00:01:54.320let's go akira yay i think akira is gonna be oh am i muted now i think akira is gonna be coming
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00:17:39.500Now, I have no problem with the Trans Day of Visibility,
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00:17:47.380So the photo is a split screen of Biden looking, you know, cluelessly like Biden does.
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00:18:11.980so that was the photo that they included
00:19:07.100Do you wonder what their meetings are like?
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00:21:24.540oh my god i love it i love the dad joke and started from robots read news it's so good to
00:21:31.980hear him laugh isn't it you guys oh oh and don't you love that when he would go off on a tangent
00:21:37.880like that i do i mean it was just great to hear him laugh and um it just made you know the news
00:21:44.120really fun so oh it was a good time it was all right so also in ballroom news i want to go right
00:21:51.380into this. So I just want to play a, um, a clip from the smartest Democrat, uh, that we have out
00:22:00.260there right now. So let's enjoy this and then we'll wrap up ballroom news. Well, it's, it's
00:22:06.800important for a couple of different reasons. Now, when I was just trying to navigate to the table,
00:22:11.960I mean, it's so packed. I mean, you could barely just move around. So it was already kind of
00:22:16.820dangerous for any reasons. And I had the top with the speaker, Johnson. I ran into Rubio. I ran in
00:22:28.520essentially the entire line of succession was there. And I'm thinking, wow, they were all
00:22:33.360really just clustered in about 200 yards. And that seemed like there could be a risk,
00:22:38.620but I never thought there'd be an actual assassination attempt coming. And then finally,
00:22:43.140than when it happened. I'm like, it's very, very clear. This facility was never designed to have
00:22:48.200the kind of events like this, to have the kind of individuals in that line of succession. So,
00:22:53.840and I know, I think the real reason why people are fighting to build that ballroom, it's the TDS,
00:23:00.040just because the president happens to agree, as I do, that we need a new ballroom facility
00:23:05.800for events just like this. Why can't we just agree? Let's just build this thing and we move on.
00:23:11.900And now we create the kinds of place that you can have more inclusive, more secure, and more frequent kinds of organized kinds of events just like this and more.
00:43:48.660Um, so basically there is a Virginia versus black and counterman V Colorado
00:43:55.020that they would prosecute threats required a serious expression of intent
00:43:59.160to commit an unlawful violence where the speaker consciously disregards
00:44:04.620the substantial risk and will, uh, want that, um, to be done like the act,
00:44:12.200but we don't know everything, you know?
00:44:14.500And I know that people were pointing out that he even wrote, James Comey even wrote a book about this. I'm not familiar with it.
00:44:21.860So the book part is potentially relevant here. Apparently this 8647 post was like a week before his book release and his book release was about political assassinations. I think it was probably fiction or something. I'm certainly not going to read it, but it seemed like it was right on that topic.
00:44:42.080So I think it does tie into it and I think there is some thought that at least one of
00:44:46.240the consequences of this would be that they would also be able to cease his book profits
00:44:49.460from that because they were saying he was sort of using this threat against the president
00:45:37.540So I think that we just need to see this anyway,
00:45:40.480whether anything will come of this I mean we're always like doubtful but I feel like Walter was
00:45:46.320right like let's just go let's see what happens do you think there's any of that happening I think
00:45:51.000so I mean I do kind of agree with the process is the punishment I've posted that myself and about
00:45:56.120this case and it's like you know to me it's sort of fair play to say you guys did every possible
00:46:01.900lawfare thing you can imagine including even changing the law just so that you could prosecute
00:46:06.800trump after the statute of limitations for something and you even said it's just going
00:46:11.420to expire after that like it was just a custom written law just to go prosecute trump and
00:46:16.740so you know when you see these extreme things that the other side has done to try and lawfare
00:46:22.280the president i'm not going to say oh we can't do anything like that i mean it's just you're it's
00:46:27.420like you gotta you gotta use your side when you have the power and um you know i think that's
00:46:33.840what a lot of people criticize the republicans for is just not really using the power when they
00:46:38.360have it and um you know i'm not saying we should just go after every democrat or any of that but
00:46:44.120i and i'm sure scott probably would have been against this one just because i can imagine he
00:46:48.460would say it's free speech and it's not the right thing and all that but at the same time i do think
00:46:53.620he recognized that you know you do need like i think he did talk about basically making some
00:46:58.880exceptions for certain people that were the ones that went after trump like if it's those people
00:47:03.460then you know it's fair game like yeah if they're going to do it to him then he can do it back to
00:47:08.700them specifically i could see scott being like i am all right with this like after what they put
00:47:13.180him and his family through scott opine about the previous comey indictment i believe or at least
00:47:20.900that's where the mutually assured destruction some of that came from is that the idea that you
00:47:26.300can lawfare people that caused so much pain because james comey did not only cause pain to
00:47:34.420trump but to the january sixers you know the people that were sitting in jail for for years
00:47:41.540and let's get real you know creating a law yeah i don't think hillary would mind seeing comey0.70
00:47:47.880getting trouble either. Just saying. Oh, no. Is he suicidal? Oh, I doubt it. He really loves1.00
00:47:57.680himself and thinks he's above it all. So, okay. So we have to keep an eye on that. So he did turn
00:48:04.860himself in and then, you know, he gets let go, but will there be a mug shot, Marcella? Will we see
00:48:09.760one um there should be eventually when i mean he didn't really nothing really happened to him he
00:48:18.780showed up and they they were like oh we'll release you you know um and so i don't think he was
00:48:26.080you know he didn't go through the regular system yeah because he wasn't jailed so
00:48:35.480He may come back on other charges at another time, too.
