The Auron MacIntyre Show - SCOTUS Clears Path for Trump ｜ 3⧸4⧸24

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00:00:33.320 I am Oren McIntyre.

00:00:35.440 So today, the Supreme Court strikes down Colorado's attempt to ban Donald Trump from the ballot.

00:00:42.160 Remove the legitimate opposition to Joe Biden from the ballot.

00:00:47.880 This is important because multiple liberal states had followed suit in an attempt to go ahead and strike the former president from the ballot under the 14th Amendment.

00:00:58.100 We'll dive into all the details that are involved with that.

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00:02:36.220 All right, so like I said, the Colorado court had originally gone ahead and attempted to strip Donald Trump from the ballot.

00:02:44.820 Their Supreme Court had decided that he should not be eligible to appear on the state's ballot because of the 14th Amendment and its insurrection clause.

00:02:53.740 Again, as I have explained many times on the show, that language was always chosen by the Democrats, by the media.

00:02:59.880 This was not a mistake.

00:03:01.040 This was not some random occurrence where everyone had suddenly brought up this language that no one had ever used, even for people who had literally made plots against the United States government.

00:03:10.420 All of a sudden, the word insurrection has popped up everywhere.

00:03:13.300 That was always with the intention of driving home this idea that the 14th Amendment would prohibit Donald Trump from running for office a second time.

00:03:23.500 And that's why they went ahead and invoked it.

00:03:25.840 And Colorado ran with that logic and removed Donald Trump for the ballot or provisionally was going to do so.

00:03:32.220 Other states like Illinois were following suit.

00:03:34.700 And so it was very important that the Supreme Court go ahead and hear this case and make a decision on it.

00:03:39.660 Now, it's interesting that the way this came down was 9-0.

00:03:43.080 It is a unanimous decision in that it allows Trump to be reinstated on that ballot, says that Colorado should not have the ability to unilaterally remove presidential candidates from the ballot.

00:03:57.700 However, the way that decision was reached, the way that different justices got there, is important.

00:04:03.760 And so I want to dive into that in just a second.

00:04:06.100 The 9-0 decision was surprising to many.

00:04:09.900 Many people thought that it would be 7-2.

00:04:12.160 They weren't going to be surprised if radical justices like Sotomayor or Jackson went ahead and beclowned themselves by saying that Donald Trump should not appear on this ballot.

00:04:23.380 However, that's not what happened.

00:04:26.180 Now, the ruling came down, again, unanimous in its decision that they had that 9-0 decision.

00:04:32.120 However, while you wouldn't call this a dissent because everyone was in agreement that Colorado should not be removing Donald Trump from the ballot,

00:04:38.700 there were multiple versions of the opinion that people attached themselves to.

00:04:44.040 The three Democrat-appointed justices, Jackson, Sotomayor, and, of course, Kagan,

00:04:52.340 all decided that they wanted to say that basically a federal judge or some federal authority would have to go ahead and remove Trump from the ballot.

00:05:04.060 This isn't a decision that states should make.

00:05:07.020 Now, this sent a lot of Democrats spiraling out of control. 0.50

00:05:10.960 They got very angry at this decision.

00:05:13.500 Of course, they wanted to see Donald Trump get removed.

00:05:17.220 The Supreme Court was not ready to just go ahead and declare the republic over.

00:05:20.960 Obviously, having a Supreme Court just completely remove the political opposition from the ballot

00:05:27.300 or say that he is in some way unable to run under the 14th Amendment would kind of be the end of the illusion of constitutional law in the United States,

00:05:37.100 constitutional rule in the United States.

00:05:39.280 Now, we'll talk about why that may be over anyway here a little bit later,

00:05:43.840 but it is very clear if the Supreme Court went ahead and did that and made that decision outright or allowed states to make that decision by themselves,

00:05:52.180 that could create a real, very serious constitutional crisis.

00:05:57.180 A lot of Democrats, again, got very angry about this, but they forget the reason the 14th Amendment even exists.

00:06:03.020 The 14th Amendment is created, along with the 13th and 15th Amendments,

00:06:07.200 as part of what is usually termed the Civil War Amendments.

00:06:11.740 They come right after the North's victory in the Civil War during the Reconstruction period.

00:06:16.220 It's often called the Reconstruction Amendments as well.

00:06:18.840 And the purpose of that amendment is to make sure that a lot of people from the South,

00:06:23.760 a lot of people who had previously been a part of the Confederacy or the government,

00:06:29.640 these kind of things, did not suddenly populate the entirety of the federal government of the reconstituted United States.

00:06:38.480 So if you allowed states to decide whether or not things were valued as insurrection,

00:06:45.080 if the individual states got to make the decision,

00:06:47.860 that would kind of work against the original intent of the 14th Amendment.

00:06:51.500 If all of the Southern states get to decide whether or not someone is an insurrectionist,

00:06:55.540 well, then no one would have been an insurrectionist or they would have just made it people they didn't like.

00:07:01.220 And so the decision was always meant to be made at the federal level.

00:07:06.340 Now, a lot of people would argue, and I'd be one of them, that this is a usurpation of states' rights.

00:07:11.280 It's understandable, I suppose, under the circumstances, their motivation.

00:07:15.780 But this is very clearly one of the reasons that the 14th Amendment is a clear shift away

00:07:21.420 from the idea that states could have individual governance and there had to be a centralization at the federal level.

00:07:27.980 Again, you may say, well, that's understandable.

00:07:30.260 That has to be the way it is because of the historical circumstances.

00:07:33.480 And maybe you're right.

00:07:34.500 However, it's very clear that post-Civil War,

00:07:38.060 the idea that states could govern themselves was kind of dead and over.

00:07:41.760 We had decided that the 10th Amendment was done, 0.79

00:07:46.280 the Commerce Clause, the 14th Amendment,

00:07:48.120 these things are all going to just basically make it so that the federal government will make all of the decisions.

00:07:54.660 The idea that states would be able to determine many of these things for themselves

00:07:58.560 was kind of dead and over at this point.

00:08:01.180 But that is the actual reasoning.

00:08:02.760 So it's kind of funny that the Democrats are very angry

00:08:06.200 at the fact that the justices would look at the 14th Amendment and say,

00:08:10.000 no, clearly the intent was to have the federal courts or the federal authorities make those decisions,

00:08:18.320 and that would make them angry that individual states couldn't strip Donald Trump from the ballot

00:08:22.840 because, of course, the whole point of putting the authority in the hands of the federal government

00:08:27.320 was to go ahead and take it away from former Confederate states.

00:08:32.780 So they don't even understand the history.

00:08:34.380 They don't understand the motivation.

00:08:35.520 Or more importantly, even if they understand it, they just don't care.

00:08:38.640 Because you have to understand that the Democrats are interested in winning at any cost.

00:08:42.340 And to their credit, they don't mince words.

00:08:44.740 They don't actually care about procedure.

00:08:46.900 They'll talk about our democracy.

00:08:48.700 They'll talk about the sacred democracy. 0.99

00:08:50.420 They'll talk about the importance of democratic norms and all this garbage. 0.98

00:08:54.300 But they don't care at all. 0.98

00:08:55.280 They do not care at all.

