00:10:15.000Okay, so normally you would consider that a heroic act.
00:10:18.000When someone is threatening somebody on the subway system, threatening women and children on the subway system, and somebody stops them, you would normally consider that an act of heroism.
00:10:37.000The media decides that somebody is worthy of being hamstrung for the rest of their life.
00:10:41.000And then they whip people up into a lather, and then they unleash the lynch mob on the person.
00:10:46.000And that is how people like Daniel Penny end up in the dock, when the truth is, they should be giving Daniel Penny the key to the city.
00:10:51.000The fact is that New York City has not protected its own citizenry.
00:10:54.000Either the crazed homeless people who are living on the street, who should not be living on the street, and who need treatment, or the people they are victimizing on the streets.
00:11:00.000New York City has had dozens of people who have been assaulted on the subway system, pushed in front of trains, killed, And yet, none of that makes headlines.
00:11:09.000The only thing that makes headlines is when the racial narrative stacks up.
00:11:13.000If you have a city where people are getting prosecuted for defending other people, and the cops are basically barred from actually enforcing the law in places like the New York City subway system, nobody's gonna ride the subways anymore.
00:11:24.000Or if they do, then they are going to be subjected to the sort of behavior that Jordan Neely was subjecting people to, which included actual physical assault in at least one case, and two more cases, allegedly.
00:11:35.000Like, at least three cases of alleged assault against the person who ended up dying in this particular circumstance.
00:11:40.000Speaking of our two-tiered system of justice, Hillary Clinton was back out there at it.
00:12:48.000The Donald Trump indictment has now moved forward, obviously, and Hillary Clinton is emerging from the woodwork.
00:12:53.000The shameless sociopath who was exonerated of her similar behavior back in 2016 is now out there pretending that she is clean as the driven snow, while Donald Trump is dirty and evil.
00:13:04.000So she's appearing on Pod Save America, which is a show made by people who used to work for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
00:13:12.000On behalf of people who like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
00:13:14.000So here is Hillary Clinton being interviewed slash slobbered on by John Lovett over at Pod Save America.
00:13:20.000Now, again, I've told people a thousand times that this is an opinion show.
00:13:48.000Or it does occur to her and she doesn't care and she's a sociopath.
00:13:51.000So, Hillary Clinton, you will recall, literally set up a private server in her home, like in her basement.
00:13:57.000And she put a bunch of classified information on that private server and it ended up being farmed out to like a private server company that had their server in a bathroom.
00:14:06.000And it was all very likely, according to the FBI, accessible to foreign sources and very well could have been stolen by foreign sources.
00:14:14.000And then when she was questioned about it, she bleach bit the entire hard drive and all the emails went away.
00:14:19.000And she claimed it was all just a bunch of stuff about yoga and wedding planning and all the rest.
00:14:23.000And it turns out that that wasn't true because the emails reemerged on the computer of convict Anthony Weiner, who had an unfortunate pension for soliciting minors.
00:14:36.000So yeah, that didn't seem real secure.
00:14:38.000But none of it was a problem for Hillary Clinton.
00:14:39.000She's out there claiming that she is wonderful and Donald Trump is the root of all evil.
00:14:44.000You wonder why Donald Trump was elected in the first place.
00:14:46.000It's because of double standards like this.
00:14:47.000It's the reason why he remains a viable candidate, despite the fact that his behavior in this particular scenario is really pretty egregious.
00:14:53.000I gotta say, his behavior, according to the indictment, if the indictment is proved, is not the sort of behavior that you want anyone involved in.
00:14:59.000Let alone a person who claims to really respect law and order and the classification standards of the American military, which is what Donald Trump was claiming back in 2016.
00:15:07.000But all of that is irrelevant when the Democratic Party is full-scale dedicated to the idea that for my friends, anything, and for my enemies, the law.
00:15:14.000And Hillary Clinton is just the best example of this.
00:15:23.000And what they refuse to admit is, you know, this is on a track about him, not about anybody else.