00:48:39.060I mean, if all the stuff Dan Bongino said was true about all the Russiagate documents and things that he found, to me that in itself might be smoking gun evidence that Comey was essentially trying to do a coup.
00:48:51.220I mean, I would say that rises to the level of treason with all the Russiagate stuff.
00:48:55.020And what he claimed on his podcast recently was that there was something like a hundred page document with footnotes and references and all sorts of things like with their whole plan.
00:49:03.840yeah and so you know that that was i think what he back when he was in office or working for the
00:49:10.980fbi was saying it shook him to his core like he that was what he was referring to and he's like
00:49:16.360i can't believe they actually wrote this stuff all down like and so i'm kind of hoping that
00:49:20.940there's a case building for that and i would imagine comey would be front and center there too
00:49:24.980i'd love to see it all right so i think it's time for gerrymandering
00:49:31.680who who wants it it's time for jerry it's time for gerrymandering news
00:49:39.540so much on the gerrymandering case um i mean it's up to you oh and do you want to do you want
00:49:47.800to give the the the news and then i can go into the legal parts of it okay well the supreme court
00:49:53.720ruled six to three that louisiana's uh racial gerrymandering was unconstitutional
00:50:00.120and it limits the Voting Rights Act that it was based on, I think, using it for a race-based
00:50:06.920district. I think it looks like Alito wrote that Section 2 doesn't require that district
00:50:14.680and that the race use itself violates equal protection. So I think it updates this previous
00:50:22.9001986 framework, which was Thornburg versus Gingles. And basically they're just saying
00:50:28.840that you can't use race as a criteria for uh redistricting and you know the the this could
00:50:36.360have a big ripple effect impact because there are a lot of states that did that they have these all
00:50:41.840you know weird shaped districts that are all about just getting a minority to have enough to get a
00:50:47.760seat where they wouldn't otherwise and it's very clear or obvious that it was all based on race
00:50:53.340And so I think it could end up with a lot of other redistrictings becoming unconstitutional, essentially, or being unconstitutional and that they'll have to redo them. And at least wherever the legislatures are controlled by Republicans, it kind of gives them an opening to say, okay, we can go redistrict because it's going to be approved because, you know, we have to get rid of this racial based gerrymandering and it could threaten a lot of the recent ones that were done in California and other places.
00:51:21.240So I think it could have a pretty big impact. I think it's maybe a question as to whether or not they can do all that by, for midterms, just because of where we are time-wise. And I think there was even some speculation that, I forget which one on the right or on the left side of the Supreme Court dissented.
00:51:42.120I think there was only one person that wrote the dissent or whatever, but I think the question
00:51:47.300was like, are they dragging their feet on writing the dissent just to delay the decision
00:51:52.980so that it would potentially make it too late for it to be put in place for midterms, which
00:51:58.660would be kind of really dirty politics.
00:52:00.120Yeah, I heard that too, that it was too late to change it now.
00:52:04.140It would affect the 2028 elections, but not the midterms, so that's good.
00:52:12.120right so it kind of secures the republicans from never taking over congress again which is the gist
00:52:21.900so what does our attorney say so basically they didn't get rid of the voting rights act but they
00:52:29.500you know as owen indicated they took away a lot of what it was used for which was to have uh racial
00:52:38.960gerrymandering so gerrymander didn't have a good time um basically was 63 uh guess who voted against
00:52:48.420it oh you know it's probably very genius justices um elena elena kagan sonia sotomayor and
00:52:59.260your favorite katanji no yeah you go katanji mj brown jackson accent look i can say it biden
00:53:09.680couldn't yeah so the world is ending um chuck schumer came out saying that striking down the
00:53:18.180racial gerrymandering is a despicable decision that returns us to the jim crow era
00:53:23.840it's exhausting so basically what they found you know is what should be um making race um not be
00:53:40.960not be the thing that would like we don't make uh a district just based on race like that would be
00:53:49.840racist that would be racist if i go oh okay i need to put the blue people and the green people
00:53:56.560and these people like you just wouldn't do that uh race cannot predominate that's the main change
00:54:03.040of section two of the voter rights act creating districts primarily based on race triggers strict
00:54:09.600scrutiny under the 14th amendment equal pretension clause what is strict scrutiny in order to pass
00:54:16.000strict scrutiny it's like the highest level um and basically not much passes strict scrutiny um
00:54:24.320and basically you need to require that districts are made with non uh predominantly non-racial um
00:54:36.640in non-racial ways like you cannot uh you know discriminate um basically to judge us by the
00:54:47.440content of our character not the color of our skin now it's like no judge us by the color of
00:54:52.800our skin and make special provisions because you know we want we want we want it's like no
00:54:58.640that is like we're not racist we're not a racist nation you know we're not doing it
00:55:03.280And, you know, it was enacted in 1965. We're a very different nation than in 1965. And the reason for the enactment of the Void of Rights Act was because of the Southern states were gerrymandering in order to avoid, in order to lessen the majority black vote.