00:08:56.860 In the slightest period, they are only interested in power.

00:09:00.080 They're only interested in defeating their enemies.

00:09:01.760 They're only interested in stripping someone like Donald Trump off the ballot.

00:09:05.440 They do not care how it gets done.

00:09:06.780 They don't care if it gets done by indictments.

00:09:08.580 They don't care if it gets done by the 14th Amendment. 0.92

00:09:10.960 They don't care at all.

00:09:12.700 They are just, it's naked power grab the whole way.

00:09:15.620 As long as my enemy can't get reelected, that's the only thing that matters.

00:09:19.540 And so the ideological consistencies or legal nuances present in the 14th Amendment

00:09:24.500 doesn't matter in the slightest.

00:09:27.360 They're simply not interested.

00:09:28.740 So the three Democrat appointed justices only went so far as to say that the federal government

00:09:36.420 should be the one making some kind of decision here.

00:09:39.700 Now, most of the other justices outside of, I believe, Amy Cohn and Barrett went ahead and

00:09:48.100 said something more.

00:09:49.220 They said that actually it needs to be Congress that makes this decision.

00:09:53.520 It's Congress that would define under the kind of insurrection portion of the 14th Amendment,

00:10:02.740 what that actually means and how that gets applied.

00:10:06.200 Now, it's interesting because the 14th Amendment was never actually meant to keep people from

00:10:12.580 running.

00:10:13.200 It was never actually meant to keep anyone from even actually winning a contest under the

00:10:20.420 14th Amendment, an election.

00:10:21.580 It was only supposed to be after the fact that Congress had the ability to remove someone

00:10:27.060 if they found that they were an insurrectionary actor.

00:10:31.260 And so this isn't actually supposed to be there to keep someone like Donald Trump from running

00:10:36.220 in the first place.

00:10:37.100 But again, it doesn't matter.

00:10:38.400 They do not care.

00:10:39.340 The left don't give one iota about what the actual purpose of this amendment is or the language

00:10:46.420 or the procedure, any of that they were just building this narrative in hopes that they

00:10:51.240 would go ahead and eliminate Trump from the running, keep him from being able to act.

00:10:55.700 And so they went ahead and did this.

00:10:57.640 Now, this ruling is important, of course, because other states were following suit and

00:11:01.800 because states like Colorado and Maine have a primary coming up tomorrow.

00:11:05.800 So it was important for them to go ahead and make this ruling and make it clear.

00:11:10.500 However, this does not end the issue.

00:11:13.700 It sounds like it should end the issue, but it doesn't actually completely end the issue

00:11:17.760 because as I pointed out on my stream last week, the Democrats have already been building

00:11:23.380 another narrative, another idea of how they could still go ahead and get rid of Trump.

00:11:28.360 And their idea, the one that the article in The Atlantic that I went through last week

00:11:33.880 was laying out, was the idea that even if Trump was to be allowed back on the ballot,

00:11:41.820 if the court did not clearly state that he was eligible under the 14th, that he had not

00:11:49.820 committed insurrection, that that clause does not apply to him, then the Democrats could

00:11:56.480 choose to not certify his election after the Electoral College hands it over.

00:12:01.580 So in the event that Trump went ahead and won an Electoral College victory, and in the event

00:12:08.240 that Democrats won the House and they were the ones that would then certify the election,

00:12:14.740 if the Democrats did not feel that the Supreme Court had successfully made it clear that Trump

00:12:21.920 was eligible under the 14th Amendment, that he had not violated, had not committed insurrection,

00:12:26.480 and therefore was not ineligible under the 14th Amendment, they could take it under their

00:12:31.680 kind of kind of their moral guidance. They should they could say, we're the ones who are going to

00:12:37.100 make this decision. It ultimately falls to us. And we're going to go ahead and declare that Donald

00:12:42.280 Trump was someone who committed insurrection. Now, in the in in the impeachment articles, and this is

00:12:50.020 what they would be pointing to, because remember, none of the charges against Trump, none of the charges

00:12:54.520 that have been leveled against Trump have said that he committed insurrection. None of these 90

00:12:59.540 something indictments against Trump say anything about insurrection. And that's because they can't

00:13:03.820 prove it in a court of law. There is no way to prove it. Because the because in a court of law,

00:13:09.800 you actually have to have proof. There's a real burden of proof. However, there was an impeachment

00:13:14.380 that said that Trump was guilty of insurrectionary insurrectionary activity or instigating insurrectionary

00:13:21.940 activity. And the impeachment has no legal requirements, you can you can go ahead and

00:13:28.680 say whatever you want in an impeachment. It's a political process is not a legal process,

00:13:33.400 things are not clearly defined inside that process. And so you can go ahead and say whatever

00:13:37.400 you want. And so they were pointing to that and saying, this is the standard we'll use,

00:13:42.040 not the legal standard in a court of law, because we can't prove that because he didn't actually

00:13:47.200 commit any kind of insurrection. There is no proof of that we can't actually create that and hold that

00:13:53.840 charge up in a court of law. However, we can do it in a political proceeding because there is no

00:13:57.680 standard. There's no definition, high crimes and misdemeanors in the Constitution is not legally

00:14:01.980 defined. And so you can go ahead and basically impeach a president for anything. It doesn't matter.

00:14:07.480 And so they're saying, well, because he went ahead and was impeached as an insurrectionist,

00:14:12.760 even though we can't prove that in any law in any court of law where there's a real standard,

00:14:16.640 that would be the reason that we would feel morally justified in going ahead and denying Trump

00:14:23.420 a presidency, going ahead and saying we will not certify his election. Now, again, that's still a

00:14:28.920 lot of different events that have to occur. You'd have to have Trump win. You'd have to have the

00:14:35.740 Democrats win the House. You'd have to have them feel like it was close enough or that they could

00:14:41.160 go ahead and justify blocking this. But however, it does leave this door open because the Supreme

00:14:48.820 Court was clear enough to say that the decision has to be made by Congress. So that means that you can't

00:14:54.340 have a federal court somewhere go ahead and hand down a decision that Trump committed insurrection.

00:14:59.400 You can't have some rogue panel of judges somewhere make that decision. But you can still have Congress

00:15:07.980 make that decision. The power does ultimately still rest with them. And the Supreme Court did not

00:15:13.040 explicitly say that Trump did not commit an act of insurrection. And so therefore, they did not

00:15:19.140 explicitly say that the 14th Amendment does not apply to him. They simply said that the states do not

00:15:24.880 have jurisdiction. And furthermore, the Republican appointees said that only Congress has that

00:15:31.280 jurisdiction, that no federal court could go ahead and go rogue and make that ruling. And so that's

00:15:36.780 going to be the key thing here. A lot of things still have to fall into place for that to be something

00:15:41.880 that matters. However, the Democrats can still hold on to this hope. They can still hold on to this

00:15:47.720 idea that Donald Trump's election, if it were to happen, would be illegitimate. And you can see why

00:15:54.520 the Democrats are getting concerned about this. A lot of polling is coming out that is showing Joe

00:15:59.740 Biden with just horrific numbers in pretty much every area. Understandably so. A lot of things aren't

00:16:07.920 great in the country. A lot of people are tired of what's going on. Very clear that Joe Biden doesn't

00:16:11.600 actually run the country. A lot of people are tired of watching this embarrassment of this weekend

00:16:17.740 at Bernie's presidency continue on. It's hard not to be demoralized in a country where you clearly

00:16:23.440 understand that someone like this is not running your country and you're not allowed to know who

00:16:27.220 is running the country. You can understand why these numbers are going very poorly for Joe Biden.