00:15:31.000No matter how much they try to confuse people and how much they try to It's going to be fascinating, I guess, in a bizarre and sad way, to watch them spin themselves up.
00:15:47.000If you watched any of the news programs this weekend, their efforts to defend this man are truly beyond anything that I ever thought possible in our country.
00:16:00.000I love all the people on the stage from Crooked Media.
00:16:02.000And there is the word crooked above her, which is funny.
00:16:04.000I love all the people from Crooked Media nodding along with this nonsense.
00:16:07.000They literally spent years defending Hillary Clinton's activities here and pretending it was but her emails.
00:16:22.000But Hillary has no self-awareness, which is why in the middle of all this, she tweeted out a photo of herself with a photoshopped hat that said, but her emails.
00:16:30.000We all know you got off and Donald Trump is not getting off.
00:16:33.000We can all see that happening in real time, which is one of the reasons why so many people are motivated to vote for Donald Trump as sort of you've chosen the form of your destroyer.
00:16:40.000Now he will come in the form of the Pillsbury president.
00:17:34.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration, which is responsible for the indictment of Donald Trump, is pretending that it's all happening because of independent investigation.
00:17:40.000Now, as I've said, I don't blame the prosecutor in this particular case.
00:17:44.000There are a lot of people who are very angry at Jack Smith, the special counsel for the DOJ in this particular case.
00:17:49.000But Jack Smith's job, he's the special counsel, is to investigate this particular case and then to look at the fact pattern and decide whether some criminal activity has taken place.
00:17:56.000It's not his job to decide, based on the politics, whether Trump should be actually indicted.
00:18:00.000That is the job of Merrick Garland and Joe Biden.
00:18:03.000So if your job is just to look at the charges and the evidence, and if you read the indictment, the charges and the evidence are pretty strong, and you're Jack Smith, I understand why Jack Smith is bringing the indictment.
00:18:11.000The real question is why Merrick Garland is signing off on it?
00:18:14.000Because the real consideration here is a political consideration.
00:18:17.000Is it a good idea to prosecute the former president of the United States and the current frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination on the basis of mishandling classified information and obstruction of justice when a Democratic chief candidate for president of the United States ran against him in 2016 was exonerated on exactly the same sort of behavior?
00:18:33.000Is that a smart idea by Merrick Garland?
00:18:38.000And when you have prosecutorial discretion and it's used frequently, you have to question why that discretion is being used in the way that it's being used.
00:18:45.000Again, prosecutorial discretion is used in deciding whether or not to prosecute Daniel Penney in a case where there is clear reasonable doubt, obviously.
00:18:52.000Prosecutorial discretion is being used by Merrick Garland in deciding whether the DOJ ought to go forward with the prosecution of Trump.
00:19:00.000That's up to Merrick Garland, and it's up to Joe Biden.
00:19:03.000But here was Merrick Garland asked yesterday about his role in the indictment, and he basically refuses to answer the question.
00:19:09.000Can you give the American public a very clear sense of what exactly your role was in the indictment process, just so people can understand what that role is?
00:19:17.000And then secondarily, given the historic and extraordinary nature of the case, explain to people, if you would, why this was the best and most appropriate step that was taken and why there were no other alternatives.
00:19:34.000I'm trying to remember the first question.
00:19:38.000Yes, so my role is completely consistent with the regulations that set forth responsibilities to the Attorney General under the Special Counsel regulations.
00:20:10.000They decided they wanted to prosecute Trump.
00:20:11.000It is that simple, and everybody can see it.
00:20:14.000In a second, we'll get to the media response to all this again covering for the Democrats, because this is what they do professionally speaking first.
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00:22:39.000Now, they may have good legal reasons not to kill it, but certainly from a political level, they've now opened a can of worms.
00:22:44.000Meanwhile, we have some updates on Donald Trump and how this case is going to proceed.
00:22:50.000Many of the witnesses in this particular case are going to be people who are closely associated with Donald Trump.
00:22:55.000According to the New York Times, The judge is making clear that Trump should not be talking about the facts in his indictment with any potential witnesses.
