Episode 117 – SCOTUS Hands GOP Major Victory in Wisconsin. Philly Mobs Attacks Police. Illegal Big Tech Collusion.
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In this week's Hot Takes, we continue to follow the fallout from yesterday's deadly shooting by police officers in Philadelphia, a major Supreme Court decision that could affect the outcome of the election in Wisconsin, and there are now riots in the city.
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news i'm out on the trail
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today in the great state of arizona campaigning alongside my good friends senator ran paul and
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senator mike lee and we're specifically talking to liberty lovers who need to be for the president
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if we want to preserve american liberty and american way of life senator lee senator paul
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myself we're willing to take on the establishment and the leadership in both parties to ensure that
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america doesn't become a surveillance state to ensure that we don't engage in endless foreign wars
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and to preserve the choices that americans have to dictate the outcomes in their own lives
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we've got a major supreme court decision that will influence the way in which ballots are counted in
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the state of wisconsin i want to report on the supreme court deciding five three that in the state
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of wisconsin the statute that allowed ballot counting after the election day was not permissible was not
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legal there was a similar question before the supreme court as it related to a pennsylvania law
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in that case the pennsylvania law stood chief justice roberts joining the liberals on the court to allow
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that lower court decision the pennsylvania supreme court to stand but here roberts joins the conservatives
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the decision is five three and it looks like we can count this win as a significant one in the state
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wisconsin a state that will undeniably have a very close vote count i know the president is counting
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on winning wisconsin he's campaigning hard there and if we're not counting ballots you know days weeks
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after the election i think the president's got a pretty good shot
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there are now riots in philadelphia we pick up the story from abc news take a listen we continue to
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follow the fallout from yesterday's deadly shooting by police officers in west philadelphia
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officers shot and killed 27 year old walter wallace jr after they say he refused to drop a knife
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his mother was just feet from her son when he was shot the shooting sparked outrage which led to
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violence and looting late last night and into the morning right now we're getting a new look at some
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of that unrest more than 30 people were detained and at least 30 police officers were injured here's my
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hot take these riots do not help the cause of the democrats increasingly persuadable voters
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suburban voters female voters are not comfortable with any political movement that embraces riots and
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destruction we see some of that happening in wisconsin some of my colleagues in congress have
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called it the kenosha effect where the risk to safety and security and normal life has caused a lot
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of folks to abandon woketopian politics for order for security for normalcy in philadelphia right now
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we don't see that could it impact the election in one of the most important swing states in the country
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stocks could plummet if joe biden is elected president that's the warning from jp morgan chase
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fox business has the story reported by jonathan garber and we remember following president trump's
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victory over hillary clinton the immediate surge in the stock market that could be undone it could
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be reversed according to the analysis by jp morgan an orderly trump win would propel the benchmark
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s p 500 index higher by 13 percent to approximately 3 900 wrote members of the jp team under that scenario
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the strategists think deep value sectors like energy and financials could benefit due to a large short
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squeeze on the other hand they say a victory by biden could cause investors to take profits in the
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high-flying tech stocks and offshore them move them elsewhere joe biden has in fact said that he plans
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to reverse the trump tax cuts that gave every incentive for capital to be here in our country contributing to
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the investment and wages and additional branch offices and opportunities for our fellow americans
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so let's not undo the progress of the trump era let's not undo the tax cuts that have jolted our
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economy to the hottest in the world before the coronavirus pandemic and heed the warning of those
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who say that beijing biden could be bad for americans holding stock
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is a texas-based chemical company contributing to the drug trade and specifically the cocaine trade
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bloomberg business week has the story narcos are waging a new drug war over a basic texas company's
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chemical tetra technologies wanted to boost sales of calcium chloride that's the chemical a compound with lots
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of commercial applications now colombian drug lords are asking for it by name so in this story it
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chronicles how production of cocaine particularly in columbia is going way up that this calcium chloride
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is an important element of the rendering of the coca off of the cocaine leaves and increasingly as the
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columbian drug lords are becoming more vertically integrated they're interested in that more efficient
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production process they're unable to buy direct from the united states of course we would figure that
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out and so this particular bloomberg piece chronicles how a texas-based company will send
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this particular chemical to europe and then the drug lords are asking for it so they have the opportunity
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to use it in their processes fascinating story in line with the increased production out of columbia
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and certainly will get the attention of some in our government
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i've talked on the podcast before about the dangers of fast fashion these are clothes that are you know
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just indescribably inexpensive obviously made offshore oftentimes with child labor with low
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environmental standards and i just don't think it's all that patriotic you know to buy a you know seven
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or eight dollar article of clothing that you know has contributed to the destruction of the planet
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to the exploitation of our fellow human beings and that's why we encourage folks to build american to buy
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american to enhance the success and opportunity for our fellow americans and there were some who believed