00:16:33.220 At the same time, a lot of people are looking at things like the border crisis. They're like,

00:16:37.480 whoever's running this, and I don't know who's running this country, but whoever's running this

00:16:41.540 country obviously is allowing some pretty deleterious things to happen. You don't have to be

00:16:46.760 a hardcore Republican. You don't even need to be a particularly strong American nationalist to

00:16:51.380 understand that constant open borders are just a danger to everybody. They're a tragedy on every

00:16:57.600 level. They're a tragedy for the people who are attempting to cross them and often getting sex 0.96

00:17:02.260 trafficked, getting human trafficked, all the drugs that pour over this, all the crime, the number of

00:17:07.920 people who have been killed by illegal immigrants recently that have become very prominent figures 1.00

00:17:13.580 has become staggering. A lot of people are recognizing the danger of the constant open

00:17:19.380 border. And they're just saying, Joe Biden is just, or whoever's running the country in Joe

00:17:23.320 Biden's name, we don't want to be involved with this anymore. You're even seeing polls that are

00:17:27.340 showing minorities that are usually monolithic for the left, like the black community, like Latinos.

00:17:35.460 The polls are saying that they're shifting. Now, I'm always skeptical about this. We kind of hear

00:17:39.040 these talking points. Every time there's an election, we always hear that, oh, finally, this is the

00:17:44.040 election where the kind of the monolithic black vote for the Democrats is going to break, or we're

00:17:49.760 going to finally see the big sea changed and kind of the Hispanic vote. And suddenly the based minority 1.00

00:17:56.540 vote is going to turn out and this is going to shift everything in the Republicans' favor. I'm always

00:18:01.620 skeptical about that narrative. We did see some shift in the Hispanic vote, especially, again, when you

00:18:08.540 look at places like Florida with Ron DeSantis, places that were always blue, like Miami-Dade truly did

00:18:14.660 start to shift in a significant way. That does show us that perhaps there is ground to be gained in

00:18:20.360 certain areas. But I am always skeptical of this idea that this is the election where we're finally

00:18:26.460 going to break this. Unfortunately, no matter how you try to slice it, the truth is that these

00:18:33.760 communities have remained staunch Democratic supporters. They've done so even when the

00:18:38.640 Democrats are not acting what you would think is in their favor. They just continue to back the

00:18:44.660 Democrats no matter what. You hope that changes. Maybe it does. Maybe this is the election, but I'm

00:18:50.540 always skeptical of that narrative. Either way, none of this is good for Joe Biden. Now, we should

00:18:55.180 recognize that polls, you know, there are problems there. We do know that, of course, repeatedly,

00:19:02.540 Donald Trump was shown to be winning or losing rather dramatically in polls in both the 2016

00:19:09.560 election and the 2020 election. We were told that Donald Trump only had a 1% chance against Hillary

00:19:15.440 Clinton in the 2016 election. You know, pollsters really made them a laughingstock of themselves,

00:19:21.240 showing their incredible bias. And so you wonder how accurate these polls can be. Now, there was a lot

00:19:27.280 of incentive for pollsters to go ahead and suppress the Republican vote. It was very clear. And again,

00:19:34.660 we talk about the 2020 election in particular, and how desperate the left was to go ahead and keep

00:19:41.540 Donald Trump out of the White House, and how many professionals were willing to just throw all of their

00:19:48.000 credibility, shred all of their credibility. Doctors, scientists, lawyers, pollsters were among these

00:19:55.000 people. We don't talk about this enough. Obviously, we know that the social media outlets, we know the

00:19:59.580 intelligence community, we know the scientific community, all these people were willing to go out

00:20:05.320 and destroy their credentials, their precious credentials, the things that were supposed to

00:20:09.420 elevate them and make them neutral arbiters of truth in our society. They were willing to light all of

00:20:14.880 this stuff on fire because of Donald Trump, their hatred for Donald Trump. And that's why it feels

00:20:20.420 for a lot of people like things are crumbling and falling apart, because we replaced a lot of the

00:20:25.660 narrative in the United States with this idea of managerial elites. The managerial elites are the

00:20:31.100 ones who are qualified to lead us. They were the ones that have all the authority. You know, they have

00:20:36.000 the degrees, they have the Harvard and Yale positions, they have the studies, the science is behind

00:20:43.580 them. The science team is behind these people. And that's why they have the authority. And so many of the

00:20:50.140 people in our society who had assumed these positions of neutral arbiter, you know, and then

00:20:56.160 there was a lot of social capital in that, like they, they, we, they sacrificed a lot and worked very

00:21:01.200 hard to put themselves into those positions. And they had invested a lot of the kind of idea of

00:21:07.640 classically liberal neutral governance into the expertise of these people. And the fact that they

00:21:13.580 were willing to light all of that on fire, they not, you know, and it was never neutral, to be clear,

00:21:18.340 there, there were never neutral institutions. These people were never actually neutral in any

00:21:23.720 of their decisions. They were always nudging constantly. They're always saying, oh, well,

00:21:28.700 we're going to change the definition of this just a little bit. We're going to go ahead and close the

00:21:33.360 Overton window just a little bit. We're going to apply a little bit of censorship. They are always

00:21:38.000 doing that little nudge, right? So it was never neutral. That was always a myth. However, they had

00:21:42.720 successfully kept that myth going because they were always careful about the way they applied pressure.

00:21:47.360 They never burned the credential. They never burned their actual status in an attempt to make big

00:21:55.440 changes. But with Trump, they lost everything. And this is why I have continually said that Trump's

00:22:01.340 only value really is his ability to just drive the left insane. He creates this, this wrecking ball

00:22:07.500 that just destroys the left, their ability to think, their ability to reason, their ability to have any

00:22:12.180 kind of self-control. He drives them insane. He sets off all of their most ridiculous, insane

00:22:18.060 instincts, and he makes them rip the mask off and tell everybody what they really believe and how they 0.98

00:22:22.880 really feel and how they really want to conduct themselves. And so the fact that the pollsters,

00:22:27.600 even people whose job is literally to go ahead and predict elections in theory, right? That's what

00:22:32.900 they're supposed to do. But in actuality, they're often influencing things with their polls. The polls are

00:22:38.300 not actually there to reflect public opinion. They're there to inform public opinion. They're there to guide

00:22:43.560 public opinion. And usually they do this by small percentage points or targeted questions. But in this

00:22:49.900 election, especially the 2020 election, it is very clear that they were just rabidly trying to stop Trump

00:22:56.240 from getting elected and they were willing to say anything. So maybe that's the only source of the polling