00:23:04.000Because, again, there is the idea that they might be colluding with one another.
00:23:07.000That's particularly true of his aide, Walt Mauda, who is also under indictment at this point.
00:23:12.000But many of the people who are giving evidence at this point are going to be closest aides, advisors, lawyers, even members of his secret service detail.
00:23:18.000Because those are people who presumably may have been implicated in the activity of moving classified documents around Mar-a-Lago.
00:23:24.000Throughout the document's investigation, according to the New York Times, many employees at Mar-a-Lago were interviewed about Trump by Mr. Smith's team at a time when, like now, they were being represented by lawyers paid by Trump's PAC.
00:23:34.000Some of the lawyers Trump hired to defend him in this case have also wound up being questioned by the government, and they may also appear as witnesses.
00:23:39.000Again, that goes to the crime-fraud exception.
00:23:41.000This is the case with regard to some of his lawyers who basically informed the federal government that Trump had turned over all of the classified documentation.
00:23:49.000And then it turns out that Trump was actually hiding some of the classified documentation from his own lawyers.
00:23:53.000So they were lying without knowing they were lying, according to the indictment.
00:23:56.000That would include, of course, Evan Corcoran and Jennifer Little, both of whom were subpoenaed for testimony and records, nearly all of them possessed by Corcoran and by Mr. Smith's team during the investigation.
00:24:06.000According to the indictment, Trump had told Corcoran he wanted to be at Mar-a-Lago, and Corcoran did a search, and Little did not have to be there.
00:24:11.000And then in the time when Corcoran was not there, he moved around some of the documents.
00:24:14.000So, some of those people presumably will be called to testify.
00:24:17.000There's an argument that's now being made by Trump's legal team, and by people who are his defenders, that he is safe under the Presidential Records Act, which allows the president to take with him personal records of the presidency.
00:24:28.000That is not the same thing as agency records, as Andy McCarthy has pointed out.
00:24:33.000The Presidential Records Act not only applies to Contemporaneous records of conversations the president like his diary that he himself was making but also any any material that crossed his desk is now considered presidential records as opposed to the CIA gave him a confidential top-secret report and now he gets to take that home and put it on his wall.
00:24:51.000Typically speaking that is not covered by the Presidential Records Act as Andy McCarthy has made pretty clear.
00:25:10.000When you know your enemies are targeting you, do not put a target on your own back.
00:25:16.000His enemies are going after him with fire ants and Donald Trump is like smothering himself in honey.
00:25:22.000I don't understand why you would do that, like he's a rational human being.
00:25:24.000If Donald Trump actually took his opposition seriously, if he actually believed the left was as much of a threat as he says the left is, and I believe they are, then why would he make himself vulnerable in this way?
00:25:33.000And we're now finding out that Trump rejected his own lawyer's advice on all of this stuff, which of course is obvious.
00:25:39.000Apparently, according to the Washington Post, one of Trump's attorneys, Christopher Kyes, wanted to quietly approach the Justice Department to see if he could negotiate a settlement that would preclude charges, hoping Attorney General Merrick Garland and the department would want an exit ramp to avoid prosecuting a former president.
00:25:52.000Kyes would hopefully take the temperature down, he told others, by promising a professional approach and the return of all the documents.
00:25:57.000But Trump was not interested after listening to other lawyers who urged a more pugilistic approach, so Kyes never approached prosecutors.
00:26:02.000Three people briefed on the matter said a special counsel was appointed just months later.
00:26:07.000That quiet entreaty was just one of the many occasions when lawyers and advisors sought to get Trump to take a more cooperative stance in a bid to avoid what happened on Friday.
00:26:16.000Apparently, all of his lawyers were saying over and over pretty much, you should just give them back the documents.
00:26:20.000Why are you not giving back the documents?
00:26:32.000Trump again and again rejected the advice from lawyers and advisors who urged him to cooperate.
00:26:37.000Why exactly that is the case is beyond me.
00:26:41.000I don't understand what motivated Trump, why he had such a deep desire to keep the documents that he wished to put himself in this particular situation.
