On this week's episode of the Drunk Tank, the crew talks about the recent Supreme Court ruling against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, how the Supreme Court is trying to take away the right to vote in America's elections, and much, much more!
00:03:17.000Look, Venezuela, you know what's going on there, kind of.
00:03:19.000You know that it's not a real election.
00:03:21.000Sorry, most free and fair election for Venezuela.
00:03:24.000You may not know that this is a creation of the left's own making, directly connecting back to former Vice President Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:03:33.000We have a story here about, I don't know if you know this, Facebook decided, or people there took it upon themselves to remove the single most iconic picture of this election campaign, the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.
00:03:44.000They removed it, or censored it, I should say, as misinformation.
00:03:47.000And they said, sorry, we were wrong about that.
00:06:50.000Some of you may understand that if you've ever watched Schoolhouse Rock, but apparently it's lost on him that we have three branches of government.
00:07:10.000So these are the proposed reforms and people are talking about one or two of them but again the issue to me that is so troubling is this is an administration and it parallels what you're talking about with Venezuela in a lot of ways.
00:07:22.000This to me is actual tyranny if again it's not what the left does in a system of checks and balances because they want to do away with the checks and balances it's what would the left in this country do if they had power completely unfettered well the good news is you can tell by what they are saying they want to do today i'm calling for three bold reforms i'm calling for binding code of conduct for the supreme court under the reform i propose
00:07:51.000Justice would be required to disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity,
00:07:58.000recuse themselves in cases in which they have, they or their spouses have a financial
00:08:47.000Remember I've talked about this, no one else really discussed this.
00:08:50.000Before we get to the presidential immunity and the constitutional amendment, he wanted to raise taxes, right, on everybody earning more than $400,000 a year.
00:09:37.000He has no understanding of our constitutional republic, which by the way, again, the three separate branches and the Supreme Court is supposed to be set and apart completely.
00:10:05.000Term limits, when it is designed to be separate and apart.
00:10:08.000There's a reason that they don't have the term limits for the Supreme Court, so they don't have to run for re-election every few years, which may dictate how they rule on law.
00:10:16.000This is an actual subversion of the way our government, from really its inception and then being reiterated by people throughout American history, how it's meant to operate.
00:10:27.000Now let's get to what pisses me off most and what I think is just... It's tyranny.
00:10:40.000Because the Supreme Court said, yeah, the president does have presidential immunity because he needs to be able to act, for example, if you're talking about wars and making executive decisions.
00:10:49.000Sometimes you make mistakes and not being tried afterwards for those mistakes.
00:10:52.000If that happened to be the case, Barack Obama would still be behind bars.
00:10:55.000Just to be clear, I don't think that he should be.
00:10:59.000That's the reason for it, but he wants a constitutional amendment.
00:11:01.000He wants to change our constitution because he's afraid of Donald Trump becoming president.
00:11:06.000The good news is, hey, former Vice President Biden, unlike you who prosecute your political opponents, I don't know if you remember this, President Trump said he would actually offer a pardon to your dickhead son.
00:11:29.000You have, under the Obama administration, the IRS was targeting conservative groups.
00:11:34.000They were also freezing politically disfavored businesses out of banking.
00:11:38.000This was called Operation Choke Point, if you remember.
00:11:39.000They prevented firearms dealers from doing businesses with banks.
00:11:42.000You had the Obama administration spying on Donald Trump's incoming administration.
00:11:45.000You had the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
00:11:48.000You had the Biden administration actually prosecuting people there January 6th, and I know what you're saying.
00:11:54.000No, I'm not even talking about people who pushed down a fence.
00:11:56.000I'm talking about people spending months in prison for making phone calls on that day.
00:12:02.000You had the Donald Trump classified documents case.
00:12:04.000Of course, rules for thee, not for me, when he had them next to his gremlin in his garage.
00:12:08.000I know it wasn't a gremlin, it was a Corbett, whatever the hell, I don't care.
00:12:11.000He, of course, said that he was going to play an active role, and then you saw New York pass a law that allowed E. Jean Carroll's psychopath, who named her cat Vagina, to sue Donald Trump.
00:12:24.000The persecution of Donald Trump's real estate valuation, saying that Mar-a-Lago was worth... It was a crime for them to claim that Mar-a-Lago was worth more than 18 million dollars, even though the bank and Donald Trump agreed upon it, and the loan was paid back with interest.
00:12:38.000And then you have Alvin Bragg's falsifying of documents.