00:23:02.140 being bad. And maybe the polling now is fine because that desire to go ahead and bury Trump is gone

00:23:09.060 and we're just, or rather, it's just not being reflected in the popularity of Joe Biden and the

00:23:14.240 popularity of Joe Biden is honest. It's hard to know. It's really difficult to know. There's just

00:23:18.820 really, you know, this is the travesty of having institutions completely break down. There's just no

00:23:25.700 information to trust. Are these people completely deceitful? Are they being honest this time? Was it only that

00:23:31.300 bias? You know, you have to kind of read the biased tea leaves. And that's kind of what we're doing

00:23:35.500 a lot of the times as conservatives. And unfortunately, many times, because we don't

00:23:39.360 have access to the consensus making apparatus, people on the right don't have access to these

00:23:45.080 things. We don't control these institutions. We get really good at like reading the matrix,

00:23:48.980 right? We have to go through and say, okay, the ones and the zeros there, that's the normal amount

00:23:53.620 of bias. But I can go ahead and read past that and see the data behind that and say, oh, no,

00:23:58.860 there is some truth to it this time. Or no, that's all false this time. We have to get really

00:24:03.020 good at not just looking at the news, but parsing the news and pulling out the actual information,

00:24:09.280 trying to discard as much bias from the left as possible, read between the lines and kind of

00:24:14.020 understand what's happening, which is why, again, I like to pay so much attention to what the narratives

00:24:18.620 are being built by the left into the conversation. Because now we see that the Supreme Court here has

00:24:25.300 said, well, we're not going to let the states decide. And we're not even going to let federal

00:24:29.860 courts decide, which again, has the left just absolutely losing their mind. I'll get to some

00:24:34.520 of the reactions to that in a second. But we're not even going to let the federal courts decide.

00:24:39.040 Instead, it has to be done by Congress. But that has to be done by Congress does allow the specific

00:24:46.160 strategy that the article in The Atlantic went ahead and laid out about how the Democrats could still go

00:24:51.480 ahead and overturn a legitimate Donald Trump victory. So that path that was explained in that

00:24:59.080 article that I broke down last week is still there, which is why I broke it down. Because you can still

00:25:03.840 see this narrative threat alive. You can still see this option alive for the left. It feels like it

00:25:08.740 would be a suicide pact to do it at this point. It would be like, again, the end of rule of law as we

00:25:14.660 know it. However, how many times does it seem like the end of rule of law should be very clear to

00:25:19.960 everybody? And yet it isn't. So maybe they would try it. We can't know for sure. But we do know that

00:25:24.920 that narrative threat is still alive. That logical threat is still alive. The Supreme Court, while

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00:26:58.460 All right. So like I said, the reaction from the Democrats on this, from the media in general,

00:27:04.600 basically the same thing, Democrats in the media, was absolutely ridiculous. Vox, it was funny because 0.63

00:27:13.060 a Vox journalist went ahead and said, the written constitution does nothing to protect against

00:27:18.400 tyranny, which is kind of the point of my new book coming out, The Total State. I've made this

00:27:24.040 argument both on this channel and I make it even in more depth in that book. So it's kind of funny

00:27:28.340 that the blind squirrel finds a nut there. He is correct that written constitutions actually can't

00:27:32.700 stop tyranny. But of course, this is the whole point that there's two movies playing on the same

00:27:38.360 screen. We can't see the fact that they can't see the fact that we would understand it the same way

00:27:44.580 that tyranny is taking over the United States. They look at Trump's very existence and they think that

00:27:50.900 means tyranny. They can't even allow their political opponents to run in the United States. They think

00:27:57.460 that's what democracy means is the ability to ban their opponents. And so he comes to the same

00:28:03.280 conclusion that I do, that written constitutions can't actually protect from tyranny, but he just

00:28:10.420 doesn't understand what that means. But also Vox blocked me. The journalist blocked me immediately

00:28:15.340 when I pointed out, because of course, the ridiculous thing that's happening right now is the left is

00:28:21.600 super angry that the court wouldn't get involved and block their political opponent from running for

00:28:28.620 president. Now, in 20, I'm old enough. I'm super old, you know. And so I remember back in the year 2000

00:28:35.280 when the Supreme Court did get involved in the presidential election when George Bush was running

00:28:42.560 against Al Gore. It all came down to Florida and there were the hanging chads and everything and they

00:28:47.540 couldn't figure out who was going to be president. And the Supreme Court came in and ruled that Florida

00:28:54.060 couldn't basically change the rules for counting ballots just because it felt like it, like liberal

00:29:00.160 counties in Florida couldn't just say, oh, well, we're going to decide there's a different standard

00:29:04.880 all of a sudden for counting ballots and reading the ballots. We can go back and we can kind of

00:29:09.760 recount the ballots and decide what each one means on our own whenever we want to. They're like, no,

00:29:14.820 that that actually ironically violates the 14th Amendment, the equal protection clause of the

00:29:19.300 14th Amendment. And because this happened, because the Supreme Court went ahead and took action in

00:29:24.860 that case for the entirety of George W. Bush's presidency, the left called him an illegitimate

00:29:31.380 president. And this is why, by the way, democracy is dead, guys. Democracy has been dead for a long time.

00:29:36.660 Democracy is a dead man walking. Because for my entire adult life, and this wasn't even my adult

00:29:43.820 life, the 2000 election was while I was still in high school. But from basically my the entire time

00:29:49.720 I was aware of politics, we have been questioning every single election. The legitimacy of every

00:29:56.360 single election has been questioned. And in 2000, they said that it was illegitimate because of George

00:30:02.260 Bush. And of course, that meant that his election was illegitimate again against John Kerry. And then

00:30:09.380 the right said that Barack Obama was illegitimate because maybe he wasn't born in the United States,

00:30:15.660 birth certificate, all this stuff. And then, of course, Donald Trump, you know, illegitimate.

00:30:23.220 Everything is illegitimate. All of our elections are illegitimate. No side can allow the other one to

00:30:27.600 win and say, yes, we lost fair and square. That's how elections work moving on. Every single election

00:30:33.980 of my adult life has been challenged by their side as illegitimate. And of course, the left did this

00:30:40.560 in the 2000s. And they said, oh, the Supreme Court got involved in this. The Supreme Court pushed this

00:30:46.480 down onto the Florida Supreme Court. And that means that George Bush is an illegitimate president.

00:30:53.380 You know, not my president, illegitimate president, fake president. These were the bumper stickers on all

00:30:58.300 the lefty cars for the entirety of the Bush presidency. Well, now the left is saying, oh,

00:31:04.640 why doesn't the court get involved here? Why isn't the court going in and forcing the removal of

00:31:09.920 Donald Trump from all these ballots? Why aren't they making it clear that Donald Trump is an

00:31:13.760 insurrectionist and should not be allowed to run? They're angry that he is not being removed by the

00:31:19.920 Supreme Court. So again, no consistency, no ideological consistency. They don't care. They just care about

00:31:25.280 power. But the whole point is, you know, all of this, you know, there is no legitimate election

00:31:32.340 anymore. Everyone calls every election into a question. This didn't start with Republicans in

00:31:38.140 2020. This has been going on for a very long time, my entire life, basically. And it's just this again.