00:26:48.000And again, this goes forward to electability.
00:26:50.000Is this a person with the sort of discipline necessary to win an election against a person he already lost an election to?
00:27:10.000Trump has the- essentially, Watanabe was his ballot, he was his valet, he was essentially bringing him Diet Coke in the White House as an aide, and then eventually he ended up working for Trump's Super PAC, and then eventually he ended up working for Trump personally, which is why he was the one who was being texted to move all of these boxes around.
00:27:27.000But he is facing decades in prison now.
00:27:29.000He's a 40-year-old, he's facing 20 years in prison if he's convicted of the most serious charge against him.
00:27:35.000There's certainly the possibility that the prosecution is going to try and get him to flip.
00:27:38.000So far, there have been no indications that Nauda is going to flip.
00:27:42.000But apparently, people familiar with the case say that Nauda spoke more than once with federal investigators, and the conversations turned contentious last year when a senior DOJ lawyer suggested the valet was in legal trouble for some of his statements.
00:27:53.000Apparently, Nauda's lawyers reacted angrily to that suggestion, and the relationship never recovered.
00:27:59.000The judge has already said that Trump should not be talking to Naoda, but Naoda and Trump took the same plane, apparently, to Bedminster directly after the indictment.
00:28:06.000So we'll see what happened in relation to all of that.
00:28:09.000Meanwhile, the GOP continues to futz about for some sort of retaliatory solution here, to put some pressure on Democrats.
00:28:18.000So if the idea is the Democrats are going to politically prosecute Trump, or they're going to open this door, then there has to be some form of retaliation.
00:28:24.000Well, yesterday, the House GOP Put forward a bizarre measure to censure and then fine Adam Schiff.
00:28:30.000Now, there are two measures here that ought to be considered.
00:28:33.000Censure is a congressional method where the Congress gets to make up its own rules.
00:28:37.000It basically is a statement of, this guy is terrible.
00:28:40.000Congressional censure has happened a few times in the past.
00:28:43.000The particulars of this case, it's happened Approximately, it's only expelled, only five members in the history of the United States Congress have actually been expelled.
00:28:54.000But censure is significantly more popular.
00:28:56.000Back in 2021, Paul Gosar was censured by the Democratic Congress.
00:29:00.000In 2010, Charlie Rangel was censured by Congress.
00:29:06.000So there was talk about censuring Adam Schiff because he spent years on end lying.
00:29:12.000Lying routinely about the Trump-Russia investigation, suggesting that there was information right around the corner that he was privy to, that Trump was guilty of collusion with Russia.
00:29:20.000Again, one of the reasons why there's so much goodwill toward Trump in this particular case is because the Democrats have been crying wolf about Trump literally since the day he came down the golden escalator.
00:29:30.000Well, now the House attempted to vote to censure Schiff, but they also attempted to add on top of that a $16 million fine.
00:29:39.000Well, I gotta say, is that good strategy?
00:29:43.000There are 20 Republicans who voted against that, so the censure motion ended up getting tabled.
00:29:47.000The reason that 20 Republicans voted against that, some of them presumably didn't want to vote to censure Schiff because they're weaklings.
00:30:15.000Because again, if the idea here is that turnabout is fair play, whatever you do now is going to be used by Democrats against you five minutes from now.
00:30:22.000So people who are saying that this is just weak Republicanism, that the Republicans couldn't get it together to censorship, they'll still censorship.
00:30:28.000That's going to come up again next week.
00:30:30.000The original attempt here was to pry $16 million from Adam Schiff to pay for all the bills of the Mueller report.
00:30:38.000But again, the precedent being set, which is that if you don't like what a member does and you censure them, then you get to take, you know, tens of millions of dollars out of their pocket.
00:30:45.000I could see that being used in pretty bad ways against people like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Lauren Boebert or literally anyone else the Democrats decide ought to be on the chopping block today.
00:30:54.000According to the Washington Post, The Republican-led House voted to table that measure.
00:30:59.00020 Republicans voted with Democrats to table the measure, effectively killing it 225 to 196.