00:13:10.000Can you imagine being President of the United States and knowing that you are going to be basically tried and put in prison by the political opponents?
00:13:19.000That would effectively end the executive branch.
00:14:13.000And you can read, this is something that has been discussed and reiterated throughout history.
00:14:16.000Contrast that with, again, not only founders, but people since then have routinely discussed and encouraged and pushed for term limits for what?
00:14:26.000Here you go, Federalist Papers, page 53.
00:14:29.000James Madison said, A few of the members of Congress will, by frequent re-elections, be thoroughly masters of the public business and perhaps not unwilling to avail themselves of those advantages.
00:14:39.000They were constantly talking about, hold on a second, we may need to change these people out because, God forbid, one of them become a lifetime public servant, uh, suckling at the public... Imagine if you could get into a DeLorean and show them former Vice President Biden's resume.
00:14:52.000James Madison would shoot you in the face with a musket.
00:15:10.000He's doing this because he actually really likes our constitutional republic.
00:15:13.000He wants to undergird it, except for the fact That former Vice President Biden has said out loud that he has taken part in passing laws that flagrantly disregard the Constitution and the pesky Supreme Court will strike it down.
00:15:29.000In recent years, extreme opinions that the Supreme Court has handed down have undermined long-established civil rights principles and protections.
00:15:40.000In 2013, Supreme Court of Shelby County case gutted the Voting Rights Act.
00:15:46.000In 2022, the court overruled Roe v. Wade.
00:15:50.000The following year, the same court eviscerated affirmative action.
00:15:54.000Yeah, that sounds like a guy who wants to strengthen the court.
00:15:57.000Maybe we have another clip where he might be talking about how he was aligned with the court and, you know, rule of law and the original intent of our government.
00:16:06.000The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says That it's not likely to pass constitutional muster.
00:16:14.000But at a minimum, by the time it gets litigated, we'll probably give some additional time while we're getting that $45 billion out to people who are, in fact, behind in the rent.
00:17:35.000This is designed just to get the left foaming at the mouth.
00:17:38.000Nothing's actually going to happen, but again, these are the true sentiments from his fragile, old, about-to-beat-its-last-beat heart.
00:17:47.000He also, by the way, Tried to pass student loan forgiveness, which he knew was unconstitutional and would have been the greatest wealth transfer from the executive branch at that point in recent memory because the people who would benefit would largely be white upper middle class people.
00:18:02.000And of course, let's not separate what Biden has said from Kamala, who went on to say this, saying, there is a clear crisis of confidence facing the Supreme Court as its fairness has been called into question by you!
00:18:17.000After numerous ethics scandals and decisions, after decision overturning long-standing precedent.
00:19:11.000I'm going to nail down the truth because there's no way that Kamalai didn't know that former Vice President Biden was sick.
00:19:19.000You're going to tell me that that woman walking through the West Wing didn't see that guy crap in his pants, not able to string a sentence together.
00:20:24.000Let's encapsulate this really quickly.
00:20:26.000You have a man who really was not running the country, of course, we all know.
00:20:30.000We don't know who's running the country, we just know that it's not former Vice President Biden.
00:20:34.000You have a man who was so upset because he wasn't able to usurp the authority of the court to steal your tax dollars and forcibly give them to other people amidst a largely fabricated pandemic.
00:20:45.000I don't mean the virus, I mean the actual pandemic and the consequences thereafter.
00:20:49.000And when those Those tactics didn't work.
00:20:52.000He now decides to effectively try, and even though he won't be able to, create new laws that would corrode the very institution of the Supreme Court while blaming you for not trusting your institutions.
00:21:25.000So trust what it is that they say, but don't trust the actual institutions, the checks and balances that were created from the inception of this country.
00:21:34.000And they want you to believe that Donald Trump is the dictator.
00:21:48.000You have been targeted at least once, whether it's the IRS, whether it's this administration, or the previous administration, Barack Obama, working hand-in-hand with big tech to censor you.
00:21:55.000At some point, you have been targeted because of your political points of view, and they have said, we need more of it, not less.
00:22:01.000That's what this is about, and they want complete unfettered power to do it.
00:22:06.000Speaking of complete unfettered power...
00:22:09.000I don't know if you know this, but your strength actually in the gym will go up by 12%.
00:22:27.000Like, does the... Have you seen those people, people watching me?
00:22:31.000In powerlifting, they have categories where you have a world record and you have a world record that's like a thousand pounds more because someone wears a bench-assisting shirt.