00:31:45.220 And again, they can't even apply the consistent logic. Should the Supreme Court be the ones deciding

00:31:49.520 who's president or not? They can't decide. They don't care. They just care about power.

00:31:54.060 They just care about winning. But of course, a lot of crazy reactions here. My favorite one has

00:31:59.920 been the number of headlines from people saying that that the Supreme Court failed to hold Donald

00:32:07.180 Trump accountable. That's been the mainstream media's headline talking point. You can see this

00:32:11.400 across multiple headlines, failed to hold Donald Trump accountable or barred attempts to hold Donald

00:32:16.680 Trump accountable, making it sound like the Supreme Court actively stopped the ability,

00:32:22.320 the legitimate ability of other courts or other institutions to go ahead and enforce the actual

00:32:28.660 meaning of the 14th Amendment. Many people talking about how the Supreme Court has failed in its

00:32:33.700 duty, how it's questioned its own legitimacy. Nancy Pelosi said this, of course. Yeah. And so that's

00:32:40.520 what you see in a banana republic, right? Is, you know, you have to allow my political opponent to go to jail.

00:32:46.180 You have to allow my political opponent to be stripped from the ballot or you have to remove him from the

00:32:50.280 ballot for me. And if you don't do that, then you're not a legitimate court. Well, that's what

00:32:55.140 you hear from a banana republic. That's that's not an actual thing that people in a democracy are

00:32:59.560 supposed to say or congressional or a constitutional republic. If you prefer, not a lot of people are

00:33:04.760 going to be screaming at me. It's a constitutional republic. No, it isn't. Sorry. We haven't been for a

00:33:09.680 long time. But, you know, whatever. The point being, you know, that you should not see this behavior

00:33:15.980 in a real country, in a legitimate country that is trying to decide what what is who its political

00:33:21.840 leaders are going to be. You should not see them saying, well, if you don't side with me and if

00:33:25.120 you don't arrest my opponents, if you don't strip them from the ballot, then, you know, you're not a

00:33:29.860 legitimate organization. That's not actually what you're supposed to see here. But of course, the best

00:33:33.760 one is Keith Olbermann. I love Keith Olbermann because Keith Olbermann is a beautiful lolcowl.

00:33:39.700 Like he is the most precious gift we have. Yeah, you may have your your Johnny come lately lolcowls,

00:33:45.740 maybe the Will Stancels or, you know, some other idiot. But but Keith Olbermann is he's a he's 1.00

00:33:52.040 beautiful. He's a piece of work because Keith Olbermann is the id of kind of the MSNBC. Why not?

00:33:58.740 Right like that? That's who Keith Olbermann is. He he says everything the Democrats want to say.

00:34:03.580 Maybe they know they shouldn't say it. But Keith Olbermann says it because he he feels and he just

00:34:09.580 blurts out like verbal diarrhea, the most insane thing that a leftist is thinking. And so it's always

00:34:15.440 great to check in with people, Keith Olbermann, because, yeah, he may look crazy. You know, he's

00:34:19.800 screaming and he's, you know, red faced and he's losing his mind and he's saying the most insane

00:34:24.840 things possible. Sure. Yeah, sure. But this is what Democrats really think. This is what they really

00:34:30.320 think. And this is this is what Keith Olbermann says here. The Supreme Court has betrayed democracy

00:34:35.760 and its members, including Jackson Kagan and Sotomayor, have proved themselves inept at reading 0.57

00:34:41.480 comprehension. So he specifically calls out the liberal female justices here. And collectively, 0.99

00:34:46.920 the court has shown itself to be corrupt and illegitimate. It must be dissolved. It must be

00:34:54.160 dissolved. So he is calling for the dissolving of the Supreme Court. One of the three branches of the

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00:35:35.200 again, shouldn't be surprising. These people have talked about the need to get rid of this of the 0.70

00:35:39.060 Electoral College. They've talked about the need to go ahead and completely alter the Senate to make

00:35:43.600 it so the Democrats can have dominance of that as well. They've argued to get rid of any check on

00:35:50.420 unfettered democracy. And the reason that the left wants unfettered democracy is that they are

00:35:56.200 importing voters. Whether they figure out how to get them to vote illegally now, which many of them

00:36:02.520 already are. They're trying to figure out how to do that. Or whether they eventually just wait until

00:36:07.320 their children get birthright citizenship and become the next generation of voters. The left is

00:36:11.780 importing a new voter base. They know time is on their side. And they know that the more democracy they

00:36:19.480 get, the more they're going to be able to control and manipulate the government. They're going to 0.95

00:36:24.920 have unchecked power because the left controls the media and the media controls what voters think.

00:36:32.360 Democracy and media control are the same thing. The minute we got mass media and we paired it with

00:36:37.920 mass democracy, that was the end of the Constitutional Republic. Sorry, it just was. You can't have that.

00:36:45.740 Oligarchs will control what people think. People believe what media tells them. If you have

00:36:52.760 control of the entertainment industry, if you have control of the news media, if you have control of

00:36:57.480 social media, and there are no checks on democracy, and they are trying to get rid of all the checks

00:37:03.440 because our founders knew that unlimited democracy was a disaster. That's why they built the Electoral

00:37:08.920 College in. That's why they built the Senate in. That's why they went ahead and put in all the

00:37:14.140 different checks and balances that were supposed to block this stuff. They built all this stuff in.

00:37:20.600 The Democrats are working to dissolve anything between them and complete open mass democratic

00:37:26.500 rule because they know they can control democracy. They can import voters and they can pump them full

00:37:31.720 of information from their control of the media while handing out all these benefits, creating client

00:37:37.740 classes because they're just going to print money forever until the country collapses.

00:37:44.140 They know they can do this, and that gives them the undisputed advantage in democracy.

00:37:49.800 Look, I know this is hard for a lot of conservatives to hear. I know this is heartbreaking, but the

00:37:54.880 Democrats have the winning strategy when it comes to democracy. It's over. Like, as long as you have

00:38:01.200 unlimited democracy, as long as you're unwilling to restrict the franchise, the Democrats are going to win.

00:38:07.520 They have the formula down. Import a dependent underclass. Make sure that they drown out any 1.00

00:38:15.280 established voters. Give them a lot of stuff, mostly that you appropriated from the middle class that 0.96

00:38:22.640 are already established in the United States, and control the media. They've got it locked down.

00:38:28.220 The conservative strategy of not owning the media outlets, not owning the universities,

00:38:34.840 and not giving away free stuff is not going to work. It's the losing strategy in democracy.

00:38:41.820 The right has the losing democratic strategy. It's simply not going to be victorious.