00:31:04.000The resolution sought to fine-shift the former House Intelligence Committee chairman $16 million.
00:31:07.000And again, one of the things that Massey, who's very constitutionally minded, said is, that's not constitutional.
00:31:12.000You can't just fine members tens of millions of dollars.
00:31:15.000Because again, that just means a majority in the Congress is going to be fining the minority.
00:31:19.000You can take that to its logical extreme.
00:31:21.000Anytime the Democrats hold Congress, they can just fine every Republican member of Congress by a majority vote their entire net wealth.
00:31:30.000The resolution correctly alleged that Schiff purportedly deceived, purposely deceived his committee, Congress, and the American people, and used his position and access to sensitive information to investigate a fraudulently based investigation.
00:31:40.000It also said Schiff behaved dishonestly and dishonorably on many other occasions.
00:31:45.000And again, all of that happens to be true.
00:31:49.000Shift said it showed courage for the Republican colleagues to vote against the thing, but that's really not what was happening here.
00:31:54.000Again, there were some moderates in swing districts who voted against it, but there were also a bunch of right-wing members, including Representative Thomas Massey.
00:32:01.000Massey said, Shift acted unethically, but if a resolution to fine him $16 million comes to the floor, I will vote to table it.
00:32:08.000He currently has a pending lawsuit against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a salary reduction resulting from a fine for refusing to wear masks during the pandemic.
00:32:15.000Remember Pelosi tried to fine members of Congress for not wearing masks.
00:32:19.000So does she have the power to do that?
00:32:22.000Should members of Congress be voting to take money away from each other?
00:32:25.000That seems like a very, very bad precedent.
00:32:26.000Again, this should be the way that everybody thinks about politics these days.
00:32:30.000Anything that you do to the other side will be done against you within the next five minutes.
00:32:33.000So unless you have some sort of bright line rule that you can apply that makes it okay, just recognize whatever sword you establish here will be used because it will cut both ways.
00:32:42.000Okay, meanwhile, over in California, the insanity continues.
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00:34:44.000Okay, meanwhile, remember that time that Democrats pretended that they didn't want to take your gas stove?
00:35:40.000According to FoxNews.com, the House on Wednesday passed legislation to block the Department of Energy from implementing tough new energy conservation rules on gas stoves, an effort that was supported by more than two dozen Democrats.
00:35:50.000Lawmakers passed the Save Our Gas Stoves Act in a 249 to 181 vote, which means 181 Democrats voted in favor of letting the Department of Energy ban gas stoves.
00:36:39.000I assume that the adultery mass is rather lit.
00:36:42.000Um, but I'm confused because I thought that the Catholic Church was a hierarchically structured church in which the Pope had the final say, and so I'm very confused that the localities are somehow allowed to somehow greenlight full-scale violations of both the Old and New Testaments.
00:36:56.000The pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown, which counts Biden among its congregants, defended the decision to have the Mass, saying it was not celebrating pride in terms of vanity.
00:37:11.000This celebration is an expression of our parish's mission statement to accompany one another in Christ, celebrate God's love and transform lives said the Reverend Kevin Gillespie.
00:37:19.000Our celebration of pride is not celebrating personal vanity, but the human dignity of a group of people who have been too long the objects of violence, bullying, and harassment.
00:37:26.000Our parish reaches out to LGBTQIA plus people as it reaches out to Catholics in all of our areas.
00:37:30.000Well, I assume that they are going to teach all of these people that they had best give up their particular sexual lifestyles and identities in favor of, you know, the biblically prescribed ones.
00:37:40.000I assume that'll be part of the deal, right?
00:37:41.000I mean, because it's not pride in the actual act.
00:37:43.000It's not pride in the actual identification as anything other than a Christian.
00:37:49.000I have to say, more respect to the Southern Baptist today.
00:37:51.000The Southern Baptist actually decided to essentially dissociate from churches that have appointed female reverends, because they say that that violates our scruples.
00:38:01.000When is the Catholic Church going to do the same?