00:22:38.000It's like, well, I can do it with a crane!
00:22:41.000It makes you walk around with your arms straight?
00:27:08.000So the opposition party there claimed the figures that Maduro only got 2.7 million votes when they got 6.2 million votes.
00:27:18.000I know what you're saying, this is a dictator said, opponent said situation.
00:27:22.000But there is some actual independent exit polling which showed Maduro getting 14 to 31 percent of the vote and the opposition getting 65 percent of the vote which of course much more closely tracks with the opposition who was trounced by the man currently in charge who also gets to count the votes.
00:27:52.000Yeah, it's really easy to stay in, not easy to get back in.
00:27:55.000So, typically a dictator says, trust your institutions, and they are the ones in charge of the institutions, right, and then they never give up power.
00:28:03.000Donald Trump did the exact opposite and said, there's some corruption in your institutions, you shouldn't blindly trust them, I think there's some foul play, but I'll give up power.
00:28:15.000The people who tell you, hold on a second, you shouldn't trust the people in charge necessarily.
00:28:21.000The people who say, you know what, you should be able to question them freely and be able to exchange information freely.
00:28:26.000The people who say, also I want you to be able to protect yourself from these institutions should they become corrupt by keeping your guns.
00:28:34.000Typically not the actions of a dictator.
00:28:40.000So then, of course, you saw some massive anti-Maduro protests where it does seem like they had a meeting and said, we're going to focus on the statue tearing.
00:28:51.000Maduro is not going to fool anyone with this number of votes.
00:29:40.000Also, allegedly, we cannot verify this, there was a meeting of the opposition party and the protesters, and they're at a little bit of a disagreement here.
00:29:48.000They find themselves at a fork in the road where one side distinctly believes they should focus on tearing down statues, and the other side is like, we have to vary this a little bit.
00:30:21.000Also, by the way, I should note that, I don't know if you know this, Maduro, the regime of Maduro, which, by the way, is an extension of Chavez that was praised, you just saw, by Sean Penn and Oliver Stone and Bernie Sanders and Michael Moore.
00:30:31.000They do control the National Election Council, so you should trust your institution's freest and most fair, secure election of all time.
00:30:37.000Unless you count the fact that the top opposition candidate, Maria Machado, was actually banned from running.
00:30:44.000It's almost like, hey, it's almost like they tried to do that here and ban their opponent from running.
00:31:06.000That's one of the first things they did in Venezuela, was they reformed the judiciary to make sure that it was fighting for the people, so that they could keep people out.
00:31:14.000This is exactly what's happened in Brazil.
00:31:16.000This is the playbook, absolutely 100% line by line.
00:32:50.000And so have the governments who have allied the leftist governments with corrupt Supreme Courts of Brazil with the Biden-Harris administration.
00:34:50.000I don't know if you know, but like he's calling Elon Musk a fascist for opening up his platform to more freedom of speech and doing nothing more than calling him, Maduro, a clown.
00:35:02.000While calling him the enemy of the people and wanting to silence any voices of dissent and even banning his political opposition for running.
00:35:10.000They accuse you of doing exactly what it is they're running.
00:35:12.000He is a socialist, communist, fascist.
00:38:45.000Now the United States, now they're expressing serious concern as though you don't remember what they did just a little bit of time ago.
00:38:55.000We've seen the announcement just a short while ago by the Venezuelan Electoral Commission.
00:39:00.000We have serious concerns that the result announced does not reflect the will or the votes of the Venezuelan people.
00:39:09.000It's critical that every vote be counted fairly Yes, it's very important that you share the result of the election with the opposition and tabulate it, as opposed to saying, like, I don't know what happened, but the election's done, so it's a moot.
00:39:21.000and that the electoral authorities publish the detailed tabulation of votes.
00:39:53.000You could say that, okay, if you hadn't had the least transparent election and prosecuted your political opponents, right, if you hadn't done that, and they only did it, for example, in Venezuela, you would have a leg to stand on, except that you supported Venezuela directly, too!
00:40:14.000Which brings us to key fact three, what the Biden-Harris administration did to prop up this prick.
00:40:19.000October 2023, the Biden-Harris regime rolled back unbelievable sanctions on Venezuelan oil.
00:40:26.000I don't know if you know this, a big reason that we may need some of their oil is because we're not We're drilling to the same degree that we were under Donald Trump.
00:40:32.000We had more leases revoked than ever before.