00:38:48.540 And so, of course, Keith Olbermann wants to dissolve the Supreme Court, just like he wants to dissolve

00:38:52.760 the Senate, and just like he wants to dissolve the Electoral College, because all of these things

00:38:57.680 stand in the way of total Democratic Party, one-party state rule in perpetuity. These are the only 0.78

00:39:04.780 boundaries left, and they already control most of this. These things barely slow down the left. 1.00

00:39:09.600 They're only pushing like this because they control like 90% of things, and they just can't

00:39:13.900 handle that last 10%. Even though they have this vast amount of power, more power than they've ever

00:39:18.700 had before, they get more rabid. The smaller the percentage of resistance is, the more rabid they

00:39:24.700 become, because they get so greedy and so unhinged. They're so used to winning, and they can't imagine

00:39:29.580 anyone pushing back, that they continue to just get more and more irate, more insane, to try to battle

00:39:36.120 for that last few percentage points. So yeah, you get rid of the Supreme Court. Even though the Supreme

00:39:41.080 Court was the tool of the left through the 60s and 70s and beyond to dismantle everything about America,

00:39:47.540 even though the Supreme Court has been their tool to dismantle most of America, now that the

00:39:53.060 Republicans spent so much time getting control of it, now the conservatives actually have somewhat

00:39:57.900 kind of a conservative Supreme Court. Again, it still doesn't side with them a lot of the time,

00:40:05.080 but they just have enough to block some of the craziest Democrat stuff. Now it has to be dissolved,

00:40:11.460 right? It has to go away. And I love this moment, because this is the funny part. This is the reason

00:40:14.700 I actually put this up here. He demands that it be dissolved, and someone replies to him,

00:40:19.500 cry more, 9-0. And Keith Olbermann says, these aren't tears, fascist, because everything's

00:40:25.860 fascist. They're urine. By the way, for a moment, Republicans, conservatives, please stop calling 0.99

00:40:33.040 things fascist, okay? Like, this is what the left is doing. They're doing it for a reason. You're just

00:40:38.740 reinforcing their frame. If you have to call it something, call it communist. Like, that's still

00:40:43.860 nuanced. There's more there, but at least, you know, don't use the language of the left. Anyway,

00:40:49.800 those aren't tears, fascists. That's urine. I'm sure you enjoy being bathed in it. So, 0.99

00:40:56.540 this is a very hilarious Keith Olbermann own here, because he's trying to say that, like,

00:41:03.520 oh, he's saying, oh, I like your tears. I'm tasting your tears. And what he's trying to say

00:41:07.280 is, like, you're drinking my piss, I guess. But actually, what he's saying is, I've got a bunch

00:41:13.300 of urine in my face. Like, Keith Olbermann is saying, basically, I have pee all over my face. 0.69

00:41:21.620 That's basically what he's saying when he's attempting to own this guy. So, yeah, you know,

00:41:26.920 they're about as bright as you think they are. But just kind of an amazing moment there. So,

00:41:32.440 yeah, the overall, kind of a win. I say kind of, because it's not really a win. Of course,

00:41:40.520 the Supreme Court didn't just strip the Republican candidate off of the ballots. Of course, they

00:41:46.420 didn't just say that the 14th Amendment makes it illegal for Trump to run for office. Because if

00:41:52.660 they did, that would kind of be the end of the United States. So, yeah, they didn't do that.

00:41:58.500 So, they did the obvious thing. Now, the fact that it's a 9-0 instead of a 7-2, which many people

00:42:03.200 were predicting, thought that the most crazy justices would still try to get rid of Trump,

00:42:07.840 or at least make that move. That says something. However, this is not really a loss for the left, 0.60

00:42:15.900 because I don't think most of the left really thought this was going to work. This is what you

00:42:19.520 feed to your base, right? This is red meat for your base, because it looks like you're doing

00:42:23.640 something and it whips them up. It's basically cost-free for the left, right? Like, Colorado

00:42:29.440 doesn't care. Like, Colorado doesn't care if they ultimately lost this. None of them are losing face

00:42:35.980 on this. None of them are humiliated. This is all still like a purity test, or, you know, it's a

00:42:41.760 statement of purity for them. They're showing that they were willing to go after Donald Trump. Like,

00:42:46.560 when everything was on the line, and they needed to go ahead and defend our democracy, TM, they went

00:42:53.880 ahead and fought against the evil Donald Trump. That's the whole thing that they're doing here.

00:42:58.440 The fact that they end up not actually getting rid of him, that doesn't matter. They went ahead and

00:43:04.420 still had their bona fides out there. None of them are losing face. And so, really, this just gives them

00:43:08.800 more ammo for their rhetoric. It's not really a win outside of the fact that, like, okay, well, I guess,

00:43:14.200 you know, Donald Trump isn't just completely illegitimately being stripped off the ballot

00:43:19.600 by the highest court of land, leading to a constitutional crisis and a possible hot conflict

00:43:24.320 in the United States. Like, I guess at least that didn't happen. But it's not a true victory here,

00:43:30.680 because again, the Supreme Court still left the possibility open that Congress would define what

00:43:37.440 the insurrection meant here, or, you know, what that would count as under the 14th Amendment. And so,

00:43:42.860 they could still go ahead and pull that trick that the Atlantic was outlining. Again,

00:43:47.260 there's a lot of steps between here and there. That doesn't mean that's going to happen.

00:43:50.360 But the ground is laid. The groundwork is laid. And should they enter into that scenario,

00:43:54.600 that could happen. And like I said, when I explained in that stream, the left covers their

00:44:00.880 bases. These people are evil, okay, but they're not stupid in many cases. They are, they set these 1.00

00:44:06.360 media narratives out far in advance. So, like they did with the red wave narrative, where,

00:44:11.380 oh, well, you know, it's going to look like Donald Trump won. But, you know, in case it looks like

00:44:15.880 Donald Trump won, just remember, there's all these votes that are going to come in later,

00:44:18.980 and they're going to be the legitimate votes. And then things could change. And you need to be ready

00:44:22.920 for that. They set these narratives out for a reason. Maybe these things will trigger. Maybe

00:44:26.900 they don't. However, they set them out to make sure that if that in that eventuality,

00:44:31.660 they are prepared. All right. So, the other thing that I wanted to go ahead and talk about today

00:44:37.200 was the arrest of Steve Baker. For those who are unaware, Steve Baker is a colleague of mine at

00:44:43.240 The Blaze. I have not got to meet him in person, but he is someone who is a reporter for The Blaze,

00:44:48.080 and he regularly writes or appears on shows at The Blaze. And he was arrested on Friday. He had to

00:44:55.940 surrender to the FBI. Steve Baker was a journalist, still is a journalist, but he's a journalist for The

00:45:02.560 Blaze now. He was not a journalist for The Blaze. He was an independent journalist during the events

00:45:07.760 of January 6th. So, what happened is that, like any good journalist, Steve is there at the Capitol

00:45:14.880 watching what's happening. Of course, he doesn't know what's going to happen. Nobody can predict the

00:45:18.900 future. He's just doing his job. He's watching what's happening. He's recording it, taking pictures,

00:45:23.640 writing things down to cover what's happening on January 6th. And when the crowd starts to enter the

00:45:29.240 building, he goes ahead and follows them. He's not doing anything crazy. He's not participating

00:45:34.100 in the protests. He's not running around breaking anything or assaulting anybody. He's simply doing

00:45:39.000 his job as a journalist. But as many people learn, the government was very interested in punishing anyone

00:45:45.500 who might have opposition and was at the January 6th. They're using this as a blanket excuse to go ahead

00:45:52.760 and attack anyone who might oppose them. And so, Steve, you know, he was an independent journalist

00:46:00.340 there doing his job. But when he joined The Blaze and his stuff started getting more traction and

00:46:05.920 started to become clear that he was going to challenge the narrative of January 6th that the

00:46:10.940 government had put out there, all of a sudden, it became clear the FBI was interested again. They had

00:46:15.740 kind of had this sort of Damocles hanging over Steve's head as to whether or not they were going to

00:46:20.300 charge him with anything. But once his stuff became prominent, once he became a part of a prominent

00:46:25.220 outlet like The Blaze and his stuff started getting traction, all of a sudden they say, oh, you need

00:46:29.440 to go ahead and surrender yourself. Now, he was not told what the charges were, which is crazy, right?