00:55:30.860um but i mean we're in a different different i would hope but by 2026 we've come a long way
00:55:39.060um and you don't want to do that um but what was interesting is barack obama was not happy
00:55:46.360no which was very surprising because i guess he wants us to be biased racially um who else had a
00:55:58.820um oh your favorite senator from minnesota amy klobuchar gosh i can't pronounce these names
00:56:08.180um she just posted justin kagan's dissent and justin kagan's dissent makes absolutely rather
00:56:18.020no sense at least the portion that she posted it just said i dissent because congress elected
00:56:24.420otherwise. I dissent because the court betrays his duty to faithfully implement the great statute
00:56:29.960Congress wrote. So if Congress writes a statute that is discriminatory, then we must keep it.
00:56:40.820I guess from Justice Keegan, I guess that's what she's saying.
00:58:40.900Like, let's all play on the same field.
00:58:43.020um you know it's such a tantrum to watch the democrats really it's always a tantrum like
00:58:49.100we're not getting our way you know we want this we want that let's change the rules
00:58:52.500um it's i think we're over that as a nation uh you guys tried it it didn't work out we ended up
00:58:59.260with katanji brown jackson because of your rule changing and dei and blah blah blah so i think
00:59:08.100it's just time to return to be big boys and girls. And let's do everything by merit. Let's judge you
00:59:14.960by the character of who you are. And we're not going to do things based on race here. I just,
00:59:21.160I just think as a country, the majority of us would refuse to go along with something0.84
00:59:25.940that ludicrous. I hope. Okay. We have three minutes left. Is there any fun little tidbit0.64
00:59:33.000anyone wants to add in before we close out for the day oh owen or marcella well katie porter your
00:59:41.560favorite um governor uh to be uh in california candidate she sent out an email blast um a few
00:59:51.240days after this shooting assassination attempt on trump where she just the whole entire email was f
01:00:00.280trump f trump kill trump do things to trump um so i don't know if she's gonna face anything
01:00:06.840for the for the emails that she sent out that's interesting and the other tidbit is the tesla0.69
01:00:13.560this is just in a whole another section uh semi-trucks begin mass production um something
01:00:20.760that bill gates never believed would actually happen sawyer merit in on x wrote about how
01:00:28.120Bill Gates had always opposed the idea of there ever being electric semi trucks and that that would never actually work in the practical world. Well, now we're going to have them. Range would be small, little range, but it's going to be 500, the longer range trucks.
01:00:49.280and it it comes at a good time based on how gas prices are increasing and oil issues in the
01:00:57.920gulf and everything else um i don't the the email from katie porter was real i don't know that it
01:01:05.580said kill him i doubt it said kill him but it was the day after the assassination attempt and her
01:01:10.680response to that was f him like f him all the way to the bank i don't care you know like donate to0.96
01:01:16.620me like we don't care about him. So it was kind of like, don't care what happened to him. It was
01:01:21.180really disgusting and despicable. Okay. And on that happy slappy note, it's 1059 in my world0.89
01:01:28.680and we will be back tomorrow with BJ. So BJ joins us tomorrow to finish out another week,
01:01:36.240you guys, where is the time going? And what was I going to tell you? Oh, tomorrow. I think we need
01:01:43.140to cover the Leering Center. Somebody mentioned that in the chat and we will be. So Owen and
01:01:48.960Marcella, we all thank you for coming in today. And I thank Owen and Marcella for just being the
01:01:57.540best of the best. You guys, we will be back tomorrow morning. Let's always say thank you to
01:02:03.800Shelly and Scott for allowing this to keep going. And we're going to be useful. I can feel it. I can
01:02:09.820just see the usefulness in the chat. You guys are amazing. And always a closing sip to Scott.
01:02:16.000Say your goodbyes, guys. Say your goodbyes. All right. To Scott. To Scott. Be useful.