00:40:34.000The increase in oil production that you see is because of leftover leases from Donald Trump.
00:40:39.000And Kamala Harris, by the way, said she was going to ban fracking.
00:40:42.000So they removed sanctions on Venezuelan oil.
00:40:46.000At the time, even Reuters called the move the most extensive rollback of Trump-era restrictions on
00:41:17.000It gives you context, it lets you know that there's a rollback, but what was this administration rolling back?
00:41:22.000Oh, Trump-era restrictions, meaning this administration is allowing more money to be funneled To what they now acknowledge as a undemocratic socialist shithole, but we can't use the term shithole.
00:41:34.000It's not too much money though, is it?
00:41:40.000Three billion in six months, which to the country of Venezuela, it's like if you- it's like more money than God.
00:41:47.000If you were a child and you were given a- it would be like if you were a child and you were given an allowance, like when you're let's say eight years old, of three billion.
00:42:09.000Can we make sure we get that on social?
00:42:11.000If people want to understand what is happening in Venezuela, the Reuters byline here, I don't know if it's a paragraph, was it the headline?
00:42:19.000The most extensive rollback of Trump-era restrictions on Caracas.
00:44:23.00053% live in extreme poverty, which means, to give you context, $2.15 a day, on average, is what you're talking about with extreme poverty there.
00:44:32.000Extreme poverty in the states here, you know, you're covered with a $1.50 cup from Wendy's of Chile every now and then.
00:45:38.000So the socialism that you see in Venezuela is really the exact kind of socialism that you see supported, not only from the Democratic Party, not only from Bernie Sanders, but keep in mind, they're trying to whitewash this, Kamala Harris was rated as the most liberal member of her branch of government for quite a while.
00:45:58.000Some people start out on first base, some people start out on third base.
00:46:02.000And if the goal is truly about equality, it has to be about a goal of saying everybody should end up in the same place.
00:46:08.000And since we didn't start in the same place, some folks might need more equitable distribution.
00:46:14.000So there's a big difference between equality and equity.
00:46:18.000Equality suggests, oh, everyone should get the same amount.
00:47:23.000I'm willing to bet, take race, put it aside, that that black man who effectively commandeered the white man's rope He's an asshole!
00:47:32.000And here's the difference, it's not, she says, equity, equality is where we want everyone to have the same amount, and equity, no, and equity is where we want them to end at the same place.
00:51:49.000I genuinely can't think of one. And has there ever been a photo
00:51:52.000in modern election history that has inspired more people?
00:51:56.000When you have people on the left including people like I believe it was even Mark Zuckerberg saying this is pretty badass.
00:52:04.000When you have everyone kind of unilaterally agreeing saying yeah this is pretty inspiring I think America needed that to see a guy get back up.
00:52:10.000Would you be able to definitively make the statement that that photo is consequential?
00:52:17.000Hey just picture other photos throughout history Put them in your minds, whether it's, you know, the famous Ali poster with Foreman, or, I mean, I'm sure there are, you know, the famous Churchill poster.
00:52:28.000There are so many posters that you can think of in your mind, or photos.
00:53:18.000Well, uh, their, their, uh, communications spokesperson, Danny Lever, admitted it on X. The censorship, the flagging, saying, this was an error.
00:53:27.000This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the Secret Service agent smiling and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo.
00:53:37.000This has been fixed and we apologize for the mistake.
00:53:40.000No, no, no, you've been caught because there's never been a mistake at Facebook, at Meta, there's never been one at YouTube or Google that favors Trump, that favors conservatism, that favors freedom.
00:53:53.000How do the mistakes always line up on one side of the issue?
00:53:57.000And at what point is it considered election interference?
00:54:41.000Now, Facebook, in their defense, because I'm a fair person, they have been right in the past where there have been some deepfake pictures that were circulating.
00:54:49.000You might remember some of them, but a great example is the infamous Crack Einstein.
00:55:29.000We're going to get to the white dudes for Kamala.
00:55:35.000I don't know how much longer we can continue on this path with our country.
00:55:42.000And by the way, I understand, it's not lost on me, I'm not a doomsday person as far as your general quality of life, the fact that you have air conditioning, access to medical care, life expectancy, the choices that you have available, you're certainly better off than people Who lived in the 1940s or 50s or even 60s, that's not lost on me.
00:56:01.000What I'm talking about is, I don't know how long we can continue on this path as a country where it used to be the right and the left, different ways to kind of get to an end result.