00:46:35.640 You should have the right to know what you're being charged with before he shows up. However, they said,

00:46:40.360 oh, he might go ahead and share that information. Like, OK, yeah, that's that's how journalism works.

00:46:45.680 But again, very clearly, the purpose was to intimidate Steve. So they brought him, you know,

00:46:51.020 he surrenders himself. He shows up, they handcuff him and they throw him in leg irons. Now, Steve

00:46:57.040 later found out that he was charged with four misdemeanors, which means the court did not need

00:47:01.580 to arrest him. They could have just asked him to appear before the court, but they went ahead and

00:47:06.600 went through this process for a reason. It's about humiliation. Remember, the process is the punishment.

00:47:11.360 Even if Steve is found innocent, even if none of this sticks, it doesn't matter. They want to go

00:47:16.940 ahead and hurt him. And the whole purpose of this is to go ahead and humiliate him to make it clear

00:47:22.480 that anybody who goes out there and does independent journalism or does journalism that flies in the

00:47:27.380 face of the narrative of January 6th or in what the administration would like people to believe is

00:47:32.400 going to be punished. And so they went ahead and brought him before the court. Now, the blaze has been

00:47:38.740 given footage of the events in the Capitol from the Speaker of the House's office and others that

00:47:47.860 looks like it is exculpatory. It looks like it will show that Steve Baker was not involved.

00:47:53.460 The charges against him were ones of parading around, using abusive language. Many of the generic

00:47:59.840 charges that they have attempted to throw at most J6 defenders, even if they didn't really do anything

00:48:05.420 that was serious. But this stuff is not going to stick, it looks like, because the footage,

00:48:09.800 at least from what we've seen so far that's been released by the blaze, looks like Steve was simply

00:48:16.080 taking notes in the background. He's not involved in parading around. He was not involved in doing

00:48:20.220 this stuff. But none of that matters, right? Because they don't care about the truth. They don't care

00:48:24.600 about whether or not even there's evidence at hand that could show that the very charges that they're

00:48:30.160 delivering are illegitimate. They want to intimidate. They want to have this chilling effect. Even if

00:48:35.000 none of this sticks, Steve Baker has to get lawyers. He has to have lots of attorneys. He has to spend

00:48:40.600 all of this time. He has to be terrified about what's going to happen to him. He has to get

00:48:45.460 handcuffed. He has to get thrown in leg irons. He has to get brought into this courtroom. All of this

00:48:50.720 stuff that would have been completely unnecessary. And on top of this, Steve is far from the only

00:48:56.300 journalist who is at the Capitol. The New York Times had journalists going in. The fifth person into the

00:49:02.420 Capitol was a New York Times journalist. He entered through a broken window. It's not like he walked

00:49:06.600 through the doors that were even opened by Capitol police. Instead, went through a open window. And

00:49:13.260 that person is not in front of courts, not being charged, not being brought in with their arms and

00:49:19.480 legs chained up. This is obviously a particular political prosecution that is brought to go ahead and

00:49:26.900 intimidate people on the right. You know, and I said, you know, when this happened, that like a lot

00:49:33.560 of people, I was just a basic talk radio neoconservative, right? For most of my life, I had

00:49:40.820 all of the opinions you would expect from listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Dennis Prager

00:49:46.200 and Ben Shapiro and all these people. That's how I understood power. And even though I'd had questions,

00:49:51.560 I looked at what happened with Trump in 2016. And I said, man, that's strange, you know, that the way

00:49:56.620 they're reacting to this. And I started digging a little deeper. Even then, by 2020, I still had

00:50:01.340 most of the opinions that you kind of would expect. But then there was COVID. And then there was the

00:50:07.220 riots. And then there was the 2020 election. And I was like, wow, none of this is what I believe.

00:50:14.620 None of this actually explains what's going on. None of the things I think about American politics and

00:50:19.980 other things that had been explained to me actually show us what's going on. And you look at what's

00:50:24.840 happening to Steve Baker and many others, and you realize that the Constitution just does not protect

00:50:32.540 these rights. It simply does not. I'm sorry, but there's just no understanding of the First Amendment

00:50:38.980 that allows a New York Times reporter to enter and report on what's happening. And a guy like Steve

00:50:45.220 Baker to not be able to do that and to be arrested and to be thrown in chains. There's just no

00:50:50.860 understanding of that other than the state gets to decide who's a legitimate journalist and the state

00:50:55.620 gets to decide who gets to write narratives and the state needs to control the media because that's 0.87

00:51:00.040 exactly what it is. That's all it is. The state understands, like I said previously, the democracy is

00:51:06.020 a contest of who controls the media and who gives out free stuff. That's it. That's how you win in a

00:51:12.120 democracy. And because America has become a democracy, because we have eroded everything

00:51:17.320 that made us a constitutional republic, and we have become a democracy, this is very effective.

00:51:24.320 These tactics are very effective. And so they need to go ahead and limit the ability of anyone who's

00:51:29.980 not a regime journalist, who is not approved by the state, or is not actually driving, in many cases,

00:51:35.160 the narrative of the state from one of these approved New York Times-style outlets. They need to go ahead

00:51:39.860 and silence those people. And the best way to do that is to intimidate them, to use lawfare,

00:51:44.600 to go ahead and make it clear that if you step out of line, you're going to get hit. And so that's

00:51:50.260 what's happening with Steve Baker is blatant. It's obvious. This is probably going to continue until

00:51:55.860 you actually see action. I mean, it's really clear. The FBI took control of this. The DOJ is pursuing this,

00:52:05.060 and the FBI are the ones that Steve Baker had to go ahead and surrender himself to. If you're a GOP

00:52:12.140 governor, you have to start thinking about what that means. You have to start wondering, how am I

00:52:16.640 going to let the legitimate law enforcement agencies, state police, federal police, who are

00:52:24.060 basically just political thugs for my political enemies, am I going to allow them to operate inside

00:52:31.920 the borders of the state that I have been elected to protect? I mean, those are things that they're

00:52:36.980 going to have to seriously consider because it's very obvious the Biden administration is not going

00:52:41.100 to stop doing this. They made it very clear that they are going to exercise power and they are using

00:52:45.940 it to punish their opponents. And they're going to make sure that no one can financially afford and

00:52:51.820 professionally afford to go ahead and provide, you know, just basic information that counters their

00:52:57.540 narrative. People are going to have to just be brave. You know, Steve is being brave through this.