00:38:03.000I'm wondering, when are archbishops going to suddenly decide that it's time to stop giving communion to people like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden, or to excommunicate churches that participate in pride masses?
00:38:17.000Again, Savvy, film me if I'm doing this wrong, because I'm not the Catholic expert, but it feels like at some point the Vatican should do something about this, no?
00:38:25.000At least speak out would be a big one.
00:38:27.000Yeah, that makes sense, but I guess they're not going to.
00:40:13.000Well, you remember during the Black Lives Matter kerfuffle back in 2020 when every major corporation was pretending that America was systemically racist against black people and therefore they had to pay obeisance to people who were acting badly in their stores.
00:40:27.000So Starbucks had a situation in which there were two black men at a Philadelphia cafe who were not buying anything and then asked to use the restroom.
00:40:35.000And a white lady, who is a manager, basically called the police when they refused to leave.
00:40:57.000A New Jersey federal jury decided in favor of Shannon Phillips.
00:40:59.000She sued Starbucks in 2019 over allegations of racial bias and discrimination.
00:41:04.000It took the eight-member panel nearly five hours to award $25 million in punitive damages and $600,000 in compensatory damages to Phillips, determining her skin color played a decisive role in her termination.
00:41:14.000Phillips worked for Starbucks for 13 years.
00:41:17.000She was fired less than a month after Dante Robinson and Rachelle Nelson were arrested at a Spruce Street store on April 12, 2018, for refusing to leave a table.
00:41:25.000The incident was captured on a cell phone video, quickly went viral, and Starbucks faced intense scrutiny for the treatment of the black men who said they were waiting for a business associate and hadn't ordered anything when a manager called the Philly police on them.
00:42:12.000So it turns out that the lady who is presiding over, you know,
00:42:17.000Starbucks is handling at this point in this region was fired
00:42:19.000basically because they were looking for a scalp in a stupid case.
00:42:23.000There's a reason, by the way, there's new polling out this morning with regard to the Black Lives Matter movement, and it turns out that the American support for Black Lives Matter has now fallen to its lowest point since George Floyd's death.
00:42:36.000Which, it's amazing again that our country is so stupid that it decided to embrace full-scale a scam movement based on a lie for years on end, but I'm glad to see that people seem to be awakening from that nightmare.
00:42:47.000Meanwhile, the Major League Baseball apparatus is quietly telling teams they can stop forcing players to wear uniforms and hats adorned with Pride garbage.
00:42:56.000The decision comes as LA Dodgers are taking major heat for inviting the radical anti-Catholic hate group the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to their Gay Pride Night game on June 16th.
00:43:05.000The Tampa Bay Rays were the first MLB team to announce that players would not wear any rainbow-colored patches or jerseys during the June Pride game this year.
00:43:12.000The league kept this change to its Pride celebrations very quiet.
00:43:15.000They basically just gave a dispensation to teams that they didn't have to force it down on their players.
00:43:19.000The reason that happened is because players said no.
00:44:56.000I'm wondering why, you know, what the guy's teeth look like are the real deciding factor for her considering in publicly available materials of her, like, what makes her horny.
00:45:07.000We have some publicly available evidence of this and apparently, you know, facial recognition is not an element of that.
00:45:16.000I'm going to put that as subtly as I possibly can for the minors in the audience.
00:45:22.000In any case, I think that means that if teeth are her big turn-on, it's time.
00:45:26.000It's time for us to take a walk down memory lane with Kim Kardashian's ex-boyfriends and husbands, and we'll determine, based on teeth structure, whether these are good partners.
00:45:37.000So, this is a person named Damian Thomas, who is a Grammy-nominated music producer.
00:48:14.000So he was on Keeping Up with the Kardashians and they had a huge fairytale wedding and the fairytale ended with disaster as per her usual arrangement.
00:49:07.000And so, she dated him post-tooth work.
00:49:09.000So, apparently, like, if teeth are her thing, then the average human I don't know if they had their wisdom teeth removed, but most adults have like 32 teeth.
00:49:21.000And I believe the number of men that we just went through was, if I count correctly, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.