00:56:12.000It's becoming increasingly clear to me when you see what they're trying to do with the Supreme Court, when you see the dictatorships and the socialist regimes that are Undergirded, propped up by exclusively, really, the left in this country.
00:56:24.000We don't share the same vision for the United States of America.
00:56:29.000I was just thinking about this the other day.
00:56:30.000We're doing a current piece where we're going to spot American flags at people's houses and on their cars and asking their political affiliation.
00:56:45.000If you look at these polls right now, and I think this is what's defining the difference between the left and the right, and people say, why do you have to go left or right?
00:56:51.000Because the polls show there's a divide, and it's largely by left and right.
00:56:55.000People on the right are the ones who answer that they're not, and I think, and you can comment below if this is you, that we're not thrilled with the direction of the country.
00:57:02.000We think that the country is headed the wrong direction.
00:57:05.000The same people who say the country is headed the wrong direction, conservatives, are the same people who still wave that flag.
00:57:12.000The people on the left who answer, we think the direction of the country, it's headed the right way, are the people who hide it.
00:57:20.000Because when they say that we are headed the right direction in this country, they mean away from America.
00:57:26.000The reason that conservatives think we're headed the wrong direction is because they still love this country, and they want this country to continue being what it has been.
00:57:33.000The greatest, most free country in the history of the world.
00:57:37.000So they say, I don't like where the country's headed right now, but by God, I'm proud of that flag, and they wave it.
00:57:42.000The left says, I'm happy where we're headed right now, and I'm gonna hide that flag because, God willing, hopefully at some point, we will no longer be the United States of America.
00:57:51.000Look at the difference Between Maduro and this administration, and yes, I lumped them together, and us, and you, and President Trump, and conservatives, on big tech.
00:58:02.000Big tech is absolutely, right now, still the biggest threat to a free people, to a constitutional republic.
00:58:23.000I have a problem with Big Tech and think they are a threat to a constitutional republic.
00:58:27.000Conservatives think that because of the hiding and throttling of information.
00:58:32.000I think that it's a threat to a free people, for example, to punt a story and label it as Russian disinformation like the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:58:40.000Or, for example, to say that the picture of Donald Trump getting up from an assassination attempt is misleading.
00:58:46.000Or, for example, removing people who question, at the time, that a virus may have come from a lab in China, which turns out it probably did.
00:58:54.000I think that big tech is a threat to a free people when there is a lack of information, when they silence people.
00:59:01.000This administration and people like Maduro out there hate Elon Musk.
00:59:06.000They hate and sue and threaten Rumble.
00:59:43.000Big Tech is the enemy because of the silencing of voices of political opposition.
00:59:47.000This is why I don't know that if this is tenable, we are on two very different paths as a country.
00:59:53.000And one path, you have people who fly their flag.
00:59:57.000Who love this country, who've always loved this country, but don't like the direction of it right now.
01:00:01.000And their solution is to, at least in their mind, whether you agree or not, get back to the most fundamental principles that made us that shining city on a hill.
01:00:39.000We want the United States, one path wants the United States to be anything other than what has made the United States unique.
01:00:46.000Think of it this way, when you hear people from Canada who are on this show often, or people from Europe, And we've had them here, people from Brazil.
01:00:54.000They come in and what do they always say, these people?
01:01:00.000If America decides that they're going to go down the path of no longer allowing freedom of speech, if America doesn't actually have the First Amendment, it's done for the world.
01:01:09.000It's done for the world because it's the last place that exists.
01:01:12.000That's what these people who are coming to America because they love America and they see it as a beacon of freedom, that's their concern.
01:01:19.000The other path is, we've got to remove that beacon and be just like them and the places that they're leaving.
01:01:47.000I don't mean exaggerated about numbers.
01:01:50.000I don't mean saying the jobs report was slightly better.
01:01:52.000I mean lied to the American people and told you that you had a man who was fit as a fiddle in office with his finger on the button and had the nuclear codes and you had nothing to be worried about until it became so undeniable That they swapped him out without a democratic process to save democracy.
01:02:09.000And on the other side, you do have a guy who, despite all of his flaws, even if you don't like him, has had an uphill battle and absolutely had to go through a process that threw up every single smokescreen and roadblock they could, including his political opposition, in trying to fabricate new laws.
01:02:29.000We have A group of people who fly the flag, and I mean it, are patriots because they want America to return to the country that it's always been, and one side that wants to do away with what they view America as a place that was, but needs to sunset now.