00:53:02.100 God bless him, you know, and he shouldn't have to go through this, but this is where we are. And,

00:53:06.740 you know, there's a lot more of this that's going to come down the pipe. And a lot of people like

00:53:12.200 GOP governors are going to have to start thinking about what that means, because if they're not willing

00:53:15.640 to stand up, they're not willing to protect people, then the Biden administration is going to

00:53:20.520 continue to do this kind of stuff. All right, guys, let's go ahead and move to the questions of the

00:53:25.480 people real quick. Creeper Weirder says that's, oh, sorry, let me put it up. Creeper Weirder says

00:53:31.340 that's it. Oren, the woke is officially put away. Now the establishment will become Trump's best friend

00:53:35.980 and then switch gears. It's happening. Yes. Once again, I feel pretty confident about my ability

00:53:41.300 to secure a cigar from academic agent. I don't think the woke is going anywhere. Sadly, that probably

00:53:48.120 doesn't mean great things for my country. I won't, I won't be happy about that fact if that ends up

00:53:53.920 being the case in the sense that it probably means that bad things in my country are accelerating.

00:53:59.880 But I do think that the prediction was accurate, if nothing else. Jacob Zendel says, 9-0, clearly we

00:54:06.920 need to add another 10 justices to restore our democracy. Yeah, I mean, that's kind of a joke,

00:54:11.580 but not really, right? That's exactly what the left is trying to do. They're trying to go ahead and

00:54:16.260 they're trying to go ahead and pack the Supreme Court. They don't like the fact that conservatives

00:54:21.180 manage to secure a slim majority on the court and they want to go ahead and disrupt even that small

00:54:27.700 break on their power. And so while that's kind of a joke, not really, probably exactly what they're

00:54:33.420 going to try to do at some point. Deuce Boogaloo says, I understand the issue long-term as a precedent,

00:54:41.320 but does it really matter if in 2024, if Trump is removed from the ballot in blue states, the only swing

00:54:47.400 state completely run by Democrats in Michigan? Yeah, you're right that it doesn't matter for the

00:54:52.360 actual electoral mechanics, right? Most of these states that were suggesting this were deep blue

00:54:59.000 states. They were going to be going for Biden or whoever else ends up being the Democratic nominee,

00:55:04.100 no matter what. You're exactly right about that. But yeah, the precedent is everything. If the Supreme

00:55:08.040 Court allowed them to do this, then yeah, it's pretty much over, right? Because then every year,

00:55:15.380 the question becomes, oh, well, is your state going to let the opposing guy actually onto the ballot?

00:55:19.520 And then at that point, what are you even pretending about elections? I mean, the election's already a

00:55:22.940 joke, but at that point, it's just how many ballots can you deny your opponent in any given state? The

00:55:29.600 election happens before the election happens because each Supreme Court or each state individually just

00:55:35.860 go ahead and strikes the opposition candidate off the ballot. And whoever can do that more often wins.

00:55:41.680 I mean, I guess that's a version of, you know, of some kind of process, but I don't think it's

00:55:47.820 anything as to what people would understand as the American government or the way that elections were

00:55:52.680 supposed to work our entire time. Smoky Mountain says, 9-0 gives Trump an optics PR victory in addition

00:55:58.900 to a substantive victory. Do you think the leftist justice has simply decided the hit to their

00:56:03.460 credibility wasn't worth denying Trump a 9-0 win? Yeah, I think that's the case. You're right that it is

00:56:09.580 somewhat of an optics PR victory. But like I said, I don't think it's actually significant

00:56:13.960 really overall because I don't think the Supreme Court was ever going to just declare the Republic

00:56:18.440 over. And I think the two justices, you know, the 7-2 that you would have expected with Jackson

00:56:25.280 and someone like Sotomayor probably citing with Colorado just wasn't worth it to them. The back

00:56:33.400 door is still there. And again, they did go ahead and in their opinion, their concurrent, I guess,

00:56:40.700 opinion, still said that it should be a federal office or a federal court. They didn't remand it

00:56:48.760 only to Congress the way that many of the Republican appointees did. So they still did have a difference

00:56:53.800 of opinion, even though it looks like a unified court in saying that Colorado can't do this unilaterally,

00:56:58.920 that it is still somewhat. And of course, you also have to remember this in theory could swing both

00:57:04.660 ways. So if they had opened this Pandora's box, then all of a sudden, you know, swing states that

00:57:10.080 are technically, you know, strongly Republican controlled, like say Florida, you know, Florida's

00:57:14.820 a little less of a swing state than it used to be under DeSantis. You've kind of seen a concentration

00:57:19.100 of red in the state, but it was a swing state for sure. And still probably is considered one to some

00:57:24.120 degree. They could just go ahead and strip someone like Biden off the ballot if you rule this direction. 0.99

00:57:28.920 I mean, they wouldn't have the insurrection, but they could come up with something else.

00:57:31.860 It was just a very dangerous precedent to set. And I don't think, like I said, I don't think it was

00:57:36.220 worth their going ahead and endangering their credibility to go ahead and just give some kind

00:57:43.960 of symbolic to vote that was going to fail anyway.

00:57:48.440 But Lyle Bradley says the CEO, the Colorado Secretary of State has the physiognomy of Republican

00:57:55.600 from 20 years ago. The march through the institutions have turned white women into the 1.00

00:58:00.380 most ardent authoritarians. Their decision is a speed bump. Yeah, I think there's a lot of truth

00:58:06.600 to that. You know, the divide has been very clearly drawn in that way. Ultimately, this is just one of

00:58:16.300 many tactics that the left was using to attack Donald Trump. They still have many other kind of things in

00:58:22.780 their pocket to try to prevent him. Ultimately, this is why I don't think that the, you know,

00:58:29.120 this is why I don't think the woke can be put away. I think that, you know, they are actively looking

00:58:32.880 to defeat him in every area. I think the left is unhinged enough to try to push every aspect of this.

00:58:38.360 The fact that I guess there was some restraint in an IO decision instead of a 7-2 decision,

00:58:44.080 maybe you could say that shows that, you know, that they were willing to control themselves a little

00:58:48.420 bit. But I think ultimately, the left is just going to deploy everything they can to stop Trump.

00:58:53.120 And I think people should be ready for that. He says, physiognomy correction. All right. Thank you,

00:59:00.980 sir. Let's see. Creeper Weir says, I need to keep reminding myself that it's not 25 yet. There's still

00:59:08.080 time. Yes. The range of our bets between me and AA is supposed to be until 2025. There's still the

00:59:17.720 chance that Trump could just be elected, but then the left just completely chimps,

00:59:22.000 which I think is actually quite likely at this point. And in that case, I would still win the bet.

00:59:27.100 Again, not great for the country, not hoping for the left to go ahead and chimp in results to Donald

00:59:33.760 Trump. But I think that is a very high possibility. All right, guys, we're going to go ahead and wrap

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - March 04, 2024

SCOTUS Clears Path for Trump ｜ 3⧸4⧸24

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