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that this fast fashion dynamic would negatively be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and initially that
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was in fact the case the coronavirus pandemic reduced in person in-store sales of fashion clothing and the like
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by like 70 percent that is a remarkable impact on the marketplace but now according to a piece in new statesman dot com
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why even the pandemic couldn't kill fast fashion and the analysis there is that as people were making more of their
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purchases online more of the overall share of clothing purchases are in fact coming from abroad with
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those reduced standards with that lax enforcement of the types of rules that we would enforce here in our
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country for the benefit of our people so fast fashion surviving as people have moved away from
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in-store purchases of clothing to online purchases it has helped those abroad and harmed our fellow americans
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would joe biden rotate supreme court justices to get the outcomes that he wants from the court
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the new york post has the reporting on a campaign stop joe biden quoted as entertaining the idea
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suggesting that it may be possible it may be something that he uses and we're quoting biden here
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directly it's a lifetime appointment i'm not going to attempt to change that at all but he added
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there is some literature among constitutional scholars about the possibility of going from one court
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to another court not just always staying the whole time in the supreme court this is just so the left today
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when they don't get their way they want to change the rules and then they expect donald trump and all the
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republicans to follow the rules in technicolor while they break them and while they accuse us of attacking
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our institutions the supreme court is a heralded institution it quite literally is the highest
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court in the land and yet instead of respecting that instead of understanding that that's a critical
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part of our jurisprudence it looks like joe biden wants to play musical chairs with the top legal minds
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in our country and musical chairs with the court itself this does more violence to our institutions
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and to our dispute resolution process than they ever accused donald trump of doing
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on 60 minutes joe biden says the recent revelations regarding his son and their corrupt business deals
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in ukraine with china and elsewhere are a smear campaign a smear campaign instituted by you guessed it
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russia here's the former vice president you believe the recent leak of material allegedly
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from hunter's computer is part of a russian disinformation campaign from what i've read and
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know the intelligence community warned the president that giuliani was being fed disinformation
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from the russians and we also know that putin is trying very hard to spread disinformation about
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joe biden and so when you put the combination of russia giuliani the president together um it's just
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what it is it's a smear campaign the president addressed this directly on the campaign trail
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here's president trump one document shows a plan to take money from chinese state-owned enterprises
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this i'll tell you what this laptop is a disaster for them how the hell did he ever let go of this
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sucker you know he put it to a he gotta have it fixed i guess he forgot to pick it up what the hell
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he said it's russia did it it's russia russia oh russia they probably think we are the wackiest people
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i said what do we do now he created a laptop for hunter biden with pictures and all
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tim murtaugh one of the national spokespeople for the trump campaign
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had some hot takes on chris cuomo's program take a listen and enjoy i just matched your points brother
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go ahead don't waste your time chris your own your your own brother the governor of new york said that
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every time he turned to the administration the federal government was there with everything he
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did not say that everything that is not what happened yes he absolutely yes he absolutely did
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he said i went to the federal government they helped me with things they did not help with
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everything they're still not helping go ahead my brother what let's talk your brother predicted
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your brother your brother predicted a ventilator shortage he said he needed 40 000 ventilators or
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people would die that shortage never materialized because the president engaged the private sector
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and the government to create the equipment the ppe the gowns the gloves and the ventilators that we
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need and so listen chris i find it curious speaking of your brother you're going to ask me these
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self-righteous questions and talk about people taking it seriously does this look like a couple of guys who
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were taking it seriously you had your brother on for the cuomo brothers comedy hour they're joking
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about the size of the q-tip that you would need for his nose yeah i did it was funny does this sound
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like somebody who was taking it very seriously tim let me tell you the president has done this every
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step of the way tim i got every step of the way and he's
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is there illegal collusion in big tech that's the question asked by the new york times and
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the story details the negotiations between tim cook the ceo of apple and sundar pichai the ceo
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of google and what is at issue here is whether or not google would be selected as the premier search
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tool on apple's iphone of course apple dominates the phone market and as the department of justice
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has launched a historic and unprecedented investigation into violations of our nation's
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antitrust laws by apple and google certainly the two of them working together to create this type of
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really almost vertical integration it locks out innovation it limits access to products and
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increasingly that is what americans see from big tech platforms enriching themselves limiting consumer
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choice and trying to control what we see and what we think and therefore how we act and behave i think
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the department of justice is going to have a lot of interest in the tim cook sundar pichai meetings
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interactions and deals that could screw americans thanks for listening to hot takes i'm congressman
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